Welcome to Academic Communication

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

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

See an example Prezi here - PREZI: Why and How

• http://prezi.com/dsmfwjggmhvz/prezi-why-and-how/

Quick Links on this page

See what you should be doing for this course in March and April, 2012 

First two weeks of this course, learn Prezi

• http://acommunication.pbworks.com/w/page/52572248/learnprezi

3rd week - create a presentation to introduce your friend

• http://acommunication.pbworks.com/w/page/52572248/learnprezi#Week3April1-5
• SEE PREZIS YOUR NC13 CLASSMATES PRODUCED before the deadline April 5 

4th and 5th weeks - make Earth Day presentations about the environment

• Instructions on contributing your presentation to EARTH DAY 2012
• See what our students are doing for Global Earth Day

Week 6 - Finish Earth Day presentation, complete Viewpoints pp 12-18

Upload the handout for April 22 Classes A and B here

Upload the handout for April 23 Classes C and D here

Revised assignment in your text Viewpoints April 24-26 and presentations Week 7 - Handout

Instructions for April 24-26 (week 6) and Week 7

• Listen to Tim’s presentation in class and complete the exercises on pages 13-15
• Read page 16 and complete page 17 on your own
• Complete Pages 18-19 with information about YOUR Prezi presentation

You must complete this work and present your Prezi before the end of next week. 

Week 7 - you will give your Prezi presentation in class

• I will try to arrange for officers to attend 
• You should REHEARSE your presentation and prepare its introduction, body, and conclusion 
• You will hand in your Viewpoints book with pages 18-19 completed before giving your presentation 
• You will be marked on
• How well you have revised your Prezi so that you can give it effectively
• Your preparation on pages 18-19 in Viewpoints
• Your delivery (see the handout for details)

It you cannot present when called on then there can be no second chance as in Week 8 we must move on to unit 2 in Viewpoints, on Surveys

While listening QUIETLY to your classmates' presentations you can be doing these things:

1. Complete pages 20-21 in your Viewpoints workbook
   (survey your classmates BETWEEN classes, not while others are trying to present)
2. Complete this survey about Prezi: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/XLR7YQG
3. Start a blog in Blogger

Instructions for starting your blog

Why will you keep a blog?

You have been given a copy of the Academic Communication course documents

http://acommunication.pbworks.com/w/file/52581142/NAEN%20%20204%20COURSE%20%20DOCUMENTS.doc

Here you will find the "Assessment Strategy" explaining how you get your grade.  At the start of the course, when you were given this document, your teacher put this up on the whiteboard and went over it with you.

Here it says that 15% of your grade is a "Portfolio" where you "maintain a log book, blog, or diary to evaluate and reflect on the development of their personal speaking skills."

You will keep a blog where you will make entries with links to your online accomplishments

Develop your ideas for your blog

We will use Google Docs to help you create your blog and make your first entry (called a 'posting')

Your blog needs 

1. A name for the blog
2. A URL
3. A title for the first entry
4. Some text for the first entry

Please copy these 4 bullets to a Google Doc, share it with your teacher, and then fill in the 4 items.

Here is an example 

Create your blog

Make your first posting

Introduction to the Academic Communications 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