MiniCAT, Tata Nano Bertenaga Angin

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New Delhi – Pabrikan mobil India sepertinya ingin merubah citra dari pabrikan mobil murah menjadi pabrikan mobil ramah lingkungan. Kini Tata Motors membuat gebrakan dengan mengembangkan sebuah mobil berbahan bakar angin!

Setelah sebelumnya memperkenalkan Tata Indigo e-CS VX yang diklaim sebagai sedan bermesin bensin teririt di India, Tata Motors sepertinya tidak mau berhenti berinovasi,

Menggunakan basis mobil termurah sejagat, Tata Nano, Tata Motors mengembangkan sebuah mobil baru yang dinamakan Tata miniCAT. Sebuah mobil yang menggunakan angin yang sudah dikompresi sebagai sumber tenaganya.

Mobil ini seperti detikOto kutip dari Rushlane, Sabtu (1/10/2011) merupakan jawaban Tata Motors menghadapi kenyataan kenaikan harga bensin yang terus terjadi saat ini.

Tata MiniCAT dikembangkan oleh mantan engineer Formula 1 bernama Guy Nigre dan diharapkan akan bisa diproduksi sebanyak 6.000 unit.

Untuk harganya, Tata berharap MiniCAT ini tetap dapat dilepas dengan harga yang relatif terjagkau yakni hanya US$ 8.177 atau sekitar Rp 74 jutaan saja,

Tata MiniCAT yang dikembangkan oleh Tata Africa dan diharapkan akan menjadi mobil mungil yang cocok digunakan sebagai mobil perkotaan.

Mobil ini mampu berjalan sejauh 300 km bila tangkinya terisi penuh dan hanya perlu US$ 2 untuk mengisinya kembali bila sudah habis.

Tubuhnya yang mungil dengan garis sederhana dibangun dari bahan fiberglass dan diperkirakan akan dapat berlari hingga kecepatan 105 km/jam.

 

 

Drilling Techniques for EC Classes.

Jakarta, November 10 2010

In this Wednesday Sharing Session, Ms. Pranawangsih Yuniarti, a.k.a. Wawa presented what she had attended from the previous Pearson Day. The sharing session covered the reading techniques for children classes. In this session Wawa focused the drilling techniques for vocabulary, grammar, functions and others.
There were some interesting features that she presented regarding teaching English for Children. Firstly, teaching English for children should be fun since it is the first time children encounter the language. Therefore the enjoyment that they get will determine their attitudes in learning English in the future. Secondly, teaching English to children means teaching them language components for future uses, not for immediate uses. Thirdly, drilling plays an important role in the children’s longer retention of the language components. Next, Wawa demonstrated some fun ways of drilling techniques for vocabulary, such as Pass the Flashcards, Touch the Balloon, Sweep It away, The Journey of a Tissue Paper, Ping pong and Mysterious Envelope. Then, Wawa also demonstrated other fun ways of drilling techniques for grammar, functions and others, such as  Give Me Five, Dancing Crazy, First Come-First Served, Active Reading and Kungfu Moves.
All in all the presentation was interesting and the activities were a lot of fun for the participants. It is always fun to join WSS.

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Using Windows Movie Maker and Videos as Teaching Aids

Jakarta, February 2 2011

Audio visuals or videos have always been interesting to be used as teaching aids in classes. Therefore, Ghitta Hayati from LIA Kalimalang presented how to create videos using the simple video software, Windows Movie Maker. The reasons why Ghitta chose Windows Movie Maker because of its availability in everyone’s computer and its user friendliness.

Ghitta started the presentation by showing the samples of videos she had worked on. Then she went on with the workshop creating the video clips with the twenty participants at the computer laboratory of LIA Pramuka. Not only creating videos, Ghitta also taught participants how to upload the videos to Youtube and how to burn the videos into DVD format to be available for used by means of DVD player. The video Ghitta has uploaded at Youtube can be seen by following this link:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFjcnHVpMto