Week 12

‘E book’ honestly this particular words did scares me at first coz it sounds so hi-tech that I wouldn't even think of producing one. But when Pn foziah told us a bit more about what e book really is I would say its possible for me to produce an interesting piece of it meant for primary school children. In fact the samples showed earlier gave me some insight o how I can practice the skills of audio editing as well as picture editing that I’ve learnt before.

The combination of good pictures and sounds are very important to come out with a good interesting e book. The ‘navigation’ tool in the e-book on the other hand will enable us to move to the ‘next slide’ and return to the ‘previous slide’ in an easier way.

Some elements of an effective e book that would appeal to children:
1) A theme to the story
2) Setting (time and place)
3) Plot that shows the conflict, climax and resolution
4) Characterization
5) Navigational tools to make sure the slides can work properly (can go to next slide and previous slide)
6) Pictures must be clear cut and colourful, no different shades or shadows.
7) Sound to accompany the e-book reading.

If you’ve notice, those elements have got something to do with stories. Yes! The use of stories in teaching young language learner! Its best to insert that elements in the e book because its obvious that stories are a wonderful way to teach young learners English as they provide contexts which children can relate to and which motivate and excite them. In addition storybooks provide invaluable visual and linguistic support for both young learners and primary school teachers.

Children love storybooks in their own language and with teacher guidance they can use the reading, picture interpretation and creative skills they already use in their first language along with their cross-curricular knowledge and have a very positive learning experience.

Storybooks are obviously not the same as storytelling where you don't necessarily use an actual book. This puts more pressure on the teacher and provides less visual support for the learners. So everybody… future teacher out there, start to think of the most creative way in your teaching style and of course it should be something outside of the box! Good luck!! ;D

Week 11

Again this week will be the extension of what we were doing since last week. The class started off by a briefing on the importance of signature on the edited picture to show some sort of copyright to the viewer so it’s kinda like acknowledgement for the individual who produce such an edited pieces of work.

We tend to assume that an edited photo is meant to make the image clearer or outstanding but do we really take note of what’s the message and significance behind the picture? After the lecture, I realize that yeah… a picture does serve million of words in it. Thus, we need to think of the hidden message that we might want the viewer to interpret whenever they look at those pictures.

What else…. Hmm… oh I remember that day when Pn. Foziah did showed us quite number of edited pictures and they’re all cool. The superimpose effect really gave such an impact and it amazed me so much. With cs3 software, we can freely make the picture the way we want it to be... Awes0me! Looks like I can put myself next to my all time favorite singer... yeay!! ;D
Okay enough with those overreacted feelings now I need to come ot with my own edited pictures as required for Task 1, Module 2. And not to forget to publish in on Photobucket. S0… wish me luck peeps! Cherio! ;)

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Week 10

Ten ten ten….. Didn’t realize that know in the tenth week of lecture which another 4 weeks remaining before this semester become a wonderful history. As for this week, we were given ample time to accomplish task on Module 2.

There are many types of photo editing software that is available on the internet and in many physical retail outlets. Depending on the type of editing that you want to do with your pictures will depend on the type of features that you want you editing software to have. There are many different features that the software could have such as standard editing tools such as red eye removal, rotating and resizing the picture, flipping and cropping, adjusting the light, color management, having multiple undos, and the capability of drawing tools and shapes that can be added to a photo. Along with this task, we need to upload those edited pictures on the net using Photobucket channel.

Think that’s all for now. See ya! ;D

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Week 9

Raya m00d raya m00d!!! goodays everyone… would like to take this chance to wish every muslims out there a Selamat hari raya Aidilfitri’ especially to my dearest lecturer Pn Foziah… Selamat Hari Raya again… looks like raya mood is still in the air nut there’s no way for me to escape from workloads already assigned. We were given Module 2 which is about photo editing by using photo editing software comes from a very sources like Adobe Photoshop CS3, Photoscape, Photobucket and ACDsee and etc. its kinda new to me coz all this while my attempt in editing would be only limited to ‘paint’ which is already installed in my pc but now I can upgrade those skills to the next level. Hopefully this task enables me to become more proficient in my editing works.

Week 8

A week goes by, another week came in, and the workload is still there… and for this particular week, we need to submit module 1 and were given another task which is included along with Module 3.

It took me about almost a day to look into what’s inside the module... it’s rather thick compared to the previous module and it’s mainly about audio editing. Generally the module is divided into three components namely:
i) The objectives of this module
ii) The module
iii) The task to test what has been learnt

And by the end of this module, we are expected to be able to:

- Change speed, pitch cut and join audio for making better quality audio files.
- Decrease and increase music tempo.
- Remove noise from audio, upgrading the quality of stupid audio files.
- Converting and encoding audio files
- Changing the type of audio files from wav to mp3
- Create minus one.
- Combine two songs
- Edit music and sound
- Saving and uploading