Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Academic and Research Vice-rector

Activity 7 – Creating a Blog

1. General description of the course

Faculty or Academic Vicerrectoría de Relaciones Internacionales

Unit
Academic Level Professional, specialization, master
Academic Field Common basic interdisciplinary training
Course Name English B1+
Course Code 900004
Course Type Methodological Can be re- yes ☐ No ☒
opened
Number of Credits 3

2. Description of the activity

Type of the Number of

Individual ☐ Collaborative ☒ 5
activity: weeks
Moment of
Initial ☐ Intermediate: ☒ Final ☐
evaluation:
Delivery Environment: Collaborative
Evaluative score: 40
Learning
Starting date: October 24th, 2017 Closing date: November 27th, 2017
Competence to develop:
The students are able to design his/her own blog.
Topics to develop:
Design a blog.
Steps, phases of the learning strategy to develop:
Phase 1: Design a blog.
Phase 2: Public a blog.
Phase 3: Share the link.
Step by Step
1. Select one role for development of collaborative work.
Leader student role will create a Gmail Account. If you have one, you can use it, log
in to Blogger web page, through GOOGLE or YOUR EMAIL ACCOUNT or if you prefer,
you can use any other web design tool.
 Watch the tutorial about HOW TO BUILD a blog through these links.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWSXAYjql14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5Hh7PEhJO s
- Each student uploads a brief introduction.

- Imagine you as a group have a travel agency, so you are going to do a

catalog of interesting places to visit in your city. (If the students belong to the
same city, so each student choose one city in Colombia)

- Portal 1: Introductions of the participants.

Example: my name is Leidy Diana, I am 33 years old, I live in
Palmira Valle del Cauca, I am married, I do not have children, I am studying
Social communication and I work in radio.

-Portal 2: Description city one:

Make a collage with pictures of the place you choose and describe it.
Name of the city.
Activities to do there.
Most important Hotels
Most delicious Restaurants
Topic places to visit.
Food.

-Portal 3: Description city two:

Make a collage with pictures of the place you choose and describe it.
Name of the city.
Activities to do there.
Most important Hotels
Most delicious Restaurants
Topic places to visit.
Food.

- Portal 4: Description city three:

Make a collage with pictures of the place you choose and describe it.
Name of the city.
Activities to do there.
Most important Hotels
Most delicious Restaurants
Topic places to visit.
Food.

- Portal 5: Description city four:

Make a collage with pictures of the place you choose and describe it.
Name of the city.
Activities to do there.
Most important Hotels
Most delicious Restaurants
Topic places to visit.
Food.

- Portal 6: Description city five:

Make a collage with pictures of the place you choose and describe it.
Name of the city.
Activities to do there.
Most important Hotels
Most delicious Restaurants
Topic places to visit.
Food.

NOTE: Each paragraph (portal) must include at least 5 sentences,

connectors and at least 3 modal verbs and sentences in future.

Environment
for the Collaborative Learning
development
Collaborative:
Consolidate the final product should be submitted in a PDF
Products to document in the Assessment and Monitoring Environment:
deliver by
student - Page 1: Cover.
- Page 2: The Blog URL.
4. Evaluation rubric
Evaluation rubric
Activity Individual
☐ Collaborative Activity ☒
type: Activity
Moment of
Initial ☐ Intermediate ☒ Final ☐
evaluation
Performance levels of the individual activity
Assessed
High score Score
Aspects Low score Media score
The student
tales into account
only some The students
There is no elements while participated in
Forum evidence of blog designing the designing the Blog
participation design and forum blog. Participation taking into account the
30
and Blog participation is scarce or indications given in the
design irrelevant to the guide.
forum
construction
(up to 15
(up to 0 points) (up to 30 points)
points)
The blog partially
The blog does The Blog fulfills with
fulfills with the
not meet the the requirements
Organization requirements
established proposed in the 10
of the blog proposed in the
parameters. activities guide.
guide.
(up to 0 points) (up to 5 points) (up to 10 points)
Final score 40