Online Collaboration
Activity One: 7 Days of Twitter
*Draft* Still a work in progress
Activity Two: Watch "in Plain English" Videos
Wikis in Plain English
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dnL00TdmLY
Google Docs in Plain English
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRqUE6IHTEA
REMAINING ACTIVITIES TO BE COMPLETED WITH YOUR GROUP FOR ASSIGNMENT #3
Activity Three: Google Docs for Assignment #3
Review Assignment #3
Hire the Better Writer (Assignment 3)
Create a New Document in Google Docs
Share the Document with the other members of your Group.
As a group, write a story following the instructions that follow. (Source:1)
Have one person in your group choose 4 numbers between 1 and 10. Do not let that person look at the list below! Based on the numbers they choose, put together your "character", "setting", "time", and "situation/challenge".
Character
- a new mother
- a photographer
- a recent high school graduate
- a restaurant owner or manager
- an alien from outer space
- a homeless child
- a 93-year-old woman
- an environmentalist
- a college student
- a jazz musician
Setting
- near a National Forest
- a wedding reception
- a celebration party
- an expensive restaurant
- a shopping mall
- a city park
- the porch of an old farmhouse
- a polluted stream
- a college library
- a concert hall
Time
- during a forest fire
- after a fight
- the night of high school graduation
- after a big meal
- sometime in December
- late at night
- after a big thunderstorm has passed
- in early spring
- first week of the school year
- during a concert
Situation/Challenge
- an important decision needs to be made
- a secret needs to be confessed to someone else
- someone's pride has been injured
- a death has occurred
- someone has found or lost something
- someone has accused someone else of doing something wrong
- reminiscing on how things have changed
- someone feels like giving up
- something embarrassing has just happened
- someone has just reached an important goal