A Digital World of Learners and Teachers

it comes out!

2014-08-19T22:07:00.000-07:00

edited by using photoshop cs6, by Me

deep sleep

2014-08-19T05:41:00.001-07:00

Hello world. Today I would like to share with you my funny moment when I spent my Saturday night with my friends. Not with my girlfriend? of course no. I don't have any, because I am single, a happy single. :D

Well, just spend your little time to watch this short video I uploaded on YouTube.

BE CONSISTENT OF YOUR SUBDOMAIN (BLOGGING TIPS)

2014-06-20T09:50:00.001-07:00

Hello World, have you ever tried to change your blog subdomain? For example, when I have http://arimuhammad-ict.blogspot.com, and then I want to change the subdomain to be http://arimuhammadict.blogspot.com . Me myself, there was a time when I was exploring my blog setting, then I saw a box, of course it was for changing the subdomain. Actually I could change it just in seconds; however, I didn't do it. I don't know why. Maybe because it is not matter to change it, and I just said, "What for?"

So lucky I am, because it would be a terrible disaster when I had changed it. Why? Because when you try to change it, the you will have done, the disaster is going toward you.

Well, this is the reason: http://abang-palu.blogspot.com/2014/05/pengalaman-dan-resiko-mengganti-nama-domain.html

After you read the post from the link, I hope you will never try to change your subdomain. BE CONSISTENT. Thank You :)

SHAME ON ME!

2014-06-17T19:48:00.001-07:00

SHAME ON ME... WHEN I WAS GOING TOWARD MY FRIEND ON THE STAGE TO GIVE A LAPTOP THEN I FELT DOWN ON THE STAGE IN FRONT OF THE PEOPLE

JANGO ; An Addition Source (recalling http://arimuhammad-ict.blogspot.com/2014/05/recognizing-english-vocabulary.html)

2014-06-14T17:06:00.002-07:00

Hello world, this morning I would like to share with you about a free online music site that is already became my favourite site when I surf the internet. it has so many songs for you to listen whenever and wherever you are. This is http://www.jango.com . You will have newest album from the famous singers. You can also find so many genres here; such as jazz, classic, pop, rock, and so on.

First, I would like to recall you to my previous post: http://arimuhammad-ict.blogspot.com/2014/05/recognizing-english-vocabulary.html. After that, let’s make a connection between my previous post with JANGO. Do you want to ask, “What do you mean?” to me? It is simple; I called it “an addition source of learning vocabulary and pronunciation.” In general, it is the same method. The difference is the music file you are playing (whether is offline or online) and the way that you find the lyric. In the previous post, the music is offline (music files that you save in your hard disk (computer) and the lyric, you have to Google to find it. However, in JANGO, you don’t need to spend your disk space to save the music files, and the lyric, has been served in the JANGO site, so you don’t need to Google it.

You can see below the player button, there is a link direction, “click for full lyrics”. When you click it, you will be redirected to the lyric site in the new tab. And, happy singing and learning!

NOTE: the important thing that you must have is AN INTERNET CONNECTION

See you world

"You do not need to download it manually, I'll help you!" iTunes said.

2014-06-11T13:39:00.000-07:00

Hello world, full of beans me this midnight, smiling with an innocent face in front of the laptop screen while all of friends are having dreams in color. You might even think what I am doing while they are sleeping. Maybe you feel curious what time I do sleep, don’t you? But you can guess what I did when you are reading this post; I am blogging, of course. Haha. Kidding guys.

Well, tonight I am going to share you a tip about how to get access to English Learning sources by using an easy way. In this post I will bring you on how to find Listening Materials for improve your listening skills, without wasting time in downloading it. First, let’s find out what the definition of Listening is. As I found at tutorvista.com:

· Listening is the act of hearing attentively.

If we are listening, it means that we are hearing. What kind of hearing? Of course we have to attentively to hear it. Thomlison (1984) defines listening as, “Active listening, which is very important for effective communication”. What is going on if we do not hear attentively? That is, we are not able to get the message from what we listen to. It is very important for us to listen attentively when we talk with someone. If we do so, the interlocutor definitely will be appreciated by us. Then, he/she will appreciate us too. Remember, if you do not want to lose your friend, do not ever try to listen to him/her inattentively.

· Research shows that 45% of our time is spent on listening.

I very agree with this statement because obviously what we are doing every day is spending time with listening to all the things, which are producing sounds. We hear rooster in the morning, planes, cars, machines, motorbikes, and even, the important thing, is when we have interactions each other. Listening to the teacher or lecturer in class, talking with classmates, hanging out at the canteen with friends, and so on, are the common activities as a student in which the listening activity is never be apart.

However, listening is not always have to attentive; it depends on the situation and environment. In addition, there are few tips to master the tool of listening skill. Clickhere

Okay, now, we are going to see what tip that I will share with you. As we know, there are many websites provide listening materials (especially for English). BBC, VOA, NPR, etc., are common websites which provide those listening materials. I will explain my favorite site, that is BBC. In the BBC, you can find so many information such as News, Sport, Weather, Capital, Future, Shop, TV, Radio, Entertainment, and Learning.

In order to improve our listening skills, of course we must have the materials to practice. More practice we do, more skill we have (a word from a lecturer of mine). One of several links which is going to direct us to the listening materials is http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts. This is still the home of the podcasts page. In this home page, you will find many genres. Each genre has many listening files. Then you will say “Wow! So many listening materials that I will download here! I want to download this all!”. And then you will find a problem, that is, whether you must download the materials one by one. Won’t you feel tired to download it one by one? It is so many you know? And it is obviously going to spend so much time to download it. That is actually the problem that I am going to tell you, so here I am also will help you to solve this problem.

Have a look at here:

There you can see the download link has provided so you can download it easily. However, do you want to waste your time too much by clicking, clicking, and clicking the download links one by one? Even, sometimes, you need to set the folder where you want to put the file, repeatedly. It is such a party of wasting time.

Don’t worry, I am coming to help you so that you are not going to stop to download the files and still downloading without having a party of wasting time. Here is the solution. Last night (11/06/2014), I accessed http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/eaw to look for the update of the episode. This is my favorite podcasts because it is a serial story about working atmosphere, and there are many tips in each episode. I found that it has already updated so many episodes that have been updated. Unfortunately, I have lost episode 46. Then I wanted to download the rest of episodes so that I will not lose the others. While I would start to download the files, I saw SUBSCRIBE links that related to some media player applications and social sites:

There you can see the links; those are iTunes, and Zune media players. And below those applications, there is a sentence “Subscribe to this podcast and automatically receive the latest episodes”. Actually, I had ever seen before but I did not take care about that. Then I started thinking, ”Oh, this is the answer! I don’t need to download it one by one anymore.” After that I downloaded and installed the iTunes. After it was installed, I ran the program, I came back to the http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/eaw, and I clicked the iTunes subscribe button at the website, then the link was directed to my iTunes application. It started to download one podcast file. Just one? How’s the others? Let’s see.

Click the iTunes button. And then you will be directed to the iTunes application:

At the first time, it downloads one audio file. And for the other files, just right click the Album (see picture below), and then click “download all”. It will download all the audio files which are still available online.

Then it is downloading all the available audio files automatically (in one genre)

Do not forget! If you want the files still exist in your computer, don’t forget to make a little change of the setting. See the picture below. Click setting, and then select “off” at the “delete played episodes”, click done. The file / played episode will be deleted in 24 hours.

When someday you want to check for updates of the episodes, just click “Refresh podcasts”

Well, that is my explanation, hope you will satisfied. When you get stuck in doing this, I always ready to help you. Find me at my Facebook, and then I will come to you. Thank you very much.

Recognizing English Vocabulary, Pronunciation and its Meaning / translation through Music

2014-05-26T22:43:00.000-07:00

Many people have their own style in Learning English. I found seven learning styles from learning-styles-online.com :

 Visual (spatial): You prefer using pictures, images, and spatial understanding.

 Aural (auditory-musical): You prefer using sound and music.

 Verbal (linguistic): You prefer using words, both in speech and writing.

 Physical (kinesthetic): You prefer using your body, hands and sense of touch.

 Logical (mathematical): You prefer using logic, reasoning and systems.

 Social (interpersonal): You prefer to learn in groups or with other people.

 Solitary (intrapersonal): You prefer to work alone and use self-study.

Well, I am not going to explain all those kinds of styles. However, if you are feeling curious what they are, just click those links. :D

Today, I would like to share my thought to you that is how to recognize new vocabulary and pronunciation through listening to Music. Okay, let’s do it step by step. Let’s say that you have a new song to listen that has just released by a singer and of course you want to sing that song too. Unfortunately, you do not know how to sing it because you still do not know the lyric yet. It means that you have to recognize the lyric. It is so simple how to get the lyric because it spreads all around the world (internet). Just ask Sir Google; he certainly is going to give you the answer. Okay now you already have the lyric.

First, play the song without reading the lyric. Here, you will find out that you have an unrecognized vocabulary. Let you smile for a moment because it means you will get a new vocabulary. Second, look the unrecognized word/vocabulary on the lyric script. Try to pronounce it, and then ask yourself whether your pronunciation is clear or still wrong. Do not worry; when you have a wrong pronunciation, you are being fixed soon. Third, play the music with the lyric script in your hand. Read and pronounce the lyric while you are listening to the music, and I hope you have already been hypnotized by yourself that you are now have recognized the new vocabulary and the pronunciation. Congratulations! Moreover, you may not know what the meaning of the word you have just recognized is. It is very easy; just use the dictionary to find it out. Here you are, who have just mastered new vocabularies and the pronunciation. Good luck.

Welcome Smart Board, Good Bye Chalk Board

2014-05-11T04:56:00.001-07:00

Hello young generation, do you still remember when you were in Elementary School, and then in Junior high school, then even in Senior high school? I would like to tell the story and recall you back when we were in Elementary school. Everyday our teachers wrote on the chalkboard about the lesson, then we write it down to our book. You know? How pity they are! After they wrote it on the chalkboard, We could see their hands were getting dirty, full of chalk. Moreover, it could risk an asthma. Although there are some handbooks, however, just the teachers had it; that's why we more often used the chalkboard.

However, we have to thanks to the chalkboard, especially to the inventor, because if there was no chalkboard, it means maybe there will no Smart Board nowadays. With this new innovation, it changes us from the primitive become the modern one. In what way it changes us to the modern one? As we know that in this modern area, people tend to choose something more practical, efficient, and produce optimal results. Therefore, with this smart board, people in educational atmosphere, want the process in teaching-learning become easier, efficient, then will result deep understanding in every subject matter for the learners, and of course, it must be easy to use.

Let's see the video below

After seeing this video, let's mention some advantages and disadvantages between the chalkboard and the smart-board. Fill your mentions in the comments :)

An Innocent Face

2014-05-08T11:10:00.002-07:00

Well, guys, it's already Friday in the midnight. Just around twelve hours ago (11 a.m., Thursday 9) when I had IKD (ILMU KEALAMAN DASAR) class, I did not have breakfast in the morning. Even, I did not have dinner last night; therefore, I have not been eating for about 20 hours. I never do that before. When the lecturer was explaining the materials, blah, blah, blah, there was something mystic blowing my eyes that made me felt sleepy, sleepy, and then, sleeping in sitting position. I still heard what the lecturer was talking about the material. However, that mystic thing came back and blown my eyes and even my ears. Then the voice of the lecturer was fading away, away, and, I started to dream. I was started to walk step by step in my dream. When I almost arrived at the Dream Land Gateway, there was a voice whispering on my ears. It was fading in, then when I had heard it clearly, I recognized it was my lecturer’s voice and he said, “His neck is going to broke” (lehernya mau patah). I opened my eyes closely and pretending there was nothing happen. When I looked at my friends one by one, all of them starred on me. Then I went back to focus to my lecturer, with an innocent face. I did not know what was my lecturer feeling about. LOL

The History of Technology in Education

2014-05-04T00:34:00.004-07:00

Technology in Education evolved over time. From cave drawing become to the more sophisticated technology. Nowadays, we have 'world' in our hand; how about the education? Is it already in our hand - or we are keep staying in the 'cave drawing' era? Let's see the History of Technology in education. After that, let's figure out ourselves what are we gonna do.

Internet Vocabulary (let's get new vocabulary and getting secured in the cyberspace)

2014-05-03T12:18:00.002-07:00

Hello guys! You are flying on internet right now, aren't you? These daily life, when you are surfing on the internet, of course you will meet common words related to the internet. In this video, it is going to explain us about commons words in the internet, and of course, we are going to learn new vocabularies. Photogenic style in this time are very Viral, and it is called 'Selfie'. Are you the one of them? When you look for something, whatever you want look for, everything is gonna be easy with Google. What is Google? Is it a noun or verb, or even an adjective? When you are going to share something like an update status on Facebook, or an announcement in a social media, you post it. You are writing journals, diary, and even your thinking about phenomenons which are happening in your life, a blog is one of some good place to share them. You know a blue bird icon, and you may tweet everyday like a tweety. Even there is a cyber-thief who is trying to steal your bank account; it's called Phishing. And the one which is very very famous today, meme, a picture with some sentences that relates in every different condition and situation. When you are opening your email, you may hate there are some spam e-mails. Be careful with these; these (the email) may contain viruses which can damage your files and computer. There are more words related to the internet vocabulary - for more explanation of these words with bold typed and the others words, let's see the video below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=duunFMQOos4

An Introduction of Technology in Every Education Atmosphere

2014-04-26T12:43:00.000-07:00

The use of information and communications technology (ICT) in education is transforming learning and teaching practices in significant ways. For instance, the integration of computer-mediated communication with multimedia course-ware electronic libraries and databases has led to the emergence of a completely new kind of educational experience, namely E-Learning or networked learning (Rosenberg, 2001; Steeples and Jones, 2002). Affordances and opportunities offered by ICT are also causing educators and educational providers to rethink and re-engineer the nature of their educational practices (Gibson, 1977; Turvey, 1992). A significant product of this re-engineering includes a shift in the roles of teachers from being ‘providers and deliverers of subject matter content’ to becoming ‘moderators and facilitators of learning’ within student-centered models of learning and teaching. Some of these models of learning and teaching include ‘computer-supported collaborative learning’ (Koschmann, 1996; McConnell, 2000), ‘computer-supported problem based learning’ (Koschmann et al, 1996), and ‘distributed problem based learning’ (Koschmann, 2002). These models of learning and teaching are closely associated with a growing interest among educators and educational technologists in the capabilities of ICT for leveraging the learning and teaching transaction. Educators are enthusiastic about how they can use ICT to improve their teaching activities, which include the engagement of students with subject matter content, activation of learning, assessment of learning outcomes and provision of feedback to their students. Educational technology researchers are inquisitive about the influences of ICT on the achievement of content-specific as well as generic learning outcomes and the processes of learning, including students’ approaches to study, their motivation for learning and engagement with the subject matter content.

Literature from:

LEARNING & TEACHING WITH TECHNOLOGY

Principles and practices

Edited by Som Naidu

London and Sterling, VA, 2005

ISBN 0-203-44291-1 (Adobe eReader Format)