It is generally accepted that effective teacher professional development is critical to effective educational improvements and reforms of any educational institution. However, a conventional form of teacher professional development is constrained by time and space and, more often than not, there is a lack of perpetual support to teachers in the wake of a training program. An alternative way of teacher professional development therefore needs to be sought. This article argues that social media and all its facets open up new avenues for sustainable professional development and life-long learning in which case support can be obtained through virtual learning communities.
The fast development of science and technology has brought about changes in human life. This applies to all aspects of life including education. In the field of education, teachers are demanded to adjust to the development that they can no longer be dependent just on their textbooks or course books, if they want their teaching to be motivating and successful. They need to be updated with the current development of technology and be creative and innovative in their teaching, hence, need to be technology-literate. Learning interactions no longer take place only in the real, but also in virtual classroom, especially due to Covid-19 pandemic. This paper justifies that Powtoon is a good choice for a teacher because it is not only an application to be used to video-animate teaching materials, but also as a teaching media by which materials can be interestingly presented to keep students learning from home during the pandemic of Covid-19. Moreover, it is also a Learning Management System which a teacher can use to create a virtual classroom. Keywords:Powtoon; Learning Material; Learning from Home; Covid 19 Pandemic
This study aimed at finding out whether there is a significant effect of integrating scrabble into numbered heads together at grade seven of SMP Negeri 12 Konawe Selatan or not. The research was conducted to answer the following question “Is there any significant effect of integrating scrabble into numbered heads together on students’ vocabulary achievement at grade seven of SMP Negeri 12 Konawe Selatan?”. The hypothesis of this research is “There is a significant effect of integrating scrabble into numbered heads together on students’ vocabulary achievement at grade seven of SMP Negeri 12 Konawe Selatan”. This research used quasi experimental design with population was all grade seven students at SMP Negeri 12 Konawe Selatan in academic year 2018/2019. The samples of this research were class VIIE as the experimental class and VIIB as control class. The experimental class consist of 28 students and control class consist of 26 students. The research instrument was 40 questions of vocabulary test. Collecting the data, the researcher gave pre-test, taught integrating scrabble into numbered heads together, and giving post-test. The result show that students’ mean score in experimental class are 55.21 at pre-test and 75.13 at post-test, while students’ mean score in control class are 55.61 in pre-test and 64.93 in post-test. Based on the calculation of T-test, it shows that the score of tcount = 5.636 is higher than ttable = 2.007 and the pvalue= 0.000 is lower than = 0.05. Therefore, the null hypothesis is rejected and H is accepted. This can be conclude that there is a significant effect of integrating scrabble into numbered heads together on students’ vocabulary achievement at grade seven students of SMP Negeri 12 Konawe Selatan. Keywords: Scrabble, numbered heads together, vocabulary achievement
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