Reflection (Week 14)

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     Finally, this is the last week for this semester and of course for this course. Well at first, I could not really wait to finish everything. Because of all the assignments and tasks that I feel like it burdened me too much and I really want to end everythingas soon as possible. But when the time arrives, I started to feel a little bit sad because after this, we will not going to learn the same thing again.

     For me, this course has taught me a lot about multimedia and web. I have learned many things that  I had never been exposed to before. And I am really sure all things that I have learned will be useful for my future career.

    This last week, we proceed with the digital story telling presentation. There were four more groups left to present their stories including my group. We voluntereed to be the first group to present our project. This is because we were to excited to share with our classmates what we have done with all the efforts and I feel proud to present our hardwork to them. Even there are some slight mistakes in the short movie but still for me, we had done our best and the result of the project is satisfying. Well this is our movie entitled The Wishing Star.

The Wishing Star - Rufflers Production

      As for other groups, I can see that they also had done a very good job in making the movies. I enjoyed watching all the movied they had done and all of them are really good in these things. I am sure that all of us tried really hard to do our best and for me, we had done quite a good job.

     After we finished all the presentations, we submitted the report. Miss Amreet gave her speech for the last class and I felt quite sad thinking that, this is our last meeting in class. We have learned a lot from Miss Amreet and she gave her best to guide all of us. I am satisfied with her teaching methods and I really enjoyed the class throughout the semester. As for assignments, even at first I feel like it was really burdening and it seemed impossible but when we got along the weeks, we somehow managed to complete everything on time.

       Because this is our last class, we took some pictures together as memories. Unforgettable memories! This is our pictures, Group C, with Miss Amreet. She is really sporting and being in her class is really enjoyable towards the end.

      Since this is the last reflection for this semester, I would like to take this chance to say thank you to or beloved lecturer, Miss Amreet Kaur, who had taught us a lot throughout the semester. Thank you for guiding us in completing all the assessments. Thank you for giving us such experiences that we never had before and we have learned many new exciting things and we were also very grateful to have a very good lecturer as her. Also thanks a lot to all my friends that had helped me in some works especially the digital story telling project. 

      This is the end of semester but I hope it is not the end for all of us to stay in touch. We will be sitting for our final examination and I wish GOOD LUCK to all my friends for the upcoming examination. I hope all of us can get good result and may everything going smooth for all of us. Thank you!

Argumentative Essay

   

     These days, smartphones are really popular among students. They use smartphones to create good communication in their social life. But, smartphones are also being used as a platform to search for informations and it has been used as a replacement to computers and laptops. This is because of the size of the smartphones are much smaller but in the same time students are able to do many things easily compared to using computers and laptops which are larger in size and sometimes burdening to carry around. Somehow, usage of smartphones has more negative sides compared to its benefits if it is being used in a wrong way.

    Firtsly, uncontrollable usage of smartphones will make students waste most of their time using internet only for social network sites. Smartphones make everything becomes easier to get and these days, logging in to social network sites are much easier because of the applications that had been installed in the smartphones. This will lead the students to always surfing the internet and log in to their social network sites everywhere and everytime they want. Even worse, students will also surf the internet during classes and they are not going to give full attention to the lectures. So, overusage of smartphones will lead to time waste among student.

   Secondly, smartphones will enable students to surf inappropriate websites. This is because, smartphones are created to make the surfing of internet becomes easier and some of students tend to use this advantages to go into some negative webpages that they should not visit. For example, there are some cases that the students use their phone to surf porn websites and it will lead the students to behave negatively because they can be influenced easily by the things they have watched. Underage students that are not fully understand about certain things will easily tend to follow things that they watched and it is not good for them. So, using smartphones also can lead to negative behaviour among students.

       Lastly, if the usage of smartphones among students are not being controlled, it will affect their real communication . The will stick with their smartphones even they are being surrounded by many people and it will affect their real communication due to leass interaction between the students and people around them. Some of the students who are really obsess with their smartphones, they are usually really good in socializing in social network sites such as Facebook and Twitter. They are well known as a friendly person but the fact is otherwise. Spending too much time and focus on their social network life make them ignore the people around them and they cannot even communicate as good as they did in the social network sites. So the usage of smartphones will also affect people's real communication ability.

      As a conclusion, usage of smartphones has more negative sides compared to its own benefits if it is not being used properly and smartly. Smartphones are invented to make complicated things become easier and it has many functions that will give big advantages if we use it smartly. People especially students, should use smartphones in proper way and they should avoid using the smartphones in ways that will harm their own self. If people can use the advantages given to them, they will make great positive changes in their life and it will give them a bigger opportunity to create success for their own life.