Welcome to Academic Communication

Please bookmark: http://acommunication.pbworks.com

If you're looking for Academic Composition, it's here

For next time, I want to incorporate more presentation tools such as those suggested here:

http://www.fractuslearning.com/2011/10/04/5-presentation-tools-to-captivate-every-student/

Read what students said about the course in their blog posts, linked here:

• http://tinyurl.com/nc13blogs
• Full URL:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pQxTmDCArZjG84lzY4C9UZAOJMt6N5S5PJsgLGPnvPg/edit

There is training for teachers on how to teach this course here:

• http://toolkit4Learning.blogspot.com 
• http://kbz2012pd.pbworks.com

An end-of-term update was published in TESL-EJ: Stevens, V. (2012). Web 2.0 Toolkit for Teaching and Learning EFL Presentation Skill. TESL-EJ, Volume 16, Number 2, pp. 1-11: http://tesl-ej.org/pdf/ej62/int.pdf. Also available at: http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/issues/volume16/ej62/ej62int/   

Quick Links on this page

FINAL PROJECT PRESENTATIONS

Please click on Final Presentations here or in the sidebar ======>

to see what how you complete your final project for the course, weeks 24-26

Jump to the link pointed to above: http://learning2gether.posterous.com/125618417  

Direct link to where our students Prezis are displayed, scroll to April 22: http://earthbridges.wikispaces.com/

Introduction to the Academic Communication course

This Academic Communications course is created along the lines of http://academiccomposition.pbworks.com 

• What this course is NOT: http://www.slideshare.net/thecroaker/death-by-powerpoint
• The antidote: http://2ieflteaching.blogspot.com/2012/04/from-death-by-powerpoint-to-life-by.html 

PowerPoint will be used of course but we start the course with brainstorming, mindmapping, and use of Prezi

http://prezi.com  

What you will need for this course

• A Gmail account so that you can use Google Docs
• An account with Prezi http://prezi.com  
• HCT email (run Outlook to let it set up automatically
• Send an email to vstevens@hct.ac.ae when you have it working) 
• Make sure your email has a SUBJECT with your name and NC13-class
• In the text of your email write your name, mil ID, and NC13-class, and the link to your first Prezi
• You get an A if you do this by first class of the week, B if by second class, C after that
• Audacity and LAME software (more on this later)
• An account with http://slideshare.net (later) 
• Other accounts for some of the other Web 2.0 sites we will use 

Syllabus

We will use this textbook:

Present Yourself 2: Viewpoints by Steven Gershon, Cambridge

(sorry, it is not available at NC at start of class March 18)

So today you will visit http://prezi.com/learn/, view the tutorial called "Get Started", and complete the worksheet you are given in class

Complete syllabus documents are here

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This wiki was visited and altered by adding this text on October 11, 2021 

edited July 18, 2023