USER'S GUIDE - TO BE READ FIRST

The overview:

A summary of the main points of the unit, specifying links to the relevant pages of the Georgian Cities website, as well as external links to other websites for you to explore if necessary. Keep it open in a seperate tab while you are dealing with the exercises, so as to refer to it and to follow the links to Georgian Cities mentioned, as required by the exercises..

Exercises:

This is an essay for you to write in answer to the question stated.

You may write it directly in the space provided after clicking on the ‘Add Submission’ button under the question. You may also first write your essay in your usual word-processing programme, then return to the moodle page ‘Add Submission’ and click on the arrow ‘You can drag and drop files’  to find your essay on your computer and upload it on moodle.

Some of the assignments consist in image editing, such as drawing a simple town plan or a diagram; guidance will be given in the corresponding sections. Some of them are in the form of a 'field trip', which means you have to imagine you are visiting a city and gathering photos, then interpreting them, which in reality you will gather from the internet or from books - obviously such assignments may be used on a real field trip.  

A multiple-choice question asking you to select the answer you believe is right, from a list of possible answers; it may be a ‘pairing question’ with two lists, where you have to pair each item in the first list with an item in the second list.

When you have made your choices and sent your answer, you will be taken to the ‘feedback’ page, i.e. an explanation about why your answer is right or wrong, with occasionally a paragraph of guidance to explore the topic further.

This is a very spectific term in moodle; it does not refer to 'teaching' generally speaking as in everyday language; it is a 'learning path'.

You study a topic by following a series of chapters, each developing an aspect of the question and concluded by a quiz, through which you have to progress making choices to explore the topic. 

The lesson may be used as a 'simulation game' in which you are asked to take a professional role and make the corresponding choices - for instance in this course you will take the role of a Georgian architect and decide what type of architecture you should use for specific buildings, an original way or studying the history of urban design and revising the options available in the 18th century.

You are asked to choose an opinion from several possible sides in a historical debate. This is different from a quiz since there are no right and wrong answers, but different possible points of view. The purpose is to make you aware of divergent views in historical interpretation; at the end of the exercise you will be able to compare your choice with those of the other students.

You are asked to find examples of a given category of items (for instance here: museum of Georgian city life), and for each of them to fill in the different fields of the database (here: name of the museum, date of foundation, number of rooms, photo of the museum, main interest…). You add an item by clicking on the ‘Add entry’ option, then fill in the corresponding fields.

A debate on a specific issue related to the course; you are asked to introduce a new idea or to answer the arguments expressed by the other participants.

A workshop activity has two phases:

1)      the students write an assignment on a prescribed question before a deadline

2)      at the deadline, ‘peer assessment’ is opened; the students assess one another’s submissions using a multi-criteria assessment form defined by the teacher.

Students obtain two grades in a workshop, one for their submission and one for their assessment of other students’ submissions.