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ARTICLE OF ICT USING GOOGLE SITE IN TEACHING ENGLISH

By : Name NIM : Adi Stiawan : 1208066044

SEKOLAH PASCA SARJANA UHAMKA 2013

INTRODUCTION

Nowadays, ICT has become important part in education. It has been used both students and teacher in teaching learning activities because using ICT in teaching learning activities are very important since several years ago up to now. According to Pedro Hepp K on their journal that Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have been utilized by education ever since their inception, but they have been massively present in schools only since the early 1980s 1. By this statement, ICT has been very important for school in teaching learning activities for several years ago up to know. In line the developing in technology, teachers and students have to improve their knowledge to develop their skills by finding the information related what they need. One of the new ways to improve their skills both of students and teachers is using website in teaching learning activities. Based on Virginia Society for Technology in Education, The Web today is ripe not only with great content, but with new tools that foster productivity and the power of publication2. This statement shows that the use of website is a new tools can be used to increase the productivity and for the publications. Besides, the uses of website in education are for to increase the productivities for examples to make teaching learning activities more interactive. Then, the uses of website in publications in educations, teachers
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K, Pedro. 2004. Technology in Schools:Education, ICT and the Knowledge Society. http://www.sca2006.ticeduca.org/archivos/modulo_1/sesion_1/ICT_report_oct04a_Pedro_Hepp.p df Accessed on June 30th 2013. 2 Virginia Society For Technology in Education. The Role of Web 2.0 Technologies in K-12 Education. A VSTE Advocacy White Paper http://www.vstereg.org/vste/ee/documents/Web20Advocacy.pdf. Accessed on June 30th 20013

and students use website to share something related to education or to announce the information that are needed both by teachers and students. There are many activities using website in teaching learning activities. Some of the activities that usually teachers do are teachers can provide the materials which will be thought on a web. in addition, teachers also can use website in giving the assignments or tests even the teachers can give daily exams on the web. As written by Jeong-Bae Son on International Journal of Pedagogies and Learning, Based on the way of creating, presenting and using materials on the Web, the following types of WBLL activities are proposed: (1) pre-created Web activities adopting interactive language exercises that have been already created by others and are easily accessible on the Web; (2) taskbased Web activities making use of a variety of authentic Web resources for communications, information collections, problem-solving tasks, etc.; and (3) teacher-made Web activities employing tailor made language exercises modified by classroom teachers themselves for their own students.3

This writing describes clearly about the uses of using website in teaching learning activities.

Bae Son, Jeong. 2008. Using Web-Based Language Learning Activities in the ESL Classroom. IInternational Journal of Pedagogies and Learning, 4(4), pp. 34-43. http://eprints.usq.edu.au/4338/1/Son_IJPL_v4n4.pdf Accessed on June 30th 2013

The Objective of This Writing

One new way in teaching learning activities in using website is by using Google Site. According to the explanation on

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Sites, Google Sites is a structured wikiand web page-creation tool offered by Google as part of the Google

Apps Productivity suite. The goal of Google Sites is for anyone to be able to create a team-oriented site where multiple people can collaborate and share files.4 Based on this explanation, it is understandable that Google site is the part of Google Applications which can be used by everyone to collaborate and share files. Google site is the new thing in teaching learning activities because Google site is very potentially in education. By using Google site, students will like studying and always finding the information which are provided on it. As said by Wendy Woodward, Director of Technology Support Services, Northwestern University, Our students approached us about a year ago, saying that we needed to improve our email and collaboration services. We actually had our student government tell us, 'we want you to implement Google Apps.
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It describes that

students need Google Site in improving their knowledge and finding some information. That is one of the examples why Google Site is very potential in education.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Sites Accessed on June 30th 2013 http://edutraining.googleapps.com/Training-Home/module-1/module-1-chapter-1

Trough this writing, the writer persuades the reader to use Google Site in teaching learning activities because there will be many advantages if teachers and students using Google site in teaching learning activities. For the examples of the advantages that the readers get if they use Google site in teaching learning activities are : 1. Easy to develop. 2. Save money and time. 3. Easy to collaborate with other website. 4. Students will love it. 5. Both students and teacher can share the materials and the information. 6. Teachers can give announcements on Google site and students can get the announcement fast because Google Site will remain them if they have a new announcement through both of their gadget or their PC. 7. Teachers can give the materials and test online. 8. Students also can do their activities online and if they do the test they will get the result directly. Those are some advantages if the teachers and students use Google Site in teaching and learning activities.

The Understanding of Google site

Google Site is one of applications from Google Apps. Google Site provides many applications that can be used to design teaching learning activities until to give the exam after students finish their lessons. As stated from the explanation before, Google Sites is a structured wiki- and web page-creation tool offered by Google as part of the Google Apps Productivity suite. The goal of Google Sites is for anyone to be able to create a team-oriented site where multiple people can collaborate and share files6. From this explanation, it is obvious that Google Site is a part of Google Apps and it provide to the teams (teachers or students) to collaborate and share files. By collaborating ad sharing the files, teachers can upload the files (materials or exams) on the Google Site and students can access them trough internet to see the files (materials) and do some activities there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Sites Accessed on June 30th 2013

The Features of Google Site

Google Site is the site that teachers can do everything in designing the program, materials of teaching learning activities, and also creating the exams even teachers can inform the information on Google Site. Google site is one of the website that provides many features in designing teaching learning activities. According to the module of Google Site that is taken from http://edutraining.googleapps.com/Training-Home/module-5-sites/module-

5-chapter-1, Google Sites is an online application that makes creating a class, school, or project web site as easy as editing a document7. From this explanation, it describes that Google Site help the teachers in improving their teaching by creating a class school, projects, or editing the materials of teaching learning. By using Google Site, teachers can also collaborate the materials by putting pictures, videos, slide in power point, even teachers can shares the materials by embedding materials from others websites or sources. What is stated on the same link at http://edutraining.googleapps.com/Training-Home/module-5sites/module-5-chapter-1, With Google Sites, people can quickly gather a variety of information in one place -- including videos, calendars, presentations, attachments, and text -- and easily share it for viewing or editing with a small group, their class, the entire school, or sometimes the world8. Based on this explanation, teachers can upload photos, videos, presentations, attachments, and

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http://edutraining.googleapps.com/Training-Home/module-5-sites/module-5-chapter-1 http://edutraining.googleapps.com/Training-Home/module-5-sites/module-5-chapter-1

also text. On the other hand, teachers can make the schedules of the materials when materials can be taught and when students take the exam. The schedules will remain the students by sending email or sending the announcements to students phone and directly make students phone ringing.

Getting and Activating Google Site. There are several steps for the teachers want to create Google Site. The first thing that teachers have to do is creating Google account. Here are the steps which are written on http://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-Website-UsingGoogle-Sitest that the teachers have to follow as shown below : 1. Open web browser and go to Google site home page. 2. Sign in with teachers username and password for teachers Google account. If teachers have not had the account yet, they have to sign up for making the new account as the new user. Look the picture below.

Then follow the instructions until teachers can see the picture below :

After creating the account, next step is to make Google Site as described below : 1. Click the Create button on the Google Site home page.

2. Choose a template or click "Browse the Gallery for More." Browse through the website templates until you find one that looks like it matches your project needs. 3. Type in a name for your site. The name should be to-the-point and unique to your purpose. Try to create something concise and memorable, like a longer version of a vanity license plate or a vanity phone number, that people will easily remember. Google will automatically generate a URL, or a Web address, for your site. Change the URL if you want to use something besides the auto-generated version. 4. Choose a theme from the menu. The theme is a collection of colors and background images that will appear on your website. 5. Type in the word generated by Google. This security step ensures that you are an actual person who is producing a website.9

http://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-Website-Using-Google-Sites. Accessed on June 30th 2013.


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Using Google Site in Teaching

There are many things that teachers can do by using Google Site. Look at the Google Site appearance below !

There are some menus are provided on Google Site. The menus can be created as much as the teachers need. From the picture, there is class management which can be use to manage the class and put the students according their class. The function of class management is to make easy to identify the students for the teachers in order that the teachers know where the students are from. Class management is also for giving the materials which are suitable for their level.

There is also important date to announce the students when they get exams or the explanation from the teacher. In this menu, the important date will be managed b y teachers to make students prepare to face the materials that will be thought by teachers and get prepare to face the daily exam and final exam. The next menu is school supplies. It means that teachers provide the materials and test or practicing of the lessons. Students can access them whenever and wherever they can. By providing this menu, students can learn the lessons many times until they understand the contents of the lessons. In suggesting reading list menu, students can access important materials that suggested by the teachers. This menu is for additional information which can develop students skill in learning English. The last is school form. School form means printable form in practicing the exercises or the form to collect students data. It is one of the important menu that are provided by Google Site because students can do many tasks and test here and they have to submit them to their teachers.

REFERENCES

http://www.sca2006.ticeduca.org/archivos/modulo_1/sesion_1/ICT_report_oct04a _Pedro_Hepp.pdf Accessed on June 30th 2013. http://www.vstereg.org/vste/ee/documents/Web20Advocacy.pdf. June 30th 20013 http://eprints.usq.edu.au/4338/1/Son_IJPL_v4n4.pdf Accessed on June 30th 2013 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Sites Accessed on June 30th 2013 http://edutraining.googleapps.com/Training-Home/module-1/module-1-chapter-1 http://edutraining.googleapps.com/Training-Home/module-5-sites/module-5chapter-1 http://www.wikihow.com/Create-a-Website-Using-Google-Sites. June 30th 2013. Accessed on Accessed on

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