Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Academic and Research Vice-rector

Activities guide and evaluation rubric
Task 3 - Blog

1. General description of the course

Faculty or Escuela de Ciencias de la Educación

Academic Unit
Academic Level Profesional

Academic Field Formación interdisciplinar básica común

Course Name Technology in teaching English as a foreign

language.
Course Code 5510O6
Course Type Select course type Retake yes ☐ No ☒
Exam
Number of Credits 3

2. Description of the activity

Type of Number 4
Individual ☐ Collaborative ☒
Activity: of Weeks
Evaluation
Initial ☐ Intermediate ☒ Final ☐
Moment:
Evaluative score of the Delivery Environment of the
activity: 100 activity: Monitoring and Evaluation
Environment
Deadline of the activity: May the
Starting date of the activity:
8th, 2020
March the 28th, 2020
Competence to develop: Communicative

Topics to develop:
Unit 3 How to improve Oral English Skills through the use of ICT?

Steps, phases of the learning strategy to develop task 3

TASK 1. READING AND SHARING

Read the references that belong to Unit 3 and click on:

http://www.esl-lab.com/ Do some of the listening purposed by Randall
according to your level of English and share your experience in the
collaborative forum.
Do as much listening as you can, do not forget to check the
characteristics of it because you are going to create one copy of it in
the next step.

TASK 2: DESIGNING A BLOG

Work together with your classmates to create a Blog or a space very

similar to the one you experimented in the link above.

The blog must contain:

1. Tips for Teachers

2. General Listening Quizzes
Easy
Medium
Difficult
3. Basic Listening Quizzes
Easy
Medium
Difficult
4. Listening Quizzes for Academic Purposes
Medium
Difficult
Very difficult
5. 20-Minute ESL Vocabulary Lessons
medium
6. Language Learning and Life Tips
medium

Activities to develop

Participation in the forum by sharing Task 1

Consider revising vocabulary, spelling and language use to make the

necessary corrections.

Weighting: 60 points
The group compiler must prepare and send to the forum a Word
document that includes the following information:

a. Cover page (names and last names of participants, course info,

tutor name, date).
b. Link to group blog that has all the requested elements.
c. References (APA style).

The evaluator and reviser have to check the final product to make sure
it is complete and then inform the delivery student who will upload the
final product to the link: Step 2 Unit 1 in the Evaluation & Assessment
Environment. It should include all the information as requested. Name
your file as follows:

Collaborative_Task1_GroupNumber.pdf

Weighting: 40 points

Environment Colaborativo y Evaluación.

for the
development
Individual: Participation in the forum by sharing Task
1 (Consider revising vocabulary, spelling and language
use to make the necessary corrections)

Weighting: 60 points

Products to Collaborative:
deliver by
student The group compiler must send a Word document
named as follows:

Collaborative_Task1_GroupNumber.pdf

Weighting: 40 points
3. General guidelines for the collaborative work

Collaborative learning is a strategy that allows

students to work together in order to achieve a
common goal. Accordingly, the collaborative work
proposed for the course is based on a structured and
planned process that includes individual and group
activities, as well as interaction and socialization in the
virtual classroom.
1. Explore the syllabus of the course.
2. Make several readings of the activity guide and the
evaluation rubric for each of the units of individual and
Planning of collaborative work.
activities for 3. All the activities that are carried out for the
the development of the activity should be reflected within
development the course through the different media and especially
of in the forum of each activity, since the interaction; if
collaborative they work by Skype or other means they should
work evidence it in the forum with screenshots.
4. Be in constant communication with the colleagues
and tutor during the development of activities.
5. In case of any concern, ask the tutor or the
colleagues with time, using the various communication
channels arranged in the course.
6. Enter the contributions with time for the Timely
feedback from peers and tutor.
7. Establish a schedule of activities within each forum
and a table of roles and functions for meet during the
development of each activity.
Roles to Different roles are proposed within the collaborative
perform by environment, which allow an appropriate space for
the student academic growth and effective interaction that
in the promotes learning and interpersonal relationships.
collaborative Every student will take up one of these roles for the
group development of the course assignments and can only
be changed if decided by the group members.
Facilitator: Makes sure that every voice is heard and
focuses work around the learning task. Provides
leadership and direction for the group and suggests
 solutions to team problems.
Recorder: Keeps a public record of the team's ideas
and progress. Checks to be sure that ideas are clear
and accurate.
Time keeper: Encourages the group to stay on task.
Announces when time is halfway through and when
time is nearly up.
Planner: States an action for the completion of the
task at hand according to the instructions and course
agenda.
Task monitor: Looks for supplies or requests help
from the teacher when group members agree that
they do not have the resources to solve the problem.
Compiler: Puts together the final product and
includes the work done only by those who participated
on time. Informs the student in charge of alerts about
people who did not participate and will not be included
in the final product.
Reviser/Editor: Makes sure the written work follows
all the criteria established in the activity guide.
Roles and Evaluator: Evaluates the final document to ensure it
responsibilit follows the evaluation criteria of the rubric and
y for the informs the student in charge of alerts about any
delivery of changes that need to be made before delivering the
products by product.
students Deliveries: Student in charge of informing about the
dates set for presenting each task and delivering the
final product according to the course agenda. Also
informs other students that the final product has been
sent.
Alerts: Informs group participants about any news in
the work being done and reports the delivery of the
final product to the course tutor.
Use of
Always cite the references
references
Plagiarism Students must be aware of the risks and penalties in
policy case of plagiarism.

Under the Academic Code of Conduct, the actions that

infringe the academic order, among others, are the
following: paragraph e) "Plagiarism is to present as
your own work all or part of a written report, task or
document of invention carried out by another person.
It also implies the use of citations or lack of
references, or it includes citations where there is no
match between these and the reference" and
paragraph f) " To reproduce, or copy for profit,
educational resources or results of research products,
which have rights reserved for the University ".
(Acuerdo 029 - 13 De Diciembre de 2013, Artículo 99)

The academic penalties that the student will face are:

a) In case of academic fraud demonstrated in the

academic work or evaluation, the score obtained will
be zero (0.0) without any disciplinary measures being
derived.
b) In case of proven plagiarism in academic work of
any nature, the score obtained will be zero (0.0),
without any disciplinary measures being derived.

To learn how to properly cite all your tasks, see the

following:
BibMe. (n.d.). APA Citation Guide. Retrieved from
http://www.bibme.org/citation-guide/apa/
 4. Evaluation rubric
Evaluation Rubric
Task 3 – Blog
Activity Collaborative
Individual Activity ☐ ☒
Type: Activity
Evaluation Intermediate
Initial ☐ ☒ Final ☐
Moment Unit 3
Evaluated Performance Levels of the Individual Activity
Score
Items High Score Average Score Low Score
The student
The student
participated in the
participated in the The student did
Creative forum but did not
forum on time not participate in
participation give any new
and gave ideas to the forum. 20 points
in the forum ideas to develop
develop the blog
the task.
(up to 20 (up to 10
(up to 0 points)
points) points)
Evaluated Performance Levels of the Collaborative Activity
Score
Items High Score Average Score Low Score
The group
The group
created a well-
created a Blog but The group did
organized blog
Designing a it does not look not create a blog
following Mr 30 points
blog like the sample
Randall´s sample
(up to 30 (up to 15
(up to 0 points)
points) points)
The group
successfully The group did a
The group did
followed the good job following
not do the
activity the instructions
Listening listening
instructions to but the listening is 30 points
Component activities.
create the not complete.
listening.
(up to 30 (up to 15
(up to 0 points)
points) points)
Overall The group The group No group paper 20 points
structure presented a well- presents their is presented.
and content structured work with major
of the paper document with problems in
minor problems in
mechanics,
mechanics,
spelling and the
spelling and the
document does
document
not include all
includes all
suggested items.
suggested items.
(up to 20 (up to 10
(up to 0 points)
points) points)
100
Final Score
Points