My English Learning Blog

Operating a motorcycle takes different skills than driving a car; however, the laws of the road apply to every driver just the same. A combination of consistent education, regard for traffic laws and basic common sense can go a long way in helping reduce the amount of fatalities involved in motorcycle accidents on a yearly basis. It's important to understand some basic motorcycle safety tips to make sure your next ride is a safe one. To always save our safety while riding a motorcycle there are a few tips that we must follow that actually have become our duty as motorcycle riders, which if we do not do or ignore one of these obligations, we may be subject to traffic violations in accordance with the law applies in our country. Among these obligations are : 1.     Always use a helmet when riding a motorcycle 2.     Always obey traffic signs and traffic lights on the road, and never violate them 3.     And never use a cellphone w...

In t he ninth meeting of ICT in Education course , On Friday, 15 November, 2019. In this meeting, we were discussing about how to improve our listening skill by using technology. Our lecturer told us that technology can be used for resources as the material and tool in studying. We talked about what technology we can use to improve our listening skill, such as Podcast, Podomatic and ESL Lab. On this occasion I use one of the sites that provides complete training for listening, namely Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab. You can access it through this link.  https://www.esl-lab.com/   Randall's ESL Cyber Listening is online platform that providing English listening comprehension quizzes and activities for ESL and EFL learners since 1998. I really like using this site because in it we can choose the level for our own listening test, the levels on this site are Easy, Intermediate, and Difficult, and we can adjust to our respective abilities and can try the next...

At the eighth meeting of ICT in Education Course, on Friday, 08 November, 2019, at this meeting we discussed about cloud computing, which is how online-based applications can store our files and data safely and can be accessed wherever and whenever we need without having to worry about our data being lost. And one of the online-based applications that can be used as Cloud Computing is one of the applications developed by Google, which is Google Drive.  And besides, at this meeting we also learned several other functions that we can use from Google Drive, namely as a medium for Online Collaborative Discussion. Apart from its general function of being Cloud Computing, we can also use Google Drive to do our work, collect our work, and also as a medium for Online Collaborative Discussion, as assigned by Mr. Dedi Kurniawan told us to create a discussion group and discuss about making an essay by using the Google Document feature available on Google Drive. By using this G...

In the seventh meeting of ICT in education course, on 25 October, 2019, we asked to make a blog, we may use WordPress or Blogspot to create our blog, but before make a blog we talk about what is the use of a blog. With a blog we can post anything like our daily activity, a new information or news and other uses. In this time, we use a blog to post our assignment collection during ICT In Education Course learning or we can call with Learning Portfolio. This my learning portfolio in my blog that I made using Blogspot : After that, we need to post the link of our blog to Padlet that is available on e-learning. It is used to share our Learning Portfolio. The following picture is showing my post consisting the link to my Learning Portfolio on Padlet on e-learning. By using a portfolio like this we can see our assignments that have been past and more organized and also a more attractive appearance with a variety of themes available and there are still many o...

In the sixth meeting of ICT in education course, on Friday,18 October 2019, we talking about Internet as English Resources. in the beginning of this meeting we talking about how to use the search engine especially Google to search English language resources, and how to filter out good and wrong information, because a lot of information whose truth is still doubtful even fake on the internet. And because of that we were asked to evaluate some website related to English. But before that we must know what aspects must be considered in evaluating a website. We were given six criteria, such as authority, purpose, coverage, currency, objectivity, and accuracy. And at the end of this meeting we asked to evaluate two website related to English based on that six criteria in a group with three people. This is my group assignment of Searching and Evaluate 2 Website or resources : Evaluation Result of English Resources After learning how to evaluate internet resources, we learnt...

In the fifth meeting of ICT in education course, we are asked to fill in the collaborative glossary in e-learning, by searching for a minimum of five academic vocabularies and their word classes, their meaning in Indonesian and examples of their use in sentences. to look up the vocabulary we can see from the Academic Word List You can click this link https://www.victoria.ac.nz/lals/resources/academicwordlist/publications/awlsublists1.pdf And this my contribution for this collaborative glossary : 1.Compile Compile (Verb) Definition : to collect information from different places and arrange it in a book, report, or list (Cambridge Online Dictionary) Indonesia : Menyusun, Mengumpulkan  Example : We're compiling some facts and figures for a documentary on the subject. 2. Constant Constant (Adj) Definition : happening a lot or all the time ...

In the same day we were asked to fill in the discussion forum provided on the learning media. The topic discussed is “The 21st century is marked by, among other, the rapid development technology and its pervasive use in various fields of life, including in education. IN YOUR OPINION, HOW should you as learners need to be prepared? WHAT KINDS of skills do you need to have? WHO should be responsible for such preparations? WHEN and WHERE?”. After we give our opinion about this topic we are asked to give comment for opinion from two of our friends. And this is my contribution for this discussion. In my opinion as a learner we must understand once the challenges that exist in the 21st century before we set a strategy to deal with it and prepare what skills we must have. As we know in the 21st century this is the era of technology that is very developed in various fields and therefore to deal with it we must prepare the skills to support it, there are some important skills in ...