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Telecolaboration Activities

The objective : to develop the intercultural communication and awareness for the purpose of FL learning among participants

Participants : college students of Indonesia, Vietnam, and Laos

The activities :

1. The participants introduce themselves via whatsapp group to know each other

2. They make an agreement to set up the time and choose the topics that they are going to discuss

3. After having an agreement, one person who is pointed as a coordinator group, put one topic to discuss on google doc. For example: A good teacher is someone who ………

4. Each participant has to give his opinion of the topic and give the reason so that all participants get the idea from his cultural perspective.

5. The result of the discussion is published on the blog by the coordinator so that it can be read by other people.


The technology use:

1. Whatsapp

Most people have this application in their smart phone. It is easy to download and use. We can chat to friends that only have smart phones supporting this application and to friends having their account on Whatsapp. We can just send 100 messages in a month to friends not having Whatsapp on their phone. We must have access to internet to send and receive messages for free and the messages are also not sent to the phone inbox.

2. Google docs

Documents on Google Docs are saved to Google’s servers. Therefore if the computer’s hard drive crashes, we won’t lose the document that you’ve been working on. Google Docs offers the feature of allowing people to view past edits. Documents can be shared, opened, and edited by multiple users at the same time. Google offers one of the best services for cloud computing document sharing.

3. Blog

It is easy to use and every one can create a blog. We can be updated at any time with corrections and the latest updates. It’s a two-way communication tool (for most blogs). Readers are able to add comments to individual posts (this is up to the blog host – comments can also be turned off or moderated). There’s no permanent deletion. All of the past content is still viewable (in case we missed it, or if we want to read it again).

A Guessing Game

Activity 1: Guessing where I am from

The students try to guess where the person are from based on the information given. 

Activity 2: Making some description (clues)

The students make some description for 3 other countries that their friends are going to guess. The students should give at least 2 clues for their friends and prepare 2 other information to help in case they cannot answer it correctly.


Here is the link: http://www.voki.com/pickup.php?scid=12055360&height=267&width=200

Needs Analysis on the Cooperation between English Language Teachers and IT Staff

Questions	Answers
1. What would you like to know about your context/school/country (about language learning and technology)?	How can language teachers and IT staff work more effectively and efficiently?
2. What would be the best tools to find out this information?	Survey (for all teachers) and interview for focus groups (for selected IT staff and language teachers with most diverse backgrounds) to find out different issues from their point of view.
3. Who would you ask?	Teachers and IT staffs who are knowledgeable about the problem/ or in other words, had experience in working with each other for a language class at State University of Surabaya
4. What problems do you envision?	Time constraint and schedule mismatch

Rationale about factors that hinder cooperation between IT staff and language teacher:

1. English language teachers and IT staff have little prior communication, which leads to less mutual agreement on responsibility sharing in class.

2. Teachers and IT staff may have mismatched expectation about the other person’s responsibility and capacity.

3. Teachers and IT staff may not share mutual awareness about students’ computer literacy and factors that distract the efficiency of language classes so it’s worth to survey them on the assumption of these following issues:

a. To know how often the students, teachers, and admin staff use the internet

b. To know how good the internet connection is

c. To know the purpose of using the internet

d. To know the fast response of IT staff facing the problem and complaints


Questionnaire

Awareness about students’ computer literacy and factors that distract the efficiency of language classes

1. On average, how many hours do you use internet connection at campus?

a. Less than 1 hour/day
b. 1-2 hours/day
c. 3-4 hours/day
d. 4-5 hours/day
e. More than 5 hours/day


2. Rate the following aspect of your internet connection in campus.

a. Internet stability
b. Internet speed
c. Internet accessibility


Direction:

1 Excellent
2 Very good
3 Good
4 Fair
5 Poor


3. Which of these online activities do you think students like doing the most?


a. Using chat rooms
b. Blogging
c. Listening to music
d. Downloading songs
e. Reading news
f. Gaming
g. Social networking (e.g. Facebook, Twitter)
h. Web browsing
i. Using internet TV
j. Live streaming
k. Watching videos (e.g. YouTube)

4. How often do you think students use the following online activities

a. Every day
b. More than once a day
c. Once a week
d. Once a month
e. Less than once a month

Mismatched expectation

Questions for Teachers

1. IT staff’s response to the technical issues that teachers and students encountered with

a. IT staff’s friendliness is very encouraging to students

1) is encouraging to students
2) is neutral
3) is discouraging to students
4) is very discouraging to students

b. IT staff’s interest in solving technical problems

1) Very satisfied
2) Satisfied
3) Somewhat satisfied
4) Unsatisfied
5) Very unsatisfied

c. IT staff’s understanding about technical problems in my classroom

1) My problem was understood
2) My problem was not understood
3) My problem was understood but the IT staff do not have the ability to solve my problem

d. Are your problems solved?

1) Yes
2) No
3) Not really but the IT staff suggested another substitute option


Questions for IT

1. Teachers’ response to the technical issues that they and their students encounter

a. Teachers’ attitude when problems occur

1) Confident and try to solve the problems first which models good example to students and create less work for IT staff
2) Confident but after a few try teachers will ask for help
3) Be panic and ask for help immediately
4) Overconfident and try to solve the problems but create more work to IT staff
5) Be frustrated and let the problems destroy the lesson

b. Teachers’ capacity in solving technical problems in their classrooms

1) Too dependent on IT staff
2) Fairly dependent on IT staff
3) Independent on IT staff
4) Well literated on technical problems

c. Teacher’s willingness in cooperating to solve the problem

1) disinterested in learning and sharing the task
2) wants to learn and share the task but if the problems are challenging they will soon give up.
3) wants to learn and share the task even if the problems are challenging they will not give up.
4) enthusiastic in learning and sharing the task and quite helpful

d. Are the problems solved?

1) Yes
2) No
3) Not really but the IT staff suggested another substitute option


Communication

1. Rank the problems that students encounter when using technologies in the classroom, with 1 as the most frequently encountered problem. Check N/A if the problem does not apply to your situation.

a. Internet service interruption
b. Malfunctioning hardware
c. Uninstalled/ missing software
d. Virus
e. Distractions from too many resources and classroom environment
f. Distractions from not being able to use technology
g. Communication breakdown
h. N/A

2. Rank the problems that teachers and IT staff need to talk about before the lesson, with 1 as the most frequently encountered problem. Check N/A if the problem does not apply to your situation.

a. software application (e. g., Adobe Flash, MS, etc.)
b. hardware (e.g., speakers, headsets, LCD projector, etc.)
c. time frame
d. roles and responsibilities
e. N/A

3. How often should IT staff and English language teachers meet to discuss technical-related issues, concerns, and solutions?

a. Once a week
b. Twice a week
c. Once a month
d. Twice a month
e. Others

4. To what extent do IT staff need to know the content of the English language teachers’ lesson plan?

a. Not much
b. Little
c. Somewhat
d. Much
e. A great deal


The monkey survey link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Q929ZXL

Piclits

This is the Piclits activity

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http://www.piclits.com/viewpoem.aspx?PoemId=269640

My Group PREZI

This is my Prezi project 2 with my group classmates: Hoksrun, Furqan, Ekalat and Sengmany on our experience so far on the ELP Program

Watch in this link

http://prezi.com/kmfy9il_qua9/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy

Indonesia’s New Copyright Law

The new Copyright Law, the Law No. 28 of 2014 on Copyright, was introduced by Indonesian House of Representative and became effective on 16 October 2014. This is the third set of amendments made in history of Indonesia’s copyright law.

This new law replaces the previous Law No. 19 of 2002 on Copyright which is considered to be no longer effective to regulate the development of information and communication technology nowadays. The new law shows the improvement of the efficiency and effectiveness of Indonesia’s copyright system that is suitable with the international convention.

This article only discusses the regulation changes related to the area of education. Here are several important aspects of copyright issues in education.

Clear Definition
The new copyright law determines a lot of unclear terms such as royalty, piracy, compensation, commercial use and collection management organization. It will help much the copyright owner and law enforcement agency to make license agreements.

Moral Rights
It leads in especially for the first time a new provision with regard to moral rights in the event the author passes away. The inheritor has options in writing to accept or decline the implementation of the moral rights given.

Duration of Copyright Protection
The period of protection for most kinds of copyright works is to be extended from 50 years to 70 years after the death of the author. The works are books, pamphlets, written works, speeches, lectures, sermons, music, songs, drama, musical shows, choreographic works, artworks in the form of paintings, drawings, carvings, sculptures, architectural work, visual aids, maps, and batik. In case of a work owned by a legal entity, copyright will remain valid for 50 years from the date of first publication.

For Use Provision
It is not stated obviously in the new copyright law about “fair use”, but it regulates particular scope activities of copyright use which cannot be considered as infringement. As long as the information on the authors of the works’ is disclosed, unauthorized use of all or a substantial part of copyright works does not constitute infringement if it is carried out for the purpose of:

(i) Education, research, writing scientific works, reports, criticism, and reviewing cases without damaging the fair interest of the copyright owner,

(ii) Security and organization of the state, and court proceedings,

(iii) Non-commercial performance or staging without damaging the fair interest of the copyright owner,

(iv) Facilitating people with disabilities,

(v) Changing architectural works under certain technical consideration.

In brief, this new copyright law is a promising step forward regulation. The main point in implementing the new law is the regulation issued by the Ministry to ensure all mechanism will work properly. It is interesting to see how the new law is applied in practice.


References:

http://www.bakermckenzie.com/files/Publication/c80c6ba4-b757-4903-8d57-616a4fbf0f7a/Presentation/PublicationAttachment/9e54e149-4faf-4629-86f8-68b650b08791/al_jakarta_copyrightlawenacted_dec14.pdf

http://www.indolaw.org/UU/Law%20No.%2028%20of%202014%20on%20Copyright.pdf

http://www.rouse.com/magazine/articles/news-and-articles/indonesias-new-copyright-law

http://www.tilleke.com/resources/indonesia%E2%80%99s-new-copyright-law-highlights

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