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Some students accessed their blogs and teacher blog, and the other students accessed other blog pages, online news and social networking websites
facebook and twitter. Some of the websites visited have been noted down in Research Diary as follows:
… antara lain yang berhubungan dengan resensi buku dan film, berita- berita olah raga, blog yang mendskripsikan tokoh tertentu, website yang
menyediakan beberapa kata-kata motivatif, bahkan ada juga siswa yang memilih untuk mengakses blog milik temannya atau milik sendiri, termasuk
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In the second session, the students had to write a recount text telling their activity in that lesson. The text should be about the web pages that they had
visited. They also had to put any quotation taken from those web pages. The students worked individually, but they might have any discussion. Most of them
consulted their works to the teacher besides the used of online dictionary. When they finished, they accessed other students’ posts and gave their comments.
c. Observing the action
1 The first meeting
It was the first time for the students to have personal access of their blog individually. When each person sat in front of a computer, the situation was
almost uncontrolled. But, the students could handle themselves to paid attention to the instruction. All what they had to do was accessing the teacher blog and writing
a learning journal. In doing so, they spent almost the whole time to write and edit their work.
In the early step, it was found that one student tried to use the online translator in order to have a better understanding of the example on teacher blog.
She was so eager to read it and the use of translator help her find the meaning of some vocabularies. However, she did not use the translator to translate her work,
except the words she needed. Not far from this student, there were two other students who accessed the online translator. They typed the work in the computer
program Microsoft Word, then tried to translate the difficult sentences. They also consulted the result to the teacher before finally published it.
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At first, the students should have the model in the classroom before going online. But unfortunately, there was a problem with the laptop for the
presentation. Then, the class was moved to the lab. Some students decided to bring their own laptop there, considering their euphoria Research Diary,
08122010. Even though the situation indicated that all students impatiently turned on the computer which may lead to other problems, they could restrain
themselves not to access other websites unless they had finished the work or during the recess. Taken from the Research Diary 08122010, the situation was
described as follows: Selama menulis, siswa tampak serius manghadapi layar komputernya. Pada
setiap kesempatan mengakses internet, ada saja siswa yang membuka akun facebook selama pelajaran, tapi pada pertemuan ini mereka bisa bersabar
untuk menyelesaikan perkerjaan terlebih dahulu dan mengakses facebook pada jam istirahat. … Siswa memberikan reaksi positif pada tugas yang
diberikan dan mampu menyelesaikan tugas tanpa terlalu banyak mengakses situs lainnya lagi.
2 The second meeting
Almost all students eagerly said, “Yes” when they were told to have a class in the computer laboratory again. It indicated that they were very interested
to have another online activity. Unfortunately, there were some computers having troubles, so that some students had to work in pairs. The students got a task to
access any websites that they like most during the first session. Not all of the students accessed other blog pages, they preferred the
social networking website and the ones containing news. Those students accessing the blog, they visited their own blog and the teacher blog. The students looked so
serious in reading the content. There was a problem on the computers that made some students had to
work together with their friends. The computers they used were not able to have an internet connection. For those who brought personal laptop asked for
permission to use it during the lesson. This problem, however, came to positive effect which was continuously observed:
…dari hasil pengamatan saya sejak pertemuan-pertemuan sebelumnya Persiapan 1, Meeting 2 Cycle 1, dan Meeting 1 Cycle 2, siswa yang biasa
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berdekatan dengan teman yang dipilihnya sendiri mampu memberikan motivasi untuk menyelesaikan tugas lebih cepat dan lebih baik. Selama
proses di kelas, mereka mampu berdiskusi dan memecahkan masalah dengan sedikit konsultasi Research Diary, 05012011.
In the next session, the students wrote a text telling about what they had done and what pages they had read. This task was similar to the previous one,
writing a journal, but there were still some students getting confused. They did not sure how to start the writing. Then, they were helped by some questions to
generate the ideas. Additionally, some of them used online dictionary and the others tried to finish it without any help of dictionary. As a result, a lot of them
felt satisfied after the posting Research Diary, 05012011.
d. Reflecting the result of the observation
