Week 3- Describing grammar checking tools (Grammarly & Google Docs).

Hi there!👋 

So today I'm gonna write about two grammar checking tools. 

    💘The first tool is Grammarly. This application is very good for aid teaching and learning. 

    This grammar checking tool is like a writing assistant that offers me specific suggestions to help improve my writing. Based on my experience, from grammar and spelling to style and tone, Grammarly helps me eliminate writing errors and find the perfect words to express myself. Furthermore, while using this grammar checker, I can be confident that my writing is not only correct but clear and concise too.  The features of this tool are so amazing like what I can say is, it is a free grammar check you can rely on. It scans your text for all types of mistakes, from typos to sentence structure problems and beyond. This online checker has the best features after all, such as it fixes tricky spelling errors, eliminates grammar errors, punctuation errors, and many more. It is more than a grammar checker, it can be a lifesaver too.

 

    This tool can be accessed for free as it is a free online grammar checker. It already helps millions of people with their writing. The first step to use the tool is, to sign up first with our email account, and (tadaaaa) it's ready to use. You can use it anytime, anywhere like in Google Docs or any writing website because it is free. Despite the free grammar checker, if we want to use advanced features from this checker, we need to buy a premium one. From my point of view, it's quite expensive for a student to buy a premium account but I have a suggestion which students can share money with their friends to buy a premium one. I am just a newbie for this writing assistant and I have a lot more to be explored. I really hope I can have a premium account soon! 

 

    💘Next, the grammar checking tool that I always use is Google Document or Google Docs. 

    This tool also makes my life easier as it offers grammar and spelling suggestions. Once spelling and grammar check options have been enabled for a document, the system will display the red or blue line indicators within a Google Doc. It's a good grammar checking assistant as when a word in the document doesn't correspond with any dictionary word, it may be flagged. The features of this grammar assistant are good as the features automatically fixed as we typed or manually make or accept changes suggested by the program. The best part is it's free! It doesn't have paid version. We literally can use the google document every time we want as it automatically checks the grammar and spelling but it's limited as it doesn't cover the advanced grammar. Step to use this app is you just need to sign up for an account and there you go!  

    💘Here is my last writing, I choose which tools better. For me, Grammarly is better compared to Google Document. As I mentioned before, Google Document only cover the basic grammar and spelling, but Grammarly did cover on advanced features which occupied everyone needed such as student, lecturer and in short, its everyone needed. The best part is, even we using google Documents still Grammarly can be used while using google Documents as Grammarly like a third-party site. For instance, we can add an extension to Chromebook. 

Week 2 -Describe a tool based on ADDIE (How to use presentation for a rookie).

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    💚Today's I will write about one tool based on the ADDIEpart but I will touch only the 'A' part as this is the task for this time. First and foremost let me share with you guys what ADDIE stands for. A for Analysis, D for Design, D for Development, I for Implementation, and E for Evaluation. I'm gonna describe PowerPoint. What is Powerpoint? Below is what it looks like. 

PowerPoint is the presentation software and one of the Microsoft tools in the Microsoft Office Suite. It has long been the most sought out software for creating presentations in both business and education. It is a downloadable desktop app for Microsoft PowerPoint that works seamlessly on both Mac OS and PC with Windows. Now, let's talk about how to use this tool, firstly, you can download it on your phone or use the laptop for better viewing via the play store or apple store. 

💖The first step after you download is the same as other apps, you need to sign up first before being able to use it. So here I would like to suggest that you can sign up by using your student university email so that you can enjoy many features there in the future. That's why I recommend all of you to use PowerPoint instead of another presentation tool because it's free. Remember my tips, if any tools need to be paid for first use, you can sign up by student email so that you can use all the features with no limit. I will explain to you step-by-step how to use this tool.

So we are going to focus on working inside of PowerPoint to build a presentation. In this tutorial, we're going to focus on working inside of PowerPoint to build a presentation. So I'm going to provide you everything you need to get comfortable with the app. To master the app, we'll talk about the most common steps a rookie PowerPoint user needs to know.

Here are the key actions you'll need to take to build a PowerPoint presentation:

• You'll need to add slides, the individual pages in the presentation.

• You'll add content to the slides, such as text boxes, images, charts, and graphs.

• Change themes and styles to make your presentation look professional and fit the occasion at hand.

We'll cover each of these in this PowerPoint tutorial so that you can get up and running quickly. 

Getting up to speed with PowerPoint helps to understand the layout of the app. Let's walk through the key menu options so that you can learn PowerPoint quickly. If you understand the way that the app is laid out, you're likely to find any feature you need quickly.

💘The first is the ribbon menu. It contains a series of tabs that you can switch between. You'll see new buttons and options to change your presentation which is a file for saving your presentation, home for a general-purpose, insert for add every image or video, design for control the looks and feel your presentation with theme and style, transitions for adding animations, animations for control the order and style the objects, and slide show control the way your presentation appears. Now that you understand the layout, you have a better idea of how you can jump to the feature you need. 

Now we have tackled the interface of PowerPoint and next is how to add slides. I will explain as simply as possible to ensure the rookie can understand easily.

☝Firstly go to the Insert tab then click on the New Slide button to add a new slide to your presentation.

✌The second step is how to add content. Click the Home button, simply choose Layout and then start adding your content

👉 Thirdly choose a Theme and Style. Jump over to the Design tab, and click on one of the thumbnails for a theme. Using a PowerPoint theme is the preferred alternative to adding backgrounds, color, and typestyles to each slide. 

By using these three steps, you've got the repeatable sequence of actions needed to build a presentation. I hope these simple steps help the beginner. 

💘    I love to share that PowerPoint is a great tool for aid teaching and learning.  Students can use PowerPoint easily as it is widespread use. As I have taught you guys above how to use it, pretty much everyone knows how to use, open, and view so students can use it for their presentations and the same goes for the teachers. Then, it is easy to distribute and share with team members and collaborators. Also, this app is good for aid teaching and learning because of the rich features for using multimedia in presentations. You can add video, audio, voice-over, and animations to keep viewers interested and engaged. These features help add a good dose of visual impact to presentations. 

With the new norm in education, we need to adopt these past few months, PowerPoint has helped many people out there for their work including teachers, students and no one gonna deny that. For both teachers and students, they need to make creative templates so here it is. PowerPoint has been the long-standing favorite in presentation makers, there are templates for every style and purpose. In short, PowerPoint does good learning and teaching aid. In fact, PowerPoint is a good app to ensure students keep entertained even doing assignments or study a new chapter. Shout out to the teachers out there who keep on finding a way to make their students entertain at the same time learning. Let's fight together! That’s all from me. See ya! xoxo-Fatin

Week 1 -Get to know me and EDU456 subject (Innovative Technologies in Teaching and Learning).

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❀Thanks for your attention. Nice to meet you. My name is Fatin, let's be friends. I am a student in the second semester of my four years journey. I'm a full-time student of Science Education Biology in UiTM Puncak Alam, Selangor. Hope you would love the sharing as much as I do. ❀

    💘This will be my first ever blog. I never thought I would achieve one of the things I really wanted to do in my life: writing a blog. Five years forward in my imagination, I want to be a famous blogger and thankfully this year is my first step (pray for me).😂 Writing is my passion, I really love writing as much as I love reading. The point here is, I thought for the EDU456 subject, I will be learning about the history of education, who is the philosopher of education, and everything like that but my perception was totally wrong. For EDU456, I will learn about innovative technologies in teaching and learning and it gets me excited because one of the tasks is, I need to have a blog and make a blog post for a certain week. I really enjoyed my studies for the past semester. Despite all the struggles that I  have been through, I make it to the end of the semester. I really hope for this semester I still face all the circumstances even mentally and physically exhausted.

    💘 Glad that I have a very kind and tolerant lecturer like Dr. Norazah. At first, I was wondering what kind of person my EDU lecturer would be, and it turned out Dr was so sporting, kind, and funny 😂. I was really curious when it came to who will be teaching me as I had a bad experience having a judgemental and unfair teacher during my high school. I'm sorry for having that thought. I was so glad because I will learn about innovative technologies in teaching and learning for this subject, which will benefit me now and prepare me to be a teacher soon. For me, this subject offered a lot of new skills to learn and it is very diverse. For a general view, I will learn about various types of innovative technologies that can be useful in learning and teaching. It is just a start and nothing much I can share for now but I hope you guys enjoy reading my sharing.  XOXO- fatin