Teaching Reading

Introduction

 

Teaching is major activity that should be done by teachers when they in class. Nowadays, teaching is not as bored as in the past which only use blackboard as a toolkit for teaching. Through technology, teacher can create new enjoyable environment for student to learn.  Related to that, teaching reading as a second language or foreign language will be easier through technology. Students will be very creative because of it, they will find many resources from internet to improve their reading skill, as result teacher can attain higher outcome from student. Check out this to see recommended website to improve your reading skills

Reflection

After see those recommended website, teacher can use many website to know grade of reading readers. Because we are prospective teacher, it is important to know grade of reading before we share it to students. Imagine that when we teach students in junior high school, teachers cannot give them reading text which not appropriate for them let say we give them psychology article or nuclear article. Can you guess what will they think? They might be think that the teacher should be crazy or anything else. This can be true because the teacher is really stupid to understand their capacity and capability. For that, technology has been given the way to solve this problem one of them is Raediblitiy checker

Hot potatoes

It is an application which can help teacher to create quiz. Sometimes after read the passage, students will be given test to check their understanding. This application is comfy not too hard to use. So, I think every teacher must have this app. In this lesson, I learn about how to create a quiz using Hot Potatoes. This application is easy not too hard to operate.  So, I think you also can operate this. If you want to download this app, click link herehttps://hotpot.uvic.ca/.
 

In first pop-up you will look at some menus, in this case you have to choose JQuiz as pointed below. 
After that, write your questions in column questions, and choose your right answer.  Because the form of this quiz is multiple choices, so you have to make other answer and provide one right answer. 
You can also add text to your quiz by clicking this sign

click link below to see my sample quiz esuing Hotpotatoes
file:///C:/Users/LENOVOO/AppData/Local/Temp/Rar$EXa0.807/Tell%20Potatoes.htm

In my view, this application is very helpful for teachers. Teacher doesn't need to write in Microsoft Word with consequences, for instance we forget what's the answer right or we want to minimize students cheating and others. For me, this application is great invention that I have learnt; write a quiz with this application is very easy; I can share my quiz through online or offline. Of course, this app will help me to make a sophisticated quiz if I being a teacher in the future.