Hello everyone
How do you feel about arts?
 Today we'll do a webquest where you will:
1. Visit an American museum and choose an object that attracts you most. You will create a profile for this object on your blog and write a comment (up to 250 words) about what attracted you to this particular object (you will follow the plan on the webquest).
2. You will become an online artist with the help of amazing software! (you can witness my humble masterpiece above - looks great for the poor artist I am:)) You will create a work of art and save it to your blog. Afterwards, you'll explain to the others the message behind your piece of art.
Now go to the Arts Exploration link and follow the instructions there.Good luck!
Homework: complete your masterpiece and message, afterwards, visit your classmates blogs and comment on their work (both the object they've chosen in a museum and the object they've created themselves

PS: see the register refreshed. May I remind you, that this is the 12th week of the term and by the 17th you need to complete all the tasks to be tested

Lesson 10 - Remedial

Hello everyone

Today we'll have a kind of round-up class.

I've seen some of your most fascinating glogs and mind maps and will take some time to assess and register them.

In the meantime you will be busy doing the following:

• if you created a glog (and some of you did it perfectly well) think of 3-5 comprehension questions on it. Then, visit other people's glogs, answer their questions and post a comment on their blog
• if you didn't create a glog or\and a mind map - get your hands dirty on that)))
• finally, when you are done with everything - the mindmap, the glog, the questions, the comments - go to James Cameron task below. If you don't manage to complete or even start this task, do it as homework.

The James Cameron Task

James Cameron's big-budget (and even bigger-grossing) films create unreal worlds all their own. You will hear his personal talk, where he reveals his childhood fascination with the fantastic -- from reading science fiction to deep-sea diving -- and how it ultimately drove the success of his blockbuster hits "Aliens," "The Terminator," "Titanic" and "Avatar."

Listen to James Cameron's talk. You can switch on subtitles if you wish. As you listen, focus on the following questions:

• What kind of child was little James Cameron? Do you think he was a popular boy at school? Do you think you would like to have such a friend then you were at school?
• How did the time Cameron grew in (the 60s) shape his personality? How does your time influence you as a person?
• Two activities were very important for young Cameron - drawing and diving. Can you explain why? What are the important activities in your life?
• Have you seen the Abyss? Terminator 2? Which computer graphics did Cameron introduce there? What is your impression of such special effects? Watch the Abyss trailer below
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• Listen to what James Cameron says about making Avatar and Titanic. What impression do you get - what does he like more: to imagine or to explore? What do you like better of the two?
• What lessons has Cameron learned? Do you agree with his conclusions?

Don't forget to publish your answers on your blog!!!

Lesson 9

Hello everyone,
today you are working alone, as I'm away at a state exam again. Hope you'll find your way through the tasks OK)))

Task 1
Go to Glogster - this is an interactive poster site and register there. Play with it's tools a bit - try inserting pictures, videos, links, have a go with various designs

Task 2
Have a look at a sample glogster about famous book - The Hobbit.

Task 3
Think about your favourite book and create a glog about it following the steps below:

• choose a background image



• find a site with some information about the author and post it as a link to your glog



• find a blurb (a short appealing statement about a book which is aimed at convinsing people to buy it, usually found at the back cover of the book) to the book you've chosen and post it as a link to your glog



• write a short description of the main character



• search for some background information ( what influenced the author, themes and ideas raised in the book)



• if possible, find a video related to the book and insert it into your glog



• make captions for the links you've found



• on your blog, attach a link to your glog and formilate three questions for other people to answer (about the book you've make a glogster about)



• go to somebody's blog, read their questions and answer them (having visited their glog first, of course!)

If you still have some time left, catch up with the previous tasks

Homework

If you had a biographer, what could they write about you? make a glogster for your own autobiography!

Lesson 8

Hi everyone

today we'll do some fairly interesting (ihope so) things again.

Task 1 -Here is the News!

First of all I'd like you to watch some news. It's a special CNN news program for students. After you watch the news issue I'd like you to answer some questions on your blog. You can use the transcript of the newsreel it you didn't get something by ear

Task 2 - Memory tricks

in the newsreel you've just seen a story about how one can remember things. There's another brilliant tool that can help you remember things - it's a mindmap. A mindmap is a tool that organises topical vocabulary into groups. You can have a look at one here

Now, you'll go and register at Mindomo site which helps you to create mindmaps. Your task is to create a mindmap for the newsreel you've just seen. it will look like this. Make it as detailed as possible. Add pictures, weblinks, comments - use as many tools as you can.

Homework

Complete your mindmap (make it as detailed as you can)