Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Academic and Research Vice-rector

Activities guide and evaluation rubric

1. General description of the course

Faculty or Vicerrectora de Relaciones Internacionales

Academic Unit
Academic Level Professional, Especialization, Master
Academic Field Formacin interdisciplinar bsica comn
Course Name English 2
Course Code 90021
Course Type Methodological - Can be yes No
practical enabled
Number of Credits 2

2. Description of the activity

Number
Type of the
Individual Collaborative of 6
activity:
weeks
Moment of Unit
Initial Final
evaluation: Intermediate:
Delivery Environment of the
Evaluative score of the
activity: Monitoring and evaluation
activity: 95 points
environment
Starting date of the activity: Deadline of the activity: October
September 7th 19th
Competence to develop:
Give a personal recommendation concerning a group mate. Write
about a group recommendation for a job offer.
Produce a labor projection and create an actual life situation which
implies communicative abstract thinking.
Topics to develop:
Imperatives, recommendations with should, modal verbs,
subjunctive, simple past, expressing wishes and desires.
Steps, phases of the learning strategy to develop
Task based learning. The student uses His/er English in a particular
communicative context, in order to carry out a task: planning,
describing, inviting, summarizing, etc. The construction of this work,
will count with the orientation and accompaniment from the e-
mediator.
Activities to develop

Stage 1 Giving advice & Getting a job:

Fill in the form

Check out the website: https://resumegenius.com/resume-

samples according to the examples, develop your own resume
taking into account your professional field. Upload the resume to
the forum.

Remarks: You can fill the items with real or pretend

information. If you dont have any experience you can create
one.

Stage 2 Writing a recommendation paragraph

Write recommendations to a possible employer picking up one of

your mates resume, highlighting the interests, the skills and the
work experience. In order to succeed in this activity, study Unit
1 & Unit 2 located in Knowledge Environment. Minimum 7 lines.

I.e. Dear Mr. Thompson I would like to introduce Mrs.

Parrado. She is a responsible person and is highly skilled in
the field of informatics and you should take her into
account to be part of your staff members she may.
For further information about recommendations letters go to:

http://blog.prepscholar.com/9-letter-of-recommendation-samples

Stage 3 Select a role:

From the roles for the collaborative work select one of them
and explain your strengths and weakness related.

Stage 4 Write a group recommendation for a job:

Imagine there is a job opportunity for a group of 5 people. Write

a group recommendation in which you as a team highlight all the
participants skills to get that job. Be creative and in a minimum
of 10 lines ask to be employed by the firm, business, enterprise
or so on. Remember that the recommendation is one that must
be written by all the participants.

The construction process must be reflected in the forum of the

activity; if you use drive, you can share the link in this space.

Example:
I.e. Dear Mr. Trump. We would like to present
ourselves as the team you might need for the
construction of the wall. Miss Gobronidze is highly
skilled in concrete surfaces, besides, she can work for
long periods under extreme weather conditions. Mr.
Novoa is the best at designing, so we can assure you
will have a great structure. Mrs. Barreto is an expert
in leading large amount of people so the construction
process will be according to scheduled

Stage 5 Consolidate the information:

In a word document or PPT consolidate all the information uploaded by

each student, stages 1, 2 & 4.
Stage 6 Upload the final product

Transform the consolidated document into a PDF format and upload

the final product in the Monitoring & Evaluation Environment.
Collaborative learning environment. Unit 2 - Getting
Environment a job! - Act. 3. Writing task forum
for the
development Monitoring and Evaluation Environment. Unit 2 - Act.
3. Writing task forum Assignment
Individual:
1. Check the web page https://resumegenius.com/
and build your resume. Share your resume in
the forum of the activity.
2. Write a recommendation to a possible employer
based in the resume shared by one of your
group mates in the forum. Minimum 7 lines.
3. Select a role for the collaborative work and
describe strengths and weaknesses in the
forum.

Collaborative:
Products to 4. Create a group recommendation where the most
deliver by representative characteristics of each participant
student are highlighted. The recommendation is a group
construction and only one has to be delivered.
5. Consolidate stages 1, 2 & 4 with the
participants.
6. Upload the final product. The product must
have:
Title page with the name of the
participants.
Objectives.
Stages 1, 2 & 4.
Conclusions.
Bibliography.
 General guidelines for the collaborative work

Planning of
In order to do an adequate planning for the
activities for
collaborative work you can follow the following
the
instructions given in the following link:
development
of
http://consejeria.unad.edu.co/cajaherramientas/mane
collaborative
jo_campus_trabajo_colaborativo.html
work
Roles to
Compiler
perform by
Copy Editor
the student
Evaluator
in the
Uploader
collaborative
Time watcher
group
Roles Function
Compiler Consolidate the final
product document,
taking into account the
participants who
uploaded their
contributions and took
part of the whole
process.
Copy editor To verify that the final
Roles and
paper and process meet
responsibilit
all the requirements
y for the
stipulated by the guide of
delivery of
the activity.
products by
Evaluator To verify that the final
students
paper meets the criteria
stipulated by the rubric.
The evaluator must
inform the group about
any corrections or
adjustments regarding
the quality of the
document.
Uploader To keep track and inform
the group about the
 submission time, upload
the final paper on time,
using the link provided
by the teacher or
stipulated by the activity
guide. To notify the
group members the final
paper was submitted.
Time watcher To notify all the group
members about changes
or news related to the
submission or
elaboration of the final
paper. To notify the
teacher through the
collaborative forum and
the course messaging
that the final paper was
submitted
Use of
http://normasapa.net/normas-apa-2016/
references
Check the following link to watch all the related to this
Plagiarism topic within UNAD:
policy
http://conssahagun.blogspot.com.co/p/netiquetas.ht
ml

4. Evaluation rubric

Evaluation rubric

Activity Individual Collaborati

type: Activity ve Activity
Moment
Unit
of the
Initial Intermedi Final
evaluatio
ate:
n
Assessed Performance levels of the individual
Score
Aspects activity
 High score Media score Low score
Build resume
in compliance
with the
models Upload the
proposed, resume but
Do not upload
according to orthographic
the resume.
schedule. The and
Although
Resume final product punctuation
uploads
construct takes into errors are 20
resume, it is
ion account shown. Do not points
not within the
grammar take into
last 3 days.
aspects and account model
related proposed.
vocabulary in
the knowledge
environment.
(up to 20 (up to 13 (up to 7
points) points) points)
Although
recommends a
Do not upload
The group mate for
the
recommendati a job, the
recommendatio
on given is product is not
n of a partner.
based on a based on any
The
partners resume form
recommendatio
resume, takes their partner.
n does not take
into account The
Group into account
the vocabulary recommendati
mate the information 20
and grammar on does not
recomme given by the points
related in take into
ndation group mate.
knowledge account the
The delivery of
Environment. vocabulary or
the
The grammar
recommendatio
recommendati related. The
n takes place
on has no or product has
during the last
very few grammar,
3 days of
errors. orthographic
deadline.
or punctuation
errors.
 (up to 20 (up to 13 (up to 7
points) points) points)
The final
The final The final
product
product product does
contains some
contains not contain the
of the
vocabulary and grammatical
grammar and
grammar and vocabulary 20
Grammar vocabulary
aspects related related in the points
aspects aspects related
in Knowledge knowledge
in Knowledge
environment. Environment.
environment.
(up to 20 (up to 13 (up to 7
points) points) points)
Performance levels of the collaborative
Assessed
activity Score
Aspect
High score Media score Low score
The text has The text does
The text has
the activitys not have the
the activitys
structure activitys
structure and
Cohesion although it structure and
follows all the 10
and does not follow does not follow
guides points
coherenc some guides guides
instructions
e instructions. instructions.
(Up to 10 (Up to 7 (Up to 3
points) points) points)
The student The student
The student
select a role does not select
select a role,
but does not a role. Selects
refers to his/er
refer to a role but does
strengths and
strengths and not accomplish
weaknesses
weaknesses. the functions
Collabor and 15
Accomplish related. Does
ative accomplish all points
some of the not take into
work the functions
functions account
related to the
related to the partners
chosen role.
chosen role. contributions.
(Up to 15 (Up to 10 (Up to 5
points) points) points)
 The product The product The product
totally partially totally
accomplish the accomplish the accomplish the
guides guides guides
requirements: requirements: requirements:
Title page Title page Title page
with the name with the name with the name
Text
of the of the of the 10
presenta
participants. participants. participants. points
tion
Objectives. Objectives. Objectives.
Stages 1, 2 & Stages 1, 2 & Stages 1, 2 &
4. 4. 4.
Conclusions. Conclusions. Conclusions.
Bibliography. Bibliography. Bibliography.
(Up to 10 (Up to 7 (Up to 3
points) points) points)
Final score 95 points