Reflection of Week 3

I feel that the Week 3 is harder than the previous ones. But it is no problem because it is our struggle to do and a challenge to face. Do you agree? Let me check one by one. Firstly, I have done a discussion on Aural/Oral Skill Building. I can say that this skill building is very important to practice in our classroom in order our student can achieve their competence of listening or speaking. Listening is a receptive skill that everybody does every time while speaking is the next skill as the productive skill that someone produces every day. I read the article written by Juila Gong that explains how to employ CALL in teaching Second/Foreign Language Speaking Skills. It is very impressive and interesting when we are successful in integrating CALL to listening or speaking class. CALL as one of the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is very useful for teachers and learners to learn a second/foreign language because this medium can facilitate them to learn the language independently. CALL is one of teachers' and learners' friends in teaching and learning a language.

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The second job I did is creating a Delicious page. It is a very delicious web I know, because we can bookmark many important links as our daily academic menu. Now I have the URL of my Delicious.com, here it is: https://delicious.com/erhamadina. Please visit it. I bookmarked some links related to Translation Studies, based on my own major, such as Translator Service, Translate tools, and Journals.

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Thirdly, I have done Project Task 2 by doing a review of the project article written by Prem Bahadur Phyak from Department of English  Education, University Campus Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal. He was successful in motivating his students to do their project of academic writing and research skills. Though his class was a very large class that contains 300 students in two sections, he managed his class successfully by using one-way lectures technique. He was also successful in facilitating his students to use websites, though it was a very low connection there. He asked his students to create a blog for interactive discussions and sent emails about some references and resources to his students. He also organized his class to like a group discussion as an effective technique to apply in a large class. What I like from him are his ways of formulating the learning objectives using the ABCD model, responding and reflecting what he had found in his study into some detail findings of usefulness of technology for learning and teaching, particularly teaching Academic Writing and Research skills in his classroom.

Finally I say that what I did in the Week 3 is more impressive but harder. Thank you for your attention. Best regards, Rudi Hartono.

A Reflection of Week 2 (Webskills Class)

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As the reflection of Week 2 I can say that many things I did during this week. Firstly, I did Web Searching by trying many search engines suggested. It was a great experience for me to search many sites that I had not done before. Really a bunch of search engines, sites, and portals that I can visit to enrich my information related to my topics. I also asked my students to visit some and use them as their online references, because before this all of us usually visit Google or Yahoo as the familiar search engines. Now we have more and larger search engines (through noodletools) than before, after our instructor of Webskills UO AEI Fall 2013, Mr. Sean McClelland gave some information about the lists of valuable search engines). This can enhance our knowledge and enlarge our repertoires of websites. 

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Secondly, I formulated some behavioral objectives of my Translation classes by using the ABCD model. It was a very impressive model I know, because it has a detail and systematic way of constructing one learning objective. Before knowing this model, I never made the learning objectives based on accurate steps. Now I know how to formulate a good learning objective by focusing on the students I teach (Audience), the students' capability as the expectation (Behavior), the teaching action given to the class whether it is a method, approach, or technique of teaching (Condition), and the students' mastery after the Condition (Degree). That was I did related to deriving the ABCD Model of Behavioral Objectives. It was a very interesting practice that I have known. Thirdly, I planned a Project Task for my Translation classes. I set a plan to teach Translation Studies through blogs. I designed a tutor blog for me to give my students an assignment to do and asked each of my students to have an academic blog as learner blogs. The tutor blog can be seen on http://duniaterjemah.com/ and the learner blogs can be visited on http://e-teachingweb.blogspot.com/ in the slot of the learner blogs. That is all I did related to the Project Task. Finally I say that the Week 2 assignment of Webskills program is very impressive, interesting, and important to keep and practice. Thanks.

A Progress in Week 2

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    At the beginning of this week 2 I worked hard to do all assignments given by the Webskills Fall 2013 program. I did Web searching by reviewing the suggested different search engines (from noodletools), formulated the ABCD objective, and designed the Project Plan for my classes. Web searching through search engines was the first challenging assignment for me to do and made me busy to find out the appropriate sites for my topics "Translation studies". Some search engines provide the topics I search and some other do not. I tried to use 'bing site" (www.bing.com), it provides the facilities like "Google". I suggested my students to use that web. Other interesting and important search engines are http://www.freetranslation.com, http://www.translation-assistant.com, and http://betterworldbooks.com. I learned more from those search engines. I tried to apply all sites that are appropriate for my classess.The second challenging assignment I did this week was designing the ABCD objective for my translation classes. The ABCD model for behavioral objectives is very effective for designing the learning objectives for our classroom. I set the fifth-semester English translation students as the Audience (A), the interactive students' translation capability as the Behavior (B), the Blog-based teaching approach as the Condition (C), and the total daily assessment from the tutor as the Degree (D). That is all I did in the half of week 2. It was an interesting and challenging job.

Reflection on Week 1 of Web Skills Projects

A day after the opening of E-Teaching Program, I directly asked my students to involve in this activity. I instructed them to have an academic blog for each. Exactly each of them has a blog but not the academic one. It means that their blog is just for fun; for showing their leisure activities, such as just for displaying photos or writing romantic words. They have it for fun, so I assigned them to make a new one for academic purposes, especially for Translation Studies in the classroom.

Now they have an academic blog for posting their assignments or homework given by me. I plan to post them assignments of translating projects, then they translate the text I display on my blog posting. In my mind this is a way of the interactive web application in teaching and learning process. The students themselves are very enthusiastic to respond this program. I hope this program can enlighten and enhance the teaching and learning process and product in the future of educational world.

Week 1 Activities

To start Week 1 of AEI eLearning F13 Web Skills B makes me happy but my heart beats rapidly because it is the first time for me as a student to wait the Course open at 10 p.m. in my country Indonesia while in Oregon, USA is 08 a.m. This situation is very different but I enjoy it very much. I visit the Blackboard Learn and search the current information from that web. I am afraid I will be left behind, so I try to search and browse many information related to my course. (Indonesia Oct 7, 2013; 10 p.m.)

Preparation of Week 1

Being ready for taking the E-Teaching program is my first step. Week 1 of this program makes me busy in doing some preparations, such opening daily emails, reading some information from UO AEI web, making a new blog, and doing anything that I can do to support my new activity. This program will manage me to spend additional time for acquiring new knowledge in the teaching context. This, especially Building Teaching Skills Through the Interactive Web program can provide me some lessons and experiences to be a professional lecturer in the future.

My Campus, UNNES

Semarang State University (UNNES) is located in Central Java, Indonesia.This campus is declared by the Indonesian government as the campus of green campus. It has some programs of environmental conservation in and outer of campus.

Introduction

Let me introduce myself. My name is Rudi Hartono. I am an English lecturer of English Department, Faculty of Languages and Arts, Semarang State University, Indonesia. My major subject is Translation Studies. I teach translation classes that learn translation theories and do translation practices from English into Indonesian and from Indonesian into English. I took my degrees: undergraduate of English Linguistics (Unpad Bandung, 1995), graduate of English Education (UPI Bandung, 2001), and postgraduate of Applied Linguistics-Translation Studies (UNS, 2011).