Lab Activities 29th March

Dear students,

Today's session will consist of the following.

Part 1: Creation and setting of your blog. 

1. Create your blog. 
1. Please ensure it is set in English.
2. Remember to use your first and given name in the web address and your name in the title. You may then add your personal touch to it.
3. Make sure that the time zone is adjusted to Santiago. 
2. Post your first entry with a brief presentation of yourself. You can include the things you like to do in your free time, music or movies you like it, etc.
3. Write your address on the board, so you can start following your classmates' blogs. The idea is to have everyone linked with each other.

Part 2: Writing

1. On our Thursday class, we started to create a paragraph by brainstorming, classifying ideas by topics and/or similarity. 
2. In your blog entry, include the ideas you brainstormed in your groups, and how you titled them.
3. Write your paragraph. 

Part 3: Interacting with your classmates' blogs

1. Post your observations, comments and opinions about your classmates' paragraphs in their comment boxes. Please be respectful. Feedback from peers has to be concentrated on content. 
2. What should/can I say about my classmates' paragraph? Follow these steps!
1. Content / Coherence / Cohesion: Does the text flow? Are there choppy sentences?
2. Can it be understood by any audience? Does it provide a clear and straightforward context? 
3. Look at the Inverted Pyramid Writing picture. Does it follow the example?
4. Another way to think of a paragraph is as a hamburger. In order to make a delicious one, everything has to be in the right place!

(If there is enough time!) Part 4: Sharing links with your classmates
Google websites with reading comprehension exercises. Explore them and try them out.
Post one link to virtual. Say why that particular link was useful to you (colourful, interactive, user-friendly, etc...)

Homework:
Please don't forget to fill out the survey posted in the blog. It is really important for us!