Students’ Perception of Using facebook as an Interactive Learning Resource at University by Michael Leveritt

 English Academic Purpose II

Australian journal of educational technology

Students’ Perception of Using facebook as an Interactive Learning Resource at University by Michael Leveritt

The propose of blended learning through web tools such as email, blog, facebook to offer an environment that helps to engage students and enrich the quality of the student experience through interactive learning activities. Facebook is an online communication tool allowing users to construct a public or private profile in order to connect and interact with people who are part of their extended social network (Boyd & Ellison, 2007). A recent study by Wise at al (2011) found that the students spent an average of one hour a day on the site to engage in social interaction and only small proportion of the students use facebook in academic engagement so in this paper will discuss the students’ perceptions of using facebook to support both their academic and social goals.

After evaluating the students’ perceptions the researcher conclude that the use of facebook page had been integrated into several university courses which students appear to be receptive to use facebook for educational purpose because they could receive academic information on Facebook, it also was something they were accessing frequently and didn’t have to log in to an additional university based web page to receive that information. Institution based learning management systems often require students to navigate to the university website, insert a password and then navigate to the correct course page before being able to receive announcements or information. Students may see this process as problematic. Facebook on the other hand, appears to be a site that students are interacting with frequently, particularly given that applications are available for tablet and smart phone devices. This provides a convenient environment in which academic information can be integrated into a space that students are already using.

To sum up, the findings from this study indicate that students are receptive to incorporating Facebook into their academic lives and perceive benefits through enhanced communication, interaction, and flexibility in course content delivery. [1]

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[1] Students’ perceptions of using Facebook as an interactive learning resource at university Christopher Irwin,  Lauren Ball and Ben Desbrow Griffith University Michael Leveritt The University of Queensland

The effectiveness of using English comic strip in teaching writing of narrative text by Yulia Ratnasari

English for Academic Purpose II 

The effectiveness of using English comic strip in teaching writing of narrative text by Yulia Ratnasari  

The journal discuss about how effective English comic strip in teaching writing narrative text. To develop student in writing narrative becomes an interesting activity the teacher should use an appropriate method. One of media that can be used is a comic strip. There are many fruitful that the teachers and the students get from comic strip when it applied in teaching narrative text.

For student, picture in the comic strip can help students to visualize and construct story ideas to be written so narrative writing activity will be easy. Beside that, by using this media, students can also find new vocabularies. They can use the new vocabularies to develop into some sentences to arrange a story based on their comprehension and ideas so they can transfer or express their thought with full of potential. For teacher, it can be very useful since it is cheap and no time consuming the student will feel in writing.

It can be concluded that teaching writing narrative text using English comic strip are effective and useful to be taught to the students[1].     

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[1] THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING ENGLISH COMIC STRIPS IN TEACHING WRITING OF NARRATIVE TEXT

(A Quasi-Experimental Research at the Eighth Grade Students of SMP Islam Al- Ikhlas in the Academic Year 2013/2014)

My favorite Reading Book

Novel and comic are my favorite reading books

Many ways people do to spend their large times. One of them by reading books, we can get more knowledge when we spend our time by reading book. Based on oxford dictionary definition of book is set of things fastened together like a book. Everybody has their own favorite books which there are two kinds of book fiction and non-fiction. Fiction books about story that made by the author based on real life or not. Non- fiction books are about knowledge or information such biology, history, etc.  Many people like to read fiction books rather than non-fiction books especially teenage and adult. Non-Fiction books are too focusing on something fact about knowledge and too focus for learning.  There are also many kinds of fiction books such as short stories, comics, novels, etc. When we read a fiction book all of part our body will make expression. I really love to read fiction books.

There are two kinds of fiction books that I like to read novel and comic. There are many reasons    that I like to read novel books. The stories of novel books are longer and take many times to read. I can continue to read it in other times that I can like in free time or in bored time. Usually novel has a single story with the same character and tends to have many complexes. I feel easy to read which it focus on the main character. I don’t feel confuse and bored to read it in many times. When we read novel book our feeling will involve in the story. I feel like I was the main character of the story. The story of novel improves my imagination to create a story and tell me a value of life.

I also read comic and I always read it before sleep. Novel and comic are really different which comic has many stories in one book with different problems. Another kind of comic are consist of many series of book or story. Comic contain many pages that I can count it. The most interesting thing from comic is the comic full of pictures and colorful. The pictures and color of comic attract me to read before sleep. Made me easy to follow the story and made me laugh every time. The story of comic is really funny. In additional, the pictures describe the characters suitable with them. I can buy it every time because prize of comic cheaper than novel.

Novel and comic are kinds of fiction books. Everyone likes to read both of them in free time including me. Both of them have many differences. Novel has longer story than comic which contain 53 pages or comic series such as Naruto, Doraemon, and One piece. The prize of novel is more expensive than comic. We don’t need to wait long for comic because period to publish is quicker than novel. Novel and comic made our brain fresh which the stories of them involve our emotional. Story of comic is more interesting. Not only written words but also describe by picture. It gives us clear vivid about the character of the story.