f.i.n.a.l SAY

1. What I like about blogging.

well blogging is a gd way to express urself creatively and constructively...sides that, its a freedom of speech.. u get to say what u want..u express urself..make urself known..what u feel n etc.besides that..its a gd way to interact with ur friends..esp uselful for us future teachers..u go to each other blogs..share materials..n u get to share gossips too!..kinda cool..

2. What i do not like about blogging.

haha..so far so good..just got to watch ur saying..dun wannna land urself in a hot soup or in the wrong place..haha

3. What have they gained from blogging? Language skills, improved fluency, critical thinking, improved thought processes, technology skills etc.

well..blogging kinda make me wanna share stuffs..u noe..its a webpage..ur own..dump all u want in it..people will read it..n best of all u share ur thoughts. Sides that..it does improve my language profiency..and technology skills as well.

4. How?

teachno skills..before this i was blinded about blogging..now there is a new opportunity..new window for me to learn newer stuffs..

5. What they like about the course

It offers new knowledge on technological aspect and a lot of soft skills had been integrated throughout the learning process

6. What they do not like about the course

expectations..kinda too high.too much without proper planning..come on..even Rome wasnt build in a day..planning..

7. What they have learnt from the course

Managing ur time..controling urself..developing urself to face the real world out thr.new techno skills..editing espcially.

8. What they do not expect but have learnt from the course

the vast usage of techno in teaching.

9. What they expect but have not learnt from the course.

i want to develop materials.i mean not so focused on something..kinda a narrowed down scope.

10. If they can change anything about the course, state what it is and explain.

one too many.well..i think i will just stick to management and planning. plan well..plan ahead..not plan as u go..as one of the military units says 'one shot one kill'..same thing here..one plan..excecute it.not many plans and excecute all..in the end u get nothing..just wasting bullets with lots of stray bullet shots.

that said...its done..its over...well..another sem goes by..every begining has an ending.

every begining has an E.N.D...

the semester is coming to its end..the end is near..sounds of cheering,relieve,satisfaction echoes at every corner..everyone needs a break..the end is near people..the sound of freedom is playing in the background..

it has been a great ride..more of it has been a roller coaster this semester for me..there were one too many ups and downs..one too many breakdowns...one too many losing grip..but the end is near..a smile will be engraved on this face soon.. =)

was a fun semester actually..learned alot..practically wasted sometime too..but at the end of the day..knowledge was still acquired..anyways..learning is a process..and its given to those who wants to learn..doesnt need to be in the conventional form..its in thousands of other ways..as long as one wants to better oneself..then learning is taking place that very moment..and thats what i wanted for myself and i think i got it..i learn alot dis semester..not the conventional way..but unconventionally.. some what cool.. a different view and perspectives for once.

rise up people..few days left..lets buckle up for one last ride together before we all call it quits for this semester...see ya on the otherside peeps!

lets walk down this path one last time..finish the journey ..

Helpful websites for US future teachers

Hey peeps!

found these websites of the net...its helpful n resourceful..just wanna share it with u peeps!enjoy!..

http://www.internet4classrooms.com/teacher.htm

http://www.theteacherscorner.net/teacher-resources/

http://education.jlab.org/indexpages/teachers.php

http://www.suelebeau.com/teachresources.htm

E-portfolio

An electronic portfolio, also known as an e-portfolio or digital portfolio, is a collection of electronic evidence assembled and managed by a user, usually on the Web (also called Webfolio). Such electronic evidence may include inputted text, electronic files, images, multimedia, blog entries, and hyperlinks. E-portfolios are both demonstrations of the user's abilities and platforms for self-expression, and, if they are online, they can be maintained dynamically over time. Some e-portfolio applications permit varying degrees of audience access, so the same portfolio might be used for multiple purposes.

An e-portfolio can be seen as a type of learning record that provides actual evidence of achievement. Learning records are closely related to the Learning Plan, an emerging tool that is being used to manage learning by individuals, teams, communities of interest, and organizations. To the extent that a Personal Learning Environment captures and displays a learning record, it also might be understood to be an electronic portfolio.

Students have been taught to create digital identities using presentation software or tools to create web pages. Such technologies, however, are not easily utilized by children or elderly people who lack web authoring skills or a hosted site. More recently the use of virtual learning environments (VLEs) in schools and universities has led to an increased activity in the creation of e-portfolios for a variety of reasons. Most of these e-portfolios, however, are retained within the VLE and are not easily accessed outside the VLE. This results in problems of exporting data and related interoperability issues. An alternative approach is to use a system externally hosted to any institution. This permits transition through the various stages of education and employments and even into retirement.

E-portfolios, like traditional portfolios, can facilitate students' reflection on their own learning, leading to more awareness of learning strategies and needs. Preliminary results of a comparative research between paper based portfolios and electronic portfolios in the same setting, suggest use of an electronic portfolio leads to better learning outcomes.

lesson p.l.a.n

Sample of lesson plan acquired from internet. There lots of resources that can be found in the internet...make use of it...use if well.. =)

busy =(

final week approaching..preparing for exam around the corner..finishing lesson plans..man this is hectic..huhu..cant wait for a fine vacation..in need of it..huhuhu..sumbody save me...(humming smallville's theme song)..haha...

tired..cant wait to hand in the assignment tomorrow..a load off..den can focus on d exam..fuhhhh...damn..dis is tiring.. *private josh requesting cavalry*...

SMARTboard-ING

SMARTboard-ING kinda sound like skateboarding..or snowboarding..which means its suppose to be sumting kinda ez n smooth flowin not?!!!...haha..i do tink so...haha..kinda ez n cool once u get a hang of it

niways...SMARTboard-ING aka IWB-interactive whiteboard..the next big thing hitting our shore..ooppss..no no..hitting our schools...man..dis ting is the THANG..ive been playin wif it..mm.coming to my 3rd year messing wif it..seeing the software getting version updates n come to tink of it...adapting n adopting some of powerpoint features..whc is cool n convinient

so yea..my last assignment!!!!...SMARTboard-ING!!!...coolness...gonna board the whole process thru...it was one of the easiest hardest assignment for me...cos i dunno realli noe wad to teach..but d messing wif IWB..is kinda not a probie for me..

niways...dis one last assignment was sure a fun one..one to rmb..cos i practically develop my own teaching material..wif sum ideas from my frens..(crediting my fren =) thnx )..dis is a masterpiece my own work...n to b honest altho its simple..but m proud of it..

and as a future teacher..this assignment open my eyes n gave a wider perspective of what i cud do in skul wen m teaching..not to become one of the boring teachers that i used to have back in skul...whr what dey usually do in class is make me sleep and skip classes..hahaha...i do hope with all these that ive learn and acquired from this assignment will make me a better teacher .

better techs..better future

good or bad_up to u!

Some of the advantages of information technology include:

Globalization - IT has not only brought the world closer together, but it has allowed the world's economy to become a single interdependent system. This means that we can not only share information quickly and efficiently, but we can also bring down barriers of linguistic and geographic boundaries. The world has developed into a global village due to the help of information technology allowing countries like Chile and Japan who are not only separated by distance but also by language to shares ideas and information with each other.

Communication - With the help of information technology, communication has also become cheaper, quicker, and more efficient. We can now communicate with anyone around the globe by simply text messaging them or sending them an email for an almost instantaneous response. The internet has also opened up face to face direct communication from different parts of the world thanks to the helps of video conferencing.

Cost effectiveness - Information technology has helped to computerize the business process thus streamlining businesses to make them extremely cost effective money making machines. This in turn increases productivity which ultimately gives rise to profits that means better pay and less strenuous working conditions.

Bridging the cultural gap - Information technology has helped to bridge the cultural gap by helping people from different cultures to communicate with one another, and allow for the exchange of views and ideas, thus increasing awareness and reducing prejudice.

More time - IT has made it possible for businesses to be open 24 x7 all over the globe. This means that a business can be open anytime anywhere, making purchases from different countries easier and more convenient. It also means that you can have your goods delivered right to your doorstep with having to move a single muscle.

Creation of new jobs - Probably the best advantage of information technology is the creation of new and interesting jobs. Computer programmers, Systems analyzers, Hardware and Software developers and Web designers are just some of the many new employment opportunities created with the help of IT.

Some disadvantages of information technology include:

Unemployment - While information technology may have streamlined the business process it has also crated job redundancies, downsizing and outsourcing. This means that a lot of lower and middle level jobs have been done away with causing more people to become unemployed.

Privacy - Though information technology may have made communication quicker, easier and more convenient, it has also bought along privacy issues. From cell phone signal interceptions to email hacking, people are now worried about their once private information becoming public knowledge.

Lack of job security - Industry experts believe that the internet has made job security a big issue as since technology keeps on changing with each day. This means that one has to be in a constant learning mode, if he or she wishes for their job to be secure.

Dominant culture - While information technology may have made the world a global village, it has also contributed to one culture dominating another weaker one. For example it is now argued that US influences how most young teenagers all over the world now act, dress and behave. Languages too have become overshadowed, with English becoming the primary mode of communication for business and everything else.

v.i.d.e.o editing

The term video editing :

- non-linear editing system, using computers with video editing software
- linear video editing, using videotape

Video editing is the process of re-arranging or modifying segments of video to form another piece of video. The goals of video editing are the same as in film editing — the removal of unwanted footage, the isolation of desired footage, and the arrangement of footage in time to synthesize a new piece of footage.

Early video recorders were very expensive, and the quality loss of copying was so great, that 2 inch Quadruplex videotape was edited by visualizing the recorded track with ferrofluid, cutting with a razor blade or guillotine cutter and splicing with tape. Improvements in quality and economy, and the invention of the flying erase head, allowed new video to be inserted cleanly into an existing tape. This technique was referred to as linear editing. If an early scene needed to be lengthened, all the later scenes would need to be added again. Multiple sources could be played back simultaneously through a vision mixer to be mixed or keyed.

Modern non-linear editing systems are computer-based, though there was a transitional analog period using multiple source VCRs or LaserDisc players. Footage is played into a computer and captured on a hard drive. Editors use software such as Avid's Media Composer and Xpress Pro, Apple's Final Cut Pro, and Adobe's Premiere to manipulate the captured footage. High definition video is becoming more popular and can be readily edited using the same software along with related motion graphics programs. Clips are arranged on a timeline, music tracks and titles are added, effects can be created, and the finished program is "rendered" into a finished video. The video may then be distributed in a variety of ways including DVD, web streaming, Quicktime Movies, iPod, CD-ROM, or videotape.

For the home market, consumer-friendly products such as Adobe Premiere Elements, AVID Express DV, CyberLink PowerDirector, Final Cut Express, Sony Vegas, Pinnacle Studio, ULead VideoStudio, Roxio Easy Media Creator, Magix Movie Edit Pro and muvee autoProducer have come on the market with the emergence of computer video editing for the home PC. Two free programs that are bundled with computers are Apple's IMovie and Microsoft's Windows Movie Maker.

you TUBING

This was what i learned ...you tube..kinda useful for us future teachers not?...there are lots of materials up thr..we just need to adapt n adopt..easy =)..have fun peeps..a good add on to out learning portfolio for dis sem!

(an artical about you tube..a short 101)

YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. YouTube was created in February 2005 by three former PayPal employees. The San Bruno-based service uses Adobe Flash Video technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips and music videos, as well as amateur content such as videoblogging and short original videos. In October 2006, Google Inc. announced that it had reached a deal to acquire the company for US$1.65 billion in Google stock. The deal closed on November 13, 2006.

Unregistered users can watch most videos on the site, while registered users are permitted to upload an unlimited number of videos. Some videos are available only to users of age 18 or older (e.g. videos containing potentially offensive content). The uploading of videos containing defamation, harassment, commercial advertisements and material encouraging criminal conduct is strictly prohibited. Related videos, determined by title and tags, appear onscreen to the right of a given video. In YouTube's second year, functions were added to enhance user ability to post video 'responses' and subscribe to content feeds.

Few statistics are publicly available regarding the number of videos on YouTube. However, in July 2006, the company revealed that more than 100 million videos were being watched every day, and 2.5 billion videos were watched in June 2006. 50,000 videos were being added per day in May 2006, and this increased to 65,000 by July.In January 2008 alone, nearly 79 million users had made over 3 billion video views.

In August 2006, The Wall Street Journal published an article revealing that YouTube was hosting about 6.1 million videos (requiring about 45 terabytes of storage space), and had about 500,000 user accounts. As of April 9, 2008, a YouTube search returns about 83.4 million videos and 3.75 million user channels. It is estimated that in 2007, YouTube consumed as much bandwidth as the entire Internet in 2000, and that over 13 hours of video are uploaded every minute. In March 2008, its bandwidth costs were estimated at approximately $1 million a day.

As of Q1 2008, YouTube was not profitable, with its revenues in 2007 being noted as "not material" by Google in a regulatory filing. Exact revenue or profit numbers are not published, but a June 2008 Forbes magazine article projected the 2008 revenue at $200 million, noting progress in ad sales. At that time, the price for an ad on the YouTube home page was $175,000 per day (plus a $50,000 commitment to buy Google/YouTube ads elsewhere), and a branded channel (distinguished by a customized background) cost advertisers $200,000.

editing_WEEK

learning and immersing into photo and audio editing.learn lots of new stuffs..never liked editing..a waste of time from my point of view =p

photo editing was good..a real good one!..a gateway to a new world ..never thot it was this fun..finally got my hans DIRTY!..played wif photoshop alot..manage to master few skills on CS3..my fave ...colour isolation and rain effect!..cool..thnx to devppl.com!..a very informative forum for photoshopING.

CRAP!...i need more softwares for audio editing..hehe..SOS!... =)

adobe photoshop CS3

audio EDITING

Audio editing

Audio editing is the process of taking recorded sound and changing it directly on the recording medium (analog) or in RAM (digital).
Audio editing was a new technology that developed in the middle part of the 20th century with the advent of magnetic tape recording. Prior to magnetic tape, editing (and the repairing of breaks) was performed on wire recorders with solder and extra wire to reinforce the new joint. After World War II, reel-to-reel tape machines became prevalent and edits were made with straight razors and "splicing" tape to connect pieces of magnetic tape that had been cut. Audio editors would listen to recorded tapes at low speeds, and then located specific sounds using a process called scrubbing, which is the slow rocking back and forth of the tape reels across the playback heads of the tape deck.
With the development of microcomputer technology, sound recordists were able to digitize their recordings and edit them as files within a computer's RAM. The earliest audio editor was written by Soundstream Inc specifically for the PDP-11 minicomputer platform. Digital audio workstations appeared using proprietary software and hardware solutions but after the personal computer became widely available in the mid '80s, much the power of a DAW came into the hands of home and small business users through software audio editing programs written specifically for personal computers. The earliest program to become widely used in this application was a wave editor called Sound Designer in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Sound Designer was created by a company called Digidesign who achieved early industry dominance. Today, the most popular retail audio editing programs not associated with specific hardware are: Audacity, Adobe Audition, Sound Forge, Samplitude, Adobe Soundbooth and Goldwave.[citation needed]
In recent years, with the growing popularity of GNU/Linux, a number of Free software software projects have sprung up in order to develop an open source audio editing program. This movement has been bolstered recently by the development of ALSA, and the Linux low latency kernel patch, which allow the GNU/Linux Operating System to achieve audio processing performance equal to that of commercial operating systems. The multi-platform package Audacity is currently the most fully-featured free software audio editor.

what is photoshop?!?!

Adobe Photoshop, or simply Photoshop, is a graphics editing program developed and published by Adobe Systems. It is the current and primary market leader for commercial bitmap and image manipulation, and is the flagship product of Adobe Systems. It has been described as "an industry standard for graphics professionals" and was one of the early "killer applications" on Macintosh.

Photoshop CS3, the current tenth iteration of the program, was released on 16 April 2007. "CS" reflects its integration with other Creative Suite products, and the number "3" represents it as the third version released since Adobe re-branded its products under the CS umbrella. Photoshop CS3 features additions such as the ability to apply non-destructive filters, as well as new selection tools named Quick Selection and Refine Edge that make selection more streamlined. On April 30th, Adobe released Photoshop CS3 Extended, which includes all the same features of Adobe Photoshop CS3 with the addition of capabilities for scientific imaging, 3D, and high end film and video users. The successor to Photoshop CS3, Photoshop CS4, will be the first 64-bit Photoshop on consumer microcomputers.

l.o.s.t HOPE

again..back again for more!..i am lost...i dont know what is happening!..haha...

laying back on my chair..slant down as far as the chair can take it..i am lost..to be honest.. i am one of the survivors of OCEANIC flight 815..hahahaha

assignment 3 - 22/07/08

- create teaching aids e.g; e-book for primary kids,interactive story books,power point,movie etc

-choose a new group,different from assignment 2.

-prepare the storyboard for the teaching aids

-present the work

Stocking up for the whole sem!

COOL!..haha *dripping with sarcasm*..hehe..cool in getting assignments..so not cool..haha..but it needs to be done.so yea!..stocking up for the whole sem..i mean..for the rainy days!..*sound of sarcasm again*..

so yea..blogging..reflection..describing parts of computer..(not again)..haha..

end of the day-

today was kinda slow for most of u..at least i know i was a bit slow..guess the input was just too much..too much familiarity for me..just presented in a very diff way..so yea..kinda slow today..MEMORY LOW..haha..upgrading is so needed and considered..haha..can i upgrade myself?..who am i kidding..?.. =p..


non-tech vs tech TEACHING AIDS..where.how.what. to use them?

TECH
-ebook,youtube,powerpoint,limewire,metacafe,google,yahoo,msn.com,online storybooks,online newspapers,webshots,pdf novels,flikr.plyas,dramas,films,online games

NON-TECH
-banners,flyers,magazines,posters,photos,pictures,lyrics


3hours...2hours more to go till the next class!..come on mr.TIME..doremon..come on..!fast forward the time..my warehouse is full..!..this is as much as i can take today..haha =p

::W.E.L.C.O.M.E::

DIVE INTO MY WORLD!

my objective of this blog is to collect as many resources and invent new ones for the ESL classroom.

regards.