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Dear Technology Students, I hope this email will clarify some of the concerns that some of you have expressed relating to assessment 1. Please read the assessment task again here and note the additional comments either in upper case letters or comments at the end. A paired written reflection (1000 words) based on a joint development of a wiki portfolio with **three classroom applications (teaching materials)for technologies presented in class.** BY THIS WE MEAN THAT YOU SHOULD DESIGN/make / create ENGLISH LANGUAGE MATERIALS SIMILAR TO WHAT YOU HAVE BEEN GIVEN EACH WEEK ON THE VICTORY PAGE. AN EXAMPLE WOULD BE THE FAMOUS PERSON SUMMARY FROMWEEK 2 ON USING A WIKI The wiki portfolio will be completed as part of the learning hours for the unit either in classroom contact time or as an out of class activity to be carried out autonomously by teacher nominated pairs of students. The nominated pairs of students will be chosen in order to widen the students’ linguistic and cultural competence as well as develop their knowledge of ELT contexts and their ability to work in intercultural teams. (30%) (Learning outcome 1) Each ‘page’ of the wiki portfolio will consist of a heading with a short description of ‘who the task is for’ followed by the aim of the learning material; these will be written as instructions for the teacher. Then the activity/learning material will be included on the wiki page. HERE YOU SHOULD GIVE AS MUCH DESCRIPTION AND EXPLANATION TO MAKE IT CLEAR TO ANOTHER TEACHER HOW TO USE THIS TASK. . IF WHAT YOU SUGGEST GOES OVER SEVERAL WEEKS OF CLASSROOM TIME THEN YOU WOULD STATE THIS BUT CONCENTRATE IN MORE DETAIL FOR THE FIRST PART OF THE TASK. If there are several tasks in the learning activity then only either the first of the series or a sample task is necessary. Finally, the sample task is followed by a critical reflection of the learning material using the 3 classroom applications to illustrate the following generic points. The critical reflection should cover the following points. • ’What kind of language does the task involve the intended learners to use either in completing the task or as a language awareness or noticing task and to what extent does this language relate to the intended audience needs’ • ‘To what extent does the task allow for interaction: student to technology, student to student or student to teacher?’ • ‘What theories of learning and language learning does the task/activity draw on? • ‘What implied pedagogical approach is embedded in the task/learning activity’? FOR YOUR PURPOSES THE WORDS TASK/LEARNING ACTIVITY AND LEARNING MATERIAL CAN BE TAKEN AS BEING OF SIMILAR MEANING. EACH WEEK YOU HAVE EXAMPLES OF PRACTICAL CLASSROOM APPLICATIONS FOR EACH OF THE 'TOOLS WE HAVE USED. YOUR EXAMPLES SHOULD TAKE NOTE OF THESE APPLICATIONS BUT YOU HAVE TO DESIGN SOMETHING OF YOUR OWN FOR YOUR WIKI PAGE. AGAIN FOR EXAMPLE A CLKASSROOM APPLICATIOJ FOR A WIKI THAT YOU WERE GIVEN WAS TO ASK THE STUDENT TO CREATE A WIKI AND PROVIDE A SUMMARY OF A FAMOUS PERSON WITH FACTUAL ERRORS THEN THE STUDENTS EXCHANGE THEIR PAGE WITH ANOTHER PAIR OF STUDENTS. THEY THEN HAVE TO WORK AS A PAIR EITHER AT ONE PC THUS EXACHANGING IDEAS FACE TO FACE ABD SEARCH RELEVANT WEBSITES TO FIND OUT ABOUT THIS FAMOUS PERSON AND TO EDIT THE TEXT THEY HAVE BEEN GIVEN TO REMOVE ANY FACTUAL ERRORS. . You would need to provide your own summary text with errors as an example of a learning activity and provide instructions for another teacher to do this activity. so if you were doing this example in your wiki portfolio as part of assessment 1 you would have to create a famous person summary ( learning materials)AND UPLOAD IT ON YOUR WIKI PAGE and a set on instructions on how to use this with students to improve their English