Photo Editor....Hmmm..sounds fun...

"Mummy i don't like my photo" said Sally. " Why?" asked her mother. "Well, I have “red-eyes” in the photo and I don't look fair here" complained Sally. " Look, Sally. We cannot do anything about it as the photo is already captured” said her mother. Ok. Sally went away with a sigh. Well friends, this is a common if not familiar situation that we had encountered before. Have you ever experienced the same kind of displeasure? I am sure you have experienced it. Anyway, no worries. Now, if you want to remove the red-eyes or increase the brightness or change the background you can do so through photo editing. If you do not know what it is, I suggest that you take up this course- Using and developing resources…Gosh! What will happen to me without this course! I am learning something new each week. This week, we learned on how to edit photos! Wow, isn’t that great. You can shape the picture according to your own taste. Nevertheless, suddenly, i realised i am not at all a tecno-savvy person. Suddenly, i felt so stupid as i do not know how to edit a photo and change it if not professionally to near satisfactory. Anyway, i did some editing work before but, not that skilled like what we are required to do. Whatever it is, I am sure there is so much more that need to be explored and learned. I anticipate it. So friends, how is this week? I would like to describe this week from a quotation from Woody Guthrie - "Take it easy -- but take it". This quotation is dearly related to me. Well, at least for this week. As i have mentioned before, the work loads for this semester is piling up profusely. However, i have learned to take it, although not in an easy way. But, i am learning to take it. I am much calmer and relaxed this week. Maybe it is because i have learned to adapt into this way of living. Anyway, I am very grateful to our lecture as she had given all of us time to work on the photo editing after presentation. I feel much more relieved as I can actually start working on it and could ask her question whenever I face some drawbacks.

The climb into resources.....

Well, what to say? Today we were briefed on the second assignment. I have to admit that UM life is quite challenging as it test u again and again. What I found out was that time management is very important here. If you do not manage your time, you will be left out. Yes, coming back to the assignment- we were required to do the assignment in groups of five. This time with different group members. Yes. and the method of choosing the members was different. We had to draw lots. This is so to ensure that each group is multiracial.-a blend of races and mix gender. I have already mentioned this in the previous blog but I am going to say this again. The idea of having members in a group consisting of different races and gender is a good move as we will be able to know each other better and come out from our present social gang to get to know others. Yes, this week is quite hectic as we are working on the first assignment that is due next week. At the same time, we are bombarded with another assignment. Well, what to say. We have to manage our time well. That is the one and only knight in shining armour for us .hehehe…nevertheless, life has to go on! Isn’t it? This week lecture was a bit special as we had group presentation instead of the previous method where the lecture explains to us. Personally, this way of teaching and learning is my favourite. This is so as we read the notes and through our comprehension we explained to other group members with the use of technology. Believe it or not! We were actually applying the inquiry discovery method as were ourselves discover the input. This is an excellent method on expanding input. I have to admit that I was pretty well astounded with my friends’ presentations. Some showed examples from Youtube while others created a moviemaker on the topic of the presentation in the limited time given. Well, what to say. We are all still in the process of recognising our own talents and others. I really enjoyed myself in the class that day. Each week I find myself taking pleasure in the class in various ways. I wonder what is in store for us in the next class! Can’t wait for it…

BE PREPARED !!!

The second day of the lecture we were all told to select our groups for the upcoming assignment. So, we all logged in adec and choose our groups which were to be of mixed races and genders. Unfortunately, some of us got confused and did not do as required. Therefore, our lecture had to cancel all the groups and we were asked to choose the group members again. I personally feel that the idea of each group having mixed gender and races a productive idea. This is so as we were able to communicate with other races in the process of doing the assignment. Even though previously we have done before, it was not that massive as now. Therefore, I feel that at the end of this semester we would have known each and every course mates of ours very well. Then the most anticipating moment came. We were all given our first assignment for this course. We discussed in our groups on what we planned to do. It was really interactive process as all of us brainstormed on what to do. Well, as the saying goes ‘Two heads are better than one’. Here we have five heads. hahahaha… But I have to admit that choosing a topic for this assignment is not easy. We really had to crack our heads to the breaking point to choose a topic as we want to give out BEST in the assignment. Whatever it is, I had lot of fun with my group members. We reminded ourselves that we had to manage our time well as there other assignments to do. Thus, we all came into a conclusion not to do last minute work but to start doing the assignment as soon as possible. so friends, be prepared for the assignment ok... Yes, on this class I relished myself a lot. There is one thing for sure that I can tell you- we are going to have fun in this subject. Just mark my word!

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A step into the WORLD of resources....

Using and developing resources for the ESL classrooms, when I first heard about this subject there were many questions generating in my mind. What is it all about? Do we have to produce resources all by ourselves? Those were two of the many questions lingering in my mind. So, the first day of the class cleared all my doubts. Yes, it is about producing resources that can be used in the primary classrooms but we have to use technology and not the traditional approach. ‘Wow, it would be great’, I thought when I first heard about it. Basically, the first day was all about learning what the subject has in store for all of us. Moreover, we had to register to adec and create our blog on the day. In addition, we also had to answer a few questions that were posed by our lecture to us in adec. As a matter of fact, I felt that the questions were an eye opener as it requires one to scrutinise himself or herself on his or her computer proficiency and what they really expected in this course. We also were advised by our lecture to buy a 4Gb thumb drive for our course. It was really nice of our lecture to tell us this on the first day as it gives us time to go and look for one. All in all, the three hour class were filled with all this activities. It was really compact as we were all occupied with the tasks given. Personally, I really enjoyed the class as it was fun, enjoyable and exciting.