I’m gearing up for teaching two courses this first six weeks of summer:
CST 110.43 Introduction to Speech Communication (hybrid)
CST 229.40 Intercultural Communication
Your employers, colleagues, family, friends, and romantic partners want you to have excellent communication skills. Therefore, they want you to take this course.
If you prefer more specifics, check out this slide presentation, attached: Why is CST Required
May 7-11 is the official teacher appreciation week. Thank your professor for all that s/he does for you this week.
Our office of institutional research tells me that we have 20,500 students enrolled for summer session. If you are one of them, congratulations and welcome.
MERLOT.org http://www.merlot.org/merlot
MERLOT Elixr http://elixr.merlot.org/case-stories
Edutopia, http://www.edutopia.org
Teach Buzz, http://www.teachbuzz.com
TED Ed, http://ed.ted.com/
Today I received the NOVA Super Prof Award. It is an honor sponsored by NOVA’s Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning. CETL held a reception today.
Many thanks to Professor Jennifer Rainey for coordinating a Communication Community of Practice. We meet to share teaching strategies and to provide support to one another. Today, April 24th, we met to share ideas for helping students successfully work in groups and to reflect upon their small group communication skills.
The CCoP meets in the Oral Communication Center (OCC) at the Annandale Campus.
I’m reading about a woman, Valeria Lukyanova, who is a Ukranian model. According to New York Daily News writer Meena Hart Duerson, Ms. Lukyanova has had some surgery.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/real-life-barbie-heats-internet-a-hoax-article-1.1066314
Search You Tube and you will find several “Barbie Transformational Tutorials.”
Hamilton College student Galia Slayen writes in the Huffington Post, that “If Barbie were an actual woman, she would be 5’9″ tall, have a 39″ bust, an 18″ waist, 33″ hips, and a size 3 shoe. Slayen estimates Barbie would weigh 110# and have a BMI of 16.24. She would have anorexia and have to walk on all fours because her legs couldn’t support her. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/galia-slayen/the-scary-reality-of-a-re_b_845239.html
What messages are we giving our girls about their bodies?
Spring Fling 2012 Cirkus Cirkus is coming April 26 from 11 a.m. – 4 p.m., Annandale Campus
May 3, 2010, 3:22 PM
What We’re Reading: Slacker U, New York Times
By Catherine Rampell
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/03/what-were-reading-slacker-u/
A new study finds, though, that full-time college students at four-year colleges today spend considerably fewer hours per week studying than their counterparts in the past 40 years.
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