EXPERIENCE OF USING BLOG

6th POSTING: EXPERIENCE ON USING BLOG

First of all I would like to thank both my lectures Mdm. Zaini and Datin Norizan to introduced Blog to us through this entire course. HAPPY!… I learned how to blogging.

Yes, blogging activity had improved my writing skills. Every week I required doing new postings. So, before I do my posting I will do my first draft which I will write it in a piece of paper first. While writing the first draft of my posting I applied some writing tips which I learned in my written communication class. After I did my first draft, I will analyze it to find any mistakes. If don’t have any mistakes means, then only I will post my posting. Here I would like to say that blogging activity not only improves my writing skills but also I get a chance to access internet to find information about the topic or posting that I required to do. By this, I had improved my IT skills.

In my opinion, I feel that blog is a useful learning experience for me because it encourages me to access information via internet. Even though, I find it is difficult for me to do blog but it does effective in improving my skills in IT because I’m not really good in that. Furthermore, by doing blogging activity also I learned how to find information using online databases which is e-journal. It helps me to find information for my 3rd posting which I assigned to access information or raw facts from e-journals such as SCOPUS, EBSCO, GEMA, NSTP e-media and so on at Tun Sri Lanang library. This is something very new for me which I never done before and it is very informative.

First of all, before complete the blogging activity I do read all the announcements that is uploaded by my lecturers in my portal. After that, I will read the instructions given by my lecturers about the posting that I should post in that particular week. And of course, I need to understand the instructions given because that is the guidance for me to do the posting successfully.

The problem that I face when using blog is my skills in IT. I’m not really good in that and I’m lack of IT skills. But, still I managed to solve this problem by asking my friends who is really good in IT. Besides that, another problem that I faced is lack of time. I find difficulties to spend more time to search information from internet for my postings. Maybe after this, I won’t face this kind of problems because I had learned how to manage these problems.

Of course, I will tell my friends about this. In fact, most of my friends also don’t really know about this. So, after I tell about this to them they also feel that blogging is an interesting activity. Moreover, my friends those have diary writing habits was so excited and they plan to write online diary. Sure, I will recommend to them because it is very enjoyable and at the same time it also very informative.

Sure, I will continue using blog to put up all the activities that I do and also any informative news, article and so on. Blog is an online memory book which I can view it by online anytime, anywhere and its comes with me everywhere I go. I’m going to complete this SKBP course but my experience and the knowledge that I learned through this course will never come to end, thank to my lectures again! THANK YOU!

ONLINE QUIZ

5th POSTING: UJI ICT


Online Quiz Results :: Kemahiran Asas ICT
Your Score : 22/30

Online Quiz Results Summary

Your #Attempts : 4
Total Class #Attempts : 633
Your Quiz Score : 22/30
Your Highest Score Ever : 32
Note: This may not be your final marks. Due to some of the subjective and semi-objective questions (short essay and fill in the blank).
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Online Quiz Results :: Kemahiran Pertengahan ICT
Your Score : 22/45

Online Quiz Results Summary

Your #Attempts : 1
Total Class #Attempts : 192
Your Quiz Score : 22/45
Your Highest Score Ever : 22
Note: This may not be your final marks. Due to some of the subjective and semi-objective questions (short essay and fill in the blank).
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Hi, I come up again with my fifth posting which I required to do Online Ouiz. Firstly, I did the Kemahiran Asas ICT. My score for this quiz is 22 out of 30. While doing this online quiz I had difficulties in understanding ICT terms which is in Bahasa Melayu. So, Iask some of my friend themeaningof the terms that I did not understand. Secondly, I did Kemahiran Pertengahan ICT. My score in this quiz is 22 out of 45. This quiz quiet tuff depend to Kemahiran Asas ICT. When doing this quiz also I had the same problem which I could not understand some of the ICT terms. Lastly, in my opinion i feel that this kind of quizes helps students to save their time and energy. Moreover, students able to know their marks immediately. So that,students can proceed with thier other quiz. This kind of online quizes is effective and convenient.

CONCORDANCE

4th POSTING: CONCORDANCE

Here comes my fourth posting the task that my lecturer has given me is based “Beyond Concordance Lines: Using Concordances to Investigate Language Development” from our OTL book (page 70) by Arshad Abdul Samad from University Putra Malaysia. After read this article we have to write the gist of the discussion and the summary of the article so this I have to do as a pair work. As a pair work Sharon and I work on it.

The article is mainly about an investigates language development based on data in EMAS corpus using language production as well as lexical variety as indicators of development. What is concordance actually mean? As I know concordance is a row of a certain word listed. The listing of certain word make easier for us to identify coz it only list the word we want only. Now let’s come back to the article according to (Woo lard 2000) the language corpus has commonly been used as the basis of dictionaries and teaching materials. Besides that it has the easy availability of concordance software such as Wordsmith, MonoConc Pro and Micro concord. Moreover it helps in the tedious task of analyzing language data and greatly extends the potential of a corpus in language pedagogy. Teachers, researchers and even language learners examine concordance lines to discover how words and grammatical constructions are used.

Regarding to Schmitt (2002:34) argue that rather than using a corpus in language teaching and learning is that it may help students to “look at the systematicity of language as an interesting linguistic puzzle, a new software such as RANGE, which have been developed by practitioners in linguistics has provided an additional perspective to corpus studies (Nation,2002).

Concordance also helps students to make indexes and word lists, count word frequencies, analyze keywords, compare different usage of a word, find phrases and idioms, publish to the web-see the web and so on. There many advantages of using these software. It is might help students to look at the system of language. Concordance is mainly for those who really need to study texts closely or analyze language.

Concordance also can be used and apply in language teaching and learning, data mining and data clean-up, literary work and linguistic, translation, corpus linguistics and content analysis.

Here is the application of concordance in translation. For further information view:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translation_memory
http://en.wikipedia.org.wiki/Translation