Week+3

=UNIVERSIDAD SIMON BOLIVAR= =**ID2124 English for Architecture & Urban Planning I Working on Wikispaces/Knowing about your learning styles**=

Let's work on Wikispaces and be conscious about our learning styles!
=It's time to start working!=

**Week 3 Objectives:**
By the end of this week students will have:
 * registered in Moodle (if they haven't done so yet).
 * edited and recorded their profiles.
 * corrected and recorded their expectations.
 * worked on the collaborative wiki (create of a page, design and describe a logo).
 * learned about their learning styles preferences and weaknesses in English.
 * chatted about Learning Styles with a classmate.
 * written a fake professional profile (students will pretend to be a famous architect/urban planner).

**Tuesday: First hour:**

 * 1) Registration in Moodle (if you have not done so yet!). Remember to upload a picture of yourself!
 * 2) Edtion of Profiles (**2 pts.**) and Expectations (in [|Moodle]) (Pair-Work) . Sit with a classmate to edit your Profiles and Expectations in Moodle. Call your teacher for a last revision if you consider it is necessary.
 * 3) Recording of Profiles and Expectations. Open GRABADORA DE SONIDOS (Windows) and then record your voice. Save your recording to later upload it to your wiki page. Your teacher will explain how to do that in class!

Second hour:

 * 1.** Work on our collaborative wiki; each student will have a page to work on! To work on your page, do the following:
 * In our Collaborative wiki in wikispaces, first click on your name on the navigation bar (left side at the bottom of the page)
 * Second, click on "**edit this page**" (right upper corner of the page)
 * Third write a title for your page, you can start by adding your name or the name of the company you work for. Click on "**preview**" if you want to see what the title looks like
 * Click on "**save**" when you are satisfied.

You can **create a logo** like the one above (Created by prof. Dafne Gonzalez) at: []. Follow the instructions given. Don't be afraid to experiment! When you like your logo, download it to the computer or your pen drive, and then upload it to your wiki page. Write a short paragraph where you explain the concept of your logo, this paragraph will be later used as part of your Professional Profile.
 * 2.** Designing and description of a logo: Create a **logo** for your wiki page! It can be a personal logo or a corporative one belonging to the company you work for as a prefessional already graduated in your field.
 * Note: ** You can write this paragraph in Moodle, once corrected it can be posted to your wiki page.

> Note: ** > If you feel like designing your own logo by yourself, you can create it using Power Point or any other program you may know. > When the logo is ready, make a **screenshot** using the **Print/screen** key on the computer key board. Open **Paint** and paste your design, save it as **Gif** or **JPG** and follow the instructions given above to upload the image to your wiki page (If you need any help on this, please ask!).
 * How to upload a Logo or an image to your wiki page? [[image:http://159.90.38.94/eva/theme/UsbMayo2006/pix/s/thoughtful.gif width="15" height="15"]]**
 * When you are on the "**edit**" mode in your wiki page, you will see a picture icon, click on it and you will see the box to look for the image on your PC.
 * Upload it, and then put the cursor where you want the logo to appear, and double click! The image will automatically appear in your page.**

Writing: **Professional Profile (4pts.)** Pretend you are a **famous architect** / **urban planner** who has been asked to create a personal webpage for an online magazine. Picture yourself as a professional in your field of study and start to create your own PROFESSIONAL PROFILE. The idea is to introduce yourself as the "editor" of that e-zine and to describe the company you work for, etc... Let's get started!
 * 3.** Work on individual pages:
 * Write your Professional Profile (say who you are, where you studied, where and when you graduated, say if you have a master degree or a PhD in any specific field and where you got it (in what university), explain what you are doing at the moment (imagine it is the year 2021), say where you work, what your job consists of and what your plans for the future are.
 * Use Moodel as a notebook to write your drafts before you add the information to your personal page in our class wiki. (Professional Profile/ Week 3)
 * Ask your teacher for help in the revision and edition of your text within Moodle. Remember our wiki is a public space and we don`t want visitors to find pages full of mistakes.
 * Check your spelling, grammar and syntax using the Word Spellchecker. If you need extra help, ask the teacher to correct your texts. Once the text is corrected and edited by you, place the information & a picture of you in your wiki personal page, and "SAVE".
 * Open GRABADORA DE SONIDOS and then record your Professional Profile. Save your recording to later upload it to your wiki page.

**First Hour:**

 * 1) Explore your Learning Styles; Complete the VARK Learning Styles Inventory found in http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/vark.htm
 * 2) Make a screenshot of the results in order to start a class discussion on the kind of learner you are, and the learning [|strategies] that are more appropriate for you.(Teacher will explain how to screenshot in case you don't know) (*)
 * 3) Copy/Paste your results on the [|VARK Learning Styles Inventory] and upload them to the forum created for that purpose in [|Moodle].

Second Hour:
1.

Open Yahoo Messenger, and invite a friend to chat. Ask each other these questions:

 * What does it mean you have a visual, aural, kinesthetic, read/write or multimodal style?
 * What kind of learner are you?
 * Look at the [|strategies] suggested for your Learning Style.
 * Do you use any of the strategies recommended for your Learning Style?
 * Do you really think you could learn better using those strategies?

2. Save your chatlog, (just as you save any document) and upload it to [|Moodle] in the corresponding forum.

Do not hesitate to contact me in case you need any help. In case you do not have time to finish in class, please do it for homework. But __make sure__ EVERYTHING is ready before we start Week 4 next Tuesday.
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