recent history - an icts in elt project
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Universidad Central de Venezuela
Facultad de Humanidades y Educación
Comisión de Estudios de Postgrado
Área de Lingüística
Maestría en Inglés como Lengua Extranjera
Recent History
Sara PachecoEIM - UCVJune
2012
The project:
This ICTs Project is oriented to the sharing of information. In the Modern Languages School of the UCV, English II (2nd year) includes Laboratory. This subject fosters the practice of oral skills but it also comprehends some topics of Universal History. In the third term (April to July), we study Recent History topics and the students have to make group presentations of them.
This project will help the students to share information about the different topics, as well as, to show all the material they might not have the time to show in the presentations. Each group will open a blog about the topic they are presenting. The topics are:
* Missile Crisis
* Panama Invasion
* Gulf War
* September 11th
* Irak War
* Current Financial Crisis
There are 26 students divided into 4 groups of 4 and 2 groups of 5. Then, at the end of the term the students will be evaluated in oral exams. So, it is necessary for them to have the information of each topic. That is why my project is oriented to the sharing of information by blogs. Besides, creating a blog and feeding it would provide meaningful learning.
http://recenthistory-eflateim-ucv.blogspot.com/
The project blog
Objectives:
*To show the presentations content to the class as a preparation to the oral exams*To have the students incorporated to the new technologies
*To foster meaningful learning among English II students
*To foster cooperative learning
Audience:
*The main audience is conformed by the students of English II LAB Section B2, however, students of English II may find the blogs useful for them. The blogs may be useful for the teachers of the EIM English department, specially the examinators in oral exams. Of course, the content might be of the interest of EFL teachers and general public.
Steps:Each presentation group has to create a blog about its topic. The steps are:
1. Create a blog on www.blogger.com
2. Upload the presentation to Google Docs then, post it in the blog by its link.
3. Post 5 questions and answers (Please identify different authors of the posts)
4. Embed some videos and pictures or any audiovisual material in English related to the topic (at least 5)
* If you have any doubt you can have a look on the How to page
Sources must be clearly identified.
Schedule: Steps 1 and 2 should be done after presenting. (1 week)Steps 3 and 4 can be done between the presentation day
and June 21st 2012
http://thegulfwar1991.blogspot.com/
Product: The Gulf War blog
Evaluation: The evaluation will be cuantitative, the total grade is 20 points and it is divided into:
Resources:Blogger: www.blogger.comGoogle Docs: www.docs.google.comWikiHow: www.wikihow.com Youtube: www.youtube.com
Blog (appearance) 5 points
Posts (questions and answers)
10 points
Audiovisual material 5 points
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