E-SEMAI TEACHING PORTAL (ESTP)

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.