September Podcast-Making Project

After a quite long time break, I finally can post new podcast again. Thank you for my sister, Vida Dwi Pringgani for helping me. For my fellow readers, happy listening! 🙂

 

 

Do you have a good story that will be good to be recorded? Let me know and let’s publish it!

May Podcast-Making Project

Hello again,

It’s been a while since my last post. And since my recent focus is about making listening material, so I’m proudly present the new audio podcast for you, to practice your listening skill.

And for this May issue, I collaborate with my friends, Lilis and Syifa (thanks for them). Please check out our tracks below. And for the previous issues of the podcasts, please open up these links: https://myenglishcamp.wordpress.com/2015/06/27/we-are-having-fun-with-fables-what-about-you/ and https://myenglishcamp.wordpress.com/2015/08/03/we-are-still-having-fun-with-fables/. Or, visit my Soundcloud page here to see the complete list.

 

 

 

 

Disclaimer

1. The copyrighted image (cover) of “A Boy and A Bear” story was taken from here
2. The copyrighted image (cover) of “The Spider and The Fly” story was taken from here
3. The copyrighted image (cover) of “Fox and The Goat” story was taken from here
4. The copyrighted image (cover) of “The Ant and The Grashopper” story was taken from here
5. The copyrighted image (cover) of “The Hawk and The Hen” story was taken from here
6. The copyright of the images belongs to their respective owner / creator / publisher.

ENGLISH QUOTES TO RE-MOTIVATE YOUR STUDENTS

Do you always find your students lack of motivation in improving their English? If you do, then you might want to stop giving them harder homework. Or stop teaching them using vocabulary cards. Or stop asking them to memorize 5 new words every day. Or stop forcing them to take a remedial test every time they failed in the previous test. Or stop all of your conventional teaching methods. You want to give them a space to relax and start to talk to them heart-to-heart.

Maybe, you also need to re-motivate your students and remind them about the importance of English. Do not only say that English is an important international language, because some language experts say that English is not the #1 anymore, but there are Chinese, French, Germany, or even Russians!

If you have a plan to re-motivate your students, you can use the following popular quotes about learning languages that I took randomly from many websites. Of course, they are adjustable to be delivered in your English class. They might be a short quote. But they have very deep meaning. Enjoy!

WE ARE STILL HAVING FUN WITH FABLES

And the audio-podcast project goes on….

Not so long after I posted some audio podcasts for listening exercise made by me and some friends, I got a lot of appreciations and supports from people around me. That was great, and personally, it was so “touching”. Moreover, Mr. Dewantoro Ratri, the author of “Menerjemahkan Dunia” decided to involve in my podcast-making project. He contributed his voice in the following mousedeer story. Thank you very much, Mr. Dewantoro 😀

Besides Mr. Dewantoro, I also got help from Mr. Khristianto from UMP (Universitas Muhammadiyah Purwokerto). He asked his students to involve in my project and some of his students’ “selected” voice can be enjoyed both in my previous and today’s post. Thank you very much Mr. Kris. I am waiting your own voice too 😀

I had asked some friends to join in this project too. And some of them promised to send the podcasts soon. I do hope that they will send me the podcasts so I can post and present them to you, my beloved readers 😀

Hall of Fame

There is no exact word to describe my gratitude to the following people. I just want to say thank you very very very much 😀

1.	Mr. Dewantoro Ratri, the author of “Menerjemahkan Dunia”	http://menerjemahkandunia.blogspot.com/
2.	Saidah, Sandra Wibowo, Risma Rahmatika, Novetia Kristin, Dika Muniatami, Eko Pamuji, Mutiara Kusuma Dewi, and Agustina Tri W. The students of Universitas Muhammadiyah Purwokerto (UMP), under the supervision of my lecturer Mr. Khristianto	http://ump.ac.id/ https://plus.google.com/+KhristiantoHakeem/posts
3.	Friends who had promised to send their recorded voice in the near future

Again, without you all, this small project would never run at all.

Disclaimer

1. The copyrighted image (cover) of “The Mousedeer, The Snake, and The Tiger” story was taken (digitally scanned) from the book authored by Mr. Dewantoro Ratri entitled “Menerjemahkan Dunia”.
2. The copyrighted image (cover) of “The Vain Little Mouse” story was taken from here.
3. The copyrighted image (cover) of “A boy and bear” story was taken from here and here.
4. The copyrighted image (cover) of “The Fox and The Monkey” story was taken from here.
5. The copyrighted image (cover) of “King of The Jungle and Little Mouse” story was taken from here and here.
6. The copyrighted image (cover) of “The Greedy Dog” story was taken from here.

WE ARE HAVING FUN WITH FABLES. WHAT ABOUT YOU?

Listening Materials Projects

Long time before I post about storynory I had a simple plan to create audio materials to help English learners around me to enhance their listening capability by recording common stories and then upload them here. So, they can listen (or download) the materials for practice and more people can also get the same benefits.

Unfortunately, I don’t have a good voice and good pronunciation to be recorded. So I asked for a help from some friends who concerned about English. Some of them were teachers, English enthusiasts, students, neighbor, friends from different towns, and ex-classmate. I sent a file contained some famous fables by Aesop and other writers. I asked all of my colleagues to record one or two stories while reading the story(ies). After that, they should send the recorded stories to me through e-mail. I said that I would accept any audio file formats (mp3, wav, ogg, etc.).

But I wasn’t luck. Only 3 people sent the recorded stories and the audio quality might not very good since they were recorded using different devices. But, it’s still OK for the beginning. Here are a few of our works:

The Goal of The Project

This “project” was intended to create positive content—a simple listening material—that will support English teaching-learning process, especially listening activities. But not only that, the recording process was also intended to improve our speaking capability. I do hope that by creating this simple audio podcasts, we will improve our pronunciation, reading skill, voice management skill, the skill on using technology to create learning medium, and finally can help listeners (learners) with their listening.

Hall of Fame

I address a big, big, big, and very big thank you to the following people for helping me on this project:

1.	My pretty and cute sister, Puput Tri Widiastuti	http://puputtriwidiastuti.blogspot.com/
2.	Akbar and Wahyu Adi, the students of UMP (Universitas Muhammadiyah Purwokerto), under supervision of my lecturer, Mr. Khristianto
3.	Friends who had promised to send their recorded voice in the near future

Without you all, this small project would never run at all. Let’s keep making a crowd!

Disclaimer

1. The copyrighted image (cover) of “Babu and The Lion” story was taken from here
2. The copyrighted image (cover) of “Goose That Laids Golden Egg” story was taken from here
3. The copyrighted images (covers) of “King of The Jungle and A Little Mouse” story were taken from here and here
4. The copyrighted image (cover) of “The Dog and The Wolf” story was taken from here

The copyright of the images belongs to their respective owner / creator / publisher.