Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Academic and Research Vice-Rector

Activity Guide and Evaluation Rubric
Task 2 – Magazine

1. General Description of the Course

Faculty or Escuela de Ciencias de la Educación

Academic Unit
Academic Level Profesional
Academic Field Formación disciplinar
Course Name English III
Course Code 518008
Course Type Methodological Retake Yes ☐ No ☒
Exam
Number of Credits 3

2. Description of the Activity

Type of Number of
Individual ☐ Collaborative ☒ 4
Activity: Weeks
Evaluation
Initial ☐ Intermediate ☒ Final ☐
Moment:
Environment to Submit the
Total Score of the Activity:
Activity: Monitoring and Evaluation
45 points
Environment
Starting Date of the Deadline of the Activity:
Activity: Feb 15th, 2020 Mar 9th, 2020
Competences to Develop:
The student identifies, organizes and interprets the ideas, data, and
explicit concepts in text, considering the context in which it was
generated to define the most appropriate linguistic structures and
vocabulary for each specific communicative situation. Evaluates a text
by comparing its contexts with others, depending on their previous
knowledge and to identify new vocabulary and grammatical structures
to enrich their knowledge.
Topics to Develop:
Noun clauses, reported speech. Telling past events. Reported speech
forms.
Steps, Phase or Stage of the Learning Strategy to Develop
Collaborative
Part 1. Go to Collaborative Learning environment and open guide and
rubric for task 2: To construct a magazine about human disasters and
conspiracies.

Part 2. Do the task, following, step by step, the instructions from the
guide.

Part 3. Go to Evaluation and Assessment environment and upload the

final work in the place created for it
Activities to Develop

The Magazine of 9-11 conspiracy

In this activity, students will have an oral forum on a controversial

topic: the 9-11 conspiracy theories, and then, they will construct a
magazine about it.

Watch the documentary September 11: The New Pearl Harbor (2013)
by Massimo Mazzucco. It is a free documentary and you can watch it
on YouTube:

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1GCeuSr3Mk
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7mDXHn_byA
Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DegLpgJmFL8

Synopsis: "September 11 - The New Pearl Harbor" is a 5-hour

documentary that summarizes 12 years of public debate on 9/11.
While aimed primarily at a general, uninformed audience, the film also
contains some new findings that may be of interest to advanced
researchers.

Collaborative activity:

After watching the documentary, students must agree to meet online

on Skype to have a 40-minute speaking forum. The meeting on Skype
must be recorded, uploaded to YouTube and published in the
collaborative activity forum.
Record meeting on Skype Tutorial:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2LEjjov8NU

You must update Skype to the last version. After you record the
meeting, you download the video and upload it to YouTube so you can
publish it to the collaborative forum.

In the Skype meeting, you must socialize about the next questions by
giving arguments to each answer:

• Could the US Air Force have prevented the attacks?

• Were the Twin Towers deliberately demolished by explosives?
• Were some people forewarned about the attacks?
• Was the Pentagon really hit by an airplane?
• Could the attacks have been prevented?
• Was Osama Bin Laden really captured and killed?
• Was 9-11 caused by the American government on purpose?

Every student must participate. Language structures, pronunciation,

fluency and clarity will be graded.

After the meeting, create a magazine using the tool Flipsnack

https://www.flipsnack.com/es/ .
Tutorial Flipsnack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgpDXzwxpFs

The written contributions for the magazine must be uploaded to the

activity forum to keep track on the advance. All students must
participate in the Skype forum and contribute with the written parts.
The group gets into an agreement for the writing contributions
Environmen
ts for the
Developme Monitoring and Evaluation Environment
nt of the
Activity
Individual:
Products to
be
No individual products to be submitted in this activity.
Submitted
by Students
Collaborative: 45 points.
 • Word file as follows:
-Cover page (name, course info, tutor name, date).
-Magazine link

The magazine must contain:

• Cover
• Page with authors and course data.
• Presentation of the magazine. 100 words.
• Introduction to the topic: Human disasters:
Conspiracies. 200 words.
• Article: 9-11 Conspiracy. (1500 words). The
article must describe the discussion about the
conspiracy theory of 9-11 you had on Skype.
PD: It is fundamental that the language here is
focused on the use of Reported Speech forms,
perfect tenses and conditionals.
• Conclusions of the discussion. 100 words.
• Glossary. At least 15 terms about disasters
vocabulary.
Important: Use images or graphics with the proper
copyright pointed out.
Total average of words: 1800 - 2000
Once it is finished, upload a Word or PDF file with the
link to the magazine in the corresponding link in the
evaluation environment.

3. General Guidelines for the Collaborative Work

Collaborative learning is a strategy that allows

students to work together in order to achieve a
Planning of common goal. Accordingly, the collaborative
Activities for the work proposed for the course is based on a
Development of structured and planned process that includes
Collaborative individual and group activities, as well as
Work interaction and socialization in the virtual
classroom.
1. Explore the syllabus of the course.
 2. Make several readings of the activity guide
and the evaluation rubric for each of the units of
individual and collaborative work.
3. All the activities that are carried out for the
development of the activity should be reflected
within the course through the different media
and especially in the forum of each activity,
since the interaction; if they work by Skype or
other means they should evidence it in the
forum with screenshots.
4. Be in constant communication with the
colleagues and tutor during the development of
activities.
5. In case of any concern, ask the tutor or the
colleagues with time, using the various
communication channels arranged in the course.
6. Enter the contributions with time for the
Timely feedback from peers and tutor.
7. Establish a schedule of activities within each
forum and a table of roles and functions for
meet during the development of each activity.
Different roles are proposed within the
collaborative environment, which allow an
appropriate space for academic growth and
effective interaction that promotes learning and
interpersonal relationships. Every student will
take up one of these roles for the development
of the course assignments and can only be
Roles to Be
changed if decided by the group members.
Performed by the
Facilitator: Makes sure that every voice is
Student in the
heard and focuses work around the learning
Collaborative
task. Provides leadership and direction for the
Group
group and suggests solutions to team problems.
Recorder: Keeps a public record of the team's
ideas and progress. Checks to be sure that ideas
are clear and accurate.
Time keeper: Encourages the group to stay on
task. Announces when time is halfway through
and when time is nearly up.
 Planner: States an action for the completion of
the task at hand according to the instructions
and course agenda.
Task monitor: Looks for supplies or requests
help from the teacher when group members
agree that they do not have the resources to
solve the problem.
Compiler: Puts together the final product and
includes the work done only by those who
participated on time. Informs the student in
charge of alerts about people who did not
participate and will not be included in the final
product.
Reviser/Editor: Makes sure the written work
follows all the criteria established in the activity
guide.
Roles and Duties
Evaluator: Evaluates the final document to
for the
ensure it follows the evaluation criteria of the
Submission of
rubric and informs the student in charge of
Products by
alerts about any changes that need to be made
Students
before delivering the product.
Deliveries: Student in charge of informing
about the dates set for presenting each task and
delivering the final product according to the
course agenda. Also informs other students that
the final product has been sent.
Alerts: Informs group participants about any
news in the work being done and reports the
delivery of the final product to the course tutor.
All references considered for this activity have to
References
be cited using APA Style
Students must be aware of the risks and
penalties in case of plagiarism.

Under the Academic Code of Conduct, the

Plagiarism Policy
actions that infringe the academic order, among
others, are the following: paragraph e)
"Plagiarism is to present as your own work all or
part of a written report, task or document of
invention carried out by another person. It also
 implies the use of citations or lack of references,
or it includes citations where there is no match
between these and the reference" and
paragraph f) " To reproduce, or copy for profit,
educational resources or results of research
products, which have rights reserved for the
University ". (Acuerdo 029 - 13 De Diciembre de
2013, Artículo 99)

The academic penalties that the student will face

are:

a) In case of academic fraud demonstrated in

the academic work or evaluation, the score
obtained will be zero (0.0) without any
disciplinary measures being derived.
b) In case of proven plagiarism in academic
work of any nature, the score obtained will be
zero (0.0), without any disciplinary measures
being derived.

To learn how to properly cite all your tasks, see

the following:
BibMe. (n.d.). APA Citation Guide. Retrieved
from http://www.bibme.org/citation-guide/apa/

4. Evaluation Rubric

Evaluation Rubric
Task 2 – Magazine
Activity Collaborative
Individual Activity ☐ ☒
Type: Activity
Evaluation Intermediate
Initial ☐ ☒ Final ☐
Moment Unit X
Evaluated Performance Levels of the Individual Activity
Score
Items High Score Average Score Low Score
Developmen The student The student The student
t of demonstrates demonstrates demonstrates 7 points
interpretativ ability to identify little ability to many difficulties
e and understand identify and to identify and
competence the fundamental understand ideas understand ideas
ideas of the of the conspiracy of the conspiracy
conspiracy documentary. documentary.
documentary.
(Up to 7 points) (Up to 4 points) (Up to 2 points)
The student
The student The student did
Developmen participated in the
participated in the not participate in
t of Skype forum
Skype forum the Skype
argumentati session with
session with fair session. 10 points
ve accurate and clear
contributions.
competence contributions.
(Up to 10
(Up to 5 points) (0 points)
points)
Evaluated Performance Levels of the Collaborative Activity
Score
Items High Score Average Score Low Score
The student The student The student
demonstrates demonstrates demonstrates
ability to little ability to many difficulties
synthesize and synthesize and to synthesize and
Developmen propose, clearly, propose, clearly, propose, clearly,
t of elements which elements which elements which 8 points
propositive can generate can generate can generate
competence content for the content for the content for the
magazine. magazine. magazine.
( Up to 2
( Up to 8 points) ( Up to 4 points)
points)
The student The student
uploaded his/her brought his/her The student just
work and was work in the forum brought his/her
active in the but his/her
Interaction work and didn´t
Skype forum to contributions and
with the interact with
develop the inputs were not 10 points
group magazine. deep. his/her group
mates.

( Up to 10 ( Up to 3
( Up to 5 points)
points) points)
 The student The student
demonstrates demonstrates
ability to identify little ability to The student
the main identify the main didn´t upload
elements of the elements of the his-her written
Developmen contribution.
t of written conspiracy and conspiracy and to 10 points
part gives his-her give his-her
contribution for contribution for
the magazine. the magazine.
(Up to 10
(Up to 5 points) (Up to 0 points)
points)
Final Score 45 points