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How do I...?
How do I create my first unit with the Course Builder?
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3 Format
Log in to your account as a teacher and
click Create a new course.
Drag each item around the unit screen
until you have your preferred layout. Items
can span one, two or three columns. You
can format captions and add weblinks.
Create a new course
2 Build
The perfect resume
Edit
Career Library
You now see the screen where you can
create your first unit. Use the green panel
at the bottom of the screen to add any
combination of text, images, audio, video,
pdf worksheets and Clarity exercises.
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Most teachers would intuitively agree that
online components enrich a course of study in
a number of ways: boosting motivation,
providing a greater variety of source material
and "voices", and enabling controlled practice
with immediate feedback. The research
supports this. A recent meta-analysis1 of more
than 1,100 empirical studies of online learning
concludes that "blended learning is more
effective than either face to face or online
learning by themselves."
Advice Zone
Learn how to build
the kind of resume
that employers find
irresistible.
All well and good. But for many, perhaps most,
language teachers the practicalities are
daunting. How do you set up a single
well-organised site which includes the target
materials? How do you direct students to it?
How do you monitor what they are doing?
The obvious answer is to use one of the many
Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) available
either commercially, such as Blackboard, or
open-source, such as Moodle. But over the
years we have become increasingly aware that
their complexity means that they don't meet
the needs of all teachers, particularly those
who are less tech-savvy. And the interactivity
they offer, which may suit other learning areas,
is not specifically designed for language
learning.
Clarity's answer is the Clarity Course Builder,
a simple, easy-to-use tool to help you post a
variety of online learning materials to support
your lessons. So, for today's lesson, for
example, you can set up (any or all of):
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a YouTube video
a PDF worksheet
a graphic
an audio file
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a unit from a Clarity program
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text instructions for students
Watch HR professionals explain what they’re looking for in a resume.
Untitled item
These items, delivered from a single interface,
can link in to the students' learning objectives,
whether they are directly related to your
lesson, or optional remedial or extension
activities.
You schedule your materials so that students
have access to a new unit every week (or day
or lesson), and the system sends them an
email to alert them when a fresh unit is
delivered. This way you can build up and edit
your materials, and save them for future
groups. And Results Manager will tell you what
students have done, and when.
We know that blended learning benefits our
students in theory; the Clarity Course Builder
will help you make it work in practice.
To find out more, email Clarity at
[email protected]
[email protected]
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http://www2.ed.gov/rschstat/eval/tech/evidence-based-practices/finalreport.pdf
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Practice Center
Do you know the basics of
resume-writing? First test yourself. Then
look at a real resume, try a formatting
activity and learn how to write about your
achievements.
Story Point
Question 1
From an employer’s point of view, what is the primary purpose of a resume?
Jack Lau explains a problem he had
when he wrote his first resume in English.
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To add pdfs, images and
audio, select the file from
your computer.
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Question 1
From an employer’s point of view, what is the primary purpose of a resume?
Then click Add a unit to build your
next unit.
To add video,
paste in the URL.
Click the Ex button and
choose the unit or exercise.
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