Week 4 Computer Lab

In this computer lab,   you will become acquainted with a learning management system that has been newly introduced at VIU for all students called D2L (Desire to Learn).    Many academic courses use D2L to blend their in class and out-of-class teaching.   It will benefit you to learn it now.


Two important new urls you need to learn are:

www.learn.viu.ca

and

ap5d2l.blogspot.ca

To enter D2L,  you go to the first website and enter your name and password as  would you normally do.      

The second website is a special blog that has a video introduction to D2L, which essentially repeats what I will show you in class.


You have three computer tasks this week.   The first two deal with D2L.

1. After familiarizing yourself with D2L,   use its e-mail function to send me an e-mail.
2. In the discussion board,   make a post and reply to a post.   You can do this within an existing thread or you can create a new thread.

3.   On your blog,   if you use a mobile device (smartphone or tablet-  Apple or Android),  

describe what you use it for mostly.   Also,  write about how you use it for learning English and how you would "like" to use it to learn English.     If you do not have a mobile device,  write about how you imagine one could be  used to help you learn English.  This is an individual post, not a joint post.




You can also study the Academic Wordlist in computer lab as we will be studying it this week.  You can use the AWL link in this blog to help you.