Edutechnovation Day!!

The time has arrived! 😛

Today is the big day for us. The Edutechnovation Day conducted by 2nd year TESL Students. Me and some of my members were in the logistic department during this day. Edutechnovation Day is where all of our skills and tricks in technologies are put to the test (as teachers). Here is the tentative of the event:

8.30am: Students and lecturers arrival
9.00am: The event started (video presentation)
11.30am: Break (multimedia presentation, assesment)
12.00pm: Prize giving ceremony

ALHAMDULILLAH! 🙂

Our group has been crowned 3rd place! We were so grateful and excited! It was beyond our expectation! We would like to thank Dr Fariza, Dr Khalid, and Prof Rosseni for assisting us, guiding us, and most importantly being so kind to us! Words cannot describe how happy we are with your course! Sincere apologies from us if we did some pointless mistakes and problems throughout the semester.

Thanks for everything! 😀

Reflection Week 13 (Edu. Tech)

Hi guys! 😀

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So today we were on our own since the lecturers gave us free time to work on our final product for our short videos. So as you can see up there, our final poster for our short video. The poster was designed by me 😀 It took much of my time to finalize the poster. So me and my group members were still working on our video. We edited the video, the scenes, and voted which musics or sounds should be put to every scene. It took a lot of time think and to decide which should we put or not in the video 😀

Thank god my group members are in the same boat as me in making decision! 😀

Good luck for the Edutechnovation Day guys! May Allah be with you! 🙂

Reflection Week 12 (Edu. Tech)

Hi guys! 😀

Today, we are back with our update on our video. Fundamentally, we didn’t have a lot of changes to our video from last week presentation since we were finished with our production. So this is the updated storyboard for our short video created by Faizah, our own group member.
There were some scenes in this storyboard that we marked as “X”. This is because we wanted to save something special for the upcoming Edutechnovation Day on the 3rd June. We also showed our previous trailer again since Dr Fariza was not around last week. We are hoping for the best and may all of our hard works pay off in a magnificent way.

Amin! 🙂

 

Reflection Week 11 (Edu. Tech)

Hello guys! The trailer for our final assignment is here! Check it out!

So how was it? 😀

After showing this trailer to the lecturers and our mates, we got some positive feedback especially from the lecturers. The audience also enjoyed our trailer. The trailer was edited and created by Fikri. He compiled our scenes randomly and made it into one trailer. Looking forward to the Edutechnovation Day! 🙂

Reflection Week 10 (Edu. Tech)

Hi guys! 😀

Today we were asked to present our short video progress and the updated storyboard. For my group, the storyboard didn’t change much except for the climax and the ending of the video. Our group was done with the so call first phase of our production at IOI City Mall 😀 So it comes to the shooting of our climax and our ending. Then, it’s wrap! The lecturers were satisfied with our storyboard and came out with few suggestions and improvement for we to work on. Next week, our first ever trailer will be released during the class as we are going to finish the whole production by this week or maybe next Monday or Tuesday. Magnificent things are worth waiting 😀

Cheers! 😀

Reflection Week 9 (Edu. Tech)

Hi guys! 😀

Today’s class was conducted by our beloved Dr Fariza. Yay! Today was about photography. Photography is the process or art of producing images of objects on sensitized surfaces by the chemical action of light or of other forms of radiant energy, as x-rays, gamma rays, or cosmic rays. To make it simple, photography is the art or practice of taking and processing photographs. Dr Fariza explained to us what is meant by aperture, light exposure, and depth of field.

Aperture:

An aperture is a hole or an opening through which light travels. More specifically, the aperture and focal length of an optical system determine the cone angle of a bundle of rays that come to a focus in the image plane. The aperture determines how collimatedthe admitted rays are, which is of great importance for the appearance at the image plane. If an aperture is narrow, then highly collimated rays are admitted, resulting in a sharp focus at the image plane. A wide aperture admits uncollimated rays, resulting in a sharp focus only for rays coming from a certain distance. This means that a wide aperture results in an image that is sharp for things at the correct distance. The aperture also determines how many of the incoming rays are actually admitted and thus how much light reaches the image plane (the narrower the aperture, the darker the image for a given exposure time). In the human eye, the pupil is the aperture.

Light Exposure:

Exposure is the amount of light per unit area (the image plane illuminance times theexposure time) reaching a photographic film or electronic image sensor, as determined by shutter speed, lens aperture and scene luminance.

Depth of Field:

In optics, particularly as it relates to film and photography,depth of field (DOF), also called focus range or effective focus range, is the distance between the nearest and farthest objects in a scene that appear acceptably sharp in an image.

So these components are vital in the photography industries in producing and capturing awesome masterpiece. In conjunction, Dr Fariza also asked us to create a Flickr account. So here is my account. Do follow! 😀

Reflection Week 8 (Edu. Tech)

Hi guys! 🙂

Today’s class was conducted by Dr Khalid. Dr Khalid taught us on how to use Windows Movie Maker to edit and to create video. He taught us on how to edit, to crop, to compile and so much more in the movie maker. By having the these sort of skills, you can ease yourself in video editing and on how to insert all of the multimedia element into one video. Besides, this activity also helped us to improve our final production of our short video later on. So this is the result of video that I have created and edited 😀

 

Reflection Week 7 (Edu. Tech)

Reflection Week 6 (Edu. Tech)

Hi guys! So today’s class was conducted by beloved Dr Khalid. On today’s class, we learnt about the principles of multimedia. Dr Khalid asked us what we know about multimedia. A lot of opinion came out from our mouth. Then, he showed us two videos:

First video: The video was about travel vlog using an action camera. The main purpose of the video was to show us on how to insert suitable songs to your video.

Second video: This video was about Dr Khalid’s holiday with his beloved family at Death Valley, USA. This video was quite lovely and adorable.

So, after finished watching the videos, Dr Khalid asked us to give our opinion regarding the two videos based on what we have learnt about multimedia. Then we have to present it in front. There were pros and cons in both of the videos. I prefer more on the first video because it was interesting and eye catching. I also love the music the user used and the place that user went. Kind of attract me. But the second video was more to family and love which will soften your heart.

Next, we were asked to compile background sounds together by implementing the skills and tips given by Dr Khalid. Basically, there were two important tips to compile sounds. First of all is the application to convert video format (MP4) to sound format (MP3). The app is called Listen To You Tube. It’s simple! You just copy the link of your desire video in Youtube and paste it on the app. Abracadabra! Your video has been converted to sound. Secondly, use Audacity program to compile your sounds to make it as one sound. Audacity is a free, easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems. The interface is translated into many languages.

I hope with these useful skills can help our group for our short video production. May Allah bless! 🙂

 

Reflection Week 5 (Edu. Tech)

Hi guys! So its week five! I was absent because I woke up late. So I asked my friends what they had learnt. The class was conducted by Dr Fariza. The topic was about traditional media.

In my perspective, traditional media is an old media, media that have existed long time ago before the introduction to internet. Most of the old media is a one-way communication which means we received the information as reliable. The examples of old media are radio, television, newspapers, magazines etc. Teachers can use old media in various different ways to teach in the class.Back then, there is no thing such as internet to teach students in the class. So it is good that we can reminisce old days of other experienced teachers. For example, the usage of the overhead projector in the class. An overhead projector is a variant of slide projector that is used to display images to an audience. Me also experienced the usage of this gadget when I was in form 1 to 3 during my science class. Old media is more reliable than the media use right now. The internet user can hoax a story and make us believe that the story is true. Teachers can easily influence by the hoax and use the information to teach students in the class.

That’s all from me! Cheers!