TEEL COURSE : WEEK 15 & 16

On fifteenth meeting, we review all of materials that we have learnt since the first meeting, after that as a final project of TELL course ( sixteenth meeting ), my lecturer asked us to make a portfolio about our meetings since the first meeting ( Week 1 - 16 ).

we make a portfolio and then upload to our website, this website is the final project.

after finished the project we submit the project to e-learning.english.unja.ac.id

by login with our account, and then click "Assigments" option and submit in "FINAL PROJECT"

TELL COURSE : WEEK 14

In this meeting, my lecture asked to create one quiz of either Vocabulary OR Grammar. The quiz should contain at least 10 items.

The quiz can be in from of multiple choice, short answer, matching, or whatever tools to create the quiz. Among others the tools are : Kahoot, Quizziz, Socrative, or other apps that we know.

In this opportunity I choose Socrative to helps me in creating quizzes. 

My lecture has already gave several videos about how to use and operate some tools, one of which how to make quizz with Socrative. 

Socrative is a formative assessment tool that helps teachers and learners to assess understanding and progress in real time in class through the use of quizzes, questions and reflection questions.

How to create quizz by using Socrative? 

Here some steps to make a quizz in Sorcative :

1. you must open Socrative at www.socrative.com

2. click login, and choose teacher login

3. login with your account ( if you have already create your account )

4. click quizzes

5. choose what kind of questions do you want to create first ( multiple-choice, True/False and Short Answer )

6. after that, write your questions in questions box and the answers in answers box, don't forget to click the correct answer.

7. after you finished all steps, click save and exit.

if you want to try your quizz, you must click "launch - Quiz" and you just follow the intructions.

TELL COURSE - WEEK 11 - 13

On Monday, March 30, 2020, until April 13, 2020, it was eleventh, twelve and thirteen meetings of TELL course, the lecturer has opened the new topics, they are Topic 5 about Technology & Vocabulary and Topic 6 Technology & Grammar.

Topic 5 discussed and explain about the connection between Technology and Vocabulary, it consist learning videos, and then the explanantion text.

After watched all  videos, I answer some questions related to the materials.

As the Topic 5, the topic 6 also consist a explanation text, videos, questions.

And I have finished all the topics.

By doing these topics, it’s increase my understanding about technology and the connection with Vocabulary and Grammar, what should teacher know and other tips in teaching-learning Vocabulary and Grammar.

TELL COURSE : WEEK 9 & 10

On Monday, March 16, 2020, it was the nineth meeting of TELL course.

On the nineth meeting, we were asked to do the assigment in e-Learning.english.unja.ac.id - in course materials, the topic was Topic 3 : Technologhy & Listening. 

There are video of the materials that explain with briefly, the text, and the questions that we must answer. 

 And at the end of session, there is an assigments and we will submit it in Assigments ( A03 ), we create a simple lesson plan for listening class.

From week nine to ten, the topic is about listening and speaking. The tenth meeting I do Topic 4 about Technology and Speaking, and I have finished both topics.

In this topic there is an assigments about speaking, we must create a group and discussed several question based on the topic, we write the results about what we have discussed and make self reflection to the activity. After that we submit the assigment in Assigments - A04.

by do this activites I got some new knowledge about technology and it's relation with listening and speaking, the learning videos really helps me to answers some questions, and to make my assigments more easily, because my understanding about the topic very helpful enough to complete it.

TELL COURSE : WEEK 8

On Monday, March 09, 2020, it was the eighth meeting of TELL course, in this meeting we held a mid test.

Our mid-test is not a mid-test written on paper, but we made a project using an apllication called HotPotatoes, we create and design our own quiz by using this application.

What is Hot Potatoes?

Hot Potatoes is a set of programs that allows the production of interactive web-based teaching exercises which can be delivered to any computer. The suite consists on six individual programs: JCloze, JQuiz, JCross, JMatch, JMix, and The Masher.

Since a quiz is a game or competition in which you answer questions, accordingly, in JQUIZ the learner must create, in an interactive way, the correct answer. This may happen in four different forms: multiple-choice, short answers, a combination of the two just mentioned called Hybrid questions, and multi-select questions (where the student needs to choose several correct answers, among all the options provided). Feedback can be provided for right and wrong answers, as well as a hint in the form of single letters, which appear one at the time, according to student´s request. The JQuiz also gives a score which is lowered if several hints letters were requested.

A cloze test is a test in which words have been removed from a short piece of writing, and students have to write what they think are the correct words in the empty spaces; in JCLOZE students must do the same thing but the program provides clues, and encouragement by automatic scoring. Hints in the form of single letters are provided in case the student needs an extra help.

A crossword puzzle is a game in which you write the answers to questions in a pattern of numbered boxes. In JCROSS the learners write up the words, by answering written questions or by looking at pictures and guessing the correct word. If necessary they can ask for hints, in the form of free letters.

A mix is a combination of different items so that the result cannot be easily separated into its parts, and JMIX produces jumbled-sentences, where the student can choose among several answers. In this case the hint bottom provides whole words or even segments of the right sentence, if requested.

Two things match when they look the same because they are pairs, so in JMTCH there are two lists made up of words, or sentences, or pictures, which the student has to match. Also in this program scoring is available.

THE MASHER is a program that compiles batches of hot potatoes exercises into a whole unit, in a sequential order, with the same colour and appearance setting; it also helps to set certain convenient links using the navigation bottons to create an index file for the unit. This is the tool that allows you to upload the files to hotpotatoes.net, in case of having an account, or if you have registered earlier.

At the Hot Potatoes home page, there is a free software available that has limited entries, still it gives a clear idea of the wide range of possibilities this tool has for ELT. The set with a wider range of entries is not freeware, but can be used without conditions by members of public or non-profit educational institutions. However, a registration is necessary. H.P. were created by the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre (Canada). A commercial wing called Half Baked Potatoes provides the necessary funds.

The production can be uploaded into a web page which itself can be uploaded to hotpotatoes.net (handled by Half Baked Potatoes) from within the hot potatoes program. In this site there are plenty of examples. To enter this net, registration is obligatory.

How to make quiz by using Hot Potatoes?

1. open Hot Potatoes ( if you have already download it )

2. click JQuiz

3. after you click JQuiz, you will see an option like the picture below :

4. You may start by write your Quiz tittle, and you can write the question in Q1 table

5. after you write your question, choose multiple-choice, fill the optional answer in table A, B, C, D, then ceklist the correct answer for your question. you can also give some feedback as a response when your students answers each option. you also can insert the background to make your quiz more interesting.

6. after all finished you can click New and Save the File.

Here is example of my Quiz project by using Hot Potatoes :

The benefits doing this project are it increase my knowledge about using technology for make some porject, I can know how to make questions using application with easily, so I can prepare my own quiz that I will give to my students one day.

TELL COURSE : WEEK 7

Technology for Teaching Vocabulary and Grammar

On Monday, March 02, 2020, it was the seventh meeting of TELL course.

On seventh meeting, they were two groups to present their syllabus, they are group 7 and 8, not different with previous groups, they was explain and presented their syllabus with their own topic.

The seventh group which is my group was explain and presented our syllabus about Technology for teaching vocabulary, here I attach the picture of my group syllabus :

At the end of presentation, the audience gave questions to both of groups that has presented their syllabus.

What is the connection between technology and Vocabulary?

As I learnt that, technology provides access to many different ways for students to study vocabulary, also teacher can find many resources to help teach vocabulary on the internet.

Two examples of vocabulary teaching activities :

-          - Voice of America “New Words”

-          - Vocabulary in the news stories

And what is the connection between technology and grammar?

As I learnt that, technology provides access to many different ways for students to study grammar, also technology has changed the way that linguist study grammar, teacher can find many resources to help teach grammar on the internet.

Two examples of grammar teaching are :

-         - Everyday Grammar from Voice of America.

-         - Corpus of Contemporary American English.

TELL COURSE : WEEK 6

Technology for Teaching Speaking

On Monday, February 24, 2020, it was the sixth meeting of TELL course, On the sixth meeting, it was for sixth group showed and presented their syllabus about technology to teaching speaking.

Again, the sixth group presented their syllabus in front of the class, after that the auidence gave some question at the end of presentation.

What is the connection between technology and speaking?

As I learnt that, technology provides new ways for people to connect with each other, and part of the connection is maintained through oral language. These technology also give teacher new opportunities for engaging students in oral conversation and pronunciation practice.

Two examples of new opportunities for speaking practice on the internet :

-         - Pronunciation tools

-         - Opportunities to correct

TELL COURSE : WEEK 5

Technology for Teaching Listening.

On Monday, February 17, 2020, it was the fifth meeting of TELL course, in this meeting it's time for fifth group to presented their syllabus.

As always, the fifth group showed and explain their syllabus about technology for teaching listening, after their explain their syllabus they opened the question and answer session to the audience.

What is the conection between technology and listening?

The answers are :

-          - Technology provides accsess to many different ways for students to listen.

-          - Teachers can find many resources to help teach listening on the internet.

-          - Two examples of listening activities are : Voice of America an America English : sing out loud.

TELL COURSE : WEEK 4

Technology for Teaching Reading

On Monday, 10 february, 2020, it was the fourth meeting of TELL course.

On the fourth meeting, it was for the second group to present their syllabus for teaching reading , as the previous group before, they presented and explain their syllabus in front of the class and they showed each the elements and part of their syllabus, they also opened the question and answer session at the end of presentation.  

After the presentation, the lecture asked us about the characteristics of reading they are text, information, vocabulary, fluency, the principles or guideline are text, context, and also explain what kind of technology that can support students in teaching and learning reading.

TELL COURSE : WEEK 2 & 3

Technology For Teaching Writing

On Monday, January 27,2020, and February 3, 2020, it was the second and third meeting of TELL course, in this meeting we discussed about Technology for Teaching Writing. In this topic, I learnt several important things in Teaching and Learning Writing through Technology, some points are :

• Technology-Writing connection
•  Important Role, technology provides access to many different way for students to learn, support and apply the use of technology in teaching and learning writing.
•  Establish Relationship, technology provides ways to collaborate with other people ( work in group )
•  Makes Fun
•  Collaboration Software, technology provides various resources in form of example and models for students in writing.

 The example of platforms or sources are Word Processor and Collaborative Software.

What teacher should know about writing?

There are three critical aspects in writing, they are :

- Register Variation : Written language varies according to the social context, purpose, and audience, we can see the example how the language choice has to be different depend in what your talking about to your friends or introducing your research to professional audience of general readers.

- Writing as Process Orientation : Writing requires multiple drafts, we saw how this idea has really been pushed forward and played out through the introduction of word processiong in the writing process.

      - Writing as Interperonal Function : Writing builds identity and relationship.

Furthermore, we were divided into groups to create simple syllabus for each group with different topics, the syllabus consists of the level, the materials, the technology, and the method in teaching. After the groups create the syllabus, they will present it per meeting/week, and in third week it's  time to group 1 to present their syllabus with the topic design syllabus for teaching writing.

TELL COURSE : WEEK 1

Hello everyone!

welcome to my first post in the fourth semester, in this and next posts, I would like to sharing about my study experience and what I have got in TELL course, I hope it will usefull for you all.

Introduction

On Monday, January 20 , 2020, it was the first meeting of Technology–Enhanced Language Learning ( TELL ) course in this fourth semester. At the first time, we discussed about the course itself, my lecture explain about what is TELL.

So, what is TELL?

      TELL is one of my course that I got in this fourth semester, this course explores participant views regarding the integration of Internet tools in language learning activities. The descriptive study has illustrated the perceptions of a class of senior high school students regarding language learning in a technology environment. Making students aware that learning English through multimedia technology demands new learning strategies and self-directed learning is a crucial first step. Some pedagogical suggestions are provided for effectively using computer networking in second- and foreign language classrooms. Technology is no longer a fringe course enhancement, of interest to only enthusiastic teachers, learners and managers, but rather, it has an importance for everyone concerned in language teaching. The area of technology-enhanced language learning is highly controversial; there are so many ways of looking at technology in teaching. This course explores opportunities that English teachers have created to help students meet English language literacy goals in technology enhanced language learning (TELL) classroom environments.

      After the explanation about TELL course, my lecture told us to enroll E-Learning, we must log-in by using students account, my lecture told that there will no mid semester and final test ( no paper- test ) but we must do some projects to get the final grade in this course. We also discussed about CALL à TELL à ICT à CMC. We discussed about digital native or we can say millenial ( people who are born in technology era ) and digital immigrant ( people who were born where the technology was not developed yet ). We also discussed about other topics such as OWAL ( Online Web Assisted Learning ), Web–Based English Language Learning, Internet-Based, CMC ( Computer Mediated Communication ) and further materials about using other learning platform based technology ( Internet-based ).