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Excel is a table program  that has the extraordinary functions. Every accounting process runs well using excel. Although still newbe, I create a fun video tutorial excel, on the add, reduction, and multiplication function. For the other functions i’ll make soon Technorati Tags: excel tutorial , excel mathematical function , excel for beginner

Following the postgraduate lecture yesterday was very interesting, it gave to me a spirit to complete my Thesis, also get a lot of information from my colleagues. We attended the same seminar for our classmates, Sufiana Annur. This seminar was interesting because they used English-speaking seminars. Sufianan Annur Thesis Proposal discussed one of the 19th century novel. She analyze the concept of racism of novel using Critical discourse Analysis (CDA), its a recent novel critic method and interesting to use as a theoretical research base. In Indonesia, the CDA is still new. Erianto's book that discusses the CDA, is strong enough to help spreading this theory in Indonesia. This theory was only limited to certain circles such as Students philosophy, art, and students of media publication. Philosophy students are actually only those who follow the latest trend in the world theory. Most of those who have face and use CDA theory, is also use some current theories, such as Postmode...

To get comprehension about postmodern concept To recognize farther about postmodern concept, better precede with understanding of about modernisme. By comprehending modernisme, we will be more easy to comprehend postmodernisme later, as previously showed in my post - how to critic bellesletters with postmodern analysis -, postmodernisme is idea which criticize many modernisme concepts. Modernisme Conception have been long enough become rationale in so many matters, and have become think concept of commons. In language context, modernisme have got very strong base with structuralisme of Ferdinand Saussure. Language structuralisme makes language can be analyzed with more theoretical and is not mixed with other concepts outside language. Language Structuralisme relates differention of language element in 3 big elements; Langue, Parole, Langage. Parole is language of indifidul which depend on each specification of indifidual term. Broader Langue than Parole, namely language at a certain so...

Improvement of reading quality is one of purpose in education. Students will be able to master their reading material if they are supported with quality of good reader. Reading comprehension is hardly required to assist student improvement in their learning. Actually, teacher has had separate tips in assessing reading comprehension, but sometimes untapped optimally. There are tips drawn from Alvimann & Morgue article to assist teacher in assessing reading comprehension, that is using questions which is often applied by journalist in interview. Reading comprehension is easily catched and assessed by giving 5 W & 1 H questions. Yes, questions of standard journalist interview, What, Who, When, Why, Where, and How. Question of "What" is applicable to open what's going on the reading materials. Question of “Who” is applied to ask whosoever involving in the reading material. “Where” is applied to know case existence or places in reading material. “When” is applied to kn...

By Kang Bull Art is the product of idea, writer can pour all his idea and desire. On this side, in the process of writing, writer is the king of his inspiration. However, after the production has handed by the reader, all cannot deny the reader involvement in comprehending and interpreting the masterpiece. Belles-lettres in this decade peep out many new idea. Among others is postmodern, namely form the idea which have based on modernity. However, it critics the modernity itself. The postmodern critic has the unique characteristic and tends to refuse all regularity which exists in modernism. Although postmodernism is basically based on modernism, assuming postmodernism as enlargement from modern principles is not correct matter and too hasty. Principally, this new concept, step by step find its type and have the tendency to critic its grand philosophy; modernism. Conducting critic to literature by postmodern principle is a continuous new matter which still developed. So that the effort ...

By Kang Bull I have just looked around to find any translation program on the net. I got many, but the translation programs or tools are too limited. Some give dictionary tool and we take our word there and we get the result, but it is just words or phrases that give me more confuses. Some dictionary tool or translation tool may give phrases translation but without any interpretation or local mean. I think it is useless for working on complex sentences, because of its lack of truth and matching interpretation. Before I am getting saturated, I than search for translation program with human processing interpretation, still on the net. I fall on a site, Out of the blue! My eyes focus on the words on the site "We respond to 95% of all emails within 1 hour" they said. I am shagging than, how does it work? The site provides translation and interpretation on many languages. As I mean, the site I need must base on human worker to translate than the result become more reliable. Ya, th...

By Kang Bull Why is education important ? It may be a question from our daily life, but everybody has their special reason to answer it, so am I. I just mean that importance of education is the efficiency to know our life need. Education is not just so called “school, collage, doctoral or etc. Education is our daily growing life, and we get everything benefit from our environment. So, think that our life is education it self, and it is the real education purpose. I have some reasons why our life is education it self. Education is a real important thing in human life. Education aims to point and guides man to be adult, at least it is the definition and philosophy of education from WJ. Langveld. A man can Interact with others of course requires morale peripheral and human capability, causing good social interaction. Without education, someone will become awkward and cannot interact carefully with others. Since baby, humans always gets education and knowledge from their environment. Baby ...

By Kang Bull Traveler, Student and Businessman sometimes faces linguistic problem when relating to the foreign language context. If you have a plan to go to aboard, the first question you will think would be the location and its language. How to buy, how to book a room, etc. and basically you have chance to prepare your language before going. As a second language, foreign language needs a good learning technique, and more times. You may take a fast course to get little functional and applied language. Some of you may have a guidance or friend there and you will learn there step by step. Whatever your way to get foreign language learning is up to the target of your need but the time problem on learning foreign language is the basic bearer for who don’t have any time to take course. How if your time don’t compromise with you? Or you don’t have time to study the language because you have to fill your application now. Facing problem like this, you should think smart and quickly. When you l...

By Kang Bull Fast reading skill is one of learning elements. If you a teacher, you should have the correct tips on how to make your pupil enjoy their reading materials and give them ability to read fast. Fast reading is very important to the pupil, with it they can get more information and subject capability through their short learning time. On the other hand, Fast reading skil gives more valuable matters in order to get and catch a lot of subject material on school. It has right affective side to student, and brings them more chances to finish their learning on time. There are many ways how to be a fast reader. I may give some tips an explanation on it: When read, don’t busy your self with the order of alphabets on the words. just read the word not the alphabets. It is called block read tip. Word by word, not the alphabet. With this tips you should able to read the sentence without knowing all alphabets of it, ya, just read like reading your short massaging service (SMS). "i lek...

Author: Johnson, Robin Creating differentiated art curricula to accommodate artistically talented students' individual needs may enhance student performance and program outcomes. This Digest discusses (1) individual education plans for artistically able students with exceptionalities, (2) subgroups of students with dual exceptionalities, (3) methods of teaching students with dual exceptionalities, and (4) methods of teaching students with specific disabilities. INDIVIDUALIZED EDUCATION PROGRAMS (IEPs). Since the passage of The Education for All Handicapped Children Act in 1975 and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) in 1990, the landscape of art education has changed dramatically. Students with exceptional educational needs (EEN) are mainstreamed with their peers to fulfill the requirement that they be "educated in their least restrictive environment (LRE)" (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act of 1997). Although students with EEN are frequently...

Communicative Language Teaching: An Introduction and Sample Activities Author: Galloway, Ann This digest will take a look at the communicative approach to the teaching of foreign languages. It is intended as an introduction to the communicative approach for teachers and teachers-in-training who want to provide opportunities in the classroom for their students to engage in real-life communication in the target language. Questions to be dealt with include what the communicative approach is, where it came from, and how teachers' and students' roles differ from the roles they play in other teaching approaches. Examples of exercises that can be used with a communicative approach are described, and sources of appropriate materials are provided. WHERE DOES COMMUNICATIVE LANGUAGE TEACHING COME FROM? Its origins are many, insofar as one teaching methodology tends to influence the next. The communicative approach could be said to be the product of educators and linguists who had grown di...

Author: Vincent, Claudia G. - Horner, Robert H. - Sugai, George Schools are under pressure to create safe, orderly and effective learning environments where students acquire social as well as academic skills that will allow them to succeed in school and beyond. This pressure has emerged from real disciplinary challenges combined with wariness of school violence sensationalized in the media (Lewis & Sugai, 1999; Sugai et al., 2000; Walker, Nishioka, Zeller, Bullis, & Sprague, 2001; Walker & Shinn, 2002). At the same time, teachers, parents, and administrators report more and more time consumed by disciplinary measures intended to correct students' antisocial behaviors (Skiba & Peterson, 2000). Traditional punishment and exclusion may provide a short-lived reprieve from disciplinary problems, but research has shown that in the long term, punishment and exclusion are ineffective and can lead to renewed incidents of disruption and escalating behaviors (Mayer, 1999). Ove...

The last decade has seen a rise in the demand for testing teachers, brought on by a real or perceived decline in student performance, as well as concern over the quality and preparation of people entering the profession. An increased sense of urgency was sounded in recent reports calling for national standards for teachers: the Holmes' Group report, Tomorrow's Teachers (1986); the Carnegie Commission report, A Nation Prepared: Teachers for the 21st Century (1986); and the National Governors' Association report, Time for Results (1986). In response, many states have adopted formal assessment procedures for teachers, almost all of which claim to evaluate communication abilities. However, the methods of assessment vary from state to state with the result that communication is defined in different ways across the country. Furthermore, the operational definitions found in various state assessment practices often don't correspond with those developed through research. HOW DO ...

Author: Coburn, Louisa Student evaluation of teacher performance, or student ratings, is one of the most controversial techniques used to identify teacher effectiveness. Few faculty members question the usefulness of ratings in providing feedback about teaching that can result in improved instruction, but many continue to challenge student rating use in making personnel decisions (Marsh and others 1979). This Digest offers a rationale for the use of student ratings, describes the research findings concerning the validity and reliability of such ratings, and identifies the major issues involved in designing and administering rating forms and reporting their results. ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT OF STUDENT RATINGS Aleamoni (1981) offers the following arguments to support the use of student ratings of teacher performance: --Students are the main source of information about the learning environment, including teachers' ability to motivate students for continued learning, rapport or degree of c...

World Wide Web Resources for Teaching and Learning Economics. Author: VanFossen, Phillip J. We live in an information-rich society, one in which, via various forms of technology, information on almost any topic can be obtained nearly instantaneously. The proliferation of such information technology has begun to make its way into the nation's schools in the form of, among other things, instructional resources such as videodiscs, CD-ROMs and other computer-driven materials, and the nearly ubiquitous World Wide Web (WWW). Indeed, in 1996, 64% of schools nationwide had WWW access (Coley et al., 1997). Technological resources abound for teachers of all subject areas and all grade levels, but for many reasons, such instructional technology seems to lend itself to the social studies at least as well as for any other subject area (Braun et al., 1998). Certainly this is true in the realm of economic education (Boldt et al., 1994). Leu, et al. (1997), however, found that many teachers who tr...

Review Articel Any body may make mistakes. Teacher also make mistakes when teach. What should we do when we make a mistake in teaching? Wendy Petty from EducationWorld.com gives tips to us. She said "I've watched a math teacher make a careless mistake during a mini-lesson, and no one said anything during the long minutes that the mistake remained on the chalkboard. I've wondered, "Do the students not notice? Or do they think it's disrespectful to correct the teacher?" Read the complete articel to get the great ideas to face our mistake. Here ....

The Tips below come from teachers who gives commentary on Help4teachers.com newslatter, i will update here more ... On every assessment that affects student grades, I always put their current grade in the bottom left corner of their paper. This way they get immediate feedback on how this affected their grade and know their status in the course. Heather Netland, Parkers Prairie High School, MN Use Hip-Hop to teach poetry and figurative language. Nora Kings, Four Directions Charter School, Minneapolis, MN. Use large, "rich" words to encourage students to ask, "What's that mean?". Jane Bartlett, Parkers Prairie Elem., MN For small group discussions, I give each student 3 paper clips. Put one cup in the center of the group. Each time you share an idea, you put one of your paper clips in the cup. When you're out of clips, you need to hold off any more ideas until others are finished. Discussion goes til all clips are in the cup then we share our discussions...

Constructivism in Teacher Education: Considerations for Those Who Would Link Practice to Theory. ERIC Digest, Abdal-Haqq, Ismat In recent years, constructivism has received considerable attention in education scholarship, practitioner preparation, and policy formation (MacKinnon & Scarff-Seatter, 1997; Richardson, 1997; Teets & Starnes, 1996). It has been heralded as a more natural, relevant, productive, and empowering framework for instructing both P-12 and teacher education students (Cannella & Reiff, 1994). This Digest identifies major forms of constructivism and considers issues and challenges that surface when implementing constructivist approaches to preservice and inservice teacher education. WHAT IS CONSTRUCTIVISM? Constructivism is an epistemology, a learning or meaning-making theory, that offers an explanation of the nature of knowledge and how human beings learn. It maintains that individuals create or construct their own new understandings or knowledge through...