Penggunaan Media Video Animasi Berbasis Powtoon Dalam Rangka Peningkatan Kemampuan Menulis Teks Berita Siswa Kelas VIII SMPN 2 Plantungan Kendal Tahun 2022

This research is motivated by the lack of ability of class VIII students of SMPN 2 Plantungan Kendal regency in writing news text. This is due to the low interest in learning and understanding of students in writing, especially writing news text. The learning used by the teacher is considered less interesting and less innovative so that learning is considered boring. The teacher’s lack of understanding in utilizing learning media is one of the factors causing teachers difficulties in using various online based learning media, one of which is the Powtoon Media. The purpose of this study was to determine the role of the use of Powtoon media in order to improve students’ learning to write news text for grade VIII SMPN 2 Plantungan Kabupaten Kendal. This study used descriptive qualitative methoed. Data collection techniques used in this study are observation, documentation, angket and assigment or tes. This test is used to obtain data regarding the level of mastery of the material on the final result value. Based on the results of the research, it shows that there is an increase in the ability through the results of tes that have benn done by studentds. This is evident from the results of the average value of writing the previous news text, that is 70,73. Wrile the results of the average value after using learning with the Powtoon Media that is 81,4