After participants were given training in making animations, live worksheets as student worksheets, spreadsheets as teacher assessment sheets and google docs as short story sheets and teacher feedback sheets, the activity continued with peer-teaching using the Digital Short Story Writing (DSSW) model with one teacher acting as a teacher and the other teachers acting as students. The teacher teaches using the devices that he has made before. This teacher is a representative English teacher from SMP N 4 Surakarta. The peer-teaching activity lasted for 1 hour. The next 1 hour was a review from the service team, namely Dr. Choiriyah Widyasari, M.Psi. about the peer-teaching performance that had just been carried out. Dr. Ira, as he is usually called. provide appreciation and input that can be improved by both teachers who practice peer-teaching and those who have not practiced.
After this, there is still a series of micro teaching activities, namely for the application of DSSW in schools in one of the schools from teacher participants who participated in this series of service activities. Schools that will be appointed based on the results of the training are seen from the most complete and representative tools for the application of this model. Previously, a series of activities before peer-teaching were workshops on the application of the Digital Short Story Writing model with global diversity, training on making animations containing short stories with global diversity, and training on digital devices to support the implementation of the DSSW model, namely live worksheets, spreadsheets, google docs and google sites.
Previously, it was given that the lecturers of the FKIP UMS community service team received a service grant from the DRTPM of the Ministry of Education and Culture-Research and Technology for the 2024 funding year. This service carries the title “The Application of Digital Short Story Writing with Global Diversity in the MGMP English Group of Junior High School of Surakarta City”. This activity aims to utilize narrative materials in English subjects in increasing the values of global diversity in students in daily life. In addition, this activity is carried out so that the values of global diversity in its implementation are not only limited to ceremonial activities such as flag ceremonies on Mondays and wearing traditional clothes on national holidays but are integrated into daily life. This activity was chaired by Susiati, S.Pd., M.Ed. consisting of Irma Yuliana, S.T., M.T., M.Eng. and Dr. Choiriyah Widyasari, M.Psi. and assisted by 2 students, namely Amelia Riski Dian Pramukti and Ady Tama.
