Crititquing Yourself - Final Critique Post

I was so "wowed" by the presentations. The time, attention and creativity that went into these blogs was outstanding. There were some minor suggestions made by the class for each student. Please comment on the suggestions that students made in class after your presentation. What kinds of things would you change now? What kinds of things did you create that you found reinforcement for your creative thoughts? And, then, post on the second part of this blog comment your own self critique on your speech performances this semester. How did you improve this semester? What strengths have you gained? What will you take away with you regarding your own communication and presentational skills?

Persuasive Presentations

Wow! Fantastic presentations. I am so impressed by the academic effort made in these presentations. Working in groups isn't an easy endeavor and yet, these groups seem to work in harmony illustrating strong organizations and argruments. BRAVO! Please comment with a crititque to this blog with the student that you were assigned in class. Be sure to include both strengths and improvements in both delivery and content. Remember, feedback is a gift. So, help your assigned speaker improvement with some helpful advice!

Emotional Intelligence

What is your EQ? This post follows up our class discussion on Emotional Inelligence Please review this article entitled "Teaching Emotional Intelligence In The Business School Curriculum" by Frank Bellizzi, Quinnipiac University. Then, check out this self test. Please create a post that makes application to your own emotional intelligence based on this reading, the results of your self test and any other experiences or readings on this subject.. The blog post should share your top two "personal" EQ improvements. What needs to be improved to develop your emotional intelligence? Share with us your personal strategies and/or plans to put them into action. Why might developing a high EQ be important to your long time success? Post due by March 31st.

Informative Critiques

Nice effort on our first round of speeches this morning. A strong effort was shown in your performances on several levels (dress, delivery, outlines, etc.) The majority of you illustrated a sincere effort to present quality work in class today. This effort was noted and appreciated. Keep up the good work! Please post your informative critiques here. Please include in your comments three strengths and three improvements. The improvement comments should include suggestions on ways to make for a stronger performance in the next speech. Give a classmate some positive support! Comments are by March 3rd.

Welcome!

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 am excited to be here at TCNJ. This is my second semester. 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.

Creating An Impression

The goal of this assignment is to help you acquire in class this semester the skills needed to produce an effective speech presentation. Find a clip of a presenter (celebrity, athlete, politician, etc.) on Youtube or some other video outlet available to you on the Internet, and evaluate why you feel he or she makes an impact on you through his/her speech. We will be using an assignmentd feedback form in class when we present our speeeches to evaluate your peer's presentations, but for right now share your present understanding of what is effective and ineffective in your chosen subject's delivery and message. This presenter can be making a speech, giving an interview or in a film as a character who makes an impact on you. The clip should not be more than two minutes (it is just a small part of the whole presentation). Place the url address of the link in the blog for me and your peers to look at as they review your posting. Additionally, be prepared to share why you chose this person in our class meeting on Tuesday, January 27th. (so, you must post by our next class meeting. No late posting after this date will receive homework points.) As stated, you can use Youtube, news site (CNN.com, msnbc.msn.com) live.com/video, TED Talks site or some other video sharing location on the web.