in touch with microsoft publisher

One of the software that already available in my computer for a long time but is ignored. I just use it once when I was in maktab during Science class where my group has to make a brochure. It was neglected ever since.

So, this is my opportunity to get myself in touch with Microsoft publisher. And, what’s more, it’s not just doing a brochure, my partner and I have to come with our name cards and I have to join another group to make a news letter. Both of them are new things and I have fun doing it. Maybe, it is about creativity rather than the content, so it is less stressful for me.

video exploited

Yes, exploited to the very piece. Haha. Not in bad way though. This is my second assignment in which I have to extract audio and pictures from the video. Since I have to do it in pairs, there are two videos that are needed to be extracted to get all kind of things to be used in the teaching and learning process.

Let’s talk about the difficult part of this assignment. For me, it’s to I was thinking of how on earth I am going to extract all those things from a video. After cornering all the techno savvy people that I can get hold on to, I discover that, all I have to do is to discover the complete software that can convert the video into all the little things that I want. This is where I found the wonder of TOTAL VIDEO CONVERTOR. Just a few clicks and all are converted to things that I need to use for classroom teaching and learning.

Reflecting on this task, the most important part that I learned is converting videos to audio and images. It gives me the idea that if I used a video for my lesson, I can convert it to other format (JPEG, MP3) to be used for other stages in the lesson plan. Therefore, the content is related and less time consuming rather than searching for new material that is related to the video for use in other activities through out the lesson

4 skills

Reading. Listening. Speaking. Writing.

There are four main components of language skills. Here, I find that it is a practice to be used all the skills (photo edit, audio edit and video edit) as resources to develop teaching and learning materials. However, as I have only gotten the chance to do a lesson plan that emphasized on reading skills, the usage of these technological skills is quite limited.

As mentioned, I have to develop a lesson plan on reading skills. Therefore, I have chosen to use the latest skill that I have acquired – making an e-book. Again, I have to deal with photo selection in the internet so that they are relevant for my topic. Some of the pictures are relevant but there minor distracting ‘stuff’ in the photo so I have to make simple editing to erase them. Thinking back to what I have learned before, if I was not expose to photo editing task earlier on, I wouldn’t be able to edit the photos for my e-book. So, learning to do so in the task given is not a waste after all