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Activities guide and evaluation rubric
Task 2 - Mind map and explanatory video

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
Individual ☒ Collaborative ☐ 4
Activity: of Weeks
Evaluation
Initial ☐ Intermediate ☒ Final ☐
Moment:
Evaluative score of the Delivery Environment of the
activity: 125 activity: Monitoring and Evaluation
Environment
Starting date of the activity: Deadline of the activity:
March the 7th, 2020 March the 27th, 2020
Competence to develop: Communicative

Topics to develop:
Unit 2 How to improve writing skills through the use of ICT?

Steps, phases of the learning strategy

Task 1 Read the references and create a Mind map.

The student will read the references of the course and He is going to
develop a mind map summarizing the main points seen or read and
using the suggested program in www.goconqr.com or any other able
to create great and useful mind maps.

The way to do is quite simple, the idea is click on

https://www.goconqr.com/es/users/sign_up/ and sign in, then start
creating it.

Task 2. Make a Video explaining the information written in the

mind map.

Once, the ideas are clear, make an explanatory video of the previously
designed mind map. The video should have a length of min. 2 and
max. 3 minutes.

You are welcome to use tools like PowToon, Animaker, GoAnimate,

Renderforest, or any other tool you feel comfortable using.

Assessed Aspects: Mind map, video and references. The first one 40
points, the second one 30 points as the last one.
This is an individual task so you don't need to choose a role neither
speak in the collaborative forum, there is no need to comment on your
partners' work.

If you have any questions, you're welcome to ask them in the

academic forum.

Activities to develop

A mind map
A video

Environment
Evaluation environment.
for the
development

Products to
The student will do a mind map and a video and
deliver by
deliver the link in the evaluation environment.
student
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

Activity Individual Collaborative

☒ ☐
Type: Activity Activity
Evaluation Intermediate
Initial ☐ ☒ Final ☐
Moment Unit 1
Performance levels of the individual
Evaluated activity
Score
Items High score
Media score Low score
There is a quite There is not a
There is an explanatory mind map in
explanatory mind map in the final
mind map in the final document or it
the final document does not
document pasted with contain an 40
Mind map pasted with a some minor understandable points
proper
mistakes in the grammar
grammar
grammar structure
structure
structure
(up to 40 (up to 20 (up to 0
points) points) points)
The student The student
The student
quite reads the does not
reads the
contents of the contents of the present a mind
Reading Unit 2 but does map.
Unit 2 and
of the 40
presents them not present
Contents them well in points
well in the
mind map. the mind map.
(Up to 40 (Up to 20 (Up to 0
points) points) points)
Video The video The video There is no 30
explains the does not video. points
mind map very explain the
well. mind map
 created
(Up to 30 (Up to 15 (Up to 0
points) points) points)
There are There are not
There are references any references
references quoted which
quoted which are not
are extremely extremely 15
related to the related to the points
References
content of the content of the
mind map and
mind map or
video
video
(Up to 10 (Up to 5 (Up to 0
points) points) points)
125
Final score
points