Paint tutorial

First of all, open your Paint software, go to your picture folder and select a picture that you wish to edit.

 After selected your picture, lets think what you wish to do. Let say, the size of your picture is not nice to view, so you gonna re-size and skew it ! select the button "resize' on the top right hand side and adjust the sizes that you desired.

 Deng! deng! resized! grapes look nicer !

 How about you wish to add text? that's easy! select the button "A" on top of right hand size, as shown by the arrow, and click it ! whatever text would like to insert, use it!

 Now, your text are not nice, what should you do? reselect a picture? NO! no worry! click the icon of eraser as shown by the arrow as well, click it and erase those unwanted text.

If you think there are too many spacing or unwanted space around your picture, just crop the part that you want. First, select the region that you wish to continue for you edit, then crop it. Click on the button as shown by the arrow.

Dang Dang!! unwanted region cropped away!!

how about you wish to put some shape around your picture? so easy ! click on shape icon as pointed by arrow, select the shape that you want and click it!

 wow! Star around the grapes!! but the shape of grapes are not match with the star, so you gonna flip it! flip 360 degree? 180 degree? or flip vertical! choose any rotation you like. Click on the rotation button and select !

Now, my picture is done editing! wow! its amazing! its such an easy task to edit using paint! do not think it is difficult ! practice make perfect! if you wish to know more about paint tutorial, leave a comment and i will share about with you ^.~ Have a nice day ~

ICT in education

Data logging slide (captured)

Data logging presentation

Citation guide

"Ethics, copyright laws, and courtesy to readers require authors to identify the sources of direct quotations and of any facts or opinions not generally known or easily checked." (Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, p. 594)

Why citation required? 

Whenever you quote or base your ideas on another person's work, you must document the source you used. Even when you do not quote directly from another work, if reading that source contributed to the ideas presented in your paper, you must give the authors proper credit.  Citations allow readers to locate and further explore the sources you consulted, show the depth and scope of your research, and give credit to authors for their ideas. Citations provide evidence for your arguments and add credibility to your work by demonstrating that you have sought out and considered a variety of resources. In written academic work, citing sources is standard practice and shows that you are responding to this person, agreeing with that person, and adding something of your own. Think of documenting your sources as providing a trail for your reader to follow to see the research you performed and discover what led you to your original contribution.

Plagiarism

"Plagiarism means using another's work without giving credit. You must put others' words in quotation marks and cite your source(s). Citation must also be given when using others' ideas, even when those ideas are paraphrased into your own words." Plagiarism is a serious violation of academic and student conduct rules and is punishable with a failing grade and possibly more severe action.

Citation examples

You should follow the style examples given below exactly in your written work in this class. Note that there are many different nuances of citation style for a complete reference, and in fact each scientific or literary journal will require you to use a specific style. However, each style still conveys the important information, and for consistency and easy preparation for your papers in this class you must follow these examples below. [Note that the situation of the citation is given in brackets after the example.]

In citing the reference in brief in the text of your paper, use the following style conventions for single, double, and multiple authors, for multiple references, and for web references (all references are taken from the style examples at the bottom of this guide):

1. Climate change is affecting sea level in the Baltic (Andersson 2002), and the may become a problem especially as nutrient levels and eutrophication increase (Conley et al., 2009). Such changes may impact many different aspects of water chemistry (Stumm and Morgan 1981).

2. Andersson (2002) reports that sea level in the Baltic is changing due to climate, and Conley et al. (2009) report that eutrophication may also become a problem.

3. Changes in the Baltic sea include both climate change and eutrophication (Andersson 2002; Conley et al., 2009). On the other side of the world, and on land, the Emerald Ash Borer has become an economically important problem (Emerald Ash Borer 2007).

Journals
Andersson, H.C. 2002. Influence of long-term regional and large-scale atmospheric circulation on the Baltic sea level. Tellus A 54: 76-88. [single author - "54" is the issue or volume of the journal, and "76-88" are the page numbers.]
Bryant, P.J., and P. Simpson. 1984. Intrinsic and extrinsic control of growth in developing organs. Quart. Rev. Biol. 59: 387-415. [two authors]
Conley, D.J., H.W. Paerl, R.W. Howarth, D.F. Boesch, S.P. Seitzinger, K.E. Havens, C. Lancelot, and G.E. Likens. 2009. Controlling eutrophication: Nitrogen and phosphorus. Science 323: 1014-1015.[multiple authors].
In recent years publications are given a Digital Object Identifier (DOI), which is a unique tag for that publication. Thus, a paper with a DOI may also contain page numbers, and at least one of these is needed to complete the reference. For example, if there are page numbers and a DOI the citation would be as follows:
De Pol-Holz, R., O. Ulloa, L. Dezileau, J. Kaiser, F. Lamy, and D. Hebbeln. 2006. Melting of the patagonian ice sheet and deglacial perturbations of the nitrogen cycle in the eastern South Pacific. Geophys. Res. Lett. 33: 15-32, doi:10.1029/2005GL024477.
You can check that every DOI that you cite is correct via the doi system website.

Book:
Stumm, W., and J. Morgan. 1981. Aquatic chemistry, 2nd ed. Wiley.
National Academy of Sciences. 1977. Principles and Procedures for Evaluating the Toxicity of Household Substances. National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC. [here the organization is both the author and publisher]

Chapter in a book:
Codispoti, L.A. 1983. Nitrogen in upwelling systems, p. 513-564. In E. J. Carpenter and D. G. Capone [eds.], Nitrogen in the marine environment. Academic Press.

Thesis:
Kimmance, S.A. 2001. The interactive effect of temperature and food concentration on plankton grazing and growth rates. Ph.D. thesis. Univ. of Liverpool.

Shaw,G. B. 1982. "Practical uses of litmus paper in Möbius strips". Tech. Rep. CUCS-29-82, Columbia Univ., New York.
Lassiter, R. R., and J.L. Cooley. 1983. Prediction of ecological effects of toxic chemicals, overall strategy and theoretical basis for the ecosystem model. EPA-600/3-83-084. National Technical Information Service PB 83-261-685, Springfield, VA.
Press, F. 1981. "A report on the computational needs for physics". National Science Foundation, Washington, DC. [unpublished work]
"Assessment of the carcinogenicity and mutagenicity of chemicals". 1974. WHO Tech. Rep. Ser. No. 556.[no author]

Preprints (articles currently being published but not yet in print)
Smette, A., et al. In Press. HST/STIS observations of the HeII Gunn-Peterson effect towards HE 2347-4342. Astrophys. Journal (available at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/0012193). [if now published, omit the URL and provide only a standard reference]

Paper presented at a meeting (not published)
Konishi, M. 1984. Paper presented at the 14th Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, Anaheim, CA, 10 October 1984. [Here you need to include the sponsoring organization if it is not part of the meeting name, and the title of the paper if it was listed]

Newspaper article:
Bishop, J.E. 1982. Do flies spread ills or is that claim merely a bugaboo? The Wall Street Journal. Nov. 1982, 4:1 (col. 4), 23 (col. 1).

Personal communications
G. Reuter, personal communication, 15 November 2009.

Citing Web Sources:
Below are some general rules and examples on citing web sources, modified from:
net.Tutor, © 1997-2009, The Ohio State University Libraries. Available from: http://liblearn.osu.edu/tutor/les7/guide.html (Site visited on 15 November 2009)

• Provide sufficient information to allow a reader to locate the source you are citing.
• Web documents share many elements found in print sources. The citation for a Web document often follows a format similar to that for print, with some information omitted and some added. Always cite the original print document rather than the web retrieval address.
• Cite what is available when you cannot find some elements of information about a source. For example, publication dates may not be provided for some online information sources. If the work originally had a print existence, it may be necesssary to give the date of the original print publication.
• Include the date that you accessed the source (when required by the style manual).
• Cite the address (URL) accurately. If it is necessary to divide the URL between two lines, break only after a slash mark and do not insert a hyphen at the break.

Hilton-Taylor C., compiler. 2000. 2000 IUCN red list of threatened species [Internet]. Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK: IUCN. Available from: http://www.redlist.org/ (Site visited 12 Feb 2002) [web site with author]
Emerald Ash Borer (EAB), updated 2007 Feb 27. Columbus (OH): Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Forestry. Available from: http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/forestry/health/eab.htm (Site visited 24 July 2007) [web site with no author]

Interactive whiteboard in education

What are interactive whiteboards?

There are two very different kinds of interactive whiteboards: The first is a ‘virtual’ electronic version of a dry wipe board on a computer that enables learners in a virtual classroom to view what an instructor, presenter or fellow learner writes or draws. It is also called an electronic whiteboard and can be found in conferencing and data-sharing systems such as Microsoft NetMeeting. The second type is a large physical display panel that can function as an ordinary whiteboard, a projector screen, an electronic copy board or as a computer projector screen on which the computer image can be controlled by touching or writing on the surface of the panel instead of using a mouse or keyboard. This briefing is about the second type of interactive whiteboard. Typically, interactive whiteboards are used in lecture or classroom environments and the technology allows you to write or draw on the surface, print off the image, save it to computer or distribute it over a network. You can also project a computer screen image onto the surface of the whiteboard and then either control the application by touching the board directly or by using a special pen. The computer image can be annotated or drawn over and  the annotations saved to disc or sent by email to others.

Benefits?

Because interactive whiteboards are so like conventional whiteboards, they can help even technophobic teachers to use this medium with ease for presentations from the front of the room. They help in broadening the use of e-learning because they rapidly demonstrate the potential of alternative modes of delivery.
1. They make it easy for teachers to enhance presentation content by easily integrating a wide range of material into a lesson, such as a picture from the internet, a graph from a spreadsheet or text from a Microsoft Word file, in addition to student and teacher annotations on these objects.
2. They allow teachers to create easily and rapidly customized learning objects from a range of existing content and to adapt it to the needs of the class in real time.
3.  They allow learners to absorb information more easily.
4.  They allow learners to participate in group discussions by freeing them from note-taking.
5. They allow learners to work collaboratively around a shared task or work area.
6. When fully integrated into a VLE (virtual learning environment) and learning object repository there is potential for widespread sharing of resources.
7. When used for interactive testing of understanding for the entire class, they can rapidly provide learner feedback.

Shortcoming?

1. Interactive whiteboards are more expensive than conventional whiteboards or projector
and screen combinations.
2. Their surface can become damaged, necessitating expensive replacement.
3. Front projection boards can be obscured by one or more users.
4. Fixed-height boards are often mounted too high for users to reach the top of or too low to be readily visible by all users.
5. Free-standing boards (and their associated projectors) are more difficult to secure
and need to be realigned every time they are moved.
6. If multiple data entry is allowed, inputs can get jumbled, resulting in on-screen gibberish.
7. If remote access is allowed, some users may be tempted to send disruptive comments or drawings to the screen.

Modelling and simulation: Stella

               In this modelling and simulation project, i chose predator-prey dynamics

This is front cover of my simulated experiment. Below of there are adjusted parameter.

Size of lynx harvest at one time: 700

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                                                         Size of lynx harvest at one time: 500

Size of lynx harvest at one time: 300

Size of lynx harvest at one time: 0

The main purpose of this modelling and simulation project is to activate students motivation learn especially science and mathematics subjects that are highly abstract. In addition too, it will initiate students thinking ability in term of making inferences and prediction. In our discussion, we are mainly focused on the factors of students motivation and thinking skills as well as the simulation in teaching and learning process. 

Power point presentation (print screen slide)

Reflection

This is the first time I wrote reflection in this semester. Well, first of all I would like to say “THANK YOU VERY MUCH” to my Information and Communication in Science’s lecturer, Mr Azmi.  How I am going to narrate his contribution? Let us flash back into the beginning of the semester!

Suppose this course is not included in my plan to register, however due to certain reason, I forced to register in this semester, it was 21 credit hour, such a busy semester. However, the first thing come into my mind is how the lecturer look alike? Is he or she? Fierce or friendly? Whatever it is, I have to force myself to call up lecturer to ask for the available “seat” in this course. Miracle is happened, when the call was answered, I heard a very friendly voice and welcoming to his office for signature. Everything are negotiable and do not have the haughty manner like some of the other lecturer.  From that moment, I know he is a good lecturer.

Well, my predictions are correct! During lecture time, he devotes all his energies to explain the contents to make sure everyone of us are understand. During the arrangement of the laboratory time table, Mr Azmi was flexible enough allow us to enter whatever session, from Monday to Friday. Mr Azmi try to be best of his ability to fit us in every session. No matter it is lecture or laboratory session, Mr Azmi manage to deliver the contents very effectively.

The only negative feeling in this course is “tired”. This is because Mr Azmi constantly assigned assignment for every 2 weeks and we have to submit 10 pages report as well as presentation. However, over a period of time, I felt it is worthy because I learned such a lot knowledge that I didn’t learn before. The simplest example is Stella software. I am sure 90% of my course-mates do not know about this at all. With the teaching of Mr Azmi, I felt myself has higher merit which not only know about the contents in books.  From the first class until the last class I attended, Mr Azmi  always an enthusiastic supporter in term of giving advice in each and every one of our assignment. One thing that I most appreciate is, Mr Azmi never stands on his dignity, instead he act like a friend to guide us in every assignment so that we manage to achieve the best in his subject.  He never rejected to teach us!

In this course, I do really learned a lot that I never think and touch before such as discover the smart school system, problem based learning analysis, movie maker and Paint software, Stella project, blogging, data logging and so on. The smart school projects analysis exposed me such a bundle of knowledge in this direction, the advantages, disadvantages, integration of ICT in either non smart school or smart school. Maybe to certain people, blogging is the routine of his or her life. For me, this is my first time to explore the blogging, with the guidance of Mr Azmi, I manage to decorate my own blog, upload video, insert music, graphic and etc. In the simulation project, I learned how the system simulates the experiment without wasting a bundle of time as my teacher did in traditional classroom. Furthermore, the data logging also bring benefits to me in which technologies making the lesson in the school become splendid and outstanding. Through all this experience, i know that in future I can use various way, various method to color my lesson plan in school. I can use Stella system to simulate experiment, data logging to conduct experiment, utilize the skills of making movie by using picture, edit picture using Paint and another more! This subject really brought a lot of beneficial not only me, but for each and everyone who taking this course. I hope in future we still manage to consult Mr Azmi if we facing any ICT problematic or difficulty.  Last but not least, I am really appreciates for his teaching and every devotion in our class. Thank you.

My resume

Personal Information

Name: Chong Mui Phin
ID number: 911208125150
Date of birth: 08/12/1991
Nationality: Malaysian
Age: 21
Gender: Female
Races: Chinese
Religion: Buddha
Occupation: Student
Email address: racheal_chongmp@hotmail.com
Permanent address: 0460, Taman Pakka 3, Kudat Sabah.
Temporary address: No rumah 35, Jalan 3A, Taman Bahtera 35900 Tanjung Malim Perak.
Marital status: Single


Educational Background

High school (2003 - 2008)
Sekolah Menengah Saint Peter Kudat, Sabah.

College (2009 - 2010)
Labuan Matriculation College

University (2010 - 2014)
Sultan Idris Education University (UPSI), Tanjung Malim Perak

Educational Qualification

2008: Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) Pure Science Stream graduate

2010: Labuan Matriculation College Pre-University (Hayat Stream) graduate.

2012: Sultan Idris Education University (UPSI), Bachelor of Science (Education).


Certificate of award

2003-2008: State representative of basketball team.
                   School representative of basketball team.
                   School representative of 1500m races.
                   School representative of public speaking.
                   President of Basketball Club
                   The best subject (history) award
                   PMR distinction award.
                   SPM distinction award.
                 

2009-2010: Labuan Matriculation College representative of LOFSA run.
                   Labuan Matriculation College 3 on 3 competion champion.

2010-2014: Dean list of Sultan Idris Education University.
                   University representative of  basketball team.
                   Taekwondo (WTF) green belt holder.
                   Exco of basketball association UPSI
                   Instructor of  UPSI basketball curriculum.

             
               
Working Experience(s)
2005: Kitchen assistant of A Foo vegetarian restaurant, Kingfisher Kota Kinabalu Sabah.
2008: Cashier of Feel Good Reflexology Center, 1 Borneo Kota Kinabalu Sabah.
2009: Sales clerk of Popular Express Travel Sdn.Bhd Kota Kinabalu Sabah.
2010: Mentor of Ideal Tuition Center Lintas Kota Kinabalu Sabah.
2012: Cashier of Sing Sing Supermarket Semporna Sabah.


Skill(s)
Good computerization skills:
Microsoft Office Words, Microsoft Office Power Point, Microsoft Office Excel, Microsoft Office outlook, Adobe Photoshop, Paint, Stella simulation software, email etc..

Good communication skills
Able to speak in various language fluently: English, Malay, Mandarin, Dialect, Tagalog,

Good writing skills
Able to write in various language smoothly: English, Malay, Mandarin

Intensity/Strength
Good computerization, communication and writing. Extrovert. Effective. Hardworking. Cooperative. Posses critical and creative thinking. Strong curiosity. Patient. Dependent.

My Video

Yeah,...baby....excuse me baby...ITS MY VIDEO....no description over here.. look at my video & ENJOY ! my Video tell you everything :D

POWER POINT PRESENTATION

MITOSIS from racheal Mei

MY TEACHING PHILOSOPHY

In my point of view, the most important things a teacher can do for students learning science is to relate Science to their students daily life as frequent as possible  If students feel as if the topics are abstract, and hardly imagine and related to them, then they become disinterested and thus, disinvested in the content and the class.  Due to this realization of the importance of building knowledge, myself as a teacher must be able to relate topics directly to their lives in order to be invested in the content, it is extremely important to relate the new material to things the students already understand. I prefer to integrate constructivism learning theory in my lesson plan because it is an approach to education that lays emphasis on the ways that people create meaning of the world through a series of individual constructs. Another word to say, student are giving freedom to explore and build knowledge through discovery rather than spoon feed my students. A successful students is not observe through their excellent in academic, instead i will observe my students the knowledge they built able to synthesize, analyze and judge in another way round. In addition too, my students must go through hand on practice such experiment to strengthen their knowledge. 

NATIONAL SCIENCE EDUCATION PHILOSOPHY

In consonance with the National Education Philosophy, science education in Malaysia nurtures a science and technology culture by focusing on the development of individuals who are competitive, dynamic, robust and resilient and able to master scientific knowledge and technological competency.

My Certificate

I am a basketball player, active one. I am very keen in basketball. I had participated in almost all the games in UPSI such as 3 on 3, Super Upsi as well as MASUM, inter-university games. Last two semester i was the instructor of co-curriculum basketball but due to the heavy duty of my assignment, so i resigned this semester. I love basketball. Without basketball in my life is like a puzzle lack of pieces. :D

“Education in Malaysia is an ongoing process towards further effort in developing the potential of individuals in a holistic and integrated manner; so as to produce individuals who are intellectually, spiritually, emotionally and physically balanced and harmonious, based on a firm belief in and devotion to God. Such an effort is designed to produce Malaysian citizens who are knowledgeable and competent, who possess high moral standards, and who are responsible and capable of achieving a high level of personal well-being as well as being able to contribute to the betterment of the society and the nation at large.”