Topic: Drink Driving
What is drink driving?
Find out at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drink_driving or from the following Singapore Police Force Website
http://driving-in-singapore.spf.gov.sg/services/Driving_in_Singapore/Information/pressandmsg/drinkdriving.htm
Read the lyrics of the following song, "Untitled" at
http://www.metrolyrics.com/lyrics/2144146995/slmple_Plan/Untitled
What situation do you think the lyrics are referring to?
Now watch the MTV, by Simple Plan, of "Untitled" at
http://www.simpleplan.com/untitled/index.html
What is the situation that is being shown in the MTV? Was it different to what you had imagined the situation to be?
Read the following 2 news reports on an actual case of drink driving in Singapore:
http://asia.news.yahoo.com/070119/5/singapore253253.html and
http://asia.news.yahoo.com/070510/5/singapore275329.html
Option 1: (Discussion) Question:
Based on what you have seen and read in the lesson, why do you think people drink and drive? Can anything be done to solve the problem of drink driving?
Option 2: (Narrative) Question: Based on Simple Plan's MTV, write a narrative recount about a situation where a person is involved in a drink driving accident.
Option 3: (Text Types Transference: Factual Recount) Question: Based on Simple Plan's MTV, imagine you are a newspaper reporter that arrived at the scene of the crash. Write a report of the drink driving accident to be published the next day.
Post your answer to one of the above questions in the comments section.
Thursday, August 23, 2007
Is it really worth it?
Let's see...
On the minus side:
Sieving through resources available on the net takes time and effort.
Building up a database of lessons takes time and effort.
You are giving students power, and with the autonomy comes responsibility. Can they handle it? Will they be surfing *objectionable websites*?
On the plus side:
The lessons are available, and repeatable to other students
Easy access from anywhere with an Internet connection.
You can share lessons
You can improve on your lessons
You don't have to print and photocopy. The blog can be your handout.
After you get the hang of it, the technical aspects (e.g. how to post an entry) will not be difficult, it is lesson design that will be challenging.
Still want to give it a shot?
On the minus side:
Sieving through resources available on the net takes time and effort.
Building up a database of lessons takes time and effort.
You are giving students power, and with the autonomy comes responsibility. Can they handle it? Will they be surfing *objectionable websites*?
On the plus side:
The lessons are available, and repeatable to other students
Easy access from anywhere with an Internet connection.
You can share lessons
You can improve on your lessons
You don't have to print and photocopy. The blog can be your handout.
After you get the hang of it, the technical aspects (e.g. how to post an entry) will not be difficult, it is lesson design that will be challenging.
Still want to give it a shot?
What about Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) and websecurity
A good thing about a blog is that it allows you to hyperlink the resources, so when you click on the link, e.g. http://news.bbc.co.uk/
it brings you direct to the web-page. You are not stealing content from anyone and putting it on your site when you hyperlink. You are simply directing the reader to a certain web-page.
Of course, this assumes that the sites and web-pages that you do use are copyright compliant.
Web Security
The blog can only be changed by you and the people that you give authorisation to. For the posting of comments, you can switch between allowing anyone to post to restricting posts only to invited members of your blog.
it brings you direct to the web-page. You are not stealing content from anyone and putting it on your site when you hyperlink. You are simply directing the reader to a certain web-page.
Of course, this assumes that the sites and web-pages that you do use are copyright compliant.
Web Security
The blog can only be changed by you and the people that you give authorisation to. For the posting of comments, you can switch between allowing anyone to post to restricting posts only to invited members of your blog.
Blogs as a tool for feedback
After you have created your lesson, you want a way to get feedback.
This is where the comments feature of the blog comes in handy. Why?
Using the comments feature, you can get your students to give anything from a short answer to a full length essay. Of course all of it in good English.
They also learn from each other because you can select it such that the comments are visible to others.
You can also set the blog to alert you via email whenever a comment (i.e. answer) is posted. Imagine that, virtual homework, submitted online, and your students will never again be able to claim that they lost it or (worst still) that you lost it.
FAQ:
1. What if students cheat by simply cutting and pasting from the answers of other students?
Then the cutting and pasting becomes painfully obvious, as it is not even hidden by differences in handwriting.
2. What if other people try to post rubbish on the blog?
You can prevent people (other than those authorised) from posting comments on the blog. It is under the comments setting of your blog editing screen.
3. What if my students post comments in the name of other students?
You can configure the blog such that all comments must be signed in. It will require some effort to manage, but after that is settled, then all students who post comments will have to sign in using their user name and password.
This is where the comments feature of the blog comes in handy. Why?
Using the comments feature, you can get your students to give anything from a short answer to a full length essay. Of course all of it in good English.
They also learn from each other because you can select it such that the comments are visible to others.
You can also set the blog to alert you via email whenever a comment (i.e. answer) is posted. Imagine that, virtual homework, submitted online, and your students will never again be able to claim that they lost it or (worst still) that you lost it.
FAQ:
1. What if students cheat by simply cutting and pasting from the answers of other students?
Then the cutting and pasting becomes painfully obvious, as it is not even hidden by differences in handwriting.
2. What if other people try to post rubbish on the blog?
You can prevent people (other than those authorised) from posting comments on the blog. It is under the comments setting of your blog editing screen.
3. What if my students post comments in the name of other students?
You can configure the blog such that all comments must be signed in. It will require some effort to manage, but after that is settled, then all students who post comments will have to sign in using their user name and password.
But how do I create lessons?
Even if I wanted to use blogs, where do I find the material out of which to create lessons?
Sources:
Online newspapers like
UK Newspapers:
The Guardian Online: http://www.guardian.co.uk/
The Times and The Sunday Times UK: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/global/
Singapore Newspapers:
Today Online: http://www.todayonline.com/
The New Paper: http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg
News Websites like
BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/
CNN: http://edition.cnn.com/
Video Websites like:
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/
Poetry websites like:
Poetry Archive, http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/home.do
(requires Realplayer installed to listen to the poems)
Poet's Corner: http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/
Poetry for Kids: http://www.poetry4kids.com/
Reference sites like:
Online dictionaries: http://www.dictionary.com/
Online Encyclopedia: http://www.wikipedia.com/
Explaining idioms: http://www.answers.com/library/Idioms-letter-
And you can use search engines like:
Yahoo: http://www.yahoo.com/
Google: http://www.google.com/
to find the content that you need.
Here the teacher's role is to be both sieve and architect, putting together material from the Internet into a package that is pedagogically sound and customised to meet the needs of his/her students.
Sources:
Online newspapers like
UK Newspapers:
The Guardian Online: http://www.guardian.co.uk/
The Times and The Sunday Times UK: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/global/
Singapore Newspapers:
Today Online: http://www.todayonline.com/
The New Paper: http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg
News Websites like
BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/
CNN: http://edition.cnn.com/
Video Websites like:
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/
Poetry websites like:
Poetry Archive, http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/home.do
(requires Realplayer installed to listen to the poems)
Poet's Corner: http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/
Poetry for Kids: http://www.poetry4kids.com/
Reference sites like:
Online dictionaries: http://www.dictionary.com/
Online Encyclopedia: http://www.wikipedia.com/
Explaining idioms: http://www.answers.com/library/Idioms-letter-
And you can use search engines like:
Yahoo: http://www.yahoo.com/
Google: http://www.google.com/
to find the content that you need.
Here the teacher's role is to be both sieve and architect, putting together material from the Internet into a package that is pedagogically sound and customised to meet the needs of his/her students.
Why use blogs?
Blogs, (short for web-logs), there are more than 95 million of them out there.
Blogs are created and maintained by a wide variety of people, for different purposes and catering to different interests.
The issue is, can we use this technology to help us in the classroom?
Yes. because blogs:
1. Are interactive
2. Allow for "at your own time, own pace" learning
3. Allow for think time before response
4. Allow for hyperlinking of resources
5. Are free.
They can contain:
1. Links to resources
2. Lessons for students to follow.
3. Notes
4. Student Feedback (student work)
Issues:
1. Internet Security
2. Intellectual Copyright
Blogs are created and maintained by a wide variety of people, for different purposes and catering to different interests.
The issue is, can we use this technology to help us in the classroom?
Yes. because blogs:
1. Are interactive
2. Allow for "at your own time, own pace" learning
3. Allow for think time before response
4. Allow for hyperlinking of resources
5. Are free.
They can contain:
1. Links to resources
2. Lessons for students to follow.
3. Notes
4. Student Feedback (student work)
Issues:
1. Internet Security
2. Intellectual Copyright
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