All posts by Nan Peck

Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA). Teaching since 1983 at NOVA. Chair of VCCS Northern Regional Center for Teaching Excellence
Faculty Development

CST Faculty Discuss Pedagogy

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.

Students

Barbie – What a Doll?

I’m reading about a woman, Valeria Lukyanova, who is a Ukranian model. According to New York Daily News writer , 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?