LA SALLE UNIVERSITY BA IN SPANISH, ENGLISH, AND

FRENCH LITERACIES AND ELT - SECOND TERM PROJECT

NAMES: Lina Ma Fonseca
Danna L Cuervo A

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Case 3
Population: Seventh semester pre-service English teachers, private university in Bogota.
Number of students: 28 students (14 young women and 14
young men). Age: 19 to 22 years old.
Classroom characteristics:
The room is comfortable and looks neat.
Equipment and internet available at times.
Circle Arrangement.
Classes are from 6:00 am to 6:45 a.m. They study two times a week: Mondays and Fridays.
Most students have taken pedagogy and didactics classes. They are technology
enthusiasts. Students are eager to try innovating projects.
Language level:
Students can understand the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered in
work, school, leisure, etc. They can deal with most situations likely to arise whilst travelling in an area where
the language is spoken. They can produce a simple connected text on topics, which are familiar, or of personal
interest. They can describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes and ambitions and briefly give reasons and
explanations for opinions and plans.

English sample unit format

Unit overview:
The students will be able to recognize the difference
between digital and printed magazines and create a
digital magazine based on the resources (articles,
blogs and videos) through a collaborative work.

Overall aims or objective (language,

communication, and learning)
The students will be able to create a digital magazine
addressing the idea of a product made by students for
students. The unit will be based on a collaborative
approach in which they will use different strategies to
develop their topic.

Assessment:
The final product will be assessed according the
following criteria.

Anticipated problems

1. Accurate information and usage of

veridic sources
2. Use of innovative and creative
strategies to present the topic
3. Visual distribution of the magazine
based on the prameters proposed by visual
literacy.

-The usage of internet and computers to access and

work on the platform.
-The usage of the accurate content for a specific
population.
- Time and tight schedule for collaborative work.
- Autonomous search and learning. Distribution of
time.
- Lack of knowledge (concepts and definitions)

Lesson aim or
objective

Stages and main procedures

Resources

Lesson 1.
Students are
capable of
recognize what is a
Digital Magazine,
its elements and
purpose

Introduction of the topic What is a

digital magazine

Articles:
http://www.mequoda.com/articles/digitalmagazine-publishing/lets-clarify-digitalmagazine/
http://elpub.architexturez.net/system/files/pdf/
109_elpub2012.content.pdf
Video: Digital Magazines: Whats Next?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=qv5XeDEp_B0

Lesson 2.
Students will be
able to recognize
the difference
between digital and
printed magazines

Knowing the difference between a

digital magazine and a printed
magazine.

Lesson 3.
Student will be able
to search and know
how the blog works
and the tools that
are provided for the
creation of the
magazine through a
collaborative work.

Bring different examples about free

blogs and how they work. Then we
will focus on wix web blog page and
the tools that they have for develop
and reach the magazine.

Collaborative Work: Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=NsndhCQ5hRY

*Introduction to the platform:

www.wix.com
* Practice time on wix

Wix Tutorial For Beginners 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=qv5XeDEp_B0

Class will be divided in five topics:

*Newspaper on web made by kids and

teenagers.
http://www.firstnews.co.uk/

Lesson 4.
Students will be
able to pick the
main topic for the
magazine and start
to work on the
platform,
submitting updated
information about
the topic using
different sources.

Lesson 5.
Students will be
able to design a
interview based on
the topic that they
choose and record

Group revision of the articles and

video,

http://blog.realviewdigital.com/epublishingdigital-magazine-designs-digital-publishing

Presentation of examples:
-Digital magazine
-Printed magazine

*Politics
*Environment
*Education
*Culture
*Technology

Draft made by students in relation to the topic

selected.

Students will select a topic and they

will recognize the impact and
importance of developing the topic
for a young population and the
importane of it in education

Students will pick up an specialist

related to its topic and then they are
going to read the most important
strategies that they have to take into
account in the design of the questions
for the interview. Finally they will

* Tips for create interviews on blogs

http://www.incomediary.com/10-tips-creatingawesome-interviews-blog
Web magazine that only works on interviews
http://www.interviewmagazine.com/#_

on real time video

for upload on the
magazine as a part
of it.

browse on a blog that only works

with interviewers and interviews.

Lesson 6
Students will be
able to recognize
types of images that
increase the
psychological
impact of your
content

Students listen an interview for stay

clear about the importance of visual
literacy. Then they read about
different kinds of images looking for
impact process on readers.

Lesson 7
Student will be able
to recognize the
impact that photos
have on blogs and
how to download
without paying.

Students see a video refered to

download images for free and post
them on a blog (quality images - size
- content - etc)

* VIDEO: Where To Find Images For Blogs

and Blog Posts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOjOgAqT1k

Lesson 8
Student will be able
to organize the
information that
they already have
to the blog
following a logical
order. Distribution
on the blog and
relevant
information.

Students will have the time to

organize and decide which
information in more appropriate for
the blog and its topic. Filtering and
organizing.

* Where To Find Images For Blogs and Blog

Posts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOjOgAqT1k

Lesson 9
Student will be able
to recognize the
impact that photos
and content have on
blogs and how to
download without
paying.

Students will present and explain to

the class the purpose of the content
selected and how that content is
relevant for the topic and for the
readers.

* Where To Find Images For Blogs and Blog

Posts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOjOgAqT1k

Pedagogical and
theoretical rationale

*Interview video: edutopia: SCORSESE,

Martin. The importance of visual literacy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=I90ZluYvHic
* Blog
http://www.copyblogger.com/powerfulimages/

In general terms we consider that the creation of a digital magazine its

important to take into account different topics that will help the students to
create a product with a pedagogical purpose using multimodal and visual
literacies as a way to engage different types of public, in this specific scenario
for academic usage. In addition the fact of using a collaborative approach in
which they will be able to share and submit information and doing a feedback

of the whole class work will generate the skills to be a literate person.