2nd class reflection (part 1)

Second class reflection

Assalamulaikum and hello.

Firstly I was grateful to God for giving me a chance to learn something new and amazing from one of His creation. The second class proved to be a valuable experience as it contains lots of information regarding assignment as well as computer application. As the class started, lecturer asked us to select a group of five or six which must be comprising of multi racial and multi gender. I selected group number together with Izyan, Fara Filzah, Arina, and Tan Ai Choo. I was the only male in the group but it never hindered my effort to work and learn with them. Before that, we were introduced to the assignment for this course. The first one deals with the blogging particularly on reflection of the class activity and events besides the addition of new information that are considered relevant to the improvement of the class. The other one is on the portfolio where we have to find the resources by using web search, downloading, encoding, storing and saving files.

On the second class, we were taught on what are the differences of the non technology resources and the technology resources. This is important as it provide a warm up exercise for us before understanding the deeper knowledge of the technology. In addition, the education expert claimed that for the students who are exposed to a new knowledge that are not background based, it is mandatory to have a warm up exercise that are related to the student’s background. Apart from that, the use of peer-assistance in the learning process was also encouraged as demonstrated by my group members when they help me to understand the intricacies and complexities of the computer application. I am grateful and believe that everyone should work together to achieve the aims and objective of the group. In other word, it is what we called “cooperative learning”.

The lecturer showed important slide about how to create a tutorial. I believed this is important for the future teaching as it helps to systematically deliver the knowledge particularly on how to use a specific application or software. It also helps me a lot as it improves my knowledge of the technology. The cooperative learning is applied again when my friend showed me how to put the images needed in the creation of tutorial by pressing Ctrl, Alt and Prt Scr. Beside that, they also showed me how to add an element to the blog site. I chose to add link of internet website which I considered relevant to the blog. Personally speaking, the blog application was user friendly and applicable in the sense that a new user like me can understand the basic of blogging.

In addition to that, they also taught me on how to download videos from youtube using the keepvid website. The knowledge was valuable in the sense that I don’t have to take on the hard way of downloading the videos which I considered an ease and grateful for it.
All in all, I’m thankful to God for His great creation and to my lecturer as well as my friends because without them, nothing can be achieved and I will still be on the same pace of knowing only the hardware but not the equally important software. I believed that I have to strive more to improve the knowledge and skill so that I will be able to be on par with those good computer user. Thank you again to all the parties concerned.