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Today is the last class of Computer in Education. (Sobs~) Oh how fast the time flies. It feels like only yesterday that we all just get to know what Computer in Education actually is. Hmmmmm..... the final examination is literally around the corner :O

So basically, all we have to do tonight.... (Yes the class is held at night and it was really fun) is present and present. We have two presentations which are the survey report presentation and our video presentation. I was really happy because I wasn't as nervous as I was on the first presentation. I was relaxed on both presentations even though things did go wrong with the video presentation but it was okay and all went well Alhamdulillah :)

When everything ended, suddenly it hit all of us that this is THE LAST CLASS. We have gone through a lot through out this course, we have learnt a lot of new things in this course. Oh how I will miss this course and of course our loving lecturer, Dr. Fariza. It is undeniably that this course is a very stressful course as we have a lot to do each week but with the presence of Dr. Fariza, she somehow make it all easy. She has never make things complicated because she always has ways to make everything simple. Thank you Dr. Fariza and all for this wonderful memory...... May God bless all of you :)  

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We had the opportunity to show our storyboard and ask on Dr. Fariza's opinion on our next class.

So Novelia, Wirda and I actually made a discussion at KPZ on our storyboard of our video for our final task of video making. As we talked and discussed, a lot of ideas came out. Some are ridiculously funny, but some are actually relevant to our topic.

After we are quite satisfied with the idea, we made the storyboard.

Alhamdulillah, after we have shown Dr. Fariza, it was such a big relief as our idea was accepted as it was relevant to our topic :D

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So today is the least stressful class for me. All we have to do is look for information of the Five Elements of Multimedia online. Thank God for the strong internet connection in Makmal Komputer 1! After just a few seconds, we have found a lot of websites that could explain what the elements of multimedia really are. 

The five elements of multimedia are:
1) Text
2) Sound
3) Graphic
4) Animation
5) Video 

So why did we have to do this search? We actually have to create a video for our final task! And a good video should consists of these five elements of multimedia.

After the information searching, we were asked to briefly discuss on the main idea of our video and the flow of our video or storyboard.

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So we have successfully created our online survey using google form on our topic 'The 21t Century Skills'. I could not believe myself as we managed to recruit up to 165 respondents where they were all mainly from the German-Malaysian Institute and Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia. (Alhamdulillah we have helpful friends :D )

After we have collected responses, we were actually supposed to write on a full report regarding the survey. And again, it was a group task. To ease down the fuss, we decided to allocate parts so that no one could actually say that it is hard to gather and do the task together or they do not know what they should do on the task. I was given the part of research methodology and demographic data.

I had so much fun doing my part especially the demographic data as it involve lots of graphic ( They are really colourful!) It took me two days to complete my parts as I find it quite troubling to crop out the pictures one by one but that was the most fun part of my report writing actually :)

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So actually we were supposed to create a google form  for our online survey this week but unfortunately the internet was down. But as cool as it is, our awesome lecturer, Dr. Fariza already has Plan B in mind so that we can still continue being productive in class even though we have no internet.

Dr. Fariza asked us to proceed to our 6th Assignment which was to make a brochure using Microsoft Publisher. We were asked to make an informative brochure regarding the topic that is assigned to us which was 'The 21st Century Skills'. Oh yes! This is a group assignment. I was quite surprised that we were able to use Microsoft Publisher without any fuss even though it was our first time using it. 

Later that week, we made a group discussion regarding our online survey. We sat down and discussed on what questions should be asked and what are the objectives of our survey. After we have made the discussion, Novelia and I created the form using google form application on google drive and we then spread the links on Whatsapp, Twitter, and Facebook to recruit respondents.

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So today, all we have to do is act out as a teacher who needs to key in the examination data for our students. We were asked to use Microsoft Excel. OH MY GOD IT WAS SO VERY CONFUSING :O

But Alhamdulillah with lots and lots of help from Dr. Fariza and friends, I was able to do it.

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SO TODAY IS PRESENTATION DAYYYYYYYYYY! I was really really nervous because I always have issues when it comes to me talking in front of a group of people. But as I watched my friends presented in front, I somehow gain some strength in me to make the presentation successful. 

But when my turn come, I WAS STILL NERVOUS! HAHAHAHAHA.

But Alhamdulillah I managed to talk for a few minutes in front on my parts. I was really thankful that it was a group assignment because whenever I stutter, my groupmates (Novelia especially) will always give me this supporting look so that I can continue on talking. So much love for them <3

I really hope that as I go through my degree years, I will be able to overcome my fear of talking in front of people. Amin!

For this week’s Tutorial class, Dr. Fariza gave us all an opportunity to speak up and tell everyone what we have found on the LMS and CMS topic. Hanisah, Dila, Fikri and Iqbal went in front as representatives of the groups and presented their findings. Some of what they have found conflicted with one another but Dr. Fariza managed to clear things off and explained further on LMS and CMS. From what I understood, LMS mainly focuses on the overall administration while CMS focuses on the course management. I still find this topic confusing though. Hopefully, with a little bit more reading, I will be able to understand it better.

Soon after the brief presentation, we were given a short lecture on the CASPER concept. From what I understood, CASPER is the concept that we need to use for an effective slides presentation. CASPER is an abbreviation of Contrast, Alignment, Simplicity, Emphasis and Repetition. We should use the right contrast and alignment so that what we are presenting through our slides are easy to be understood. Our slides presentation should also be as simple as possible because if our slides are too crowded or colourful, it may distract our audience from what we are presenting. We should also emphasise and repeat on the important things so that the audience get what we are presenting. With the use of CASPER concept, a slides presentation will be easy for both the presenter and the audience.

After the short lecture on CASPER, we were given a task by Dr. Fariza. We were asked to prepare a slides presentation through Google Presentation. Our group was given the topic of “The 21st Century Skills”. This presentation is due after the Raya Haji break.

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So this week is a little bit tough as we have to write a full report on our understanding on the LMS and CMS topic. Luckily, Dr. Fariza let us to work in groups (phewww..)!

Well, to ease up the task, we decided to allocate a part each so that everyone is involved in writing the report. I was given the task to write a paragraph on the differences between LMS and CMS.

So, from what I've found, the difference between LMS and CMS is that LMS is basically a system which is able to manage users and content database which make content delivery, user administration and bahavioural tracking more convienient while CMS is a system which creates, publishes, edits and tracks content. Also, CMS covers a narrower scope as the management and distribution of eLearning and courses led by an instructor whilst LMS is a secure place to accumulate and initiate lessons and exercises to a lot of users.

I am very grateful to be able to work with Novelia, Wirda and Claudia in a group. Everything went smoothly even though we had to burn the midnight oil to finish up the report. No one was pushy or bossy in our group. We are able to work in relax mode and I am very comfortable working with them :)