Teaching Experience Over the Pandemic

 Hi Everyone! It is me Sudiksha Budhrani and I am back with some interesting stories to share. During the holidays, I was completing my final project assignments for various of my classes such as Writing Fundamentals, Academic English 1, Introduction to Sociology, Public Speaking and Photography and Videography class. I also had some spare time which I have used to teach children. I first taught my cousins so the sons of my moms sister's children and they seemed to really enjoy it. They then told their friends and the guy below is their friend. I taught them how to use Canva so how to make creative Powerpoint, videos, birthday cards and many more. Other than that I also taught them Web Designing and how to make a blog using Wix, something I honestly discovered during Writing Fundamentals Class.

That is a picture of me teaching the boy on Zoom how to use Canva.

I allowed the boy to pic his powerpoint template based on his creativity and he choose this template. I thought him how to add elements, change the font, change the background colour and add some animation effects. I also asked him wether her enjoyed the class today and he said yes. The boy was quiet at first because his microphone was muted, however after some time he unmuted his microphone and started asking questions. He called me teacher and I somewhat felt old, however the respect was a different experience and it kind of felt good to be honest. The child was very fun to teach and enthusiastic, I taught him how to do powerpoint and he asked wether he could play around and try to make presentation for his homework. I said sure, go ahead. He asked wether he could make posters related to New Year's and Christmas, I said why not. Feel free to try now that you know how to use Canva. I think it was honestly a different experience for me, because I have noticed that Singaporean children are smarter and more eager to learn as compared to Indonesian children which are somewhat pampered in my opinion. To be honest, I was surprised that this boy was 7 years old and only in Primary 2 and he wanted to learn all this, not to forget he was also a fast learner. I hope that he can maybe use this skills for school or even his business in the future. I never realised that I could actually be a teacher if I put in effort. Making class plans actually take so much time. I really appreciate all those teachers that have been there for me the past years.

Photography and Videography Final Project Shooting

 

Last Tuesday me and my teammates for photography and videography class Kenji and Raisa went to Starbucks for our final project shooting. We went to the Starbucks branch in Cik Ditiro, Menteng. Our final project was to create an advertisement. We tried our best to go for before Christmas and New Year because we expected the Covid-19 cases to spike after Christmas. We took the necessary precautions using face shield and masks. We went there at 1 pm since it was not as crowded during lunch time and we shoot all our scenes within 30 minutes since our parents kept on calling us to go home fast and we also understood that they were worried about our safety. We went during tumbler day and hence got 50% off on our drink, I think that was personally the highlight of my day, not only was I allowed to go out for the sake of a project but I felt really good meeting people aka stepping out of the house after 9 months. It was an unforgettable experience indeed!

Introduction to Communication Science Class

 

Hi Everyone! It is me Sudiksha, welcome back to my blog! Today I learned about an issue in my Introduction to Communication Science Class which is very interesting as well as important,  it is called Infodemic. So what exactly is an infodemic? Now we are facing a pandemic which is the Corona-Virus or Covid-19. However, ever since this covid time there has also been a spread of information, like you don't even know what you are watching in the news if it is true or not, there are so many fake news and hoaxes that are spreading online. This is creating so much fear and panic among people. This is why we learned about media literacy which I will be sharing with you guys what I have learned below. 

7 Skills of Media Literacy (Potter, 2014): 

1. Analysis:  Breaking down a message into meaningful elements. 
2. Evaluation: Judging the value of the elements.
3. Grouping: Determining are alike/ different in some ways.
4. Induction: Inferring a pattern from a small scale to make generalisations.
5. Deduction: Using general principles to explain particulars.
6. Synthesis: Assembling elements to a new structure.
7. Abstracting: Creating a brief, clear, accurate description of the essence of the message. 

7 Types of  Mis-Dis-Mal Information

1. Satire/ Parody

2. Misleading Content

3.Imposter Content 

4.Fabricated Content 

5. Manipulated Content 

6.False Connection

7.False Context  

Definitions of Terms:

Satire is often a post of a joke, without any intention to harm or deceive.

Misleading information is usually made to frame an individual.

Imposter content is making use of genuine sources and often impersonated. 

Fabricated content is 100% false information to deceive people.

Manipulated content is genuine information that is altered with the intention to deceive.

False Connection: When headlines, captions or pictures do not support the content of the article.

False Context: Genuine content is spread with false contextual information.

Conclusion/Reflection: From this class I have learned that we should not simply believe everything we see in the internet. My teacher told me about this website, called Tineye, https://tineye.com/. You can upload a screenshot of whatever you see only to help you verify the information, other than this don't forget to cross check with other online sources too. Sometimes, the news can even spread false information especially if there is a motive behind the business or the government. I hope that you learned something from my post today and be careful with what you believe from the internet. Today was actually my last day of class and I have Christmas holidays. I wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. 

Stay Safe and Healthy!

Google Plus Learning journey + Reflection

Hi guys, Today I would actually like to let you guys know about my project for Writing Fundamentals Blog. As promised in my previous post, I would share my presentation slides with you guys so that hopefully you guys can learn something about Google Plus.
 

Reflection: During this project, we usually chat through Whatsapp. We made the slides in Canva and we shared the link through email, then we edited the slides together. Mark gave us some constructive criticism, he said our group worked well as a team. He said there was a smooth transition between our members and appreciated us helping one another. He also said that I have better english abilities then I give myself credit for and hopes I can improve my introduction. I think we would have been able to perform better if we could have scheduled time to practice beforehand. It was pretty good that Rissa and Ameina brought up our team in terms of presentation. I think presentation is something I need to work on in the future. Although, I admit I was mostly more comfortable doing work from behind the scene. Like I was leading my friends in the powerpoint creation and process, I was like there are 4 sections which we need to cover, choose which part you guys wanna do. I prefer being a leader without people noticing that I am actually leading them because I may seem bossy and kind of ambitious which is not a quality that I am exactly proud of. My group was good because we did complement each other in terms of strengths and weaknesses, like for me I handled the Powerpoint with the help of Naira while Ameina and Rissa were good in the delivery part of the presentation. Overall, I was pretty satisfied with how my group's presentation came out to be. 

Social Media Entity Learning Journey

 source: Iskandarjet.com

source: bisnis.tempo.co
 

source: magneticmag.com

source: vine.co/logo

source: brandsoftheworld.com

Hey guys, welcome back to my blog. I am Sudiksha Budhrani and I would like to share what I learned in class today. In today's class my group presented about google plus. I also listened to other groups presentations which were about path, myspace, vine and friendster. We were the first to present and I have to admit that I was kind of nervous. My teacher said that in my introduction I was very brief and I only said what I had to when I could have actually made it a bit more detailed. It was very interesting to listen to why these companies have failed and I surely had takeaways. This experience has shaped my communication skills and I hope through my teacher's constructive criticism and learning from my classmates I could be a better presenter. To sum up what I learned from my friends presentations, the main reason why those 5 companies failed varied but they were pretty similar to each other. One of the main reasons that I learned why those companies failed was because they were unable to meet customer demands and they offered something to similar to Facebook which was already booming and popular. In the case of google plus, they exploited people's data and sold it to third party companies. This lead them to have to pay $12 to every user to about 450, 000 users that they exploited their data, this lead them into debt and to go bankrupt. I think companies should be more aware towards market demands and needs and they should try to be more unique. I really enjoyed today's class. I will be posting my groups presentation and reflection of my group's process of creating the powerpoint in my next post.

Netflix Series A Love to Last Review

 

Hey, guys ! Welcome back to my blog... 

    I finally finished A Love to Last and I was pretty happy with how the story turned out in the end. To continue the story from the previous post, Anton's Ex wife, Grace Silverio tries to become a business partner to win Anton back. However, Anton already has feelings for Andrea Agoncillo and married her. Although, Anton's children miss having a complete family and hopes that their mother, Grace Silverio would make up with their dad, they also remember the pain that they had to go through when their mother Grace Silverio left them. Grace tries to win Anton back and ruin his marriage with Andrea because he realises he is still in love with him. Grace made an investment when Anton got promoted to Asia Pacific region in Hong Kong which made her be able to follow Anton in Hong Kong since she still has feelings for her. Andrea flies to Hong Kong with her best friend Tracy to surprise Anton when she caught Grace kissing Anton. Andrea felt hurt and decided to leave Anton. Chloe, the eldest daughter confronts her mother Grace and told her mother that she is so selfish and only wants Anton because she still loves him. This is affecting the 3 siblings, Chloe, Lucas and Kitty because they are happy having a happy family and they love their stepmother Andrea very much. Grace becomes very depressed and tries to take an overdose of pills nearly killing herself. Chloe gets Grace to apologise to Andrea for everything she did. Kitty the youngest sibling gets an Asthma attack because she is very stressed that Andrea is leaving and that they cannot go to Disneyland as a family. Just as the flight is about to leave, Kitty sees Andrea in the runway and Anton tells the pilot to land so they can take Andrea in their flight to Disneyland. Andrew, Andrea's stepbrother has a baby with Bianca, niece of Grace Silverio (Anton's ex wife). Andrea also gets pregnant. Grace returns to America to undergo therapy and her children visit them during the school holidays. Anton finally gives his permission for Chloe to have a boyfriend Tupe Dimayuga.

    This story is really good because it teaches us that love can conquer all, people are willing to go through the most painful moments for their loved ones. You will never give up on the people you love and you would do anything you love. This movie series also teaches us that decisions have consequences and you should learn to live with the results of your choices. Family is more important than career. In my opinion, this movie series also had really good acting, I really like the camera movements and the flashbacks. I really like how this movie series really had a strong message and how it actually came out really amazing. I also love the storyline how it is a romance story, but not very typical because there was an involvement of family in the story and it was not the normal cliche "Just fall in love story." 

There were a lot of details to the story which made it very satisfying to watch. It was very unique in terms of is storyline, how the characters acted and how the movie was shot. This is my first time that I watched a movie series made in the Philippines and it was pretty interesting that I finished 94 episodes in less than 2 weeks!

That's it from me! 

Stay Safe and Healthy Everyone!

Sudiksha Budhrani

Netflix Series A Love to Last

 

    Hey, welcome back to my blog guys! We had a public holiday today because of Pilkada, voting for the governor in other provinces, not in Jakarta but it was good because we got a holiday. I have been quite free in university lately and decided to watch a movie series from Netflix called "A Love to Last." 

    Honestly, I have been watching this for the past 2 weeks now and I already managed to finish 78 episodes. I really liked this because it was a story from the Philippines, it was different from the other drama stories that I used to watch. It is a story about love and what I really like is how the characters are portrayed, I really believe the cast for this show is really good, they were able to drive your emotions by their acting. This movie is actually about a family, A rich CEO, Anton gets left behind by his wife, Grace. He has 3 children and he has to take care of them since their Mom left them. Then a party planner from Good Events, Andrea works with him to plan a Tech Fair for his company. Soon After, he fall in love with Andrea. Anton the CEO of Celba decides to marry Andrea the party planner and co-owner of Good Events. Anton then marries Andrea after the kids accept Andrea as her step mom. Then there is a twist because Grace, her ex-wife decides to come back from the states. Grace is now trying to get back to Anton by buying shares in Celba, Anton's company. Grace says that she only wants to help Anton but let's see what happens.

Social Media Study

 

Hey Guys, hope you guys are all healthy and happy! I just want to give you guys an update of what we did in writing fundamentals class yesterday. We were introduced to the idea of internet research. It is actually related to last week's class. In last week's class we learn't about case studies, this week the internet research assignment was related to case studies, we were given a social media entity which we had to do research on. We did this research as a team based on our break out rooms. Below attached are my teammates, they are Ameina, Naira and Rissa.

We were assigned to Google Plus and we had to create a powerpoint. We discussed and decided that we will have 4 main points of discussion and each of us will cover 1 point of discussion. I decided to take the part of background of Google Plus defining what it is, what its purpose and aims are. Rissa would explain its growth and expansion. Naira would talk about the financial decisions that Google Plus. Ameina would like to give advice to other company, something we gathered after doing research about Google Plus. Our group is smooth so far, we are doing our own sections and we will take a look at each other's work and give feedback to each other after.