E-SEMAI TEACHING PORTAL (ESTP)

• Main Author: A/P ALWI, AZWINAWATI
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: IRC 2015
• Subjects: T Technology (General)
• Online Access: http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/15864/1/Azwinawati_18251.pdf; http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/15864/
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Petronas

Bahasa Semai is one of the Aslian languages that have been selected to be taught in Malaysian Government schools. However, there are no computing technology that currently supports the knowledge sharing activities and communications of this language between the teachers that teach the language, especially in supporting the Pedagogical Content Knowledge methodology as proposed by Malaysian Ministry Of Education. E-Semai Teaching Portal (ESTP) will help to address the problems by providing a reliable knowledge sharing platform for Bahasa Semai educators. The purpose of ESTP is not only limited and focus to the importance of having computing technology support in teaching, but it also include the concern towards the sustainability of one ethnics background. This paper will examine the role of ESTP in assisting to achieve the objectives and how it is developed. The main aim for the research is to ensure that Bahasa Semai subject will be as important as other subject in schools and will have all the reliable sources that can be referred by the teachers that teach the subject. Hence, it will encourage the knowledge sharing of Bahasa Semai between the teachers and coordinators. The portal analysis and planning stage is conducted using the agile methodology and the development is using .Net Web development that included Bootstrap platform and JavaScript, PHP, CSS, XAMPP and MySQL language. After user acceptance testing, the results show that ESTP have achieved all the purpose and objective. The feedbacks receive from the Bahasa Semai teachers are positive and ESTP prove to be a great assistance for them. Functions in ESTP help them in knowledge sharing and explore new knowledge.