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Hello! Hello! 🙋 I’m back with another update of what I have learned this week. Podcast ? What is it? I bet everyone knows podcast. So, the term podcast came from iPod (Apple portable MP3 player) and broadcasting. It is an episodic series of audio or video files that allow the user to listen or download the podcast that interests them. The user can listen to existing podcast or create their own. Fyi, YouTube, iTunes, SoundCloud, and etc. are the example of podcast medium. As for this week lecture, Madam Azida introduced us to a new website which is http://podbay.fm/ . Podbay.fm is one of the podcast medium where users can easily access the podcast that they wanted to listen without the need to visit multiple websites. I chose to listen to The 10 Minute Teacher Podcast by Vicki Davis under the categories of education. There were tons of episodes had been updated and “5 Ways to Battle Burnout” caught my eyes.          The podcast started with the soun...

Hi peeps! I’m back again with new things that I would like to share with all of you here. This week’s lesson is pretty much hard I guess. There are a lot of new things being exposed. The things that I don’t even know their functions before this. First thing first, during the first class of the week, we had learned about Search Engines and Online Database which I don’t even know what are they. But after Madam Azida explained to us how they work, I slowly could grasp the topic. So, search engine is a web tool that allows users to enter keywords and find information on websites contained in its database. It is used to find particular sites on the World Wide Web. Search engine is divided into four parts which are Database, Web-crawler or Spider, User Interface, and Info Retrieval System. Hold on, peeps! I have more to share. Previously, I only know Google, Safari, Mozilla Firefox, and etc. which I used them to search for information that I need. I don’t even know their exact...

Hi peeps! It had been a week since I updated my blog. Frankly speaking, I almost forgot to update my blog for week 2 😬 Maybe I was too excited for my mid-semester break even though it was just two weeks after this semester started. Ya, our mid-semester break is literally more like an early semester break (?). By the way, I would like to wish all of you Happy Chinese New Year ! Have a lot of fun with your family and friends. Spend your precious time wisely peeps 🎉             Okay, so back to what I have learned in class last week, Madam Azida taught us about CALL. I am pretty sure that some of you are not really aware of this. Basically, CALL or Computer-Assisted Language Learning is activities that employ computers in teaching and learning new language. This is not the first time I learned and heard about CALL since I had learned it during my diploma where I was required to do a micro-teaching by using a software calle...