Thursday 18 August 2011

::Week 5 (Graphics, desktop publishing, word processor)::

Assignment 6A & 6B. (brochure and booklet designing)
on this week task we are required to do two assignments a booklet and a brochure. we're designing the brochure using microsoft office publisher. for my brochure, me and salina we're doing on 21st century topic. our brochure must include topic and gist for assignment 1,4 and 5. we were asked to put different kinds of images such as JPEG, GIFF, TIFF, BMP, PNG, WMF and so on. assignment 1 was on the 21st century topic that we were uploading it on the facebook.21st century skills; the subtopic for our first assignment. We have to discuss about the topic. Then, by using one of the facebook groups created, we have to create a docu-ment that explain and discuss critically about the issued to the subtopic( 21st century skills). Each member of the facebook group must read and respond to the subtopic. The owner must give feedbacks based on the given comments.Basically, 21st century skills is about skills that everyone have to master in order to have a better live. Based on the US secretary of education Arne Duncan (2009); 21st cen-tury skills is the skills that increasingly de-mand creativity, perseverance, and problem solving combined with performing well as part of a team. For assignment 4, we were doing on the We have to do a literature review based on the 21st century topic.
This particular topic is focusing more on the problem faced in implementing 21st cen-tury skills in Malaysia. Firstly, the problem arises by the critics, they argue by saying, 21st century skills as a meaningless term and distraction from the more important work of teaching core context and these types of higher-order skills cannot be meas-ured in reliable, cost-effective, or scalable ways. Secondly, lack of untrained profes-sional teachers in carrying these skills and make these skills useless for the students to learn. In addition, we also touched on the smart school in Malaysia. Smart schools implementing the ’21st century skills’ to the youngsters in Malaysia. Then for assignment 5  our team is collaborating in doing a questionnaire based on the journal made. We have to do the 10 questionnaires on the survey monkey, collecting data from it, improvise the questionnaire based on the survey made, create another questionnaires on the google doc and post it on the targeted email and facebook, collect the data and using the SPSS software, do a statistic on it, then make another journal based on the statistic. then we also created a booklet in microsoft office. these booklet is also including the same topic as the publisher. all 4 pages of a booklet is completed as i already uploaded it at my yahoo group. tq.  
brochure
booklet

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