Digital Media for DIGITAL NATIVES

Reflective Journal II - TLL

Talking about digital media, there are always some characteristics inside it. I love digital media, so I have to know what are the characteristics of it. Reading the article of topic 4 in TLL Module, has let me know what are they. Text, images, audio, video, interactivity, software, feedback, wow! We still have a lot :) Those things are what we usually face in our daily activities. We need those great characteristics in the digital media! Remember, we are digital natives! We are easy to understand the use of technologies.

Then, what would technology be without those characteristics?

I believe, we will get bored! Absolutely.

We, as the digital natives have realized that we need media in order to communicate, to share our thought, our mind, our voice, ourselves!

I love the part of the module, which said 

Communication is at the heart of language teaching and learning.

Yeah! Using technology means it helps us to communicate to others.
It helps us in language teaching and learning *yuhuuu..
Technology is a magic which has come into my life, our life!

We can get lots of information easily.

We can interact to others easily.

We can get any feedback from others easily.

We can distribute any information to digital media easily (as well).

See? How great technologies are!

Sometimes I wonder that computer is smarter than me. I realized that one.

However, in many books I read, they always say human is much better than computer! The one who created computer is a human! Human is always able to learn about computer. Computer is only a smart machine. It is able to be broken (well, I don't want mine to get broken) LOL. 

Whether my computer is smarter than me or not. I love my computer. I am absolutely addicted! And you too #Let's keep it as a secret :)

The characteristics of digital media nowadays have let us get into a modern era.

The information of digital media nowadays is really flexible to be edited, to be used (software), to be mixed (images, video, audio), and even to be plagiarized as well. Hikz -____-"
Our position now as a learner, a teacher, and a digital native needs to make us realize that we have to do something right. It would be embarrassing, once you know that your status as a student is also as a plagiarist. Digital media has helped us a lot in our study, our work, our life!
Then why don't we be thankful and try to appreciate many things we have got?

Again, TECHNOLOGY IS A MAGIC.
It's about how you use it :)
 
Keep Moving Forward, Technology :D

Being A Nice Translator - Unforgettable Moment!

La La La La La...

I was so happy till I sang a song, last Sunday.

I had a good chance to be a translator for ACCESS event.

What a great opportunity!

Well, because ACCESS belongs to Putera Sampoerna Foundation, 

I was able to be the one of translators for this great event.

In fact, I am a student at his university (Sampoerna School of Education).

I will never forget this event..

Unforgettable  :)

So, what I've done there is doing many things.

I helped some natives from America to translate their language into Bahasa Indonesia

or you may say that I helped them to promote their university to the guests who came.

The name of that university is 'California State University Fullerton' (CSUF)

CSUF is a part of California State University, 

as we know California State University has 23 branches in different location.

It made me dare to dream to study there..

That's right.

Why not?

By the way, the people in this stand has 4 people.

If you see the nice picture above, 

the left one is ? (ouch, I forgot the name. I am terribly sorry)

He is quite handsome, right? hohoo..
I just remember that he is a Viet Nam-American.

He has graduated from CSUF.

The beautiful girl beside him is Nhan To.

She is from Viet Nam exactly.

She is a hard worker, kind person also.

She is nice.. *congratulate me.. (hmm..?)

Well, about the person beside Nhan is Lisa Xue.

She is a director of CSUF.

Fantastic!

I meet, I learn directly with the director.. Wow!

She is Chinese-American.

She is a very wise person. Everyone will love her. Trust me..

And so the right and the last one is Christine.

She is a very nice and a very good teacher to tell me all things about CSUF!

She told me that I am a quick learner *cieee.. 

Though I am not sure about that, Laugh Out Loud..

It's nice to hear all words from her.

She told me everything very clearly. 
She is friendly, okay then.. I like it.

Having a big dream in our lives is not a mistake at all.

A good chance I had is only a way for me to be better and better.

Believe yourself can do anything in your life.

Whether by being a translator, being a good person, even being yourself.

Ya, just be yourself *wink..

I have a good quote for sure.

"It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice." - Unknown

What do you think then?

Which one are you?

Nice and important. Good words ever after, yay!

Let's do something in our short life.

We will never know if tomorrow never comes..

See Also...

• A Letter for New Friends
• ACCESS Education Beyond
• Being Si Pitung 2011 - Apologize me!