E-book

I was deeply intrigued of what an e-book could be, when we were first told that we should create one!!! However, looking the examples from the seniors, I was indeed a little surprised to learn that it is just a powerpoint presentation. I still could not understand why this powerpoint presentation is called an e-book. Making the powerpoint was not the toughest part. It was harder to do the tutorial of it. Recording each step and explaining it took up more of our time than doing the powerpoint itself. And yet, showing the tutorial does not mean much as all the steps are the basic ones that are used in the making of any powerpoint slides. This taks was not very demanding nor did it teach us anything new. I have merely applied my previous knowledge of powerpoint-creating in this task.

So You Think You Can Dance?

This task was also another video editing task. Yet, it required us to utilize slightly different skills and knowledge. In this task, we were required to download the various parts of 8TV's So You Think You Can Dance programme. Since there were many parts, we divided the work among us. Since the downloading process took a very long time we stayed up late into night trying our best to finish the work before we head home to our 'kampungs' for the upcoming holidays.
Even though we had everything carefully planned and managed to finish the task despite some technical complications that we faced, we still landed ourselves into trouble. This was because we received the news that the task must be handed inthe form of DVD reached us only when we were in our hometowns. Thus, we could not hand the DVD within time even though we uploaded them as required on time.
Later on, we pointed out this to Pn Foziah and showed her that we completed the task in time, the uploaded work being evidence, but could not deliver the DVD. Pn Foziah accepted our apologies and received our DVD as she saw that we did not procrastinate our work but only could not deliver the DVD.

Entertainment-In-The-Making...

How many times have we marvelled at others' videos? Now it time for us to make our own. All our experience in 'Technology for Primary Schools' was every bit helpful in completing this task. Working with a friend, we were required to gather pictures and compile them into a video. Our topic was 'Life as A University Student'.
The task was not complicated in the complation of pictures, but the complication was in delivering them creatively. Moreover, we had to decide on it fast as we will be going away for our holidays. Once we decided the theme and how to present it, we did it separately during the holidays. We used the Power Director software as it offered many interesting features to produce a video, apart from being user friendly.
However, it was still difficult for us to communicate our ideas through to each other being far apart. This was because we were both away in our hometowns. It was indeed difficult to upload the video due to multiple technical problems. Even thoguh the task given to us was easy, the technical part of it was very complicated to handle and took up most of our time.
Our video can be found in this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMD5CkdAcbU

Classrooms and Music

I listen to music for fun, for tranquility, for ideas, or simply to keep up to date with what's new. Recently, I have come to learn of how songs can be part of a lesson through the course Songs and Poetry for Primary Schools. In this course we learned of utilizing entertaining songs and poems to teach English. The course was indeed very informative and fun as we enjoyed ourselves creating music and songs as one of the assignments.

This tak of audio editing , I see it as a sequal to the one. As teachers, I believe, there are times when we realize that we can't use an entire song for a lesson's purpose, thus this is where learning on manipulating the songs will be handy. It will prove much better when we actually toss away the parts that we do not need, increase the volume at the parts we wish to reinforce, even add on with parts from other songs.

Now, all that is definetely possible with the audio editing skills. This time we were not asked to produce eeducational songs, but we were given the freedom of editing any song. I feel that this actually helped us look this task in a wider scope, than having it narrowed down to educational scope alone. Moreover, this will give us an opportunity to explore and experiment on the use of audio editing before we could apply it for educational puposes.

Though tiring, it was a useful task.

Music

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