Week 2

Week 2

Yes, exactly holiday mood is on! Not exactly holiday because i need to update my blog post and so on. Spent my break with the family and friends. Held a small birthday celebration for my sister. And not to forget i would like to wish Happy Chinese New Year to those who celebrate it. 

Lets begin with lesson that i have learnt in last week lectures. The first class on Monday, the topic that i learnt for that day was introduction to  CALL which stood acronym for Computer-Assisted Language Learning. It was like some sort of e-learning style where computer technology was used in the context of language learning. Moreover, it was also widely used to introduce the area of technology and second language teaching as well as learning. It was also used ever since 1960's. 

There were a few types of CALL programme, which consisted of Behaviorist, Communicative and Integrative CALL. From this lesson class i could aware that Behavioristic was a programme that meant to instruct and involve a repetitive drill, so when you repeated again and again you would remember it. Next, Communicative which focused on the usage of the language rather than perfect grammar and also software was used in the era included text reconstruction programme. Last but not least, Integrated which could be know as recent stage of CALL. Began with the use of  CD-Rom to store large amounts of authentic media that can be used as materials. 

In the second class lecture, i learnt about Canva. It was a cool website that could do a lot of things. I meant EVERYTHING!!

so the website looked like this. It could be utilized to do a Flyer, Birthday card, Wedding invitation and  Instagram post. Really this website was very useful for people who needed to design something for an event. On top of that, Canva also provided you with beautiful templates that only required you to choose and edit it according to your preference. But, important for you to know that perhaps you should choose the free template or else you would have to pay for that template that did not provide as free template. Then, my lecturer, Madam Azida, instructed us to use Canva to put in our blog as our first post. Thus, if i ever wanted to plan something or invite people obviously i would definitely use Canva, even though i was a bit slow in discovering the features in there but it was not a problem to me as long as it would look decent to my eyes. 

Till the next post;