iPod + Broadcast

Hello everyone!

It is time for me to update my blog and share a new knowledge with all of you. The topic for this week is podcast. Have you heard about it? Podcast is a combination of iPod and broadcast. It is usually an audio file and it broadcast via the internet. Thus, you need to have internet to listen to this podcast. If you want to listen it while you are offline or maybe when there is no internet coverage in your area, you can download it to your computer or your mobile device.

So, for this week, I need to listen to a podcast and review it. The link given by Madam Azida was http://podbay.fm/. There, you will find lots of topic categories such as comedy, health, society & culture, news & politics and many more. You can choose any category that you are interested in. I chose science & medicine. Why? It was because I wanted to know how interesting it could be since for me science is quite unexciting. Then, when I looked for the topic, I chose “The Science of Happiness.” After I clicked it, I found that there were lots of episodes or title listed and I had to click any interesting title I wanted to listen to. The title I chose is “Be Kinder to Yourself.”

The content is about how to implement self compassion break in our life. Life must be exhausted but it always have a way on how to cope with it. It worth listening because right now, I felt quite exhausted and need some inspiration. So, when I listened to this, I know what should I applied in order to handle it. 

This audio was not more than 20 minutes. For me, it is good since it is not too long and people can stay still for it. The audio started by introduced the topic and the speaker without any music. Then after few seconds, a slow music started and you will listen to the guest’s story which is her own experience. The music will end as the story ended and they will start their conversation. So, you will not listen to any music while they are talking. Therefore, there will no any barrier for you to listen to their conversation. They also did not speak too fast so you can hear they speak words by words. Then, after 15 minutes they will have a break and the conversation with the guest ended. You will listen to another sharing information related to the topic. Next, you will be listening to the feedback they got from the listeners about the topic they have shared. Before the podcast ended, the speaker will list the staff behind the podcast.

Overall, I can say that it’s like listen to a radio but with lots of sharing information. You are not listening to a music but people who are sharing good information. It worth trying because you can do another work while listen to the podcast. The content will not disappointed you. 

Here, I provide a link for you to know the best podcast app.

https://www.tomsguide.com/us/pictures-story/555-best-podcast-apps.html

Don’t forget to give a try! See you in a next post. Xoxo

Search and Communicate

Hi everyone!

How are you? Since last week was a holiday week, so I need to gather all my writing mood for this week. It is never easy.

For this week, I’m going to share with all of you about Search Engines and Online Database plus Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) and ESL. Let us start with Search Engines and Online Database first. I think most of us know what the search engines are. Especially those who used internet and computer a lot. It is a web tool that allows you to enter any keywords and find the information. For examples, google, Bing, yahoo and many more. So, you can use search engine to find my blog and then it will bring you to my blog.

p/s: Every search engine has their own database.

Next, we also have SPECIALIZED SEARCH ENGINE and META SEARCH ENGINE. Me as a student will usually use the specialized search engine. Why? Because I’m special. Hahahaha just kidding. The reason is because there is some search engine that made for the student. For examples, Google School, Academia.edu, etc. There is also pipl.com where it is specialized for those who is looking for someone. Then, if you use meta search engine, it will give the combination results from other search engines. For examples, Dogpile, Metacrawler, Sputtr and others. Thus, please don’t forget to try it. It is so interesting and worth to try.

As all of you know, I’m learning English. Thus, when I learned about technology it has to be connected with language. You need to know that while using the technology, we used our reading skills, writing skills and also our critical thinking skills. We have to be able to write the keyword, then need to read the info and use our critical thinking to analyse either it is the relevant info that we need. Do you get me? That is why learning language is important.

Another lesson that we learned was Computer Mediated Communication (CMC).

CMC is any form of communication between 2 or more people via separate computer through network connection. It is like between me and you. We are having an interaction right now. But the only differ now it is either asynchronous or synchronous. 

http://cat-udc.blogspot.com/2010/12/synchronous-and-asynchronous.html

So from the table above, hope it can help you to understand it better. Therefore, blog is one of the example of asynchronous cmc. 

One of the best things about CMS is if you are too lazy to go the class but you want to have a certificate you can go to Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC). Below is the link. You can learn it online. It is interesting, isn’t? I hope one day, I’m able to join it.

https://www.openlearning.com/malaysiamoocs

Lastly, we learned about collaborative learning. As students, sometimes we have lots of pair and group works. So, by using google docs, google sheets and many more we can do the same works at different places. As long as we set in the setting that anyone with the link will be able to edit. Thus, there will be no free rider in a group. Below is the link that will teach you how to use google docs for collaborative learning. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcwRhQWAja0

I hope there is something new for you to learn. Till the next post!

It is interesting, isn't?

Hello everyone!

How was your day? Is everything alright? Me, right now, having a very good weekend since it’s holiday! Yeahhhh. I almost forget that I have to update my entry. Hahaha. Well, as I promise in my last entry, I want to share with all of you the lesson I learnt this week.

Have you ever heard about Canva? It’s another application that can be found in internet. You can also have Canva apps in your phone. I have one. Hehehe. Why? It’s because I love this apps where I can imagine myself as a designer which can design anything hahahaha. Besides, this apps also provides few free templates for us to design it.  Therefore, in the class, our lecturer asked us to do a simple design by using a Canva and we need to put it on our first entry of blog. You can see it on my first entry. The picture was edited using a Canva. It might be simple from your point of view, but can I claim it as beautiful? (Sorry for being too confident) If you are interested to use this, you can click the link that I have provide for you. Good luck in trying. Trust me, you will love it.

https://www.canva.com/

Besides learning to use Canva in class, we also learn about CALL. What is CALL? CALL is Computer Assisted Learning Language. It’s such an interesting topic. It’s because language is not only learnt in the classroom, yet we can also learn through computer. Just like now. You have to understand English in order for you to understand my entry or maybe for you to learn how to use Canva, you have to understand the language first or else you will not be able to use Canva. See? Everything is about language.

Therefore, from the last class I can said that by hook or by crook we learnt language while we use computer. For me, it’s interesting to see how English can be learn through various ways especially using computer. So, everyone let us use computer in a good way.

See you in a next post! xoxo