Task 1
In this course you will be using a blog just like this, so take a few minutes to navigate around this blog and make a note of the following to post as your first blog post…
One thing in my blog that..
•You like
•You don’t like
•You are confident you could do better
•You are not confident about being able to
Before you do your blog you might want to watch this video
Now go this link and follow the steps to make your own blog and send me the link to pfield@hct.ac.ae
Don’t forget that your first blog post should answer the questions above. When you make the blog please call it course code + name, so for example “lsc2183mariamobaid”.
Also send your username and password for the blog so I have a record of them. I will then check that I can access your blog.
COURSE DESIGN
1 Coursework: Practical Skills Assessment (10%) Online Learning
CLARITY Practical Writing
2 Coursework: Practical Skills Assessment (10%) Online Learning
CLARITY Study Skills Success
3 Coursework: Research Paper (20%)
Part 1 Research – reading, listening, note-taking and planning (10%)Part 2 Writing a report (150-200 words) (10%)
4 Coursework: Presentation (10%)5 Coursework: Reading and 4 Vocabulary Quizzes (20%)Each quiz is worth 5%.
6 Final Test (Reading, Writing) (30%)
This test will be set in Abu Dhabi, not in the college.
I have listed these components in a different order to the list in Course Outline because we will do them like this.
We will start with the Online Learning in Clarity.
Task 2
1 Coursework: Practical Skills Assessment 10%
You will use CLARITY online learning package. Go to the HCT Portal and scroll down to find CLARITY. Log in with your student ID and don’t forget to put a capital H. The username and password are both your ID so you can copy the Username into the Password box.
Now open Study Skills Success. You are going to complete this course during weeks 1 to 15 of the semester and you will get a certificate with a mark on it. This percentage will be your mark for this part of the course.
Study Skills Success
Do these sections:
Reading, Writing, Research, Independent Learning
When you are working in Clarity do not forget to save your work.
Task 3
Go into CLARITY again and open Practical Writing (bottom left). You will also do this course in your own time during weeks 1-15. If we have time we may book some library sessions for it.
Practical Writing
Do these sections:
For and Against, Short Report, Plagiarism, Taking Notes, Descriptive Essays
Task 4
You are now going to choose a theme to study for this course. You will use this theme for your Report and your Presentation.
The work you do in Clarity on Writing and Study Skills will help you to work with reading texts and listening (video) as you collect information for your Report and Presentation.
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You will use this theme for your reading and listening and you will make notes on the reading and listening you do.
From the notes you will write summaries and paraphrases. You will use these to help you write your report and your presentation.
You will save your notes and link and summaries and your plans in your blog and you will get a mark out of 10% for these as half your Report writing mark.
You should choose a topic which is related to your main subject and now in a blog post, explain WHY you have made that choice in NOT LESS than 50 words.