Midterm

Well done! I have added the grading criteria to the bottom of your essays and will work on grading them over the next few days.

When you have time, please write a reflection of the exam...

How do you feel it went? How was the technology helpful?

How was the technology a barrier to showing what you have learnt?

How did the format of the exam and the question reflect what you have learnt over the semester?

To Cite or not to Cite, that is the Question

When do you need to cite? Make a blog post about the citation rules we covered in class today. Include your personal observations and examples that are meaningful to you.

10 marks for the rules.
20 marks for your personal observations and examples.

Due by next lesson.

Top 5 Google Tricks You Should Know...

Sharing our Google Know How

In groups, create a display for the bulletin boards in the PC Lab, the MAC Lab, Room 212 and the SLMC about how to use Google more efficiently by incorporating the techniques and strategies you have been trying out.

Remember to include when these techniques would be useful, how they are useful and how to use them.

The grading criteria for this are:

• Accurate description of the technique/strategy (5)
• Example of technique/strategy (5)
• Comparison of the Google results obtained using the technique/strategy to the Google results when doing a simple search (5)
• Description of when and why this technique/strategy would be useful in real life (5)

This is for each tip and  you need to include FIVE on your bulletin board.

Then, reflect on your blog about what you've learnt by making and embedding a VOKI!

Logical Fallacy Practice (and formative assessment)

 Over the Eid break please complete the following work:

(A) Choose one of the two unused topics on the Google Spreadsheet and create arguments for or against the topic that include at least one example of each of the 5 fallacies that we have explored in class.

Submit your work through a post on your blog. Each argument is worth 5 marks, the majority of these marks will be awarded for your construction of the fallacy, the remainder will be for your ability to write them well.

(B) Give your classmates feedback on their use of logical fallacies by leaving a comment on the blogposts (for this assignment) of two of your classmates.

Logical Fallacies

We are investigating 5 logical fallacies:

Ad Hominem (Personal Attack)
Appeal to Irrelevant Authority
Appeal to Pity
Hasty Generalisation
False Dilemma

Make copies of the following documents on the shared drive and annotate your copy with your answers to the problems:

Logical Fallacy Practice
Logical Fallacy Analysis

We will have a quiz about the 5 logical fallacies next class and spend some time coming up with our own.

The topics for your Logical Fallacy presentations are available on the shared drive along with the rubric. You will be presenting individually on October 13th.

Embedding your Voki

Your Voki should look like this, not a link!

Asian Women's Leadership University Survey

My name is Mila Devenport and I am with the Asian Women’s Leadership University (AWLU) Project. Together with our academic partner Smith College (one of the original women’s colleges of the U.S.), our organization is in the process of establishing an international, liberal arts and sciences, women’s leadership university based in Malaysia aimed at cultivating a cadre of women leaders from across Asia, the Middle East, Africa and other emerging regions who can advance social, political, and economic development in their home countries and regions.

I am writing you because we are currently conducting an online survey of students in this region and would like to request International School of Islamabad's participation.  The survey is to compile information on how students view this idea of AWLU and takes only 2 minutes to complete online. We would greatly appreciate if you could distribute the survey (using the link below here) to all your female students ages 15-18 years

The survey is conducted online and can be accessed here:

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/V3297XL