from the bottom of my broken heart

Thank You to my lecturer, Pn. Foziah who teach me a lot through out this semester. I gained lots of information & knowledge throughout this semester. Forgive me if i done something wrong. Forgive me if i didn't come to class. Forgive me if i'm misbehaved towards you. Forgive me if i said nasty things to you. Forgive me if i had bad impressions about you. Forgive me if i like to fuss over your assignments/tasks. Forgive me if don't visit you when you are sick. Forgive me as i can't be beside you. Forgive me...

To Kak Niza (Siti Rohainiza Bt Latiff), the one and the only creature in the world who understand me- Thanks a lot too. Selamat Pengantin Baru! To akak, forgive me as i can't attend your wedding. Forgive me if i had done something wrong to you. Forgive me if i said nasty things to you. Forgive me if i'm not beside you when u needed me. Forgive me if i'm not with you to share your meaningful memories. Forgive me if i misbehaved. Forgive me...

Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

-Albert Schweitzer

the sweetest smile :)

come on teachers! let the smiles shines the future. give our children adequate educational resources. make them humans with bright future. we can make the difference.

9 secrets is revealed!

1. What I like about blogging…

I feel free to write. I feel free to reflect what I have learnt and gained. I feel free to express my opinions. I feel free to be creative and play with language. I feel free to access and narrate my own story. I feel free to treat is as my own diary. I feel free to grab this veto power that I had to write and write. Lastly, blogging is free.

2. What I do not like about blogging…

If date lines are concerned, the enthusiast to write blogs is swept away.

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

Writing skills. I did lots of writing via blogging. I hope my writing skills is improved and while nobody is there to correct me, I myself who corrects it. Feedbacks- I need it. To those who visit my page, do drop your comment ya! Your comments indirectly makes me learning something new which me myself do not realize it. While writing, there’s a lot of thinking skills takes place and indirectly, it does improve my thought processes. Before all the above happen, I only get to know BlogSpot for a few months, I think this is technology. I’m learning something new and that is skill- technology skill. I’ve learnt a lot. Thanks.

4. What I like about the course…

I like this course as I learn on how to develop my own teaching aids. Photo editing, audio editing, video editing, internet skills, and e-book are the things that I had learnt. In fact, I do need to depend on courseware or software because I myself can develop those resources. I hope I can save them and use it in the real classroom.

5. What I do not like about the course?

I don’t like the idea of developing and using resources when it restricted to the use of technology. I would like to be try something new and weird by using both techno and non-techno.

6. What I have learnt from the course?

IT literate.

7. What I do not expect but have learnt from the course

scrutinizing technology into the max?

8. What I expect but have not learnt from the course?

I expect that I can use various resources from the things surrounding me and the resources do not have to be from technological things only. Am I correct?

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

If they want to make changes about this course, I would say that please emphasize more on developing and using non-technological resources as well. Look, there is the possibility not all the school and not all the classroom are equipped with technology. Thus, it will create problems for us, the future teachers, who are spending a very long hour to create technological teaching aids but lastly end up with no use because- no electricity. I would suggest that, do emphasize on developing and using materials from non-technological things as well. You can keep it and recycle them. Depends on time, sometimes technology is needed to. To save time. But we do not have to scrutinize things over a thing. Make it balance. I knew you can change it.

my wish to you

I don’t like to write blog initially. “Its kinda intruding my personal life”- my inner heart said it. When you write, people can read what you are doing and what you are experiencing with. But I was totally wrong. Completely wrong. I wish somebody introduce me about this thingy thing when I was still a small small kid. Its fun! Rather than wasting your time by doing unbeneficial things, im sure that this is the best therapy for people like me. Luckily this course requires me to write blogs and it’s compulsory. That’s make me addicted to this online diary. Yeah. Its like a diary. My diary on what happen in the class and what I’ve learnt throughout this semester. Blogging thought me to be creative in delivering my message and my experiences too. I should be a good planner. To not confusing people and to make my message successfully delivered, I should be a good planner in arranging the inputs. I wish people outside there have the opportunity to read what I had written on my BlogSpot. I wish that people will appreciate what I have written here. I wish out of thousand people will be able to gain knowledge from my writings. I wish they can share with their family members, friends, peers or colleagues. I wish they could know me because I’m doing this not for the sake of money but for my passion of writing. I hope that the growing number of people visiting my page will increase from the value of 0 to 00. I hope people will say this to me one day, “Thank You”. But upon all, I want to Thank You to my lecture, Pn. Foziah who let this become real. Thank You. =)

who likes to eat McD?

The toughest days I had throughout this October is to finish the four language skills Assignment. I received a topic on ‘Healthy Living’ for Year 4 pupils. It’s a tough topic for me and to prepare four lesson plans for four skills in just a few days really driving me crazy. Without a blueprint or samples from any resources, I really feel exhausted while doing it. But it’s assignment. I still have to do it! It’s just a saying- to motivate me. To make my life easier, I bought a Year 4 text book to be my references. The text book really helped me a lot or else I will die like a fish in the pond covered by acid. I then try to search for videos in Youtube and amazingly, there are so many videos that related to my topic. So as pictures. There are many of them. I searched for pictures such as Taekwondo, Gymnastics which is related to sports and also healthy food and Food Pyramid. Thousands of them in Yahoo. I’m so glad. I wish I could use it later when I was teaching. It was then funny. One of my lesson plans, I advice the children for not to eat junk foods but after my assignment finished, I was in McD - eating healthily the BigMac Burgers with French fries and Coke. =)

*to teachers outside, do check out available restaurants to eat something that contradicts to your teaching. As a mean not to end up, ‘Kantoi!’ by your students. =)

a funny poem

The dentist pulled my tooth out

The dentist pulled my tooth out

and he thought it was such fun

he grabbed his pliers

and dental pryers

and pulled another one.

"Yippee! Hooray! What awesome fun!"

he shouted out with glee.

He grinned a grin

then went back in

and pulled out number three.

Then number four and number five

and numbers six and seven

were followed by

a cheerful cry

Of "Eight! Nine! Ten! Eleven!"

He took a few more from the top

and some from underneath,

he yanked them fast

until at last

he'd pulled out all my teeth.

Without my teeth I cannot chew;

I just eat soup and mush.

But don't be sad

I'm kind of glad--

I'll never have to brush!

--Kenn Nesbitt

a nice day

i'm so tired. till now i can't sleep coz everybody in my house is still busy cleaning and decorating house even though today is Hari Raya. me too is engaged to this every year routine. i'm immune to it. :) but i'm not happy when thinking that lots of assignments are waiting for me after raya. uhu. well everybody! just forget about our assignments and enjoy the excitements of raya to the fullest! in this opportunity, i want to say to all my lecturers, friends and people out there, "Selamat Hari Raya & Maaf Zahir dan Batin".

Sincerely,

-Nur Asma Abd Somad

Michael Jackson vs The Shoemaker & The Elves

it is for Assignment 3. my partner, Jaswinder and i have to construct two lesson plan from two videos that we have downloaded.

for task 1, we have to utilize the video from Micheal Jackson entitled The Earth Song. here, we have to edit the videos, take pictures and extract the audio. it took a long time for us to finish it. we use this video to teach writing skills. with the knowledge we gained throughout the semester, we can do it in quite fast.

for task 2, we took The Shoemaker & The Elves video. The story is a good story with a powerful moral value in it. we use this video to teach reading skills. there is nothing much to edit the video because it already perfect!

Melissa's neighbourhood

we received another task. as a conclusion of what we had learned before. it is devising resources for teaching the 4 language skills. i've been in group of 4. i was set to do the reading skill with regard to 'my neighbourhood' topic. i chose to do ebook for that because i found it suits the criteria of reading skill. it was a story- Melissa's neighbourhood. the story takes place in Melissa's neighbourhood. what buildings surrounding her neighbourhood. i chose to use restaurants, hospitals, bus station, post-office and shopping mall as the inputs in my ebook. it was amazing as i managed to do it alone with compilation of all skills that i had learned such as internet skills, photo editing and audio editing. once again, i used Midi music to accompany children while reading. it's called the nutcracker midi music. i love that. i thought children would love that too. the activity that i chose is While-reading as the story appears to be short and applicable for reading-aloud. after they read, the teacher give task sheets for each pupil. that's how reading assessment takes place. to see how much they understood towards the story. for this task, i didn't find any difficulties to complete it but rather, i felt thankful as i managed to applied what i had learned in class is a succeed. Cheers!

the author,
Nur Asma Abd Somad

hardwork pays

Finally, my partner, Jaswinder and i chose to use "Hardwork Pays" story to be an input in our e-book task. we chose that story because the value in it is so strong. the story portrays love and sacrifices from parents toward their son. even though the parents only work as farmer, but they have a very big dreams for their son. they wanted their son to become a successful son and send him to a boarding school. its mutual love. the son also showed his love towards his parents by studying so hard till he became a doctor. after that, he pays back her parents sacrifices by buying a house in the city and they live happily ever after. the key word is responsibility, from parents to children and from children to parents.

By the way, we personally think that the story is useful to be used not only because it contains a strong moral value but the words and sentences are pretty simple for young learners to learn and comprehend the story. then, we transferred the story to our e-book. we did it via Power Point presentation. 1st, we inserted all the sentences and applied it to all slides. but the sentences seemed to be lonely without pictures, background or animations. then, we decided to search any pictures or animations through Yahoo search engines. luckily, we found many of them. here are the links: http://www.animationfactory.com/en/ , http://www.animationlibrary.com/ , http://www.gifs.net/gif/

There a lot of animations web pages and millions of animations, but make sure you choose the right ones! we try to play the slide shows but the story turned to be boring without music. then we searched again for music. Midi music. that's what we wanted as the story goes on and on.

then we found a midi music entitled Puff and used that. lastly, our e-book has completed! (*sighed)

do you like to eat banana?

today is the day like another. for this week, we have something to do. as usual, we all have to keep ourselves prepared and get attached to pc. Pn. Foziah showed us her collections of ebook and i think its cute. yeah it was. i like the "Keluarga Saya" ebook. it was so cute. the animations and effects play their roles effectively and make all of us woke up and amazed! it was simple yet it delivered a very strong value in our life- family. moreover, it shows our appreciation towards our relationship with families. great job Puan! after 3 to 4 ebook had been showed, she set a task. it was ebook. in pairwork. then, i was thinking of banana. i would like to make it as our topic for ebook. i found a reading text on banana for UPSR candidates and i thought it was good if i use as input in our ebook. of course i have to edit it! the reading text on bananas seemed to be heavy for primary kids. i think i need to adapt it and modify a bit to ensure that my learning outcomes could be achieved. yeah. i'll be thinking on it. by the way, my partner, Jaswinder and i didn't sign any agreement about that yet. so, you have to wait... tata!

the author,
Nur Asma Abd Somad

charlie and lola

our group had been assigned to a new task and forgive me, too many tasks till i couldn't recall one. but for this one, the task required us to find materials via internet that related to our topic- travel and adventure. yeah, it tested our internet skills. from searching to downloading, from downloading to saving, from saving to editing and many more. the topic travel and adventure is quite tough. it took hours for us to search for appropriate videos because our target audience was Year 5 pupils. luckily, we found two videos from youtube that i considered them very very cute and suitable to kids. the videos entitled Charlie and Lola. it's all about going places. you should check-out the videos. it's so nice and attractive. kids would love it. we downloaded the videos by using real player downloader. sorry if you see me as a real player big fan. i'm so get attached to it because it is easy and user-friendly. you just go the youtube webpage and when you play the videos, you can see "Click to download this video" on the right side of the video. just click on it! and it will automatically download it for you. you just have to wait. but it won't take your life time! don't afraid! it's so quick. so quick! believe me! don't trust me? go to this website, download the real player downloader and experience the magical world of real player: http://www.realplayer.com.au/. yet, we still didn't satisfied with what we have, we tried to search for songs, articles, pictures and poems that related to our topic. amazingly, we managed to find various pictures on Yahoo.com, Deviantart.com and Flickr.com. besides, we also downloaded songs by using various software i.e Ares and 4shared.com. not enough with that, we added our collections with poems which we browsed through Yahoo.com. now all settled up and tutorials waited for us. next things, we have to do tutorials on how we searched the materials and the steps of tutorials must be from A to Z. sorry my dear group members, i really don't have any idea on how to make a tutorial. i'm totally blank! then learning took place... (*credit to Zul). he taught me on how to print screen and if i want to make my tutorial look effective and smart, i could use paint and show the arrow or circle the place that i wanted to emphasize. oh! now i know. is people like me still exist in this 21st century. thanks God. anyway, i sighed. my pocket knowledge is full with this thingy internet skills and i feel like blowing up! yeah. back to tutorials, zul gave me chances to try out doing it. i could do it! it's amazing (for me only) :) now everything has settled, i can breath "...ahh". thanks to my group members who are always be supportive and help me a lot to survive in this course. muacks!


the author,
Nur Asma Abd Somad

a pool of sorry..

two days before my group members and i were all left for holidays, our lecturer was assigned us with a new task on video editing. the task required us to edit the episode 9 of So You Think You Can Dance from 8tv shows and combine them from first part till last. i'm not feeling well in that morning which we supposed to discuss and do things together. so i'm not involved. then, Zima told me that i could contribute by trying to download episode 9, part 3 at my home. unluckily, i couldn't manage to watch the video. that made me stuck and puzzled me. then i tried to download adobe flash player from the net and the problem raised again, my internet connection kept disconnect and it made the downloading process took so long time. i was regret. i tried and tried again. but failed. then Zima asked me to come to UM so we could do together. the problem raised again as my broadband devices couldn't be detected by Zima's laptop. then we were struggled to use Huda's laptop. Fortunately, the internet connection ran smoothly and we could do things fast by using real player downloader. i sighed. later, everyone was having elective classes as well as me too. our works couldn't be continued. then the works burdened tomorrow. tomorrow morning came... i was unable to wake up as the pain seemed to get worst. i couldn't even hold my hand phone. i was totally blank on what happening on that day. on that night, i have to leave KL and went back to my hometown. for my group members, i really sorry for the incident. i really really really sorry. now i realized that teamwork spirit is really important.

chaos-tic!

i went to the class. so hungry as i woke up late. but this morning was different. we assembled in front of the door. waited for the door to be opened. i felt like going to cinema where everybody marching to get the tickets. yeah, i have to fast. to get seated. to get a pc in front of me. to get comfortable. everybody rushing. situation getting chaos as everyone kept pushing. then came my lecturer. she asked us to form a group. 1st rule: your group must be mixed races and gender. i just like that idea. now everybody has to learn to work with others. its cooperative learning. 4 years we've been together and i really felt like its not a big deal for us. there goes my expectations. the class turned to be chaos. turned to be a market. i'm lost again. everybody was busily booked her lah, him lah and so on till i really cant find which is which and who is who. then, the problem solved. some more, we have to set up our own blogspot page. again, she lined us with another rules. 2nd rule: set your blog by using your real name. then the class turned to be chaos again. why there are so many rules? i'm sure she has the reasons. whatever it is, i wish the next class will be better than this week. :)

the author,
Nur Asma Abd Somad

frog under its tempurung?

Current mood: Blur

it was 10 a.m. i was listening to Bic Runga song. it was a lovely morning with lovely song. i, myself, was so eager to enter the class as i really want to experience how the life and the lecture of university student would be. then here came another character in my life, Pn. Foziah. she's my lecturer for this course of PBEY3102. but she kept blabbering for the 3 hours and i cant really understand what she wanted from us. she said it too fast. yeah. there goes my lovely morning. i was totally lost. i felt like i was in my own world. she did mentioned about too many softwares and i just could recall two of them.

me: keepvid? limewire? can somebody tell me what are they?

my friend: they are softwares asma... for you to download whatever you want straightly from internet.

... as well as hardwares too. but i'm not surprise as i really familiar with them. but then,

me: do i need to buy 4 GB pendrive or external hardrive to survive in this course?

my friend: yeah. you have to. just do what she wanted us to do.

oh, now i know. but i still wondering how this course would be? did the lecturer really have to go supervise one by one? or through chatting & ym? how? damn! i really blurred! really blurred. even she asked us to ask questions, i still get blurred. huh, its not a mystery case. but its mystery for me. i wish i could learn more and try to be ear-sensitive and grab her instructions in quick!

the author,
Nur Asma Abd Somad

love is subjective

"love is subjective"-check out this video, you'll understand what i meant by subjective.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pznppuFfHR8

actually, love is subjective its a theme for my video which has been released in youtube for about 3 days ago. yeah, it is another video editing task. so, my partner, Jaswinder Kaur and i were not doing it for fun. we have purpose for that. Jaswinder in south and me in north. that's the 1st problems. Nevermind, we have yahoo messenger. thanks to Yahoo. Initially, Jaswinder did it for the first part but failed to send it to me. she was using Cyberlink Power Director. but my pc in my hometown do not have that software. by hook or by crook, i have to download it. Strenghts and weaknesses go hand-in-hand. to download Cyberlink Power Director, it took hours to finish it. But yet, i can see the beauty of it. it appears to be user-friendly and easy to be explored which make me felt in love to that gadget. to promote, it is more up-to-date compared to Windows Movie Maker. :) Finally, our video was successfully published! i couldn't wait to email it to Jaswinder and see her responds. but then, problems came without having me to call for it! Jaswinder asked me to upload it through megaupload.com but the uploading process took so long time and it kept stopped. then i tried and tried again. the same problems occured. i waited for one day (day & night) but the uploading process still showed the bad sign. then, i tried to send it to her email. again, same problems occur. in youtube? also the same. huh. two days, days changes to night, nights changes to days, i've been in front of the pc just to send it to her. then... "hey sista, the pc is going to explode if you keep using it!" said my brother in angry. yeah. i should shut down the pc. but i'm not happy with that. my heart and my brain couldn't stop thinking about the video. messages from jaswinder kept haunting me. after 1 hour, i switched on my pc. then i tried to send it again. again, it failed! i almost give up! then... the light came to shine the darkness. it was Wai who was on the line. she asked me about the size of my video. it was 846.5 MB.

Wai: "Oh, my God! You can't even upload it till you die".

Me: "Why?" (in curious mode)

Wai: "It's too big! very big! you have to resize it. You have to do in Windows Movie Maker and republish the video for about 50-80 MB"

Me: "Oh, tq so much!" (i'm learning something new. yeay!)

lastly, it was heaven! i managed to upload it youtube. (*credit to Wai) Successfully, the comments that we gained were all positive and indirectly signifies something good for us. here are they...

By rimalamu: The video is very colourful and eye-capturing. (me- tq!)

By bhavarita: excellent...no words to describe ur video..love is damn.......SUBJECTIVE!agree wit u... (me- you should agree with us as love is always be surrounds us. without love, life would be empty and full of darkness)

By kasgovind: great job guls.i really like the music.keep it up ur work! (me- hope the next task would be on the day we are all in UM.. :)

By pbey310208: cool video...but it's always you and you as usual...=D (me- my partner n i were sooooooooooooooooooooooo PROUD to have that "love" in our real life. =D)

By lordcrazex: chilly at first but a great work at the end (me- i put you in curious mode at the beginning :p )

By mkomathi: nicely put...Love is indeed subjective. Nice work girls... (me- i think it will be better if the task was not given on the *holiday*- i mean holiday is the day we supposed to rest and have some privacy to make our things done! lalalala....)

so friends, enjoy watching and thanks for reading!

the author,
Nur Asma Abd Somad

becoming a DJ

check check 123.. done with photo editing, i'm jumping into audio editing. initially, i really have no idea on how to edit audio. so contrast to photo editing. there's lots of software in the market, but, i managed to explore two software in time, Audacity & Easymp3 cutter. it was hard. yeah, it's really are. still, i sighed, i'm learning something new. at least. i chose to use Audacity to edit the songs and it can be downloaded straight from Download.com. don't panic! the downloading process won't steal your golden time. it's quick. it was easy. i enjoyed myself while doing it. the tools are easy-going when you can cut and paste the songs that you want to combine or anything that you want to. for this task, i was using Fluorescent Adolescent song by Arctic Monkeys. i used that song because it has been covered by another artist, Kate Nash. same song, different vocals. i thought it'll be easier and nicer to combine both of them but it hard actually. i used 7 days to explore and adapt myself to the software. its look easy but its not easy at all. my blue print was like this, i wanted to cut each song into two and combine them to become one. the steps were like this, i cut the song by Kate Nash into two and took the 1st part. For 2nd song by Arctic Monkeys, i cut it into two too and took the 2d part. after that, i combined the 1st and 2nd part together. and the result was... TERRIBLE! the 1st part was ok but the 2nd part become slow and echoing! Oh My God! i felt nervous and cold. suddenly i came across effects button. maybe i should apply effects on that? the answer is yes. i tried to use several but the most suitable one was delay effects. perhaps is due to the different sizes of the songs. i don't know. i just guess. Anyway, after 7 days working on audio editing, i was successful to produce a song. a song that be made by me. a song which has two songs in it. a song by different vocals. a song with a delay effect. a song that sounds pretty good. :)

want to listen to the song? click on this link:

http://www.4shared.com/file/60478180/b28bdd24/Kate_Nash_-_Flourescent_Adolescent_assign.html

What say you?

(p/s: if you are Arctic Monkeys and Kate Nash fan, you will absolutely love this song! enjoy ya!)


the author,
Nur Asma Abd Somad

the magic of photo

a picture says thousand word... perhaps, it might says two thousand word with the magic of editing. agree?
attending the class of photo editing wasn't a big suprise for me as i'm done with it years ago. normally, i'll edit my photo by using microsoft office manager, photoshop and paint. old-fashion? yeah. i should explore more. i should. the thing is, i like to edit photos for fun & pleasure. i never come across of doing this for assignment. for me, it creates tension and lessen the desire to edit the photos. but i have to bear in mind that i'm still in the process of learning. yeah. go on. i'm using my cousin's photo for the assignment. from coloured photo, i transformed it to become black and white with a bit of lighting effect and "happy teacher's day" wish make the photo totally changed. i think i can do more than that if i were given chances to explore... :)

check out the differences...