Special Edition Entry.

This is special edition entry. Why? Because this is the last entry that we need to write and because of the top ten questions that we need to answers:

1) What do you like about blogging?
I love blogging a lot! Because it is where you can freely pen down you reflection, thoughts, ideas & emotions…It is nice to share information with others. Besides, it also can be a good platform of learning whereby we can read each others blog, comments on it and it can be a good discussion.

2. What have you gained from blogging? How?
A lot….For example, through reflection, it really help me to reflect on my own learning, on what I have learn, how I feel about it and what are the additional info that I got from other source which have enhance my understanding for that particular topic.

3. What have you gained from blogging eg? Language skills, improved fluency, critical thinking, improved thought processes, technology skills etc.
I think blogging do helps me in my language, critical thinking, technology skills etc.
4. How?
It is because I have the tendency to check on my work after I blog, to self-correct. It also does promote critical thinking when we need to think critically what we going to post in the blog. And yes, technology skills too where I learn how to set up a blog and how to decorate it.

5. What do you like about this course?
I love to learn lots of new things in this course.

6. What you do not like about this course?
Perhaps I must say it's the workload -the tutorials that we have to do. It's quite a burden as we have assignments for other courses too! Yeah, I do agree that all those tutorials are important, but I just hope that it can be reduced.

7. What have you learnt from this course?
I have learnt lots of new things in this course, especially regarding the technology such how to edit picture and how to edit audio. Besides, it also encourages me to explore softwares and also to explore things on the net.

8. What have you learnt from this course that you did not expect to?
Still, it would be those technology stuff, audio and video editing. This is because when I first heard of this class I thought it would be on flash cards, language games, puppets that sort of things.

9. What have u expected but do not learn from this course?
I expect that we will give more guidance on how to use certain software. But, instead of that I need to explore it by myself, more towards independent learning. However, I do wish some demonstration since it made me quite confused just to see tutorial on the computer, for example.

10. If you can change anything about this course, state what is and elaborate?
I think it would be the assignments. If I could, the Portfolio assignment would be changed to group work instead of individual ones. It’s a lot…
11. On a scale of 1 – 10, please rate your computing and technological skills for both before and after undergoing the course.
Before: 5. Now: 8!

-I have fall in love in blogging…There are lots of things that we can share with others…Sharing is caring! I will have my own personal blog very soon…Don’t forget to visit and follow my blog ya=)
Lastly, million thanks to the lecturer and my fellow course mates, I really have learnt a lot!

Bye-Bye!

Reflection of the last Resources lesson

Ermmm…Now its come to end of the term..

How strange it is when I reminisced on the first lesson, when I first entered this class, the confusion and blankness in my mind, not knowing what to expect. This is also the first time I involved in these blogging things, which of course make me feel worried at first since I even don’t know what actually a blog is, and what it’s used for. But, when the time flies, I become more familiar with all this things.

And now as all things have come to an end, when I reflect back on what we have done throughout this semester, I do realize that I've learnt so much. There may be times of difficulty, dead-ends, explore things that I not familiar with, but I believe every encounter in life serves as a teacher to us and give us a new experiences as well as new knowledge for us.

During the last class, madam Foziah also told us her experience when she study oversea, It such an interesting experience I could say, to study oversea and have the opportunity to explore other country. She give us motivation in order to study hard, to have a high ambition in order not to just have only degree, but also master and PHD…Somehow, this give me some sort of inspiration and motivation…InsyaAllah, I will follow you ma’am..I want to have “Dr.” in front of my name, “Dr.Siti Khatijah binti Abdullah”.

And last but not least, I would like to take this opportunity to say thank to Madam Foziah for guiding us through these 14 weeks. Besides, I also would like to apologize to Mdm Foziah for all the mistakes and negligence that I have caused. Sorry Ma'am!

And so that's all people! Bye bye and see you again!

Microsoft Publisher.

Have you ever seen this?
Have you ever use this for your project, business or office?
And have you ever used this for your classroom?

Yeah, I think you know that is Microsoft publisher. Before this, I just often used it to do brochure or flyers. But when Ma'am asked us to explore, I realize that it can be used for many other things. For example, certificates, business cards, invitation cards, banner, catalogue, business cards, greetings cards, handout, postcards, advertisement and even resume! There are lots of templates in it which we could just easily modify and personalize. We just need to insert any info that we want and put any pictures or logo (if necessary) to make it more interesting.

For classroom purpose, teacher can use Microsoft Publisher in order to produce any teaching aids, or it also can be used to evaluate pupils or just as writing practice for them. Teacher can teach pupils the former during a special occasion, like Mother's Day and Teacher's Day; while for the latter; teacher can design one using Microsoft Publisher and give it to pupils after every semester as a motivation card. Some of Microsoft publisher program also can be uses to develop questions from it, such as menus, advertisement and postcard.
Without any doubt, we can say that Microsoft Publisher really have lots of usage, not only for business or office, but it also definitely useful as a resources for classroom use. Therefore, teacher should utilize this program as it serves lots of things which benefit both the teacher and the learners.

Week 11-Its show Time!

The class on week 10 is the show time class.We get to watch all the videos that our friends have done! They are all so interesting because it's a free topic and we get to choose whatever song, music, pictures or video that we want to put up there and I can say that almost everyone done a good job.

As for my group, Alif and me has choose the topic “love”.We choose this topic because love is one of the essential things in our live.Without love, we even won’t be able to live in this world, since mother with full of her love toward us, she carry us 9 months in her womb, give full care of us during babies and our parents work hard to earn living for us.Therefore,we choose that topic which we hope that we can appreciate the person who love us, who have sacrifices a lots towards us.Overall,I satisfied with our job since we have choose some good pictures, goes with some words and a nice song.

As for other group, I think I really like the one which produced by Faiz and Siti which is also about love.This story is start with Siti and Faiz as a couple.Then, Faiz would like to buy something for someone that he love, which I thought is Siti.So, he works hard to get some money to buy the present.Lastly,with the money that he got, he buy a present for her love ones, but it not for Siti, but actually for his father.This video has moral value and it also interesting since what what we predict earlier is wrong.

In order to produce a good video, there actually a few things that we need to consider.For example, the quality of pictures or videos, text, sound, colour, moral values and so on.Therefore, we must consider all these before producing any video.

Overall, I really enjoyed myself during this show time!

Class after Raya-Busy about assignments..

Oh my God! How could we forget that we still got another two assignments that we need to submit!Those are for assignment 2 which we need to do teaching aids and assignment 3 which we need to come out with lesson plan.So, for this 11 week, we are busy formed group for each assignment and at the same time try to make ourselves clear about what we going to do for the assignments. Madam Foziah is always there in order to clarify things which is unclear for us.Huhu…I can say that it quite blurry for me at first, but later, I’m okay…

Moral of the day: Carefully check your assignments, to make sure that you know what is next and what you soppose to do=P

Something to share....

With Fatimah, my partner during Form 3 and form 4

I luv dis picture

Blurring others=)

All together....

Some stories about my raya...I have a reunion with all my secondary friends, batch 2004 SPM during 5 Syawal....Its really a long time not meet them, its almost 5 years!!Oh god,how I miss them all...This is a very memorable and precious moments for all of us...Hopefully,we will meet again...Here are some pictures that I took during the reunion...
p/s:Thanx to Adobe Photoshop 4 helping me=)

Class before Raya holiday=)

Huhu...this entry is about the class before raya holiday...can u guess what happen??Hehe...of course we are all in Raya mode-home said coming, UM said go for a holiday, hehe...and some of us even already gone back, just left a few of us in class...

Just to reflect back what I have learnt...Basically,there's not much input on that day..Mdm Foziah show us two selected videos which I think is very nice and interesting...I love both especially the video about "Bidadariku"by Munif Ahmad...

Then, she asked us to comments on that video..I find that its really interesting with contemporary music combine with the traditional one, nice pictures and good voice,nice lyrics with lots of moral values-blended together which becomes a very touching and meaningful video...

Owh, I love it=)

SELAMAT HARI RAYA AIDILFITRI=)

Maybe its quite late (already 11 syawal) but I still want to wish everyone Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri, maaf zahir dan batin...Hopefully,we will meet with Ramadhan again next year=)

Now, move to video....

After the video editing and picture editing, now we move on to video making...I'm really sorry to mdm Foziah because I didn't attend the class for ninth week since I'm not really well...However,I did not went to clinic and did not have the mc, I thought I just need some rest...I know that on that day we will learn about video (As what i heard from Tuesday class)...So, I asked my friend, Fiera to find a pair for me...And I'm pair with Alif...Luckily,I already have the experience on producing own video such as for my technology subject where each of us need to come out with a video ... Thus, I hope that I can produce a better video than what I have produce before...Moreover, I also hope that both of us will produce a good and interesting video which not only amusing but also give lots of moral values to be shared with others=)

Ahhh....What A ReliEved !!

Relieved, dats the suitable words 2 describe my feelings...Dis week is when we passed up d assignments....There are 3 assgmnts altogether that we need to pass up which are about the photo-editing, audio editing n ebook...


I quite struggle to finish my assgmnts since my laptop is a kind of sick-always hang and hang and hang again =( Maybe bcoz of virus or bcoz lots of software that I downloaded lately which makes the disk spaces almost full....I need to give some treatment to my laptop...I hope it will get well soon...


Last but not least, I wanna say thanx to madam Foziah who give us time to give the final touch to my assignments bfore I pass it up...

Nice sound, good audio, sweet song.....

Everyone loves music...just the types of music that we love to hear maybe different, according to our taste...In order to come out with a nice music, audio editing is important since its can make the music and the sound becomes better and nice to be heard.


Audio editing....dis is actually what I have learnt in my PBEY3102 class.I also got assignments regarding this new topic. For the first assignment, I need to edit a song and for the group work we need to make the sound of the Mp3 as best as we can...


I not good in this field since I not familiar with it...In fact, before this, I never know that we can remove the background sound and all the unwanted sound and also add any effects that we want...


There's a lot of free software that we can use for audio editing such as audacity, audio editor gold and sonysound forg....So, I need to xplore n choose d best audio editor which can help me to do my assgmnts =)

E book

E book is a new things to me since I actually did not really know what is an e book is actually all about...I hear that word quite some time but quite blur about that ebook.But, for this PMEY 3102,I need to produce my own ebook..Wow!!!Another new knowledge for me,exactly!

As I peep into Wikipedia, ebook is define as :

"e-text that forms the digital media equivalent of a conventional printed book, sometimes protected with a digital rights management system.E-books are usually read on personal computers or smart phones, or on dedicated hardware devices known as e-book readers or e-book devices. Many mobile phones can also be used to read ebooks"...

So,it juz d same like the normal book that we read but it in the digital form which is power point.

Ebook has lots of advantages.For example, its allow animated images or multimedia clips to be embedded, easy to make it,easy to carried out(as it can juz be save in the pendrive)and lots more!In the classroom,e-book can be a very good teaching aids that teacher can used.I juz familiar with the big book before this but I think ebook is another good ideas.By using ebook, we can add sound,we can do it by ourselves which can suit our objectives and can edit it easily.Compared to big book, its cannot be included with sound or any movement.N of cos I will consider to used ebook in my future classroom.

Talking about the last class of my PBEY 3102,mdm Foziah gives us some info about and guidelines on how to produce ebook.For example,the characterization of ebook,setting,plot,theme components,criteria for selecting book and so on.From her lecture its made me have a clearer ideas about what it all about.Besides, madam Foziah also show us some examples of E-book that have been produced by her students.As for me as a future teacher,if I want to used ebook as teaching resources, I need to make sure that my ebook is suitable for children such as have a clear learning objective, interesting story for children,colourful,suitable fonts and pictures and so on...

The next part of class is for us to come out with a story board.But, because of I'm busy install my adobe photoshop to my laptop, so i'm become the last person who saw mdm Foziah to get the green light...And on dat day, I got the red light,so I need to redo it again...

Ermmmm...Actually,I got lots of things that I want to share about ebook...So,to be continued ya.....See u later...

Photolicious!

Hallo readers!

This week we learn about photo editing. I have been introduced to FX foto and Adobe Photoshop. During the class, madam Foziah show us example of few pictures that have been edited..I really fascinated with the picture that put Ella n Wu Chun together (which Mdm Foziah claim as her favourite actor n actress-correct d name of the actor n actress if I mistaken)…Its look like a real photo…However, its make me ponder about something..Look how we can easily deceive by the fake photos, people can do anything to a piece of photo...So, don’t juz easily believe what we see since it not 100% turn out to be true!

Besides, we are given the task to produce a picture with has been edited. Mdm Foziah has upload lots of tutorials in her skydrive which we can download it and make it as a reference .I find it’s really beneficial since its shows step by step on how to edit pictures using certain software such as FX foto and Adobe Photoshop.

Talking about photo, I really love photos …Its makes us remember about the moment that we go through our life. Before come to UM, I never tried any photo editing software and I did know what we really can do with photo editing software. However, this sem I have learned about photoscape for my technology subject...N I find that’s great! I love it! It friendly user which make it easy to use. We can enhance the pictures and add any effects that we want. Besides, we can combine a few pictures to become a foto.In my resources class, I learn about other software which is more advanced, FX foto n Adobe Photoshop which have more function but yet I think its quite complicated n difficult for me to use it...But, thanx mdm Foziah, 4 d tutorials, its do help me…N not to forget, thanx mdm Foziah to come 2 class eventhough you’re not well…Hope u’re not fall sick again,amiin..

Fuuhhh…Lots of tutorial need to be done! I must start it earlier or else the work will juz chop my sleeping time at the end of the semester…So, I think dats all for now...See u next time ya..

-Juz to share with u…This is the pictures dat I hv produce n upload in d photo bucket..Juz a trial..I edit a few pictures n combine it into a photo..Dis is my sister, my nephew n my brothers-in law…I love dis picture…

Picture After..



Some of pictures before...

YEESSS!!!

Nothing much about 4th week which is more on discussion with group members for topic 2,3 and 4..N My group members are Farah, Zulhusni, Luqman and Fikri.This is due to the wireless which is not working on that time.So, we cannot do what we suppose to do as planned by Pn.Foziah.Ok, now, I juz want to share with you about part of our discussion last week which is about how the teacher check the understanding of the students.Actually, this subtopic is more on teacher checking the meaning of every words, but I would like to discuss about other ares that related to it...

Now, lets ask ourselves,especially during the SEP,Do we like to ask the pupils this question,"Do you understand class?" and everyone will answer "Yeesss"...They seems to understand what we taught to them, but do they really understand or they just love to replied,"Yesss" eventhough they are not understand?I just remembered an incident about my friend during her practicum whereby when she ask the pupils,"What is your ambition?", then they replied,"Yeess"...So, what is the conclusion from this incident?The pupils just answer "Yeesss" because its very easy to give that kind of answer and its not really show whether they understand or not...But, still lots of teacher love to ask such kind of quite ineffective questions to the pupils....Thus, what is the more effective and suitable questions and strategies that teacher should use to check pupils' understanding??

Actually,teacher can ask several specific questions to check pupils understanding which not just expect the "yeess" answer...Besides, by observing pupils' non verbal communication such as facial expression, body language and gestures, these will also reflect their understanding...For example, if they are frowning, they might feel confused.Teacher should be sensitive with whatever the children do.So, if the pupils show that they are not understand, teacher can repeat or rephrase what he/she have said before or straightly ask which part that they not really understand.These are the more appropriate ways to check their understanding.

I think that's all for now...can't wait to learn more from others discussion on the next class....

Print Screen??

Assalamualaikum n hello to everybody....

Today is my third class for PBEY 3104…Ermmm…Do you wonder why I put the title as “print screen??”? Hehehe…Actually, today I have learnt a new thing whereby I have learnt what is the usage of print screen on the keyboard...Before this, I doesn’t know about its function.Pn. Foziah had ask us to search for the MP3 , Michael Jackson last song, and then download it, and all the processes involved should be put in the power point..Frankly, before this, I never download any MP3 from internet, so this will be the first one… So, this is also a new knowledge for me…

Actually, there are lots of things that I have learnt this sem n it seems lots more to be learn..N I’m looking forward for it!…Learning is like we open a door, then we will found another 2 doors. When we open one of it, we will find another 4 doors and it continued……It means that ,the more we learn, we will be realize that there’s lots more things that we don’t know and we need to learn…..N that’s what we called as “LEARNING”!

Furthermore, for this week Pn.Foziah asks us to present about the topic “Working with Young Language Learners” that she had assign to us last week. For my group, we have assigned the subtopic about “Children’s ability to grasp meaning”. This subtopic tells us about the ability of children to make sense of what others said through intonation, gestures, facial expression, actions and circumstances although they might not know the meaning of individual words that we produced. Thus, I think this knowledge is very important as a future teacher since I should bear in mind that the children try to make meaning through my gestures, intonation, demonstration, actions and facial expression. So, I need to make sure that I make full use of it to help their learning and make sure that its parallel to what I’m saying verbally…Non-verbal communication is sometimes speak louder than verbal whereby children (or even adult) grasp more meaning through it…I remember about my nephew where he is juz 1 year old. But, when my mother shows the expression of angry, he started to cry, which means he seems to understand that my mother angry with him-even he is juz one year old! In the classroom, the young learners might have a limited vocabulary in the target language but the teacher must know how to manipulate the non-verbal communication in order to express our meaning across our teaching….

In my opinion, topic 1 is very important since it give me the knowledge about the instinct, skills and characteristics of young learners...These include children’s ability to grasp meaning, creative use of limited language resources, their capacity for indirect learning, instinct for play and fun, the role of imagination in their live and also instinct for interaction and play. Thus, I should apply this knowledge in my teaching where I should consider about learners’ nature as children. For example, I should plan my lesson to be interesting, for example, by involved some games as children love to play. Through games, children will learn in the best way through indirect learning (or what we can called as subconscious learning) which will inject fun but at the same time its meaningful and purposeful for their learning….Our understanding about children is importance since children and we as adult are different , and thus, we should spot the differences…

Ermmm…I think dis enough for now….K, See u 4 d next entry…. bye bye =)

D' Second week...

Hahaha,I'm getting very excited after my lecturer mention about the 5 topics that we going to learn during tutorials...The topics are: internet skills, photo editing skills, audio editing, video editing, and software for ELT.Wah, it sounds cool, interesting, exciting n bla bla bla.... -other words that sewaktu dgnnya(^_^)... ...Hehe, actually I did not have any knowledge about all these skills where I juz know the basic usage of internet but I think all this skills is very important for me as a future teacher...At the end of this course,I might be a person who is expertise in this field, errmmm,who knows right?

So, we have divided into 5 groups and my group have choose the topic of video editing..Talking about the video, I can say that video can be an effective resources to be use in the classroom which will have a positive impact in the student's teaching and learning process..Here is some of the information about the use of video in the classroom which I get from National Teacher Training Institute website,

"Teachers who use instructional video report that their students retain more information, understand concepts more rapidly and are more enthusiastic about what they are learning. With video as one component in a thoughtful lesson plan, students often make new connections between curriculum topics, and discover links between these topics and the world outside the classroom"
(from http://www.thirteen.org/edonline/ntti/resources/video1.html)

Sometimes, it quite hard to teach certain topic, but by using video it can help to enhance the understanding of our students...

Besides, Pn.Foziah also mention about the assignment of porfolio and she also ask us to discuss in our own groups about the topic of Working with Young Language Learner.....

I think dats all for now....see u again 4 d next entry...

THE BEGINNING......

The first lecture of PBEY 3102, Using and Developing Resources For the ESL Classroom-Ermmm...I think its going to be fun and interesting since I will learn on how to develop and using various resources to be use in the classroom (Yeaah, seriously)... Actually, I'm not a person who is up to date with the technology where I juz know the basic usage of IT such as for e-mail and as a source of information (especially for my assignment) but I don't know how to manipulate all the resources around me that can help me to enhance my teaching...

As a future teacher, I think I really need to prepare myself with all the knowledge and skills in order to ensure the effectiveness of my teaching and learning process.Thus, I really feel that this subject is very important for me in order to give me some input , ideas and guidelines to enhance my teaching. As we know, children juz have little span of attention and thats become one of the reason for the teacher to have the teaching aids that will attract them.So, now teacher should do something to overcome this problem.... Useful, colourful, creative and interesting teaching aids surely will help a lot!!! . All of these teaching aids will later promote fun but yet meaningful learning. So, I'm really hope that this subject will help me to become an excellent teacher in the future..

K, till then, byeeee....