15th Week

The End

1. What do you like about blogging?
Blogging helps me to reflect creatively and critically on every week's class as I need to recall what I have learnt on that day.

2. What you do not like about blogging?
Nothing much just that when I insert the picture. I have to drag from top to the place where I want the picture to be. Sometimes, this process will affect the arrangement of other pictures and words in my entry.

3. What have you gained from blogging e.g. Language skills, improved fluency, critical thinking, improved thought processes, technology skills etc. How?
I would say through blogging, it helps me to improve my language writing skills and my English proficiency too as I need to write about what I have learnt on that day. In terms of critical thinking, yes as I will always think and reflect critically on what I have learnt and gain on that day. To be honest, this is my very first academic blog in my life and I find that it is really useful in my learning journey as an undergraduate.

4. What do you like about this course?
This course exposes us to a lot of technological skills such as photo editing, audio editing, video editing, computer and internet skills. Now I know how to edit my photos and edit videos.

5. What you do not like about this course?
Well, I would say is module. To me module 3,4,5 are ok but not module 1 and 2. Module 1 and 2 have too many tutorials to be covered and I find that sometimes I am out time to do it. With this, we have to be very good in time management in order to complete our task in time.

6. What have you learnt from this course?
I get to know a lot of technology software such as Photoshop, Photoscape, Audacity and many more.

7. What have you learnt from this course that you did not expect to?
There are tasks for each modules as it already takes us a lot of time to do the module, yet there are still tasks for each modules.

8. What have u expected but do not learn from this course?
The 2 books which we have bought at the beginning of the semester where I thought it will taught during the class. However, I still can manage it by reading the books on my own. As a university student, I need to be more independent in learning and not just everything depend on our lecturer.


9. Comments regarding modules:

1. Internet and computing skills

a. What do you like about this module?
The module helps to learn a lot of technological skill such as how to download mp3, video, mv from internet.

b. What do you not like about this module?
There are too many modules. It is our first time to do this, so is kinda not used to it.

c. What do you like about the task given for this module?
We can learn how to prepare teaching aids in future.

d. What do you not like about the task given for this module?
nothing.

e. What are the specific skills that you learn in this module?
Downloading skill. I learn to download music video and songs from Moyea Youtube downloader.

f. How the skills learnt in this module can help in the making and choosing of teaching aids for the ELT classroom?
I can choose the appropriate songs or videos from 4shared.com and Youtube and download them via mp3 downloader and moyea youtube downloader for my teaching next time.

2. Photo Editing

a. What do you like about this module?
This module teaches me how to edit pictures by using a lot of software such as Adobe Photoshop CS3, Photoscape, ACDsee and etc.

b. What do you not like about this module?
For some tutorials, some steps are not shown clearly and we have to google for the steps and try it.

c. What do you like about the task given for this module?
I have learnt how to add effect to my photos to make it look nicer.

d. What do you not like about the task given for this module?
nothing.

e. What are the specific skills that you learn in this module?
Photo editing skills via photoshop, photoscape and photobucket.

f. How the skills learnt in this module can help in the making and choosing of teaching aids for the ELT classroom?
I can edit the pictures and used the pictures as my teaching aids.

3. Audio Editing Skills

a. What do you like about this module?
I have learnt how to edit songs by using audacity.

b. What do you not like about this module?
It is difficult to add effects in the music till it is good

c. What do you like about the task given for this module?
The tasks given are not as heavy as the other module as it only required us to edit songs by combining 2 songs, cutting songs and adding fade in/out effect.

d. What do you not like about the task given for this module?
This really test my patient while I am editing the song. We need to try the effect and listen to it a lot of time.

e. What are the specific skills that you learn in this module?
Fade in, fade out, noise removal,increase voloum, change frequency..

f. How the skills learnt in this module can help in the making and choosing of teaching aids for the ELT classroom?
I can use these skills to edit songs to be used in my teaching next time.


4. Video Editing Skills

a. What do you like about this module?
The module taught me a lot of video editing skill such as extract pictures and audio from the video.

b. What do you not like about this module?
Time consuming.

c. What do you like about the task given for this module?
It's interesting as we can create video on our own.

d. What do you not like about the task given for this module?
It's difficult to look for video and audios which are suitable for the selected theme in KBSR list.

e. What are the specific skills that you learn in this module?
Extract pictures and audio from video.
Create video via window movie maker.

f. How the skills learnt in this module can help in the making and choosing of teaching aids for the ELT classroom?
I can create my own video based on the topic I want to teach in my lesson.

5. Software for ELT

a. What do you like about this module?
The module taught me to create poster, name cards and etc by using Ms Publisher.

b. What do you not like about this module?
nothing.

c. What do you like about the task given for this module?
I have the opportunity to make a set of teaching aids by using MS publisher.

d. What do you not like about the task given for this module?
We need to create a lot of teaching aids for the task 2.

e. What are the specific skills that you learn in this module?
Create brochure, flyer, business cards, poster, banner, greeting cards and etc.

f. How the skills learnt in this module can help in the making and choosing of teaching aids for the ELT classroom?
I can create the teaching aids on my own for example flyer and poster. Then I can ask questions to my pupils in the class.

10. If you can change anything about this course, state what is and elaborate?
The number of modules given should be reduced as some of the tutorials are just basic and the steps given in the modules should be correct as some of the steps are not the same and not accurate like what it appear on our laptops. Therefore, we have to find the solutions on our own.

On a scale of 1 – 10, please rate your computing and technological skills for both before and after undergoing the course.
Before - 4.5
After - 8