Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Vicerrectoría Académica y de Investigación

Course: Teaching English for Specific Purposes
Code: 551038

Activity Guide and Evaluation Rubric - Task 1 - Learning About Us

1. Activity Description

Type of activity: Independent

Evaluation moment: Initial
Highest score of the activity: 25 points
The activity starts on: Thursday, The activity ends on: Wednesday,
February 8, 2024 February 21, 2024
With this activity, you are expected to achieve the following learning
outcomes:

To reflect about their learning and teaching experience through the creation of a
video introduction.

The activity consists of:

Task 1: Personal Introduction

Each student writes a short personal introduction in the forum. In this presentation,
you must include your name, age, location, contact number, semester, email address
and three expectations for the course. All the information needs to be written in
English using complete sentences (directly in the forum, no files attached).

Task 2: Design an announcement in canva or other designing tool containing the

next information and post it in the forum (post a file in jpg or png), be creative.

Each student must include the following items through the poster:

- Importance of this course content for your professional development as an

English teacher.
- According to the course contents, show the five topics you consider more
interesting.
- An invitation for other students to study this course showing the reasons
because it will result important in your professional program.

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Task 3: Video

After sending your personal introduction and poster in the forum, you are going to
create a short video with that information using your webcam or cellphone. If you
wish, you can have support of visual material, but it is mandatory that your face
appears on the video, it must be 3 to 5 minutes long. The quality of sound and image
are to be done the best possible.

After creating the video, you must upload it to an online video repository like
YouTube, Tutv, Google Videos, etc. Once your video is uploaded, post the “Public”
link in the forum (for interaction with peers).

Group interaction
After posting your own video in the forum, comment at least two classmates’ videos.

You need to post your video at least five days before the deadline of this activity, or
no interaction will take place.

Contributions to the forum (personal introduction and poster) and videos posted
three days before the deadline will not be taken into consideration for the grade of
this activity.

For the development of the activity consider that:

In the Initial Information Environment, you must:

- Check the Course Agenda to organize your time.

- Check the Course News for important information.
- Verify the date of the First Web Conference so that you can plan your
participation accordingly.
- Verify your tutors’ synchronous attention by Teams.
In the Learning Environment, you must:

- Check the Course Contents and Bibliographic References for Unit 1: Experiences.
- Go to the discussion forum for the task and actively participate with your
collaborative group.
- Give feedback to your e-mates if necessary.

In the Evaluation Environment, you must:

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Upload a PDF file with the individual task.
Identify your file as follows: 551038 - Task 1 - Your full name.pdf

Evidence of independent work:

The independent evidence to be submitted is:

A pdf document uploaded by the evaluation environment following the guidelines

given in this activity guide.

Evidence of group work:

No collaborative evidence is required in this activity.

2. General Guidelines for the Development of Evidence to Submit

For Independent evidence, consider the following:

1. Presentation cover
2. Personal introduction
3. Poster
4. Introductory video link (it should be published so no permission is required)
6. Screenshots of your comments to your classmates’ videos.
5. References (APA style).

Upload a PDF file with the individual task.

Identify your file as follows: 551038 - Task 1 - Your Full Name.pdf

Please keep in mind that all individual or collaborative written products must comply
with the spelling rules and presentation conditions defined in this activity guide.
Regarding the use of references, consider that the product of this activity must
comply with APA style.
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 in 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

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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.

3. Evaluation Rubric Template

Type of activity: Independent

Evaluation moment: Initial
The highest score in this activity is 25 points
First evaluation High level: The video includes all required information: self-
criterion: introduction and the course promotion (the content of the
poster).
The video recording
is complete and If your work is at this level, you can get between 8 points
includes all the and 10 points.
information
requested in the Average level: The self-introduction video contains no more
activity guide. than 5 sentences, or the student did not include all the
information of the poster.

This criterion If your work is at this level, you can get between 6 points
represents 10 and 7 points.
points of the total
of 25 points of Low level: The video is not complete, or it was not posted five
the activity. days before the deadline of the activity, or the student did not
send a video presentation.

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

points and 5 point.

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Second evaluation High level: Ideas are expressed with ease in proper sentence
criterion: structure and tenses. Spelling and punctuation are accurate as
well.
The student
completes the task If your work is at this level, you can get between 4 points
in a clear manner and 5 points.
with accurate
grammar and Average level: The student completes the task with some
mechanics. grammar mistakes.

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: It is difficult to understand ideas because of
the activity. grammar mistakes or due to no proper spelling and punctuation.

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

points and 1 point.
Third evaluation High level: Pronunciation is clear and easy to understand.
criterion: Speech is fluent and smooth.

The student makes If your work is at this level, you can get between 4 points
use of the and 5 points.
appropriate
language structures Average level: The student does not use the appropriate
with adequate language structures and pronunciation and fluency are poor.
pronunciation and
fluency. If your work is at this level, you can get between 2 points
and 3 points.
This criterion
Low level: Speech is very slow, stumbling, nervous, and
represents 5
uncertain, it is difficult to understand because of unclear
points of the total
pronunciation.
of 25 points of
the activity.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0
points and 1 point
Fourth evaluation High level: The student participates in the forum sending
criterion: individual participation on time and commenting one of the
classmates’.

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The student
participates in the If your work is at this level, you can get between 4 points
completion of the and 5 points.
activities according
to the instructions Average level: The student did not post the personal
and time allotted for information or porter or did not comment on their classmates’
this task. work.

This criterion If your work is at this level, you can get between 2 points
represents 5 and 3 points.
points of the total
Low level: The student did not post the personal information or
of 25 points of
not comment their classmates’ work.
the activity.
If your work is at this level, you can get between 0 points
and 1 point