Newbie Teacher

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...

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...