...e-Portfolio (Teaching Portfolio)...

Based on what I had learned about E-portfolio, there are many kinds of portfolio we can build for our usages. It depends on how we create it and what we want to establishes. This is because portfolios can be our goal-driven by organize collection of materials that demonstrates a person’s expansion of knowledge and skills over time or it can be an evident of individual’s growth and development. For examples, blog, scrap book and so on. E-portfolio stands for ‘education portfolio’ where it must have a content of education such as teaching portfolio. So when we want to built a blog that we can call it as e-portfolio, the content of the blog must educate the reader and have some information about education. Besides, the teaching portfolio is good to be use by a teacher. Why I said so? By using e-portfolio as our way to approach, it allows teaching and learning to be considered in their appropriate context. Additionally, the teacher can add in all the materials that associated with teaching, curricular units, syllabi and writing samples. So the student can get the notes directly from the e-portfolio as their resources. Other than that, the teacher and student can communicate by email or online forum in anywhere and anytime. Indirectly, it involves students to develop communication and writing skills. Furthermore, it more systematic in present our work and easier to be access by a student. It also can attract the student to do e-portfolio as learning portfolio for their usage. But how it can attract the student? When we make e-portfolio, we can design our blog as a creative we are. If the design is beautiful and attractive, it can make the student want to create the blog just same with it. Teacher can provide sometime to teach the student to create and use the blog in a good way. Then, the teacher must give encouragement to student to build their own blog of learning portfolio. So the student will enjoy to learn and can be a creative thinking in doing the blog where it can be remain long last term.



..Simulation and Modelling Through ICT..

Based on what I had learned about a simulation and modelling, both are definitely different. Simulation is the exploration of existing models where it can provide a concrete visual experience of the abstract. For example, by using simulation the students can investigate life processes which are far too lengthy, study complex interactions and simulate manufacturing processes. Other than that, we can use simulation to replace the difficult, dangerous or costly experiments to show the student. For modelling, it is the expression of one’s ideas by constructing one’s own models where it enables students to explore the effects of changing data and relationships of physical systems. Thus it can help student better in understanding of phenomena involved. But we can use both into one lesson. This is because the simulation and modelling can be related to each other according to the topic that we want to teach. It also depends on how we as a teacher plan to use the lesson by going through the process where we must look at the content of the lesson and does it relates to the syllabus. Additionally, we must review the simulation and modelling that we want to use for our lesson as an activity by using the auto play and go through the activity click by click using the interactive mode, carrying out all the interaction. Indirectly, we can see the relation between simulation and modelling in our lesson. When we use a simulation and modelling in teaching a science subjects, we can involve them directly in this activity. Why I said so? When we give an opportunity to them to come out in front of the class and show the movement of modelling, the student will be appreciated and excited to get a new experience in this kind of learning. It will make a student enjoy to study in class and better understand in scientific process and science concepts. Furthermore, it can make more fun and attractive in doing the lesson. Unfortunately, even we had a best simulation and modelling, without an additional explanation about these courseware it can affect the P&P lesson. This is because by extra explanation it can make student clearly understand about the topic that we teach that day. It also will strengthen students’ knowledge. By the end of the lesson, we can conclude by summarize this activity with our own creative idea to make the student really understand for the topic that we teach.