HOW TO OVERCOME JET LAG ( MY ICT FINAL PROJECT )

In this post i will explain to you how to overcome jet lag problems,but before that do you know about jet lag ? if not let me explain to you what is jet lag.

What is Jetlag ?

Jet lag is fatigue and confusion after a long air travel, due to the inability of the body to adjust to a new time zone.

Jet lag can move one's sleep patterns and allows drowsiness and lethargy (less energy). The more time zones that are traversed due to long distances, the jet lag that is usually experienced becomes more severe.

Cause of Jet Lag

We know that the world is divided into 24 different time zones. Our body's natural rhythm will also shrink 24 hours a day (circadian rhythm), this rhythm can be facilitated after crossing different time zones. So, the cause of jet lag is a trip that is much more difficult because of the new time zone.

For example, now at 21:00 WIB in Indonesia which is usually your time to sleep, but compilation of long trips by plane so far in a relatively short time when he arrived in America it turns out there is still noon, and it seems strange when sleeping early in the morning, well this is what will make the body's rhythm will be disrupted.

Rhythm or body clock that is important in sleep and wake patterns, but it also affects:

1. Appetite

2. Digestion

3. The habit of defecating and small

4. Body temperature

5. Blood pressure or pressure

6. Appetite

7. Digestion

8. The habit of defecating and small

9. Body temperature

10. Blood pressure or pressure

11. Hormonal cycle

Just like the illustration above, besides setting the time in your area now consists of hunger in the morning (breakfast time) and sleepiness at night. If you are traveling in a different time zone (the difference is big), then this can make the body's rhythm adjust to the new daily routine in the new time zone.

What are the problems and signs of someone having jet lag difficulties?

In addition to overcoming and insomnia, jet lag sufferers might also consider physical and emotional conflicts such as constipation, diarrhea, confusion, dehydration, headaches, irritability, nausea, sweating, conversation, encouragement, encouragement, and possible memory.

Some people report additional jet lag problems consisting of heart rate and an increase in disease.

How to cure the jet lag ?

here are tips and tricks to cure jet lag problems, take a look in following video :

Week 9 - Online Listening For Learning English

In this post I want to discuss about online learning platform, where we can learn and practice our listening skills through audio and video, on this occasion I used a website called Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab, you can check by this link : https://www.esl-lab.com/ 

Randall's ESL Cyber Listening is online platfrom that providing English listening comprehension quizzes and activities for ESL and EFL learners since 1998.

Activities at Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab focus on everyday English comprehension skills at three levels based on content, voices, vocabulary, and natural speed. A combination of adult, teenage, and children's voices are included.

There are 3 level of difficulty options , start from easy, intermediate, and difficult, and we can choose it according to what we need

And also in this website providing a variety of other ESL listening activities to improve your comprehension, speaking, vocabulary, and cultural awareness.

For me this website is very helpful in improving my listening skills, because in this website there are a lot of learning media (audio) and very varied quizzes with good sound quality, by listening to audio then trying to fill the quizzes answer accordingly with the command , it's train me to listen more carefully and look for information in it, in the exercise there are idioms that can add my English words insight.

So if you want to improving and practice your listening skils I suggest you to use this website.

Week 8 : Collaborative Discussions

What is Collaborative Discussions?

Collaborative discussions is experiences where students use an online platform to interact with peers by posting thoughts or comments in response to a given topic or in response to comments made by classmates; participation is assessed individually.

How to do Collaborative Discussions?

In this week, we have an assigment to do collaborative discussion with follow steps below :

1. Create a group that consist of five people
2. Determine the topic of discussion
3. Invite all members to platforms that has provided, we using G-Mail and Google Drive as platforms of discussion
4. Choose who be as initiator ( have a job to open the work plan, giving the identity of the grub, giving exposure to the material or introduction, and inviting Mr. Kurniawan as supervisor ), as ouline manager ( have a job  to convey the outline of the material (title) that would be explained ), as contain manager ( have a job to typing the framework and explaining all the material ), and as editor ( to re-analyze and correct if there are errors in the type of discussion, both errors in structuring texts, writing, vocabulary, etc.)
5. Save and share to another members
6. after all done we must wait feedback from Mr.Kurniawan

below is a picture of the tasks we have made :

     In my experience using this collaborative discussion study method is that I feel more easier to work on group assignments that require the right division of tasks, besides improve our expertise in using computers and software in it, also it saves time and money, saves time meaning without face to face we can immediately create a discussion wherever and whenever, it is more efficient and effective for me.

Week 7 : How to make a blog

What is blog ?

    

    A blog (shortening of “weblog”) is an online journal or informational website displaying information in the reverse chronological order, with latest posts appearing first. It is a platform where a writer or even a group of writers share their views on an individual subject.

What is the purpose of a blog?

There are many reasons for starting a personal blog and only a handful of strong ones for business blogging. Blogging for business, projects, or anything else that might bring you money has a very straightforward purpose – to rank your website higher in Google SERPs, a.k.a. increase your visibility.

      As a business, you rely on consumers to keep buying your products and services. As a new business, you rely on blogging to help you get to these consumers and grab their attention. Without blogging, your website would remain invisible, whereas running a blog makes you searchable and competitive.

So, the main purpose of a blog is to connect you to the relevant audience.

There are several blogging platforms, among of them :

1. WordPress.org
2. Constant Contact Website Builder
3. Gator
4. WordPress.com
5. Blogger
6. Tumblr
7. Medium
8. Squarespace
9. Wix
10. Ghost

How to start a blog ?

1. Pick a blog name. Choose something descriptive.
2. Get your blog online. Register your blog and get hosting.
3. Customize your blog. Choose a free template and tweak it.
4. Write & publish your first post. The fun part!
5. Promote your blog. Get more people to read your blog.
6. Make money blogging. Choose from several options to monetize your blog.

    In this week, our assignment is to create a blog with using blogspot or wordpress and post our activities to become a portofolio. this blog is the result from this assigment.

    With this lesson i get many benefit that i can practice whether at home or class, i can started to make a blog, start to create account, make blog design,how to write a post, and share our ideas and infromation to this platform to other people.

Week 6 : Internet as English language learning sources

     In this week we learnt about Internet as English language learning sources, internet provides a lot of information that can be used for our needs, including for English language learning. However, internet contains “good” vs “bad”, “correct” vs “incorrect” information. 

We must own “Information Literacy Skills” among them :

•     Access and evaluate infromation : Acces Infromation efficiently ( time ) and effectively ( sources ) , evaluate information critically and competenly.
•     Use and manage infromation : use infromation efficiently and creatively for the issue or problem at hand, manage the flow of information from a wide variety of sources, and apply a fundamental understanding of the ethical/legal issues surrounding the access and the use of information.

Type of searches engine :

·         Keyword-based : finding information based on keyword e.g. Google

·         Subject-based : finding infromation based on the subjects/topics, e.g.Yahoo.com

·         Real language searches : finding infromation based one the questions ( real-life question), e.g. Ask.com

How to Evaluate Website ?

  We must find website that we want to evaluate, and we analysze the website  from various aspects, with using steps below

   Before using resources from the internet, always evaluate the using several criteria :

1.   AUTHORITY
2.     PURPOSE
3.     COVERAGE
4.     CURRENCY
5.     OBJECTIVITY
6.     ACCURACY

    In this meeting we must evaluate websites with group of three members, you can check my group assignment by pictures below  :

and also in this meeting we use a website named Diigo,

Diigo is a multi-tool for personal knowledge management dramatically improve your workflow and productivity easy and intuitive, yet versatile and powerful, we can also make a mark on a reading on the website and then save it in our Diigo website library, we can also provide input, criticism and suggestions on the web. you can check my Diigo library in link below :

https://www.diigo.com/user/mdimasarya

Week 5 : Collaborative Glossary

What is Glossary ?

                                               

          A glossary, also known as a vocabulary or clavis, is an alphabetical list of terms in a particular domain of knowledge with the definitions for those terms. Traditionally, a glossary appears at the end of a book and includes terms within that book that are either newly introduced, uncommon, or specialized. While glossaries are most commonly associated with non-fiction books, in some cases, fiction novels may come with a glossary for unfamiliar terms.

         

         In a general sense, a glossary contains explanations of concepts relevant to a certain field of study or action. In this sense, the term is related to the notion of ontology.

         

        In this week, we have a assignment to choose 5 words glossary entries related to academic words ( vocabulary ), we must find some words that has not submitted by other learners.After we choose the words then we must input to ICT4E 2019 – Independent Learning – Collaborative Glossary,click add a new entry, in concept column we fill with what word ( HEADWORD ) and what classes of word or the headword that we choose ,the headword should be any word from Academic Word List (AWL). In defenition column we write the defenition of words in English and Indonesian defenition, it can our definition (using our own words), or use a definition provided by a website/book/etc, as long as the source is cited properly, we also write an example ( 2 or more examples ) of sentence that consist the word. In keyword column we write some words or synonyms related to the words, and don’t forget to click the option “This entry should be automatically linked”, and last we can submit and save our work to collaborative glossary list.

Below is an photo of my assignment :

          As learners, the assignment of this collaborative glossary will increase our knowledge in finding new educational words, and what the words mean, by looking up the meaning of the words directly will add to the vocabulary that we use for variations of sentences, especially in English.

Week 4 : How to make a good E-Mail

What is E-Mail ?

         Short for electronic mail, e-mail or email is information stored on a computer that is exchanged between two users over telecommunications. More plainly, e-mail is a message that may contain text, files, images, or other attachments sent through a network to a specified individual or group of individuals. ( computerhope.com )

             In this meeting, we learnt about how to make a good e-mail on formal occassion such as when you want to write to your lecture, teacher, and any other important person.

A good E-Mail consist :             

1.       

1. The subject line.Know who you will send the email, to line is filled in with the primary recipient's email address. Furthermore, the CC line is filled with email addresses of recipients copy / email (this section may not be filled if you do not want anyone else to receive the email) and on the BCC line the same as the CC line, you are not required to fill in this line.what is the difference between CC and BCC in an email (For those of you who want to know what cc and bcc are and how to use them correctly, CC and BCC are used for messages with a copy to a specific email address.
2. Start with an appropriate greeting.
3. Contents must be short, concise and clear
4. Use standard fonts and numeric
5. Writing your closing.
6. Attach documents if necessary
7. You can also write your own signatute or your contact.

      By learning this I become more aware of how to make a good email and in accordance with applicable rules, and is very useful for me when I will later send an email to others, especially on formal occasions, and also I just found out about the use of signatures automatically in option settings.

Week 3 : Presentation

What is Presentation ?

     Presentation is the practice of showing and explaining the content of a topic to an audience or learner. Presentation is also the means of communication which can be adapted to various speaking situation, such as talk to a group, addressing a meeting or briefing a team.

    We can use software such as PowerPoint , Prezi, Canva, Keynote, Powtoon, Google Drive Presntation, and SlideRocket.

      In this meeting our assignment is create a presentation with the group that consist of three people. I and my group using prezi as a software to create a presentation with the topic “Forest Fire”.

 You can check our Presentation link below :

LINK : https://prezi.com/view/64YmACGUPWuZ745uk1Hz/

Week 2 : Word Processor

What is word processor?

    is a software program capable of creating, storing, and printing typed documents. Today, the word processor is one of the most frequently used software programs on a computer, with Microsoft Word being the most popular word processor.

    Word processors can be used to create multiple types of files, including text files (.txt), rich text files (.rtf), HTML files (.htm & .html), and Word files (.doc & .docx). Some word processors can also be used to create XML files (.xml).

Features of a word processor

    

     Unlike a basic plaintext editor, a word processor offers dozens of additional features that can give your document or other text a more professional appearance. Below is a listing of some of the most popular features of a word processor.

• Text formatting - Changing the font, font size, font color, bold, italicizing, underline, etc.
• Copying, cutting, and pasting - Once text has been entered into a documented it can be copied or cut and pasted anywhere in the current document or another document.
• Multimedia - Insert clip art, charts, images, pictures, and video into a document.
• Spelling and Grammar - Checks for spelling and grammar errors in a document.
• Adjust the layout - Capable of modifying the margins, size, and layout of a document.
• Find - Word processors give you the ability to quickly find any word or text in any size of the document.
• Search and Replace - You can use the Search and Replace feature to replace any text throughout a document.
• Indentation and lists - Set and format tabs, bullet lists, and number lists.
• Insert tables - Add tables to a document.
• Word wrap - Word processors can detect the edges of a page or container and automatically wrap the text using word wrap.
• Header and footer - Being able to adjust and change text in the header and footer of a document.
• Thesaurus - Look up alternatives to a word without leaving the program.
• Multiple windows - While working on a document, you can have additional windows with other documents for comparison or move text between documents.
• AutoCorrect - Automatically correct common errors (e.g., typing "teh" and having it autocorrected to "the").
• Mailers and labels - Create mailers or print labels.
• Import data - Import and format data from CSV, database, or another source.
• Headers and footers - The headers and footers of a document can be customized to contain page numbers, dates, footnotes, or any text of all pages of the document or specific pages.
• Merge - Word processors allow data from other documents and files to be automatically merged into a new document. For example, you can mail merge names into a letter.
• Macros - Setup macros to perform common tasks.
• Collaboration - More modern word processors can help multiple people work on the same document at the same time.

Examples and top uses of a word processor

           When it comes to computer programs, a word processor is one of the most used programs on a computer because of its versatility in creating a document. Below is a list of the top examples of how you could use a word processor.

• Book - Write a book.
• Document - Any text document that requires formatting.
• Help documentation - Support documentation for a product or service.
• Journal - Keep a digital version of your daily, weekly, or monthly journal.
• Letter - Write a letter to one or more people. Mail merge could also be used to automatically fill in the name, address, and other fields of the letter.
• Marketing plan - An overview of a plan to help market a new product or service.
• Memo - Create a memo for employees.
• Report - A status report or book report.
• Résumé - Create or maintain your résumé.

Examples of word processor programs

     Although Microsoft Word is the most popular word processor available, other options are available. Below is a listing of different word processors in alphabetical order.

• Abiword.
• Apple iWork - Pages.
• Apple TextEdit - Apple macOS included word processor.
• Corel WordPerfect.
• Google Docs (online and free).
• LibreOffice -> Writer (free).
• Microsoft Office -> Microsoft Word.
• Microsoft Works (discontinued).
• OpenOffice -> Writer (free).
• Sun StarOffice (discontinued).

( https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/w/word-processor.htm )

     In this meeting, Mr.Dedy taught us about word processor , and to be honest there are lot of things that i don’t know before like adding comments, make some paperwork with unique easier way, using thesaurus and several function of options.

      Mr.dedy  gave an assigment to assess 2 other people's worksheets in Microsoft word by implementing the steps learned as follows

*How to adding some comments :

1. Select the text or item that you want to comment on, or click to insert the cursor near the text that you want to comment on.
2. On the Review tab, under Comments, click New.
3. Type the comment text in the comment balloon.

      With this assignment,I learned a lot about word processors, especially the use of Microsoft Word, which still has many functions and uses that I don't know such as adding comments, using thesaurus and other optional functions.

And I complete understand on using Word Processor for English language learning, particularly on:

1. Using Language Tools (Grammar checker, spell checker, thesaurus, etc)
2. Using Reference Tools
3. Using Review Tools
4. Using Formatting Tools

Week 1 : Introduction to Technology

      On 23^rd August 2019, Mr.Deddy gave explanantion about technology and what kinds of technology around us in terms to ICT subject.

So what is technology ?

           Technology is the branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life, society, and the environment, drawing upon such subjects as industrial arts, engineering, applied science, and pure science.Technology refers to methods, systems, and devices which are the result of scientific knowledge being used for practical purposes.

( https://www.dictionary.com/browse/technology )

Kinds of technology around us :

1. ·         Computer
2. ·         Laptop
3. ·         Smartphones
4. ·         Networks
5. ·         Internet of things
6. ·         Transport
7. ·         Robotics

     Technology can make our work easier, help us in finding things without spending extra energy and save time, for example in the current era there are several types of payments via the internet, communicating with others using E-Mail or other applications and now many online shopping such as Shopee, Tokopedia and Bukalapak which makes it easy for us to find the product we want to find.

    As learners we must learn technology, add more knowledge about technology, how to use it, it is very useful to increase our skills, so we can ready to face the 21^st century and the era of the industrial revolution 4.0 which requires us to understand technology in order to apply it in the future.

My Personal Biography

My Personal Biography

        Hello everyone! welcome to my blog,so in this my first post i'd like to tell you about my personal biography.

           My name M.Dimas Arya you can call me Dimas, i was born in Muara Bulian 27 January 2000, it's mean i am 19 years old in this year, i live in Mayang at Jambi city, i grew up in this city.I am the fourth child of four siblings, i have two brothers and one sister, My Father worked as a employee in the post office, he was a wise and assertive person, he awlays teach me how be a responsible and strong person,My Mother was a housewife, she was a very loving,conscientious, and was fair to all her children, she always teach me how to be a good and devout worship to my religion.

        I have so many hobbies, but the most and more likely hobby is playing basketball, listen a song or music, travel to a beatiful destination in other place, take a picture and post to my Instagram. I love music so much, especially country and slow music, it can be my moodbooster when i feel not comfortable, sad , and even angry, when i listen to music i feel so happy.

    

    About my education background , i took my elementary school at SDN 001/XI in Sungai Penuh city, then my junior high school still in Sungai Penuh at SMPN 2 , and then i move to Jambi city and continue my study at SMAN 2 Jambi city. When i was in my education, i gained a lot of experience in activities and organizations, one of which in the student council, i had got a chance to be a chairman of the organizational and political division, and several awards that i achieved, one of which became a general rank in SMAN 2 Jambi city.

                          

    And now i continue my education at the largest university in Jambi province, the university of Jambi, i took an English Education program, Faculty of Teacher Training and Education. Why did i choose this program? first i love English subject,this has become my favorite subject since elemntary school,the second reason, i want to increase my English ability until get the best result, and the third reason,in my opinion the profession that we can get from this program is wide scope and flexible,it makes easier for me to get a job later.

   I think thats all about my short peronal biography, i hope it can be inspiring and i hope you can happy and enjoy to read about my biography,

thank you so much.