Session 10: Video Conferencing

How to Teach Speaking Skills Through Google Hangouts?

Hello everyone.. Welcome back to my blog..

In this session, I will explain about how to teach speaking skills via Goggle Hangouts.

Google Hangouts is a communication platform developed by Google which includes messaging, video chat, and VOIP features.

Speaking is the action of conveying information or expressing one's thoughts and feelings in spoken language.

So, how to apply Google Hangouts in speaking?

First, the teacher should inquire the students to download or open Google Hangouts via website https://hangouts.google.com

Then, give the students a topic to be discussed. After that, the teacher should inquire the students to prepare what they will be discussed in video conferencing. 

And then, ask the students to video call their friends via Google Hangouts and do not forget to ask your students to record their video call activity. This lesson plan can be used in online classroom. So, if you, as the teacher cannot come to the class you can use this lesson plan to substitute the offline classroom. And the video recorder can be the assessment.

This is the screenshot of my video conferencing using Google Hangouts

In that video, me and my friends talked about "What might be the problem for integrating technology in the Indonesian school today? And how we can solve the problem?". If you want to see the full video, you can click this link https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-SGNCGnBJWbqAW-9xK8keaYcjO9-QFjO/view?usp=drivesdk

Well, that's all about Google Hangout and how to apply in teaching speaking. Hope it's beneficial for you, thank you and see you on the next posts..

Session 9: Collaborative Online Writing Activities

How to Teach Writing Through Google Drive? 

Well, hello people.. Welcome back to my blog. .

In this session I will share how to teach writing using Google Drive. 

Google drive is a free cloud-based storage service that enables users to store and access files online. 

Writing is the process of using symbols (letters of the alphabet, punctuation, and spaces to communicate thoughts and ideas in a readable form.

If you wanna teach writing online, you can use Google Drive 

https://www.google.com/drive/

First, you can ask the students to write a text into Google drive, then ask them to invite their friends and they have to give comment each other online. Don't forget to ask them to record the online writing activity. Okey, the example of online writing please watch this video

If you cannot see clearly you may check from this link https://youtu.be/7j843yxhpnQ

That's all about collaborative online writing activity, see you on my next posts, thank you..

Session 8: Comics

How to Teach Reading Through Pixton? 

Hello everyone.. Welcome back to my post. In this session, I will talked about how to teach English through comic especially for reading skills.

Reading skill leads a person to interact and gain meaning from written language. Comic is a medium used to express idea through languages, often combine with text or other visual information.

So, we can teach reading skills using comic because comic has text, and it is more interesting than read from the paragraph because comic is more colorful than book. It means that it will grab the student's attention. So we can easily to teach them and they will feel happy.

Actually, there are many application that supply to create a comic, one of the application is pixton. It is quite complicated application, but you can search the tutorial from YouTube. It is better for you to try it first before searching on YouTube.

https://www.pixton.com

Well, I will give you the example of my comic for teaching reading.

This is the screenshot of my comic, it is a conversation between two person about giving a gift for someone's birthday. If you wanna see my comic completely, you can check via this link https://www.pixton.com/comic-strip/70bbj6au

It is very interesting right? 

That's all about improving reading skill using comic hope it is beneficial for you, see you on the next post, thank you guys..

Session 7: Webquest Activity

How to Teach English Through Zunal Webquest?

Hello everyone.. Welcome back to my posts, feel free to this post, guys..

Well, in this session I will talked about the use of webquest for teaching English.

Webquest is an inquiry-based laerning tool which encourages students to become responsible for their own learning. Students are provided with a specific task and activities to support that task. They are given links to information available on the web scheme of work. If you wanna create a webquest click this link http://zunal.com

Why teacher should use webquest?

First, webquest can conclude a unit as a summation. Second, webquest can make as a collaborative activity in which students create a good activity. Third, to increase competency in the use of technology. Also, to teach students how to be independent thinkers of the problems encountered in a webquest are real-world problem.

Webquest has 6 common attributes, those are:

 1. Introduction, it is providing background information, linking the topic to previous lesson, and make sure that the student understand what they will learn.

2. Task, it is formulating challenging questions, every single question is posed that required students to analyze the information.

3. Process, the teacher leads the student through task.

4. Resources, students are provided with tools that can help them to complete the task.

5. Evaluation, an effective assessment tool to evaluate a product.

6. Conclusion, this part is for student reflection.

This is the screenshot of my zunal webquest, in that webquest I give a material about schoology, how to create schoology and give some tasks. Further more information about my zunal webquest, you can click this link http://zunal.com/webquest.php?w=404768

Well, that's all about zunal webquest. Hope it's beneficial for you, see on my next posts. Thank you

Session 6: Blogs for Teaching

How to Teach English Using blog ?

Hello everybody, how are you? Welcome back to my post.

In this session, I will share how to apply blog as a media for teaching English. Let's start!

Blog is an online diary journal located on a website. Blog has some content includes text, pictures, videos, animated GIFs and other hard copy documents. Almost no limitation exist in regards to the types of people who create blogs. Blog creators, also known as "bloggers", come from all walkers of life and backgrounds from around the world. If you wanna make a blog, pelase visit this link https://www.blogger.com if you find some difficulties to create a blog, you can see the tutorial on YouTube or comment below.

So, how to apply blog as a media of teaching English?

First, the teacher explain about the materials that they will learn, such as narrative text, opinions, recount text, spoof text, etc. After that, the students have to create paragraph of text. Then the teacher teacher should explain the definition and the function of blog. And also teach them how to creat a blog, make sure that every student has already made a blog. Then, ask the students to post their paragraph into their blog and also ask them to comment on their friends' blog. So, the teacher can use the post of the blog as an assessment.

Do you think that using blog as a media of teaching English is interesting?

This is the screenshot of my blog, in my blog I share what I have learned about the use of technology in education. And this is the link of my blog https://learningenglishwithfairuz.blogspot.com/?m=1

In the end of this session, I hope that all of my posts are beneficial for you, don't forget to follow, share, comment guys. See you on the next post, thank you

Session 5: Mind-mapping

How to Teach English Through Coggle?

Hello guys.. Welcome back to my blog.

In this session, I am gonna tell you how to teach English through mind-mapping using coggle application.

https://coggle.it

Coggle is collaborative mind-mapping tool that helps you make sense of complex things. It can be said that coggle is a freeware mind-mapping web application. In my opinion, coggle is very easy to operate for people who never use it, like me. I really recommend you to use this application to make a mind-mapping.

This is the example of my mind-mapping

By this application, you can use it for teaching mind-mapping about grammar, as I did. As you can see in my mind-mapping, I categorize simple present tense into 5 categories, those are the use, formula, verb endings, time expressions and examples. Using mind-mapping in a classroom activity can make the students easily understand the material that they wanna be learnt.

If you cannot see my mind-mapping clearly, you can check by visit this link https://coggle.it/diagram/XJtv4Q1YASMS-OUG/t/simple-present-tense

But if there some error of that link, you can open this link https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-8UPwdiM-Rlnvw8O-Ff6RnXLb3LkTINj/view?usp=drivesdk

Do you wanna try to teach English through mind-mapping?

Okey, this session is end, if you have some questions about what I have already explained you can comment below. Hope my post is beneficial for you, see you on my next posts. Thank you 

Session 4: Timeline

How to Teach English Through Tiki-toki?

Hello everyone.. How's your day? Welcome back to my blog..

In the previous session, I have shared about how to teach English through video Animaker. And now, I am gonna share how to teach English using another application. It is called "Tiki Toki". Have you ever heard Tiki Toki? Or have you ever used it?

Well, tiki toki (https://www.tiki-toki.com) is online maker software for creating beautiful interactive timelines that you can share on the web. It is not too complicated application, but if you find some difficulties, you can use another similar applications, such as timetoast (https://www.timetoast.com/) and timeglider (https://timeglider.com/).

 This is the screen of Tiki Toki

Tiki toki is very useful for teaching and learning, escpecially for the material that talk about history or list of events. Tiki toki might be the easiest thing to grab the student understanding fast. 

Why tiki toki is one of a good idea for teaching historical material or list of events? As we know that both history or events have a long period, from the past till now. It means that, we need to spend a lot of time to read, and it will make the students bored, right? By that condition, we can use tiki toki to make a timeline of history or list of events. The students will get the real information with or without a long reading activity. It is actually very good for teacher that have limit time to teach.

I will give you an example of timeline about the CALL (Computer Assisted Language Learning) and its development's history that has been made by me and my group. 

This is the screenshot of the timeline

For further information, you can check the link of our timeline here History of CALL and its development 

That's all the information about timelime, I hope you can get many information that have a lots of beneficial for you, see you and have a nice your world!!

Session 3: Animaker Video

How to Teach English Through Animaker Video? 

Hallo everyone.. Welcome to the new post!!

In this session I will talk about "How to teach English through video?". But before that, I will explain about education in the past.

So, how technology in education was?? 

For the first time, in the 30.000 BCE, the education was using cave drawings to explain what they gonna told. Then, in 510 BCE the teaching and learning through phytagoras academy. After that, in 1600 there is public eduation. In 1910, the audiovisual age for teaching and learning. And then the computer age such as television in 1960. And the interactive age in 2000.

Technology is developing gradually till now, as we know that technology in education growing fast. Especially in education, technology transform to be the interesting thing, and being a beneficial for both teachers and students.

Students will use engaging technologies in collaborative, inquiry-based learning environment with teachers who are willing and able to use technology's power to assist the students in transforming knowledge and skills into products, solutions, and informations.

And for the teachers, using technology can help them to create a new way to deliver the materials. There are many medias or applications that can support teaching and learning such as audio, video, picture, etc.

In this post, I will share my experience in teaching through video. Why I choose video as the media? Video have some great components, those are pictures, audio, sountrack (if any), and the movement of the pictures. So, it makes the student interest and also it improves the student's anthusiasm to learn the new material, and it makes the students enjoy the class.

Some application that can help us to make the teaching video is Animaker (https://www.animaker.com).

It is not too complicated to operate because this application already have the tools such as the theme, backgorund, character, etc.

This is the example of the Animaker tools. 

But if you find some difficulties when operate this application, you can search the tutorial from YouTube.

Well, I have made my own video for teaching and learning, the content is about recount text. I explain the definition, language features, generic structures, etc. In the end of the video, I add some example of recount text and give some tasks for the students.

In my opinion, teaching English using video especially Animaker is very beneficial for both teachers and students. For the teachers, they can save the time because they do not need to write the material in the whiteboard. And for the students, video is good for grab students' attention because video is consist of audio and visual.

Well, this is the screenshot of the video that have been made by me and my group.

You can check the link of the video that I have uploaded in youtube: https://youtu.be/YnEeKmM82EM

Do you think that usingusing video as the media of teaching and learning is beneficial??

I hope you can get inspiration from my post, and see you on the next post, guys..

Session 2: Do We Need Netiquette??

Hello guys.. Welcome back to my blog.. Happy reading, guys..

In this part, I'm gonna talk about the importance of netiquette. So, why we do netiqutte? As I explain in the previous post about Netiquette that netiquette is a guidance for us when we're using online communication. And now let me ask you, what is the answer of that question? The answer is "yes, we do", are you with me?

Why we do netiquette? Because netiquette is the basic rules to avoid damaging both online and offline relationships. It is very important because online communication is typically non-verbal. It means that very easy to misinterpret what somebody else is saying. 

In addition, netiquette is very useful for in cross-cultural or professional communication, to adhere to a unusually understood code of comunication and etiquette. Without netiquette, jokes and sarcasm without the normal usual visual expression may be interpreted as criticism. So, we have to respect with other opinions or works.

However, it is easy to lose your sense of what is going on around you when you are using technology, but engaging directly with others is more importance than ever. Don't forget to the positive impact that you can make by putting down your phone and having a real, face to face conversation.

This session have done, hope it is beneficial for you guys. Thank you, and see you on the next post. 

Session 1: Online Learning Strategies and Netiquette

Hallo everyone.. In the first session, I will talk about learning strategies and Netiquette. Why I'm gonna talk about this? Because teaching and learning using technology is very different with web browsing, so we need the strategies and Netiquette to keep ourselves from cybercrime and exactly to make our online learning successful and effectively.

Strategies for online learning

a. Be realistic

b. Take responsibility for your own learning

c. Organise your time

d. Check your technology

e. Stay connected

f. Consider the rule of the netiquette.

For further information you can visit this link https://masononline.gmu.edu/success/ 

Netiquette

Talking about netiquette, it is a internet etiquette. Netiquette can be a guidance when using online learning. So there are some core rules of netiquette:

1. Remember the human

When you are holding a conversation online, it is easy to misunderstand your partner's meaning, and it is frighteningly easy to forget that your partner is a person with feelings more or less like your own.

2. Adhere to the same standards of behaviour online that follow in real life

People sometimes forget that there is a human being on the other side of the computer, some people think that a lower standard of ethics or personal behaviour is acceptable in cyberspace. Standard of behaviour may be different in some areas of cyberspace, but they are not lower than in real life.

3. Know where you are in cyberspace

Netiquette is different in different places, it is important to know where you are.

4. Share expert knowledge

The reason asking questionnaire works is that a lot of knowledgeable people are reading the questions. Few of them offer intelligent answers, the sum total of world knowledge increases. The introvert itself was founded and grew because scientist wanted to share information.

5. Respect other people's privacy

Failing to respect other people's privacy is not just bad netiquette. It is also harmful.

Futher explanation, you can check this link http://www.albion.com/netiquette/corerules.html

What makes online learning successful?

1. Persistence

2. Effective time-management skill

3. Effective and appropriate communication skills

4. Basic technical skills

5. Reading and writing skills

6. Motivation and independence

7. A good study environment.

For further explanation, please check this link https://careerwise.minnstate.edu/education/successonline.html

That's all about the strategies of online learning, netiquette, and tips for online learning. Hope it's beneficial for us. 

About me, the writer..

Hallo everyone.. How are you? I hope you are good enough.

I just wanna say "Welcome to My Blog"..

My name is Fairuz Lazuwardiyyah, I'm from Gresik, Jawa Timur, Indonesia. Now, I'm studying at State Islamic University Sunan Ampel Surabaya, I'm fourth semester of English Education Department. 

Talking about education, it is very important thing in everyone's life. It can be said that education is the key of life, because education can change people from nothing to be something. 

About teaching and learning, I have some experiences about it because I join Laskar Pengajar as a volunteer to teach young children in Putat Jaya Surabaya or usually called as Gang doli every Sunday. 

And now (2020), I am a tutor for EYL students in TBA (Taman Baca Alam) in my hometown.

That's picture show you how the teaching and learning process occur.

And about technology, I'm not the genius one but I have many knowledge about technology because I have learnt about it since I was Elementary School. And in this semester, I get more experiences about technology in education because follow the Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) course that taught by Mr. Syaifuddin, thanks a lot, Sir. 

Based on my knowledge that I have got, in this blog I wanna share about the use of technology in education especially for teaching language. Why? Because using technology we can make the process of teaching and learning to be better and easier. So it can improve the education system more effective. 

By this blog, I hope all of you can get a lot of knowledge from my blog. So you can apply it into your students or children. 

I will never ask you to pay after reading my posts on my blog. So fell free to read all of my posts, and happy reading. 

Me, the writer.