Welcome BACK to Academic Communication

I hope you had a great break!

We'll resume Academic Communication on Monday August 27, 2012

Sunday Aug 26, class B did IELTS practice.

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FINAL PROJECT PRESENTATIONS

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

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

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

All NC13 students, please 

Complete this survey about Prezi: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/XLR7YQG

Please answer the questions honestly.  There are NO marks for your answers.

See what you should be doing for this course 18 March through May 3, 2012

• Weeks 1 and 2 - Learn Prezi 
• Week 3 - Create a presentation to introduce your friend 
• SEE PREZIS YOUR NC13 CLASSMATES PRODUCED before the deadline April 5 
• Weeks 4 and 5 - 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 - Revise Prezis from Feebback, complete Viewpoints pp 12-18
• Week 7 - Give your Prezi presentation in class, start SURVEYS in Viewpoints

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