Impossible to Make Your Own Comic? Says Who?

Do you like reading comic? Have you ever thought you want to have your own comic? Yup! A comic that made by you.

Make a comic usually needs a tool that the price is not cheap. Or you want to make a comic but you could not draw a character? (Dont worry, mate! You are not alone. So do I. :v)

Again, this is two thousand and sixteen. And the world become more sophisticated than the past. What might be impossible in the past, may be possible in present. Just like make a comic, which is you think that make a comic is hard for you to do it, nowadays, make a comic as easy as make a Facebook account. (?)

If you typed "Website for creating a comic" then, you will find a million of recommended website from Google to make a comic. I will make it easier for you. There are 3 famous website to make your own comic in a simple way.  Toondoo, Chogger, and Pixton. Try those 3 websites to make your own comic, and let me know your comic in the comment box by citing the URL of your comic.

Here is a comic that I have made with my group, Dika, Amel and Intan.

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Make a Poster

A poster is a large piece of printed paper that has a picture of something. Posters are made to be shown on a wall or other flat surface. Posters may be used for advertising, education, propaganda, or decoration. They may also be copies of famous works of art. *Wikipedia*

Time by time, poster change into something new. Not only are made to be shown on a wall but also are made to be shared in the internet. If in the past, we will need much tool to make a poster, nowadays, we just need a laptop and an internet connection to make an awesome poster. 

There are a lot of websites to make a poster, but the famous one is MyPosterWall. You will find a thousand of templete that have prepared for you to design your own poster. It can be for announcing party, advertising concert, or delivering English material.

Yap! We can use poster to deliver our English material. We can make a poster with our students so that they just not learn about English but also learn about art and creativity.

To operate the website is very simple. You just need to go to http://www.postermywall.com/  then without log in, you can directly design your poster by clicking Create A Design. Choose the templete that you like. 

Customize the templete.

And if you have finished to design your poster, klik Download. Tada~ You have your own poster. Easy, huh?

And here is my poster made with this website.

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What Should We Do in Search Engine?

Hi! And welcome back to my blog.

Have you ever search something in Google? Well, I doubt that you will answer NO for that question.

Everyone of you must have typed something in Google Search column. And most of you must search something that related with your assignment in Google (or even... you search your question of your assignment in Google. Hahah..)

But, that you know, that Google is like a forest. You can find anything that you want (or even anything that you don not want to. :v) in Google. When you type something in search bar, sometimes it shows up that is not related with what you want at all. Actually, there is a secret to browsing in Google. Here is tips and trick to search something in Google. Google Search Operator.

Google is one of the big website, that usually we called as "Search Engine". There are still a lot of search engine just like Google. If you want to know more about the other search engine, just click here. 

Actually, how do search engines work?

After we have known how the search engines work, then next question is how can we search effectively in search engine? 

Is all of the information we got from search engine can be trusted? John Hopkins University gives us some tips to evaluate information.

That's all from me. Thank you for reading. ^_^

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CALL Helps Us to Teach Writing

You often get confuse what should you do when you are going to teach writing skill? Me too, haha.. Kidding.

Well, we know that teaching English skill can not be separated. We can not teach each skill, we have to integrate one skill with other. Usually, listening is integrated with speaking, then reading is integrated with writing.

So, before we go to the website that can be used to teach writing, firstly we come up with, Why? Why we should teach writing integrated with reading skill?

K12Reader may help you to answer your curiosity about that question.

Then, how can we teach writing effectively?

1. How to effectively teach English Writing skill?

2. Tips to teach Writing for ESL Students.

3. Deborah R. Yates gave us some tips for teaching Writing to ESL Students.

Now, we have known why and how we teach writing skill. What about integrating our teaching with technology?

Here are some guide to teach writing with technology.

1. Teacher's Guide to Teaching Writing through Technology.

2. 10 Ways to Use Technology to Teach Writing.


In educatorstechnology.com we are introduced to 2 websites that can be used to teach writing collaboratively. There are Zoho and Titan Pad. How to use those two websites?
Unfortunately, I could not find any video about tutorial using Zoho. May be you can search by yourself about how to use Zoho to teach writing.

But don't worry, I found this video showing us how to use Titan Pad.

Okay. That's all from me about how to integrate technology with our teaching. Last from me, Tips on Teaching Creative Writing.

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Never Bored Anymore to Teach Reading Skill

Hmm...

What comes in your mind when you read "Teaching Reading skill" ? Some of you might think about the bored activity in reading class, some of you might think the activity of reading class is only read in the class.

Well, this is two thousand and sixteen, we do not need to be bored anymore to learn or teach reading skill. Again, we can use the power of internet to teach reading enjoyable.

Okay, before we go through the website for teaching reading, we have to know first why is reading important? English Club have prepared the answer for question like why, what, tips, and strategies to teach reading.

As well as listening, reading is also considered as receptive skill. Reading is a process, so when we teach reading skill, we should focus on the process. Try to read this article to know more about how to teach reading skill.

Now, how we can integrate the technology with teaching reading? And how to teach reading to be not bored anymore?

There are many ways to teach reading. We can teach through:
1. Games
Playing games is a great way to provide additional practice with early reading skills. This article provide six games that can be used to help young readers practice word recognition, spelling patterns and letter-sound knowledge.

2. Comic
Reading activity not only reading a paragraph. We can use comic for the enjoyable reading material.
Comic consist of picture and some sentences. The picture helps the reader to be enjoy the reading activity.
What a great news is nowadays we can make the comic by our self.
Here are some websites to make a comic easily. Toondoo, Chogger, Pixton.

3. Video Interactive from British Council
This website is good for teaching reading skill to young learner. It consists of a video interactive and the question from the video. Try to do it with your sister, brother or your students.

4. Hot Potatoes
The last one is an awesome tool to make a cloze reading. Hot potatoes suite include six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled sentence, crossword, matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises for the World Wide Web (or we can say for your website.)
Try this by downloading the tool.

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Best Website for Teaching Speaking

Hi! Welcome back to my blog.

After I've talked about Listening skill in the previous post, now I am going to talk about Speaking skill.

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What is our primary goal when we learn a language? Of course it is, the goal is communication. So, when we teach speaking skill, we have to consider our aim from teaching speaking is to drill our students so that they can communicate with the target language that is being learned.

Teaching speaking skill is important, why? May be this article can help you to answer that question, why is speaking important?

So, you know why teaching speaking skill is important. Then, next question is how? How we teach speaking skill? Try to read this article about Teaching Speaking Skill - Overcoming Classroom Problems.

Hey, what about teaching speaking through games? There is nothing impossible, guys. Read this article, 6 Involving Activities for Students to Speak Up.

Hmmm... Now, we have a lot of articles that talked about the important of speaking skill and how to teach speaking skill. Then, what if we want to collaborate the technology with teaching speaking skill?

Well, I have some websites that you can use it for teaching speaking. All of the websites are listed in this link, websites for teaching speaking.

That's all, guys. Thank you for visiting my blog, Here is the last from me.

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Websites for Teaching Listening

There are many things that can be used for teaching listening. For example, authentic audio, we can find in the railway station, airport, bus station, and other public places. 

Teaching listening should focus on the process of listening rather than on the product of listening. If we teach listening but only focus on the product, then what we did consider as assessing the listening skill, not teaching.

Getting confuse about how to teach listening? Don't worry, I have some advises for you about how to teach listening for young learners and for college students. 

In the past, teaching listening activity was student went to lab listening then the teaching activity was done there. Although nowadays there are still many schools do that. But, don't you know, that right now, teaching listening is not always sitting in the lab listening. We can do teaching listening everywhere and every time. With the power of internet right now, we can do what be impossible in the past, may possible in the present. There a thousand of websites that can be used for teaching listening. Here are some of them:

1. Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab

The awesome website! Here, we can find many kinds of listening. The owner divided it become 3 parts, Easy, Medium and Difficult. You can download each audio easily. The amazing part of this website is the website also provide the pre-listening, while listening, and also post-post listening activity. So, you do not need to be confuse to decide your pre-while-post listening activity. All of the features are free! Yeay!

2. BBC Learning English

We know that BBC website always helps us in learning English. As well as their tagline, "Inspiring Language Learning since 1943", we can find a lot of English material in this website. Start from grammar, pronunciation until four skills of language. For Listening material, we can find in BBC 6 Minute English or BBC The English We Speak.  They not only provide us the audio but also the transcript of the audio. And, again, all of the features are FREE! Yeay!

3. English Conversation

A bundle of listening audio in this website with many different conversations. You can listen it for FREE! And also, you can read the transcript and practice interactive listening activities. This website provide listening audio for any level of students. Beginner, Intermediate, and Advance.

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