It's A Wrap EOP 2013 Class

It has been a pleasure teaching everyone. Thanks for making it such a fun teaching experience for me too! I will miss your smiling faces and the committment that you always made to learning and challenging yourself to speak in so many different speech assignments. I hope that you will continue to practice and apply the communication skills and techniques that we "conquered" this semester. I hope that everyone will drop me an occassion email or come find me and keep me updated on your Rider experiences. Always be proactive in building your career path. Remember you are the designer of your life. Happy Holidays! Best wishes for a Happy "2010" New Year.

Quick Tips When Developing Your Virtual Portfolio

Here is a quick summary of how to create and manage your virtual portfolio.
The design of your blog should be something that communicates your personality in addition to communicating a sense of professionalism. The colors have to be pleasing to the eye and enhance the visibility of all your words. Be sure viewers can easily read your blog and the colors aren’t distracting to the intent of your message. The titles of the blog should express your personality and be easily remembered by the viewer. You want to catch perspective employer with something that illustrates creativity on your part.
Don’t try to over reach with the technical stuff. Blogger offers a lot of gadgets but remember this is about getting your message across to the viewer simply too. Brainstorm the transferable skills that you would like to illustrate. How can you sell yourself to an employer? It's important that you have good examples of what you do and who you are on your blog to back up your transferable skills. Illustrate these skills in both academic endeavors and outside hobbies, volunteer work, part time employment, etc... Be sure to include your resume and cover letter. You should use Google Docs to post large pieces of information. Give us a brief introduction in each blog and then, hyperlink whenever you can. Do not overwhelm the viewer. Create an easily scan able portfolio for the eye, similar to an easily scan able cover letter. Remember, when using Docs, you must upload your work, save it and then publish it. To do this, click on "Share" and then choose "publish/embed." Once the page comes up that shows your published document's link, you can take that link and put it in the "Edit Html" of your post so that it is immediately viewable on your blog (This is best for PowerPoint’s), or take the link and hyperlink it in your post using the hyperlink button on the "Compose" of your post. To make sure that this works, log out of your Google account and go on your blog as a visitor. Then click on the hyperlink and see if your document comes up. For those of you who may want to upload a video, use YouTube and then put the link in the "Edit Html" of your post.
Don't be afraid to be creative and remember to adapt to your audience's needs and frame of reference. Try creating a video handshake by using a web cam and uploading and embedding into your blog using youtube. Or, try hyperlinking to web sites that put a picture into a viewer's mind, for example a place of employment or a volunteer experience. The idea of the portfolio is to expand on your resume and highlight information about you that might appear one dimensional or limited on a resume.
Go to our blog and view some of my past students work for ideas on designing and writing. You shouldn’t hesitate to reach out to me if you need help. We can arrange to work together online or meet to discuss your needs or just brainstorm

Interviewing

We will be conducting interviews in class next week. Please take a look at these handouts in your preparation for this assignment. You are required to dress appropriately and bring a copy of the job advertisement with you to class for your mock interview. Please refer to blackboard for some links to interviewing sites.

Interview Questions to use when practicing your speech assignment

Interview Assignment Details

Persuasive Speeches

Well, the persuasive issues speeches are underway! Please post your critiques here. Be sure that all critiques are detailed and make comment to how well the presenters applied their argument to Monroe's Motivated Sequence, in addition to including the supporting sources needed to provide the necessary reasoning and evidence. Remember, arguments need logic and evidence every step of the way to be peruasive. Holes in the argument ( lack of evidence) need to be addressed in this critique.

Do Words Really Matter?

We will be preparing soon for our next speech and taking on a new goal in our speaking with persuasive speech. It will be your job in the next speech to find an issue that you feel are passionate. What words or strategies can you imploy to movitate change in your audience? We will review the techniques and strategies of persuasive speaking in the next few sessions. Take a look at this video. Leave a comment to this 11 year old boy's desire to create change. We will discuss in class later this week.

Entertainment Speech -Self Critique

Please post your self critique for your entertainment speech here. I am looking for a deeper and more detailed critique than submitted this summer. The speech critique must include strengths and improvements. It must be a minimum of 200 words. Do not just focus on your delievery. I want to hear about your content too. Please identify the element of humor techniques that you incorporated in your speech. How successful were these techniques? What would you do different? Or, the same if you performed this speech again? BE sure to view your youtube clip before positng and refer to it in your post.

What's Your EQ?

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 our class discussions, assigned readings,and the results of your self test. 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. Blog comment is due by Tuesday, September 22 at the start of class.

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Chris Daggett, Candidate for Governor Visits Rider University

Engaging An Audience
The race for a Governor in New Jersey is on! It is a perfect time to observe the communication skills that we have addressed over the summer session. We are the only university that will host all three candidates currently running for Governor of New Jersey. This Tuesday, Sept 15, the first candidate to visit the Rider University campus will be Mr. Chris Daggett. The goal of this blog is to observe and apply the effectiveness of his communication. What ways does Mr. Daggett engage his audience successfully? Please comment in the ways that Mr. Chris Daggett engages his audience in his presentation. Did Mr. Daggett give his audience a reason to listen? What ways did he engage the audience in the introduction? Here are just a few things to think about as listening to his presentation. Did he meet the objectives of an introduction? If so, to what effect? Did he tell his audience what the presentation was about? How did he gear the information to a college audience? How did he adapt to the listener’s experiences, knowledge and interests? Did he bring audience involvement by personalizing and connecting to the audience? How did he help his listeners through his presentations? Did you hear previews, internal summaries and transitions? How did he create a presentation that was geared for the ear and not the eye? What kinds of verbal devices and language were utilized? Did he design an effective conclusion? Summarize your thoughts to this presentation. Gear your comments to specific, detailed examples and application to engaging your audience for effective communication. What are your overall thoughts about his platform? Comments are due by Friday, September 18th at the start of class.

Chris Daggett's Website

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Anyone Can Be Funny - The Entertainment Speech

Anyone be funny. Yes, really. It isn't what you say but how you say. There are five techniques to humor that we will apply in our first speech. It will be your task in the first speech to use a minimum of three of the five techniques one time.

The Five Techniques to Humor:
1. Using Yourself
2. Using Others
3. Pulling the Peg/Changing the Switch
4. Building Bridges
5. Element of Surprise

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How many times do you hear one of more of these techniques being applied in the clip below? Please post your commentary to this clip by Friday, Sept,11 2009 class meeting. What kinds of techniques do you find yourself using when creating humor in your conversations?
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It's A Wrap....For Now

Terrific effort this semester. I am enjoying all of your speeches so much. There are some really good students and really nice people in both my sections. Thanks for making my job teaching you, so much fun! This post is the self critique post. Please use at least 250 words to address your strengths and weaknesses. I also want to read the three top areas that you will be giving extra special attention to improving this fall. It's been a really nice semester. Pat yourself on the back for surviving the last five weeks and producing your first college work! Feel free to email me and say "hi" while you finish the summer break once you return home. I am looking forward to teaching you again in the fall.

Passion Speech Critique of Speech Buddy

This post is devoted to commenting and critiquing your speech partner's passion speech performance. The critique comments should include both the strengths and improvements of their performance. Please do not focus strictly on the delivery elements and comment on the entire performance in content, visual aids, delivery and preparation. You should be addressing the final goals of effective communication and audience adaptation in all comments. Give suggestions for needed improvements and support the elements that were examples of effective communication. This critique is due by Wednesday, August 5th.

Weekend Assignment, TED Talks: Evaluate the Speaker, Jill Bolte Taylor

How can your stories make an impact on your audience? What can you do in your presentation to gain reaction and initiate an intelligent discussion within your audience? Take a look at this video, note what works for the speaker in gaining authenticity with the audience, her ability to keep the audience involved and how she takes a technical topic and makes it user friendly. How can you apply some of these techniques in your presentations? Be specific in your critique and assertions and use examples and techniques as demonstrated by the speaker. Post your comments here no later than Monday, August 3rd, before class time.

President Obama trip to New Jersey

Listening in a public speaking situation is important. Listening can teach us how to become better speakers and become knowledgeable in important issues among other things. Please comment in this post after you have returned from your outing at the PNC Arts Center to hear President Obama and Governor Corzine speak. I want to know what techniques did you hear being used by either of these speakers ( or, if another is present) that illustrated a message being adapted specifically to a college audience? What was the message? How was it achieved? Topic? Supporting Details? Delivery? Or something else? Be specific. You need to tie your comments directly information evidenced in the speech. Really listening teaches us many things...and can really open up new perspectives....What did you listen to?

Self Evaluation - Speech #1- Did You Ever Notice?

Our first speech is completed. A nice effort was shown in research content and delievery. Use this post to comment on your own performance. A self evaluation of your first speech in both content and delivery should be addressed here. Please do not just focus on delivery aspects and remember to discuss your content and research citations too! I am looking for you to use details here as you discuss needed improvements and actions to implement them. Don't forget to focus on your strengths as well. Be sure to discuss in what ways your strengths contributed to an overall effective message. Overall, good start today!

Informative Speech Practice Sessions- "Did You Ever Notice"

Hi Everyone,
I am pleased at how well everyone is progressing on your first speech. As we discussed in class, tonight and tomorrow night will be practice sessions in the library. You should rehearse at least twice with your assigned speech buddy the night before your presentation is due. (You should check blackboard under announcements for the two day speech schedule.) You need to place your speech critique using the feedback form under EOP assignments links on this blog. Compose your comments after rehearsal in the evening. The comments must be completed in the evening for next day credit. Give your partner some detailed suggestions on how to improve in content and delivery areas that are lacking.....and continued encouragement in those places that are going well. :). The comments must be a least one hundred words.

Welcome To Rider University

Welcome EOP Class of 2013!

I am looking forward to working with everyone this semester. There are some fun learning activities planned for the summer session including blogging! We will be using this blog to complete some homework assignments and help you explore the coursework with links to some supplemental resources too. You can chat with Professor McManimon here as well. You should access this site on a daily basis to check in for the latest EOP news. Also you can check our syllabus here. Looking forward to a great semester...hang on the five weeks will just fly by!