Photo editing, ever done that?

In the class yesterday we were told that we are to edit a photo on our own. Wow, that sounds exciting! To be frank, I have never done any of the photo editing job before. I don't even know a single thing about any photo editing software.

Very quickly we were given the briefing of the basics of photo editing. We were suggested to use Adobe Photoshop for the photo editing. Then we were given a few slide shows of the tutorial on the functions of the Adobe Photoshop for the basic knowledge of photo editing. We are to look at the tutorials given and start working on our own. I hope I will be able to come out with a good editing job!

Friends, let's explore!

Progress on Assignment 2.. not easy!

As i go on with the Assignment 2, I realized that choosing a good and suitable material for classroom is definitely not easy. I sat in front of the computer searching for suitable materials for hours.. Yeah, hourS..
At first I got confused.. yeah.. I kept on asking myself.. What is the material on animals.. that is suitable for children? I had to look at the text book, curriculum specification, syllabus, and it's also crucial to take the children's interest and attention span into consideration!
Thus, developing resources for primary classroom is definitely not easy!

Classroom Resources.. Need it or NO?

I came across an article on line, and I shall discuss the article by stating its main points.

Firstly, teachers should brainstorm the kinds of resources that they need in the classroom and write them down in a list. This is to make it easier for the teachers to gather resources that they need ONLY rather than piling up the whole chunk regardless the usefulness and the appropriateness of the resources simply because they are attractive.

Teachers can try to gather the resources needed online as there are plentiful of resources available on the internet. As technology has become a part pf our lives, it has become a very useful source of our teaching materials as well.

Here are some of the questions that teachers can ask while gathering their resources:

• Will it be a supplementary learning program (i.e. practice) to be used on alternative lessons or in lieu of the regular classroom routine?
• Can it be used for a variety of classrooms or will teachers need to purchase a number of online educational packages. Remember, what your school will purchase today for your classroom, will be quickly replaced by some newer computer learning program tomorrow.
• Is there room for student learning and growth with regard to diversified instruction? Will it supplement the teaching objectives?
• Can students progress and learn at their own pace?

(taken from http://newteachersupport.suite101.com/article.cfm/planning_classroom_resources)

Reading materials too are very important in primary classroom. Before getting reading materials for the class, teachers should consider the pupils' readability, the appropriateness of the topic, vocabulary, pupils' proficiency level, illustrations and also the difficulty level of the exercises for follow up. By taking above mentioned points into consideration, it is not difficult for the teachers to get ready with good and suitable reading materials.

Visual aids are handy to be used in classroom as they are very effective in attracting and sustaining the pupils' interest. Here are the checklist for getting the visual aids to be used in classroom.

• Can this visual aid also be replaced with some of students' work?
• Can I prepare this visual aid on my own?
• Is this visual aid too expensive and thus unnecessary for my classroom learning needs?
• Is this visual aid user-friendly and motivating for learning?

(taken from http://newteachersupport.suite101.com/article.cfm/planning_classroom_resources)

Hence, I found this article is useful for the teachers.

Assignment 2???

Today in the class we were given the exposure to the second assignment that we have to do, namely Assignment 2. I have some kind of feelings that I was very blur when I was in the class. Seriously I could not really understand what was the task all about. Nor could I understand those things that were taught by Pn Foziah. I felt that I was completely lost.

We were told that we had to master certain skills in order to complete this assignment. Well, I tried my best to pay attention to the briefing. Yet I still think that I got nothing out of it because there were a lot of terms which I could not understand. In the end I had no choice but to ask around.

Later, I managed to log onto Adec to check what is the assignment all about. There were only 5 words found, keyboarding, Searching, Downloading, Storing, Burning, which too could not help in developing my understanding. I went to ask my group members what was the assignment all about. Then only i realized that we had to find some materials online, and through the process of finding, indirectly we develop the skills required in the assignment. Hmm, I shall go back and look at it more closely.

Interesting Website... Try it?

I found a very interesting website which we can create video on our own, and we can even download videos that others have made.

Below is the link to the website:

http://www.zimmertwins.com.au/

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I'm going to develop resources!

It was the first class of this subject in this semester. This is the first time that I was exposed to the idea of keeping track on what I have done for a particular course by using blogspot. Well, this is definitely something new for me, as we had never done this in the college before. Hmm, this could be interesting.

During the first session, the briefing of this course sounded very promising. I somehow got the feeling that we are going to have fun! Well, let's see what happens later. The new life in UM is waiting for me!