REFLECTION WEEK 3 (LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM-LMS)

REFLECTION WEEK 3: LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (LMS)

We have assigned a task on the topic of Learning Management System (LMS) within this week. We are required to criticize and give a description on this topic about the advantages and disadvantages of Learning Management System. Based on the critical analysis that we have conducted, we have learned that a Learning Management System (LMS) is software tools designed for delivering, tracking and managing online training and education. The concept for this type of software is web-based and it is created to facilitate the user “anytime, anyplace, any pace” access to learning input or content.

The LMS concerns and focuses more on managing learners to ensure their progress and performances across all types of training activities by keeping all the track and record. Nowadays, it has been used widely by universities and colleges around the world which allow the instructors to conduct their courses and exchange theirs information with the student through the virtual learning.

Apart from that, As an LMS allows users to easily design and deploy customized training modules, it can leverage the knowledge of a few key individuals and distribute it to a large number of employees, customers, or even business partners. 

LMS is used to ensure consistency. For this point, LMS is the best side to centralise learning environment. Secondly, the LMS assists effectively in tracking and reporting for enhanced program. For example, employers can offer their courses through various media including web-based training, instructor-led training or webinars. The LMS also brings the great impact by producing immediate capabilities evaluation.

Last but not least, due to the development of technology, we can deny that LMS also has theirs weaknesses and disadvantages. One of its drawbacks is pertains to the quality of learning in an e-learning environment which is no guarantee for high security risk in the system. In short, there are positive and negative impacts of having the Learning Management System (LMS).

Reflection Week 1

Assignment 1:

Creating a Blog, Yahoo Group account,creating Gmail & Official Facebook

                           

These are the steps involved to create a blog:

Ø     Go to the website at www.blogger.com

Ø     Click on the button "Create a blog"

Ø     Register using our Gmail account (insert username and password). 

Ø     Verify the blog registration through Gmail.

  These are the steps involved to create a yahoo group:

                   Sign in to our Yahoo Account (email).

                   Go to the Yahoo Group home page - http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ 

                   Click on the "Start your group".

              Invite our friends and lecturers through their email addresses.

In order to join the yahoo group, you should:

v    Log in to the Yahoo Group account: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ge1155ipg2011

v    Click "Join".

v    Validate the procedures.

v    Note: We must introduce ourselves to the administrator of the Yahoo Group.

These are the steps involved to create a facebook group account:

ü     Log in to our official Facebook Account.

ü     Click "Create a group".

ü     Name our Group. 

ü     Add our friends and lecturers.

ü     Click "Create" to end up the step.

ü     Reset the group's privacy setting from "Open" to "Restricted".

These are the steps involved to create an official facebook account:

                   Go to www.facebook.com

                   Fill in the information in the "Sign In" section.

                   Follow the procedures step by step.

                   Verify our Facebook registration through our email address.

                   After that, click "Account"

                   Click on "Account Info" to register for an official Facebook URL

                   Edit our username. 

                   Save the changes.

                   Search for friends (enter their profile name or email address).

                   Add them as "Friends".

Creating a Gmail account:

·                     Go to www.google.com 

·                     Click "Gmail".

·                     Click "Create an account".

·                     Fill up the required details.

·                     Verify our Gmail through our alternate email account.

 Creating a signature (Gmail):

ü     After verifying our Gmail account, click "Setting". 

ü     Go to "Signature".

ü     Add in our details. 

ü     Save the changes. 

My Signature:  

Halil Bin Siri
A135736
B.Ed TESL (IPGKS-UKM Twinning Programme)
Institut Pendidikan Guru Kampus Sarawak,
Jalan Bakam, 98009 Miri, 
Sarawak. 

Emails :halilsiri1990@yahoo.com
halilsiri1990@gmail.com
Blog: http://halilsiri@blogspot.com
YahooGroup: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/A135736_Halil bin Siri_GE1155
Official Facebook Acc.: http://www.facebook.com/halilbinsiri

Reflection Week 2(Open Source Software)

Reflection Week 2 (Open Source Software)

In our second week of lecture, we are required to choose one topic that we would like to critic on and share with our members. There are 10 topics given based on the course pro-forma that should be done in pairs. My friend and I decided to choose the topic on Open source software. We have divided our task specifically in order to complete the assignment given.

Based on the research that we have done, we noticed that an Open Source Software is a software that can be used freely or without any charge. As an essential part of teaching and studying in era, schools can avoid themselves from paying licensing course and put resources to other uses if they use Open Source Software. The most commercial one is Linux and tools that work on its platforms. Based on our research, we have learned that Linux is powerful and it is free causing it to be more attractive and friendly-user.

Open Source software offers benefit to the user based on a few projects handled by Red Hat, a stable company behind GNU/Linux. They had developed The Open Source Now Project which providing the educators with an introduction to OSS in education, a discussion list, and links to a wide variety of other OSS in education sites. Under that particular program is Simple End User Linux – Education which preparing the discussion list about the uses of Linux in education system.

Apart from that, it also provides a database of case studies and links to current projects like a variety of software for mathematics and art. Those selected programs can save schools from wasting hundreds of dollars in software expenditure per computer, and run on all common school platforms

In the aspect of education, the use of Open Source software can assist the student to understand more about the widely computer science community and to the practice of peer- review.

Computer in Education (B.Ed TESL UKM-IPGKS)

Assalamualaikum Wbt....
Hello everyone....I'm Halil Bin Siri from B.Ed TESL Twinning Program UKM-IPGKS. First and foremost, I would like to show my highest gratitude to Allah S.WT. for giving me an opportunity to join this programme. There will be a lot of benefits of having this blog as it enables us to share information, changing ideas, and give some feedback regarding our academic thingy. Feel free to give some comments or opinion in my blog. Thank you very much for your kind co-operation.