Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Speech #1 Critique- Remember Feedback is a Gift!
Bravo on the first set of speeches! Nice effort in making application to many of the criteria that we have spoken about over the last few weeks! Time to critique! Please post your speech critique in this blog. Be sure to use the feedback sheet with your notes to critique your partner's speech performance. The critique should contain three strengths andd three improvements. Be sure to elaborate with details so your partner understands the effectiveness of their performance and also reads practical advice and suggestions for strengthening their improvements. The comments should include points that include both the delivery of the speech and the research, content of the speech. Remember you are being graded on this blog critique. So, don't forget to elaborate with details. Post should be a minimum of 200 words.
Monday, July 26, 2010
Creating a Vocal Impression
This blog posting will require you first reading the article Talk This Way on our Blackboard site under course documents. Please conduct a naturalistic study of both your voice and those around you using these criteria:
1. Are you using voice mail effectively? Do callers return your phone calls and mention that they can’t understand what you left there?
2. Do you have trouble understanding messages that are left on your voice mail? What are some vocal mistakes that others are making when leaving recorded messages?
3. Has anyone ever told you that they can’t hear you? Understand you? Ask another student to give you some adjectives to discuss your vocal quality.
4. Have you ever corrected someone’s pronunciation of a vowel of consonant? Are there certain words that you hear are commonly being incorrectly spoken? Has anyone ever corrected your pronunciation? Or commented on your speech? How do you think that you are perceived by others when you are blurring your sounds and words when communicating?
5. Conduct a naturalistic observation study of another person speaking. Observe this person’s speech by noticing how they use their lips, jaw, teeth and tongue? Repeat the observation with yourself in a mirror? What do you notice about yourself? How do these movements affect their (your) speech?
You should refer to the article, Talk This Way by Alec Wilkinson when you post found on Blackboard under course documents and discussion in class and the assigned reading in text on Nonverbal Communication when posting on the blog. The assignment requires a minimum of 250 words. Due date for this post is Monday, August 1st by class time. We will refer to this blog assignment in our class on Monday, August 2nd.
1. Are you using voice mail effectively? Do callers return your phone calls and mention that they can’t understand what you left there?
2. Do you have trouble understanding messages that are left on your voice mail? What are some vocal mistakes that others are making when leaving recorded messages?
3. Has anyone ever told you that they can’t hear you? Understand you? Ask another student to give you some adjectives to discuss your vocal quality.
4. Have you ever corrected someone’s pronunciation of a vowel of consonant? Are there certain words that you hear are commonly being incorrectly spoken? Has anyone ever corrected your pronunciation? Or commented on your speech? How do you think that you are perceived by others when you are blurring your sounds and words when communicating?
5. Conduct a naturalistic observation study of another person speaking. Observe this person’s speech by noticing how they use their lips, jaw, teeth and tongue? Repeat the observation with yourself in a mirror? What do you notice about yourself? How do these movements affect their (your) speech?
You should refer to the article, Talk This Way by Alec Wilkinson when you post found on Blackboard under course documents and discussion in class and the assigned reading in text on Nonverbal Communication when posting on the blog. The assignment requires a minimum of 250 words. Due date for this post is Monday, August 1st by class time. We will refer to this blog assignment in our class on Monday, August 2nd.
Monday, July 19, 2010
Blog #1 -Success- Want It As Much As You Want Air to Breathe
What does success mean to you?
"">Secret to Success" here for your review.
Comment on the following in your blog post due by the start of class on Monday, July 19th. This blog post is worth 25 points.
1) What kept your attention about this presentation? Was it the delivery? The content? Be specfic and use details to discuss this point.
2) What things did this speaker incorporate in his speech to adapt to his audience?
3) Was it motivating to you? In what way? What are your thoughts to defining personal success?
"">Secret to Success" here for your review.
Comment on the following in your blog post due by the start of class on Monday, July 19th. This blog post is worth 25 points.
1) What kept your attention about this presentation? Was it the delivery? The content? Be specfic and use details to discuss this point.
2) What things did this speaker incorporate in his speech to adapt to his audience?
3) Was it motivating to you? In what way? What are your thoughts to defining personal success?
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Welcome Class of 2014!
Welcome to Rider University! It is a pleasure to be your instructor for Com 104s this summer and fall. It will be a lot of work but, if you stay up on the daily tasks it should be fine. Our five weeks will fly by! And, it will be the fall semester before we know it! I am here to teach you and support your efforts! It is your job to let me know when you have a question or need help! I want to help so please don't hestiate to reach out to me! I can be reached during the semester on email when we are not in class. You can always come to class a little early if you need some additional help with the coursework or we can try and arrange time outside of class. All the peer counselors have been my previous students so, don't forget to reach out to them as well with your questions! They were great students! I am looking forward to getting to know all of you....time to get started! I hope you will enjoy your time here on campus this summer. I am sure that we will get to know each other really well over the next 20 weeks (summer and fall)!
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