Tugas Midterm Multimedia Production

07.23 |

How to Write a Critical Essay?
Welcome to this podcast. In this podcast, we will talk about how to write a critical essay in academic writing. This is for college students as an introduction to write a critical essay in related subject on universities or colleges. Before we go further to discuss about critical essay, what is critical essay actually? It is probably a question which comes across your mind when you heard it for the first time. Critical essay is an analytical examination of a single or multiple work. It can be an artwork, such as: a play, novel, song, or a movie. Critical doesn’t mean you criticize an artwork based on your single opinion which comes from your feeling or intuition that you feel it is right. In critical essay, you analyze an artwork based on facts and some studied materials through research to support your point of view. It’s not necessarily to present a biased and prejudices perspective in your essay.
To develop your first critical essay, there are several steps which you have to do in order to make your essay systematic. These are the following steps to develop a critical essay:
1.      Define Your Topic
Before you start to write, the first time you have to do is define your topic. As I told you before that critical essay could be discuss an artwork, you can relate your topic with the social issue happened, such as: gender and feminism, globalization, racism, poverty, conflict, etc. You don’t have to present a wide topic that will be discussed in your essay. You can specify your topic based on your preference that you mastered, for example: You want to analyze a movie let say “GIE”, you can specify it to analyze the dialogue of the movie to relate it with your big topic like conflict.
2.      Find References
When you already have a topic that you will be discussed in your essay, you have to find the references to support your idea while analyzing the topic. As I told you before, in essay you don’t have to present a single perspective. You can find reference in a book, online journal, or an eBook. You can choose a specific theory and then generalize it to support your argument. When you feel lazy to read a thick book you can do googling to simplify your work, but don’t forget to put citation for a theory or put a certain argument in a book or journal. Remember this is an academic writing, you have to put acknowledgement in your essay to avoid plagiarism issue.
3.      Start To Write
In this step, you can start to write your essay by doing free writing as your draft or you can even try to draw your idea in a mind map to make your essay systematically. Because it is a free writing you can write everything which comes into your mind freely, just put away any kind of writing rules when you do this. After you do free writing you can show it to your friend for getting feedback to make your essay better.
4.      Editing
After getting feedback from your friend, you can reflect to yourself what the minus point of my essay is. When you feel it’s not good yet, you can totally edit your essay in this step. Perhaps, you can put any idea which is missing before or you can put acknowledgement of any citation that you used in your essay.
5.      Finishing
Last but not least, in this step you have to check for any error in your essay. Perhaps, it could be a grammatical error or wrong typed words. It can be also you point out of some ideas that you haven’t elaborated it properly. Make yourself as a conscientious person who will check you work for every single mistake that could be happen.
Finally, you drew your experience of writing a critical essay. Every single step of writing critical essay is very important in order of gaining quality of your essay. The most important in your essay is you don’t make any judgment or derogatory remark of your point of view. However, it is a process and perhaps you were doubt at the beginning that you will make any mistakes while writing a critical essay. It’s okay, no one best at the beginning. Keep practice to make your writing best.

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Tugas Midterm PETA

07.19 |

The First Teaching Experience in My Life

In the second week of teaching assistance activity in SMA IT NURUL FIKRI Depok, I was assigned by teacher to teach the XB class. I had to explain you that this is an integrated Islamic high school, they separated the class between male and female students. XB is a female student class, it consist of 29 students in the class. After one week of observing and becoming teacher assistance, I had been given a chance by my master teacher to teach English in her class. Fortunately, the class that I used to teach consisted of smart students, they were so confident to speak in English eventhough it was broken English. Based on my observation in the previous week, I assumed that the female classes tend to be handled easier than male classes. Female classes also paid more attention to the teacher explanation than in male classes.
I prepared my lesson plan four days before I taught the class. Procedure text was a topic which I used to teach in the class. My master teacher told me that almost of the students were joined to the private course after school, they already learned about pattern, language feature, and form of procedure text in their course. She suggested me not to develop the lesson which focused on the grammar only because they already had learned it before for many times either in group and in the class. Actually I was inspired by Mr. Iwan who developed a lesson by combining Jigsaw and Role playing in the class as he gave it in Multiple Intelligence workshop in SSE campus. I thought it will be effective to practice their speaking and reading.
 I assigned the students to work in groups and they would hold certain rules on their group, they would develop a poster from the scattered text and pictures also they will explain the poster in walking galleries activity. They would act as logistic, manager, recorder, encourager, and expert. My master teacher suggested me to give reward and punishment in my activity. She told me that if I gave them reward and punishment, they would feel that they were on duty to do the task as well. By giving them a certain role, they were responsible to their role which had a certain obligation on their group.
I promised them to give Juragan and Babu Award to the class. Juragan Award would be given if one of the groups finished the poster faster than other and it was easy to be understood also they presented the poster clearly to the class. In the other hand, Babu Award would be given for the students that interrupt the class such as: did not help the group to finish the poster, sleeping in the class, and also make a crowd in the class. By giving the reward and punishment, it was so effective for them to develop the posters seriously. It affected the students to work intensively and collaboratively in their group. However, I had to give them extra time to finish the poster because 20 minutes that I had given to them at the beginning was not enough. I learn that sometime the lesson plan can be flexible and longer from the target. This activity would be held effectively, if the teacher explains the role of the students clearly and also teacher had to avoid giving ambiguous instructions but give the instructions clearly and systematically.
 I had a problem when I brought this activity to the class, it was difficult for me to assess their speaking by doing Jigsaw like in walking galleries because it was so hard for me to watch and listen all of them at the same time. In walking galleries it was also difficult to assess the other member of the group because expert is the only one who will talk in this part.  I think to assess the student from walking galleries activity teacher should have more partners to assess them in the same time, it would be better if they explained it one by one in front of the class. Actually, applying Jigsaw and Role playing as I explained above is very effective to assess student’s affective manner like participation to work collaboratively in group and assess their reading of the text to follow the written instructions. However, it was a bit difficult to assess their speaking skill because of any distractions would be happened when they were doing presentation while some students were paying attention to it and the other got busy to moving around and looking for the gallery that they were like to come also a crowd was potentially happen in this time.

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My School Experience in The Third Semester

18.52 |

My School Experience in The Third Semester
In the observation and teaching assistance activity in the third semester, I was chosen to do this activity in SMA IT NURUL FIKRI Depok. It was an integrated Islamic high school, they separated the class between male and female class. The school facilitates the students to the technology. They had a computer laboratory, science laboratory, E-learning laboratory, and also internet connection. Unfortunately, I did not observe the E- learning laboratory usage in the classroom because they did not use it at that time, eventhough E-learning sounds so interesting for meJ.
I used to observe the XB class, it was a female students class. The teacher used the technology to make activity in the class. When I came to the class, they were studying about procedure text and the students were doing presentation as their project task in group. Their task was making a TV show about cooking, so they would act as TV presenter who invites the master chef as their guest. Their presentation would be a cooking demonstration about a food in the class. The technologies being used in the activity were Gas stove, frying pan, and spatula. If you are thinking that technology is always related to computer then you will be totally wrong. The terminology of technology is the branch of knowledge that deals with the creation and use of technical means and their interrelation with life society, and the environment, drawing upon such subject as industrial arts, engineering, applied science and pure science.
The usage of technology in the class was very effective to support the learning situation. This activity aimed to assess students speaking skill, by cooking demonstration they were situated in a real condition of speak formally in front of the class. I thought this kind of approach was really appropriate to teach about procedure text to the class. First, the activity was interesting and they can perform their work to the class as well without underpressure and stress making of memorizing activity. Second, the example of procedure text is recipe. This activity tried to put the recipe to the real way through cooking demonstration.
This school already had a good facilitation in technology, if I were the principal of this school my duty for the future was keeping the technology property which already exists and doing improvement continuously as the technology progress was going so fast. The most important thing was maximize the usage of technology itself, so that the tools would not be as a handicraft which hanging on the wall and nice to look. I would hire teachers who were capable to use technology on their teaching, made the technology as an interesting media for learning and made it interactive for the students. The teacher training is also needed to enrich teacher skills to use knowledge because a teacher also needs to learn continuously. Finally, I conclude that as technology is growing so fast every day and schools have to be very sensitive for this issue. Technology is not only for simplify our work but it also as tools for students to learn how to create their masterpiece work in this modern era.

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