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News from the Provinces
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Starting a Carrer as a TV Reporter in Class
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Now I'm in the midst of the Mount Merapi refugees. Merapi volcano continues to release clouds of hot dust. In the last few hours thousands of villagers living on the slopes of this mountain have tried to escape the dust and hot air hitting them, but some were too late. Some victims have been found. Their condition is alarming. The majority of victims have suffered burns and some have lost limbs. Some time ago, rescuers said they found at least 12 charred corpses. This is a report from Srikarna of TV One. This was part of a brief report submitted by Srikarna, a student at SMPN 2 Baranti Sidrap. She represented her group as a " TV One reporter", reporting the latest situation after the eruption of Mount Merapi.
THE crowded classroom was full of electronic media crew from the TV One, RCTI and Metro TV. Everyone worked carefully to prepare reports on the latest situation after the eruption of Mount Merapi in Central Java. Their reportage was based on photographs of the eruption of Mount Merapi. Six groups of class IX E students reporting teams quickly discovered the main points of the events from photographs on the Student Worksheet. The six groups each claimed to be the media crew of a particular TV station. Learning with basic competency: To report verbally on events using clear, well expressed sentences the lesson was developed by Hasmin B. Aaron using reporting methods.
Managing the two 40 periods effectively, Hasmin started the lesson with a 10 minute introduction. He focused his students by getting them to listen to a song about natural disasters, News To My Friends by Ebit G. Ade. Why should we associate this song with our environmental conditions in Indonesia today? Should we change our way of life in light of the natural disasters that have befallen this nation? He asked these questions to get the students' attention. He then asked them to watch a five-minute video of an eruption of Merapi. He downloaded the video as an introduction to the lesson to inspire the students. He also downloaded photos of the Merapi eruption, a flood and a landslide in Wasior and photographs of the tsunami in the Mentawai islands from the Internet as material to support his worksheet.
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The series of core activities undertaken included:
For 25 minutes Hasmin facilitated students' work groups describing the main points of the events shown in the photographs of the eruption of Merapi. He told students to make descriptions of the eruption of Mount Merapi.
He helped students to become TV reporters reporting directly from the area around Merapi. But before the students made their reports, he asked the students to watch the film footage of a journalist's report from TV One on the eruption of Mount Merapi. The aim was to motivate the students to act as reporters.
He facilitated the students to assess each group's work. He asked the students to assess each group's work as to which group had made the most detailed description of events and which groups reported with clear and straightforward language.
He showed his appreciation to students who performed best as reporters by asking them to appear as TV reporters in front of the class.
For 35 minutes, each group reported in turn on a variety of events, and they competed to show their ability to speak in front of the class. The class was transformed into the studio of a TV station. Inevitably, many students came from other classes to watch, as did Ahmad Dani, the school principal who watched reporting sessions to the end. "I really enjoyed this lesson and I hope you guys really become good reporters, beginning your careers here," he said in front of the class. In contrast to the principal, Hasmin was touched to see the students of this class IX. "Some class of students perform less well than others not because of their ignorance as students, but because of the limitations of their teachers," he said.
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A private TV station reporter interviewing people at the location. They asked about the situation at the disaster site (up). A student acting as a reporter giving a report to television viewers (down).
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Sharing Innovation in Junior Secondary Education
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Edition 09 / February 2011
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