Tuesday, February 26, 2013

Comm 128, Tues., 7:10-10 p.m.

Ch. 5

Check in workbooks

Strategies for dealing with emotion

To Do for Next Week:

Ch. 6

Public Speaking

Thursday

See links at right for ideas I'm posting for speech ideas

Idea for a speech we could attend:


Obama's Aunt Coming to Essex County College


Onyango grew up with future president's father.

• By Paul Milo

The aunt of President Barack Obama, Zeituni Onyango, will visit the Newark campus of Essex County College next week.

The free program, sponsored by the college’s Humanities Division, will be held in Siegler Hall, from 7 to 9 p.m. on March 6.

Onyango’s talk will focus on her personal experiences with domestic abuse, immigration matters, homelessness, racism and race relations, the struggle to empower women, and growing up in the home of the father of President Obama in Kenya.

Onyango will also discuss her book, Tears of Abuse. She is referenced as “Auntie Zeituni” in President Obama’s memoir Dreams from My Father.


“Her message is one of educational empowerment for young people,” said Mikal N. Nash, a history instructor and coordinator of ECC’s Associate degree Africana Studies Program. “She feels very strong about literacy in Africa and the importance of bringing resources to all the young people of Africa, both female and male.”

Onyango’s visit to ECC is two days before International Women’s Day, which has been observed since 1911 throughout the world. The United Nations also observes International Women’s Day. This year’s UN theme is “A Promise is a Promise: Time for Action to End Violence Against Women.”

Additional information on this program is available from Mr. Nash, who can be contacted at 973-877-3489 or via email here.





Tuesday

MLA Annotated Works Cited

Topics selection for informative speech

To Do for Next Class:

Find a topic and be ready to commit to it on Thursday

Find three sources and put them in an MLA Works Cited.  Annotated.

Advertising 3765

Discuss layers, instructor will show example from books NOW THAT SHE HAS A CART TO HAUL HEAVY BOOKS (WHETHER STUDENTS LIKE IT OR NOT)

Ch. 4 Market Research--next project

To Do for Next Class:

Write research questions

Work on ads for next deadline date

Chapter readings (see reading schedule)

Social Advocacy


Thursday

Students turned in their Annotated References page and worked with their other copy during group work today.

Next Tuesday, students should bring their laptop computers to class as we will be doing a research session that will require you to fill out a form on the computer.

On Thursday, we will be in Lab 403 doing research on legislative bills
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Students will bring in two copies of Annotated References page--one for the instructor and one for use in small group meetings. In the small group meetings, students will discuss their research and interests in the field toward the end of narrowing down their topic and the emphasis for their advocacy actions.
 
Link to example of legislative update. Use this as an example for what to do with findings of legislative research (next week).


Tuesday:

Reading check on Ch. 3, Nuclear Nebraska

Annotated References (handout)

To Do for Next Class

Research five sources and annotate them. Put in Annotated References. Prepare for group meeting regarding focus for your group on Thursday.

Readings for the week (see reading schedule).

Saturday, February 23, 2013

ENG 102 Sat.

Feb. 23

Works Cited--correct in class
 
Put poetry genres on list
 
Instructor will show students how to use literary databases
 
Thesis statements instructor lecture and writershelp
 
Reading guides for poetry
 
Discussion of Shakespeare play in Jersey City
 
Grammar .ppt
Link to 102 poetrygenres
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Yv2llEBuGPYZfNwfM6eyv3j6yo0SQ1BGpww_G0UVbMA/edit?usp=sharing

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

ENG128 7:10-10 p.m.

Febr. 19:

Check in notebooks

Ppt. on expressing emotions and communication

Key terms

Experiential exercises:

Emotional vocabulary list

How would you feel? Worksheet.

IAT

Next week:  Ch. 5


Monday, February 18, 2013

Public Speaking 129

Process speeches.  Three-five minutes.

Speeches will be timed.

Give outline to instructor. Speak only from notecards.


Advertising

February 21

Ad Class Folder to make print ad using layers




February 19

 Lab. 

See two links at right: 


Cherries

Tree tomato

Pineapple

Social Advocacy



Thursday, Febr. 21

Food Democracy Now web site


Student Loan Justice web site

 Page to post links.


Tuesday, Febr. 19

Discuss how grassroots advocacy works, Ch. 1, Kush.

Handout/Assignment.  Post story and link.

Return feedback sheets from social media/social advocacy assignment

March on Washington, D.C./Keystone Pipeline, climate change

On Thursday we will discuss an issue with which the class will work. Two are:

Student loan debt
Food (GMOs, sugar, fat)

Assignments:

Lawmaker article per above, due date 3/5
Read Ch. 2, Kush, "Pick Your Issue and Your Angle"
Read Ch. 3, Cragin. Reading check on Ch. 3, 5 questions.



Thursday, February 14, 2013

Public Speaking 129



Thursday 2/14

Work on written outlines and transferring to keywords and index cards

Explore practice sessions using cell phone or digital camera recording

Timing the speech

Quick Guide to Public Speaking


Tuesday  2/12

We chose our topics and speaking dates (see link at right, "129 Speech Topics/Dates")

We worked on our outlines

Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Comm 128 Tues. 7:10-10 p.m.

Check in notebooks.

Perception .ppt (instructor see Dropbox 1402 folder)

Key terms from Ch. 3

Experiential exercises:

I Think I Know You

Internal vs. External Attributions Worksheet

To Do for Next Week:

Ch. 4  Experiencing and Expressing Emotions
Read chapter and do workbook

Monday, February 11, 2013

Advertising

Thursday

Reading check, Ch's 2 & 3

Graphic file layouts (handout)

 Reminder that next class is in lab on 4th floor



Tuesday

Turn in layouts on Feb. 12

Reading check for Thurs ., Feb. 14

Tower ad sales project

Graphic file formats. Handout.

Social Advocacy T-Th

Thursday

 Finish final social media presentation

Gather observations about important points and discuss group editing

Put links to presentations online; page of significant points

Insstructor presents background for Nuclear Nebraska (see below)

Possible minute paper:  What is the connection between the battle fought by NN advocates and the current Keystone pipeline social movement?

Collect NN reading questions



Tuesday

We will have our final social media presentation.

Nuclear Nebraska issue background.














 Update on Ogallala aquifier issue:  Keystone Pipeline and Bold Nebraska

For Thursday class:

Read Ch. 2 of Nuclear Nebraska. Complete the reading questions.




How Grassroots Advocacy Work (Kush):  have read; there will be a reading check or discussion group.

Saturday, February 9, 2013

No 102 on Sat.

See you next week.

Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Comm 128 7:10-10 p.m.

Key concepts from Ch. 2:


face
mask
self-disclosure
self-fulfilling prophecies
social comparison


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Communication dyads/diagram exercise

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Others key concepts:

Types of family attachment and how it affects self

Culture:  individualistic culture and collectivist culture

Mask

Social penetration theory (onion)

Self-disclosure

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Dysfunctional thinking

To do for next week:

Ch. 3 and workbook
We will check in workbooks at the next class

Public Speaking, T-Th

Thurs., Feb 7

Student intros and techniques to remember names

Topics for "how to" speech





Tues., Feb 5

Link to syllabus.


Assignment for Thursday:

1. come up with a topic for the "how-to" speech
2. buy the book and print out or show the instructor the receipt
3. Bookmark this blog on your computer
4. Come prepared to give the introduction for your partner


Tuesday:

Introductions

How to remember names

Read syllabus

Advertising 3765 2-3:15

Thursday, 2/7

Grading scale for RD of layouts:

yes
kinda'
sorta'
no

Here's the link to the explanation I gave in class about the layout sequence.

Reading check

Return layouts

Tower sales groups meet and discuss layouts using chapter on Ideas, etc. to generate ideas. Sketch out ads, discuss with professor.

Next week's reading:

Ch. 4 Fact-finding


Tuesday:

Students handed in their layouts.

The instructor returned feedback sheets on the two different ways ads are laid out. She said she should have put more emphasis on the stage at which the layouts are done. First the account executive roughs out an ad and then after it is approved, it moves on in the production process to the graphic designer. She went over an explanation which will be posted at this blog later.

We briefly discussed the need for a computer lab session(s) and the students told the instrutor about two labs in the CAS building that she will check out. One is on the 2nd floor and one on the first.

The purpose for the lab sessions is to show students how layers work and to show them how color files are prepared for the printer. This is the first year we have had color at The Tower.

We discussed reading checks and we will have one reading check on Ch. 1 this Thursday.

We switched the reading around. This week the instructor asked students to focus on chapters 6 & 7 ("Ideas" is one of the chapter titles) instead of 9 & 14, which are on the reading schedule. The reason is that we want to be able to sketch out some ad ideas for potential clients.

The media kit with rates will be ready on Thursday, so that is the first item of business at our next class session.


for Tuesday's class:

Graphic file formats

Highlights of current chapters from text (1, 2, 3)

Chapter that will help coming up with ad concepts

Discussion of need for lab session:  layers and color


Monday, February 4, 2013

Social Advocacy T-Th 11-12:15

Tuesday, Feb 5

Link to first chapter of Nuclear Nebraska.

Class activity is for students to present findings from their readings on social media and social movements.


Friday, February 1, 2013

ENG102, Sat., 9-12:15

 New links:

 Link to add topic


Link to look at topics list.

I am also adding these to the Links list at right.

Assignments for next week:

Choose a poetry genre

Choose a research paper topic

Find five sources for your research paper

List the five sources on a Works Cited page6 Pencilled in on the left, tell the instructor what each source is:  example--online magazine.  Hard copy book.  Attached to the page, write a brief paragraph summarizing each article.

Do the readings per the reading schedule handed out in class (Ch's 1, 2, and 10). In particular be sure to read the different types of sources.



Topic selection for research paper

Lab:

Writershelp introduction

Writershelp MLA


Writing and formatting the Annotated Works Cited page

To do for next class:

Read Ch. 2 in Lester

Read all the citations in the MLA section of writershelp and in Lester so you know the types, i.e., online magazine, hard copy book, web citation, film, etc.

Find five sources, read them and write a brief paragraph citing each.  Identify what each source is. List them alphabetically like a Works Cited, but do not format.

ENG128 Friday, 6-9


 Review techniques for remembering names.

Ch. 1 key concepts

Obama and interpersonal communication techniques

Exercise/Ch. 1 concepts

To do for next week:

Read Ch. 2/workbook
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 Next week:


Key concepts from Ch. 2:


face
mask
self-disclosure
self-fulfilling prophecies
social comparison


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Communication dyads/diagram exercise

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Others key concepts:

Types of family attachment and how it affects self

Culture:  individualistic culture and collectivist culture

Mask

Social penetration theory (onion)

Self-disclosure

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Dysfunctional thinking

To do for next week:

Ch. 3 and workbook
We will check in workbooks at the next class