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Monday, November 10, 2008
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Thursday, October 9, 2008
Growing up in Samoa.
This is a video about how life is in Samoa, and how is it difference from the life growing up in America...
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Vedio conferencing
What is video conferencing?
Video conferencing sounds so intellectual and professional kind of talk. When we hear the word conference, we often think about the term as it is used in the Church. By the way, General Conference is coming up in two weeks... Video conference is a term used to describe a group of people who are talking online using machines called computers to communicate with each other. You can sit in front of your computer in your hale, and I can talk to you from Samoa using my computer, and we can hear and see each at the same time. This is not the same as Skype and other ways which you can talk and see each other on the computer at the same time. However Video Conferencing is different. The key word is conference, this involves more than one or two people talking on the computer using certain kinds of programs like dimdim to communicate with each other from their various homeplace. A lot of people especially big companies use this to hold meetings with their employees, and other fellow associates.
Dimdim
Dimdim is a open source meeting software that you can download from online and you can use it to hold video conferencing or meetings.
Video conferencing sounds so intellectual and professional kind of talk. When we hear the word conference, we often think about the term as it is used in the Church. By the way, General Conference is coming up in two weeks... Video conference is a term used to describe a group of people who are talking online using machines called computers to communicate with each other. You can sit in front of your computer in your hale, and I can talk to you from Samoa using my computer, and we can hear and see each at the same time. This is not the same as Skype and other ways which you can talk and see each other on the computer at the same time. However Video Conferencing is different. The key word is conference, this involves more than one or two people talking on the computer using certain kinds of programs like dimdim to communicate with each other from their various homeplace. A lot of people especially big companies use this to hold meetings with their employees, and other fellow associates.
Dimdim
Dimdim is a open source meeting software that you can download from online and you can use it to hold video conferencing or meetings.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Post #3: Audio Recording
The audio or voice recording that i found is called "Wavepad" It is a Professional Audio Editing Software that has been around since the beginning of century, or in other words for a long time. It has been upgraded through the years for the use of the people. It is compatible for both Windows and mac computers, and it can also run under Linux using WINE. It can perform the following:-
- Sound editing functions include cut, copy, paste, delete, insert, silence, autotrim and more.
- Audio effects include, amplify, normalize, equaliser, envelope, reverb, echo, reverse, sample rate conversion and more.
- Full featured Mp3 editing software
- Supports a number of other file formats including wav (multiple codecs) vox, gsm, real audio, au, aif, flac, ogg and many more.
- Software audio editing for studios and professional journalists.
- Edit sound files to broadcast over the internet with the BroadWave Streaming Audio Server
- Normalizing the level of audio files during mastering before buring to CD.
- Editing mp3 files for your iPod, PSP or other portable device.
- As a music editor (includes ringtones creator formats).
- Music editing and recording to produce mp3 files.
- Voice editing for multimedia productions.
- Restoration of audio files including removing excess noise such as hiss and hums.
Post #2B: My thoughts about E-Learning 2.0
I enjoyed reading about E-learning as much as i did with the Technology of Teaching. I think they are very well connected with the fact that they both taught about the differences between trying to do the work on our own and doing it together as a team. Not only that, but also they both have an affect on similar ways to help improve our capability to learn, to plan, to develop, to build, and to implement an idea into something realistic. For example, the teacher and student model in the E-Learning 2.0 is quite similar or is somewhat relates to the ISD Model and all it stages.
Post #2A: My thoughts about Technology of Teaching.
I have certainly enjoyed reading through the reading materials provided for our learning and assignment. I have learn a great deal about myself and life in general from reading through this article. i reccomend this readings to anyone who wants to look in to pursuing this field.
One of the cool things i have learned for myself from reading Technology of Teaching is just that, the fact that teaching is technology. Everytime i see and hear the word technology, the only things that come to mind are computers, internet, digital cameras, vedios, TV, phones, etc. I never thought of teaching as a technology, but if you actually think about it, all those machines or devices would not function the way they are now, if it wasn't for teaching and learning, developing and implementing some source of informaiton created in them by technicians and compilers. In fact, they would have not even existed if it wasn't for the people that invented them because of the knowlegde they have received from teaching. So, in other words, no teaching, no technology.
I was taken back to the mission, when i was reading through this vital learning. I was reminded of a way of teaching that I have always used when teaching a brand new investigator. It is referred to as baby steps.
In additional, when teaching a potential member of the Chruch, it's like teaching a new born baby. You have to start from the very beginning. You have to start teaching from scratch. You have to teach and show them how, step by step, one step at a time. When a baby learns how to climb a ladder, he has to know how to move from one step to another until he or she reaches the top. We all know what would happen if trying to jump from the bottom to the top. It is not going to be good. Any baby needs a milk before any other type of food. Investigators of the Church need milk before meat.
Moreover, one more thing that came to my mind while I was pondering over this article, is the fact that unprepared and unproductive missionaries cause themselves, and other members of the Church a lot of work, time and effort to try to work with these people. This is very well related to one of the paragraphs I read in the very beginning of this reading; "ineffective trainning is costing business... hidden cost of lost opportunity. Employees who are never trained to effectively or fully utilize the technologies of their work or provide effective customer service add up to a tremendous loss in productivity."
One of the cool things i have learned for myself from reading Technology of Teaching is just that, the fact that teaching is technology. Everytime i see and hear the word technology, the only things that come to mind are computers, internet, digital cameras, vedios, TV, phones, etc. I never thought of teaching as a technology, but if you actually think about it, all those machines or devices would not function the way they are now, if it wasn't for teaching and learning, developing and implementing some source of informaiton created in them by technicians and compilers. In fact, they would have not even existed if it wasn't for the people that invented them because of the knowlegde they have received from teaching. So, in other words, no teaching, no technology.
I was taken back to the mission, when i was reading through this vital learning. I was reminded of a way of teaching that I have always used when teaching a brand new investigator. It is referred to as baby steps.
In additional, when teaching a potential member of the Chruch, it's like teaching a new born baby. You have to start from the very beginning. You have to start teaching from scratch. You have to teach and show them how, step by step, one step at a time. When a baby learns how to climb a ladder, he has to know how to move from one step to another until he or she reaches the top. We all know what would happen if trying to jump from the bottom to the top. It is not going to be good. Any baby needs a milk before any other type of food. Investigators of the Church need milk before meat.
Moreover, one more thing that came to my mind while I was pondering over this article, is the fact that unprepared and unproductive missionaries cause themselves, and other members of the Church a lot of work, time and effort to try to work with these people. This is very well related to one of the paragraphs I read in the very beginning of this reading; "ineffective trainning is costing business... hidden cost of lost opportunity. Employees who are never trained to effectively or fully utilize the technologies of their work or provide effective customer service add up to a tremendous loss in productivity."
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Post #1: Who I am.
Talofa,My name is Sekati Filipo Maa Fiaui. A lot of people call me Rock or Rocky. Rock is an English name for my name Maa. I leave that choice up to you to decide which name you want to call me. I don't really care as long as you call me with one of the names i have listed above.
I am from the beautiful island of Samoa. It is about 24,000 miles south of Hawaii, or 6 hours plane trip. I was born there then raised up in New Zealand for few years, then my family moved back to Samoa and stayed there eversince. I left my family to serve a full time mission in North Carolina Raleigh Mission. I loved it with everything i had. I love it so much that my parents adopted my little sisiter and named her Carolina. I was the first missionary in my famiily. I don't have the time to tell you about all the experiences i have found on the mission, but i just want to say that I am very grateful for the decison i made to go on a mission and everything i do now are all related back to my mission experiences.
I was home for 4 months and then left to come to school here at BYUH during Spring of 2007. I am now studying Information Technology as a major, but i am taking this class because i have a lot of interest in doing this kind of things and I want to take IDD as a second major if i could. Both of this areas are greatly needed in Samoa. So my dream is to become as IT because Samoa is moving up. If everything goes well one of my goals is to be able to run my own business in the future. Moreover i also want to design websites and locals for companies mainly in Samoa and hopefully to go internationally. So my plan right now is to get a degree from BYUH; go back home and work, and after one year in Samoa I want to come back and do my Master Degree.
I also want to serve as a Seminary and Institude Co-ordinator or something of that nature inthe future. My greatest desire is to be able to help our young people back home to become the people the Lord wants them to be.
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