Reflection week 5

This week’s topic is : Designing the group’s website! It gave me an excitement! Today’s class was supposed to start at 10 am. Because of some misunderstanding, some of us came at 1030 am. Poor all the lecturers waiting for us. We’re so sorry!

Encik Helmi was handling the class again. He recalled about what we had learnt in previous class. basically about the video production module. He was stressed on script-writing and storyboard today.

Wikipedia again :

Storyboards are graphic organizers in the form of illustrations or images displayed in sequence for the purpose of pre-visualizing a motion picture,animation, motion graphic or interactive media sequence. The storyboarding process, in the form it is known today, was developed at the Walt Disney Studio during the early 1930s, after several years of similar processes being in use at Walt Disney and other animation studios.

Script writing is both an art and a science; specifically, the ability to creatively transform a message or story into both a written and visual context that will be performed by live actors and, at the same time, adhere to a traditional three-act structure and strict formatting rules insofar as master scenes, action and dialogue.

In the mean time, I was wondering what is the big black paper board doing on every table we had here. I never guess that we’ll using that board later. Today, what we need to do is a paper-prototype. It kind of similar to sketch but it is in form of paper.  I’ll explain later if you don’t understand.

Paper prototyping is basically creating your websites using paper. It is like planning what to do on your future websites without using the actual websites. We’re talking about PAPERS here! Encik Helmi shown us an example in his slides. The prototype paper should have all the elements in your company and portray all your products effectively. Before doing the paper prototype, we should considering many elements. Which are what message actually our blog wants to convey, the main interface layout, the insight, the pages and lastly designing it.

Encik Helmi prepared all the materials for us. Including the big black paper board that i just mentioned just now. The paper board is for the layout of the website.

We were really trying our best to complete the task perfectly. First, we were a little bit lost but Encik Helmi guided us thoroughly. And we are so proud on the result. tsk tsk.

After the paper prototype was complete, we need to present ours to the class. We really did a good job although it was all messy, although if other group was better. Haha. I guess the effort is matters.

What have we learnt in today’s lesson is everyone thought and opinions are valuable. We can’t just toss away others’ opinions and only accepting ours because decision that made together is the most harmonious decision. And one more! We have to be creative and think critically in a very short time. It’s really an exercise to our mind. Bye!

Reflection week 4

It’s already week 4 now. Puan Hazrati handling the class for this time. She was doing lecture on Designing Media and Instruction. Actually we were skipping one lecture on blogging because all of us have this knowledge already. So, we are ahead of schedule now.

Puan Hazrati explained everything about theories on Designing Media and Instruction to us. I have to admit, this week’s topic is quite heavy. Today’s lecture is a little bit similar with the second week’s. I mean the theory in use is the same which is ASSURE model and a few other theories.

Wikipedia says ;

Instructional Design (also called Instructional Systems Design (ISD)) is the practice of creating “instructional experiences which make the acquisition of knowledge and skill more efficient, effective, and appealing. hehe. Wikipedia is really helpful to me as I’m not able to noted all the notes.

There are a lot of information in the topic of Designing Media and Instruction. For example preparing instruction media, this part is useful for us as the the teacher-to-be. It exposes us on the characteristic of the media. There was also the classification of the media which are non-print media and print media. Teacher can takes advantages by using the media to deliver the information to the students more successfully. Eventually, there are bad effect that this media brings besides all the positive vibes. Media that use in the wrong way can be useless to the students such as designed media that is too crowded. It can distract students’ attention.

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Encik Helmi take over during the tutorial. He explained more about what he talked about last week which was about the module. He explained about the phases in production too which are pre-production, production and post-production. Then, we were asked to work in group. Encik helmi introduced an application to us using the iPad which is the ‘Whiteboard’. This application is useful to use especially during the time that we need to do our sketch.  Vanessa and Pei Si downloaded the application into their phone.

And of course I took that chance to play with the iPad. Look what I had done : taraaaaa!

Haha. I have time to spare and this is what I did. It was really enjoyable though. Today i’d got may new information about technology in education especially using iPad. The gadgets really can catch students’ interest towards the learning. The prove were us; the Teslians. The iPad really caught our attention and we really enjoyed our lesson. Bye!

Reflection week 3

Whoaaa! This week, there are new-comers in our class. What I really mean by this new-comers is the new assistant of Dr. Roseni which are En. Hilmi and En. Yusuf. They  are Dr. Rosseni’s PhD’s students. En. Hilmi did the ‘talk’ part and En. Yusuf took our pictures using his dslr.

*Sorry En. Yusuf. I forgot to take your picture. hihi

We learnt about mobile blog in this lesson. What is mobile blog? Basically,mobile blog  is blogging through mobile, as simple as that! wuhuu!

There are lots of nowadays’ gadget that can be use as the medium to blog. Such as? Ipad, Smart phones, Galaxy tabs; as long as your gadget has internet, it’s free to go! wuuhuu. AND THE MOST PATHETIC PART IN THIS LESSON IS I do not owned any of that gadgets. *down.

Nokia 2630 is the only phone I have. sobs. Even school kids nowadays have better phone that me. Come on! *This is really awkward.

So, just blogging through phone? as simple as that? naaahhh! We have to learn a lots of other things too. But let me explain about the blogging-through-gadget-thingy first. Using this way ( mobile blog or moblogs ) we can update our blog wherever we go, as long as there is an internet connection. Now, you don’t need your big giant pc anymore. Just a simple small phones can do it. How cool is that? wuhuuu! * I dont have any phone that can do moblog. sigh.

Next, we learnt about mobile tag. This is what i’d got from Wikipedia :

Mobile tagging is the process of providing data read from tags for display on mobile devices, commonly encoded in a two-dimensional barcode, using the camera of a camera phone as the reader device. The contents of the tag code is usually a URL for information addressed and accessible through Internet.

I had seen this tag many many times before and I always wonder what does it do. I mean are they even useful? One day, I saw this tag in a public toilet on an advertisement’s paper. IN A PUBLIC TOILET. Really? I’m really curious about this tag-thingy but it never occur to me to find out more about it. I thought is some kind of marketing strategy that will attract people with iPhone, because you know, at that time, only iPhone can scan the tag. Eheh,

Now, mobile tag been use widely in marketing field. You just paste the tag anywhere you want and just a split second, your page appears in their phones.

En. Hilmi thought us how to make our own Mobile tag and how to scan the tag too. Of course you need the phone ( that I dont have ) or iPad or tabs. En Himi prepared some iPad for us for the sake of this lesson. It was fun!

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Next, En. Helmi and Dr. Roseni explained about our assignment. We were require to produce a video themed tourism. Our group members are consist of me, Vanessa, Pei Si and Sarah. We decided to make a video about interesting places around Malaysia especially here at Peninsular Malaysia. We decided to use ‘our million steps’, since there will be million of our steps when we are exploring the places later. Before that, Encik Hilmi explain to us the steps that been require in doing this video. This module is divided into seven parts, namely: (i) identification, (ii) technology, (iii) pre-production, (iv) production, (v) post-production, (vi) problems, and (vii) discussion. And now, we need to make our own company’s blog first!

I think there’s a lot to digest in one lesson and I’m looking forward in doing this project with my group-mates since this type of project is my favorite! Bye.

Reflection week 2

We have met Puan Hazrati before and she is very helpful to us. She introduced herself and where to contact her if we have any problem in the future. I think the information is very useful as we can easily find her if we need her guidance and consolation in the future.

We were exposed on Instructional design for the second week. Instructional design is a very interesting topic to learn especially for a teacher-to-be like us.

Instruction means the arrangement of collection of data to produce effective learning.  Meanwhile instructional design is the practice of creating “instructional experiences which make the acquisition of knowledge and skill more efficient, effective, and appealing. There are many definition of instructional design and we should pick the best definition.

There are a few model that were developed based ob this theory. Some of the models are ASSURE and ADDIE. Puan Hazrati explained and focused more on ASSURE’s model.

We had gained many useful information today. Everything that we had learnt can be use when we are assigned to schools in the future. It is not easy to be a teacher. We must fill ourselves with a lots of knowledge first before we are able to teach the young generation and this task of finding knowledge is an endless job.

Hey ya! New Chapter for New Sem!

homaigod! homaigod!homaigod! *excited

It’s been a while since we met Dr. Rosseni. And now she will guide us in a new exciting subject which is TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION!

I have a very deep interest in technology’s stuff and I hope this subject will enhance my skills in this field. Besides, students nowadays are very advance in conducting everything that related to technology therefore I must be a step ahead from them so that I can catch their attention in my class.

Comp Education 7

Class 7 – 30.08.2010

Today Dr.Rosseni entered our class. She explained more about blog. She list the criteria one’s blog should have.

1. Page – About ( check! )

2. Weekly posting ( check! )

3. Projects( check! )

4. Link and Categories ( check! )

And!

The most shocking and marvelous part is *drumroll

I wrote my weekly review on time! *muahahahaha!

That’s all.

Love,

Dayang Nurfaezah Abg Ahmad

Tesl Year 1

Comp Education 6

Class 6 – 23.8.2010

Our class last week was conducted by cheerful Mdm. Aida. We learned about Excel. ( I hate Excel! )

It was soooooooo difficult to use this thing. I have to remembered many steps and their names. *sigh. But Mdm. Aida gave us a lot of help and efford though.

I have to learn more about this thing! *since i will be a teacher in future. haish.

Btw, this is my document on Excel.

Love,

Dayang Nurfaezah Abg Ahmad

Tesl Year 1

Comp Education 5

Class 5 – 16.08.2010

Dr. Rosseni entered our class that day. Our topic was on how to make a good power point presentation.

Dr. Rosseni gave us this link : http://video.about.com/presentationsoft/Start-PowerPoint.htm to guide us on how to use this software.

This topic is quite easy because since high school, we are exposed to this ‘power point thingy’. ^^

This is product of my effort . My slide show is about Compare and Contrast Teacher Education in M’sia and S’pore : Compare and contrast malaysia and singapore (East)

Love,

Dayang Nurfaezah Abg Ahmad

Tesl Year 1

Comp Education 4

Fourth Class-9.8.2010

Miss Aidah entered our class again. This time with more exciting task. We need to make a brochure on how to seek information. * exciting isn’t it? ^^

With the same group as last week, we need to work together to create a very creative brochure. And the best part is the most creative brochure will received present from Miss Aidah and of course extra marks! *yay! Miss Aidah let us do the activity using our own way. Many  groups in that class using Words to create that brochure but us prefer to use Photoscape. Its more fun and beautiful. * we think so. ^^

We already finished our work yesterday and Vanessa Seluang send it to Miss Aida Through email.

Love,

Dayang Nurfaezah Abg Ahmad

Tesl Year 1

Comp Education 3

Third class – 2.8.2010

Miss Aidah entered our class that day. She was a very go lucky type of person. I love her! *of course you too Dr. Rosseni!  :)

But that dont gave us exemption to do some work! >.< She asked us to make our own group. Four in one group. I’m in group 7 : consist of me, Vanessa Seluang, Tai Pei Si and Nuryasarah. *yay!

We need to search some information and make a critical review. Our group need to search on Examining information. It was quite difficult. We need to read whole article. So we divided that article to four part. So it was easier to be understand. ^^

The guide on how to write a critical review is in this page : http://www.learn.maine.edu/ocls/criticalreview.php . Our group finished our work in the class and immediately send our work via email to Miss Aidah. *gimme 5 group 7! ^^

Our critical review : Group 7

Love,

Dayang Nurfaezah Abg Ahmad

Tesl Year 1