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What is LOC?

The Learning Object Creator is an authoring tool designed to help educators create effective online learning materials with little or no technical knowledge.

LOC has been developed by the LLAS Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies at the University of Southampton. To access and use LOC, you will need to attend a workshop with LLAS in which you will receive training in using the authoring tool and the pedagogical implications of writing online materials.

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“The pedagogy behind the LOC helps to ensure best practice in materials design…Using the LOC has…increased my understanding of effective online learning material.”

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Carole MacDiarmid, University of Glasgow

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Recording of introduction We live dans el Coca Cola world. Nous can buy una lata de Coca Cola almost anywhere. For this raison podemos compare, watch, escuchar, various ads for Coca Cola dans des langues différentes.    Can you re-write esta introducción in English?
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Group 5: Writing Effective Topic Sentences

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In writing, the topic sentence is the primary thought of each paragraph. It contains the main idea of the paragraph and tells readers what the paragraph is about. Today we will have an overview of what is topic sentence, how to identify topic sentence, and how to write effective topic sentence.