Dear all,
I hope that you found the lecture today useful. Steve's blog (if any of you missed the address) is selfstudying.blogspot.com. You'll find more links to globalisation information here.
For the poster presentations tomorrow, the texts I gave you (1 per group) were:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jul/31/economy.globalisation
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6279679.stm
http://www.globalpolicy.org/globaliz/cultural/2006/1019threerounds.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/events/reith_99/week1/week1.htm
And p52-54 in your yellow booklet.
Well done all of you who have your blogs up and running now - they look great. Keep them up!
From the tutorials last Friday, it is clear that lots of you have plenty of time pressures at the moment, with trying to find places to live or working in the afternoons as well as studying. Hopefully things should get easier this week as you get more settled into London (for new arrivals). Aim to prioritise what you have to do (your most urgent priority study-wise is getting your draft ready for Friday - more about this in class tomorrow). Also remember that self-study can be flexible. For example, if you are working and using English in your job, that forms part of English language practice (try to write a diary/blog entry noting when you're using English outside class). If you are visiting London, again write about this in your self-study - it's a useful linguistic and cultural experience.
Thanks for filling in the new student questionnaires on Friday. A few things that came up:
Conversation club: if you didn't know, it's 3-4 on Wednesday in room LC111. It's optional, but please try to attend if speaking is one of the areas you need to improve. Keep a note on your blog/self-study diary of when you go/what you discuss. Discussions with flatmates/other students could also be mentioned on your blog as part of self-study.
Social programme: information can be found on the noticeboard on the first floor of the learning centre or on the social programme blog (on my bloglist).
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Tuesday, 26 August 2008
Thursday, 21 August 2008
Canterbury, Self-study class Friday 22nd
Here are a few tasks for you to try to complete during the self-study/tutorial class (and to finish off over the weekend if you don't have time today):
1. Complete the new student questionnaire so that you're ready to discuss any issues during your tutorial.
2. Take a look at the blogs set up by other students - are there any good ideas you can take for globalisation research and/or self-study ideas?
3. If you haven't already set up a blog and you'd like to do so, set one up during the class. If you've already set one up, help someone else to do so.
4. Update your blog with any recent self-study you've been doing. Include weblinks to any articles you've read or online exercises you've done, together with a comment/opinion.
5. Explore Weblearn (particularly the self-study tools) - mention any links you use on your blog.
6. Use the 'Undergraduate courses' link on Weblearn to find out more about your Undergraduate course, particularly the modules you'll follow, the reading list and the course leader - try to email/contact your course leader to arrange to meet them before your course starts for further advice.
7. If you have time, try to write a paragraph reflecting on your first week at the university (on paper or on your blog). Has it been as you expected? What's been difficult/easy/interesting/boring/surprising? Have you attended the conversation club or any social events? Who have you met? What are you going to focus on doing next week?
That's it!
1. Complete the new student questionnaire so that you're ready to discuss any issues during your tutorial.
2. Take a look at the blogs set up by other students - are there any good ideas you can take for globalisation research and/or self-study ideas?
3. If you haven't already set up a blog and you'd like to do so, set one up during the class. If you've already set one up, help someone else to do so.
4. Update your blog with any recent self-study you've been doing. Include weblinks to any articles you've read or online exercises you've done, together with a comment/opinion.
5. Explore Weblearn (particularly the self-study tools) - mention any links you use on your blog.
6. Use the 'Undergraduate courses' link on Weblearn to find out more about your Undergraduate course, particularly the modules you'll follow, the reading list and the course leader - try to email/contact your course leader to arrange to meet them before your course starts for further advice.
7. If you have time, try to write a paragraph reflecting on your first week at the university (on paper or on your blog). Has it been as you expected? What's been difficult/easy/interesting/boring/surprising? Have you attended the conversation club or any social events? Who have you met? What are you going to focus on doing next week?
That's it!
Sunday, 17 August 2008
Creating a self-study blog
Creating a blog is really, really easy.
You can either go to blogger.com and just follow the instructions there, or if you want, you can first watch this little video on youtube (it's only 2 minutes long) which gives extra assistance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU4gXHkejMo
As you can see, creating a blog takes only a minute on blogger.com, and can easily post (i.e. write) stuff on your blog. Here's another video about how to do this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdqXLzvg-kM).
Once your blog is ready, you can send me your blog address (mine is http://susainlondon.blogspot.com/). You can also put links to all your classmates' blogs on your blog. Here's a video about how to do that: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY5cMEOl9Js.
VERY IMPORTANT: Please make sure you turn off the automatic word-verification tool for comments on your blog. You can find out how to do this here. Otherwise, anytime you or someone else wants to leave a comment on a blog, you'd have to type in a long list of letters and numbers which can be very frustrating!Hope this helps to get you blogging!
You can either go to blogger.com and just follow the instructions there, or if you want, you can first watch this little video on youtube (it's only 2 minutes long) which gives extra assistance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU4gXHkejMo
As you can see, creating a blog takes only a minute on blogger.com, and can easily post (i.e. write) stuff on your blog. Here's another video about how to do this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdqXLzvg-kM).
Once your blog is ready, you can send me your blog address (mine is http://susainlondon.blogspot.com/). You can also put links to all your classmates' blogs on your blog. Here's a video about how to do that: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY5cMEOl9Js.
VERY IMPORTANT: Please make sure you turn off the automatic word-verification tool for comments on your blog. You can find out how to do this here. Otherwise, anytime you or someone else wants to leave a comment on a blog, you'd have to type in a long list of letters and numbers which can be very frustrating!Hope this helps to get you blogging!
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