Good Luck

Roger Tan Wei Jian (A138409)

I'm here to wish all my dearest classmates who are going to sit for the semester's final examination all the best and may score the examination with flying colours. Good Luck and hopefully we still have the opportunity to share respective opinions as well as communicate with each other using English. Lastly, I also seek for apologizes if I did any mistakes or offences during the fourteen weeks. Keep in touch, and remember to "VOTE"!

DST presentation photos

Learning Experience In Making "Time Management" Digital Story Telling.

     We gained so many learning experience while doing our DST. This experience includes the aspect on language, teamwork, soft skills, technology, research skills, creativity and innovation. 

     In language, our group found a lot of new and useful vocabulary while doing our research. We also learn how to pronounce words according to the correct pronunciation.

     Teamwork is the most important essence in making our digital story. We learn to cooperate with each other and if any problem arise we tend to solve it together. Besides that, we learn how to communicate with other people, the right and correct etiquette to ask people to be our respondent. 

     We also had been exposed to the use of technology in making out DST. We had learn to use camera in shooting video precisely and accurately. We learn how to use video making software and audio editing software in editing and composing our DST.

     In finding information, researching skill is really necessary. We learned how to distinguish the important information from the raw information we get from the internet or books. We also learned how to find the right source of information.

     Lastly,creativity and innovation. We also tend to be creative and think outside the box. Instead of using pictures, we use video as part of our DST. Although it consume a lot of effort and hard work, we actually having so much fun in doing it.

That all of our learning experience and thank you for watching our DST.

1st prize!

Great news! Yee Hang, Bing Shu, Mun Wai and Wuing won the 1st prize of RM200 for their DST, The problem of the education system!!!

Congratulations! You guys really deserve to win as your DST is truly the best.  Your coverage/discussion  of the issue is critical, insightful and shows that you are aware of current events. You have also used the digital elements very well and the result is impressive. Well done!!!

However, the DST is far from perfect as there are a few grammar slips in the narration/caption.

Thanks to their win, the class was given a box of chocolate. So chocolate for all on Monday ;)

Link to DST, The problem of our education system

The digital story, the problem of our education system, can be viewed by clinking this link

our learning experiences

Description of learning experiences on the making of digital story

 When we were first assigned to produce a digital story, we decided to make one on various traditional dances in Malaysia. But, we were having a hard time in doing so because it will consume a lot of time and the digital story will also lose its main focus. Finally, we decided to do a digital story on traditional malay dances. 

Objectives of our digital story :

1) To educate people on various types and varieties of malay dances from different states in Malaysia

2) To preserve our malay culture by sharing information regarding malay traditional dances among the young 

     generation

3) To emphasize on the usage and importance of malay traditional dance in todays world

4) Present the colours and varieties in malay traditional dances

What we gained from the making of the digital story?

1) We got to improve our IT skills by using the computer. Handling Windows Life Movie Maker for the first     was an eye opening experience for us as we were new with the software. Finally, we learned to use it to produce digital story by trial and error. Learning to use to software would definitely benefit us in our future projects. We also learnt to use the sound recorder and cutting songs. 

2) We also learnt a lot regarding traditional malay dances in our movie making process. Our researching skills also improved by doing this digital story.

3) In terms on the language, the making of digital story improved our vocabulary as well as pronouncing the words correctly for the narration part. We get to learn the correct way to use and apply grammar.

4) Our team work also improved in the process of making the digital story. We get to tolerate and listen to others ideas as well as share ours with them. In a way, we got to know each other better and work well together.

5) Our confidence level improved and increased our soft skills especially in doing projects related to Information Technology. 

 

Posting your digital stories

I tried posting a digital story onto this blog and encountered problems. So, you don't have to post your digital stories here. Just bring your digital stories and I will save them onto my pendrive and upload onto youtube instead.

what we learnt during the process of DST

After several weeks of hard work, our video "Vote" finally presented in the class.
In this several weeks we do learnt several new knowledge, these included :

• understand the real situation in political election compare to the theory that we learn in class
• improve our language in reading and writing
• improve communication in our cooperation
• improve our knowledge in using computer as a media center
• exposure our idea and opinion towards the public 

Syabas!!!

Congratulations to Yee Hang, Wuing, Bing Shu and Mun Wai for their critical digital story on the Malaysian education system that has been selected for the DST competition!  To all, well done! :) You have managed to produce a digital story by yourselves and this could be a first step to other digital stories.  I hope it has been a good learning experience for everyone.

Don't forget to post your group reflection on your learning experiences  (if you have not done so). Please also post your digital story on this blog. 

The viewing of the best digital stories from the other classes will be held this Friday, 18 May 2012 at Dewan Kuliah, Pusat Pengajian Bahasa  & Linguistics, from 2.45 - 4.30pm. Do come and give your support to your class entry.   

Edu revolution group report

After couple weeks of hardwork, we have finally near the completion of our digital storyboard. During the progress, we have many arguments regarding the content of our own product, since some sensitive issues have been include in our digital storyboard. And for handling this problems, the title of our story has been change from time to time, and finally settle down by a week before this. (Refer to our older post)

In order to complete this digital storyboard, we have undergo many hardship. We need to find the proper image and background music, so that we can properly bring out the atmosphere and the purpose of the story. We also have problem with the length of the storyboard since 8 minutes was a little bit too long for our story. But in the end, we manage to overcome all these obstacles and our digital storyboard can be complete by the end of this week. It may have been alot of hardwork, but it were also plenty of fun and feeling of accomplishment during our progress. We will be showing our product very soon enough, and we hope you can enjoy it !

CHAN YEE HANG
LENG BING SHU
WONG MUN WAI
TAN SING WUING