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Saturday 10 July 2010

ICT Final Exam Answer..

Dita Wulandari

F42108012

ICT

  1. What is the overall benefits of BLogging for learning English?
The Answer :
I get many benefits of Blogging for learning English. Well, I start blogging about 2 yearsa go at 2008. I know Blogging from my friend names Dini. First, I use Blogging just for a diary and sharing with my friends in virtual world, and then I know, from blogging I get many more of communication and information. Many of Blogger make Blogs with some reason, just for sharing, showing their ideas, and learning, even find money. In fact, I really sure that many kind of information I got, include learning English.All about learning English can we get from Blogging because everyone may have Blogs and everyone may sharing their ideas in Blogging and many of Blogger use their Blogs for sharing Learning especially we can find Blogs that can help us in L earning English. Just remember, Internet makes world without space, whatever we want we can get from it easier, include in Learning English from Blogging.

1. Many sources of Learning English Materials from Blogging
This is the first benefit that I thing we can got from blogging. In fact, internet is cheap and easy to access know. For that reasons,teaching and learning is easier to share with others. What do you do if you have a home work or an assignment from your teacher or lecturer? Where can you find the answer easier? Well, I and you know the answer, yes it is from internet. Especially from Blogs, many of Blogger want to share their learning in virtual world. From Blogging there are many Blogs you can find to help you in learning English. For example, when you have an assignment about English you can find many Blogs to help you in doing your assignment. For example of Blogs to learn English is http://english-staff.blogspot.com/.When I have an presentation assignment about analytical exposition (writing) I justfind the whole of materials from blogs, I get the materials from
http://mitrapelajarcomputer.blogspot.com/2009/02/analytical-exposition-text.html,http://yasminaldo.blogspot.com/2010/02/analytical-exposition.html,http://www.blogcatalog.com/blogs/understanding-types-of-text/all/explore/analytical+exposition/,and many more. Looks, how easy we can get the source from learning English. Just walk around at Blogs, then many sources we can get. That’s why from blogging we an learning English. That the first benefit that we can get from Blogging.
2. Many new Information (knowledge) about learning English from Blogging
Many kind of new information (knowledge; speaking,listening, reading, writing) we can get from internet. For the simple example is vocabulary. Everyone knows that when they start to blogging in learning English,they will have something new input about it. From zero to hero, from nothing become something, from don’t know become know. You have an assignment and you don’t know the answer then you find from blogs and you make it, have you ever thought that you have something new in your brain when you did it. Yeah, that’s all from blogging. Just walking blog to blog especially about English we will get many of sources material. There is a lot of new knowledge there about English. How blogging make us easier in learning, it’s really help us to see the learning widely.

3. Having discussion of Learning English out of class
Blog make us easier to share about learning English out of class. Well, that’s not enough to learn our subject at school or college just 2 hours every day. With blogging student can have many others discussion in sharing and learning English. The easy example like what we have done in ICT class, Mr. Uray asks us to make some blog with clear purposes. From that every student can have communicate and discussion after class. With Blogging everything of learning English is easier. This is important to make student learning outside the English formal class anytime and anywhere student can continue their discussion about learning English after class.

4. Media of Promotion Learning English
Everyone can share their ideas in their blog. This is one of the ways to promote what we want to show. Many people outside have ability in English and of course they want to share their knowledge to others. With Blogging, we can make something which is needed by many people. For example, I interest in IT and I want to make a blog which is containing of Technology information in English then I start to post it into my blog. From this I use blog as a media to promote what I have wanted to show. So, everyone will have chance in connecting to me. From this, I can learn more about English from others Blogger in all over the world
5. Make student learning English writing process
Well, what will you do with your blog? Of course for write something. Maybe this is a simple thing but it is good in training our writing process. Unbelievable, when we write some article in English daily, we will have more skill in writing English. This is making student learn writing easier, because they will write whatever they like. To learn writing is better start from write whatever we like. In Blog we can write anything that we want to share to others of course in English. If we have difficulties in writing, we can start to blogging. That will make us better in writing because we are trained to write in English and we will try to write a god one in order to make anyone who look our blog will be satisfied and interest.
I think that’s all of benefit that I have from blogging. From all of the answer the most important are communication and information. Many more of learning English we can get from Blogs. In ways of chatting, comment, posting, blog walking, video,link all of that we can do in Blog. Everything will be easier if we want to try hard in learning English because many media will support us to do it,especially from BLOG.
2. Please download the research article from http://llt.msu.edu/vol13num3/ducatelomicka. pdf and then answer the following questions:

   2a. What is Podcast?

The Answer :
Based on my reading, Podcast is one of Technology product from internet. The name of podcast is from iPOD and broadCAST. As we know iPOD is something to use as portable MP3 players and broadcast means that it can be listen. Podcast can be accessed,downloaded and played to a computer or MP3 player. The popularity of podcast can be linked to their simplicity in creating, editing, publishing and listening to them. That like a digital audio file like MP3 or AAC and it is available for download and upload to the internet of a radio broadcast or similar program, made available on the Internet for downloading to a personal audio player. Podcast may contain audio(music), images and video. For example, English student will know about www.BBC.co.uk, in that website we can download an audio file such as a record of English conversation from radio. This is call podcast. To make it easier to understand you may visit here http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice,from that link we can choose many kind of news in podcast from some news for some countries.

   2b. How can Podcasting be useful for learning languages?

The Answer :
From podcast we will have easier in learning languages especially in English because we can upload and download many audio file to hear and practice. Many kind of English material we can get from podcast. It can help us in learn speaking outside the class. For example when I want to have a material about saying apology I can download it, many podcast we can find from internet, one of it is from BBC. Beside trained our pronunciation we will be more creative in learning language because from podcast we have to listen and speak. From these aspects we will learn English faster directly from the native speaker. Can you imagine if we always here podcast almost every day and also practice it, we will be able to speak fluently, make us have more about information of knowledge. From this, we can easier learning English.Podcast now is a media of Learning. When student have a difficulties time for learning language, from podcast they can get huger of English materials to learn. In fact, Podcast isreally help in learning languages because of listening and speaking method make learning English easier to learn. also, Method and Materials in Podcast are very good in Learning language.