15th July 2008

The second class of Resources gave me more ideas about the course. We are given our first assignment, which is the blog and the second assignment which is to come up with a material using the prevailing technology sources in order to teach the young learners. We are also provided with lots of downloader software, such as keepvid.com, save2pc, video downloader, real player II, limewire and so on and how to encode those materials using Riva encoder, FLV converter and transcoding tool. Thus, it would be easier for me to find out videos, songs or pictures to be utilized in my assignments and I can enhance my understanding on downloading and encoding material and to consume them in my daily life. Besides, I’m glad to hear that we will be given the opportunity to do a portfolio which is our compilation of edited version of the tasks. This will assist us to revise and improve the tasks done in order to make it more creative and captivating to the learners.
We are also informed about the salient use of curriculum specific and the syllabus to guide us throughout creating and editing the materials. The materials should be aligned with the syllabus and the CS so that we are use of the main skill and the integrated skills to be taught.
The second assignment requires me to work in a group of 6. I’m going to cooperate with Safrina, Kasthuri,Huda, Kamarul and Fazli. I think we are quite lucky for Kamarul have got the ideas on downloading videos and he knows the current use of technology. We have setourselves with particular tasks. Kamarul is the leader, Fazli and me are going to explore the downloading and ecoding process, Safrina, Huda and Kasthuri are going to handle the tutorial process in order to prepare the write up for the process. I really hope that we could do our job together even though this is our first time working together.
Today also Joshua introduces a forum website that includes all the cohort 3 members. It is definitely tempting for we all will be able to share ideas and information as well as comment on things that we are not satisfied with.