Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Vicerrectoría Académica y de Investigación

Course: Materials Design
Code: 518016

Activity Guide and Evaluation Rubric – Task 1- The role of the materials designer.

1. Activity Description

Type of Activity: Individual

Evaluation Moment: Initial
Highest Activity Score: 25 points
The activity starts on: Monday, August The activity ends on: Sunday,
23rd, 2021 September 05th, 2021
With this activity, you are expected to achieve the following learning
outcomes:

To reflect upon the teaching role as a material designer in the virtual and face-to-face
context of learning English as a foreign language, through the analysis of theories for
the design of didactic teaching materials.

The activity consists of:

1. Read the article from Pardo, A., & Téllez, M. (2009). ELT Materials: The Key to
Fostering Effective Teaching and Learning Settings, you find in the learning
environment or/and in the syllabus of the course.

2. Having in mind the reading you need to answers for the following questions:

a. What was the conception of materials development decades ago?

b. What does developing materials demand from teachers? Give at least six (6)
demands and explain them.
c. What are the components of creating and adapting didactic learning
materials?
d. In your opinion, what is the principal role of the teacher when designing
language-learning materials?

3. After answering the questions, you should prepare a presentation in PowerPoint

and converted it into a video. This presentation must meet the following
requirements:

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 a. You must appear in the video including your voice.
b. You need to give a brief self-introduction.
c. You have to answer the four questions required considering the documents
and your proper experience and opinion.
d. You will be graded also, for your speaking, so be careful with your
pronunciation and fluency.
e. Include the references into the video (APA Style)
f. Presentations with lots of written content are not allowed; try to use lots of
images or screenshots.
g. Double-check your video after publishing it to see if sound, image, and
content are right.
h. Remember to leave your video public to let others see the final version.
i. The video should be 5-8 minutes length.

4. Upload the video into YouTube or any other website you can use for sharing
videos. Remember to leave your video public to let others see the final version.

5. Submit a PDF document with a cover page considering APA style format, the link
of your video and a page with the references you used to answer the questions, to
the evaluation environment, according to the course Agenda.

For the development of the activity consider that:

In the Initial Information Environment, you must: observe the course presentation,
check the course agenda, the date of the synchronous meetings by webconferences
and attention through skype.

In the Learning Environment, you must: have access to the course syllabus,
download the guide, and check the links of the documents you have to consider for
the development of the activity.

In the Evaluation Environment, you must: Submit the final document, which meets
the requirements from the guide.

Evidence of individual work:

The individual evidence to be submitted is:

● A document with a cover page considering APA style format.

● A video including all the answers to the guiding questions.

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 ● A page with the references in APA style format.
Evidence of collaborative work:

No collaborative evidence is required in this activity.

2. General Guidelines for the Development of Evidence to Submit

For Individual evidence, consider the following:

● Before delivering the requested product, the student should check that it meets
all the requirements mentioned in this activity guide.

Please keep in mind that all individual or collaborative written products must comply
with the spelling rules and presentation conditions that have been defined.

Regarding the use of references, consider that the product of this activity must meet
the APA Format Guide.

In any case, make sure you comply with the rules and avoid academic plagiarism.
You can review your written products using the Turnitin tool found on the virtual
campus.

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 students 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.

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3. Evaluation Rubric Template

Type of Activity: Individual

Evaluation Moment: Initial
Highest Activity Score: 25 points
High Level: The student recorded the video answering all
guiding questions based on the reflection upon the role of the
teacher as a material designer.

First Evaluation If your work is at this level, you can get between 7 points
Criterion: and 10 points

Video recording Average Level: The student recorded the video but some of the
questions are missing and/or the role of the teacher is not very
This criterion clear.
represents 10
points of the total If your work is at this level, you can get between 4 points
of 25 points of and 6 points
the activity.
Low level: The student did not submit the recorded video.

If your work is at this level, you can get between 0

points and 3 points
High Level: The student supported his/her arguments with
authors, proper experiences, and use in APA style to cite the
references.
Second Evaluation
Criterion:
If your work is at this level, you can get between 4 points
and 5 points
Argumentative
competence
Average Level: The student supported his/her arguments
with authors or experiences but you did not include the
references using APA style.
This criterion
represents 5
If your work is at this level, you can get between 2 points
points of the total
and 3 points
of 25 points of
the activity.
Low level: The student did not support his/her arguments with
authors or experiences.

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 If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
points and 1 point
High Level: The video included supporting material like
images or visual aids and the supporting material was relevant
to the content.
Third Evaluation
If your work is at this level, you can get between 4 points
Criterion:
and 5 points
Video visual aids
Average Level: The video included supporting material like
and supporting
images or visual aids, but that supporting material was not
material
relevant to the content.
This criterion
If your work is at this level, you can get between 2 points
represents 5
and 3 points
points of the total
of 25 points of
Low level: The video did not include supporting material like
the activity.
images or visual aids.

If your work is at this level, you can get between 0 points

and 1 point
High Level: The speech on the video is good in terms of
fluency, intonation, use of vocabulary and appropriate grammar
structures.

If your work is at this level, you can get between 4 points

Fourth Evaluation
and 5 points
Criterion:
Average Level: The speech on the video has some problems
Spoken English
associated to content, fluency, intonation, use of vocabulary and
competence
appropriate grammar structures.
This criterion
If your work is at this level, you can get between 2 points
represents 5
and 3 points
points of the total
of 25 points of
Low level: The speech on the video has many mistakes in
the activity.
terms of fluency, intonation, use of vocabulary and appropriate
grammar structures.

If your work is at this level, you can get between 0 points

and 1 point