REFLECTION
NIMROT JUMITO SIMBOLON 1041022922
The first time I entered this class I am
still confused about how the learning in this course is. Especially since I
have never attended a class like this before. However,thereafter I began to
understand what exactly is the purpose of this class. According to my
understanding, Online English Learning class is the class which try to combine English learning process, with
the use of more advanced technology.
I like the learning in this class,
especially because we are focused on one project that is Second Life. The use
of media Second Life is a good and effective method in learning English. How
not, in the use of this application, not only to encourage and develop a
language skill, but also a lot of things. Personally, my language skills have
evolved during the lectures in this subject. When I communicate through a
second life, my speaking skills is demanded to be able to speak fluently with
people in Second Life. In communicating orally, we are also required to be able
to optimize our hearing so that we can understand the meaning of what was
spoken by the speaker. In addition, I am also expected to have more vocabulary,
to be better in communication.
In designing our project, firstly I was
very confused and no idea of what we would like to do. However, since the learning
in this class is in the collaborative form or in groups, so we could have a
simple way to get ideas by way of exchange of ideas. This is an interesting and
very useful. So, not only in our second life we are required in order to
communicate, but more than it I am also demanded how to interact in the real
life. Especially when a friend of my group is also a Taiwanese, so we should be
required to accomplish the group task with the use of English in which it is equally as the foreign language
for us. More on designing our projects, we are required to create a story by
collaborating it with the different group’s story and to make them into one
integrated story. Therefore, we were required to be creative and more creative
in creating and completing the project. This of course affects the development
of our creativity.
In addition to some of these benefits,
there is another thing which is not less important. When we finished a part of
the project, actually it was sometimes a bit complicated if we have to rewrite
what we have done. However, when the teacher returned what we wrote, we could know and evaluate how far our writing skills
in describing our work is. Personally, I know where my mistake in writing lies,
whether vocabulary, grammar or my punctuation. So, there are a lot of things I
got from this study.
I am also very grateful, because through
this class I can get a very good friends who is a friend of my own group, Nancy.
Honestly, he is very much helpful and taught me in following this course.
Actually, we did our project together and with the final decision which came
from the different ideas. However, I own a lot of things learned from her.
Therefore, we often spend time together and make our friendship even closer.
In running these applications, I may
still have many shortcomings that I have experienced. Especially when the first
play of the game, I still do not understand, especially the games which were designed
by the other group. In addition, in bringing or leading the game on my own, at
first practice unfortunately still a little
bit awkward. I was less able to interact with the newcomers interactively. That's what I
evaluated before the second session. In the second session, I think I've had a better
progress than the first by inviting of participants to play my game more
interactively and enable them to play my game one by one.
In conclusion, the presence of English
Learning Online learning, give a lot of benefits for me. Not only give lessons
on how to use technology, but a lot of things, especially for me as a student
who is majoring language. I got an integrated skill, from speaking, listening,
writing, creativity, and also how to socialize in the virtual world and the
real world. Results of this communication, will enable us to have more friends
from around the world, its the same thing as I am with my friend, Nancy. As a
teacher candidate, in the future I will implement this more advanced type of
learning to my students in improving the more
advance quality of education for the people. Thanks.
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