Doing Assignment Through Blog is Good for Students?

In this modern era, social media always support human activity anywhere and everywhere. One of the examples is in education. In Genre Based Writing, one of the subjects in fourth semester of English Department in Pekalongan University with the lecture Innayatul Ulya M.Pd, we always collect our assignment in Blog. We must post it to Blog and she will correct it.

Blog is one of social media which is use to post news, note, etc. Doing assignment in Blog also has positive and negative reasons. For positive reason, the first is we can reduce the use of paper. It helps us to save our forest. The second is it will avoid us to doing plagiarism. When we post our assignment in Blog, we will never doing plagiarism because it when someone use that our post is plagiarism, it can make us get punishment. The third is we can look it anytime and the file will be saved permanently. The fourth is we can insert picture there. When we post in Blog, sometimes we need picture to make it more understand for the reader.

The other positive reason is we can do it at home or anywhere and we can post it anywhere. It will be more efficient because we don’t need too much time. The last is it follows the development of technology and it has big capacity to publish there. When we post our assignment in Blog, it doesn’t make us tired, because we only type it and post it in Blog.

There are not only positive reason, but also has negative reason. The first is when we published it in Blog, we must correct in our grammatical pattern. The second is it is complicated for the newbie because they didn’t know how to make a Blog and how to post it. The last is it needs internet connection to post it. It is hard for students that he or she doesn’t have modem or Wi-fi in their house.

It can be seen that there are positive and negative reason for doing assignment using Blog. It can be good or bad, based on the students how to respond it. But I think that doing assignment using Blog has a lot of positive reason more than negative reason.

Why We Study at FKIP UNIKAL

University of Pekalongan or we always called as UNIKAL is one of the private university in Pekalongan. UNIKAL have many faculties such as Faculty of Law, Faculty of Batik, Faculty of Economy, Faculty of Agriculture, Health Faculty, and Teacher Training and Education Faculty.

One of its faculty is teacher training and education faculty. It is the faculty that teach the students to become a teacher in their future. This faculty has been reached B acreditation. Teacher training and education faculty have three departments, they are English Department, Mathematic Department, and Literature and Bahasa Department. Each department has their own characteristic.

First is Mathematic department, in this department you can study about how to be a good mathematic teacher. You are not only study but also you can join organization in mathematic which is name HIMAPTIKA. There are some activities that have been done by HIMAPTIKA. You can develop your creativity in HIMAPTIKA.

Second is English department, in this department you can study how to be an english teacher or a translation. English department also has students organization which is name ESA. ESA or English Students Association is association for english students to develop their creativity. ESA have some activities such as EDU (English Debate United), English Speaking, EAC (English Art Community).

The last is Literature and Bahasa Department, in this department you can study how to be a good teacher in Bahasa Indonesia. Bahasa department also has students association which is name HIMASATRIA. This association have some activities such as KAIL (Karya Ilmiah), Sogan Theater, GANDEWA, etc. You can study how to be a good writer in KAIL. You can study about theater in Sogan and you can develop your talent in literature in GANDEWA.

FKIP UNIKAL have many activities, not only study but also some activities that can develop your talent. So, you get many experience if you study in FKIP UNIKAL.

Laptop is Students' Friend

Usually, students need books, pen, eraser, drawing book, ruler and other things. In other words, in multimedia era, students need more goods to reach their dreams. Students need “keyboard mobile” to write every subject that is delivered by the teacher with very easy. Of course it needs more purchase, but it is good if we look at the function.

First, modern school sometimes use fast transfer knowledge because school need to catch the target of curriculum. Every subject is sometimes given in demonstrative method. The effect of that is students need more media to catch the subject. That’s why students need Laptop to be their media. Because there is a laptop in students’ desk, it can make the teacher easier to deliver the subject and it can make the students easier to understand more about the subject.

Second, use laptop in class make students more fun than they only sit in chair and listen to the teacher with books and pen. Laptop can give high interactive between students, teacher, and subject. For example, teacher told students to find the answer of the question about history or any subject use their laptop via online. It can make students do fast researching and use their creativity to find the answer than they must open page by page use books.

Third, use laptop can make they still remember about their tasks. If they have six or more class, it is easy for them to forget where they put their tasks and forget about it. If teacher distribute the tasks by digital, students can remember when they put their tasks in one folder. Use laptop is not only for the students but also for the teacher. It is easier for teacher to open their task by email or another digital system than collect it by paper. The other function is digital task can make students who doesn’t come to school collect their task even they are in long distance. It also easier to read the task which is typed than read the task which is hand writing.

For all of that, Laptop is really useful for students who want the best result for their study.