digital media for teachers

Start the new year with some fresh ideas ...and some borrowed ones!

2012-01-09T20:18:00.000-08:00

IT'S HERE!!SYAFIQ'S PROJECT!!YEAHHH!!

2009-10-29T16:01:00.000-07:00

Hi guys!!

At last..here it is..

First,all praise to God Almighty..

I'm very2 sorry for all the inconveniences that I've caused..

I know that all of you must have waited like..10 years..heheh..=p

Thanks to all especially Paula and Shaun..Both of you are so kind!

And also thanks for giving me the extension..Really appreciate it!!huhu=)

So now, enjoy!!

p/s: I would like to forward my apologies if this video is not as good as you expected. Anyway, the viewer rating for this vid is PG due to some blood and explicit scene(in Malaysia)...LOL=p

Cheers,

Syafiq

Projects and Positive Comments

2009-10-29T05:34:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone, I have just been viewing all of your fabulous projects! They all look amazing on the blog too. I have been reading the comments and enjoying how encouraging you are with your peers - keep up the comments please. Would the creators of Animal World like to upload the project to the blog to share with our group. Hope all your other assignments are all finished now.

I have shared the link with Shaun so he will view them all in the next few days as well. I was at a conference with him on the weekend and told him about all the brilliant projects you have produced :)

Cheers Paula

Healthy Eating

2009-10-29T04:58:00.000-07:00

The Animal World

2009-10-25T22:57:00.000-07:00

by Erma, Izzaida, Nashiha and Aliaa

The Story of the Strong Badang

2009-10-23T04:44:00.000-07:00

By: Andi and Niza

AYOB the 6th grader

2009-10-22T07:14:00.000-07:00

by Dayana, Azhani, Hanis & Syafa
feat Faten & Izzy

MUKHSIN CLAYMATION

2009-10-22T06:53:00.000-07:00

by:
aisyah, zul, faidz and rabiatul
^.^

Dinner for two, please?

2009-10-22T03:56:00.000-07:00

By:

Denish, Izzat Fauzi, Mohd Zamri, Muhammad Anaqi, Pavithiran

MunTing's claymation

2009-10-21T04:57:00.000-07:00

Hokey Pokey

Road Safety

2009-10-21T00:57:00.000-07:00

Road safety. A presentation by Aiman Zhafri, Syarifah Nazurah and Siti Ayu Bistari.

Teacher's Note:

The teaching strategy that suitable for this segment is Whole Group teaching, proposed by Barnes (2001). Students will be exposed to the video as a whole class. After watching the story in the video, the teacher will explain the importance of road safety and asks several questions to generate students’ thinking (e.g.: what will happen if you cross the road without looking left and right?). Here, the students will have the chance to talk about what they feel and express their ideas and opinions. They will also get the chance to ask about the things that they do not understand to the teacher. Therefore, all students will have equal learning opportunities.

References:

Barnes, R. (2001). Making ICT Meaningful in Cockburn, A., Teaching children 3 to 11: a student's guide (pp.205-217). London: Paul Chapman.

how-to video for stop-motion animation

2009-10-14T01:02:00.000-07:00

hello everyone,

if you need extra help on your current digital media assignment, this might be a good video for you.

check this out.

Have fun!

class at 4, tomorrow.

2009-10-13T01:11:00.000-07:00

there is a replacement class tomorrow at 4. same place. Paula said that we will be talking about the assignments n all of us can go continue doing your work after that.

thanks.

;P

no class tomorrow

2009-10-12T06:05:00.000-07:00

Attention ppl whos doing digital media ! there is no digital media class tomorrow. it will be on wednesday, what time, im not sure, Paula will let me know as soon as possible.

but there is NO digital media class tomorrow.

tuxpi

2009-10-06T01:14:00.000-07:00

http://www.tuxpi.com

It's a tool where we can make and customize our own posters
try it!! it's fun!!

regards
pAvI n zAM^^m

Storybird

2009-10-06T01:10:00.001-07:00

Check out our project! Click on this link -> http://storybird.com/books/my-friends/

Storybird is a service that makes it simple for teachers and students to create short, visual stories together that they can share and print. Storybird is next-generation publishing: global, viral, and instantaneous. An interesting way to teach students writing, reading, and media literacy. Move from chalk and talk!

Advantages: Easy, attractive, engaging, suitable for all ages.
Disadvantages: Cannot use own photos to create stories.

By: Hani, Aisyah & Humairah.

Stunning Shidonni World!!!

2009-10-06T01:07:00.000-07:00

Shidonni World enable you to create your own cyberpet. It is suitable for all ages especially children or young child. This incredible website will enhance students' creativity and imagination. Besides, the interactive and colourful characteristics of this website will make their learning interesting and engaging. Thus, giving them the responsibilities to make their own learning meaningful. For more information, check this out!
http://shidonni.wordpress.com/
http://www2.shidonni.com/s/pages/Parents.html
http://www2.shidonni.com/

Anaqi & Syafiq
06/10/09

makebelieve comix

2009-10-06T01:04:00.000-07:00

http://www.makebeliefscomix.com/

This is one more Web 2.0 application that we found very interesting to be used as teaching resources. It is an application to create a simple comic strips. Therefore, teacher can use it to teach English for example. It is quite challenging to use at first as we are not familiar with the features. However, as we explore the tool more, it becomes easier and we enjoyed creating the comic strips using this application. It has various characters and motion which might be the main attraction to the students. It is quite frustrating that we cannot change the colours of the characters but we can change the background colour. This application can be used to stimulate students' creativity.

Happy trying. =)

By: Dayana Nayan & Nurul Hanis

puzzle maker

2009-10-06T00:56:00.000-07:00

http://www.puzzle-maker.com/

This is another fantastic, awesome, wonderful tool, that enables us to create crossword puzzles.
It's as simple as ABC. It would be a handy tool for us to create interesting activities for our future wonderful, lovely kids. No membership required.

explored by
zAm aNd PaVi^^m

Video at Animoto

2009-10-06T00:48:00.001-07:00

Animoto is a simple site, where students can create, edit and publish videos.

The advantages of using this application is it is easy to use.
However, students have to sign up to use the application.
On the bright side, the finished project would be sent to their email,
so it is easy to keep the files immediately, even if they don't have memory stick or pendrive to keep the files.
This is very convenient as they can view the videos anywhere as long as they get accessed to the internet.
Besides, they don't have to keep the browser open, while the video is being processed.

This is a simple example made by us. (e & s association)

visual thesaurus

2009-10-06T00:48:00.000-07:00

http://www.visualthesaurus.com/?vt

It's an application that enables us to explore words with similar meaning.
It's interactive and engaging whereby students could enrich their vocabulary.
This would be a useful instructional tool in an English class. However, users have to sign up for further utilization of this tool.

explored by,
ZAm aNd pAvI^^m

Tikatok by Mun Ting

2009-10-06T00:43:00.000-07:00

is an application whereby students can create their own storybooks online. Publishing can be done individually as well as with their friends.
The level of difficulty of the storybooks ranges from prep to secondary schools. Tikatok teaches and educates students on the features in a book for standardized publication. Students can add their own images to go with their stories.
This website is a good way of teaching basic literacy and to get students interested in creative writing.
The downside of this programme is that you'll have to sign up (it's free) to use the facilities in the site. Teachers using this programme could perhaps create a communal username and password for the classroom so that students could share their stories with their friends.

http://tikatok.com/

Raylit

2009-10-06T00:39:00.001-07:00

Raylit is an effort to achieve an educational online platform. It has been specifically designed for 3-7 year old kids in preschool, kindergarten and first grade, taking into account their mental and physical development. Raylit features a healthy balance of learning and entertainment interwoven together into an interactive and engaging personalized experience for each kid.

Features:

Parents need to have accounts to access into the web.
Activities: various, ranging from arranging pictures, colouring, singing (as rewards)
Covers mathematics, science and English language
2 main sections: Kids center and parents center

Strengths:

A lot of positive encouragement
Interactive
Colourful
Informative
Has music
Addressing children's names
Parents can post feedback about the activities
They are able to know children's progress; record the learning progress.

Weaknesses:

If the children accidently press 'skip' button they cannot go back to the previous activity hence they will miss some activities.

Link:

http://www.raylit.com/

Prepared by: Zulhazmi, Denish & Faidz (06/10/2009; 17:56)

Storybird: A fresh approach to storytelling!

2009-10-06T00:39:00.000-07:00

Storybird is one of the open-source application which is available on the net. it is basically a software which helps teachers, parents or even the students to create a digital storybook with just a few click of the mouse.

The web provides images created by the several contibutors. the stories that users can create are suitable for 4-11 years old children depending on the images they choose. apart from that, users can also read stories created by other users of Storybird.

We had a fun time trying on the features of Storybird and the result was "Let's Count Our Way"

contributors:

sheha

izzaida

aliaa

SlickPlan

2009-10-06T00:28:00.000-07:00

SlickPlan is a web-based flow chart creator. It helps creating flow chart easily, which is great for students to manage their mind maps, organization charts, and flow charts. This will be helpful for Science, History and Language subjects. There are tutorials provided for students as references.

This is an example of a flow chart that we have created using the SlickPlan.

This is the URL: http://www.slickplan.com/index.php

by: Izzat
Rabiatul

wordle

2009-10-06T00:18:00.001-07:00

http://www.wordle.net/

is an application for making word clouds. Students can enter a group of words and wordle will create a word cloud that arranges the words in appealing formats. The intensity of the words is controlled by the frequency of the occurrence of that word. The students can manipulate the font, colours, layout and backgrounds to create visually appealing charts.

posted by Paula

Map maker

2009-10-06T00:18:00.000-07:00

Map maker can be used to teach Geography by creating a map of places. Teacher may choose the countries that she wants to teach. The Map Maker will highlight the country automatically. Then, teacher may ask students to label the countries. In this way, students learn to recognise countries around the world on the map.

The disadvantage of using this application is that we can only use one colour to highlight the countries on the map.

You may visit Map Maker on Big Huge Labs.

E-learning Web 2.0 Tools and Applications: bubbl.us

2009-10-06T00:16:00.000-07:00

In the class today, we have learnt about a few web 2.0 applications that are useful for teachers to make the teaching and learning process more interesting and engaging.

Thus, we have tried the bubbl.us applications. It is an open source website where teachers and students can use to produce mind maps. It is very convenient to use as the software will arrange all those shapes and expand the mind maps for us unlike microsoft words where we have to create and arrange the 'links' ourselves. All we need to do is we just click at the 'bubble' icon and it will create a 'new child balloon' whereever we wish. If we have mistakenly put the 'balloon', we can just easily click at the 'x' icon and it will be deleted. Very simple, right?

Another interesting feature about this application is we can adjust the position of the whole mind map easily by just stretching or moving the 'string' of the mind map. We can also change the colour of the balloons by just clicking on the 'colour' icon. There are a whole range of colours that can be chose from which will fascinate the children.

Thus, this application is a brilliant alternative for doing mind map instead of using microsoft word as it saves a lot of time. HAPPY TRYING! =)

http://bubbl.us/

By: Dayana Nayan & Nurul Hanis

of meeting pinkrain, iMovie and Windows Movie Maker

2009-10-05T06:54:00.000-07:00

hey people,

i created this blog using an admin account, which is under the username, digitalmediaineducation. since i have my own google account and username, which is pinkrain, i find it easier to manage 2 blogs using the same name. so, if you need any help , or any information about this blog, u can get through me using the digitalmediaineducation or pinkrain account or easily just by posting your questions or anything to the comments section.

thanks to Paula, who uploaded two videos of me n the hari raya. the video was taken with a plain green background. Shaun n Paula edited it using iMovie, to give it special touch, by adding the kitchen background and the klcc background.

to get more information on how to use the iMovie application, click here.

i know that most of the malaysian students are using windows, so, do not worry, because u can still use windows movie maker to edit videos like that.

to get more information on how to use the Windows Movie Maker application, click here.

get your creativity rolling.

as they said,
'the world is but a canvas to the imagination'

klcc Masterchef in Malaysia

2009-10-05T03:41:00.000-07:00

Syarifa also cooks in KL

Syarifa Master Chef

2009-10-05T03:13:00.000-07:00

This is the amazing master chef Syarifa in action... with a little help from iMovie and green screen!

Web 2.0 in our Classrooms

2009-10-05T02:47:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone!
thank you so much to the beautiful Syarifa Abd Khalib who took up my challenge and created this blog.

Syarifa is the creator and owner of this blog and will be able to maintain it, promote it and invite fellow teachers to help build the blog when you return to Malaysia. Of course, I will also be there to answer your questions and suggest new ideas as I learn of them!

This is your chance to work together as a creative community to share and build a really amazing body of knowledge for you all to share -even though you will be separated by great distance when you all begin your exciting careers as teachers.

This weeks lecture is on web 2.0 in the classrooms and you will all have the opportunity to explore and play with some of the great tools available. I will show you a few of my favourites to get you started ... but then it is your turn to choose web 2.0 applications from my list or find ideas have never heard of - explore their capabilities and then write a short review of some of their educational uses along with a couple of screen captures.

It will be a great night where we all share the research and then also have this blog as a permanent record of our shared learnings.I chose Google as the blogsite because I believe it will be with us for many years to come.
Our Digital Media For Teachers Research Blog will be something really inspiring to share with all your colleagues in Malaysia.
Just to get us started I will upload all the fabulous projects you have completed in our workshops for you to enjoy!
Please comment on each other's work ...as we all appreciate words of praise and encouragement as well as suggestions to add something extra or special to our work!

Look forward to seeing you all tomorrow night!

cheers Paula

welcome!

2009-09-22T15:19:00.000-07:00

hello people!!

welcome to the digital media for teachers' blog. in this blog, we will share information and opinions on things, like the use of digital media in education, teaching methodology, or anything that is worth sharing. it is a sort of like a learning network for the digital media students and the respective lecturers from queensland uni of technology, 2nd sem 2009.

im syarifah nazurah, the creator of this blog. if you want to write, share or you have any difficulties regarding the use of this blog, contact me at

will update later.

;P