Cirtique your e portfolio

Post a minimum 150 word post on your e portfolio. Critique its strengths and weaknesses by reflecting on class feedback. Who was your audience? What was your objective?

Impromptu Speeches

Post your self critique of your elevator speech here. What are a few things that you learned that you will keep in mind for next time.

Persuasive Speech

Post your self critiques to your persuasive speeches here. Be sure to include strengths and weakness that analyze your message and not just focus on delivery.

Informative Speeches Business Symposium

Well, very nice effort for the first speech. As we discussed in classes we have some repeated issues coming up that need to be addressed in the next speech. However, there were a lot of strengths as well. Use this blog to post your critique. Please give advice on the needed strengths and be specfic on the ways that the speech was effective. See you in two weeks after the midsemester break!

Admired Speaker

Please post in this blog a name and explanation of one person that you admired for their speaking abilities. What about their abilities do you admire? Is it there delivery? What specific qualities and why? Is it their charisma? Do you they have a "wow" factor? In what ways? Please share at least 150 minimum in this post. Please include a link to a video clip illustrating this speaker in action. Post is due by our next class on Tuesday, Sept 14th.

Welcome to Com 240 Fall 2010

Welcome to Communication 240: Business and Government. I am looking forward to a creative and productive semester. I look forward to getting to know each of you and watching you evolve as effective communicators. I really enjoy teaching at TCNJ. I enjoy teaching this class because I teach from a practical perspective, although we will examine some ethical and theoretcial dimensions too. It is so satisfying to help so many of you get prepared for your professional careers. We will be examining communication from a number of different directions all in the context of real life in both business and government settings. A few of the many paths that we will explore include investigating how messages are created from the perspective of the sender to how they are received from the perspective of the receiver. The channels used, the effective of culture in the formation of a message and the networks used. We will understand how to effectively communicate in business and examine how messages travel in a business environment whether you the management or subordinate. Additionally, we will focus on the presentational skills needed to give a talk, train an employee or ace a job interview, just to name a few. We will address the message shared in government and politics by using the issues in today's government. Examining the message and learning that making important decisions is more than the charisma but, analyzing the message. We will observe and apply technology and explore how it creates and changes in the message in new and fascinating ways. And, lastly, we will focus on networking and interviewing that occurs in professional settings. Blogging on our class blog will be an important method of capturing our thoughts. We will be using this blog to communicate in many ways in the class, so it is an important class requirement that you visit this blog a few times during the week to keep abreast of assignments and other important class information.We will be using blogs as a means of recording our learning and studies. Every student is required to blog. You can begin by posting your blogs on our class blog post or as the semester evolves, create your own blog. Whatever the case, it is important that you remember that this is an extension of our academic classroom. You must use appropriate grammar, spelling and ideas in all your posts. Also, trying to rush through an assignment or making a weak effort in posting will be evident for all persons to see. Also, be sure to adhere to copyright issues in all posting. Only your originals work(s) whether words or pictures may be used. Please check out the Com 240 links throughout the semester for helpful places needed while in this course. You should feel free to email me at the address on the syllabus at any time for help, questions, concerns, or possible class absences. We will be using this blog to create discussion and complete written assignments this semester. Please be sure that you create a gmail account so you can post on our blog this semester. Please email me if you have any problems asap.

Use this blog post to introduce yourself to the class. We will use it as a practice post. I am looking forward to a pleasurable and productive semester! Share with us a brief introduction of yourself. What do you want us to know about you? What is something unusual or "wowful" about you? Be sure to include how you hope this course will help you further your career or personal goals.

E-Portfolio Presentations

Well done! I was speechless at some of the beautiful portfolios presented in class. (And, for a speech communication instructor to be speechless in a speech class is saying a lot!) The audience adaptation shown in these portfolios was very strong. Beautiful jobs in balancing presentation and creativity of appearance Please self critique to your presentation based on the feedback received from class. What kinds of things were communicately correctly? Effectively? What kinds of improvements need to be made? What would you do differently? What kinds of things do you plan on adding in the future?