We had a concept demonstration last week Tuesday and we all presented our progress in front of class. So I was explaining my detailed story boards to Ms. Jeya and course mate. While presenting my progress, I was wondering that my storyboard is not good enough. I am scared that Ms Jeya and course mate doesn’t understand what I am talking about. But thanks god, I done my presentation smoothly. After my presentation, Miss Jaya and course mate no comment on my concept and ideas and Ms Jeya ask me to move on it.

In addition, I’ve also been working on my interface design and a little modification for some of my story boards in this week. I must say that it is very hard to me to follow my Gantt Chart’s planning especially to do my Project Documentation. It will be due on week eight, and I now just in middle of completing my documentation. This week I am a bit late to post my blog because I just came back from my hometown Kelantan. Have a nice Documentation Day.

This week, I have done a draft of storyboard for my Final Year Project. On Tuesday, Ms Jeya have go through my storyboard, she suggest that I need to include a different element in my project. She also give some comment about my Quiz section part, she ask me to use a database to control the quiz section to make it more interesting. Because before this I just plan to add in a simple row of question.

Besides that, for my documentation part, Ms Sara also give me a lot of suggestion and help to complete my Documentation Part 1 including Introduction, Aims and Objective, Scope and Boundaries, Target Audience, Problem Statement and Solution. While doing the documentation, I forgot to add a suitable title for my project. After Ms Sara warns me, I just come out a title call “MandaLand”. We also have a short presentation about our documentation, but yesterday just 7 of our classmate done the presentation.

Finally received the feedback from VU on 9th April. In that mail, VU said that can proceed but really need to clarify scope of my idea. Before this I have included a section call Chinese Art, VU said that this just confuses the project , why include art history in a teaching Chinese writing tool. I do some minor changes on my Project Proposal. So now I will be just concentrate on the learning tools section.

Now I understand that there is no way on this project that I will end up with teaching whole sentences or complex structures because Chinese is huge language. So I be more focus on small sections, break it into small basic section like greetings and numbers. I also contact my friend that working as Chinese teacher to collect some information from her. In this week also I do some research about some software that will be including in my project like flash and Adobe Photoshop.

So after listen what Ms Jeya said about the Copyright Laws for the first reading in class, I just notice that a lot of Copyright Law need to be follow . In the first reading that Ms Jeya have give us, it state that limited Term for US copyright was for 14 years, which could be extended to 28 years if the author was alive. Copyright law protect some works like literary works, musical works, dramatic works, pantomimes, choreographic works, pictorial, graphic, sculptural works, motion pictures, other audiovisual works, sound recordings and architectural works. All those are protected, so we need to avoid being accused of plagiarizing other people’s work. So I must be more careful in working out of my Project’s Documentation or Prototype before using any article,image or music. If I want to use I must provided that those copies were originally produced by or with the permission of the copyright holder by emailing them or have a black and white letter. Some of the copies need to be follow by the Copyright law, such as some of the article only can be copied just 20% of the article or some music can be download only 30 second long.

Now I’m still awaiting the feedback from Victoria University about my second Project Proposal Title. I now already do some planning and research about my new Project Proposal.

After 3 weeks holiday, I came back Sunway University College to start my studies. This is my final term for this year, so I will be start busy with my Final Year Project! Before start worried about my Final Year Project, I have been notice by Ms Sara by mail that my Final Year Proposal not good enough to be approving by VU, but the feedback given wasn’t that bad after all.

In that mail, VU said that my title is interesting but maybe too large for this project. Lots of research and will not be able to get a real system operating because student will not be able to get payment gateways without using real business.

First in my mind, I don’t think about the toughness to create this system, but I just think out an a new idea like this Online Ticketing System hope that to improve the MPSJ car part ticketing machine nowadays.

After think it twice, I decided to choose a new of my Project Proposal Title that I have done as a backup during the holiday. After finish read Ms Sara email, immediately I send out my backup proposal to Ms Sara. So now I just need to wait a good news from VU.