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Learning technology continuously is a never ending effort that should be performed by teachers. It is part of their professional development (PD) as well since learning technology and how to use it will eventually enrich their knowledge, hone skills, and deepen their understanding of how actually students who have been immersed with technology learning today. It is important to always remember that without sufficient knowledge on how technology can be used in the classroom which very often offered via professional development activities teachers will never be optimally implement technology into their daily instructions (Skogerbo, 2013). Professional Development does not always mean attending standardized and official TPD hosted by government, or teacher training institutions etc. It does not also mean a site-based one that includes many teachers and scheduled rigorously to meet the expectation of the teachers on site.Yet, it can mean just a self-directed teacher profesional development...

Teaching Speaking : Whatsapp can be used to teach speaking skills. We can make online courses through this application and start to give introduction of it. First we can teach about the pronuciation, as teacher we give the example of the right pronunciation of some word and then we can also give text and ask students to make the recorder when they read the text, they should read it in a correct pronunciation as the example before. Teaching Writing : Nowadays people write not only on paper but they also use technology that accure in this era. Blog is one of the tool that we can use for writing. Teacher may ask students to make a blog, when learning about decriptie text for example students may write it on their blog. Teacher can check the result of their work. Teaching Reading : Comic is the interesting tools that we can use for learning english process. Teacher can make the own comic, for example when learning about expression of happiness, teacher may use comic and give th...

A. Technology and TPD Once you are graduated from the teacher training center, The question is "will you stop learning?" If you go to shool and you meet your students, would you think that your knowledge you learn today will be sufficient enough to answer all their questions or equip them with enough knowledge and skills for their future? I believe you know the answer already. And I believe you agree with the idea that what you learn today will not be enough for equipping you for the future teaching challenges. Therefore, you will keep on learning and you will keep your self up dated with the lates technology in education. Why teachers need to keep up with technology? Why don't we just let the students work with technology themselves and just give them assignments to do? Aren't they familiar with technology already? But how will we ask students do something with technology if we do not know what technology is available and the potential of it? Even worse if we do...

Today technology has become a major driving force in our life. we rely most of our life's business on the use of technology. Ranging from making phone call, traveling distance places, making daily food, and handling various works. we use technology at home, in the office, at schools, and everywhere. In terms of schools, Technology today has contribute so much leap that make education today develop faster and faster. But unfortunately technology may never be able to replace human teacher to educate (Wright, 2013). It is only tool that may help teachers to ease them in educating people. For teachers and students, today there are many tools available, that may help in teaching and learning process. We have been discussing and trying some of them during this course. Yet, it will be much more useful if we can specifically learn and try the tools that will help us to better prepare to be teachers and manage the class. Managing the class is very important because a better classroom manag...

Assignment 12.1: Now that you have been introduced to various activities and tools available on the internet for language teaching and learning, you may have had a better picture by now about how the available technology can be used for your language teaching activity later in the future. In order to practice planning a future language lesson which is technology based try to look at this lesson plan samples: CAREFULLY LOOK at The samples because you will make one like those at the end of the session. Lesson Plan Sample 1   http://alex.state.al.us/lesson_view.php?id=4247 Lesson Plan Sample 2   https://sites.google.com/a/nssd112.org/tech-for-teachers/home/example-lesson-plan-using-technology-resources Lesson Plan Sample 3   http://l-www.voki.com/open_pdf.php?file=Conjugation%20and%20Sentence%20Practice%20-%20Many%20Grades.pdf Lesson Plan Sample 4   http://studentweb.usq.edu.au/home/w0055334/Teaching-IM.htm Lesson Plan Sample 5 https://sites.google.com/site...

Teaching Listening: The goal of teaching listening skills is to produce students who can use listening strategies to maximize their  comprehension. To help students achieve the goal there are of course many things that teachers should consider.Yet,  the consideration should be mostly on the process of listening rathen that the product of listening. If focus on the  product of listening only then the tendencey is that we do not teach listening rather we test listening. Then what are  the strategies? The following articles discuss theories about the developemnt of listening skills, tips on how to  deliver a listening activities and some practical tips on listening activties that can be performed by teachers and  students while learning a language. Listening for young learners Teacing listening to college students The links  below inspire us with activities/Lesson plan that can be adapted to teach listening Listening Skills Lesson Plan   Ga...

A. Teaching Speaking The goal of language is communication. So what wever language we learn, wherever we learn, and we never we learn, the goal of language learning is always aimed at using it for communication. Although we may use it only for the receptive puposes such as listening and reading but it is also part of communication. For the productive skills like speaking and writing, the communication function is even mre crucial. In this section we will look at why speaking skills is important, how to teach the skills? What teacher should know in order to better the speaking activities in a language class. Let's start by looking at the following sites which presents some usiful tipps on how to choose actvities in a speaking class, and some considertion that teachers should know when planning a language instruction focusing on the teaching of speaking: 1.   Oral Production in th second language classroom Teaching speaking skills in a cl...