Week 14: Goodbye~

This is it. It is the final week of the semester. Before I proceed with the goodbye note, let me recap on what had happened this week and the whole semester.

This week, my group had finally submitted our e-learning courseware assessment and our class also had our quiz at the last class. I had a huge relief as this week has been quite hectic as there were several other datelines from the other subject chasing after us. I was glad that I had managed to do all of it in time. 

Moving on to this subject. I have to say that it has been a good semester for me. As I was hoping in the first post during the first week, I am happy to say that my expectation was met as this class did help me in expanding my knowledge on computer and the internet. I have learnt a lot from it like on how to edit audio, video, create podcast, video, poster and even learnt on how to use a software. It was a fruitful semester and I can assure that I did not regret or dislike of having this subject this semester.

I also would like to thank Madam Azida for all the lesson that was passed to us and thank you for being a good lecturer to me. In conclusion, I enjoyed this subject and I would definitely make use of what I have learnt in the future.

This is the goodbye,

Alyaa.

Week 13: Progress on the SmartBuilder

Vanakkam! As promised last week, this week I will be updating on my group's progress on the SmartBuilder software. Last week, we have learnt the basics on how to use it. This week, Madam Azida brief a little bit more on how to use the cursor and how to put in music into our courseware.

As a brief explanation, our group had chose the topic Synonym and Antonym as our lesson and we had the tertiary student as our target learners. We chose the theme of Cinderella where our background and exercise will be related to 

As the class ended, we continued to do our courseware outside of the class by installing the software into our laptops. We had several parts in our courseware including; the objectives, the lessons, two exercises and lastly a test at the end of 

Lastly, Madam Azida briefed on how to submit our assignment which will be due on next week. 

That's all for this week's post. I will be seeing you on the last post next week.

Baaj!
Alyaa.

Week 12: SmartBuilder

Sain uu! This week our class will be proceeding with the last task. I was introduced to a software called the SmartBuilder. It is a software where you can build an e-learning courseware assessment and this will be our final  assignment for this course. We were divided into groups and each of the groups will have find a topic for our e-learning and have the tertiary level English learners as our target learners.

With the SmartBuilder, we are able to make e-learning tools that include; lessons, activities, games and more. This way, the learners will be able to learn in a more interesting way rather than the traditional classroom method.

In the class, our madam Azida taught us the basics on how to use the software like on how to make the 'home', 'back', 'next' buttons and on how to make our design become interesting by having the themes and pictures.

At first, it was a bit complicated for me to handle this software as this was my first time using it but with the guidance provided and some trial and errors, I have finally gotten the hang of the basic steps of it.

Here are some ideas on how to get the hang of the software:

How to Use SmartBuilder

Our task is now to make our own e-learning tools and submit it by the final week of the semester. My group have chosen the topic Synonym and Antonym and so we are now finding ideas for the lessons and activities. So, I will update again about our progress in the next post.

Daraa uulzaya!
Alyaa.

Week 11: ARCS Model

Hej! As I mentioned on last week's post, this week I will be posting about one of the model designs. My group has been chosen to do on the ARCS Model.

What is ARCS Model? 

ARCS Model is a motivational design theories created by John Keller to promote and sustain motivation in the learning process. The ARCS stands for attention, relevance, confidence and satisfaction.

1. Attention

There are two ways of gaining the attention of the learners; perceptual arousal where surprise is used to gain the interest or inquiry arousal where curiosity is stimulated by giving challenging questions.

Several methods that can be used to gain the interest; active participation (games or role play), variability (videos or mini discussion), or inquiry (brainstorming activity). 

2. Relevance

Keller used to established the relevance to increase the learners' motivation. Six major strategies that had been used including; experience, present worth, future usefulness, needs matching, modeling and choice.

3. Confidence

Help students understand their likelihood for success. If they feel they cannot meet the objectives or that the cost (time or effort) is too high, their motivation will decrease.

4. Satisfaction

Learners feel that learning is satisfying and rewarding in form of achievement of praises by the higher up or the skills that had been learned felt useful and beneficial towards them.

I hope that this will help you to understand it better ^^

Adjö,
Alyaa.

Week 10: Instructional Design

Privyet! This week my class was introduced into something interesting and new. It was about instructional design. What is that you ask? Instructional design is the practice of systematically designing, developing and delivering instructional products and experiences, both digital and physical, in a consistent and reliable fashion towards an efficient, effective, appealing, engaging and inspiring acquisition of knowledge. It is to determine the state and needs of the learner, defining the end goal of instruction, and becoming as assist. To make it easier, one of the examples of instructional design is mobile application.

BUT! Making a mobile application is not just literally for fun. We must follow the theories and models. Do you remember CALL from my previous post? It is related to this instructional design. Most of the design models were based on one model that is ADDIE model that consists of five phases; analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation.

Other that that, there are also several models like GAGNE 9 Events, Dick and Carey, Rapid Prototyping, Guaranteed Learning, ASSURE, and ARCS which, I will explain on the next post as all of us has to make a presentation on it.

Da skorava,
Alyaa.

Week 9: Trashtag Challenge

Aloha! It is finally the 9th week. This week, my partner and I have been working on the Trashtag Challenge campaign video. We have been editing and recording the narration part using the Powtoon and video editor and finally, our video is done!🙌

Before I post the video, I would to share the experience while making it. There were few mistakes were made like, we were supposed to record our narration before making the video but we ended up making the video first. Fortunately it was not hard on editing both the video and the script so they were synchronized with each other. The another problem that happened was that I was having a sore throat which affect my voice for the narration but thanks to Madam Azida who taught us on how to edit the audio, I managed to fix my voice during the editing part. So in the end, all is well.

So as I promised last week, this is my video on the Trashtag Challenge:

Till next time,

Alyaa.

Week 8: Awareness Video

Assalamualaikum! It is a new week and our class was given a new assignment. This time, we have to do an awareness explainer video.

Before we started on the video, as usual, Madam Azida had first brief us on how the video would supposed to be. We were shown the example of videos like the video of cancer awareness and saving the Blue Whale campaign video. 

The theme that was given to us was a campaign video. As this was again a pair work, my partner and I had discussed on the topic that we would like to work on. A few ideas were given and we decided to work on the Trashtag Challenge campaign where people can find a place that needed some cleaning. Then, they can post the picture of before and after the cleaning, and post it on the social media. This can be an encouragement for other people to do the same thing.

We sketched our storyline and content for the video and proceeded on making the script. 

Now, we have already our full storyline and script and we will proceed on the video making and narration recording. I will show you the video next week by posting it here. 

Stay tuned,

Alyaa.

Week 7: My Life Goals?

Annyeonghaseyo! As I promised, here I am with the video that I made from the Powtoon. The theme that was given to us was 'My Life Goals'. It is simple but here I present to you my life goals (kinda).

That's it,
Alyaa.

Week 6: Powtoon

Konnichiwa! This week, we were introduced on a software called Powtoon. With Powtoon, we can make our video and presentation more interesting and it is free to use. 

For the class, we were taught on how to use and where to find the background, music and how to edit our timing and transitions of the animation. 

Stay tuned for the video I will make next week😁.

To be continued,

Alyaa.

Week 5: Audio Recording and Editing

Ciao! I'm back again for the week 5's post. So, last week I made a review on a podcast and for this week I will be starting on a new assignment where my partner and I have to make our own podcast.

Before jumping into the making of the podcast, our Madam Azida introduced to us on the recording and editing tools that we can use to make our podcast. She gave some briefing and showed a few tools like Audacity, Bandlab, and Auphonic that we can use to record and edit our podcast.

We 'played' with the tools and explore more on reducing the noises, increasing the volume and adding the music. We used the snippet of our recording to work on how to get the best quality of podcast.

So, this our finalized podcast which we had uploaded in on the Soundcloud where people can listen to it for free.

Till next week,

Alyaa.

Week 4: Podcast Review

S̄wạs̄dī khaa! For this week post, I will be doing a Podcast review!🙌 I decided to choose a podcast on Nandini's Thought, Episode 17 - Malaysian Timing. Malaysians are famous for not being on time whether it is a formal or informal occasion. They just being lax on time and ended up being late on a lot of occasions.

The reason that I chose this podcast was because I can really relate on her thoughts and complaints about how Malaysians being loose on time. I cannot be more agree on her points. I am a punctual person. I hate to be late on appointments so it is frustrating when someone who appointed the meeting time is the person who being late on turning up. As Nandini said, it can be funny when people make a meme and jokes out of it but it will be super irritating to wait and it is also disrespectful for making people to wait for you. It is also frustrating as being late has become a part of Malaysians' culture and people make of being late and giving excuses as a normal thing to do. 

For the overall review on this podcast, I would say it was a good podcast. The contents were clear and relatable as most of Malaysians had the experience of Malaysian timing. I like the way of Nandini delivered the contents in relaxed but still serious at some points when touching on this issue. All in all, it was a great podcast and I would love to hear more of her podcast in the future. 

Click on the link below to listen to more of Nandini's Thoughts:

Nandini's Thoughts

I'm out,

Alyaa.

Week 3: Search Engine and Online Database + CMC

Nǐ hǎo! I am back again. This week I will be reviewing about the lesson on search engine and online database. First thing first, search engine is a web tool that allow users to enter keywords and find information on websites contained in its databases and every search engine has it own database. It took me a few seconds to get this sentences but as soon as I saw Google as the example, all the dark clouds just went away 🙆. I realized that I know all of these things and I use it every single day but I didn't know what it was called as. Now, I know that those are the ISP. I also learnt that everything that I used on daily basis is only the Surface Web whereas there are Deep Web and Dark Web that are dangerous for an innocent girl (😬👀) to explore on. 

On the second class, we did CMC which is computer mediated communication. It is the form of communication which everyone familiar of like the emails and forums. There were two types of CMC; asynchronous which is the delayed communication that the messages cannot be exchanged immediately like emails and comments and synchronous which is real time communication that can be exchanged immediately like the chat and video conference. On this class, we were focused on the collaborative learning that can be used by a group of people by just using the internet to connect and work together. It was a great lesson as well.

Done with this week post! 

Later,

Alyaa.

Week 2: CALLing and Canva-ing

Hola! It's the second week and it was time to learn about CALL. Well... I would not say it was my first time. I did some CALLing back in the Diploma days (psstt.. I was a teacher). The difference that I can say between now and then was, back then we were more focused on teaching. How to use it to teach and made the class exercise such as puzzle and crossword out of it. This time, it was more on the theory (not a fan but okay). I was introduced again about the history, the types; which was new, and who and how it was used and related to the pedagogy. It was interesting and I get to know the people behind the CALL which are the software designers.

And.... as for the activity of the week, our madam introduced Canva to us. I have heard it before but never had a chance to use it. Let me tell you this. This activity was not enough for an hour class. Maybe because of I am the type that really get into it once I got the hang of it. I was so into editing with the Canva that suddenly the class ended. All in all, I had fun playing around with it.

So, that's it for this week's post. I wonder what we will learn next? 👀

Toodles,

Alyaa.

'Sup!

Hello! My name is Nur Alyaa Amirah or just Alyaa for short. I was born in Kuala Lumpur and have been living in Kajang since birth.

Today I learnt that I will be learning that there are more to the technology inside of the computer and internet than just the Microsoft software and Google Drive.

I was expected to learn with Madam Azidatun which I have met for a while in previous semester.

I like this class's setting where we can use the computer rather than just the slides from the projector on the whiteboard. As for my classmates, they are just the same as the previous so I am cool about it.

My expectation for this class is that I would love to expand my knowledge for computer and internet so it will benefit me not only for the time being but also when I am out of the classroom just for fun for when I am bored and

during my internship and employment in the future.

That's it,

Alyaa.