Poem: Goodbye My Dear Friend

I’m not good in writing poems but I decided to write this one today (23.02.16) dedicated to my former teacher, mentor, toastmasters coach and a special friend, late Mr. Jun Pasilabban. 

Photo credit: Jun's Facebook page

Goodbye – My Dear Friend

Written by Picky Airi

Morning tea today

Wasn’t like any other day

Why switch to Windows 10? Why not open source?

While it is good to have Windows 10, I doubt the stability of this OS. I have used Windows 8 and 10 only recently on one of my machines and its (Windows 10) lack of stability is really an issue for me unlike the experience on Windows 7 or Windows 8/8.1. And based on tech forums and articles I'm reading, I am not alone. Example here

Although Windows 7 has been granted a 2 year extension on the shelf  (Microsoft's sales life cycle), the move has been on snail pace for many users from Windows 7 to Windows 10. 

Another one of those must have tools for the "eTeacher"

Source: itunes.apple.com 

As a teacher who relies heavily on ebooks as reading resources and reference material for students, I download a lot of ebooks from the internet. One problem I have come across is how do I split the PDF to extract only the pages I want to give the students and leave out the rest.

Rather than copying the entire chapter and pasting to word which I used to do before I decided to do some googling to find out if there is an app that can split the PDF and give me just what I want. (This feature is built into adobe pdf but you will have to register to use it which I couldn't.)

Integrate Camtasia Studio with Moodle

It has been a while since I last posted any tutorial here. Been very busy with work and family that I wasn't able to write something. However, I did get to participate in a very enlightening course over the course of three weeks on teaching online.

It was through this course that I started to assist the facilitator teach some of my colleagues on how to use Camtasia. Camtasia is a great screen capture tool. I shall not go into the details of the software as there is tonnes of info on their website (a simple Google search would do) but I would like to share a tutorial I wrote on how to integrate Camtasia with Moodle. Moodle is an open source LMS with a huge support its community of users. You can find more about Moodle here. 

Calls To Preserve Motuan Art of Tattooing

I am very glad to hear that calls have been made to preserve the Motuan art of tattooing. I stumbled upon this footage produced by EMTV on EMTV online .

As a Motuan myself, I have great respect for for the tangible and intangible cultural heritage that identify us as Motuans.

Cisco Certification Pathways

Whether you are an IT student, an avid technology fan, or on the road to becoming a network engineer, you need a clear career pathway to guide you.

Onetest is now Revelian

About 2 years back in my previous role as a Trainer with Daltron Training I used to organize and supervise online tests for the PNG LNG Company as part of their recruitment program.

The organization that ran this basic PC skills, typing and secretarial testing skills as well as cognitive skills and many others was ONETEST.

I found this online testing platform very simple, intuitive and user-friendly. For the past two years since I left Daltron Training I have accessed the site only once to re-register under a new organization name and have left it since.

Madang Teachers College & Hetura Fellowship Group Combine Fellowship Sermon

On the 23rd of August our regional fellowship group "Hetura" (which basically means friendship in the Motuan language of Central Province, PNG) from the local Madang town United Church Congregation was invited to have a combine Sunday service with the Madang Teachers College UC students.

On behalf of the group, I led the pulpit with this message which I would like to share with you all. I spent a good deal of time preparing this message however put it into bullet-point form to make the sermon short and sharp. I do not like to share a message holding a 6 page sermon in-front of people. I'd rather share from my heart what the spirit of God has inspired in me than read a full page of sermon written by someone else.

This is the sermon as I shared in bullet-point form. I wish to expand this later on to write a proper article sometime.

A+ Guide to Managing & Maintaining Your PC 8th Ed

The A+ Guide to Managing & Maintaining Your PC 8th Edition is an excellent book by Jean Andrews. This is the 8th edition of a series of the same books she has written and published under Cengage Learning.

 

Repost: MOOC on M4D Report

MOOC or Massive Open Online Course is an online course aimed at unlimited participation and open access via the web. MOOCs are a recent and widely researched development in distance education which was first introduced in 2008 and emerged as a popular mode of learning in 2012 according to Wikipedia.  

Early access to MOOCs was largely based on the use of desktop or laptop computers. The design and structure of the first MOOC sites were also developed to be compatible with desktop/laptop systems. Since the widespread use of mobile phones, the development has now been geared towards mobile compatibility.