Reflection-Week 7:Whoaa....Now its Audio Editing time!

Last week, we had our semester break.So, i was hanging around in my "Home sweet Home"...Now i am back in "UM sweet UM"
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Today's resources class was great and cool! This time around it is was about audio editing.Something new, something different, something interesting and something that seemed to draw my attention! Thank you ma'am for exposing us to this awesome topic-"Audio editing" As for me, i mean in 'my own dictionary' audio = music.
Music is a place for me..I love hearing to music all day long...everytime i work on my pc, i need to listen to music-any songs will do especially the soothing, peaceful and cool kind of songs that will melt our hearts and bring wonderful memories back..

Well, what i am trying to say is that through this exposure of audio editing, i deem that i will able to use this knowledge to enhance my teaching processes in the future.For instance, i can edit various audio sounds suck as children's songs combined with educational audio tracks to introduce my lesson to the pupils.Thus, this will serve as an appealing and enticing medium to allure the pupils into the lesson.

Infact, it is really an advantage for me to learn about audio editing, as now i can edit my favourite songs, selecting only the parts that i love to listen repetitively, combining songs of various language which are in same melody into one track, and many more.Well, the list goes on....(i am extremely excited now thinking of it..hehe...)

Overall, audio editing has been a great eye opener to me..There is many things to explore using the audio editing Softwares.Thanks a lot to Ma'am for uploading the softwares..really useful indeed..As a matter of fact, i think that now i seem to have a rough idea on how those music directors work on their songs..hehe..audio editing plays an important role actually..Thumbs up to audio editing!

Reflection-Week 6: Yeah..its E-BOOK time!

Yeaaahhh..no more story time but its e-book time !

Well, this week's class was indeed enjoyable and enlightening as Mdm Foziah exposed us to the concept e-book.Her lecture on the explanation of the criteria that are to be taken into account pertaining the selection and creation of an e-book was simply mind blowing and constructive.Among the criteria highlighted were regarding the characters, theme, plot and moral values of the story, usage of the language , fonts, pictures and so on.The lecture was simple yet very meaningful, informative and easy to understand.Thank you Mdm Foziah!

In fact, I was truly enticed by the examples of the e-books done by our seniors that Mdm Foziah showed us later on.I realized that e-book serve as a blooming IT platform that exposes the pupils to the world of digital storytelling.As future 21st century teachers, I strongly believe that by employing this e-book approach, we would be able to trigger the pupils' passion and stimulate their interest of learning the lessons more efficiently and enabling to capture and draw their attention to the lesson instantaneously.By the way, I can almost envision myself utilizing the e-book in my future teaching..haha..

(a mixture of joy, gratefulness and delight)

Now moving on to the lesson...Mdm Foziah had assigned us to create an e-book for the the primary kids.Deep inside, i felt very grateful as we were given the opportunity to develop our very own e-book.Isn't is amazing?I regard this as a golden opportunity for me to enhance competency in the internet and technological skills as well .As Mdm Foziah asked us to come up with a storyline for our e-book and share it with her first, i thought it was a splendid idea as i can ensure whether i am on the right track or not.However, soon i realized that "Oh gosh...coming up with a storyline for these kids is actually tough job too!" For a second, i was quite blurred on what to focus on in my story actually..hehe..I was really thinking hard, squeezing my brains for ideas .Eventually, after consulting some ideas and making some alteration here and there with Mdm Foziah, i finally ended up with a storyline that seemed to be suitable for my e-book.In fact, upon listening to my ideas, Mdm Foziah was the one who suggested a suitable title for my e-book-"Good Deeds For the Day".Isn't cool?Thanks to Mdm Foziah.She seems to have brilliant ideas and is so kind to share them with us.In fact, I am truly impress with Mdm Foziah's fortitude and determination to guide us to be in the right track.

Well, I think its time for me to get started on my e-book production..hehe...I am really looking forward to embark on my journey of creating my e-book.Hope that i can create one which is indeed inspiring and useful for the kids.So, to all my other friends good luck to you guys too...!Till then, i am signing off here ~adios~

Reflection: Week 5-Moving on....pace by pace

Haloo everyone!The class for today started off with something unexpected..out of the blue.Wondering why???

Well, we had a FIRE DRILL!!!!hehe..it was kind of fun actually, walking out from the class in a large big group using the staircase, with everyone blabbering and some complaining, with the 'oooohs' and 'aaaahs' and also the "oh,no..its going to be boring!" kind of expressions. As for me,i think the drill was indeed a memorable one, i got the chance to see a real life demonstration, with real life firemen.(Fuyo..) But too bad, i didn't try the demonstration on how to use the fire extinguisher to put off the fire..( i was too afraid with the blazing fire and its heat..so, i dared not to take the risk )

Okay!***Now moving on to the lesson of the day, we were assigned to start off with our assignment 2- producing teaching aids for the.. in which we were divided into groups of 6.Well, personally, i am glad that my group is a multiracial group consisting of 3 races-Yeah..we are moving towards "1 Malaysia!" hehe..(sounds very patriotic rite?)

Regarding the assignment, as we are to collect and produce technological teaching a ids such as from audio, video, e-books, animation and so on. I believe that this assignment will serve as an ideal opportunity for me to sharpen and enlighten my existing IT skills (which in fact is still 'blur' for me hehe..) as well as using our creativity to explore, design and complile as many technology based teaching aids as we can. Thus, through the compilation of these teaching aids, it exposes us to various technology based teaching aids that we can utilize in our future teaching which will indeed enhance and augment our lessons and subsequently create a 'techno fun loving' atmosphere!

Now, moving on to the photo editting session in which Pn Foziah briefed us on..WHOOAAA..i was totally gobsmacked..My goodness!We can simply do anything(edit) with the photos, and make the unbelievable and impossible become believable and possible!!!!Simply amazing rite?I was in fact totally flabbergasted when Mdm Foziah showed us the picture of Ella and Wu Chun in the form of Mr & Mrs Smith.WOW!That was really superb , it looked very original and authentic and not even a slightest tiny miny inch and blotch revealed that the photos were actually edited.By the way, there were also quite a number of other photos of Ella & Chun shown by Mdm Foziah to us that resembles pure originality of the photos though they were actually edited. (Thanks to Mdm Foziah for exposing us to this mind blowing examples of photo editing.)

In fact, not long sooner, it actually aroused my interest and passion to learn more about this photo editing thingy.As an aspiring holistic teacher, i believe that we should equip ourselves with all the latest ICT knowledge and technological skills like this which enablesus to face the growing demands and expectations of the 21st century world.Thus, I regard this course as a golden opportunity to enhance my teaching capacity .Thumbs up to this course and Mdm Foziah! Oh ya, not to forget , I am eagerly looking forward to embark on the journey of photo editing.
P/s: Oh ya..by the way, i found some samples of edited photos of Mr Bean....impressive indeed!