Your Great Presentations.

Dear All,

Thanks for a great lesson today. I'm really, really impressed with how well your presentations are coming on, well done. I've seen some great work from you all.

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Now, we need to move onto the last few stages to make sure that our filmsare as good as the presentations you have made so far.

Please make sure you do the following for next lesson:

1. Look at your presentation and write a script of what you want to say for every one of your slides. Bring this to your next lesson. Please add the subject line (oggetto) "3LSS PowerPoint." This will help me find it.
   
2. Send your presentation to me via email. You'll find my email address above if you don't know it already. Please send it before Wednesday 5.5.2010
   
3. If you have trouble with email (if your file is really big, use this website instead: https://www.yousendit.com/ You can send much bigger files using this website.
4. Find a song you want to include on your film. Creative commons is best. You can find free music here: http://www.jamendo.com/en/ (extra 0.5 marks for people who use creative commons music in their film and credit it!)
5. Please bring along a headphone / microphone to next lesson if you have one. It will mean you don't have to share the school ones!

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Bring Your Headphones if you have them!

Visit to Malta

Dear All,

I hope you've had a great first few days in Malta? I especially hope that you're speaking lots of English and not just speaking Italian together! :D

I'd love to know a little bit about your trip on your blogs. Write a post on your blogs discussing several of the following points:

• In what ways is Malta similar to Italy?


• In what ways is it different?
  


• What has surprised you about Malta?


• What have you enjoyed most so far?


• What are you looking forward to next?


• What message do you have for the teachers back in Mezzolombardo?

Next,choose one or two of these more important points to include in your post.

• My grandfather, who unfortunately I never met, was in Malta working with the Royal Air Force for the whole of the 2nd World War (WWII). What evidence can you see of the ex-British presence in Malta? Is there any evidence of the important role Malta played in WWII there? What other history is in evidence?


• Malta, like Lampedusa, has often been in the news for the refugees that arrive there. Have you seen any evidence of the refugees and economic migrants' arrival in Malta?


• You guys are social science students. Have you noticed any evidence of the social sciences at work in Malta? Have you noticed any need for social science type work to be done there?


• There is a lot of money involved in the English language teachiing industry. How well do trips like yours help you to learn to speak English instead of just learning about it? Where do you learn more, in class in Mezzolombardo or in class in Malta, or walking around the streets and shops of Malta? Would you recommend a trip like this to next year's 3 LSS students for them to improve their English, or just for the fun of it?
  

Please write a post of 100 - 150 words to tell me about your trip and discuss these issues.

I hope you're having lots of fun and learning lots!

Seth.

Presenting Our Surveys

Hi everyone, hope you're well?

This week we're going to watch four films which present survey results and write what you think about them. Please pay attention to the style of the film. How easy is it to understand the writing, how interesting is the film? Does the music go with the film or not?

Don't forget, You are going to make a similar film to present the survey that you made, so think about the style, content and presentation of these films as you watch them. What would you like to have in your presentation and what would you change?

Watch the presentations and take notes about what you like and what you don't like about them. Bring your notes to class next week!

Francesco's Street Art Presentation

Alessio'sFine Art Presentation

Daniela's Restaurant Presentation

Andrea's Books and Reading Presentation

P.S. Francesco and Alessio also made a pretty darn good snowboarding video which, although it's got nothing to do with our lessons, you might like to watch :-)

Our Surveys

In II Martino Martini at Mezzolombardo we are studying Social Sciences in English.

Recently we have been doing some work on using the Likert Scale to do surveys of people's attitudes. We are using Google forms to publish our own individual surveys on our blogs. Each of our surveys is about a subject that for one reason or another is of personal importance to us.

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We would really appreciate it if you could spend a few minutes completing a few of our surveys that you'll find in the RSS feed in the column on your right here.

Please Note: Our surveys are about some difficult social issues such as Alcohol, drug mis-use and so on. They may well not be suitable for younger students.

Thanks for your time!

3LSS Test Feedback

Here is a link to our survey. If you have any problems, please complete our survey at this direct link: http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewform?formkey=dEhObFI1RVlxMEV2T09GaUQ0T0tSRnc6MA

Lesson #2

Hi 3 LSS! This is our second lesson. For this lesson, you will each need your own piece of paper, a pencil, and a calculator. We have enjoyed working with all of you and hope you like this lesson!
Denise and Teri

Normal Distribution Lesson

Hello Class!
Here is our first lesson for you. If you have questions about what we have talked about, feel free to either leave your question on the actual lesson or as a comment on this blog post. Be sure to fill out the Google Form at the end of the lesson! Have fun!

Pre-Lesson Defintions

Before viewing the lesson we have prepared, you are going to need to know what a few words mean. We have provided definitions for these words below. Make sure you read and understand them before viewing the lesson. If you do not understand them, you may have trouble understanding key ideas.

1.Average-calculated middle value in a set of numbers

2.Symmetric-identical to something else

3.Forever-never stops

4.Property-a feature that helps identify a certain object

If these definitions do not make sense, feel free to look them up yourself, to gain a better understanding.

Google Form for Lesson #2

Your Education - My Survey

Dear all,

As I told you in class, I really want to make sure that my lessons are useful, relevant and interesting for you all. So I want to ask you some questions.

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Please complete this short survey to help me to continue to improve my lessons for you.

Thanks!

(Prof.) Seth.