Hello, Everyone, I know you are busy doing your exams. Working on the site is an important part of your self-study. Work every day, it's really necessary.
Dear Netters! Your online activity jas really increased. Yet, please look through my posts and check whether you have done everything: 1) Interpreting Fiction section 2) Written works (articles, essays) 3) Individual Comments in each other's blogs 4) Book of psychology project Besides, post you new photos in the THANK YOU GUYS section (there are only three) and start writing. I have given a few examples. Your photo projects - Forget or Remember - please add comments to your snapshots (2-5 sentences)
Dear 8davids8! We should start a new THANK YOU GUYS section in ABOUT US AND FOR US block. It will be used by us to post our thank-you letters. Access to this page for editing and posting purposes should be only for the group members. Black-and-photos are nice! Let it be so!
Hi, everyone! Since our classes are coming to an end and you are in for a lot of exams. This has been quite an unusual year for all of us and there are a lot of things to remember and to thank each other for. there is one more online task for all of you - THANK YOU LETTER and THE GROUP SOUVENIR. Here is a brief description. - Each of you posts your own photo and writes a few sentences about each group member like: "Tom! I want to thank you for your undying readiness to help me with my essays whenever I needed that. I'd like to give you free axcess to the Internet for as long as one year. I hope my gift will make your life more virtual and diverse..." - So, everyone writes about each one and will have a THANK YOU LETTER WITH A SOUVENIR.
Dear Rina, I am reminding you about the Essays section. Please, add info on any type of essay as we discussed it a while ago. Dear Assya, I would like you to carry on searching for info on telecommunication projects on psychology or any other topic that you think will be of interest to our group and other users.
Hi, everyone. A new task for you. We must create a psychology podcast with audio files of a) your essays, articles, stories, monologues and dialogues made by you b) some interesting texts from the Internet. Look through the related postings on the site. Make a list of items for the podcast. Deadline - 25 May 2010. Two recordings per student. Let's discuss it in class. In the site menu we should have a new rubric for Our Podcasts with subrubrics like we have in the Interpreting Fiction rubric.
Max, we need to add another thread to our photo project. Luminous has nicely suggested that we add photos of the countryside landscapes and rural views. Why not? Thanks, Luminous! I think we should call it "Life Around Ryazan - Forget or remember". Max, please, move these rural images to the new rubric.
Hi there, Everyone! A new written task. DEADLINE - 14 MAY. FORM: A Research Based Article based on the discussions in the Blogs and Forums. LENGTH: 500-700 words. AIM: to give a critical account of discussed issues and their validity in our life. STEPS: 1) Choose any BLOG post or RORUM thread. Read the post and the comments. Read related posts in the FORUMS. 2) Write a synopsis of what is discussed and what opinions and judgements are expressed. 3) Think of the main issue that will be the beginning of the article. Think of the title of your article. 4) Arrange the data, opinions in the best way. 5) Write your article according to the plan - introduction; data, opinions, fatcs,final statement, conclusion. 6) Reconsider the title. Post on the site.
Hi again! Another task! DEADLINE - 12 MAY. 1) Go to the RSS channel below. Choose and click to read. When you are on the BBC website, choose any category to read (politics, economy, arts, technology, ect.). Read about ten different articles in the same catagory to get informed of what is going on in the world these days. 2) Think how to sum up the read materials in one article of about 500 words. Think of the concepts that unite all of the articles, think of the main conclusion(s) 3) Write your Informative Article. Possible titles: "Do you know that...?", "The world right now", "The world in chaos", "Let it be..." and the like. 4) Insert related pictures, attach links (3-5) the info in which supports your point. 5) Post in the Arcticles section.
This is your new task. DEADLINE - 12 MAY. Be ready to write a research based articleon Emotions and feelings. Follow the stages below. Preparation: 1) Look through the materials in the Group;s Book of Psychology, prepare an annotation of its pages 2) Look through the postings in the Forum on "Our Emotions", prepare a list of issues and topics discussed 3) Go over the postings in Emotions and Feelings Questionnaire, prepare a list of issues discussed 4) Look though all of your notes. Concentrate on facts, statistics, opinions, arguments, conclusions. Writing: 1) Choose: "Uncontrolled Humans", "Two most powerful human emotions", "Express or not to express - that is the questiion", "I want to remain myself", "My world of Emotions" Aim: inform, discuss, suggest, provoke.
Hi, Everyone! Before we finish our discussion on how to improve our site, I really insist you all should continue working online and be more active. Look through everything you've done. You - have become more educated and competent personalities! - have discovered ways how to influence each other though verbalized screen-based thoughts - have initiated a revolution in our department: the first group in the whole UNI that have created their own ENGLISH SPEAKING WORLD and made it a daily culture - have managed to convince school teachers use such technology at schools - have launched a change in the teaching system: thanks to you next year our university will admit 1 year students who already have experience of doing English online. - have provoked a new line of scientific research
Hi, Everyone! People, I feel frustrated at the fact that you have limited your activity on the site. Look through the lasson plans. There are so many things that you haven't done on the site: 1) Some blogs have not been updated for more than a month. 2) Comments on other people's entries are rare 3) The forums are devoid of new postings 4) The Psychology project is sleeping: a) there was a task to supply external links on psychology, b) there was a task to write vocabulary items for the second picture, c) some of you haven't put their psychology test. 5) The grammar section on participle 2 is empty
Guys, another thing which is important for our future studies. I have a few new ideas for our cyberspace discussions. I am now thinking of using new ROLE-PLAYING-GAME services for the purpose of improving your English Language competence and many other purposes that anyone can formulate. You know of many Role Playing Forums online in our country and abroad. So, - Firstly, I want you to explore some of these opportunities on your own so that next year we could start RPG Forums as an online English project. It would be good if you got registered and participated in any of them to get the necessary experience. - Secondly, I would like you to start right now a new thread in our forums or a new forum on what Role Playing Forums are, whether it is a good idea or not, whether it really is a good enviroment for improving communication skills, how long one RPG can last, etc.
Guys, in the Vocabulary of Feelings and Emotions section we have only two photos. The first photo shows you some vocabulary associations. The second photo has none. Please, add vocabulary associations to the photo, two per person.
Hi Everyone! I have been tracking your participation on the site in the NEWS section. Folks, everyone of you has a NEWS posting day. If you haven't posted a few pieces of news, it means that you owe to all of us more news. One piece of news a week is a MUST; more pieces of news is a WISH. Please, do it.
