ADOBE PHOTOSHOP

Adobe Photoshop, or simply Photoshop, is a graphics editor developed and published by Adobe Systems. Photoshop contains a large selection of drawing tools, filters, color adjustment capabilities, and other tools designed to manipulate images in almost any way.

Although primarily designed to edit images for paper-based printing, Photoshop is used increasingly to produce images for the World Wide Web. Photoshop also has strong ties with other Adobe software for media editing, animation and authoring. Files in Photoshop's native format, .PSD, can be exported to and from Adobe ImageReady, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects and Adobe Encore DVD to make professional standard DVDs, provide non-linear editing and special effects services such as backgrounds, textures and so on for television, film and the Web.

Photoshop can deal with a number of different color models such RGB color model, Lab color model, CMYK color model, Grayscale, Bitmap and Duotone. The PSD (Photoshop Document) format stores an image as a set of layers, including text, masks, opacity, blend modes, color channels, alpha channels, Clipping paths, and duotone settings.

The official website for Adobe Photoshop :

http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/photoshop/

The trial version of Adobe Photoshop can be downloaded from following site for free :

http://www.download.com/Adobe-Photoshop/3000-2192_4-10011172.html

For tutorials click following links :

http://www.tutorialized.com/tutorials/Photoshop/1

http://www.good-tutorials.com/

http://www.good-tutorials.com/

myschoolnet

myschoolnet is a website which beneficial for students, teachers and administrator. It divided into three according to the users, students, teachers and school administrators. Tutorial, belajar it, tahukah anda, persatuan/kelab, kaunseling and pakatan ilmu are the six menus that available for students. Meanwhile for teachers, there also 6 menus, namely Model P&P, Pentaksiran, Belajar IT, Pakatan pintar, SP& HSP ( curriculum specification), Bahan P&P. Pengurusan sekolah, profesion, pentaksiran, pakatan pintar and SP& HSP are the menus for school administrators.

There are a lot educational material that can be found in this site. However, further improvement still need to be done since there are some lost links and some pages are still under construction.

Click here to visit myschoolnet

http://myschoolnet.ppk.kpm.my/

TV Pendidikan

TV Pendidikan is a television channel on Malaysia's Astro satellite service. Before its integration with Astro, TV Pendidikan had been aired in Malaysia's local television station TV2. TV Pendidikan is fully owned and produced by the Ministry of Education of Malaysia and it shows various programmes for various school subjects. Since TV Pendidikan aired time only lasted for half a day, the rest of the air time is taken over by Astro.

TV Pendidikan is divided into 2 slots, educational programs slot and technology programs slot. The educational slot shows various programs from TV Pendidikan, which wholefully caters for secondary school students. The technology slot used to feature television programmes from TechTV international, which is now unavailable after TechTV's merger with G4. Ever since the merger of TechTV and G4, Astro had to showed repeatedly old episodes of TechTV shows and now Astro has reached an agreement with G4TechTV to buy some of their previous episodes television series like The Screen Savers, X-Play and more. However, many 'tech' viewers were annoyed at Astro for replacing scheduled programmes with others unrelated to G4.

The educational slot is aired every Monday to Thursday for half day (late morning to early afternoon), while the technology slot airs the rest of the time and occupied the whole Saturday to Sunday.

In my opinion, TV Pendidikan website does not much resourceful like myschoolnet. The contains of TV Pendidikan should upgraded so that it really benefits the students and teachers and give the confidence to use it for Teaching and Learning purposes in schools. Unless it would not achieve its objective and will be another failure project.

5 March 2007

This week we were given the example of the Teaching Model prepared using Smart Board by previous batch students. We get some rough idea how do carry on our project by looking at those projects. We were also introduced on how to print a label on a CD and Mr.Sharil provide us with the softcopy of the label. This labels actually easy can be created by using Nero Cover Designer. Discussion regarding the project also carried out during the class session and since all my group members are from Mathematic Majoring we choose to do project for Maths.

Teaching Model

Teaching Model

In today’s class, we learned bout Teaching Models. Teaching models prescribe tested steps and procedures to effectively generate desired outcomes.In general, models can be classified along a continuum from instructor-directed, to student-instructor negotiated, to student-directed Although there number of teaching models but there two widely used models are ASSURE and ADDIE. Both of this models invoved 5 steps as shown below.

Model ASSURE

Analyze learners
State objectives
Select instructional methods, media, and materials
Utilize media and materials
Require learner participation
Evaluate and revise

Model ASSURE

Analysis --> Design --> Development --> Implementation --> Evaluation

Although each and every steps in the models have their own importance but Analysis is the most important step.In the analyze phase, the instructional problem is clarified, the goals and objectives are established, and the learning environment and learner characteristics are identified. This stage also will help providing back routes in case the model unable to achieve its objective.

For addition information, please visit the following sites :
http://fp.okstate.edu/honl/OSU%20Online/addie_model.htm
http://www.mscd.edu/~act2/courseconstruct/addie.html
http://www.mscd.edu/~act2/courseconstruct/assure.html
http://www.unca.edu/education/edtech/techcourse/assure.htm