Wednesday, December 18, 2013

CREATE A VIDEO?? NOT A PROBLEM

      For educator it is essential to learn how to make their own teaching aid. As the teachers are evaluated accordingly they have to do something out of the box to have a good grade for their evaluation. Video have been a great tool in teaching for the students to understand certain concepts clearer. 
    But its is a challenge to find the video of choice which related to the subject. If they get the video the language maybe the problem. As this what educators are facing, there is a solution for this problem. Making their own video. WHAT??? Yes each and everyone can create their own video free of charge and as simple as ABC.
    There are a lot of tool can be used. Online movie makers, Windows Media Movie Maker and Photostory. For  a beginner with no experience in creating such a things, Photostory is the best tool. Its created in such a way that is very easy to handle. The steps are provided and the user have to follow the instructions carefully. User can use their own voice to narrate the video. The output of this video can be chose. The video format that can be used everywhere is MPEG. The users can browse www.jakesonline.org/photostory3.pdlearn more about how to create your video.

Wednesday, December 4, 2013

MY JOURNEY WITH COMMUNICATION TOOLS- FROM MAIL TO WATSAPP

      Communication become a very important part in human's life. Human said to be civilized when they starts to communicate. In my life, i watch the evolution of the communication tool and i would like to share my view on this.
     At the early age of my life i know that letter become the most important tool. My father and mother will receive mails delivered by postman. I see that my father will open the envelope and read it. But later my house is equipped with telephone with land line from Telekom. People starts to call and i will pick up and they will ask me to call my father and mother and sometimes they talk with me too. I enjoy picking up and answering the telephone. But still postman will deliver mails. During Deepavali time we will receive a lot of greeting cards from friends and relatives.
      As time pass by, my father bought his first handphone.With telephone we have to stand close to the telephone because it is connected by chords. But with handphone we can move around that why sometimes it is called as mobile phones. Later our whole family owned a handphone each. It is easier for us to communicate with each other especially when we live far away from each other. From calls, we started to use short message system(sms). Not everytime we can talk using handphone, (during meetings, exams, etc), so SMS become an alternative for calls. For university students like me SMS can save money because it cost less than the call rate. Now the greeting cards that we receive become less and i receive the greetings through SMS.
       Now with everyone owning smarthphones, we can send and receive messages free of cost by having and app(applications) called watsapp. A person can send images, sms, video free with internet connection. But still for calls is there any apps? Of course YES. With an app  called  Viber we can talk FOC anytime anywhere with internet. But still the physical visiting and communicate face to face is much more important... to ensure that we are still human not robots.