Post-4: Reading and Writing Activities

Dear All

Today we are going to discuss a number of activities to help the students master their reading and writing skills. I've uploaded the materials on my google drive so that you could access them from there

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1YEMiKeJm8Ry1dVcSdR2YQq5Yt_nYWmtS

First, I'll give you an overview of these activities and then we'll decide which of them you would like to try out. It'll give you a chance to get acquainted with some principles and techniques you need to take into account when preparing such activities.

After that, we'll do several of your choice in class together.

Hope you'll find the activities and tasks useful and will enjoy doing them.

See you in class shortly.

Here is a list of resources for today's class:

http://www.short-stories.co.uk

Classic American short stories

http://www.americanliterature.com/ss/ssindx.html

Great short stories, from one word to more 2048

http://www.storybites.com

Very short novels (299 words maximum)

http://davidbdale.wordpress.com

Choose one of these 4  

Post-3: Suggestions for topics for discussion

Dear All,

you have attended this course for a month now and I hope you have received a good idea about the content of the course and the activities you are offered.

I'd like to ask you to think about a couple of topics you would like to learn more about in its context. What I mean what tools and resources you would like to study closer and what kind strategies and techniques associated with ICT tools you would like to investigate.

Publish your suggestions in the thread.

Post-2: A World Without Magnets (LP)

Dear All,

Today we're going to read and discuss and LP A World without Magnets designed by Nik Peachey.

The Topic of this Lesson or rather a series of lessons is the World around us, with the focus on Magnets, I am aware that you major in Linguistics but thought it might be a good idea for us to discuss a topic from a different field because you never know what groups of students you might teach.

Here is a link to the LP:

https://bit.ly/2Tuzh2q 

First, look through it to get an idea about its overall organization and then we are going to discuss it and do some of the activities. After that we'll share our feedback on how it all went and discuss your observations about various aspects of teaching this kind of lesson.

The lesson starts with infographic about magnets: let's have a look at it at
http://tinyurl.com/zvdrzjt 

Here is a good explanation of what it is: https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/infographics

It's actually a very popular way of presenting information nowadays.

I have explained to you the features of infographics used in this lesson. Would you use it in the same way as I demonstrated to you? Why yes or no? Explain in your comment in the thread.