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WEEK 4- Podcast oh Yeah!

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Hello everyone! Welcome back to my blog!  This week we have learnt about PODCAST! It is actually my first time learning podcast. What is podcast? A digital audio file made available on the Internet for downloading to a computer or mobile device, typically available as a series, new installments of which can be received by subscribers automatically. These are the process of Podcast. We are actually assigned our second assignment which we need to STORYTELLING PODCAST! I  can’t wait to start doing it and I’ll be surely excited to hear the rest of my classmates’ podcast. The assignments instructions are below: Assignment 2 (10%) 1. Create a podcast and put in your blog 2. Your audio should not more than 10 minutes long. 3. Topic: Storytelling 4. Check out this website to get good tips on how to create a powerful podcast. For my podcast, I am thinking to do a children storytelling. So many kinds of story that we can used to do our pod...

WEEK 3- The engines of internet: Search engines

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Hello everyone! This week, we learnt about Search Engines and Online Database  What is  Search Engines?  A  search engine  is a web site that collects and organizes content from all over the internet.(TheBalance) Basically, a place where we search about anything in the  internet . A medium for looking up something in the internet For example, Google. Bing. Yahoo. Ask.com. “Search Engines is like my drawer and your drawer" – Madam Azidatun Using these Search Engines also need skills in order to get the exact informations that you want from the internet. We also were taught about what is World Wide Web, parts of the search engine, and what is the deep web as well as the dark web.  Many thing about the Dark web that we cannot know because the webs are very protected by layers of protection. Next, We also learn about  Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) and ESL. , CMC was implemented for ...

WEEK 2- Blog, blog and blog

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Hello everyone!  This week I've learnt a lot of new things in my class.  Firstly, I’ve learnt deeper about blogs. Types of blogs and their functions. How blogs and technologies can help us to enhance the language learning. My lecturer did explained it very well and I feel very interested to continue this blog.😆 My lecturer explaining the blogs to the rest of the class On the next class, I learnt about something which called CALL. Sounds very funny right? But, yes I call it CALL. Actually, CALL(Computer Assisted Language Learning) is already well known all over the world.So, CALL is actually about learning process using the aid of computer. For examples, CDs in our textbook, FrogVLE during our secondary school and even Padlet during our last semester.  The government uses the technology in helping the learning process become more efficient. My lecturer  also show us a few examples of websites and game that used a tools for language learning to make ...

WEEK 1- My name is Kir, Syakir.

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Hello! I am Syakir. My name might be a simple name but its actually carries a big meaning.  If you can see in my name, That's me and my beloved Ummi "MOHD. SYAKIR ASYRAF" its obviously a Malay name which rooted from Arabic words.  "محمد شكير أشرف" which mean "pengenang jasa" (Syakir) which rooted from the word "syukur". Get it? "syukur" and "pengenang jasa" somehow related in terms of the meaning. I was born in Segamat, Johor on 31th May 1997. Yes, I am 21 years old now. I can vote for the next parliament election. So, what I do now? I'm a Student. After finishing my SPM years at Sekolah Dato' Abdul Razak, I took Foundation in Engineering at UiTM and changing the way to English language Studies at KUPTMKL for my Bachelor. Yes, I want to try something new.  If you know me well, you will know that, I really love music. Music is my life. I can say that,the music blood flows from my parents to...