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Hello Everybody! I guess this the end of my entry as I have arrived to my destination. This entry marks the end of my 14 weeks of journey with my respected lecturer, Madam Azidatun as well as my fellow classmates. I couldn’t thank her enough for all the knowledge that she had given to all of us. This subject is definitely giving me so much insight. Surely, I wouldn’t get the same chance and opportunity to learn the things that I’ve learnt from her class. Before I end this entry, I will attach the link to our courseware below. Whenever you have time please have a look at it and thank you all for your endless support. A million thanks also to my group members, Huda, Zie and Anas for your hard work and cooperation. For you guys out there, I really hope you will gain something from my posts that I shared here. Here is the link: https://lrs.smartbuilder.com/l/2040jv7xm8cf PS: If you couldn't get access to the link, please leave a comment down below. I...

Hi everybody! How are you today? I hope all is well. As promised, today I would like to share with you guys our group's storyboard for the courseware. If you remember, in previous entry I only explained about it briefly. So here are the lessons as well exercises for the courseware. Take a look guys... Storyboard Attention Grabber (Page 1) Objective (Page 2) Home (Page 3) Lesson (Page 4) Activities (Page 5)

Hi peeps! It’s me again… In this entry, I’m going to talk about SmartBuilder . Please read it correctly, it is SmartBuilder not ‘Bob the Builder’… heh.. I’m just kidding. SmartBuilder  provides a new approach for creating logic that is measurably faster, and easier than ever before . So, it is an effective tool to create your own courseware interestingly and creatively. In class, we were assigned to do our own courseware by using SmartBuilder . There were 4 in a group which consists of Huda, Zie, Anas and I. We were told to choose our own topic but our target audience is adult learner. After finished with discussion, we chose Perfect Tense as our topic. SmartBuilder is another thing that is quite difficult to understand at once. The process is quite complex. Hence, the students need to listen carefully and attentively to the steps. Later, I will show you guys our storyboard and progress. See you in the next entry… Thank you for keeping up wi...

Hi! I’ve learnt so many new things from this subject and one of it is courseware. I’ve never known about it before and I bet you didn’t as well. Hence, this is only an introductory entry about courseware. What is courseware? Courseware is a computer programs or other material designed for use in an educational or training course. Initially available on CDs as course help for instructors and helping them manage lectures, courseware has been revolutionized. It is now mostly available online with various resources and supporting material (reference books, research papers and journals). Courseware is especially used for online courses and certifications such as Microsoft Certified Professional courses. Courseware is an educational material that is learned with the help of a computer. It can be in the form of a flash drive, compact disk or material placed online. Courseware can include: Instructions on how to divide a course in lectures Notes for instructor ...

Hi! How are ya?! In previous lesson, Madam Azidatun had taught us about Instructional Design. There are a few models of ISD and one of it is ASSURE. Madam Azidatun asked us to make our own research about this model as a class activity. Then, we need to make a poster and a few questions using Kahoot! and present it in front of the class. This is how the poster looks like… We created this poster by using Canva. I have explained about Canva in my previous post. Kindly scroll down the old posts and you will found it. Thanks!

What’s up everybody? Welcome back to my blog! As usual, when I’ve been up to something I will share it to you guys. Now, I would like to share with you guys a PowToon created by my friends and I. I’ll paste the link down here so that you can take a look at our humble work.  Here is the link: https://youtu.be/0X0Wwduk4vs My friends and I decided to make an explanatory video about food waste. The title of our PowToon video is ‘Stop Food Waste’. As all of you may know, food waste is one of the critical issues that continuously happen in the whole wide world. We chose this topic in the hope of that maybe someone will learn and realize the negative consequences of wasting food. As I mentioned in my previous post, creating a PowToon is never easy as it is quite complicated and needs a lot amount of patience in creating the best PowToon. Thus, I am really grateful towards my group members for always helping me out and lending their hands. Thank you, Huda and Anas...

Hello guys! It’s me, Mira. Today’s topic is about PowToon. Have you heard about it? Have you ever used it? I have heard about it before but I have never used it. It is because I find it very complicated to work with. However, Madam Azidatun had tried her best to teach us on how to use PowToon. At first, it was quite hard to get used to it, later I was able to make my own PowToon. Let me explain a bit of what is PowToon. PowToon  is a Web-based animation software that allows you to create animated presentations quickly and easily by manipulating pre-created objects, imported images, provided music and user created voice-overs. It can make your presentations become much more engaging and interesting. So, why don’t you go and take a look at their website. Later, you can try to create your own PowToon! Maybe it works…

Hi everyone… My friend and I have made our own podcast since it was part of our assignments for this subject. When Madam Azidatun asked us to the create our own podcast, we had shortlisted several topics. Then we decided to do a podcast about whitening products to further educate our society out there. Nevertheless, it was very fun to do the podcast and a valuable experience indeed to be able to do that. Thus, I want to share with you guys our little project. I’ll attach the link down below and you can click the link to review our podcast. Here it is ‘ https://soundcloud.com/miraazli2396/whos-the-fairest-of-them-all-beware-of-the-whitening-products ’. Don’t forget to give it thumbs up and leave a comment so that I can make an improvement in the future!

Hello there, Welcome back! I have a quick question. Have you heard of podcast? Yes??? No??? As for me it was my very first time to hear of it. It was when Madam Azidatun explained to us in class what podcast really is and what the function of it as well as the advantages of using podcast.  In general, podcast is an   episodic series of digital audio or video files which a user can download in order to listen to. The term 'podcast' is derived from 'iPod' and 'broadcast'. Podcast serves several benefits especially to ESL learners, because learners  can listen to existing podcast as well as can create their own podcast.  Therefore, Madam Azidatun instructed me to do a review on another person's podcast. Basically, I chose a podcast entitled 'Dangerous Skincare: Skintology with Dr. Alina' from a website called 'Ais Kacang'. It is an episodic s eries of digital audio , so I chose episode 37. In the podcast, the doctor explained i...

Computer Mediated Communication  or  CMC  is a communication and interaction between two or more people via separate computers through a network connection. CMC offers learners opportunity to communicate with other learners as well as native speakers. Context and material of communication are authentic rather than simulated. Synchronous CMC -  A llows for direct communication. Thus, messages can be exchanged  and replied immediately. Asynchronous CMC -  M essages cannot be exchanged  and replied immediately. There are a few advantages as well as disadvantages of CMC, such as:- Advantages No distance barrier Mitigates time as a barrier Make collaborations much easier Social influences and detriments are reduced or eliminated Disadvantages Inhibitions related to the use of technology Problem with access to technology Lack of socioemotional and non verbal cues Lack of real human contact N...

As for today's class, Madam Azidatun taught us about search engines. Search engine is something that is commonly used by people in order to find something like information to be exact. Below are few general info about search engine. Check it out~ A  search engine  is a web-based tool that enables users to find and locate information on the World Wide Web (WWW). For instance,  Google, Yahoo!, and etc. There are 4 parts of a search engine: Database Web-Crawlers User Interface Information Retrieval System Database is a storage where all indexed webpages are stored Web-Crawlers is an automated program or bot where information is indexed and stored in database. User Interface is a user-friendly site where users may put inquiry and search results are presented. Information Retrieval System is a system used to match the users' inquiry to indexed webpages found in database. All of these are only on surface information and not in-depth...

Hi! Back again to my new entry... Today I would like to talk about Canva. In our previous class, Madam Azidatun had taught us on how to use Canva. Canva is super cool I must say. I swear! I use it most of the times these days to do my assignments. Canva is indeed a very useful tool. I really appreciate that she taught us on this. So, I did use Canva to make my resume as well as slides for presentation to make them more interesting and appealing. After this, I will use it for other things. Hence, what exactly is Canva? Canva is a tool that makes it possible to design anything and publish anywhere for you can easily create beautiful documents & designs for any occasion and purpose, from social media posts to presentations. You also can easily access millions of stock images, illustrations, icons and fonts inside the app. Besides, it enables you to store, organize and edit your images in a breeze and customize your templates and share them with your team to edit as we...

In this entry, I will explain a bit about CALL . So, please bear with me :)))) What is CALL?  Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) is an approach to language teaching and learning in which the computer is used as an aid to the presentation, reinforcement and assessment of material to be learned, usually including a substantial  interactive  element. What are the types of CALL Programmes: CALL-specific software Web based learning material Generic software Computer-mediated communication (CMC) programs What are the progressions of CALL? Behaviouristic CALL Communicative CALL Integrative CALL ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ ❤ Next, I am going to explain about  Behaviourist Approach  as well as  Communicative Approach . So, what are they??  Fret not, I'll explain to you one by one. Behaviourist approach   is based on the idea that learners ...