E-booking is completely a new task i have never done before. I heard of e-books before but I never thought that I would produce one one day. To find a partner for yourself is quite difficult for me especially when I am a chinese. There were many requirements to fulfill and on short I decided to pair up with a malay. sadly, the malays would prefer to mix with malays maybe due to the reason that they were staying together and thus it would be easier for them to do the task together. Mark was facing the same problem as me. having no choice, we agreed to pair up but we consulted Madam Foziah for her consent for we knew pairing with each other up was a wrong thing to do. We were both chinese. Thankfully, Madam Foziah was always considerate enough. She listened to our plight and she agreed. We could not thank her more for being so understanding.
We both had agreed to discuss the e-booking through msn. We discussed it through Msn. after a long discussion, we finally made up our mind to teach our target audience who would be of standard 4 manners namely saying 'please' and 'thank you'. We felt us fortunate enough for madam Foziah did show us a few examples of excellent e-books. Through those examples, we had an idea on how to organise our e-book well. We started this task by typing out the story line using power point. Mark went to a school to shoot a few photos to be used in our e-book but they were not sufficent.
Thankfully, I am a part time tutor. During the lesson, I excused myself for 5 minutes and asked two of my pupils to act all the scenes for my e-book. The children co-operated well indeed and I promised them gifts next week.
The photos I captured were great. Mark was satisfied and I was glad. Everything was done so fast and we were indeed contented with the results. Of course, things did not just end there. We divided the work ourselves. Mark was to amend the e book namely putting in the custom animation, editting the photos and inserting an audio song into it. I, on the other hand, did the tutorial. Since there was a great coperation between us both, everything was done well.
We hope to pair up again for we both can be a suitable team partners. Won't this be great?
Friday, August 29, 2008
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Something A lot Easier But Troublesome
On the same day, surprisingly, we were given another task as well. Madam FOziah refered it as an internet skill task but I could not figure out what it was until she showed us a few very interesting videos to us. The first video was not as interesting as the latter one. I honestly prefered the latter one for everything seemed to turn out so right to my taste. First, the song accompanied in the video was my favourite song. it was a korean song. This romantic song seemed to blend so well with the theme of the video. The video undobtedly made me more aware of my daily lives. I now found that our lives as a human in this world could be so interesting. This impact we had after watching the video proved that the video was a big success. I knew one of the producers who was our senior. He seemed to be so talented in this field but what a waste for he already paid the rm110k for he found that being a teacher was never a passion to him. Well, I wish him all the best in searching the right career for himself.
Honestly, after handling the video editting, the 78 of us worked so hard for this task. this task was a bit easier compared to the video editting task for it only involved two persons this time. This was because to discuss this task with two persons through yahoo messenger created less confusions compared to a group of five. Sadly, my partner who was the one who submitted the dvd last week on video editting faced much difficulty to serve the net. She had to wait for her father to come back late at night to bring her to the cyber cafe. I saw this a real trouble for her thus we had agreed to split the roles. I was to do the video and she would be doing the tutorial.
After that agreement, I started searching for suitable photos for our movie. This process was easy for we had already discussed on what to put in our video. Everything was done smoothly until the nightmare came. I faced difficulty in uploading our video in youtube. Since it was already 5am, I decided to try uploading it again the next morning.
The day with the worst nightmare came when I needed to sit in fornt of my laptop the whole day trying to upload the video again and again. I grew quite impatient at times but when i saw the posts sent by my coursemates saying that they managed to upload their videos gave me courage. At last by 6pm that evening, the upload was a success. Feeling too happy, I played it on youtube three times and headed straight for dinner. But when i was back to view it for the fourth time, the video was said to have been removed by the user. I was confused when this happened thus I asked around thorugh adec. Izzudin as well as Wai told me the same thing that since the same username and password were being used, people could delete each other's video. Having heard that, I was so frustrated for it was not easy at all to get to upload the video in youtube. Honestly, I coud not believe there was such selfish person who dared to take such an ugly move. Thus, I posted my frustration in adec and this was actually a thing that I was really regretful about. I was so emotional at that time and I wished I had not been so. To correct the mistake, I posted another adec apologising for my emotional post and I continued trying to upload the video again. After 3 hours had passed, the moment I waited finally came and my video was up again to be played in youtube.
I of course continued watching the video again and again to make sure that the video was not removed. But sadly, this time my video was said to be unavailable. My heart sank for I started feeling that all my effort had gone down to waste. My video was again unavailable and I felt sadder. I was in limbo not knowing what else i could do to amend this. At the same time, Wai was online too and I expressed my plight to her on Msn. She told me that she could view my video and I found this weird. Why couldn't I myself watch my own video when the others could watch it? Feeling too tired for bed, I asked Wai to check my video from time to time for me. Thankfully, she agreed to.
The next morning, to my relief I received a few text messages from my coursemates telling me that they could view my video and I should not be worried anymore. I was happier when Madam Foziah knew of my problem and she was considerate to 'pujuk' me back. All in all,I felt relieved but tired.
Honestly, after handling the video editting, the 78 of us worked so hard for this task. this task was a bit easier compared to the video editting task for it only involved two persons this time. This was because to discuss this task with two persons through yahoo messenger created less confusions compared to a group of five. Sadly, my partner who was the one who submitted the dvd last week on video editting faced much difficulty to serve the net. She had to wait for her father to come back late at night to bring her to the cyber cafe. I saw this a real trouble for her thus we had agreed to split the roles. I was to do the video and she would be doing the tutorial.
After that agreement, I started searching for suitable photos for our movie. This process was easy for we had already discussed on what to put in our video. Everything was done smoothly until the nightmare came. I faced difficulty in uploading our video in youtube. Since it was already 5am, I decided to try uploading it again the next morning.
The day with the worst nightmare came when I needed to sit in fornt of my laptop the whole day trying to upload the video again and again. I grew quite impatient at times but when i saw the posts sent by my coursemates saying that they managed to upload their videos gave me courage. At last by 6pm that evening, the upload was a success. Feeling too happy, I played it on youtube three times and headed straight for dinner. But when i was back to view it for the fourth time, the video was said to have been removed by the user. I was confused when this happened thus I asked around thorugh adec. Izzudin as well as Wai told me the same thing that since the same username and password were being used, people could delete each other's video. Having heard that, I was so frustrated for it was not easy at all to get to upload the video in youtube. Honestly, I coud not believe there was such selfish person who dared to take such an ugly move. Thus, I posted my frustration in adec and this was actually a thing that I was really regretful about. I was so emotional at that time and I wished I had not been so. To correct the mistake, I posted another adec apologising for my emotional post and I continued trying to upload the video again. After 3 hours had passed, the moment I waited finally came and my video was up again to be played in youtube.
I of course continued watching the video again and again to make sure that the video was not removed. But sadly, this time my video was said to be unavailable. My heart sank for I started feeling that all my effort had gone down to waste. My video was again unavailable and I felt sadder. I was in limbo not knowing what else i could do to amend this. At the same time, Wai was online too and I expressed my plight to her on Msn. She told me that she could view my video and I found this weird. Why couldn't I myself watch my own video when the others could watch it? Feeling too tired for bed, I asked Wai to check my video from time to time for me. Thankfully, she agreed to.
The next morning, to my relief I received a few text messages from my coursemates telling me that they could view my video and I should not be worried anymore. I was happier when Madam Foziah knew of my problem and she was considerate to 'pujuk' me back. All in all,I felt relieved but tired.
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Something Predictable
I signed in adec as usual to check on the updates. Expectedly, I knew that Madam Foziah would prepare a new task for us to do. It would be about video editting the next day. I could not imagine that videos could be editted as well. As i was chatting with a genius friend (he is a future doctor) at the same time, I asked him for guidance in video editting. Surprisingly, he recommended windows movie maker. From that second onwards, I started to find this software an awesome one for it functioned widely. The fact that this friend could put everything (the guidance) in only 3 sentences made me confident in excelling in the video editting. I tried out the video editting instantly and it worked. I was so happy and of course, I could not wait to get started for the task the next day.
The next day came and I was so proud to tell a few of my coursemates about video editting. I shared the tutorial my friend gave me and they found it useful enough. Predictably, Madam Foziah gave us a video editting task but this time around the task was to be done in groups. We were asked to download 'So do you think you can dance' and there were so many parts to be downloaded. It was a huge task. Since no much time was left, we divided the task among ourselves. the two guys are to download and edit the parts of the episode, a girl was to find out what happened in the video and another girl as well as I were to do the tutorial.
Things went out fine until we were informed that the split parts needed to be saved as well. Obviously, the guys in our group did not know about this. to add, we were already back in our own hometowns. to do things together was almost impossible for us. thanks to the internet, we were able to discuss the task through yahoo messenger. we re did our video editting and finally it was completed.
Things did not end there. one of our group members told us that there was an update saying that we needed to burn our video editting in a dvd and it had to be handed in tomorrow. We were so worried for it was impossible for us to hand it in. none of us was in kl. fortunately, one of us decided to do it. Sshe volunteered to travel back to kl and handed it in. I was turthfully very touched of her sacficifes. However, another trouble arose this time. Since all the downloading and editting were done by the guys, she had no copy of them. thus, they spent so much time transfering the files in the cafe. I knew about this and thus, I volunteered to do most of the tutorial. I found this part of my responsibility to lighten the burden and hustle faced by them.
Gratefully, we managed to have our dvd handed in on time. It was such a huge task for us all. But we felt happy and relieved to be able to handle all the obstacles successfully. All these needed to be faced so as to make us ready for the worst situation to come.
So, what will our next task be? Whatever task it is, I as well as my other group members will never have doubts in our capabilities for we know we can surely make it.
The next day came and I was so proud to tell a few of my coursemates about video editting. I shared the tutorial my friend gave me and they found it useful enough. Predictably, Madam Foziah gave us a video editting task but this time around the task was to be done in groups. We were asked to download 'So do you think you can dance' and there were so many parts to be downloaded. It was a huge task. Since no much time was left, we divided the task among ourselves. the two guys are to download and edit the parts of the episode, a girl was to find out what happened in the video and another girl as well as I were to do the tutorial.
Things went out fine until we were informed that the split parts needed to be saved as well. Obviously, the guys in our group did not know about this. to add, we were already back in our own hometowns. to do things together was almost impossible for us. thanks to the internet, we were able to discuss the task through yahoo messenger. we re did our video editting and finally it was completed.
Things did not end there. one of our group members told us that there was an update saying that we needed to burn our video editting in a dvd and it had to be handed in tomorrow. We were so worried for it was impossible for us to hand it in. none of us was in kl. fortunately, one of us decided to do it. Sshe volunteered to travel back to kl and handed it in. I was turthfully very touched of her sacficifes. However, another trouble arose this time. Since all the downloading and editting were done by the guys, she had no copy of them. thus, they spent so much time transfering the files in the cafe. I knew about this and thus, I volunteered to do most of the tutorial. I found this part of my responsibility to lighten the burden and hustle faced by them.
Gratefully, we managed to have our dvd handed in on time. It was such a huge task for us all. But we felt happy and relieved to be able to handle all the obstacles successfully. All these needed to be faced so as to make us ready for the worst situation to come.
So, what will our next task be? Whatever task it is, I as well as my other group members will never have doubts in our capabilities for we know we can surely make it.
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
A good sign?
I stopped feeling good after I knew I needed to do another unfamiliar task. it was audio editting. The time given was just too short for me. I needed more time to get comfortable with the software!!!
Wasting no time, I quickly referred to Dr Foziah's tutorial. Her tutorial was sufficient enough for me. I downloaded everything she advised in the tutorial so as not to miss anything important. I listened patiently to the songs i downloaded and listened hard to spot the differences. I took my less than an hour to comprehend everything. deep inside, i kept asking myself if what I have just learned was sufficient.
Now it was time for me to edit an audio. I found this happenning too fast that i was not completely ready. honestly, this was the first time i took such a short time to learn how to handle a software. feeling insecured still, I went to adec to check on those who had uploaded their audios. surprisingly, there was only one, Bak Zi Yang. he even uploaded a tutorial. Not bad. Wasting no time, i clicked on the tutorial hoping to guide me more. Thankfully, his tutorial was compact and I further understood about the software. I quickly clicked on the 'audacity' software for i could not wait to get started. My editting began but i encountered a problem. I could not drag the wave. knowing that Bak knew about this, I called him up and asked him. He guided me through and I regained my confidence. It was actually quite easy to handle the software. my edited MP3 file could be produced so fast but amendments needed to be done. there was only a problem I faced again and again. I found it hard to cut the wave the exact way to allow the song flow well. i edited the song countless times until the 5th time when I finally managed to edit it well.
all in all, I managed to be the second person to upload my audio in the adec. quite proud of it. haha...
Wasting no time, I quickly referred to Dr Foziah's tutorial. Her tutorial was sufficient enough for me. I downloaded everything she advised in the tutorial so as not to miss anything important. I listened patiently to the songs i downloaded and listened hard to spot the differences. I took my less than an hour to comprehend everything. deep inside, i kept asking myself if what I have just learned was sufficient.
Now it was time for me to edit an audio. I found this happenning too fast that i was not completely ready. honestly, this was the first time i took such a short time to learn how to handle a software. feeling insecured still, I went to adec to check on those who had uploaded their audios. surprisingly, there was only one, Bak Zi Yang. he even uploaded a tutorial. Not bad. Wasting no time, i clicked on the tutorial hoping to guide me more. Thankfully, his tutorial was compact and I further understood about the software. I quickly clicked on the 'audacity' software for i could not wait to get started. My editting began but i encountered a problem. I could not drag the wave. knowing that Bak knew about this, I called him up and asked him. He guided me through and I regained my confidence. It was actually quite easy to handle the software. my edited MP3 file could be produced so fast but amendments needed to be done. there was only a problem I faced again and again. I found it hard to cut the wave the exact way to allow the song flow well. i edited the song countless times until the 5th time when I finally managed to edit it well.
all in all, I managed to be the second person to upload my audio in the adec. quite proud of it. haha...
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