Blog Workshop

My first collaborative work between Alumni Teachers and my institution Madania School was to conduct a one-day ICT workshop for teachers on Saturday Oct 7, 2006 at Madania campus, Parung, Bogor. On the workshop entitling "The advantanges of weblog in the learning processes", I was asked to deliver a sharing time with the participants, who were teachers and school administrators, about my experience in creating and benefitting weblog. After sharing, I trained about 50 teachers on how to create a weblog. Each participant received a tutotial book about Blogging provided by State Alumni Teachers. After the workshop, the participants now have had a weblog and they would optimize it in publishing and supporting the process of learning in their classrooms. This workshop was also a collaboration among, Madania School, Alumni Teachers, Microsoft, and Detikinet. Click http://photos.yahoo.com/jalueleven for more photos.

English EHB (Monday 9 Oct)

The Grammar Topics for English EHB are:

• Simple Present Tense
• Simple Past Tense
• Present Perfect Tense
• Modal Auxiliaries (can, may, must, be allowed to, etc)
• Question Form (Direct Question: Who are you waiting for? --> Indirect Questions: May I know who you are waiting for?; Does she speak French? --> Can you tell me if she speaks French?)
• Imperative (command) sentence
• Passive Voice (A Mouse ate the cheese. --> the cheese was eaten by a mouse)

PS: Study the Formative Test 1 and 2 Problems, Practice your Reading Comprehension and Writing.
Good Luck!
online resource: click www.englishclub.com/grammar/

English Quiz

This is just a sample of English Quiz of Grade 8. The 8th graders have done it well.

ENGLISH QUIZ 1

MISSING WORD

1. Tiger Woods can play golf very _ _ _ _ .
(4 letters)
2. If you don't study hard, you will _ _ _ _ the exam.
(4 letters)
3. We use our noses for _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .
(8 letters)
4. 'Big' is the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ of 'small'.
(8 letters)
5. The sun goes _ _ _ _ at sunset.
(4 letters)
6. He likes listening to music while _ _ _ _ _ his homework.
(5 letters)
7. I stayed _ _ home all day.
(2 letters
8. Could I have a _ _ _ _ of chicken soup, please?
(4 letters)
9. The policeman ran _ _ _ _ _ the thief.
(5 letters)

CROSSWORD CLUES

THE FIRST LETTER HAS BEEN WRITTEN FOR YOU

1. Clever.
i ______
2. It has a trunk and branches.
t _______
3. A tropical fruit.
p _______
4. A pain in the mouth.
t _______
5. A small piece of rock.
s _______
6. What are gloves worn on?
h _______
7. What are the Andes and the Himalayas?
m _______
8. What drink do cows produce?
m _______
9. A country in Europe.
D _______
10. A dangerous African animal.
l _______
11. Not the same.
d _______
12. What type of food are bacon and beef?
m _______
13. What do you spend in a shop?
m _______
14. To try to find something.
s _______
15. Painful.
s _______
16. It is used for shaving.
r _______
17. Another word that means 'country'.
n _______
18. The highest mountain in Japan.
F _______

e-pal/pen pal Project for Students

Project Description
E-pals/Pen Pal project is designed to provide students with opportunities to correspond with International students so they can communicate about personal interests, school life, cultures, and related lessons within their curriculum framework. It also trains students to sharpen their thinking, reading and writing skills about life and surroundings. Through emails and posts, they will exchange projects such as writings (electronic and original), art/craft products, gifts, etc to make peace and friendships between the nations. It is a full-year program and highly recommended for grade 8 students of English to participate and all postings will be marked. The theme of the project is “Teens’ Talk on Culture”.
Length of Project:
· Period I October 06 – January 07
· Period II February 07 – May 07
Procedures and Regulations
1. Each participating student is paired with an Int’l student partner to correspond to each other. After having been paired up, students are not allowed to change partners and resign from the program.
2. Students must fill in the form and be acknowledged and endorsed by parents.
3. Students must be committed for each assignment determined by the teachers.
4. While communicating their pals, students may determine an exchange project by both parties. They should prepare:
a. Title of the project
b. Duration to complete the project
c. The way to exchange product (post or email)
5. Students may only use one email address to communicate. It must be informed to the teacher.
6. Students are not allowed to correspond via chat rooms (msn, yahoo, etc)
7. All in-and-out emails and exchange products must be copied and informed to the teacher to be reviewed and marked. (Teacher’s email address: kangmasjalu@yahoo.com)
8. Students must always use polite language while communicating.
9. All in-and-out emails, images, and other products created for exchanges must always consider politeness, good norms, and be free from SARA (suku, agama, ras, dan antar golongan).
10. Students failing to accomplish the tasks (for any circumstances denied by the teacher) during the project will be terminated from the project and will not receive any substitute assignment. Therefore, he/she will not get marks. The students who don’t join this project will receive assignments/projects determined by the teachers.
11. This project is an assignment to be done at home and/or at school.
12. For non-electronic exchanges (art/crafts, gifts, etc), the postage will be charged collectively.

Workshop on Active Learning for Teachers

Recently, as a 2005 Alumnus I was invited to deliver a workshop for Paket B Teachers at Daarut Tauhid Jakarta Office at Ciputat Tangerang. As a professional educator, I was very excited to share my knowledge and skills to new teachers especially teachers teaching for students with disabilities to persue their eduacation due to financial problems. During the program, I introduced models of Learning Styles to the participants to understand learners' ways of learning. Later, I involved the participants on some activities to build awareness of self disciplines to create positive interactions among learners and ways of handling misbehaviors. Click http://photos.yahoo.com/jalueleven for more photos.