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)