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The lecture for today was started by the display of samples of e-book presentation by Puan Foziah, and this help us a lot in completing our next task, which is the preparation of e-book for use in the classroom. After watching all the presentations, I notice the importance of inculcating certain items or criteria along the process, especially regarding the target group which is the students itself. The integration of song, one of the prominent feature in each presentations shows how the 'power' of song in making the presentation a good one. Song usually contains repetition which is very much useful language learning. Besides that, the use of colourful picture, big fonts and animation are very useful in attracting students' attention in the classroom. Hence, I need to be aware of the needs of children in completing this e-book presentation. As a result, the objectives of the learning will be achieved.

In addition, Pn. Foziah also introduced to use two new softwares which are Blumentals and GICKR. Both are very useful in creating animation pictures, and this is a very good opportunity for me to explore and integrate this animation in my e-book presentation. This will make my presentation even more attractive and 'alive', and sustaining students' interest along the teaching and learning process.

After giving enough guidance in preparing the e-book presentation, the discussion was changed into the portfolio part. We were advised to start collecting all the documents, files, and folders as this will avoid the last minute work, and I can feel the 'heat' of burdening with lots of assignments is getting close and close to me. Hence, it is the right time for me to start organise my data so that it will be easy for me to compile all the files needed in the portfolio.

Furthermore, we also received the second assignment, which is assessing and manipulating videos for the ESL classroom. This assignment is quite complicated, since there were numbers of tasks to complete in this assignment. Starting from downloading the video clips ( Michael Jackson ; The Earth Song, we have to convert it into audio files, and taken pictures from the video. Then, we have to create a lesson using all this resources and come out with our own teaching aids. Next, we have to choose our own video from the internet and do the same process as in the first one. This is very challenging for me since a lot of thinking has to be put in this assignment. Besides that, I need to consider the teaching point in this assignment, since there is a demand to refer to the CS and integrated it in the lesson. So, a lot of thinking cap has to be put on and there is an urge to always be aware with the need of young learners, since they are the target group for the lesson. The lesson created must be interesting, attractive, and astounding so as to adapt with young learners special characteristics, so that the objective of the lesson will be achieved. Therefore, this is a good stage for us as 'teacher to be' to make use of our skills in creating a good product for this assignment.