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     Journalism :  Features Writing Lead Writing.           Introduction :      Journalism is generally defined as the production and distribution of reports on recent events, but in the 21st century, is that really all there is to this time-honored profession? Are there multiple types of journalism? Is journalism confined to one medium? In fact, that purpose was so sacred, a journalist had to be a very educated person, with a background in literature, history, and mass communication. Journalists were also expected to have a sense of social responsibility and strictly adhere to ethical standards.     Lead  Writing   A feature article opens the gates of ingenuity inside the journalist’s mind; they unleash their creative monster onto the papers to really get into the depths of whatever topic they’re covering. Put simply, a lead sentence is a sentence that opens and summarizes an essay, a section of an essay, or a paragraph perfectly. I'd like to give you three examples of lead senten

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  Thanking Activity :  Education and Technology 1.. video               He said that the use of language and how it changes would not be affectedby new technologies, which is very true. But at least in Switzerland thelocal dialects in the "german speaking part of Switzerland are the ONLY tool to communicate in daily life ,even university professors speak Swiss -german outside of the lectureand also during appointments!Texting on the internet really helped these dialects, because now casual texting is in the local dialects(whic hare highly distinct to the standardgerman language). Before the internetand SMS style of communicatinge very single piece of written languge was the standard german language,not the language the people actually spoke, the Swiss variation of the Proto-Germanic language. Therefore the new methodsof communicating helped to keep a(non-standardised) language alive in away. Therefore new technologies canhave a big influence on language,maybe not on standard lang

  Thanking Activity: ELT Here I'm going to write about Education and Technology..    Changing Education Paradigms is a narrative from Sir Ken Robinson that provides an inspirational insight and overview of the current worldwide education structure, the effects that it is having on our school kids and society, and an invitation to consider what it would take to shift the current industrial concept of schooling to a more sustainable one.         As we proceed through the 21st Century we are constantly being presented with a raft of radical advancements, learning curves and developments in our technological use and capability. This in turn has a similarly radical impact in terms of change to pedagogical practice and education. In our current technological society, normal is a forever expanding concept. As individuals we are constantly distracted in and by our everyday lives and the technology that we wrap around ourselves.    In the video "Build a School in the Cloud", by Su

   Thanking Activity.. ELT Education and Technology History of CALL and Web 2.0 Tools for LSRW.. Introduction : Web 2.0 tools are free digital programs that can be used for creating and sharing student-generated projects and products. They are interactive, multi-purpose, easy-to-use digital platforms that encourage students to collaborate with each other or create and share individualized response products. Web 2.0 tools provide engaging ways students can interact with, and most importantly, learn from course material. They are particularly helpful when aligned to teaching and assessment exercises meant to increase student engagement, require students to summarize information, or verbalize insight into their conceptual understanding through means other than traditional writing exercises. Web 2.0 tools also provide students an opportunity to interact with others as they share their knowledge. Students can collaborate with classmates to create response products, or they can share complet

    Thanking Activity :   ELT : Education and Technology :     Here I'm going to write about Education and Technology... (3) History of CALL- [add also about MALL Mobile Assisted Language Learning. Refer to article by Agnes Kukulska-Hulme and Lesley Shield + your experience of using Mobile phone for learning/teaching)       Introduction : In This article discusses the effectiveness of using computer assisted language learning (CALL) in motivating fourth-grade English as a second language (ESL) students to develop better writing skills. It also seeks to explore the perceptions of ESL teachers and students regarding the use of CALL in the ESL classroom. The study involved 48 fourth graders and their four teachers. Data were gathered during a three-month period using questionnaires, interviews, and observations. Findings revealed that teachers as well as students shared similar perceptions toward the use of CALL in the writing classroom and identified the same motivational factors tha

  Thanking Activity :  ELT 2: Warm up Session: Technology and Education.     Here I'm going to write about Technology and Education.  Can Technology replace teachers?         robots Cannot replace teachers. Simply put: Robots won't replace teachers because they can't inspire us. It's the talk of the town – when you say the word “future”, you hear robots. Artificial intelligence is rapidly growing, and that fear of losing your job to technology has become very real.   a human teacher will always can change their teaching methods as per convince of the student but a robot teacher will be programmed in a way that it cannot do so. ... , human teacher will have better memory power n experience so that they can easily adapt according to the situation but a robot can't do so. What shall teachers do so that they are not replaceable by technology?  The teacher is the one who inspires and encourages the student to strive for greatness, and the one gives shape to their potenti