Last fight and we're off!

Wowie! It is the last post for Internet Technology for Language subject. How time flies so fast, my dear readers.

You're now have equipped all of my knowledge for the past 14 weeks and I can't express how lucky I am to be with you. You've successfully graduated as a brilliant student! 👏👏👏

For this last post, I just want to say that my groupmates and I had done with our courseware. It took so much effort, consideration, determination and time to finish it. Not to mention that there were so many assignments overlapping on each other, making us struggle in everything to the fullest. 

In our last class with Mdm Azida, our lecturer, we needed to take part of the quiz regarding all the assessments that we've already learnt before. As I looked on each questions, I remembered back all the times I've spent learning with my classmates. It was an enjoyable experience, I must say. We learnt so many things within this one semester.

I truly am grateful to learn everything about this subject with madam. I just wish that in the near future, I can equip all of these knowledge and use it for great purpose while committing myself to the society. 

I want to express my gratitude to her not only succeed in teaching us, but also for her dedication in her field of work. I also would like thank my groupmates that worked hard together with me to get through all the assignments. Thank you to all readers for all the supports.

That's all. Hasta la vista, everyone!

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Work in progress~

Everyone work hard with the courseware, same goes to our group. Fight, fight, fight! 💪💪💪

We are mainly focusing on preposition of place for our courseware and we chose army-ish theme. We want to make it exciting so anyone can use our teaching tool.

The objectives that we want to focus on is the learner’s ability to use preposition and its phrases in sentence as well as letting them recognizing the object placement. We need include a lesson and two practices inside it. Who would have guess that technology and Internet can actually teach anyone about something.

It is not easy to maintain the teaching tool to make it appealing and interesting. We need to consider the learner’s interest and how to grab their attention when they first use our courseware. Our lecturer had taught us in the class about proper steps to create useful courseware. We will give our best shot for it so please, wish us luck!

Till next time, fella!

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SMARTBUILDER is Bob the builder!

Hello and a very good day to all readers! This is the 12^th posts that I made for this my blog site. And it is the last assessment we get from our beloved lecturer. We need to make a courseware using a tool called SMARTBUILDER.

To be precise, courseware is an educational software meanwhile Smartbuilder is the fastest e-learning authoring tool for creating serious e-learning including scenarios, gamification, branching, assessments and more.

Our lecturer taught us on how to use this software in her class. After a long session of lecturing from our lecturer, we were given a chance to explore it on our own. It was not an easy task to do but it was also not that hard either. The features that the software served to us was pretty much user-friendly. There were different commands that we needed to learn. We could also put a background, used variety of shapes, pictures and such.

Nevertheless, this courseware is not a free tool. It gave us a free trial to use it and it is a must for us to get our hand on it.

It was an exciting experience and without further ado, my groupmates and I once again will make an interesting teaching tool, combining all of our creativity, knowledge and determination.

Toodles~

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Instructional Design Theory : ASSURE

As I mentioned from the previous post, I will talk about one of the instructional design theory knows as ASSURE.

Our lecturer assigned every groups to come up with a poster and information regarding other instructional design theories. Hence, we’ve chosen ASSURE which stands for:

A – Analyze

S – State standards and objectives

S – Select strategies and materials

U – Utilize technology and media

R – Require learner’s participation

E – Evaluate and revise

Below is the poster that my groupmates and I have made 👇 

ASSURE is an improved version of ADDIE which focus more about the learner’s objectives and needs. Other instructional design theories that seems related to teaching the leaners are:

-       - GAGNE 9 events

-       -  Dick and Carey

-       - Rapid Prototyping

-       - Guaranteed Learning

-       - ARCS Model

Eventhough there are tons of theories stated, but in the end it serves the same purpose which is to guide the learners using proper teaching aid. I hope that you may learn a few great things from these theories.

See you again on the next post!

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Learn, learn and learn!

What a purrfect day to learn!

For today’s post, I will share my knowledge about Instructional Design.

It is “a systematic process that is employed to develop education and training programs in a consistent and reliable fashion” (Reiser, Dempsey, 2007). In a simpler word, we create a medium of leaning for the learners using the instructional theory. This topic is related to CALL, a Computer Assisted Language Learning.

There are several things that need to be considered when we want to create a teaching tool or aid. According to every different types of instructional design theories, we need to know what the learners need while they are leaning. We can’t just simply teach them without any proper basis or knowledge about them, right?

Next step is knowing what they will get by the end of their lesson. After that, we can start to create the materials suits to the learner’s needs and wants. Below is an infographic information about one of the instructional design that is commonly used by educators, which is named as ADDIE.

When you have suitable objectives to make teaching aid based on your learners, it is much easier to carry it out. On the next post, I will show you readers another example of instructional design theory. Till we meet again, fellow readers!

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Is that our Explainer Video?!

Oh, hello again, my dear readers. As a promise that I made from the previous post, today I will share to you about my team's explainer video! 👏👏👏

Our class has been assigned by our lecturer to make one using our knowledge and creativity to make it interesting. And here’s our fruitful result!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueZWdOzaDwI

To make it short, my teammates and I chose a title ‘Adopt, Don’t Shop’ as our explainer video. Why we chose that? We love animals and we want to save them! There are reasons why you should adopt the animals and not buying them. Go and watch the video for further explanation.

I guess that’s all for now. See you again!

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Learning in Explainer Video

Hai and welcome back, everyone. As you may have noticed from the title above, we’re going to learn a bit about ‘What’s is Explainer Video?’

It is a term where you learn about new information throughout a video with some explaining and description in it in order to make the readers fully understand about the content.

So this week, my teammates and I are going to make one. I'm not going to spoil our title yet so please wait for my next post. Hehe.

Our lecturer asked us to create a script beforehand with proper draft as our guidance to make the video. She also encouraged us to watch some explainer videos in YouTube as references. She wanted every students in her class to acknowledge on how to make a good video with proper information and good visual presentation.

It is a good opportunity for us to be creative while teaching other people using the video. Meet you again on the next post!

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