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Date

  Task(s)

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Subscribing to the group

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8 to 12

Personal Introductions (8 to 9)

    1. Write two to three introductory paragraphs about

        yourself, so that we can know a little about you.

    2. Consider a few of the following key words when

        posting your personal introduction to our group:

hometown; family; learning experiences; interests; job; hobies, values. dreams; expectations

Group Interaction (10 to 12)

    Read the introductions by your classmates and post

    a response to two different class members. NOTE:

    You can post a response to any class member who

    does not have two responses already posted. Please

    do not post a third response to a person until each

    course member has received two posted responses.

    You can ask them for further information about

    themselves.

15 to 19

  SEARCH ENGINES

 http://www.google.co.uk/help/basics.html

http://www.google.co.uk/help/refinesearch.html

http://www.google.co.uk/help/features.html

  Surf the links above and

  a) make a summary of the most important Google

      Web Search Features;

  b) use different strategies to find out information

      about one of the following topics: CALL; Online

      language learning; hypertext; English online; free

      homepages;  blogs; internet, etc

     Send a report to our discussion list including

     your summary  and your search results.

Read and comment your classmates' reports.

22  to 26

  SEARCH ENGINES

Compare the following search engines:

http://www.ask.com/

http://www.findarticles.com/

http://www.alltheweb.com/

       Find out information about "language functions".

      Make a report about the main features of the three

      search engines and include a list of the most important

      information pieces you found about language functions.

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September

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SEARCH TEXTS, IMAGES AND SOUNDS

Suggested sites for images:

http://www.clipart.com/en/

http://office.microsoft.com/clipart

http://tell.fll.purdue.edu/JapanProj//FLClipart/

Suggested sites for sounds:

http://www.ehow.com/how_9444_find-cool-sounds.html

http://www.fozzy42.com/SoundClips.html

http://www.findsounds.com/index.html

29 to 31

     1. Try to find out other good sites for images

         and sounds and share them with your classmates.

1 to 2

    2. Choose one language function to learn or teach

 and select multimidia  material for that.

Organize the material in a word file. Attach it to

 an e-mail message and send it to our group.