Homework 9 November 2009

Dear All,

As you may well remember, we are working with 2 student-teachers from Canada this year, Denise and Teri. Well, we haven't really done much with them yet this year as we were busy getting our blogs set up.Now it's time for that to change!

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For homework this week we're going to get to know a little more about our Canadian colleagues Teri and Denise.

1) Denise has made a great short video on her blog where she talks about what she studies, what her hobbies are and what she likes to do in the summer.

Please visit Denise's blog and leave a comment on her video post that engages with her, and helps you to connect to her. Maybe you could talk about what your hobbies are, maybe you could talk about any hobbies that Denise has that you share, maybe you could ask Denise some questions about her hobbies, maybe you could talk about what you are studying, maybe you could talk about what job you'd like to do, maybe you can tell Denise about your blog, too..... you choose.

2) Teri has written a introductory blog post for3LSS where she asks us some questions about Blogfest, and tells us a little about herself. You can also find out more about Teri on her It's Me page.

Please read Teri's information about herself and the introduction for us, then leave her a comment on her 3 LSS page. Againg, your comment should engage with Teri, and helps you to connect to her. You can use the same idea we talked about above. e.g. maybe you could talk about what your hobbies are.... etc

Please do this before Sunday 8th November so that Teri and Denise have time to reply to us.

Thanks! Seth

Marks, Tests and Coursework.

Dear All,

I'm glad to see you're all getting going with your blogs. I hope you're not having too many problems. Please leave a comment here, or send me an email if you need some help.

Don't forget there will be very few or no tests (prove scitte) this year in the CLIL / ICT classes. You will be given marks (voti) based on the project work we are doing and how much English you use in class. For this reason, it is very important that you don't miss any of the work we do. Here is a quick list to remind you:

1) Check that you have done all the jobs from last weeks homework.

2) Complete all of this week's class work. Here is a list to remind you.

• Add your blog to the comments from last week's post.
• This must use the HTML code we learnt in class e.g.

< a href="inserireiltuoindirizzoqui" > TESTO CHE VUOI SCRIVERE QUI </a >

• If you cannot remember how to write the html, look at our lesson PowerPoint slides below.
  
• Write a comment to 5 of our classmates. Your comment should be more than just "hello" it should connect with your classmates and be relevant to their post. You can write your comment on either their introduction or their article about the blogfest.

Finally, I want to ask everyone to keep a register (registro) of all the blogging work you do. I will collect this when I am giving out marks (voti). For example AnnaT and Karin's register would look something like:

• October 25th - Set Up Blog.
• October 25th - Wrote Introduction on blog.
• October 26th Wrote post about the BlogFest
• November 2nd - Commented on Monica, Greta, Silvia, Veronica and Alberto's blogs
• November 6th - Read Teri (In Canada's) blog and left a comment....

Again, if you have any problems at all please contact Seth and he will help you.

Lesson 2 Blogs And Commenting

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Hello all the cool 3 LSS students!

Hi there everyone!

Welcome to the 3LSS Class blog!

For this blog, I hope we're all going to have a lot of fun working together. I hope that it will show you all a different way to learn and communicate and start to get you all used to creating content on the internet. I want to work together on many different blogging projects with the aim of helpin YOU GUYS to become more independant learners.

This is where we are going to meet for homework assignments, out of class activities, and all sorts of digital fun together.

The first thing I want you all to do is to leave me a short comment telling me what the name of your blog is and it’s address. You’re going to need to use a little bit of HTML too!

To make a link, we're going to use the Anchor "a" tag

“ Seth's Blog”