Working together

I am delighted to invite you to take part of this collaborative adventure. Collaborative work means working with others to build something new. Here we are working togheter in a project of designing a reclying factory. Working together could be fun, but specially gives us a great chance to learn from others and to share knowledge, creativity, experience, and the most important it creates synergy. Two heads thing better than one. That is why this is a space to learn from other subjects by putting together parts of your programs to create our project together.  To design our factory it is necessary to use different disciplines: system engineers to work with all the intelligent processes, civil engineers that deal with the physical facility, administrators who help manage the resources, industrial engineers to handle maintenance, productive and perhaps comfortable and safe spaces and equipment, etc.

To start with this project, first we need to know where we are heading, what our final objective is, and what the steps to acomplish it are. I will be guiding you through, and you will be developing activities and tasks step by step until the end. Our objective is to be able to orally describe the complete process of designing a factory that recycles materials to make new products. Remember that we are going to be working collaborativelly with other areas of study that will put all the necessary pieces together to complete our project.

To start with, we are going to learn relevant technical vocabulary we will build together as following:

1. Individually make a list of the ten most common words you use in your field of study and post them here:

2. Get in contact with your area partners and choose a secretary to copy all the words.

3. Secretaries click on this link and look at the video tutorial to create a Wordle: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhL5D9nz5aI.

4. Paste the words you copy in the next link: www.wordle.net/create click go then experiment changing colors, font, order.

5. Once you choose your favourite Wordle take a photoscreen shot (www.take-a-screenshot.org/) and paste it in the following box:

Together we are going to see what are the 20 most commom words and we are going to work with them.

Now, let's move to our second stage: we are revising some grammar stuctures we are going to be using to describe our project.

1. For this activity use this link www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/radio/specials/1212_how_to_instruct/page7.shtml.

2. Go around:

      a. Start listening to the audio of the process while you read the script. 

      b. Then go through the explanation.

      c.  Finally, do the practice exercises.

Our last activity for this stage is to review some speaking activities since the main goal is to orally describe our project. Follow this link to read about the strategies www.nclrc.org/essentials/speaking/stratspeak.htm.