Welcome to FoCuS IT

Greetings and Welcome ;-)

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This is an educational event by FoCuSIT. The theme for this event was "Design IT, Record IT, Capture IT, Share IT".

This event covers:

* Welcoming speech by Deputy Dean from Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Unimas.

* Sessions are categorized into 3 themes, Design IT, Record IT, Capture IT. Participants will choose which session they would like to be involved with.

* 3 softwares to be explored which are PrintArtist (Design IT), SoundForge (Record IT) and MovieMaker (Capture IT).

* Competition for each sessions; Design IT, Record IT, Capture IT.

* Photo sessions

What will the participants get from this event?

Free CD for the participants to copy the files they have made throughout the sessions, knowledge on new softwares, free demonstration session for each softwares (never been taught at school), free FoCuSIT t-shirt and last but not least, the participants will learn the spirit of unity and goodwill and share it with other participants.

Diary 11 : Hugee Thanks to Everyone!

2007-11-05T18:19:00.001-08:00

Hii!.. :D

As you've noticed, the event has been implemented, and the dateline is coming. Plus, exam is just around the corner! Phew, what hectic days we have in these 2 weeks. Nonetheless, we're very happy that the event went well, and of course, felt relief.. :)

So here's some updates that we've been through along the way to the datelines :P

We've been busy updating these items :
1. Gathering all event pictures, sorting them out, event videos, audios & cards.
2. Create event pictures albums with captions ^^
3. The compilation of event outcomes
4. Update project blog and add items from the events
5. Summarize what we have done and conclude it in a presentation cd.

We've work out all our best to provide everyone the best outcome from the event.

We would also like to thank all those who have been supporting us, especially Maxis & UNIMAS, our Advisor : Mr.Johari, the SWAT team : Deez, Mael, Jijul (haha, kidding - the team members) for the super-big efforts. We've done it guys! *pat on own shoulder*

Not to forget, thanks to SK Laksamana's teachers & students for participating in our event. And well done for those exciting project outcome. We wish to see you again soon (maybe). *hugs n kisses*

Hugee thanks also to our assisting friend, Mun Kit & Eda for spending their precious time for us. Also to the staffs that have been helping, Erol, Nurul, Abg Razeki, Kak Hamisah, Kak Khai, Kak Zu, Kak Sharifah, Kak Doris, Kak Shue.. thanks & muah muah. :P

We've been having lots and lots of fun through the event, and we hope that by going through our event photos, you'll have fun too. ^_^

Have fun everyone, and good luck :)

Regards,
Ayu
FocusIT Team

Event Day Gallery : Group Photos :)

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Event Day Gallery : Closing & Prize Giving Ceremony

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Event Day Gallery : Project Presentations

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Aha! Here's the cool part. For project presentations session, we require the students to stand in front of all their friends to present their outcome. This is to let them share on what they have done throughout the category. Thus, despite sharing it with others, we could help them to gain some confidence on public speaking. ^_^

Outcome of Record.IT Session

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This was the outcome of Record IT Session.

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Team 1 :

Team 2 :

Team 3 :

Outcome of Capture.IT Session

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This is the video made by SK Laksamana's students.

Video 1 :

Video 2 :

Outcome of Design.IT Session

2007-11-04T22:49:00.000-08:00

This was the outcome of Design IT Session.

The first place design was won by Marshellena and her team mate. They've showed what they've understand throughout the session and apply them into their design.

Other designs are shown below.

Overall, the students showed their interests in knowing each races celebrations and learning the new software.

Event Day Gallery : "Capture It" - Video Category

2007-11-04T03:42:00.000-08:00

Video Category - Capture It is handled by Jijul and he uses MovieMaker software for editing. This category requires acting and Jijul have prepared scripts for the participants. However, he still allows them to add their own creativity.

The video made are also themed on Unity Spirit & Goodwill. After shooting done, raw files are transferred from the video cam and given to the participants for editing session.

More info on this can be found under Sessions and the videos can be viewed in [Outcomes from Design IT, Record IT and Capture IT sessions] section, under Gallery.

1. Shooting Session :

2. Video Editing Session :

Event Day Gallery : "Record It" - Audio Category

2007-11-03T05:48:00.000-07:00

This Audio category - Record It is an activity that is conducted by Myel which is using SoundForge software. He teaches the participants how to record songs using SoundForge and play them back using mediaplayer.

In order to encourage unity, songs that are chosen for recording are folk songs such as Rasa Sayang. These students need to sing the song and they may put some creativity (for example ; 'berpantun') in the song.

After all recording done, they went back to the lab, for some editing sessions.

More info on Audio category can be found at Sessions and the videos can be watched at [Outcomes from Design IT, Record IT and Capture IT sessions] section, under Gallery.

1. Recording Session:

2. Editing Session :

Event Day Gallery : "Design It" - Graphic Category

2007-11-03T04:27:00.000-07:00

The Graphic Category - Design IT emphasizes on creating graphic materials using Print Artists software. During this category session, Deez (the instructor) teach the participants how to create greeting cards.

She also taught them how to surf through Google for images and how to import them into the software. As an assignment, she asked them to be in pair and create two festive celebrations in one card. The students must learn on the celebration that their partner is celebrating, to let them understand & respect each race's tradition.

More descriptions on this category can be viewed in Session and the participant's created cards can be found in [Outcomes from Design IT, Record IT and Capture IT sessions] under Gallery.

Event Day Gallery : Welcoming Speech

2007-11-03T01:26:00.000-07:00

Our Welcoming Speech session starts at 8.30 am and Jijul is the emcee for the session. We invited a guest, the Vice Dean of Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Dr Noor Alamshah Bolhassan to give his speech, on behalf of the faculty. Then, Ayu brief the students on the project objectives, and the activities that will be carried out. After all briefings done, all remarks said, the students went for morning break. Later, they start their activity in the computer labs.

Event Day Gallery : Arrival & Registrations

2007-11-02T08:13:00.000-07:00

As early as 6.30 am, I arrive in UNIMAS in order to get in the bus heading to SK Laksamana on 7 am. Our UNIMAS's bus driver named Mr.Mahidi waits at the Student Affairs building at 6.50am. Soon as we're set to go, we start the journey. There's less traffic jams compared to other usual days, and we manage to arrive at SK Laksamana around 7.30am. Perfect!

The bus stop, and when I come out from the bus, the students are very excited.Of course, it's because of the UNIMAS's bus ;). Then, they quickly lines up (without having to be told) and I allow them to get up to the bus. We head back to UNIMAS and arrive there at around 7.55am. Phew, right on time!

So, we take few pictures in front of the faculty and lobby before going to registrations :)

The event registrations are handled by two of our team members, Jijul and Deez. Not long after the student's arrival, they goes for a registration session at the faculty lobby. The students are asked to sign their name on a list before getting the event's file folder.The colors are different among categories :- pink is for graphic, green for audio, & blue is for video. Different category have different manuals inside the file, and thus we separate them using colors. Category sticker is also given, and those who already receive the sticker are required to stick it on their arm.

When all registration done, the participants went to Multimedia Theather for short Welcoming Speech.

1. Arrival :

2. Registrations :

Record.IT.Session

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Click for further details on each sessions.

Design IT Record IT Capture IT

Advisor : Mr Johari Abdullah Team Leader : Maznizarahayu Rosle

The primary motiv and objective of this session is to give awareness to participants about Malaysian songs, this is include, but not limited to 'lagu-lagu rakyat' and 'lagu kebangsaan'. Also to teach participants about sound editing process this is include, but not limited to about the software used for sound editing, sound recording, extracting audio from various resources such as CDs, creating audio CD and burning the created audio into CD.

For this category, there are three sessions; learning session - participants will learn about sound and the software used for sound editing (SoundForge 7 - trial version); recording session - participants will learn about recording process using the software; and editing session - participants will learn the process of editing the recorded audio.

Participants also will have to form a group of four to do a given task. The task is they have to create their own version of song (using knowledge learned from learning session) from a given songs (7 Malaysian songs).

Sound Forge 7.0 trial version is the sound editing tool will be used for record IT category. The reason of why using Sound Forge is because it is a powerful sound editing software that not only professionals can use it, but for intermediate and also for beginner. Sound Forge provide functions in sound editing including basic functions (such copy, cut, paste, mix, crossfade, fade-in, fade-out), and advance funtions .

Outcome:

The outcome of the session is very encouraging. All of the participants are able to creatively create, record and edit their recorded audios and burn it into cds. They are also had known how to important the racial harmony and unity to Malaysian through a songs and singging activity. As a whole, the main objective in having the segment had fulfilled and the whole segment is a success.

Record IT instructor

Name: Mohd Ismail Jolhip

Major: Software Engineering

Certificates: Microsoft Certified Professionals (MCP)
Microsoft Certified Application Developer (MCAD)

Design.IT.Session

2007-11-02T05:39:00.000-07:00

Click for further details on each sessions.

Design IT | Record IT | Capture IT

Advisor : Mr Johari Abdullah | Team Leader : Maznizarahayu Rosle

The main objective of this session is to enhance the spirit of unity among different races in

Malaysia. The second objective is to teach students on learning design software, which is

PrintArtist.

This session is divided into two parts.

Students will learn how to use the software during the first part.

In the second part, students are given the chance to choose their partner from other races and

they are given the task to create one card which represents both races festives.

Why Print Artist?

Print Artist is a very easy-to-use software and also can be used to create postcards, calendars,

bookmarks, etc.

Outcome:

All of the students are able to understand the uniqueness of each races.

Design IT Instructor :

Name: Siti Khadizah Harman

Major: Multimedia Computing

Certificates: Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Flash

Capture.IT.Session

2007-11-02T05:25:00.000-07:00

Click for further details on each sessions.

Design IT | Record IT | Capture IT

Advisor : Mr Johari Abdullah | Team Leader : Maznizarahayu Rosle

The primary motive of this session is to enhance the awareness among young school students about racial harmony and unity. The secondary motive is to teach them how to use computers to edit movie based on their creativity.

In the session, students are divided into 2 groups. Each group will perform their own short sketch of 15 minutes.

Group 1 performed a sketch in a classroom where the student is discussing about racial harmony while their teacher is still teaching them about the independence.

Group 2 performed a real time sketch about them preparing a presentation about unity in Malaysia. In this sketch, they will work together to complete the presentation.

The software that was used to edit the sketch is Microsoft Moviemaker. The reason Microsoft Moviemaker was used because it is standard software installed in Microsoft Windows operating system package and it is very easy to use. A half an hour of briefing them on how to use the software, students was able to use the software easily.

Outcome:

The outcome of the session is very encouraging. All of the students are able to creatively edit their movies and burn it into cds. They are also had known how to important the racial harmony and unity to Malaysia. As a whole, the main objective in having the segment had fulfilled and the whole segment is a success.

Capture IT Instructor :

Name: Azizul Azni Ahmad Zainuddin

Major: Information System

Certificates: Microsoft Certified System Administrator (MCSA), Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP)

Event Preparation Day (24 October 2007)

2007-11-01T06:10:00.000-07:00

Updates on our preparation day!

After we completed our pre-visit to SK Laksamana, four of us directly went to UNIMAS for the event preparation. We start around 11.30 am, and everyone do their own allocated tasks. Our preparation location was at Teaching Lab 1.

Deez handles all the printing part, the certificates & cd cover, while Myel task is to make sure that all devices needed for the event are ready. Myel also helps on the installations of required software for next day. Jijul and I went shopping :P for hampers, mineral water, photocopied the manuals, bought the file folders + stationaries and empty cds.

We managed to buy everything before 3pm, and rushed back to UNIMAS. Then all of us went to see our advisor, Mr Johari for final preparation check. After all confirmation has been made, we went back to lab, and continue the preparation.

The preparation ends at 6.30pm, and all of us was exhausted. We went home, have a good rest, and looking forward for the event day!

Check out these preparation photos :

More updates soon,
Ayu,
FocusIT

Pre-visit to SK Laksamana on 24 October 2007

2007-10-31T06:04:00.000-07:00

One day before the event, we made a pre-visit to the participant's school to do some short briefing on the 'Increasing Unity Spirit and Goodwill Among Young Malaysians' event.

We arrived at SK Laksamana around 10 am, and greeted by Mdm Wes and Pn Zeti. Soon after we arrive, we were then brought to the school's meeting room, the place where we conduct the briefing. After all participants gathered in the room, we start by introducing ourselves and the objectives of the event. Then, the team members (Deez, Mael & Jijul) explains on the activities planned for each category. Later, we started to distribute the specially designed focusIT t-shirt for this event.

Before going off, we stopped by at the Headmaster's office, and have a short talk with him. We took few photos, signed the school visitor's book and then head back to UNIMAS to start our preparation for the event.

Here's the photos of our pre-visit to SK Laksamana on 24 October:

p/s : look for our preparation photos next! :)

Signing off for now,
Ayu, FocusIT

Analysis

2007-10-26T23:57:00.000-07:00

Here are some comments from SK Laksamana Participants

"Thank you so much for inviting us joining this event. They were so excited!!!! They loved it very much. Thank you so much for everything. You are so talented in your work. You know what goes together and how to make it look so beautiful. Thank you for all of your kindness. We loved everything you did. Thank you and good luck in all you do" - Mdm. Wes, SK Laksamana Teacher

" All of my friends enjoyed your sessions...I have learned much from this event and really enjoyed them " - Kelvin Wong

"We really enjoy this, lagipun dapat baju free! dan dapat menyanyi!" - Claudia

"It felt really nice to be able to learn and enjoy your event day. With this, I learned how to keep us together!" - Norman

Schedule

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Program Tentative

"Increasing Goodwill Among Young Malaysians"

Date : 25^th October 2007

0800-0830 Registration

0830-0900 Welcoming Speech

0900-0930 Morning Break

0930-1230 Activity I – “Design It, Record It, Capture It”

1230-1330 Lunch

1330-1530 Activity II – “Explore Your Creativity”

1530-1545 Evaluation Session by team members

1545-1630 Closing Ceremony + Photo Session

1630-1700 Afternoon Tea

1700 End of event

Session

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Click for further details on each sessions.

[Sessions]

[Design IT] | [Record IT] | [Capture IT]

Advisor : Mr Johari Abdullah | Team Leader : Maznizarahayu Rosle

Gallery

2007-10-26T21:28:00.000-07:00

Gallery has been categorized into three sections:

[ Before Event ]

- Event Materials

- The Pre-visit to SK Laksamana

- Event Preparation Day ~ 24th October 2007

[ Event Day ] *new

- Arrival and Registrations

- Welcoming Speech

- Graphic Category (Design IT)

- Audio Category (Record IT)

- Video Category (Capture IT)

- Project Outcome Presentations

- Prize Giving & Closing Ceremony

- Special Moments & Group Photos

[Outcomes from Design IT, Record IT and Capture IT sessions]

- Design IT

- Record IT

- Capture IT

Gallery - Before Event

2007-10-26T21:24:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone,

Here's the stuffs that we've prepared for the event:

1. Program Tentative :

2. Banners for the event ;-)

3. Category Badges - The badges that will be used by the students, according to their category :
i) Graphic Category - "Design It"

ii) Audio Category - "Record It"

iii) Video Category - "Capture It"

iv) "Share It"

4. Participant's t-shirt.

We're looking forward to see the participants wear these t-shirts!

Diary 8 : T-Shirts Arrived!

2007-10-23T07:17:00.000-07:00

Yay! participant's t-shirts arrived!
Date: 23 October 2007

Yippie,

Today we have collected our ordered t-shirts for the participants. We'll distribute these t-shirts to the participants tomorrow, a day before the events. Check out our t-shirt pictures below:

"FocusIT - Design it, Capture it, Record it, Share it"

We are excited to meet them tomorrow. We'll update you with our activity tomorrow, during our visit to the participant's school.. ^_^

Regards,
Ayu,
FocusIT

Diary 7 : Final Design

2007-10-23T07:03:00.000-07:00

Participant's final t-shirt design.
Date : 11 October 2007

Hi all,

Due to some circumstances, we have to re-design our t-shirt, to make it simpler and cheaper. No worries, the new design is simple, but I'm sure everyone likes it! :D

Here's the design :

We're looking forward to see the participants wear these t-shirts!

New Design - Version 2
Date:30 September 2007

Hello everyone,

Here we have our t-shirt latest design!

Front View :

Back View :

Thanks to Mael his efforts!

T-Shirt Design - Version 1
Date: 27 September 2007
New updates!

Here's our t-shirt design (for the participants).

Isn't it nice? Thanks to our designer - Deez, for such a good work!

Coming up are the badges design for each category! :D

2007-10-23T06:25:00.000-07:00

Yeay! Finally, we have came with a new layout and better navigation. Feel free to view it.
As usual, for latest updates, do check out our activity diary.

Cheers,
Deez.

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Date: October 8, 2007

Hi everyone!

We have changed our navigation for this blog.

You can check for any latest updates by clicking on the menu 'Diary'.

Come and check them out now! :)

Have fun,
-Ayu, FocusIT Team-

Diary 1 : Task Distributions

2007-10-23T06:11:00.000-07:00

Diary Date: 13 September 2007

[Things to do]
1) Invite school - letter of invitation, getting student & teacher lists
2) Transportation - contact bus company
3) Talk Content
4) Activity Content- Important!
i) Graphic -activity manual, prizes
ii) Audio - activity manual, prizes
iii) Video - activity manual, prizes
5) Banner, Uniform, Badge
6) Website maintenance
7) Outcome Analysis
8) Program Tentative + activity material - folder, stationaries
9) Lunch

[Ayu's Task]
1) Invite school - letter of invitation, getting student & teacher lists
2) Transportation
3) Program Tentative + activity material (manuals, devices)
4) Talk content
5) Prizes
6) Lunch
7) Order baju, badge
8) Website maintenance (on content part)

[Deezah's Task]
1) Design banner, uniform & badge.
2) Handles Graphic category
3) Prepare activities plan based on proposal for Graphic category
4) Certificates for students
5) Print banner
6) Website maintenance (on layout part)

[Mael's Task]
1) Handles Audio Category
2) Prepare activities plan based on proposal for Audio Category
3) Event outcome analysis, from questionnaires
4) Event Location preparation - for talk session
5) Website maintenance (on layout part)

[Jijul's Task]
1) Handles Video Category
2) Prepare activities plan based on proposal for Video Category
3) Create questionnaires
4) Event Location preparation - for activity session
5) Website maintenance (on content part)

Diary 2 : FocusIT Team Discussions

2007-10-23T06:10:00.000-07:00

Here we go..
Diary Date: 23rd September 2007

Hola everyone......:D

Today, our team had a discussion over our event planning with all the team members.
We met at one of the most be-a-u-ti-ful library in Sarawak -- Pustaka Negeri Sarawak!!
The weather was extremely hot, and Deezah was the first one arrived! After everyone has arrived, we make our
way to a special area which is only allowed to the members of the library.

Then, we started our discussion at 1pm and ends at 4pm.

Our main discussion are on the date of implementation, 25th October 2007.. and it is decided to be held on that day! Yippie..at last, it's confirmed!

We also discuss over the budget planning, the tentative, the activity for each category.

So here's the latest event tentative that has been decided :

[Latest Event Tentative]

0800-0830 : Registration
0830-0900 : Talk Session
0930-1000 : Morning Break
1000-1200 : Activity - Shooting for audio/ video (In tutorial room), graphic in teaching lab
1200-1300 : Lunch
1300-1500 : Editing Session (In Teaching Lab)
1500-1515 : Evaluation Session by team members
1515-1600 : Closing Ceremony
1600-1630 : Afternoon Tea
1630 : End of event

The designs of t-shirt, badge and banner is coming up! We'll post them as soon as we have finalized our event's theme design!

So, for now, you can take a look on our photos taken during our discussion day today..
Yea,we're cute! We know that! hahah. *grin* adiosssz!!

Our Discussion Day Photos (23rd September 2007):

Mael & Deezah

Jijul & Mael

Mael & Deezah (again :P)

Ayu,Jijul

Four of us discussing

Deezah giving out her opinion

Man hunt : Jijul, Mael (vote for them! haha)

UNIMAS's next top model : Deezah, Ayu (Dont vote for us! :P)

Regards,
-Ayu, FocusIT Team-

Diary 3 : Themes for Categories

2007-10-23T06:09:00.001-07:00

Categories' Theme :)
Date: 27 September 2007

As promised, here's our designed logo. We plan to get everyone a t-shirt and a badge, specially for each category. Each category (Graphic, Audio, Video) has its different logo, and these students will wear different badges according to their assigned category.

Yippie, we're so excited to do this event!

Here's our logo for the event :

Our theme for each category :
1) Graphic - "Design It"
- Perfectly symbolizes the activity of creating Greeting Cards

2) Audio - "Record It"
- Students will sing traditional songs, or famous 'lagu rakyat'.

3) Vide0 - "Capture It"
- Participants will shoot videos & edit them, ala2 Petronas Advert

4) Lastly, we "Share It"
- The outcome of the activity will be shared among participants and schools. We allow them to bring back their own artwork (burned in a cd), so that they're able to share them with their friends.

Phew, that's the updates on categories theme! Check out on the t-shirt design, on the next post!!

Signing off for now,
-Ayu, FocusIT Team-

Diary 4 : Participant Details

2007-10-23T06:09:00.000-07:00

Participant Details
Date: 3rd October 2007

Okay, today we prepare a Participants Detail Form that will be passed to the school tomorrow (SK Laksamana). This form requests for student's/ teacher's name, class and the size for their t-shirt.

Some screen shot of the form:

We've been working on to find 3 quotations from 3 shops for our event's t-shirt. Owh, by the way, these t-shirts will be sponsored by UNIMAS (Thanks to Mr.Johari!). Hm, the procedure aren't easy, since we have to get the quotations, make a justification why we want to order from that particular shop, and lastly wait for the financial department's approval before we can proceed to order our t-shirt.

So, while waiting for the approval, we have prepared the invitation letter for the participating school, requested for permissions to use UNIMAS's bus, and start documenting our activity materials.

Updates on activity plans will be posted as soon as it is finalized. Ganbatteh to Mael, Jijul and Deez for the activity plans!

That's all for now.

Signing off again,
-Ayu, FocusIT Team-

Diary 5 : We need new design!

2007-10-23T06:08:00.000-07:00

We need new design!
Date: 6th October 2007
Hi,

Here's a bit of disappointing news, we have to change our t-shirt design, since all of the t-shirt shops we went don't have dark brown color t-shirt. *sighs*

Some more, we need to modify our student's t-shirt design, due to some costs + time & payment issues - using LPO.

However, we tried to get everything ready before Hari Raya. Hopefully :)

Oh yes, for those who celebrates Hari Raya :

"Selamat Hari Raya & Maaf Zahir Batin"

p/s : How about giving us extra 'duit raya?' - Heee!

From Us,
FocusIT Team, UNIMAS. :)

Diary 6 : Another team discussion

2007-10-23T06:05:00.000-07:00

Event planning..
Date: 7th October 2007

We meet again for team discussion at our favorite place : Pustaka! The topic that we discussed about was on the new design of our t-shirt, and the budget allocations.

Jijul weren't able to come, because he's off somewhere else for personal business. The three of us, Ayu, Deez & Mael discussed around 1.30pm and go back at 3pm.

Discuss..discuss

left: Deez, right: Mael

Omg..my drawing!haha :P

That's all for now. :)
-Ayu, FocusIT Team-

Here we go..[Team's & discussion...]

2007-09-23T04:18:00.000-07:00

Hola everyone......:D

Today, our team had a discussion over our event planning with all the team members.
We met at one of the most be-a-u-ti-ful library in Sarawak -- Pustaka Negeri Sarawak!!
The weather was extremely hot, and Deezah was the first one arrived! After everyone has arrived, we make our
way to a special area which is only allowed to the members of the library.

Well, I'm actually not a member of that library, and when I entered that area, suddenly a library staff looked at me and asked.."are you a member here?".

I was shocked (actually nervous..takut kantoi :P) and turned my head, looking at Deezah and Jijul. Deezah then
saved our day by saying that she's a member here, (actually Jijul and Mael also a member) and we're allowed to
enter that area.

Phew, that was scary for me! heee!

Then, we started our discussion at 1pm and ends at 4pm.

Our main discussion are on the date of implementation, 25th October 2007.. and it is decided to be held on that day! Yippie..at last, it's confirmed!

We also discuss over the budget planning, the tentative, the activity for each category.

So here's the latest event tentative that has been decided :

Latest Event Tentative
---------------------------
0800-0830 Registration
0830-0900 Talk Session
0930-1000 Morning Break
1000-1200 Activity - Shooting for audio/video (In tutorial room), graphic in teaching lab
1200-1300 Lunch
1300-1500 Editing Session (In Teaching Lab)
1500-1515 Evaluation Session by team members
1515-1600 Closing Ceremony
1600-1630 Afternoon Tea
1630 End of event

The designs of t-shirt, badge and banner is coming up! We'll post them as soon as we have finalized our event's theme design!

So, for now, you can take a look on our photos taken during our discussion day today..
Yea,we're cute! We know that! hahah. *grin* adiosssz!!

Our Discussion Day Photos (23rd September 2007):

Left: Mael, Right:Deezah

Left: Jijul, Right: Mael

Left: Mael, Right:Deezah (again :P)

Left: Ayu, Right: Jijul

Four of us discussing

Deezah giving out her opinion

Man hunt : Upt-Jijul, Down-Mael (vote for them! haha)

UNIMAS's next top model : Up-Deezah, Down-Ayu (Dont vote for us! :P)

Regards,
-Ayu, FocusIT Team-

Diary

2007-09-13T19:21:00.000-07:00

These diaries are categorized in two sections. Feel free to view them.

[ After Event ]
| Diary 11 : Hugee Thanks to Everyone!

Project Expenses

2007-07-22T20:12:00.000-07:00

[Maxis's Budget]

Banner (2) + Sticker (50 pcs) - RM 250
Pocket File (50 pcs) - RM 30
Certificate Paper (50 pcs) - RM 10
Hampers (11) - RM 150
Mineral Water (3 dozens) - RM 30
CD-R (100pcs) - RM 50
CD Label + CD Sleeve (50pcs) - RM 15
Photocopy Manuals - RM 30
Printer Ink Catridge - RM 40
Stationaries (A4 paper + pencils) - RM 25
Team's T-shirt (5 pcs) - RM 200
Video Camera's Tape (4 pcs) - RM 70
School's souvenir (1 pcs) - RM 60
Courier service (to Maxis) - RM 40
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TOTAL = RM 1000

[UNIMAS's budget]

Student's t-shirt (50 pcs) - RM 450
Refreshments (morning,lunch, afternoon tea) (50) - RM 550
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TOTAL = RM 1000

Project Phase

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The proposed community project will be conducted in a one day session. There are several activities during the day to achieve the intended objectives of the project.

Figure 1.0: Project Structure

As shown in the above diagram, the proposed project consists of several activities to achieve the stated objectives.

The project will start off with a talk to the participants on the background of the nation, the importance of maintaining goodwill among the races, and related theme. Due to nature of the target participant (which is primary school children), the talk will not be too heavy in content, but more in a relax and fun way.

After the talk, the participants will get involved in lab activities. The objectives of the lab sessions is to inculcate the spirit of goodwill among the participants through computer related activities.

The first activity will involve an activity to create a greeting card(s) for another friend which must not be from the same race. The theme of the greeting card is the major festivity for that particular race such as "Hari Raya", "Gawai", "Chinese New Year", "Christmas" and so on. Therefore, the participants need to do some research (through asking their friend about the event or searching in the Internet for information). At the same time, the participants will be taught on how to use publishing software to create the greeting card. Thus, they will get some knowledge on IT related skill through this activity. To make the activity more interesting, there will be prizes for the best 3 greeting cards.

The second activity will have the same objective of nurturing goodwill among different races, but through different medium which is using audio. Students will be grouped together whereby each group will consists of different race. Each student in a group need to think and find out about folk song that they have heard before from their parents and so on. For example, student from Malay community might remember songs like "Rasa Sayang", "Lenggang Kangkung" and so on, while other students will find about their own folk song. Again, they will learn from each other about the song, and finally they will learn on how to record the song through computer, and learn how to use media player to play back the song.

The third and last activity is through video medium. Again the students will be grouped together as in activity 2. In this activity, they need to come up with a short sketch (ala Petronas Advert) with theme "Unity and Goodwill". Each group will then record their sketch using video cam and learn how to transfer and edit the video in computer.

Overview of the Project

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Maxis is organizing another CyberlinQ competition this year. In line with the 50th Merdeka celebrations this year, Maxis has chosen the theme "What can you do for the Country? Begin with your own community" for the Maxis CyberlinQ 2007 contest and it invites young Malaysians to mark the country's Independence by giving back to the community through the contest.

We have decided to conduct a community project titled "Increasing the Spirit of Unity and Goodwill in Young Malaysians". We believe unity and goodwill among the many races in Malaysia is unique and very important in order for us to live peacefully and advance to become a developed nation by 2020 and beyond.

Project Objective
The are two main objectives of the proposed project:

The main objective is to inculcate the spirit of goodwill and unity among the different races in Malaysia.
To teach students basic computer skills, which is also support the first objective above.

Target Group
The target group of participants is from primary school children (tentatively Standard 5 students). The reason why we choose primary schoolchildren (i.e. younger generation) because it is very important to inculcate this spirit of goodwill and unity at the early age, since they will one day become the leader in the country. Furthermore, with many distraction such as TVs and other leisurely activities, they are probably not aware of this issue of unity and goodwill.

Expected Outcome

Although it is hard to measure the success of the project, what is more important is that through the activities, we hope that we can increase the awareness of the participants on the diverse cultural background of Malaysia, the importance of understanding other races and culture, and how we all can live together peacefully in Malaysia. At the same time, participants will get IT skills through the lab activities.

This is our contribution to MALAYSIA, "INCREASING GOODWILL SPIRIT AMONG YOUNG MALAYSIANS"