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1. Do you enjoy blogging?

Yes, I enjoy blogging because writing into blog allows me to share my thought with other peoples. Blog can be as medium of communication because we can write or even received comment from other bloggers. So, it means that we'll try to write more on blog when we get feedback from others.

2. Based on your experience what is the benefit of blogging?

Blogging can help someone to improve their writing and grammar because a blogging activity is all about writing and reading. Besides that, blogging activities can reduce a writing apprehension. We can write online without any anxiety because no one will know about us. It will built level of confident among the blogger and allows them to write more often.

3. Do you need more assistance to set up your blog?

Yes because I still new in this fields. I never have any personal blog before until I need to have one for my assignment needs. So, sometimes, I ask my friend helps to upload picture or audio.

4. Do you have any memorable/favorite topic in your blog?

Yes. My favorite topic in my blog is about reducing writing apprehension which I got from E-learning conference. I like this topic because I never know about this before. So, when I'm written this topic, I really enjoy it because I learn a new thing.

5. List 5 advantages of blogging for you

- Improving my reading skill
- Improving my writing and vocabulary
- Share my thought with other blogger
- Reduce my writing apprehension
- Give a lot of information (e.g search engines)

6. List 5 disadvantages of blogging

- Provokes
- No freedom/privacy
- Other people can copy your ideas
- Can't blogging without computers and internet connections
- Hard to maintain and lost identity (e.g using nickname)



7. Will you continue blogging after the course?
Yes because I think blogging activities are interesting and I can design my own layout. I can choose my favorite layout and upload my favorite music.

8. Do you think that blogging improve your writing?
Yes

9. Do you think that we should continue with blogging activity for the next batch of students?
Yes

10. Will you recommend your friend to blog?
Yes

11. Can you teach a friend to set up his or her blog?
Yes

What is concordance?

A concordance is, according to webmaster's collegiate Dictionary (10th ed), an alphabetical index of the principal words in a book or the word of author with their immediate contents. Then concordances is a piece of software , either installed on a computer or accessed through a website, which can be used to search , access and analyses language from a corpus. It allows us to search a word or phrases for multiple examples of how that word or phrase is used in every text or speech.

What is concordance used for?

*Publish to web

*Creating indexes and word list

*Find phrase and idioms

*Comparing different usages of the same word

*Analyzing keywords

* Analyzing word frequencies

Benefit of concordance to language learners and teachers.

Concordance is very useful to language teachers. By using this software, they can use it as teaching materials for students in the classroom. The benefit of concordance to students is to understand differences uses or meaning of certain words. Certain words have a multiple meanings, so, by using concordance, teachers can take example sentences from a corpus and get the student to group of sentences according to their meaning. For examples, if the students have difficulty with distinctions of meaning between modal, can and could, they can define the meaning using the concordance software. It really helps teachers as well as students to distinguish the right meaning of some words. Next, concordance also helps students to identify their own errors. If students make a collocation error, instead of correcting them by their self, teachers can ask them to put the route word into the concordances software and see if the students can define their own errors. Teachers can get their students to use concordance to find and record their new words or phrases by the words have being used in concordance. If the teachers teach a specific use of a word or phrase, teachers could get the student to make sure the examples that their find matches the use that teacher have taught.

For the language learners, they can use concordance to:-

~ Checking meaning

~ Checking general syntax usage

~ Exploring special lexis

~ Checking derived forms

~ Checking collocates of words
~ Exploring set pieces e.g. phrasal verbs, clichés

Concordance can be a guide line to analysis error and do correction. They can indicate errors in their own writing which can be investigated and corrected by many of concordance. It gives learners specific languages items to investigate and at the same time allows them to work out how their use of languages differs from that of the concordance. Other than that, language learner can use concordance as serendipity learning. Learners can use it as the ways to browse down the word frequently list which must concordances provide.

It looks like browsing the pages of a dictionary. Serendipity learning also gives others benefits such as:

· Learners can truly autonomous and responsible for their own learning

· Can be guaranteed that the learning corresponds to learner needs because searches are leaner-initiated.

· Develop overall language awareness.

Sources:

http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/think/articles/concordancers-elt

http://www.ecml.at/projects/Voll/our_resources/graz_2001/authentic/concordancers/menu_concordancers.htm#What

Mamma.com is created in 1996 as a master thesis. This site owned and operated by Copernic.Inc. Its provide a variety of engines ,directories, and content sites, compiles their results invirtual database ,eliminates duplicates and display the result in a uniform manner according to relevance. Mamma .com's ability to give a best result that available from search sources because it searches a series of other engine of other search. It likes using many search engines in the same time (including other search engine like yahoo, Google).Mamma.com also searches about jobs, videos, shops, travel, yellow pages and white pages.

Yahoo.com is search engine like mamma.com .Yahoo! search not only web article but its helps user to find an information from the content like news, images, mail (provides free email, picture sharing, spam protection and etc.), maps, travel, music, games, and sport. With Yahoo! Answers, users can find answer from around the web.

Differences

There are some differences between this four of search engines. For instance, Mamma.com and Eric Digest provided an article that related to the topic only. Both of this search engines have less hit list then Google and Yahoo because they only search information that really-really related to topic and make our work become easier. But for me, Mamma.com is good because it give us a lot of information in the same way. By using metasearch on Mamma.com, it will search a series of search engines from other search in the same times. So, it's faster than other search engines. Mamma.com, Google scholar and eric digest is more on academic search such as journal, literature book and many more .However, Yahoo! Search apply variety services on their pages and not only focused on academic things.

BLOGGING ARTICLE

Blogging: A Distinct Social Impact
Submitted by mpodlesny
Fri, 7 Dec 2007

Blogging has diligently progressed to the forefront of digital communication in a historically expeditious rate of speed. As early as 1983, threads of message boards dotted the internet with newsworthy postings, including the infamous World Wide Web. By 1994, some were using the web as their daily diary or sounding board.* People began to pay attention. By 1997, these personal homepages became sources of news. Who are we listening to out in cyberspace? It is true that most believe what they read or see on television. After all, these people have our best interest at heart! Don’t they? Or is there an agenda they serve of their own? The dangers of a world of information and socializing through blogging can leave a questionable impact that’s left to be decided.

The daily diaries of 1997 soon spread from journals of self-satisfying thoughts to a belief that people were actually interested in things they said. And many were. The web world grew from personal blogging to videos, thus the webcam. Soon the legal and corporate world began to hire bloggers. The question remained in some of our eyes, what kind of person would post their life for all to see? Or was it their life they were posting?

The immediate fears of children and teens in the blogging world are an ongoing debate. In the eyes of the teen, cyberspace has become a text heaven, taking the place of baby boomers talking on the phone. In the eyes of the parent, the teen is foreboding prey of the parasites feeding on the innocent lying in wait on the end of a text from a “friend” accepted. The law seems to stay one step behind the predator in these cases and children stay one step in front of the parent in finding the scum. The latest threat to servers funneling porn into our lives for not reporting the culprit sets them back about $300,000.00, while the child porn business is a $5 billion business. with 95% of their customers from the U.S.** This social impact that has taken the younger generation into places their parents never thought of falling is all brought to us by the wonderful world of blogging.

In our latest Presidential race, blogging has given the voting public a progressive, new look at candidates they never considered in the past. Overnight, Ron Paul became a viable candidate, when most didn’t recognize his name the day before. Isn’t this a questionable way to choose a person we are to trust with our country? If enough people get on the web and blog an interest, I could become President. People are too busy to research candidates themselves, so they take the word of bloggers, who may also be the predators that are on your children’s bedroom computers.
In defense of the world we have created on the web, we have the opportunity to learn, prosper, and discover the world at our fingertips. Students have a wealth of knowledge, while we can stay at home and do everything from graduate from college to shop at our favorite stores. The positives are abundant and obvious, while the negatives hide and pop out at us while we enjoy the good.

We’ve grown full circle from allowing television the right to tell us what to believe, where to shop, and what to buy. We now have any Tom, Dick, or Harry into our lives by means of the web, as we shop and educate ourselves and think we are minding our own business. Blogging is a distinct and valid social impact on the world and decidedly so. The positive aspect is there are signs of boredom in the blogging world; soon there will be another source for the intruder. Maybe one day we will have a mind of our own and use it.
By: Lynn O`Neil

Edited By: Bruce A. Tucker

source:
http://www.articletrader.com/internet/blogging/blogging-a-distinct-social-impact.html

*Blog is taken from word web and log which means logging or writing entries in chronological order. Blogging become a trend in the world of internet. A blog can be a personal journal which recounts events in a person's life on a daily basis. It can be focus on specific topic like movies,food,music sports politics news or business.

Blog can help language learners to improve and enhance their writing skills because it become trend among people nowadays.Blogs, in a intranets environmentcan be an excellent way to sharing knowledge with their organization . They can read even give a comment to them. It will help to improve their writing skill by getting comment/feedback directly from others.

Therefore, blogs also can be medium of communication and sharing thought. By reading others blogs, they can discuss and exchange their ideas. Its will make the writer become more knowledgeable and improve their writing skill because they need to write blogs often. Then their writing can be improve day by day.. ^^

Url related to blogging:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Introduction_to_Blogging

video related to blogs:
http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=367ab9eed5af82966a48

WEBSITE: www.eslcafe.com

Objective:

- Give information to viewer. For instance information about job to student (graduated)
- Help us to improve our English language by their activities.

Activities

- Job (job center home, Korean job board, resume recruit teacher etc.)
- Grammar lessons
- Idioms
- Phrasal verbs
- Pronunciations power
- Quizzes
- Slang
- Students and teachers forum

* This website suitable to all age of group such as teachers, students, and everyone. That because this website provide a lot of information about English language

Self reflection

- This website help me to improve in my writing, pronounciation and speaking.
- Its also quite interesting and fun because this website provide a games

Advantages and disadvantages of word processor

Advantages

• Grammar, spell checking and word count option
- word processor provide this type of services .When the dictionary recognizes a word as misspelled, the word will underlined with red line and green line if grammatically errors. We can choose alternate spelling by clicking the flagged word. Then by using word processor, we no need to count the word one by one because there are word counts provided in the word processor. Word counting can be easily found under the tools option and we no need waste our times by counting it manually.
• It is easy to share and store word processing files electronically. It allows us to makes change to our document. We can move, change, delete, save and format all our ideas in one handy file.


Disadvantages

• Requires a computer/laptop includes the electrical power to write.
• Data can be lost by computer malfunction (computer malware such as worm, virus etc.)
• Symbols and equations are easier to write then create on a computer.