Mdm. J lecture

Do you know your neighbours?

Today was the 23rd of May 2012, as I sat in lecture room, our lecturer Pn. Jamilah opposed the question: "Do you know all of your friends in Facebook?", "How many of you can memorise 5 important number in your mobile phone?". Then, Fatin Amira who was one of my classmate mentioned all 5 number correctly. Surprisingly, all 5 numbers that she had mentioned was the person who closed to her like her sibling, love ones and also family plus relatives. Then, Pn. Jamilah explained to us that we do not bother about others because the two important part that had been discuss is about community and also society. 

Community Images

What is Community?

A community or a group can be explained as a group who interact with each other or among themselves who share the same interest perhaps it can be neither small or big communities. I  can say that I'm a part of Facebook community because me and my friend share the same interest which is the social networking websites that we loves and prefer is Facebook. I also do share the same interest with my house-mate called Zaphne when we share the same hobby which is cooking. We used to hangout together and try new recipe and also exchange recipes and at the same time we do hangout together and also joining other friends who share the same hobby like us.

Bidayuh Society at My Village at Kampung Tembawang Sauh (Bau)

What is Society?

Based on my understanding, I can say that society was a group of people who live together under a same roof or living together at a place and also practices the same religion, custom,law and also culture. I am proudly to say that I am proud to be part of Bidayuh Society. The reason why am I saying this is that I learn Bidayuh language, tradition, and also culture. I must take a baby step before I can actually tell others about what I had learned or know about Bidayuh Culture because we should not tell others or giving others wrong information.

Do I really know my neighbours?

I am pleased to say that I really know my neighbour and I still remember them until now. My first neighbour was Miss Rani then when me and my family moved to another barrack, my neighbours are Mr Lim Ted Mau, Mr Soo Kheng Tiong, Mr Syed Suhartoo, Mr Kasbendi bin Ponijan and also Hassan bin Jawa. I do know about their family background too because they used to visit us during free time and my family also doing some activities such as bbq and also "berulam" which are a good way to closen and also tighten the relationship among neighbours. I recall back the tragedy of thieves who sneak into my neighbour house at night. At first, I thought it was just a cat who prey for the rat but my parent awake after hear the noise and decided to figure out what noise was that. 


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Talented?? Dared to try???

Show your hidden talent

Have you ever heard about Ryan Higa?  He is American born Japanese.  He is very well known in youtube because of his talent in making jokes and many more.  His shows is NigaHiga which consist of many jokes like End of the world, Dear Ryan : superhero, bromance, word of the day : Swog, Off The Phill : Dancing, Dear Ryan : Epic Meal Time, Off the phill : Christmas Spirit and many more.  Some of his video is about save the japan during Tsunami last year.  Ryan is 22 years old this year and he was born in Hawaii, USA.  He is making the video in youtube since 2006 and is one of the YTF members (Yesterday, Today, Forever).  His shows or youtube channel name is NigaHiga which niga in Japanese mean "rant" and higa is his family name.  The Nigahiga shows get a lot of coverage in all over the world that are around 3 million subscribers.  His popular quote is "on being more eco-friendly and if we don't start now, no one's gonna start later".

Ryan Higa

Then, do you know who is Belacan and Paku?  I guess some of you might know how crazy those people are.  They are American born and have live in Malaysia especially in Bintulu, Sarawak in 2007.  They are so popular with the youtube channel because they speak Malay.  Their popular show in youtube is about Selamat Hari Raya, Mat Saleh Belacan dan Paku, belacan and Paku tengok orang Malaysia, belacan and paku kantoi and many more.  Both of them being invited by tv3 last years to share their experience about youtube.  Belacan is from Utah, USA while Paku who is from Arizona, USA.  

Belacan and Paku

How about Ben Bradshaw, do you know him?  He also one of youtube artist.  Like Belacan and paku, he also well known as American guy who can speak Malay.  People like to call him Gigi Putih because he has the white teeth and he is well know as Cikgu Ben.  This probably because he likes to teach peopel about English words and pronunciation.  According to him, he know how to speak Malay because he spend his life staying in Borneo island few years ago.

Ben Bradshaw

The moral of the story here is all of them dared to challenge themselves and now they are really well known.  So, what are you waiting for?  If you feel talented and dared, make yourself a nice video and put it in youtube.


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Why use photo sharing?


Photo sharing services should make the process of uploading and sharing your pictures as painless as possible. Anyone who uses these services is going to want to be able to upload their photos without having to jump through a lot of hoops. They also want services that are going to leave their options open. The ideal service can’t have too many features because that would make it more difficult to use. As long as the service is able to strike a balance between functionality and ease of use, it isn’t going to have a hard time prevailing among the other photo sharing services. Below are the criteria TopTenREVIEWS used to evaluate photo sharing services.

http://photo-sharing-services-review.toptenreviews.com/

Photo Sharing

Photo sharing tools work as a combination of things. They serve as online storage spaces for photos, with the ability to tag and organize each photo, as well as publishing your images to whomever you want. Other users who review images in these photo sharing web sites have the opportunity to leave comments for the photographer on any image that has been made available. Some photo sharing web sites offer the ability to edit your photos online, make notes, post your photos to a blog and a variety of other features. 

Each photo sharing service is different, but they all offer upload forms with the ability to browse to images on your own computer, in order to select the images that you would like to share.

http://www.commoncraft.com/video/online-photo-sharing

Uses of Photo Sharing

Library media specialists are finding many ways to use photo sharing sites. Here are a few:

• Archive and share bulletin boards and display ideas
• Create unique screensavers with students, activities, book covers, graphics, class projects, images related to topics of research, etc.
• Shoot and share photos of student activities, field trips, etc. for students and teachers to use in projects and presentations
• Create slideshows of school and library media center events to share on website
• Share photos for use in TV production
• Display student work, art work, activities
• Post pictures for faculty to view
• Include in morning news show
• Display in LMC's digital photo frames
• Share vacation photos appropriate to education
• Document programs we've created
• Send photos to teachers of student activities
• Send photos to art classes for mural that will be in the library media center
• Post pictures on our blog
• Order prints
• Create photo albums of school events, author visits, special programs
• Share facilities ideas and furniture arrangements with colleagues in other media centers
• Create photo books
• Create posters
• Store images for use in the annual report and presentations to administrators and parents
• Use as writing prompts (Library of Congress images on Flickr, etc.)
• Post on sites where parents can purchase images of their children at school and school activities
• Organize photos
• Use on local cable channel
• Photograph book covers, related titles and post to the web
• Create monthly photoshows of library media center activities to email to teachers with upcoming events for the next month
• Use images for newsletters
• Use for students' multimedia projects
• Use in digital storytelling
• Keep photos storage off-site, freeing hard disk and server space and making them available from any computer
• Teach students about photography, digital cameras, composition, lighting, etc.
• Teach about photo sharing, tags, searching for images, copyright, creative commons licensing
• Post a photo of the day
• Promote reading programs
• Locate and print photos to be used in displays or on bulletin boards
• Document library conferences and workshops attended
• Use as a fund raising activity. Parents and students can order prints
• Create calendars, cards, gifts with unique library media center photos

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Have you registered yourself??

Here there are a few step that you can follow...

Youtube is very easy to use. Everybody can join and register Youtube account. Just click and follow a very simple way to be a new member of Youtube. Now you can upload and share your videos to your friends, relatives, family and even in a public. Share as many as you want.

Click how to upload the videos to get a very easy tutorial. have a try. ;)


By Mardhati Yahya

New Technologies of Human Communication

When we talked about new technology, there's a lot of thing that come across our mind.  First of all, as individual people will think about development.  This probably because people used to connect technology with development.  Sometimes, people describe new technology through new machine, factory and so on.  However, in this context, we are not going to reject all those thinking, what we going to do is explain what is exactly new technology and how it related with human communication.

Do you know what is blogger?  Do you know what is Facebook? and do you know what is Youtube?

I think, we don't have to explain that more details.  If i ask the whole class, all will answer that they know what is those thing.  Furthermore, i guess half of the class has blogger and youtube account while, one person in each class may have two facebook account.  This means, we all are familiar with blogger, youtube, facebook and other websites.  Why, i asking about this issue is because i want the whole class to understand that those stuff they used are called as new technology.  Not only that the mobile phone also new technology.


Human interaction is a communication between two parties or more.  Normally this communication can be seen through verbal and nonverbal communication.  Sometimes, this kind of communication doesn't need face to face communication and the interaction can also be done through other medium.  For instance, interaction between me and Mardhati, Zaphne, Ianabella and Nor Azua can be done through mobile phone.  Not only that, we also can interact using email and social networking.  Why this happen is because of the development of "sciences and technologies" in the world brought to many kind of intervention being done.


Therefore, the new technologies of human communication is development and evolution of human communication technologies, focusing on computer mediated communication and its impacts on individuals, society, business and organization.

So, we cannot run from this issue.  We live in the technology era which everything by our surrounding covered with technology.  According to Marco C. Yzer and Brian G. Southwell in the article called New Communication Technologies, Old Questions, new  technologies of human communication is nearly with computer mediated communication.   Here, it were being agree by both thinkers that, "computer-mediated communication (CMC), an area of study that has added significantly to our understanding of the relationship between human interaction and technological modalities" http://anhnguyen.pbworks.com/f/New+Communication+Technologies,+Old+Questions..pdf. 

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Fantastic Sharing

http://www.ehow.com/about_5104644_disadvantages-sharing-pictures-online.html

1. Unsafe Way

   • Once you have published your photos online, you've essentially given up control of what happens to them. It's very easy for anyone to copy your photos and edit or alter them in any way possible. Moreover, once they've finished altering your photos, they are then free to distribute them to any other sites or publications. And even if the person does not alter your photos, they can still take them from the site in which you posted them and distribute them to whomever or wherever they want. Once this happens, you have no recourse. You won't be able to retrieve those pictures and restore them to their original state.

   Risk

   • Regardless of whether you've emailed your photos to a single person or posted them on a social networking site, when you share pictures, especially pictures of people, they are subject to alteration and then re-publication by others. This puts you at risk, for example, when posing in suggestive ways that can easily be altered. Situations have occurred where someone has taken a relatively innocent picture, or one that was just meant for friends or family to see, and photo-shopped the picture in pornographic ways and re-posted it. It can be almost impossible to then have the photo removed from an Internet site.

   Nude photos

   • Teens who post illicit nude pictures of themselves or others can be at risk of facing child pornography charges. There are strict laws and rules forbidding these kinds of photos online and anyone who posts such photos --- even if they are underage themselves --- can fact charges. If those charges are upheld, a teen could be forced to register as a sex offender in some states. This is not an aspect of posting pics online that most people even consider.

   Beware of personal information

   • Even a non-compromising photo that includes personal information allows people to identify who is in the photo or provides clues that could be used to track a person down. It's important to be careful that identifying information is not available for strangers to use to obtain information about anyone in the photo. This is one of the primary ways in which online predators access victims through the Internet.

by: wawa