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
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
3rd week - create a presentation to introduce your friend
4th and 5th weeks - make Earth Day presentations about the environment
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:
- Complete pages 20-21 in your Viewpoints workbook
(survey your classmates BETWEEN classes, not while others are trying to present)
- Complete this survey about Prezi: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/XLR7YQG
- 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 'post')
Your blog needs
- A NICE name for the blog
- The Blog URL
- A NICE title for your first post, or entry
- Some text for the first post
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 of what each of these parts does
Create your blog
- Click here for a screencast showing how to start your blog in Blogger
- Follow the instructions to create a blog with the Name for the blog and URL from #1 and #2 above
Make your first post, or entry
- Create a post with the Title for the first entry in #3 above
- Paste the text for the post from #4 above
If you use the text from the Google Doc which your teacher has corrected,
then you will be able to avoid errors that you would have to repair later
Introduction to the Academic Communications course
This Academic Communications course is created along the lines of http://academiccomposition.pbworks.com
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
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Teaching Week #
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Date
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Learning Objectives
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Text Focus:
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Activities
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Assessments
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1
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18-22 March
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Collaboration:, 1, 2
Speaking: 4, 5
Visualization: 7
Presentation: 9
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Pages 2-4 and online wiki portal
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Asking questions p.2 -
Brainstorming p.4 –
Prezi mindmap tool
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2
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25-29 March
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Collaboration: 1, 2
Speaking: 4, 5
Visualization: 7, 8
Presentation: 9
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Pages 6-7
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Presentation tips p.6 –
My classmate p.7
Presentation in Prezi
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Prezi posted on the Internet, assessed as per rubric
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3
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2-5 April
(Apr 1 admin leave)
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Collaboration: 1, 2, 3
Speaking: 4, 5
Visualization: 7, 8
Presentation: 9
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Pages 8-15
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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
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4
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8-12 April
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Collaboration: 1, 2, 3
Speaking: 4, 5
Visualization: 7, 8
Presentation: 9
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Pages 16-19
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Making a presentation “Motto for Life” - Students apply handouts on PPT animation and effects
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PowerPoint presentation soft copy, assessed as per rubric
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5
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15-19 April
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Collaboration: 1, 2, 3
Speaking: 4, 5
Visualization: 7, 8
Presentation: 9
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Pages 20-27
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Creating a survey presentation
Activities on internet survey sites and visualization tools
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Blog postings assessed as per rubric
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6
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22-26 April
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Collaboration: 1, 2, 3
Speaking: 4, 5
Visualization: 7, 8
Presentation: 9
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Pages 28-31
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Making a survey presentation
Creating charts in Excel
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PowerPoint presentation with charts and visual representation of data, assessed as per rubric
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Complete syllabus documents are here
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