Close the curtains : IT Class And Course Assessments

                 😍 Assalamualaikum And Hello Beautiful Girls And Lovely Boys 😍

Here we are again. So, this is the last week of  IT class for this semester. We had come to the end of the semester. I felt so sad to say that this is the last entry for this blog. There is goodbye in every hello. However, I did not think that this knowledge that I gained in learning this subject would ever fade.

This subject has taught me lots of things that are so useful to me in the future. I learned how to use Podcasts, creating PowToon for educational purpose and I also learned how to create a Smartbuilder courseware. It also helped me to improve my creativity and encourage me to use Canva. 

I believed that this class is not the end for me. What I gained and learned from this class had actually opened a wide door for me to explore many great things. I felt grateful for every single knowledge that I learned along the way. Yes, I might not be the greatest student in using and knowing every IT features but I am still learning. That is the most important things in life. Learn from your mistakes and open your heart and soul to learn new things. Maybe, something very great and huge are waiting for you but you do not see that because you are demotivated by something that is not working for you. Do not let that happen. Always stay positive and seek help.

In conclusion, I would like to thank Madam Azidatunnoor for all of her kindness, efforts and guidance in helping us throughout our semester. I would also like to thank my friends and my group mates for all those encouragements and helps to complete all the tasks that given to us. I really appreciate all of their supports in helping me. With these knowledge and guideline that I have gained so far, I hope that it can be useful not only for me to use but I can use it to help other people too.

That is all from me.💝😎😃 Please forgive me for whatever things that I have done.😄

Until then, be safe and take care people 💞💖

Everything Is Tested: Smartbuilder and IT Test

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In this entry, it is going to come to the end. Why? This is because this week is our final week.😭 So, it means that this week is the submission week for our Smartbuilder courseware project. Not to forget, we also had our IT test. 

I felt relieved after finished answering my test. This was because several nights before the test, I had to balance my time between studying for IT test and finishing other assignments. So, I actually did not have enough sleep but I was determined to study for this test. 

My group had finished all of our parts. There were many obstacles in doing this project. However, I was so glad and grateful that my group mates and I worked as a team. We helped each other out along our journey in creating our Smartbuilder courseware project. Our teamwork was great. I felt happy working with my group mates because we did not downgraded people even if they are weak in doing the courseware. We worked as a team. That was the most important thing that we did. Never neglect people who are weak. Hence, we tried to help each other out.

Sometimes, the buttons and pages did not direct to what we wanted. We tried to discuss and work it out. The most frustrating moment was when we wanted to publish our courseware but some parts of it goes missing and did not follow exactly what we wanted it to be. We did not gave up. I think that was the best journey and lesson that I have learned while doing our smartbuilder. 

Here is the link to our courseware project : OCCUPATION

Overall, everything is tested this week. Before submit our Smartbuilder Courseware and report, we tried to do a final touch up. We tried to test the courseware if it is working or not. We also made some adjustments to make everything standardize.

That is all from me. 💖

Until then, be safe and take care people. 💞

SMARTBUILDER BEHIND THE SCENE: FIRST TRAILER

                  😍 Assalamualaikum And Hello Beautiful Girls And Lovely Boys 😍

In this entry, I am going to share about the trailer and preview of Smartbuilder. 😄 Sounds exciting!Right?

Based from what I have learned, Smartbuilder is a software that helps you in making an interactive courseware. From my perspective, I can relate how Smartbuilder can help us in not only learning the language but also in teaching the language. Thus, I think Smartbuilder is related to what I have learnt before which was about CALL. Smartbuilder acts as a supplementary to education. It is the ultimate of teaching aid because it makes the students to learn without the presence of a teacher.

Before we go deeper with Smartbuilder, here are the preview of what I have learnt. The beginning of my Smartbuilder trailer started with the features of Smartbuilder, the properties of it, pages and what you should do or not do during making the Smartbuilder.

I am grateful during this class. This is because I learned about how we can have a picture without background. You know sometimes, we do not want the background of the picture. We just wanted the main image in the picture. So, we can crop the only main image that we wanted. 

You can try this out when you go to:

The reason why we learned about this is because we might use this to put our selected images in the Smartbuilder.

My experienced in doing Smartbuilder was quite a journey.😅 I understand the features and how to use it. At that time, when I was very busy to catch up during the lesson, my Smartbuilder crashed and hang suddenly. Not only that, the instructed features was different. So, that was quite challenging for me when I was doing my Smartbuilder.

However, I am glad that I did not give up. I slowly began to know the right command when I wanted to instruct the features in Smartbuilder. With the guidance from my lecturer and also my friends, I began to improve my application skill in doing this.

I hope with this knowledge, my group mates and I will be able to create Smartbuilder courseware easily and give benefits to the students.

This is my trailer and preview of Smartbuilder.

Do not hesitate to ask if you have any questions. Feel free to give a comment, okay. 😎

Wait for my next entry.💖 Until then, be safe and take care people.💞

AN INFO GRAPHIC DESIGNER BY USING CANVA

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In this entry, I am going to share to you my experience of becoming an info graphic designer by just using Canva. I have a little bit of background knowledge using Canva as I have been using Canva to create some posters before. 

Let's talk about Canva! 💖

Canva is the place where we could design anything. It is a free graphic-design tool website. We could design things like resume, postcard, magazine cover and banner. Canva is a tool loaded with an easy features to use and functionality that anyone can create a variety of engaging content that gets shared. So, as you can see, it is very easy we use Canva when we wanted to design something.

As I have said before I have created some posters using Canva but I have never had to use Canva to create and an Info graphic. So, when I was being told to design an informational chart, Wow!

I have never design an informational chart before. It took me sometimes to come up with the ideas of what information should I put and how to fit the information together in my Canva. During class, I did not finished my Canva at that time. So, I continued my Canva at home. I felt a little bit frustrated when I had finished my designed and suddenly my internet line was being terminated. The internet connection was out before I could save my Canva design.

That was my huge obstacle in creating my first Info graphic design by using Canva. However, I did not give up. So, remember to have a good internet connection when you wanted to use Canva and never give up in designing Info graphic or in whatever designs you wanted to do. You never know the joy of creating it until you have done your own design.

Here, I have designed and attached my own Info graphic using Canva. 😄

Overall, I have learnt lots of things in when I became an Info graphic designer by using Canva. I learned about some of the useful information when I did my Info graphic chart. I also experienced how to be creative in putting the words, pictures and features in appropriate manner by using Canva. Keep your design simple and nice. Do not give up when creating your Canva design.💕 It is because that Canva is your own design and it is up to your own creativity. Lastly, I realized having a good internet connection while using Canva is a must.😁

Do not hesitate to ask me if you have any questions.

Feel free to give a comment, okay. 😎

Wait for my next entry. Until then, be safe and take care people. 💞

MY JOURNEY IN CREATING A POWTOON

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This whole week, I learnt about how to use PowToon. I would say that this week, I am becoming more better in using PowToon application. This is because I explore lots of things that I never dream of either using or learning it. It was a great experienced as my adrenaline rush in excitement with full of satisfaction during my journey in creating a Powtoon.

When I reflected back of what I felt during my journey in creating a PowToon, I felt like a mix of candies with different flavours tight up together in a box. There were lots of emotions, flavours and the taste of making a PowToon that could not be described as 'done and submit' only. It is more than than that.

My lecturer required us to do PowToon in a group of three. I felt grateful in learning how to create PowToon. It helped me to explore certain features in PowToon. I learned how to add animations using pictures and how to make the text moving. In terms of interpersonal skill, PowToon helped me to develop the spirit of teamwork and helping each other. I believed that most of us in the class have learned valuable lesson during our time in creating the PowToon.

Creating this Powtoon had helped me to become a better person. It helps me to be brave and creative. Using power point is common that it seems a piece of cake for most of us. However,using PowToon as your educational aid seems like taking your time in creating it. Although PowToon had challenge me to push me beyond my comfort zone, it taught me to be more creative and how using PowToon can enhanced my imagination to create something that is more attractive, interactive and entertaining.

Feel free to watch our PowToon.

That is all my journey in creating a PowToon.

Do not hesitate to give comments, okay😎

Wait for my next entry.

Until then, be safe and take care people. 💖💗

USING POWTOON AS AN EDUCATIONAL VIDEO

                    😍 Assalamualaikum and hello beautiful girls and lovely boys. 😍

Have you ever heard about PowToon? Do you ever used PowToon before? Honestly, I have heard about PowToon and I have watched some of my friends used PowToon as their teaching aids during my diploma. Well, I have never used PowToon before and I am grateful that I have learnt PowToon during my class last week.

Based from my own understanding, PowToon is a Web-based animation software that allows the users to create animated presentations by manipulating the objects, pictures and also this animation can be enhanced with interesting music or using our own recorded voices. 

PowToon can be quite useful in education. It helps the teacher to make the learning becomes more exciting.  Not only in education, PowToon can be used in language. It is an interactive medium where you get the chance to listen to the pronunciation of the authors. You can either improved your own pronunciation to become better or you can also learn about other people slang using PowToon.

Yes, I think students would love to use PowToon as their learning materials because it involves lots of creativity, excitement and colourful animations. When my lecturer asked me to create PowToon for an educational video, I feel thrilled. This is because I feel that learning PowToon  is a totally new experience for me. Yes, it can be quite challenging for beginner like me but it does not stop me from learning this new lesson. I would love to share my PowToon work with others or especially to students (if I teach students later on) because human learns better in animation rather than rote of memorization or using chalk and black board.

Hence, I would encourage all of you to use PowToon especially as an educational video. Let us make our education and language learning becomes exciting and interesting, okay 😄🙆

Feel free to click here to watch our PowToon

PowToon: Idioms

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just click here:

That is all for this entry. 😎 If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask me. 😄

Wait for my next entry. 😁

Until then, be safe and take care people. 💖

USING PODCASTS AND DIGITAL STORYTELLING FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING

                          😍 Assalamualaikum and hello beautiful girls and lovely boys. 😍

Have you ever heard about podcasts? Have you ever use podcasts before? Honestly, I have never heard about the term podcasts. Well, actually after this lesson, I realized that I had been using podcasts during my diploma. It's just that I do not know that it is called podcasts. 😅 Thus, I would like to share my reflection to all of you about Podcasts and Digital Storytelling in Language Learning.

Podcasts involves audio or video that can be played and downloaded through internet connection. It can be downloaded to a computer or mobile device such as MP3 player. Actually, the term 'podcast' comes from iPod (Apple Portable MP3 player) and broadcast. Podcasts is not limited to music but in fact, it offers a whole dimension of world and topics from storytelling to tutorial to lesson or talks. My lecturer said that his husband who happens to be my lecturer loves to listen to historical and literature using Podcasts. 😁

Do you know that we can use Podcasting in our language teaching? There are two main uses of Podcasting in language teaching.

1. Students can listen to existing Podcast: Listening to Podcast not necessarily to listen about the tutorials or the lesson but it is also being use in the test. For example, in listening test (MUET) or Listening and Speaking subject (I have taken this subject before), it required me to listen to the audio that are being played. 

2. Students can create their own Podcast: Listening to Podcast is not enough. When it comes to language teaching, we need to create our own Podcast to know how it actually works and also it is better to use our own voice with an additional sound effects. This is because we can add and utilize our own creativity in teaching the language.

Podcasts can be applied in our daily life either in academic or non academic. It can served lots of purposes and also it comes with variety of topics and levels that are suitable for everyone. Podcasts can be used for our own self study. We can use Podcasts to listen for a language learning purpose. 

Not only to sharpen our listening, Podcasts also helps to improve our reading skill. Imagine, we need to finish reading a book with 1000 of pages. Well, we do not have to worry anymore. This is because Podcasts offer us the opportunity for the book to be read to us instead of we read the book. So, what are you waiting for? You can directly search for any Podcasts that you want to listen to, downloaded it and have it played anytime and anywhere you like. Easy, right? 😜🙌

Let me share to you how you can use Podcasts. Firstly, you might need an audio or recording tools, online voice recorder or a smartphone to record your voices or search for any additional sound effects. Then, of course you need some editing tools to combine, edit or mix the sounds. So, you need an audio editing tools like audacity (click here) or any online audio editor to make the sound becomes nice to hear. 😜

Remember, do not forget to upload your Podcasts otherwise how can we listen to your work, right? 😉

The most favorite podcasts medium that people use it to upload their work are Youtube, iTunes, SoundCloud and Blogs. 

Feel free to listen and view my podcast okay. 💞

The Ungrateful Tiger By Sabrina

That is all for this entry. 😎 

If you have any questions, feel free to ask me 😄

Wait for my next entry. 😁

Until then, be safe and take care people. 💖