Newbie Teacher

Couple weeks ago, I learned about collaborative writing using Google Docs. I actually familiar with Google Docs because I have used it a few times. I choose to be Content Facilitator. I shared the work with one of my friend who has the same job. What I do on this project are: 1. I made my personal opinion about the topic, which I also shared it with my teammates. 2. I suggested the thesis sentence. 3. I add some words that connected to my friends' paragraph to make the paragraph more easy to understand or add something that strengthens the idea. 4. I also corrected some wrong words. I think that this project is pretty successful because everybody worked and put some their idea. Also helping each other to finish the projects. However, I little bit didn't satisfied with some work because I think she didn't really do her job. Fortunately, she put some effort. In the future, I think I will  design a collaborative writing assignment for my student because I think that th...

Hello, everyone! Today, I would like to introduce blended learning. One of the methods that teachers can use for their class. I used blended learning to make a lesson about descriptive text. The activity is design to improve student's listening, reading, vocabulary, and writing. My student for descriptive text is 10th grade. Describing something is very important and being used in many writing occasion. By knowing how to describe something, it would make the writing more detail. The students will watch a video about what is descriptive text. Then, they will read some example of descriptive text. Then they need to write 2 descriptive texts about a place and a person from the pictures in the Blendspace. If they have difficulties with the vocabulary,  there are also some examples of adjective that they can use. The students should do it for 1 hour and submit it before the lesson ends. At the end of the lesson, there is an assignment that students should do at home, and they s...

I do my first teaching experience last week. I used Nearpod as my application of teaching. The lesson is about Capital letter and apostrophe. Capital letter and apostrophe are very important in writing, without them a writing could be confusing. My lesson is for 5th grade. Even though that capital letter and apostrophe sound easy, it's turn out that people still got confused about it. For example, for capital letter, you should be capitalized every planets' names, but not for sun, earth, and moon, but you should capitalize it if it has "The" at the in front.Without the capital letter, it could be confusing for the reader. For example, surnames that have other meaning, like Brown, Lake, etc. For apostrophe, words that have -s/-es at the end of the word usually have plural meaning. Apostrophe also puts -'s to show that something belongs to someone. So, for example, a word like "Boys", it a plural form of "Boy". To show that the "Boys...

Hai, everyone! Have you heard about flipped classroom? A flipped classroom is a technique which teachers, mostly outside Indonesia, used to teach their children. Like its name, it is contrasted from Indonesian classroom do where students learned the subjects at school and do the assignment at home, but flipped classroom students learn the subject and got the assignment at home by video, and do the assignment at school. It is not common at Indonesia school, so probably many of you never experience it. Neither do I. To be honest, I don't know if flipped classroom will effective at Indonesia schools. It mostly because students will have a hard time to customize with the new teaching, but it would possible for elementary students, which mean should be applied to new students. It sure makes teacher's job easier and hard at the same time. It easier because they don't need to explain it again at school or students has something to do when they didn't come, but also it mak...

Hai! Have you heard Digital Storytelling? Digital Storytelling is like storytelling, but the differemt is you tell the story with a video. I made my own video and I had a lot fun with it. I used Adobe Spark. Like other tools, I introduced to you, it is a internet tool, so it's free! You don't need to install it, unless you want to use it in your iphone or ipad, you can download it in apple store. To use it: You can go to  https://spark.adobe.com/ Then choose Animated Video with Spark Video Then you can sign up using facebook or google or email. To start your digutal storytelling, you will be aksed to give your video a title, you can skip it, if you have not choose. If you have experience using microsoft powerpoint, it almost the same.  It has slides, and you can insert photos, videos, icons and texts. You also need to record your voice. Just keep press the red button with a mic icon on it. You only can record 30 seconds for 1 slide.  If you...

Before, we have learned about many Quiz makers like Kahoot, Quizziz, and Socrative. Today, we will learn new quiz maker, but this one is different than the last one. Why? Because this one you don't need internet as long as you had installed it. It called Hotpotatoes. Hotpotatoes is an app that you can install it on your computer and you can use it without internet. So, you don't need to open your browser to use it. This is the Know-how to use it: First, you should install the program at  https://hotpot.uvic.ca/ Scroll down until you see a box with "Download" as the title, and choose one that suits for your computer or laptop. Second, after you install it, open the program. The icon looks like this. When you click the icon, the program looks like this: Third, to make your own quiz, you can choose between JCloze (A fill-in-the-blank exercise), JMatch (A matching exercise), JQuiz (A multiple choice or short answer exercise), JCross (A crossword exercise...