SAMR - Christmas Lesson Plan

The Concept of Gift Giving

TOPIC

What makes an ideal gift. This lesson teaches students about Christmas values (based on the Bible) not the cost. To know how in different countries in different continents celebrate Christmas.

AIMS

·         The values of giving ·         Broaden students’ knowledge when they talk with foreigners about Christmas ·         Extend students’ vocabulary in writing the Christmas cards ·         Develop students’ skill in making crafts ·         Encourage peer feedback through family gathering or friends sharing ·         As an optional final task, develop students’ oral fluency as well as their ability to work together to design a poster or Christmas card and present to the people they love

AGE/LEVEL

Teenagers and adults

TIME

50 – 60 minutes

MATERIALS

·         Before your lesson, you will need to find some videos about Christmas gift giving in different continents from YouTube. Below are suggested images with a creative common famous youtubers : -          Related to Christmas in the family in different countries https://www.elitedaily.com/life/culture/christmas-done-13-countries/874504 -          Related to how to value Christmas this year http://en.amerikanki.com/important-christmas-values-teach-children/ -          Related to the values of Christmas based on the Bible http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/christianity/holydays/christmas_1.shtml

·         Srudent worksheet and handouts

·         Prepare poster  paper, colorful pens, and any kind of decoration to make a poster or Christmas cards

INTRODUCTION
The video focuses on shoppers at a shopping center, or shopping mall, who are given a present but then told that it is not for them. Before watching the video, students are given the title of the video and asked to predict what the Christmas gift experiment might be. they are also asked to predict some of the lexis they will hear - typical Christmas vocabulary. The activities in the plan take them through the video in two stages, with different expressions for prediction introduced, and thinking time given to allow students to formulate their ideas. The final activity asks students to write about a present they would like to receive and to guess what they think one of their classmates would like to receive. Students then act out the scene in the video where people are given a gift from someone they don't know. This lesson begins by making some Christmas posters or cards, and students discuss the message, effectiveness and values of Christmas. They then learn some vocabulary to talk about some values of Christmas and celebrating Christmas (health, prosperity, joy, togetherness, and the impact on other). Students then present it in front of the class or to their parents at home.
PROCEDURE
1.      Lead-in (3 – 5 minutes)	Ø  Write the title of the lesson “Christmas Gift Giving” on the board. Ø  Explain : what makes an ideal gift, how to value Christmas and its presents, who deserves to receive the presents Ø  See if anoyone agrees (they may not) and elicit some ways in which open up their hearts and minds to accept the material Ø  Explain how in different continents celebate Christmas, if relevant also explain how the worlds’ organization help prepare and celebrate Christmas (do they organize Christmas celebration annually, where they celebrate it, what kind of celebration they hold, what presents do they bring, who are the targets)
2.      Speaking (5 minutes)	Ø  Show your students the videos and ask them to discuss the message and which they find the most/least interesting and why Ø  Briefly feedback as a class. You could also ask students : - What is the most unforgettable gift they ever receive for Christmas - How do they celebrate Christmas annually with the family (for those who don’t celebrate Christmas, how do they celebrate new year with the family and where)
3.      Vocabulary Focus (10-15 minutes)	Ø  Give out worksheet and handout and ask students to work together to look for the meaning of some new vocabularies and make some sentences using the new words Ø  Students might need to use edictionaries for some of the words. Examples : gingerbread man, icicle, mistletoe, sleigh, yuletide. This is relatively subjective task, but suggested answers are : -          Ginggerbread man : A biscuit or cookie made of gingerbread, usually in the shape of a stylized human, although other shapes, especially seasonal themes and characters, are common. -          Icicle : a hanging, tapering piece of ice formed by the freezing of dripping water. -          Mistletoe : a leathery-leaved parasitic plant that grows on apple, oak, and other broadleaf trees and bears white glutinous berries in winter. -          Sleigh : a sled drawn by horses or reindeer, especially one used for passangers. -          Yuletide : archaic term for Christmas. Ø  As you carry out feedback, encourage students to explain why they chose those words as the Christmas posters and or cards. This should push them to use all the language they have. Ø  Make notes of good points and only other useful topic – related language which comes up. http://primer.com.ph/event/2016/12/08/celebrate-the-true-spirit-of-christmas-with-unesco-club-usts-bangon-luzon/
4.      Writing / further Vocabulary practice (15 – 20 minutes)	Ø  In pairs, ask students to choose one of the posters or cards of either of them to write a paragraph how to make it (what the materials they need, the steps) using the vocabulary from the previous stage. Monitor and help students with the language they need. Ø  Put pairs intro groups of four and ask them to reach each other’s paragraphs and comment on both content and the language Ø  Give students a little longer to re-draft and make any changes Ø  At this stage, you could ask them to type the paragraphs and then print them out as other students' reflection on themselves.
5.      Group Work (15 – 20 minutes)	Ø  Remind students about posters they looked at early and ask them to work in pairs or small groups to design their own poster, using the guiding questions on the worksheet and handouts. Ø  Depending on the time available, students could print pictures, draw them or simply describe them. Ø  To finish, let students present their ideas to either another pair or group or to the class

Contributed By

Paul Braddock

Collaborative Writing

I chose to be the Outlining facilitator in this collaborative writing task. Based on the duty i assigned to, i did a revision on structuring my friends' writing so it would be a perfectly coherent composition. I also gave some of alternative websites so they could browse the arguments towards the passage that we read. Not to mention, i corrected some grammatical errors that my friends did on the writings and i hope that would help them to be more careful in using different tenses in different context.

I can say that this collaborative writing is pretty successful because my groupmates did their job very well. They read the passage, we had a discussion even though we had a difficulty on the internet connection, but in the end we could finally finished this assignment punctually. One thing that would give us some problems is that we had to finish this as soon as we could because one of the groupmates, Theresia, must go to Mentawai for KKN program. Her time here was limitted so she had to do it earlier than we did, that left the 3 of us. Maria, Grace and i only had a few days to discuss the material with Tere before she left for mentai. Yes we meet every day at campus, but there was one day that they were willing to stay over my place to have a discuss about a lot of things but this one was the most crucial one. We did not finish the writing that night due to too many group assignments that we needed to get over with. Gratefully, just before Tere flied to Mentawai, she had finished doing her part so we could just continue and finish our part aswell.

This collaborative writing is one of many ways to teach students practically since they can do the writing anywhere, whenever they are able to. As what i have been taught about this collaborative learning, i would ask my future students to do the same. But i'd rather ask them to write about someone's biography. This someone could be anyone prominent at their time or any famous artist that my students admire and get inspired by the most. I know that different person would have different role model in their lives but that's what groupmates and discussion are for, to have one purpose and one heart in doing so.

HERE IS THE LINK OF THE COLLABORATIVE WRITING ME AND MY FRIENDS DID
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hFlLzjiX46LfIcJv0LWhS8cNpiMsKBGiDzadI-MVQrk/edit

BLENDED LEARNING

Blended learning is a term increasingly used to describe the way e-learning is being combined with traditional classroom methods and independent study to create a new, hybrid teaching methodology. It represents a much greater change in basic technique than simply adding computers to classrooms; it represents, in many cases, a fundamental change in the way teachers and students approach the learning experience. It has already produced an offshoot - the Flipped Classroom - that has quickly become a distinct of its own.

The term "hybrid course" (a term we used interchangeably with the term "blended learning") names a model of course design that combines traditional, face-to-face class time with out-of-class course work. Especially for UW Bothell, they define hybrid courses as those where 15% to 50% of the traditional face-to-face class time is replaced with online or out-of-class work.

This method is specified for those who are in senior high level of education and college year. Around the age of 15 to early 20. In the type of study method, they need to operate the computer more advance and more often since it needs a lot of practice of writing, reading and listening. This course is rather important because they need to be prepared to face the real world, especially when students' dreams are to be good qualified teachers, they need to have a good competition with the technology so that they will not get left behind.

There are 10 drivers of Blended Learning :
1. Improve ability to personalize learning
2. Potential for individual progress
3. Improve student engagement and motivation
4. Shift to online state tests starting in 2015
5. Need to extend time and stretch resources
6. Potential to extend the reach of effective teachers
7. Ability to improve working conditions 
8. Decrease device course
9. Student and parent adoption of learning apps
10. Interest in narrowing the digital device

These drivers need not always done in the classroom. Every student can simply sit wherever they feel comfortable in and do the assignments as they drink coffee or chat with their peers  This Blendspace is very helpful for teachers, in cases that they can not be physically in class due to many reasons. Teachers just need to upload the material and or give some quizes to the students and monitor them, not always at the same time but make sure that they do the tasks well and punctually.. Parents' attention is needed here so that every student do not ditch the task over going out with friends but rather having them at home and discuss the project all together. Spend at max 30 minutes in one week to do the task and they will have a good relaxation after. How much of the face-to-face instruction must be replaced by online course? This question will vary greatly by class, discipline, and learning objective. The Online Learning Consortium (formerly, the Sloan Consortium, a professional organization dedicated to postsecondary online learning) defines blended learning as a course where 30 % - 70% of the instruction is delivered online. While this a useful guideline, it may not be sufficient to cover every blended learning configuration.

How would i, as a teacher, apply the principles of Blended Learning in my activity is first i am going to start the lesson by playing quiz then get to the material and explain it as the students ask question then i will end with a homework or group assignment. And the difficulties i face when doing so is that not every students are going to be excited with the material i teach, however as a student, i also faced those time, i will encourage them again and again, i should probably play a video so they are triggered to be more enthusiastic.

What i like about BlendSpace is that there are really a lot of teaching optional which teachers can choose on how they are going to explain certain material, such as Class Jukebox, image bank, TED playlist, The power of video, Smorgasbord, Competition Time, Museum curator, and Knowledge Hunt which i actually used. I do hope that my students will  react very enthusiastically. This application is both useful and helpful for teachers nowadays, they should really learn how to use it and give it a try in the classroom, it just needs a fast internet connection and you won't have any problems.

HERE ARE SOME SITES THAT YOU MAY BROWSE YOURSELF, THE SITES WHERE I GOT THE INFORMATION ABOVE 
https://www.uwb.edu/learningtech/hybrid-and-online-learning/hybrid-learning/about-hybrid-learning/definition-hybrid-learning
https://www.mindflash.com/elearning/what-is-blended-learning
https://blended.online.ucf.edu/about/what-is-blended-learning/

As it is December, the most joyful and wonderful month of the year, will celebrate Christmas together and  here is what i made for you all to give a try and Happy Holiday!!
https://www.tes.com/lessons/JVSyQAG4cFpvmw/christmas-celebration-and-its-presents

British Council Mobile App - NEARPOD

School learning nowadays has become very boring, no lies, bear with every student in all level of studying. However, there are many differences in studying in university and school. Students are expected to be more responsible in university rather than in school. Moreover, after we have already graduated from college. Workplace needs employers who work hard and have big responsibility for their job. Not only students do have to work hard but also an employee. Either students or college students must realize that hard work is all that needed in every aspect of life. Even when we are not in school or campus anymore, even when we are on holidays or leisure times. Hard work is not a manner, it is supposed to be a habit, a lifestyle. How we face people, respond to their interaction should be appropriately respectful, and that is what we learn in both high school and college life.

As i decided to learn in English Department of Widya Mandala University, like it or not, i am taught every day how to be a good qualified teacher. As what i did on freshman year, i taught some elementary students after college and i thought that i would probably want to teach elementary til junior high only because that's the year where i can not only teach them academically but also spiritually and mentally as a godly children of Christ. That is what my former teachers taught me when i was at that age. Academic can't be prioritized if our relationship with God is not healthy. Therefore, a personal intimate relationship with our Creator must be continuous for we all know that wisdom comes when we fear God the most.

First of all, i would teach them what Nearpod is, what are the functions, and how to use it. Nearpod is an interactive presentation and assessment tool that can be used to amazing effect in the classroom. The application's concept is simple. A teacher can create presentations that can contain Quiz's, Polls, Videos, Images, Drawing-Boards, Web Content and so on. The children can access a teacher's presentation through a code. It is up to then move the class through the presentation and let them interact with the media as they go. Below are just 10 ways of utilizing this multifaceted tool.

1. Simple Presentation Delivery
2. Personalized Provision
3. Distributing Resources
4.Live and Formative Assessment
5. Ongoing Assessment
6. Self Assessment
7. Modelling
8. Open Ended Taks
9. Setting Homework
10. Sharing and pre-made Resources

Nearpod enables instructors to limit distraction and multitasking during a lesson by broadcasting content and interactive learning activities/exercises to student devices in real-time.

CHECK OUT THE LINKS BELOW TO SEE THE SOURCES I GOT FROM
https://nearpod.com/independent-research-from-dakota-state-university-about-nearpod
https://nearpod.com/blog/10-ways-to-use-nearpod-in-the-classroom/



HERE IS MY LINK NEARPOD ME AND MY CLASSMATES MADE
https://share.nearpod.com/vsph/1jmGUMCWCI

FLIPPED BUT NOT UPSIDE DOWN CLASSROOM

WHAT IS FLIPPED CLASSROOM?

As a sophomore student in university, i know definitely what school feels like as i spent one third of my lifetime in school, studying academically, learning many soft skills, and improving self to be a better individual in personality and character. I have spent years studying in classroom, yes that sounds like a common sense since that's where students belong. Teaching - Learning system is now considered conventional. It brings up the experts to use the technology to more advance and useful method. They call it Flipped Classroom. It is where student do the studying at home through videos uploaded from the teachers and do the homework at school or where they study. Based on Wkipedia, Flipped classroom is an instructional strategy and a type of blended learning that reverses the traditional learning environment by delivering instructional content, it often occurs online or outside the classroom.

IS IT EFFECTIVE?

I personally, already know about this studying system, somehow it's similar to homeschooling, but i never know the media that the teachers use to teach their lessons to their students. Not until i joined this CALL class which is truly beneficial for me and my future career. I finally experienced a flipped classroom system myself (as a future teacher).

In my opinion, it will be very effective in Indonesian classrooms for teenagers nowadays are so technologically advanced plus this way, students get to be involved in knowledge and active interaction even though not face to face.The technique is difficult at first but we all would get along as we get used to use it as often as we could, with interesting topics and motivation every teacher must carry them out very well. In fact, flipped classroom have been proven to be effective in secondary schools as well as improving student learning at the community college level.

Indeed, some students may struggle due to their developing personal responsibility. In a self-directed, home learning environment students who are not at the developmental stage required to keep on-task with independent learning may fall rapidly behind their peers.

WHAT AM I GOING TO EXPLAIN?

The lesson that i am hopefully going to give out is about active and passive voice. The differences between each tenses and how and when they are used in different sentences.This lesson is usually brought to students within the last year of elementary school until first early years of the junior high school. This lesson might probably one of the most troublesome for most students in fact when we know the basic rules, it must be as easy as a piece of cake :) This flipped classroom program is very useful and effective for students to improve themselves better at home. The only disadvantage is that we need fast wifi or internet connection as our main facility. But for teachers, it is very easy and simple work.

HOW TO USE IT?
Simply open the website Ed.Ted and sign up for a starter. Create your own lesson by pasting the link that you would like to explain (about a particular lesson based on your interests). Make some questions through the stages that already provided there and when you have finished, check one more time before you finally publish it. Boom. That's it, as easy as that, right?

Lastly, i have already prepared a practice to help you all in the future in teaching your students about this particular lesson. Please also fill out the practice i have made before you teach others. Thank you and Good Luck!!

PRACTICE : https://ed.ted.com/on/YXs6BCq5

SOURCE :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flipped_classroom
https://webapps.towson.edu/ows/activepass.htm 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2BQ93A9WM8 

WHAT IS ADOBE SPARK?

Adobe Spark 

is a software that we all can use to make a storytelling more realistic. This is the first application established by Apple. It is widely used around the world. It is designed for everyday communication. Adobe Spark is a web and solution for creating and sharing impactful visual stories. The goal is to empower people from small business, social marketers and most likely students to create visual storytelling content and try to engage the audience through our stories. Personally, the advantages is that this application provides layout and themes which are variously interesting. The disadvantage is that this application uses fast wifi internet connection so this might be a problem to some people.

I'm so glad to have made this storytelling video. Please watch it and leave any comments if you like it. Would love to upload more if there's opportunity in advance. Just click the link below to watch my Adobe Sparks' masterpiece :)

https://spark.adobe.com/video/78iLUkzo4gLm3

HOT POTATOES JMIX

JMIX - JUMBLED SENTENCESS

If you find any difficulties in doing the game, please read this short passage first :)

THE FIRST CREATION
http://www.storynory.com/2006/05/27/creation-and-adam-and-eve/

The First Creation

Mixed-up sentence exercise

Put the parts in order to form a sentence. When you think your answer is correct, click on "Check" to check your answer. If you get stuck, click on "Hint" to find out the next correct part.