2nd Term blog posts

For the second term, your teacher must find in your blog the following posts:

1. Climate change: your opinion and tips on how to stop climate change. (you can add video, images, links, games...)
2. Second life Avatar: Post  a photo of your avatar, add your teacher (Pionia Destiny), and your classmates avatars to your contact list in SL.
3. Cover letter for the entry level position job you selected. Follow the guidelines in the powerpoint presentation on unit 4.

1. Article related to your GREEN ENGINEERING final project.

• Select two paragraphs from your article.
• Choose  3 sentences per paragraph.
• Describe the parts of the words in the sentence.
• Select three words and find their definitions in an online dictionary.
• Visit at least two blogs from classmates and leave a comment. Add the link to your classmates blogs.

***** Rememeber: blogs entries must have

•  a tittle
•  an intruction to the topic of the post
•  images, links, videos relates to the content you are posting about.
• closing (invite readers to leave you comments)
• tags

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image: C-Monster

The project is on!!! Go Green Teams!

Well, groups got together and are getting ready to look at green problems caused by their engineering fields.

Group 1: Henry Vasquez y  Miguel Fernandez  are from Electronic Engineering School and they will be working with Jaiver Castillo from Industrial Engineering    School.

Blog Action Day! URBE says we are here!

Bloggers from URBE... This is an invitation to participate in the Blog Action Day! This year the theme is Climate Change. On October 15th, bloggers from the world will post about this important issue. Let's our blog say what we think about it...



All you need to do is put up a post relating to the topic of climate change on October 15th and link to www.blogactionday.org somewhere in your post. Go to Blog Actio Day site and register your blog. Hope to see you all there...



Climate Change... is happening...Watch the video and leave your comment!


Interesting and powerful ways to get involved in Climate Change  movement:

• Register for the 350.org International Day of Climate Action October 24: www.350.org 
• Learn and act with The Nature Conservancy's Planet Change site: change.nature.org 
• Watch and help promote Current TV's green-themed video journalism at:  current.com/green
• Put yourself on the Vote Earth map and upload your photos, pictures and weblinks to show the world future you want to see: www.earthhour.org/home 
• Join the Greenpeace cool IT challenge campaign to turn IT industry leaders into climate advocates and solution providers:  www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/climate-change/cool-it-challenge

Bloggers Sep-Dec09!

Welcome Bloggers ..... ! The adventures begins.... We are really excited for this new edition of English for Work. This group of engineers to be look very promising and we are sure we are about to ship off in a great journey...


Veronica Franco http://vero2289.blogspot.com/
Miguel Fernandez http://thespaceofmiguel.blogspot.com/
Hussein Bourot http://hussenglishclass.blogspot.com/
Gustavo Portillo http://www.portigp.blogspot.com/
Pedro Hernandez http://ilovyou-pedro.blogspot.com/
Laura Romero http://romerolaura19.blogspot.com/
Ernesto Rincon http://ernestrincon.blogspot.com/
Mariguel Ramirez http://mariguel29.blogspot.com/
Henry Vasquez http://getmoney10000.blogspot.com/
Carlos Gonzalez: http://morocoblog.blogspot.com/
Jaiver Castillo http://thewhitepig.blogspot.com/
Luis Perdomo http://lepv2503.blogspot.com/
Adrian Pirela http://adrianpirela.blogspot.com/
Jimmy Romero http://jimmyromero.blogspot.com/
Adrian Zambrano http://theonlycr9.blogspot.com/
Carlos Parra http://charlosmasterpiece.blogspot.com/

Project presentation May-july09

Task. 0. Introducing yourself and your new friends

Task. 0 Introducing yourself and my new friends

A. Read about Juan.

Hi, there! My name’s Juan Gonzalez but you can call me Juanchi. I’m from Maracaibo, originally. I live in Maracaibo, in Monte Claro. I’m 20 years old and I study engineering at URBE . My favorite subjects are mathematics and English. This trimester I am taking 4 classes and I am in the 7th trimester.

I love music, dancing, playing soccer, driving my car (I have a red sport car), surfing the net, studying English, talking on the phone with my friends, pizza , chocolate, my family , my country and my dog.

I hate onions, smoking, listening to hip hop, getting up early on the weekend, violence, war, injustice, and washing the dishes.

My dream is to travel around the world, visit the Pyramids in Egypt and The Eiffel Tower in Paris. Of course, I want to graduate from Engineering School and be a good engineer. I also want to learn to speak French, and Italian. I’d love to work in an important company and buy a house, get married and start a family.

About English, I love to learn new languages. I think English is very important. I listen to music and watch TV in English. It’s a good exercise. I also chat on the internet and have friends in many countries. I can write well, but I need to practice more. The most difficult for me is speaking. I want to practice in class and out of class, too. I hope I can make a lot of friends and practice speaking in this class.

B. Now it’s your turn to write about yourself. Add your picture.

C. It's time to meet two new friends. Use these questions to interview your new friends.

Name	What’s your name? Where are you from? What school in URBE are you from? How old are you? Where do you live?
Likes	What do you like doing? What things do you like? Love? Enjoy?
dislikes	What things you don’t like? Hate? Can’t stand?
dreams	What is your dream? What do you want to do with your life?
About English:	What’s your opinion about English? Do you like it? Is it important? What do you do to study English? How do you prefer to study English? What do you want to do in this class?

Use these expressions to answer to your new friends questions:

Name	My name is…. / I’m from …… / I go to ……..school in URBE / I’m …….years old. / I live in…….
Likes	I love…… / I enjoy….. /I like to …….
dislikes	I don’t like to ……. / I hate……. /I can’t stand………
dreams	My dream is to ……. / I want to ……. One day.
About English:	I think English is……. / In my opinion …….. / For me ….. / I guess ……. / I want to …. in this class.

Now, write your new friends information here:

Name	Her/his name’s ……... She/he’s from ……... She/he’s a student from …………………… school. She/he’s …… years old. She/he lives in ………………...
Likes	She/he likes …+ing, She/he likes to ……., She/he loves …. + ing, she/he enjoys …+ ing
dislikes	She/he doesn’t like to ……. / She/he hate……. /She/he can’t stand………
dreams	Her/his dream is to ……. / She/he wants to ……. One day.
About English:	She/he thinks English is……. / In her/his opinion …….. / For her/him ….. / He/she guesses ……. / She/he wants to …. in this class.

Welcome Sep-Dec09 Class!!!

Welcome, everybody!

This new trimester, we will be working with English for Work. But what is that? you may be asking yourself. Well, let's try to explain what it is about. To start with:

1. It is mostly about learning and practicing your English.
2. It is about learning English related to your field of expertise. So if you are an engineering student for instance. You will be reading, listening to, writing and talking about English for engineers and English for working as an engineer.
3. It is about learning English using technology. That means we will be using computers and Internet to find real updated information concerning your different interests. We are going to experiment and play with new ways to learn autonomously. Learning for life. Learning to learn. Learning by doing. We will be watching and listening to videos as well as making videos. We'll have the chance to use different tools to express your ideas and read about ideas.
4. It is about learning and practicing your English in groups, in community. Be ready to meet students and teachers from the university and the world. Of course, there will be tasks you must complete on your own.

That was a general description of the course. Now, how the classes take place:

• Classes are going to be held at the lab. I f you can't come to classes, you can connect at home or wherever you have access to a computer and Internet.
• You need to get a google account, since we will using different tools provided by Google. make sure to register to Gmail, Google Reader, Google Talk, Google Doc, and Blogger
• Blogs are going to be your personal journals. There you will register everything we do in class. All your homework and tasks should be there.
• Every class will be a taken as a workshop or TALLER. Try not to miss your classes and if you do, keep your blog updated.
• Homework will be assigned for each one of the units covered in class. The dateline to hand in your homework will be the day of your test. It means you will have the chance to work on your blog till the exam day.
• Corrections to writing will be done through Google documents.

Assesment




Things you need to do to take this class:

• Get a Gmail account and register to Google services: reader, Google talk, reader and blogger.
• Get a blog at Blogger. For instructions on how to that get the power point presentation from our box or follow the tutorial prepared by Vance Stevens.
• Register to the EFL University Ning social network. Make sure to write name, last name and class session you belong to when registering at our social network.
• Take these surveys:

About your English Class
Sep-Dec 09 EFL Survey
Click Here to take survey

About Integrating Technology in the English Class
Sep-Dec 09 EFL Digital Literacy
Click Here to take survey


Benchmarks:

• At the end of this class. I should have:
  
  • Read my class guidelines
  • Met my new classmates
  • Worked with the introductory task
    
  • Registered at Google and have a Gmail account.
  • Registered to Google readers.
  • Registered to Google doc.
  • Downloaded Google Talk and activated my IM.
  • Opened my Blogger account and posted my first entry.
  • Registered at the EFL University Ning social network
  • Taken two surveys

Assignment for this class:

• Write your first blog entrance: Introduce yourself. Use Task 0. Get the task from the file box.
• Introduce yourself and two new friends.
  
• Post the interview in your blog. Add a photo of your partners.
  

Hope you learn and have a great time during the time we are going to be together. If you have any questions, please let me know.

Keep on shining Love and Peace!