Thursday, April 4, 2019

Post-6: Credit Test Requirements

Dear All,

here is the explanation of the requirements you need to meet to receive a credit test for this course:

1. A post which explains the essential features one of the digital literacies that are necessary to function adequately in today's world, which were introduced during the first session we had. Here is a link to this post for your convenience.

https://bit.ly/2UtqkXx

Your tasks are as follows:

A. summarise the information about the literacy of your choice in 350 words. Your post should contain the links to the resources you should use in your explanation.

B. choose 2 activities from those I have shared with you during the course:

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

Complete them in the role of the student first. Then reflect on your experience in the role of the teacher by answering the following questions:


What skills will the Learners develop?
How will they benefit from each of these activities?
What kind of problems/difficulties do you foresee the students can have when completing the tasks (if any)?

What is your plan B? Plan B means that either the resources you planned to use have become unavailable or there are some technical problems, such as, for example, slow speed of the connection or broken equipment that can make completing the activities as you originally planned them impossible.

Any additional comments?


Here is a link to my presentation about Reading and Writing Online 


C. choose a lesson from the textbook you are familiar with and explain how you can incorporate one of the activities I have shared with you in your lesson for the development of one or several skills  

You should explain the Teaching Sequence you will follow


Post-5: Listening-and-Speaking Activities

Dear All,

today we are going to practice doing a number of activities for the development of the learners' listening and speaking skills.

The first task is for us to prepare a tour of your favorite website the purpose of which is to let them learn about an interesting and useful resource and combine it with the development of the Learners' study skills.

To illustrate, I'd like my learners to get acquainted with the website: HEADS UP ENGLISH which has a broad selection of topics for discussion in the categories listed below

A Few Questions for Christmas
A Habit is a Nasty Thing
All About Illnesses
Change with the Times
Crimes
Danger and Risk
Dreams and Nightmares
Food for Thought, Thoughts on Food
Happy New Year!
Heroes
Ireland, Irish, and St. Patrick's Day
It's Time to Relax
Lies and Ethics
Money
Natural Disasters
Politics
Reality TV
Science and Technology
That's Entertainment
The Family
The Future
The Olympics
The Past
What If...?
What's Your Personality?

for my tour I have chosen the topic Change with the Times and what I'd like my learners to do is look through the questions listed on this page and choose one to talk about. They should talk continuously for 1 min, record their answer and upload it into the course's blog.

Next, the students should listen to the recording one of their peers prepared and share their reflection about what they will have heard in the course's blog thread or record their answer and upload it on the course's learning environment.


Questions:

What skills do you think the Ls will develop?
How will they benefit from this activity?
What kind of problems do you foresee (if any)?
What is your plan B?
Any additional comments?