How Much We Have Built Our Skills on Interactive Web

Week 10 (Final)

I am not that ready to end this journey. I always feel that I could not cover all subjects in just 10 weeks. But I know that every beginning will have an ending and this class is not an exception. In this short  period of time I should convince many people including myself that I can accomplish this in my own way.

In a learning process, it is very normal to have stages to prove that we have mastered the skills that we learned successfully and the most common one is by demonstrating what we have understood in such a form that other people can obviously see. In this interactive class we learned many technological tools that can be used in teaching English effectively and efficiently. We always started the week with some reading materials, websites and learned the theory on how to cooperate them for our class. The justification of the skills' mastery would very much rely on our products that we can produce based on the theory. As everyone did, I started it from my products in week 1 and so on.

After logging into the Nicenet we began to make a learning community and then followed by another task for week 1: create a blog
             http://Imas-interactive.blogspot.com
week 2: registering in course wiki , creating an ABCD objective and choosing search engines
week 3: Using Delicious.com and choosing an oral/aural activities
             http://www.delicious.com/gek_3mas
             http://www.esl-lab.com
week 4: choosing Reading and writing task
             http://www.educationalworld.com/a lesson/archives/writing bugs.html
week 5: making a rubric and webquest
             http://rubistar.4teacher.org/index.php?screen=Showrubric&rubric_id=2152912
             http://www.zunal.com/task.php?w=134521
week 6: making a power point presentation
             My Tropical Fruit ppt.
week 7: making one computer lesson
             Prefix ppt.
week8: create a class site, template for a handout or exercise and a course management system as ANVILL
week 9: Learning style quiz, Multiple intelligence and Final report
week10: Taking LoTi Digital Age Survey resulting a proffesional Development Priority.

There are 20 friends in this winter class: Natasa, Luisa, Richard, The, Ky, Nizara, Shaila, Marina, Orquidia, Yohimar, Yuliya, Vita, Sinikka, Helen, Sagun, Roxana, Ariel, Nabila, and Vijay have also done and proved their capabilities in this class. They are great! I believe they have worked very hard to reach this stage. Who behind our success? Therefore, it is not too much if I would show you the video of our kind and creative tutor Robert in my blog. I am sorry to everyone If I made mistakes and also for including this video without Robert's permission.

Thank you so much Robert and all of my lovely friends.
Last but not least, I would like to pass my gratitude to US Embassy in Jakarta Indonesia, AEI Oregon University, my Language Center here at ITS in Surabaya, my colleagues at the office and  my family.

I hate saying Good Bye and I would prefer to say See You  Again Soon!

Imas

Technology for Multiple Intelligences

Week 9

I think it is a smart idea to have this subject discussed in this web class. From the first task to many tasks week after week, we never considered about multiple intelligences and learning styles. We learned a lot of technological applications that can be used in the class to enhance students' English competence and while we created lesson plans, power point slides, webquests and so on our concern was normally managed based on the age, level of competence, gender and their field studies. But after reading this week materials, I felt like I was woken up by the need to know the students' intelligence so we can choose more appropriate technology to be used to a particular student in order to maximize the learning output.

I took a step to test myself first with the learning styles survey that was introduced by the class and I didn't stop there. I also asked my students to test themselves using the same survey and I asked them to discuss it in the nicenet threads. I hope the information from student will help me to measure the need of my students which was always added by our class resources where we could select some activities that are suitable for a certain types in 'Teacher tap'. In there we can easily find a list of suitable activities for a certain type. I start to realized how important for us to treat our students fairly because they are not the same. They have their own preference and tendency in learning style because of different intelligences.

When we had the above lesson we had to revise our draft based on our peer evaluators too, so my best gratitude for my peer Helen and Sagun for their beneficial suggestions so that my final report can corrected and submitted. Now I am so curious to wait for the result from our tutor.

The last task that we have to do is the survey about the course. I didn't wait till 16 March to complete it so I sent it yesterday. It didn't take too long to answer (not 20 minutes as stated on the instruction), as I am satisfied with everything that I have been learning and doing in the pass 9 week with this class. What we learned here is not merely a blind technology but a very sensible teaching using technology as the aids.

I feel so lucky,
Imas

Integrating Traditional Class with Technology

Week 8

We were exposed to several teacher resources on the course websites which can help the educators to prepare their class in a more efficient and effective ways.Imagine when we have to prepare a certain test for our class or even in a larger scope we were asked to design the the test for the entire students, we must have thought that there will be a big burden coming to our life, because we have to set different format for the diverse students. But now, with a single click to a website like www.easytestmaker.com the teacher will be assisted to create an English test in a shorter time. I have tried making an achievement test for my elementary class cause this can be used as a pilot study for my Language Center. It was so simple, as I just need to be the member of the site and then follow the instruction. There are still many other resources that can be used by teachers so go and explore more and more.

The problem does not appear merely on the lack provision of the teachers' resources but also on how to operate the technology which is more into the willingness of the whole system in that education institution to support this new approach of teaching.The best way to integrate  the traditional class into a technological class is by motivating the students gradually until they are ready for it. And luckily, some of my students are willing to involve in my gradual plan which was begun simultaneously with my research project. This week I can convinced five of them for me to set a discussion class in nicenet. I have informed them what I usually do in this thread and as a teacher I started to enjoy my role in this activities. I am sure that my students can utilize the facilities even though they were not in the class.

Another fresh and new technology was introduced by Oregon University -Yamada Language Center which is call ANVILL. I need several days to understand all the new term because it  is I reckon to be an advanced method to interact with your students. I am not that clear here which can be proved by my failure to join the webnar offered by Mr Jeff Magoto, who is the expert of it and becoming a guest tutor in this week threads. I still hope that next time I will have the opportunity and can join the Webnar as I am now the member of ANVILL.

Well learning how to integrate the traditional class with the sound of technology requires a strong intention by any ones in the teaching and learning process but of course sufficient knowledge from the teacher resource websites will enhance us too. Time constraint is always appointed as the culprit but you manage our duty based on priority scale we can overcome the obstacles, like when we can accomplished the draft project to be submitted last Wednesday with the other tasks on week 8.

Remember our final report to be submitted on 9th March 2012 so GOOD LUCK!

Imas