Writing Report Research Settings

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 8 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 8 http:www.edmodo.com