and this is the work for week 4

Start off with these:

Changing the background of a digital image

1. Open your image and then click on an edge selection tool such as the Magnetic Lasso found in Adobe Photoshop or Elements.
2. Carefully outline the edges of the subject. You may have to use the Add and Subtract icon to get a more precise outline.
3. After the image is selected, Inverse the selection. Select > Inverse.
4. Next, open the image you plan to use for the background, in this illustration, a plain beach scene. The image will open in a new window. Select All, then copy. Select menu > All
5. Edit menu > Copy. The sunset image will be placed on the clipboard.
6. Make the first window active by clicking on it, then use the Paste Into menu to place the clipboard image into the selected area. Edit > Paste Into.
7. If desired, move the image around with the Move Tool selected until the background image is place as you like it.
8. Save image layers as a JPEG file.

and you get this:

29 July 2008

'Beep' and the lab door is open after Pn. Foziah flashed her ID card on the sensor indicating we've moved into our 4th week of this semester. The 1st task was asking us to fill in our email address other than our blog's URL. Most of us were quite confused as we have had our details on email add and blog's URL uploaded on the ADEC site in separate forums.
Next, 78 of us were asked to cramp in front and no one was allowed to sit beyond third row of tables. Though the request was slightly uncomfortable, we were given an interesting and promising lecture on photo editing. The last few slides on uploading your own picture on a celebrity's face really mesmerized us.
Then, we were given a tutorial on the making of E-book. In my opinion, I could hardly start on assignment 3 if I still haven't quite started on assignment 2 =p Good luck all and time to work !

Well...well...well

22 July 2008
Guess it was all because of the weather, we were really feeling sleepy and drowsy this morning and we were made to stand and 'exposed' to a music video on youtube to wake us up. I guess it was effective as we started talking and discussing about the assignment questions.
We were formed into groups of 13 where each group was given a topic on children's characteristic and we were asked to present to the class in... 30 minutes ? Thanks to the brilliant minds of our friends that we were able to come out with a powerpoint presentation in a short while and it was ready to be presented. Thanks to the convenience of Internet, our presentation was made more interesting with the addition of images and link to clips on youtube.
We were slightly confused when the lecturer asked of any question regarding our assignment 2 as I'm guessing some of us are still not sure of what assignment 1 is. If we do know, I think it's still early for us to discover any problems in assignment 2, yet. Well, there's no more time for us to be slumber anymore since week 3 is ending... Gambateh !

The journey continues...

15 July 2008 Tuesday
As we started to get into our groups for the assignment given, we had a hard time with the lecturer as students wanted to stay in their comfort zone as to work with friends that they are closed and familiar with. Thus, with frustration, the lecturer deleted all the registered group members again and again before we reached a consensus on having a non-muslim and at least a male student in each group.
After the groups have been set, we assigned roles to each group member such as resources collector, group leader and persons in charge of tutorial and write-up content. With ease and understanding, everyone was pleased with the responsibilities assigned.
Next, we were required to choose a topic that we are going to teach with support of Curriculum Specifications. As the topics were not to be the same with other groups, we posted our topic which is transportations at the forums as soon as possible as it was on first-come-first-served basis.
So that was all about what we did today and now it’s time to hunt for resources !

So it goes...

First ever post for this blog site as I had no time to update 3 blogs simultaneously without internet access. Honestly I'm experiencing a slight cultural shock on the heavy dependence of ICT in UM. Having said that it's much more convenient for the lecturers to update their resources, announcements and even marking of assignments, it's equally convenient for students to submit their work online and to voice out their opinions and comments. Maybe sooner or later we won't have to meet in the lecture hall but just having a video conference online would be sufficient ^^

Regarding this course, I believe technology would be really helpful in developing resources as conventional ways of resources preparations would cost more money, time and effort. Be it video clips, sound clips, pictures, e-book can be downloaded easily from the World Wide Web and easily presented in the classroom with the aid of technology.

Right until this moment, I'm still kinda 'struggle' with the ICT skills I need to fulfill the lecturers' requirements in assignments such as video recording and uploading. Well, what else can I do but to keep upgrading myself in this matter ? All the best to you too !

Relax, relax, to be updated soon ...