The Results or Answers of Google Scavenger Hunt

a.       3456 + 78091 =

81547

b.      700000 / 89 =

7865.16853933

c.       What is 33% of 34,567?

11407.11

d.      How many inches are in 5 miles?

316800 inches

e.       How many minutes are in 40 years?

21037950.6 minutes

f.       What's the equivalent of $20 in the currency of the Czech Republic?

Kč488.25

g.      Name a movie and where it's playing in the 60637 zip code.

Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)

h.      What is patent 20030095096 for?

Method and apparatus for use of rotational user inputs

i.        What is the price of Electronic Arts stock today?

$60.95

j.        What's the population of Miami, Florida?

417,650

k.      How tall is Shaquille O'Neill?

2,16 m

l.        What's the predicted weather for Beverly Hills tomorrow?

Intervals of clouds and sunshine and low clouds and fog lingering along the coast

m.    What time is it in Bejing, China?

15:50:07 CST

n.      What time is it in Johannesburg, South Africa?

09:50:32 SAST

o.      What is score of the last game played by your favorite in-season sports team?

0-1

p.      List three books written by Erin Hunter.

-          Warriors Super Edition Moth Flight’s Vision

-          Seekers Return to the Wild 6 the Longest Day

-          Seekers Return to the Wild 5 the Burning Horizon.

q.      Correct the spelling of Misisippi.

Mississippi

r.        How many 3 bedroom homes are currently for sale in your hometown?

30

s.       Are there any comic book stores located in your local area? If so, how many?

Yes, 124 stores

t.        List a G rated movie currently playing in the 60618 zip code.

Currently, there are no movies and show times for this theater

u.      Where is American Airlines flight 177 taking off from and landing?

Taking off from John F Kennedy Intl (KJFK) Gate 36 and landing to San Francisco Intl (KSFO) Gate 57

Google search features is a feature that provides several features beyond searching for words. It includes about book search, cached links, calculator, currency conversion, definitions, file types, groups and many more. Then, now, Google has the newest features which are results prefetching, safe search, search by number, similar pages. Site search and many more.

I have known several Google search features, but I do want to know more about using Google voice features. Actually, I have ever used this features in my cellular phone, but I still do not know how to use it in the computer, so I need to know more about it. In my opinion, Google search feature helped me to find exactly what I am looking for, especially it has many features. All that I can do was that found the right features to help me in searching for the information that I wanted to know.

Search Engines to Help Students’ Assignment

By: Agata Nina Puspita

As it is known that there are many ways that the teacher can use in the learning activity to teach the students. Since this is the globalization era, one of the way that the teacher can use is by using Search Engines when looking for online information. Through Search Engines, both the teacher and the students can search all information from one convenient place and explore related works, citation, authors and publications from others. On this occasion, Search Engines application will be used in English language class. In this class, there are 30 students and all of them are able to use the technology well since they live in the era of the technology development. As the teacher, I will use one meeting in my English class to do the assignment by using Search Engines application.

In order to help students’ language ability, this class will design to help students to improve students’ listening, reading, writing and speaking skills in English language. Since there are many ways that the teacher can implement in the classroom in order to deliver the materials, I will use Search Engines application. As an English language teacher, I use Search Engines application because it provides the teacher with many access to search about what I want to know. I will conduct one meeting in my English class for students to use Search Engines application to do the assignment. The assignment that is given to the students is that they have to find articles about news report and they have to analyse it. Since they live in the technology era, I will use the development of the technology to help them in doing their assignment. First, I will tell them about the activity that they will do in one learning activity before the class start by using Search Engines. I will give the explanation on how to access and how to use the Search Engines, so they can do the assignment. Next, I will give them the example and I will make sure that every students has understood about what they are going to do. After they have understood, I will distribute the assignment and they will do the assignment in pairs, so it will make them easier in doing the assignment. For that reason, this one meeting classroom will be conducted in the computer laboratory in order to help them to access the internet easily.

Google Search Skills as the Effective Way for English Language Students

By: Agata Nina Puspita

In the era of globalization, the technology development has grown fast and it affects the way of teaching-learning activities. As an English teacher, it also affects my own perspectives since the development of the technology helps me a lot to get knowledge from other people and share my knowledge to other people, especially to my students. As a teacher, I also use the development of the technology to design the materials that will be taught to students. In my opinion, it also helps me to give such a fun material for the students, so it helps them to be motivated to join the learning activity in the classroom. In my English class, since the development of the technology has given many benefits for both teacher and students, I also introduce many application to my students that may help them in searching for the information that they want to know. One of the application is using Google Search which helps them to get new knowledge.

As an English teacher, in some meeting of my class, I will use Google Search in order to help them to get the information from other people easily. First, I will introduce them to Google Search. I will give some explanations about the search engines that will be used in my class. The explanation will include about how to use it and how it works in order to get the information for them easily. Next, I will give examples about how to use it in the classroom. After they have understood how to use it, I will give some assignment which is related with Google Search application, so in the future time, they are able to use it. The last, in the end of the meeting, the students will submit their works to the teacher. Therefore, for this meeting, my class will be conducted in the computer laboratory, so the students will able to access the internet easily.

In my opinion, through Google Search, students can get many benefits, such as improving students’ vocabulary. By applying Google Search in the classroom activity, it helps students to learn English in many ways and it can also improve their knowledge about how to use the development of the technology as well. Besides, by using Google Search, students are able to test and improve their English language skills, such as their reading, listening, writing and speaking skills. Therefore, as an English teacher, I hope that every teacher will also implement the development of the technology in their classroom activity in order to help students to be more motivated in learning, especially learning English language. 

Using Google Aps in English Language Classroom Activity

By: Agata Nina Puspita

Nowadays, there are many online application that can be used by the teacher in order to give the materials to students. Using online application may also help both teacher and students to reach their learning goals in the teaching-learning activity since the development of the technology has grown fast in this globalization era. One of the application is by using Google Aps which involve the application of Google Drive. As an English Teacher, I also use Google Drive in order to help me sharing my materials to both my fellow and my students, so we are able to get information from each other easily.

In my English class, in the first meeting of the classroom activity, I ask my students to make a google account in order to make both of us easier in sharing the materials during one semester. After they have created their own google account, I share all of the learning materials including the syllabus for one semester through Google Drive. After we have done the class, I share the materials that are taught in the classroom to their account, so they are able to get the materials immediately. Besides, I also share the students’ progress on their assignment through Google Drive, so they are able to know their own progress. I do all of them continuously, so they do not miss any information from the teacher. Therefore, as a teacher, I always ask them to check their Google Drive, so they can get the information from their teacher easily.

Besides sharing the materials, I also ask my students to submit their assignment to my Google account in order to make me easier in checking students’ assignment. After I have finished checking my students’ assignment, I also give the feedback immediately, so they can get both the feedback and the score easily. In the teaching-learning activity, as a teacher, I also need suggestions from other teachers, so I also ask what I still do not understand about the teaching-learning activity to my fellow. As the result, Google Drive really helps me in order to get and share the information easily.

Using Hot Potatoes as the Sample Exercise in the Learning Activity

According to TESL-EJ (2012), Hot Potatoes is exercise-creating program which can be used by webmasters, teachers and even students to make a variety of interactive exercises. Besides, these exercises can then be exported as HTML files and launched on any website. In my opinion, using Hot Potatoes is one of the most interesting ways in teaching the students. There are many advantages in using Hot Potatoes as the sample exercise in the learning activity. First, students can get variety helps to keep their motivation in learning the material. Second, students can get an instants feedback or immediate activity that keeps their motivation learning.

As a teacher, it will be helpful and useful if you use Hot Potatoes in your class. Here are some steps that you can apply in your classroom if you want to use Hot Potatoes.

1.      Create the so-called ‘data file’ which has a Hot Potato XML extension (like .jcw or .jcl).

This file is useless without the Hot Potatoes program, but it is used to edit the exercises later. The exercise are exported to web-based exercises (which have the HTML extension .htm) which can be displayed anywhere on the Web.

2.      Before creating a Hot Potato exercise, you need to think about what you want to achieve with it, especially for your students. After you have finished to choose the right exercise, you start to create an exercise. Here, I will tell you about the exercises that you can find in Hot Potato.

a.       Multiple choice

It is the most effective way to give feedback to your students.

b.      Short-answer Quiz

It help you to provide questions which are good in combination with sound clips, definitions or gap sentences, but in this application, you will only have one possible answer.

c.       Crosswords

It brings a playful element into you study material. The quality of the clues determines much of success.

d.      Matching

It can be used in any situation where understanding of a subject can be expressed in the combination of two objects or phrases.

e.       Cloze

It can be used for any type of fill in exercises, with or without wordlist at the top and with or without extra clues given.

f.       Jumbled Sentence

It is suitable for any type of activity in which the learner has to order something, such as the lines of a poem.

3.      When you have finished with the data file, you have to save it and create the web-based exercise which you save under the same name as the data file.

4.      Do not forget to always check the exercise for spelling or punctuation errors.

5.      When you want to make changes, please do the steps that in data file, save it again and overwrite the previous web page.

6.      Do not forget to always check the link because if it is different, it will not appear in the web.

Introduction to Hot Potatoes: http://academic.sun.ac.za/forlang_s/ftp/section7_html/hotpot_intro.pdf

JCloze: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqedUh_9700

JMatch: http://youtube.com/watch?v=BYSEaE97Kts

JCross: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Df24cAWzEwY

JMix: http://youtube.com/watch?v=jMZgEM2pPRw

JQuiz: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Grd8-MCqp9A

Reference:

TESL-EJ. (2012, December). Creating Web-Based Exercises in Hot Potatoes. Retrieved April, 16 2015 from http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/issues/volume16/ej63/ej63m1/

Yahoo Messenger and Skype as Communication Tools in the Learning Activities

Nowadays, having a communication tools is important for both teacher and students because it helps teacher to foster social interaction and enhance the learning process. As a student, I do realize that having a communication tools is a must because it will be used for communication media in the learning activity among teacher and students. Then, as we know, we live in the digital era and there are many communication tools that we can use, such as yahoo messenger, skype, google chat, facebook, blogs and many more. All of them can be downloaded easily from our computer. In the future, if I become a teacher, I will use those communication tools in my class because it will help me to check my students understanding about the topic that we have learned. It will also help me to share information about the topic that we have learned and we are going to learn, so the students can get the materials easily.

To make it possible, I will use yahoo messenger and skype to interact with each member in my class. I will introduce them with yahoo messenger and skype. Then, I will tell them the functions of using yahoo messenger and skype in the learning activity. I will also ask them to make an account, so they will be able to interact with each other. In there, they can have a conversation and they can ask anything that they have not understood in the discussion forum. Next, as a teacher, it is our duty to answer their questions and make a good explanation to make a better understanding among them.

On the other hand, as a teacher, we should introduce them one by one because sometimes, it makes them confused about what communication media that they should use. First, we should make an agreement with our students. In my class, I will use yahoo messenger as the first and skype as the second. Then, I will tell them what media that I will use to make sure that every member in the classroom get involved in the learning activity.

In short, those are my plans in my class. It will take a little time to make every students get involved, but for me, it will be better if you try and hopefully, it brings positive impacts on classroom activity.

In here, I provide some video about how to use skype and yahoo messenger in the classroom. Happy watching and hope it will be useful for you.

Skype (How to use skype in the classroom): http://youtube.com/watch?v=9-GeTvFT9Yw

      

Yahoo Messenger (How to join into a chatroom using yahoo messenger): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vh0z94_fs1Q

      

Using Blogs in the Learning Activities

Nowadays, reading and writing texts online are basic skills that students need to understand as the global community. There are many strategies that teachers can do to engage students’ activities. One of the strategies is by using blogs. Blogs is a tool that makes both teacher and students easy to publish a writing. It provides the opportunity for students and teachers to publish and to share their writing easily. Besides, each of them can give their feedback by giving comments in minutes. It is so useful for students because they can also get comments from an authentic audience.

In blogs, students can write entries and comment on the entries of their peers. Students can also post their journal or diary entries, reflections of the learning activities, their projects in the classroom, commentary on classroom’s recent activities or readings and drafts for other writing that they are doing. Once a student posts an entry, others in the class can respond, provide supportive feedback, and offer additional suggestions or perspectives. By writing and commenting on blogs, students write for real readers. As a result, students focus on clear communication and get immediate feedback on whether they communicate effectively.

Here are some steps that teachers can do when they want to use blogs in the learning activities.

1.      Create their own blog

It means, teacher should create their own blog for students practice. In their blog, teachers can provide links for further reading. With creating a blog, teacher gives class information and links for self-study.

2.      Ask students’ to create their own blog

Students also need to have their own blog for writing practice and reflection on class activities. Students’ blog can also be used as a forum for exchanging ideas on a class-based project.