PENGEMBANGAN E-KAMUS BERBASIS VISUAL BASIC 6.0 SEBAGAI SUMBER BELAJAR IPS SMP KELAS VIII
This study aimed to: 1) develop an E-Dictionary based on visual basic 6.0 as a Social Studies learning resource for the topic of advantages of Indonesia’s location for Grade VIII of the junior high school (JHS), and 2) investigate the appropriateness of the E-Dictionary based on visual basic 6.0 as a Social Studies learning resource for the topic of advantages of Indonesia’s location for Grade VIII of JHS, based on the assessment by the materials expert, media expert, Social Studies teacher, and students. This was a research and development study. It was conducted in several stages, namely potentials and problems, data collection, product design, design validation, product design revision, product tryout, application tryout, product tryout, and mass production. The data collecting instrument was a questionnaire. The validation of the development product was done through expert judgment, consisting of the validation by the materials expert, media expert, Social Studies teacher, small-scale tryout involving 6 students, and field tryout involving 30 students of Grade VIII of SMPN 8 Yogyakarta. The data analysis technique was the descriptive analysis technique. The E-Dictionary based on visual basic 6.0 was considered appropriate when all the validation by the experts and the application testing by the students attained a minimum score of 3.0 with the good category. The results of the research and development study were as follows. 1) An EDictionary based on visual basic 6.0 as a Social Studies learning resource for the topic of advantages of Indonesia’s location for Grade VIII of the junior high school (JHS). Some specifications of E-Dictionary are shaped in-app containing a Social Studies learning resource terms, based on microsoft visual basic 6.0 programming language BASIC (Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code), written in CD (Compact Disk) which can be installed on to computer or laptop running Windows XP, intel pentium IV processor, 256 MB RAM and 32 MB VGA as minimum requirements. 2) The E-Dictionary was appropriate to be used as a Social Studies learning resource with the good category. The quality of the appropriateness of the E-Dictionary in the good category was based on the results of the validation by the materials expert, media expert, Social Studies teacher, small-scale tryout, and field tryout. The appropriateness of the E-Dictionary based on visual basic 6.0 included three criteria for the learning resource appropriateness, namely the aspects of learning design, software engineering, and visual communication.