Task for 02.11.2009

Hi all,

Our topic for this week was one of the paragraph types - classification paragraph. In our course, you teleported to some places and interviewed with the users of Second Life. At the end of these interviews, you created categories about the use of SL and wrote a paragraph in classroom.

For next week, you will write a classification paragraph about METU students and try to categorize them into groups in terms of different perspectives. After that, you will write a paragraph to your blog. In addition to this, there is no need to mention that you have to write two comments to your friends' blogs.

Next week, we will have a reading text as well and I will publish it here or at Tapped In in a few days. Follow our blog page for the announcement.

See you on Monday,

Best wishes,

Sedat Akayoglu

Task for 19.10.2009 (Reading Text)

As you all know, there were some problems about the sections and our course. Finally, sections were created and teachers were assigned and Section 1 and Section 4 are in my list. This term, we will go on with these sections.

In section 1, we have completed descriptive paragragh and there should be 3 paragraphs on your blog pages (Introduction - SL Snapshot and its description - description of your friend).

In section 4, we have just completed paragraph and there should be only 1 paragraph which is the introduction.

Next week, on 19.10.2009, we will have a reading text and you should come to class having read this text. In order to download the text, please visit our group page at Tapped In. Download and print it out. Students in both sections are responsible for this task.

As for your tasks, I noticed that your introduction entries are too informal. For example, one them starts like "Hey youngssss". You should keep in mind that you will be evaluated for these paragraphs and if you are asked to introduce yourself for a course assignment, you should be more formal. Moreover, I gave information about the content of your introduction paragraphs. Please take this into consideration.

If you still have some questions about anything, you can also send comments to this entry. I will try to do my best to help you.

Best wishes,

Sedat Akayoglu