Week of 8/15

Big news this week is (of course): final papers are due Tuesday 8/16 at the beginning of class. Tuesday, we'll do an in-class workshop for presentations and Wednesday and Thursday will be the presentations themselves. I'll have a few more things to say (and link to), but for now check out this guide to body language from INC magazine (via the Lifehacker website) and this more general how-to from Lifehacker itself. The latter is focused on talks that use slides (such as Powerpoint/Keynote), but the basic ideas of simplicity, storytelling, and clarity are true for almost anything.

On Presentations

Here's Carmine Gallo's written summary (in Businessweek) of his video I showed today on presentation tips.

Here's the order:

Wednesday: Isa, Diana, Gissell, Miriam, Hong, Kai, Alicia, Julissa, (time permitting) Luvasia

Thursday: Asha, Brieanna, Kaydee-Ann, Mimi, Ching Ching, Arieanna

For those of you using video clips, try downloading them with Keepvid.com or a similar video capture site and saving on a USB key. That way, you don't have to worry about slow playback. As a back-up, post the link to your blog, so you can pull it up quickly without showing the entire class your e-mail inbox.

[Edited Tuesday 8/16, 4:50 PM]

For Tuesday, August 9

Hopefully today's library trip gave you a few new sources or things to think about for your topics. For tomorrow, first please catch up on the existing work if you're behind: specifically posting your intended topic to your blog and the 2 reviews or articles about it. Also write a summary of 2 reviews (see the previous post) and turn it in if you haven't done so yet. If you're all caught up, then post the titles of the books/articles you found on the trip to the library today on your blog and post a short (2 paragraph) reflection on what you found/learned on today's trip to your blog.

For tomorrow, Read pages 104-105 (Forming/Supporting a thesis) in Hacker's Pocket Style Manual (the small, spiral-bound book) and bring it to class. Also think about your topic and be ready to do a short writing/formatting exercise about it in class.

Lastly, watch this short Youtube video on using EBSCO, which is one of the more helpful library databases for finding full text articles.

(The video is from a different college, but it's the same EBSCO you can get from CUNY/NY Public.) You can find EBSCO here via the NYPL website. If you're at a CUNY or NYPL branch, you can just search for articles without logging in. From home, you'll need your library account # and password.

if you owe library fines, here's the link to the NYPL's amnesty program Carol Small mentioned today that gives you credit for reading this summer. Just hope you don't run into the Library Cop! Just kidding: the last video's only for fun.