Reflection week 7

Hi. Without realising, half semester has passed! As for today, we were given another task to complete : audio editing. So far, we've developed an ebook, edited photos and now we are venturing into the audio editing world! I am glad that we have the chance to learn so many amazing things! I'm positive that all those skills are worth learning. Frankly speaking, I really enjoy the process of doing the works and I'm proud to see the end products. I hope I will be able to cope with the heavy workloads and complete the assignments on time. Before this, I had used a few songs for my simulated teaching back in college, and I was not satisfied with the quality of the song, however, I did not know how to edit the song according to my preferences. Now, finally, I have the chance to explore and learn it!

For this lecture, we've been exposed to some examples of audio editing work done by Mdm Foziah, and she also introduced us to some tools for audio editing, the purpose for editing audio, and the history of audio editing world. I think I'm quite interested in doing this task, and hopefully I can manage to come out with a good piece of product! So, we really need to work hard now! All the best to all!

Photoshop!

Hi people, hope everyone is doing fine. I would like to share the photos that I edited recently for the photo editing task.

Personally, I enjoyed doing the photoshop, and I'm proud with the end product as well. At least I've learnt something new and useful! These are the photos. Hope you'll like it!

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E-book, here we come!

Today is a pleasant day, and I just enjoyed our resources class! The lesson began with a short presentation from Mdm Foziah. The topic of the lecture was about criteria for selecting or creating stories. I found that this lesson was indeed very useful and I'm glad that we all had a strong foundation in this field as we had been exposed to a similar course named "Stories in the ESL classroom" before. Mdm Foziah had also exposed us to the criteria that we should take note in developing a story, which include the text, font size, plot, and illustrations. This is to help us to develop an e-book, which is our next assignment! This is the very first time that we are to create an e-book! As I browsed through Google, e-book refers to an e-text that forms the digital media equivalent of a conventional printed book. So, the idea is quite similar to a story books that we usually read, but it's just that e-book is presented in the form of electronic media.

So far, we have learnt to do tutorials, photoshop and now, we are to apply what we have learnt from the previous lessons to this assignment! This serves as another learning platform for us to develop our internet and computer skills! Wow, we have learnt so many things in such a short period, amazing isn't it? As quoted by Abigail Adams " learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence". I extremely agree with this quotation! I think what I need now is passion in learning and also to persevere in what I'm doing now! Although they are lots of assignment awaiting us, I believe that with great passion and determination, we can excel in the end! So, let's work hard together towards achieving what we aim for!

Oh ya, happy holiday to all my beloved friends and lecturers! Enjoy your holiday :)

My fifth resources class: overwhelming!

Hi, greetings to all. I would say today's resources class was yet another "eye-opener" for me. Before the lesson started, we were surprised by the fire drill. All of us were like ants scattered at the ground floor, and waited for the instructions from the firemen. The drill was simply cool, especially when the firemen demonstrated to us on how to use the fire extinguisher. For me, I just stood at the back and enjoyed the "show". Haha.

As for the class, we were given another assignment from Mdm Foziah. Ouhh, not again, I sighed. However, as Maam explained to us on what we should do, I found that this assignment is not bad after all. For this assignment, we are to collect all the electronic teaching aids that we have produced or found, then categorise and compile them. I found that this assignment is very beneficial for us, as when we have a variety of teaching aids, it helps us to save a lot of time if we are to use them in the future. We don't have to undergo the trouble of finding or downloading them, because it's already there, ready to be used! Besides that, I believe that we will definitely gain wonderful experience doing this assignment, as we will be able to learn how to produce quality teaching aids. Thumbs up for this assignment! Hehe..

Apart from that, Mdm Foziah has also shown us some examples of photo editing, and how people add effects to pictures. I was surprised to see all the pictures done by those people, because they were amazing. I wonder how they found time to edit all those photos! The most beautiful job done by them was the photo featuring the well-known taiwanese singer and actor, Ella and Wu Chun. Their fan had actually replaced Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's photo with their faces. The photo was remarkable, because the picture fitted their faces so well. These were some of the photos with added effects. Hope I am able to produce similar work soon!

I didn't even realise that this photo was actually being cut and merged together. Amazing isn't it?

This was another photo edited by their fan. I was flabbergasted upon seeing all the pictures. The effect is just remarkable.

I didn't even know how this was done. So, this shows that there are a lot for me to learn! Okay, I think I shall procrastinate no more and start to work hard! Good luck to all my friends! Adios!