Table 3.3 Schedule of the Research
NO Activities
Time July
August September October
1.
Preparation
Arranging research concept
X 2.
Action research
Cycle 1 X
Cycle 2 X
Cycle 3 X
Cycle 4 X
3.
Conducting Interview
X
4. Writing Report
X
4. Action Research Cycles
a General Plan
In the planning phase, the writer tries to identify a problem or issue and develop a plan of action to bring about
improvements in a specific area of the research context. In this phase he had identified issue in the school setting that is the
condition in which students can easily bring gadgets to the classroom such as Smartphone, Tablet computer, and
MusicVideo player. This thing happens albeit the rules strictly made to have students not to bring gadgets to the classroom. In
addition, the students are accustomed to use those gadgets as learning tool. The students use them for searching on the internet
to find the meaning of difficult vocabularies and making draft of writing. They think that writing activity is such a daunting task to
do, some students did not like to write draft on the paper. And some of them are more likely keen on using Smartphone,
Computer tablet and other gadgets to write a draft.
Due to this issue, the writer plans to create and implement a good English learning activity that is integrated with the
utilization of ICT Internet Communication, and technology. In particular, writing activity that is hoped being able to enhance
student‟s interest in writing and more importantly meets student‟s needs. In this planning phase, he did a preliminary study by using
questionnaire to know about student perception toward the
utilization of gadgets, blogs, social networking, computer‟s skill and their needs as well as interest on English learning activity,
particularly writing activity in the classroom. The result of this questionnaire was used by the writer to choose micro-blogging as
a tool for teaching writing.
In the action phase, he tries to consider some deliberate interventions that are brought into teaching situation. In this
phase, he chooses Edmodo as a micro-blogging to be used for teaching writing to the tenth grade students. He first made an
account on Edmodo
http:www.Edmodo.com
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and created some groups on Edmodo followed by giving each class the group
code. The group code is used by the student to sign up on Edmodo and students are grouped based on their class. Still, in
this phase the writer gave the students about the introduction on how to make account on Edmodo.
He gave the students video tutorial and explained them about the potential feature of Edmodo. He explained that Edmodo
will help them with doing group work, and that is easy to communicate using this software. As the first task, he had the
students sign up on Edmodo, greet the classmate, and post their first impression about Edmodo.
While in the observation phase, he tries to observe the effects of the action and documenting the context systematically.
In this phase, he observed the activity the students did with Edmodo. He took a picture of the student‟s activity by using
Edmodo in learning writing. Some pictures about the activity can be seen in the appendix.
And in the reflection phase, he tries to reflect, evaluate and describe the effects to make sure the issue had been explored.
In this phase, he tries to figure out students‟ first perception toward the utilization of Edmodo and seek the problems faced by
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http:www.edmodo.com
