Data Analysis in the Third Cycle

1. Edmodo is a useful tool for writing: There are ten questions for this variable, and from the questionnaire result it can be found that in majority students agree that Edmodo micro-blogging is a useful tool for writing. This can be seen from the question number one showing the result that 75 of the students agree that Edmodo micro-blogging is a useful tool for them to share their writing ideas with others. While 84 of the students agree to say that posting their recount and narrative text on my Edmodo is a good idea. Furthermore, from the question number 17, it can be found that 75 of the students agree that Edmodo should be used as part of writing activities in class because of its benefits. And most importantly, as the representative to know whether or not students are interested in using Edmodo for writing activity can be found from the question number 24 that can be found that 80 of the students agree that Edmodo should be a part of the writing activities in classes. To sum up, it can be seen that in majority the tent grade students of Islamic Senior High School Al-Azhar BSD give positive response toward the utilization of Edmodo as a tool for writing activity. 2. Checking words, sentence, and grammar when writing on Edmodo: In using Edmodo for writing activity students were also asked to make their writing draft and discuss it with their group members and as the result students are getting used to check words, sentence, and grammar before posting their writing on Edmodo. It can be seen from the question number 5 resulting that 78 of the students check their work carefully before posting it on Edmodo. More importantly, from the question number 16, it can be found that 85 of the students feel that they have improved their writing in English in the areas of grammar, structure, and vocabulary. To sum up, Edmodo has given the positive side with regard to the checking words, sentence, and grammar since it provides students with social learning environment in which everyone can give comments or correction on the mistakes made by the students. And it is therefore makes students aware of making words, sentence, and grammar mistake. 3. Write and express idea both freely and easily on Edmodo: One of the benefits of using Edmodo for writing activity was students have more opportunity to express idea since they can access Edmodo anytime and anywhere. But with regard to this aspect, there are some students who did not agree with this notion. This thing can be seen from the question number 40 indicating that 40 of the students did not agree to say that they can express themself easily when using Edmodo. But overall, from the rest of the question, it can be sum up that in majority students are able to express their idea both freely and easily on Edmodo. 4. Be more creative when writing on Edmodo: This notion was used to know whether the utilization of Edmodo for writing activity makes students become more creative in writing. The result can be seen from the questions number 11 and 29. From both numbers, it can be found that 9, 38 of the students strongly agree to say that they can be more creative when writing on my Edmodo than on paper. While 37, 50 of the students agree. And the rest of the students 37, 50 disagree while 15, 63 strongly disagree to the notion saying that using Edmodo makes them become more creative in writing. Thus, it can be concluded that related to the notion of making students be more creative, the utilization of Edmodo micro-blogging did not support this learning aspect. 5. Fell more confident: As the problems found in the preliminary study that most of the students feel anxious when they were writing especially writing in English, so this notion came up. From the questions