Writing skill Definition of Terms

11 Furthermore, Bayne n.d explains that Edmodo is a kind of social network which focuses on learning and discussion and it allows both students and teacher have interaction and collaboration online p. 1. Moreover, ISTE 2015 explains that “Edmodo is an educational social network which provides students a safe, protected educational experience, a place to practice the digital-age social networking and learning skills they will need in their increasingly connected personal, academic, and later professional lives .” Therefore, students and teachers can use it for the teaching learning process. A teacher makes a group account of the class then students log in Edmodo and input the group code from their teacher. So, there are only their teacher, students themselves and students’ parents in the group. There will be no others or spy in that group Jarc, 2010, as cited in Balasubramanian, et al., 2014. In addition, when students and teachers use Edmodo, they will only focus on the learning process because there are no distractions such as advertisements on it. It is also a close group so that teachers will control students easily. Through Edmodo, students and teachers can upload and share some files in many kinds of format namely audio, video, picture and links Thompson, n.d, p. 6. Then, Luaran 2012 mentions that Edmodo can bring some benefits for the learning process. The first is measuring student s’ progress. By using Edmodo students know their grade because when students do the assignments, quizzes and discussion posts, it will be graded automatically. From the grade that appeared, teachers will also observe each student’s ability in the classroom. It also keeps track 12 of who turned in the assignments and when. Students can also ask everything regarding to academic problems outside the school time. Second, Edmodo is designed to engage students’ motivation in learning process because of various platform provided in this application. The features of the platform are quizzes, assignments, online tests, messages, comments and document libraries. Through these features, students will not be bored to do the learning process and they will be more motivated. According to Balasubramanian, et al. 2014, if teachers implement Edmodo in the classroom, it will be a powerful medium in their learning environment. In her research, Kara 2016 also states that by using Edmodo, students can do their individual or group assignment online and teachers look at their works and give feedback online p. 11. Moreover, based on the previous study that was done by Apriani 2015 56.7 of the students believed that Edmodo was an effective educational website to learn English, especially writing. Furthermore, Bayne n.d. feels that Edmodo permits students to develop their creativity through writing p. 2. Next, Thompson n.d. also believes that Edmodo is great for writing projects, language practice, grammar practice and many more p. 6. He also adds that in Edmodo, all works on all assignments are available and archived well because it has an outstanding memory p. 8. Therefore, Edmodo can be one of the media for teachers to encourage students practice their writing skill. Even though students and teachers do not meet in the classroom, their teacher can still give some meaningful feedback to their writing directly. Besides, students can comment on each other about their writing, so that their writing will be better than before. However, to use Edmodo