Week 10 Reflection

The very last week of our semester has finally come. Finally, I have finished all our tasks, assignments and also contact hours. Finally, I have done all my works for Educational Technology. Finally, all the presentations have been successfully done. And, this is a final reflection for this semester.

Throughout the semester, I have been struggled a lot in order to learn the terms and skills of technology. However, a lot of people are willing to help me whenever I faced any problem.

First of all, I would like to appreciate my lecturer for Educational Technology, Mr. Norsarihan. He has given us a lot of comments and also suggestion on our presentation. The guidance and advices that he gave enabled me to learn a lot and gain lots of knowledge.

         

Secondly, I would to thank my entire group members who have cooperate with me in every group work and also assignments. Thanks a lot for giving me support and also for being cooperative in every task given. Acknowledgement to my beloved group members as listed below:

1.     Chong Xin Txin

2.    Doris Chelam Kasturi

3.    Ilanggo Kanan

4.    Leon Lennie

5.    Me (for trying really hard to complete every task given)

Last but not least, I would like to appreciate my entire classmates for the willingness to share their knowledge and skills of technology. Once again, thank you everyone for helping me and guiding me whenever I am in need. 

Week 9 Reflection

Finally, we have presented the article review on software piracy. Mr. Norsarihan did make some comment on our presentation. He commented we could actually include misuse of technology into our presentation. Also, we should try to clarify the relationship between software piracy and also education.

Our group is the only group who did a presentation on software piracy. Other groups mainly talking about web 2.0. Web 2.0 is becoming more and more popular in education. It brings quite a lot of advantages.

First of all, web 2.0 enables distance learning. Students need not to waste their time to attend a class and they can gain knowledge via internet. Besides that, Web 2.0 enables learning process occur at anytime and anywhere. Also, online discussion can be done and this enables more students to voice out their opinion on internet if they do not dare to do this in the classroom.

Unluckily, in Malaysia, there are still a number of schools do not have internet access especially for those schools which are in rural areas. Hence, they are not able to enjoy the advantages brought by Web 2.0. As a result, the gap between the schools of urban area and also the schools of rural are become farer. Hence, I hope internet access can be provided in rural areas as soon as possible so that all the students from Malaysia can be exposed to the world of technology and will not be left out the era of globalisation. 

Week 8 Reflection

This week, we continue our task on article review. Apart from writing an article review, we also need to do a PowerPoint presentation based on the article review that we have done.

          Since we are given more time to complete the article review, we try our best to edit it to make it more perfect. We came across another interesting issue that we have found regarding the software piracy. Government announced that schools are allowed to use pirated software for educational purposes. The reasons given for this issue is to increase the using of technology among students since students cannot afford to buy original software.

          In my opinion, this suggestion has its own pros and cons. For the pros, students can easily access to various types of software and undoubtedly they learn more technology skills. Besides that, it is a good way to reduce the cost and expenses since all types of software can be downloaded from internet without paying a single dime.

          However, on the other hand, software piracy is a crime in Malaysia. Doesn’t it mean that all of us are criminals if we use pirated software even for educational purposes? Besides that, all an educator, we should set ourselves as a role model to our students. If we as a teacher support pirated software, then all our young students sure will follow the paces of their teachers.

          As a conclusion, this issue is a very controversial issue and many people are debating over it. For more details about our article review, kindly visit:

https://docs.google.com/#folders/0B_BC6efDEs8YY2MwNzUxZjYtNGE1ZS00YTQ0LTk3YjMtZGMxOGNlODBiZDY5

p/s: Inside the folder of this Google docs, I have uploaded PowerPoint Presentation of the Issue, Article Review and also References (articles).

Bibliography:

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B9klbPPsBwMVZjNiYzBlN2UtZTQ2Ni00M2Y4LThmOTUtODQ3MDQzYThmNDhh&hl=en_US

Week 7 Reflection

This week, we are assigned to do an article review. First of all, we need to choose a topic, read some articles based on the topic and lastly write a review. The topic that we have chosen is Original and Pirated Software. This is an interesting topic as this issue is very popular among computer users. Original software is not affordable by all computer users and hence pirated software has become the choices of many computer users. However, using and owning pirated software is illegally wrong.

To study the topic in depth, we have chosen 10 articles which discuss about the issue of pirated and original software. Some articles are discussing about the issues that had happened in Malaysia. As we all know, pirated software is even more popular than original software in Malaysia. Hence, some online articles do talk about the reasons why pirated software is very popular among Malaysian.

Since this week I s Deepavali Holiday, we could hardly discuss and do the task together. Hence we divided the task among five group members and assign a group member to compile everything. I am assigned to read and select five articles based on the topics that we have chosen. During the process of searching and reading, I found that original and pirated software is a very controversial issue. I spend quite a lot of time reading the material that I get and finally I manage to select five best articles from the “mountain of information”.

Next week, I will upload the article review that we have written together with the link to the articles.