Good work, so far...

Some of you have done incredibly well at the Wiki project, congratulations!
For those who are a bit lost, let me remind you about some items you should have already completed and posted. All this information is available at the lesson plan page of the wiki, consult it when you need to check how to continue and jump to the next step of the project.

April
1. What is technology? Reading Comprehension task
2. The benefits of technological literacy. Reading Comprehension task, class + forum debate

May
3. The Nature of Technology. Translation task
4. Translating successfully. Comparison of translation tools

June - July
5. Technology and Science. Listening Comprehension task

August - September
6. Technology and Innovation. Reading comprehension task, forum debate
7. The evolution of Technology. Writing task, forum and slides

October - November
8. The Digital Divide. Writing integrative group task

Remember it is important that you accomplish ALL EIGHT STAGES by mid-november. Consult me or the Lab assistants whenever you need to. We'll be willing to help.

See you next class, Jimena

Today's class

Now on our wikis via Firefox!

Today we are working on...
1. Translating successfully.
2. Science and Technology.

Remember to post your answers on our new blog.

DEADLINES!!
By this Friday, you should have posted the first two activities ("What is Technology?" and "The Nature of Technology")
By next Friday, you should have posted the answers to the activities 3 and 4 ("Translating Successfully" and "Technology and Science")

Good luck!
Jimena

Today's class

Hi, today we are meeting at the English Lab.
As we will be working on the wiki project, I've created a new blog just to post the activities and answers to the tasks on the wiki.
The name of the blog is: Introduction to Technology (exactly as the wiki) and the URL is also quite easy: http://www.introductiontotechnologyblog.blogspot.com/

So this is what we are doing today:
1. Visit the new blog.
2. Accept the invitation in your gmail accounts to become contributors.
3. Post the first two activities (What is Technology? - 4 questions- and The Nature of Technology - one translated paragraph). For each activity you will post a different article, including the name of the Wiki page in the title of the blog post.
4. Today we will start working with the page "Technology and Science". This time we will practise some listening comprehension with a podcast from the BBC Radio 4.

As usual, I'm just here behind you for any doubts or questions.
All for now, Jimena

Today's class

Wiki project: Introduction to Technology
Activities for today:

1. Home page: “What is technology?”Answer the first 4 questions in a Word file (remember to include the ORT template, available on our blog).Answer question 5 in the discussion forum.
2. Go to “The Nature of Technology”Translate the second paragraph into Spanish in the same Word file.

For Tuesday:
Read the page: “Translating Successfully” and complete the suggested activities.


See you, Jimena

Tomorrow

Hi everybody, we are seeing tomorrow to complete the listening and reading comprehension papers of our revision test.
See you at classroom 201, Building III.
Be on time, please.

On Friday 2nd, we will be working at the CEO on our new wiki project, so remember to post your comment on technological literacy on the discussion box of our wiki.
That's all for now.

Bye, Jimena

New Project

Hi, this time I want to introduce you to a new project: "Introduction to technology". It is connected to technology, its definition, history and related subjects.

The platform we'll be using is a wiki.
A wiki is a collection of web pages designed to enable anyone who accesses it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language. Wikis are often used to create collaborative websites and to power community websites. For example, the collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia is one of the best known wikis.To learn more about wikis click here.


Since it is on-line, you will be able to access this site from home or just anywhere via Internet.

This is the Internet site for the project:

http://www.introductiontotechnology.wikispaces.com/

Hope you enjoy it and can profit out of it.
Suggestions and comments are welcome, as usual.

Let's start!