phone, tablet computer to write their writing draft. These things lead the writer to overcome the problem by using Edmodo micro-
blogging.
This present study had been firstly planned by making classroom action research proposal which had been agreed by
both adviser and the dean of English major. And having given the agreement, he then asked for permission to the Principal of Al-
Azhar BSD, made the research instruments, and choose subject of the research. It is therefore collected data can be served in the
form below.
1. Cycle I
1.1 Plan: In this phase, the writer did some steps as
can be seen as follow; a
Determining place of the research b
Asking for permission to the school authority Even if the writer registered as one of the teacher at
Al- Azhar BSD, getting permission from the school authority such as principal, and vice principal seems
to be crucial in order to make the present study can be done perfectly without any burdens. It is also
needed to make the principal know about the procedures of the research either some changes
made by the researcher in teaching writing such as the modification of lesson plan, things should be
brought by students into the classroom and so forth. c
Giving questionnaire to the tenth grade students The questionnaire is intended to know what was
really expected by students regarding to such activity to be used for writing.
d Collecting data from the questionnaire
e Making lesson plan integrated with micro-
blogging
f Making account on Edmodo.com. And the URL
is: http:edmodo.comalfian182
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Here teacher as an agent of change tries to scrutinize the problem he found in the classroom setting. The case coming arise
in his English classroom was that the tenth grade students thought that writing activity is such a boring and daunting task to do. He
tried then to figure out student‟s perception toward it by giving questionnaire to be able to know what was really needed by
students. In this phase, the writer tries to make a plan on Preliminary study by giving questionnaire to know some points
such as the utilization of some gadgets, smart phones, blogs, social media, computer literacy, and more particularly about
writing activity needed by the students.
From the questionnaire taken in the preliminary study, see appendix it is found that 100 of students are familiar with
some gadgets such as Smartphone, tablet computer, and video player. And 80 of students used those gadgets for learning
English. And more than 80 of students used those gadgets for learning writing. Meanwhile in the utilization of blog, it is found
that 100 of students having blog account and using them for learning writing. In the case of using social media for learning
writing, it is found that only 62 of students who ever used social media for learning writing when they were in the Junior
High School. And about student‟s perception toward the utilization of blog as a tool in writing activity, it is found that
100 students agree that using social media for writing activity was able to improve their writing ability and they thought that
writing activity would be more fun and challenging to do by using social media.
Regarding to the computer literacy, it is found that 18, 8 of students think that their computer skill was very good,
meanwhile 68, 8 was good, and 12, 5 was not so good. And about typing with computer, it is found that 43, 8 was fast,
meanwhile the rest shows that 56, 3 was good in typing by using computer.
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http:edmodo.com
1.2 Action:
