MEDIA IN LANGUAGE TEACHING

GROUP 5: INTRANET & INTERNET AND DISTANCE LEARNING

A. INTRANET & INTERNET

1. Intranet

According to Turban, King, Lee, and Liang (2010) "An intranet is a network of
companies or governments or organizations that use tools on the internet, such as web
browsers and internet protocols and are used by companies as a medium of
communication and collaboration." Intranets are internal networks for companies or
schools. Intranets are a way of increasing communication, collaboration, and information
dissemination within companies or schools where divisions, departments, and
workgroups each use a different computer platform (hardware and/or operating system),
or where users work in distant locations. Advantages of Intranet are Centralization,
Consistency, Currency, and Pull versus push approach.

a) Wide Area Network (WAN)

Computer conferencing (connecting two or more computers together for textual

and graphical information exchange), is not a new technique. The classroom computer
can be connected with people and resources well beyond the limits of the school building.
Computer networks that extend beyond the walls of a room or building are called wide
area networks (WANS). A WAN connects a number of computers within a single
institution and beyond with one another. Some WANS use a "hardwired" configuration; a
campus wide network connecting all buildings via a cable or fiber system is one such
example. In this arrangement, the buildings are linked to a centralized computer that
serves as the host for all the software used in common.

b) Local Area Network (LAN)

A local area network (LAN) connects computers within a limited area, normally a
building, office, or laboratory. A LAN relies on a centralized computer called a file
server that "serves" all other computers connected to it via special wiring. A computer lab
is often a LAN because all the computers in the lab are connected to a single file server,
which is usually tucked away in a closet or other out-of-the-way space. Whole buildings
can also be connected to a local area network. A single computer, generally located in the
office or media center, can serve. as an entire school's file server. Through a LAN, all of
the classrooms in a school can have access to the school's collection of software.

c) Intranet Advantages and Deficiency

Similar to previous technologies, intranet as a technology also has advantages and

disadvantages. The following are the advantages and disadvantages of an intranet,
including:

 Advantages

1. Helping the process of communication and cooperation between individuals in a

company or organization.
2. Can be used as a means of assisting in increasing the development and growth of
industrial products.
3. Facilitate the uniformity of information received by everyone in the organization.
4. Can improve the quality of teamwork within the organization because it is easy to
access internal information.
5. Help improve response to customer needs and complaints through customer
service.
6. Increase cost and time efficiency according to needs (workflow, collaboration,
enterprise connectivity).
7. Has facilities like an internet network in the form of email, FTP, Telnet, Rlogin,
SMNP, etc. to facilitate activities.

 Deficiency

1. Requires training that takes a long time to educate members in using the intranet.
 2. Requires experts in building and developing an intranet in an organization because
it cannot be done by just anyone.
3. Allows for overload (full data) due to the free delivery of messages between
intranet users if proper control is not exercised.
4. Can spread wrong information may also circulate through the intranet, so the
moral awareness of each user is very necessary.
5. Intranet can have an impact on the many resources used so that it costs more to
build a reliable server.

2. Internet
Internet is a network of networks. It is the worldwide collection of multiple
computer networks. Internet is a network of thousand of computer networks. It is capable
to transfer information across the geographical boundaries in an electronic format at a
very fast speed. The internet is a communication network that connects one electronic
media to another. The Internet is the widest network of information technology systems
that allows devices around the world to connect to one another. Understanding the
Internet According to Experts:
“Another definition of the internet arises from the opinion expressed by Strauss,
El-Ansary, and also Frost (2003). They say that what is meant by the Internet is an entire
network of computers connected to one another. Some computers that are connected to
each other in this network store and also have several files that can be accessed and
used, such as web pages, and also other data that can be used and also accessed by
various computers connected to the Internet.”

Internet function:

 As communication media
 As a place to access information
 Sharing of resources or data
 Can broadcast and access live both news and exchange data with the internet
online throughout the world.
B. DISTANCE LEARNING

1. Media

"Messages that are distributed through the technologies, principally text in books,
study guides and computer networks; sound in audio-tapes and broadcast: pictures in
video-tapes and broadcast; text, sound and/or pictures in a teleconference"

 What is media education?

 Media education it care about how the target understand the massage and how
much they can communicate with the data. It goal to help them to learn and
improve their skills in how they can use the media effectively to communicate
their own ideas.
 Media involve (TV, radio, cinema, newspaper, magazines, music and internet).

2. Distance Learning
1. Distance learning or distance education is a field of education that focuses on the
pedagogy/andragogy, technology, and instructional system design that are effectively
incorporated in delivering education to student teacher and student may communicate
asynchronously and synchronously.
2. E-learning is naturally suited to distance learning and flexible learning, but can also
be used in conjunction with face-to-face teaching, in which case the term Blended
learning is commonly used.
3. E-learning can also refer to educational web sites such as those offering worksheets
and interactive exercises for children. The term is also used extensively in the
business sector where it generally refers to cost-effective online training.
4. E-Learning is the employment of technology to aid and enhance learning. Focusing
on the use of the Internet in e-learning, three primary uses have emerged.
5. It is an electronic technology to deliver, support and enhance teaching and learning.
 Monitoring and evaluating in distance learning
The relationships between student and teacher and the imbalance of power in
distance learning is an issue which trouble many educationalists, theoretically committed,
to assisting learner take cares control of their own learning and became self-directed.

 Types of distance education courses:

1. Correspondence conducted through regular mail.
2. Internet conducted either synchronously or asynchronously.
3. Tele-course-Broadcast where content is delivered via radio or television
4. CD-ROM where the student interacts with computer content stored on a CD-
ROM.
5. Pocket-PC/Mobile Learning where that student accesses course content stored on
a mobile device or through a wireless server.

 Theories and philosophies of distance education

The theoretical basis on which instructional models is based affects not only the
way in which information iscommunicated to the student, but also the way in which the
student makes sense and constructs newknowledge from the information which is
presented. Hilary Perraton (1988) defines the role of the distance teacher. When, through
the most effective choice of media, she meets the distance students face-to-face, she now
becomes a facilitator of learning, rather than a communicator of a fixed body of
information. The learning process proceeds as knowledge building among teacher and
students
Distance education systems now involve a high degree of interactivity between
teacher and student, even in rural and isolated communities separated by perhaps
thousands of miles. The Office of Technology Assessment stresses the importance of
interactivity: distance learning allows students to hear and perhaps see teachers, as well
asallowing teachers to react to their students' comments and questions (US.
Congress,1988). Moreover, virtual learning communities can be formed, in which
students and researchers throughout the world who are part of thesame class or study
group can contact one another at any time of the day or night to share observations,
information,and expertise with one another (VanderVen, 1994; Wolfe, 1994).