CANVA

Canva is a free graphic-design tool website, founded in 2012. It has an easy to use drag-and-drop interface and provides access to over a million photographs, graphics, and fonts. It is used by non-designers as well as professionals. The tools can be used for both web and print media design and graphics.

Canva offers users, whether novice designers or professional graphic artists, with a simple yet robust online design platform that can turn any idea into a powerful, stunning designs and graphics easily and quickly. It is an ideal design tool and content creation platform for those who are not graphically inclined.

With Canva, companies and organizations are able to address common issues that plague content marketing efforts “Producing Engaging Content” and “Producing Content Consistently”. Canva has the tools and functionalities that enable users to create awesome, appealing, and relevant content and the capabilities to make the process easy and seamless.

Canva’s powerful drag and drop editor, along with its vast selection of images, fonts, and templates, makes it easy for users to build documents and designs from scratch. Users also have the option to create custom designs and templates that contain elements of their brand and company. With easy to edit templates and designs, Canva helps users ensure consistency of themes across documents.

Templates, documents, and designs can be configured so that others can edit and introduce changes. On top of that, users can also comment on their work, which enhances communication and collaboration.

With user-friendly applications, over a million of images and fonts, and budget-friendly price rates, you simply can’t go wrong with Canva.

ENTRY 6 INSTRUCTIONAL COURSEWARE DESIGN

HI PEOPLE! This week I will touch about Instructional Courseware Design.

Instructional Courseware Design is creating instructional experiences which make the acquisition of knowledge and skill more effective, efficient and appealing. It is consists of figuring out the needs of the learner, defining the learning objectives, and creating some intervention to achieve objectives. 

What I have learnt about this topic are:

• Foundational instructional design theories, frameworks, and application to develop learning experiences for digital platforms, including project-planning, content expertise, communication, writing, and technology.
• Understanding of pertinent technology, programs, and methods, including interactive media, video, editing, digital design, and digital narrative.
• Knowledge in focused topic areas, such as website development, web programming, and content management systems site development.

ENTRY 5 CMC

HELLO HOOOOMAN ! TODAY I WOULD LIKE TO TALK ABOUT CMC. HUH? CMC?

CMC is Computer-mediated communication (CMC) refers to human communication via computers and includes many different forms of synchronous, asynchronous or real-time interaction that humans have with each other using computers as tools to exchange text, images, audio and video.

• Examples of Computer-Mediated Communication:

CMC examples includes email, network communication, instant messaging, text messaging, hypertext, distance learning, Internet forums, USENET newsgroups, bulletin boards, online shopping, distribution lists and video conferencing.

So from what I have learnt about CMC, I can identify advantages and disadvantages of it. The advantages are it is no distance barrier, mitigates time as a barrier, makes collaborations much easier and can reduced social influences and detriments. For the disadvantages, it might be lack of socio-emotional and nonverbal cues. Other than that, lack of real human contact and problems with access to technology.

ENTRY 4 SEARCH ENGINE AND ONLINE DATABASE

Hi peeps ! So this week I would like to talk about Search Engine and Online Database.

What is it actually? It is a web tool that allows users t enter keywords and find information on websites contained in its database. On the Internet, a search engine is a coordinated set of programs that includes:

• A spider (also called a "crawler" or a "bot") that goes to every page or representative pages on every Web site that wants to be searchable and reads it, using hypertext links on each page to discover and read a site's other pages
• A program that creates a huge index (sometimes called a "catalog") from the pages that have been read
• A program that receives your search request, compares it to the entries in the index, and returns results to you

An alternative to using a search engine is to explore a structured directory of topics. Yahoo, which also lets you use its search engine, is the most widely-used directory on the Web. A number of Web portal sites offer both the search engine and directory approaches to finding information.

ENTRY 3 EVOLUTION OF CALL

WELCOME BACK !!

ARE YOU REMEMBER THE PREVIOUS TOPIC? IF YOU REMEMBER, THIS ENTRY IS ABOUT THE EVOLUTION OF CALL.

FROM WHAT I HAVE LEARNT, THERE ARE 3 PROGRESSION OF CALL WHICH ARE:

• Behavioristic CALL
• Communicative CALL
• Integrated CALL 

Behaviouristic CALL developed in 1960s based on behaviourist learning theory and primarily used for Audio-Lingual method. The advantages of behavioristic CALL are repitition can give benefit for learning and also can provide immediate feedback. Other than that, students can work at their own pace outside the classroom.

Communicative CALL developed between 1970 to 1980. It is focused on the usage of language rather than perfect grammar. It is also can allows student to generate their own original uterance and creates an invironment where the usage of language becomes natural.

Integrated CALL is the integration of the real world materials into CALL. It is began with the use of CD-ROMs to store large amounts of authentic media that can used as materials. It's became popular with the development of high speed internet and widely accessible hypermedia.

For the conclusion, Internet is the important thing and wide availability of technology, many cores ideas of CALL are changing. Computer also is the motivation are on the decline.

ENTRY 7 PODCAST

HI. This is my very first podcast ever! I have reviewed about my favourite movie, Fast Furious 8. HERE WE GO !

https://soundcloud.com/tuan-zamira/fast-furious-8-movie-review