Universidad Nacional Abierta y a Distancia

Academic and Research Vice-rector

Task 5 – Poster design

1. General description of the course

Faculty or Vicerrectoría de Relaciones Internacionales

Academic Unit
Academic Level Undergraduate programs, Graduate programs
Academic Field Common basic interdisciplinary training
Course Name English A2
Course Code 900002
Course Type Methodological Can be re- yes ☐ No ☒
opened
Number of Credits 3

2. Description of the activity

Number
Type of the
Individual ☒ Collaborative ☐ of 4
activity:
weeks
Moment of Intermediate,
Initial ☐ ☒ Final ☐
evaluation: unit 3
Delivery Environment: Monitoring and
Evaluative score: 70 pts
Evaluation
Starting date: October 14th, 2019 Closing date: November 16th, 2019
Competence to develop:
At the end of this lesson you will be able to:
 Respond to and make polite requests.
 Use modal verbs to express obligation and necessity.
 Express abilities and skills.
 The student can design his/her own poster.

Topics to develop:
 Obligation and necessity (Have to, need to, must)
 Ability and skills (Can, could, be able to)
 Advice (should, ought to, had better)
 Possibility and probability (may, might, would, could)
Phases of the learning strategy to develop:

 You will develop this task in the Technological forum.

 You will collect the evidence of the task in a poster.
 It is important to post all the activities in the forum in order to get feedback
from your classmates and tutor.

Estimado estudiante:

En esta guía usted encontrará las pautas necesarias para realizar su producto final, el cual será:
un poster con 8 recomendaciones acerca del buen use del celular en casa u oficina.

Es necesario que usted desarrolle los ejercicios de los contenidos en línea (Entorno de
conocimiento), dado que cada uno de ellos está relacionado con cada aspecto planteado en esta
guía de trabajo.

Phase 1: Listen to the video Phone Invasion and answer the questions.
Phase 2: Write in the forum 8 recommendations about how to use smartphones
correctly in your office or in your home.
Phase 3: Design a poster about the ways you can use your smartphone effectively
Phase 4: Submit the final document in the Evaluation Environment
Activities to carry out:

Phase 1: Listen to the video Phone Invasion

To do list 14th to 23th October

Listen to the video Phone Invasion and answer the following questions in the forum.

How much do you use your smartphone? Will you change anything about
how you use your smartphone after listening this information?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qikLJy8sfEk
Phase 2: How to use smartphones correctly in your office or your home
To do list 24th October to 06th November

After listening to the video, you will write in the forum 8 recommendations about
how to use smartphones correctly in your office or your home.

Phase 3: Design your poster

To do list 7th to 13th November

According to the previous phase, you will design a poster where you collect the
steps of the task.

Keep in mind:

 All good posters will include a title

 All good posters will include visual elements.
 Add compelling photos and graphics.
 Choose the right size.

Phase 4: Submit the final product in the Monitoring environment.

To do list 14th to 16th November

The final product must be sent individually in the monitoring and evaluation
environment in a PDF document.

Environment for Collaborative environment

the development Monitoring and evaluation environment
Products to
The final product must be sent individually in the
deliver by
Evaluation and Monitoring Environment in a PDF document.
student

General guidelines for the collaborative work

Individual: Each student has to develop the steps of

Planning of
the task and post the evidence in the forum.
activities for
The final product must be sent in the Evaluation and
the
Monitoring Environment.
development
Collaborative: Each student must give feedback to
of
one of his/her partners.
collaborative
Each student is responsible for his/her process.
work
Roles to
perform by Each student must give feedback to one of his/her
the student partners. The comments should remark mistakes,
in the aspects to improve and contribute to the debate.
collaborative Each student is responsible for his/her process.
group
Roles and
responsibiliti Each student must give feedback to one of his/her
es for the partners.
delivery of Each student is responsible for his/her process.
products
It is necessary to use the APA standards in order to
Use of
provide a bibliography of the sources cited in the
references
document.
In the agreement 029 of December 13, 2013, article
99, the mistakes that infringe upon the academic
order, among others, are the following: paragraph e)
“To plagiarize is to present as your own work the
Plagiarism
whole or part of a writing, report, task or document of
policy
invention performed by another person. It also implies
the use of cites or lack of references, or includes cites
where there is no coincidence between them and the
reference” and paragraph f)”To reproduce, or copy for
profit, educational resources or results of research
 products, which have intellectual rights reserved for
the University”.

The academic punishments that the student will face

are:
a) In case of academic fraud proved in the
academic work or evaluation, the score achieved will
be zero (0.0) without leading to disciplinary measures.
b) In case of plagiarism proved in the academic
work of any nature, the score achieved will be zero
(0.0), without leading to disciplinary measures.

To know how the documents must be cited, check the

following document:
Centro de Escritura Javeriano ( ) Normas APA. Sexta
edición. Taken from
http://centrodeescritura.javerianacali.edu.co/index.ph
p?option=com_content&view=article&id=138:normas-
apa&catid=45:referencias-bibliograficas&Itemid=

4. Evaluation rubric

Evaluation rubric
Activity Individual Collaborative
☒ ☐
type: Activity Activity
Moment of
Intermediate
the Initial ☐ ☒ Final ☐
Unit 3
evaluation
Performance levels of the collaborative
Assessed activity
Score
Aspect Fair to
Excellent Good
poor/very poor
- Can answer -Can answer
-The student
questions and the questions
Phase 1: does the activity
respond to but does not
Listen to the during the last
simple provide 15
video Phone week of the task.
statements. reasons for
Invasion - The student
-Shows a her/his
does not answer
good degree opinion.
 of control of -Shows the questions
simple sufficient proposed.
grammatical control of -The student
forms simple shows only
according to grammatical limited control of
online forms a few
contents. according to grammatical
online forms.
contents. -The student
does not
participate in the
forum.
(Up to 15 (Up to 10 (Up to 5
points) points) points)
-The student
does the activity
-Writes 8 - Writes
during the last
recommendat between 7-5
week of the task.
ions in the recommendati
-The student
forum about ons in the
writes between
how to use forum about
4-1
smartphones how to use
recommendation
correctly in smartphones
s in the forum
your office or correctly in
Phase 2: about how to use
in your home. your office or
how to use smartphones
- Shows a in your home.
smartphone correctly in your
good degree -Shows
s correctly office or in your 30
of control of sufficient
in your home.
simple control of
office or - Shows only
grammatical simple
your home limited control of
forms grammatical
a few
according to forms
grammatical
online according to
forms.
contents. online
- Uses a
- Uses a contents.
vocabulary of
range of -Uses
isolated words
appropriate appropriate
and phrases.
vocabulary. vocabulary
-The student
does not
 participate in the
forum.

(Up to 30 (Up to 25 (Up to 15

points) points) points)
-It is very
creative and
- The student
represents
-It is creative does the activity
very well the
and represents during the last
topic of the
well the topic week of the task.
poster.
of the poster. - It is not
-The
-The creative. It has
information is
information is nothing to do
very well
well organized with the topic of
Phase 3: organized
and that the poster.
Design your with a makes The information
poster. detailed order
checking it is not organized
Title. and it is easy
easy. and is not easy 20
Presentation of to be
-They are to checked.
the checked.
quite -They are not
information. -They are
Pictures. appropriate for appropriate and
very
the topic and they are not
appropriate
they make a related to the
for the topic
summary of topic.
and they
the topic. -The student
make a good
does not design
visual
the poster.
summary of
the topic.
(Up to 20 (Up to 15 (Up to 10
points) points) points)
- The student
Phase 4:
submits the
Submit the
final - The student
final
document in submits the - The student
product in
the final document does not submit 5
the
monitoring in the forum or the final product.
Monitoring
and mail.
environmen
evaluation
t.
environment.
(Up to 5 (Up to 3 (Up to 1
points) points) points)
Final score 70