FOURTH ENTRY (19-23 JUNE)

INSTRUCTIONAL COURSEWARE DESIGN

Last week before Raya holiday's.  Basically today I learn about a new topic which was INSTRUCTIONAL COURSEWARE DESIGN  and when my lecturer taught us she reminds me back during my practicum days where need to do lesson plan and how to achieve the lesson. Firstly, we need to know our students proficiency level and their level of understanding. Here when i learnt this topic i found that when we want to create a software we need to have objectives and also figure out the needs of the learner.

⛮ It involves Behaviourist and Constructivist learning theory.

⛟ Apart from that, if we want to create a courseware we need to know what actually the learner want to know about.

⛴ NEEDS ANALYSIS:

🚋 SYLLABUS 

🚞 SURVEY

🏮 FREE WRITING

🚐 PUBLIC RECORDS

⛳ Above is all the elements that need to be consider when want to create a courseware and also the learning outcomes need to be taken into consideration. For example, I am creating a  Spelling Bee courseware, of course i need to make sure my target audience will reach the objectives and they learnt something basically. 

⛗ Instructional Systems Design is the process of designing and developing instructional courses or materials that bring greater efficiency and effectiveness to acquiring knowledge or skills for learners.

⛵ Learning Outcome gives the lessons a unified aim to be achieved. Moreover, ISD contains two parts which are 

🚫 Creation of syllabus whereby based on learners background and understanding level to the courseware.

🚂 Planning of lesson differently according to our target audience and need to make sure whether the objectives can be achieved or not. 

🏣 ISD also connected to CALL. Materials for CALL can include those which are purpose-made for language learning and those which adapt existing computer based materials, video and other materials. So here it in ISD it involves creating courseware for learning and to support the lesson or as extra exercises.

 


⛟ A framework for the development of instructional coursework 🚂

🚝 When talk about ISD and creating a courseware I need to ask question to myself before i create any courseware for example is the design will be benifit for others, the objectives can be measured or not, who are my learners and users of the courseware, what are the learning theories I implemented inside the courseware this are all kind of questions that I need to analysis. 

🏢 Other than that, when creating a courseware I found based on the lecture that I need to be creative and always try to motivate the learners to do well.

🚔 After create the courseware need to testers check for bugs and errors. 

⛱ Lastly, the courseware need to be checked and try and error before being published to all.

🚏 SELAMAT HARI RAYA 🌛🌝

THIRD ENTRY (13 JUNE-16 JUNE)

Computer Mediated Communication and ESL

For this week we had learnt about CMS & ESL.

😅 Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) is any form of communication or interaction between two or more people via separate computers through network connection.

😆 It is basically we interact with people around the world using internet connection and using applications such as Skype E-mail.

💞  When talk about CMS in Education:

👯 Started in the late 1980s and 1990s with the introduction of Communicative CALL.

👌 At that time we only used E-mail and Forums to get connected each other.

👼 We also have Chatting room and the invention of long distance learning and teaching were implemented. 

CMC AND LONG DISTANCE LEARNING

When all this computer mediated has been implemented in learning somehow I found it is very useful if we used it wisely and not to deny obviously it has many advantages as well as disadvantages. CMS at one point has been used for education purpose for long distance learning. This is cool actually the person did not have to go to class or university and get connected by the online communication with the educators. Video conferencing and E-tutoring is one of the way they get connected.

COLLABORATIVE LEARNING

👋 Collaborative learning is an educational approach to teaching and learning that involves groups of students working together to solve a problem, complete a task, or create a product. 

💔 As for my own opinion I think that CMS has it own advantages and disadvantages. For example it can save time and more easier but at the same time no interaction between the learners and educators would make it looks no emotional touch between this two parties.

SECOND ENTRY (5 JUNE -9 JUNE)

Hello!! have a bless day everyone.😃

Firstly, this week i had learnt two topics which were EVOLUTION OF CALL & SEARCH ENGINES AND ONLINE DATABASE ➤

For the evolution of call basically our lecturer taught us some history from the beginning of the CALL until it became modern nowadays.

Actually, back then we had the teletype whereby

⧪ Students answer questions using a teletype coordinated with a tape recorder.

⧭Students listen to questions and type in the answer and students work is compared with

answer sheet.

Besides, my first impression when i learnt all this topic is when compared before the technologies became so modern and updated whereby when my lecturer told that when she was learning they have to create to coding and so on. Plus she remind us nowadays we just need to drag here and there and everything is on our fingers depends on us whether want to do it or now. When I learnt about the evolution of Call from the teletype and using CD Rom era as for me i found it harder because of no internet connections those days. I must said that this generation and future generation are very lucky because everything is there in internet but depends how we used it. 

I still remember when I was around 5/6 years old my father bought us a computer and that time my mother bought us CD so that we can learn English/ Maths and also Science. Contrary from now we do not need all the CD and all. Next, computer can be our tutor as well. This is when for example I am doing an essay and then I can search for synonym and can see whether my sentence structured is correct or not throughout grammar checker.

Computer gives guidance but does not judge students. 

For example, when we did not how to pronounce a words we can search in internet and listen for a few times.

The Internet and CALL

• Recent advances in CALL is dominated by the internet to access and communicate information. Without internet connection it is so hard to access and learn language.

• Used for a variety of purpose. Not only for language learning but as a medium to communicate through e-mail and also Skype.

• Role of the English Language as most of the instruction in computer/laptop as well in internet and all search engines is in English so can enhance English learning.

• Learners are not only recipients but also communicators and creators. For example chatting room. 

All this while, i did not have any idea how actually this internet works and how it transmitted. I just know that it is controlled. World wide web is a web tool that allows users to enter keywords and find

information on websites contained in its database for example Google or Yahoo software that

collects data from the Web to include in its database. Plus, each search engines has it owns database.

💓 Database

A storage where all indexed webpages are stored and Contains only essential information of a Webpage.

💗Web-Crawlers or Spider

It is and automatic program. Basically this web crawler will process all the information and data.

💗User Interface

A page to search all the information 

💓Meta Search Engine

Matches the user's query to multiple search engines. EG: MetaCrawler

As a conclusion what I understand about all this there are many search engines and varieties of ways you can use through this search engines and online database. I will definitely look into every search engines and see how it works. 

Until then 💋👐

FIRST ENTRY (29 MAY-2 JUNE)

⧪Hello everyone so this will be my first journal. 
Second week of the class for this semester. Basically we had learnt two topics which were Blog Writing for ELT and Introduction to CALL.
🔺Firstly, I am not so good with technologies and all the stuff but for this subject i will try my best to enhance my creative skill and also explore more about technologies. 
🔻I really want to know how technologies can help in Language learning. 
When Madam Azida taught us about Blog Writing for ELT i get to know lots about the advantages of using blogs.

Blog divided into 4:

💙 WEBLOG
💚 TUTOR BLOG
💚 CLASS BLOG
💜 LEARNER BLOG

⧭Blog need to be updated frequently for the readers. For example, if it is tutor blog the teacher /lecturer need to always update the blog for the students to get extra notes and can do revision whenever they want. Actually after my lecturer taught me I can see the importance of having all this kind of blog whereas it makes the learning exciting and easier.
🔺As an example my friends and I can share our own notes and taught throughout the class blog.
What more important is it is free and easy to accessible with the internet coverage.


The next class I learnt Introduction to CALL 
😅( COMPUTER ASSISTED LANGUAGE LEARNING) 

💥 It is the search for and study of the applications of computer and covers process in which a learner uses a computer and, improves language.
💬 During my diploma time, i had learnt a little bit about CALL and the software the i learnt is Hot Potato and Auto Play.
👋 Actually it is very interesting, creating exercises through application for language learners. 
👏 Basically CALL has 4 programs.
💢CALL- Specific Software
💢Generic Software
💢Web-based Learning Programs
💢CMS (computer mediated communication)

The major thing i understand is Computer is a tool but without internet we cannot do so much using computer for learning language. 👩👋