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 Introduction to the Academic Communication course What you will need for this course Syllabus

  

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

 

Teaching Week #	Date	Learning Objectives	Text Focus:	Activities	Assessments
1	18-22 March	Collaboration:, 1, 2 Speaking: 4, 5 Visualization: 7 Presentation: 9	Pages 2-4 and online wiki portal	Asking questions p.2 - Brainstorming p.4 – Prezi mindmap tool
2	25-29 March	Collaboration: 1, 2 Speaking: 4, 5 Visualization: 7, 8 Presentation: 9	Pages 6-7	Presentation tips p.6 – My classmate p.7 Presentation in Prezi	Prezi posted on the Internet, assessed as per rubric
3	2-5 April (Apr 1 admin leave)	Collaboration: 1, 2, 3 Speaking: 4, 5 Visualization: 7, 8 Presentation: 9	Pages 8-15	Creating a presentation “Motto for Life” – Students work independently, get feedback in Google Docs Students work handouts on PPT animation and effects Introduction to Blogging
4	8-12 April	Collaboration: 1, 2, 3 Speaking: 4, 5 Visualization: 7, 8 Presentation: 9	Pages 16-19	Making a presentation “Motto for Life” - Students apply handouts on PPT animation and effects	Prezi  on Motto for Earth Day, assessed as per rubric
5	15-19 April	Collaboration: 1, 2, 3 Speaking: 4, 5 Visualization: 7, 8 Presentation: 9	Pages 20-27	Creating a survey presentation Activities on internet survey sites and visualization tools	Blog postings assessed as per rubric
6	22-26 April	Collaboration: 1, 2, 3 Speaking: 4, 5 Visualization: 7, 8 Presentation: 9	Pages 28-31	Making a survey presentation Creating charts in Excel	PowerPoint presentation with charts and visual representation of data, assessed as per rubric

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