Week Eight Hello

Welcome to the semester's conclusion after a swift and exacting eight weeks of writing.

Look with care at the Announcements for Week Eight and then listen to this week's video, paying particular attention to due dates for the Special Project (Friday) and Revisions (Sunday).



You have one Discussion Thread, so get to it early and often.

The thread asks that you investigate the world of Blogs and Podcasts. And for a review over web pages and oral presentations in particular, listen to last year's Greeting for Week Eight.


Remember that this video comes from last spring, the first part of the spring term. You due dates are Saturday, March 3, for your project, and Sunday, March 4, for your revisions.

Thank you for a productive eight weeks.

Enjoy your week and take the quiz right away: only one question, and the answer is TRUE.

Bill

The New Week Seven Greetings

Welcome to Week Seven. This short video offers information about this week's assignments.

Make sure to watch the Greeting for Week Seven from 2009.

And watch as well the video from 2009 before you take Quiz Seven.

Enjoy a good week, Bill

New Week Six

Brown Creeper

As this week's announcement indicates, the new edition of our text makes some changes in vocabulary that might confuse, especially when you listen to last year's greeting for Week Six.

But as I indicate in the new video at the end of this posting , you should give last year's greeting your close attention.

You have a brief writing assignment this week and two discussion threads: remember that you do not want to wait until Saturday or Sunday to post, for not much discussion takes place at that late time of the week. Get to both threads early in the week, especially as this week's reading assignments cover only two new chapters.

And you have a quiz this week, part of it review; give the video from last term a look and do a good job.

I wish all of you a productive week.

Week Five Rushes Up

Hello One and All,


We begin the slide--on a slippery slope, indeed, given the prevailing weather here in Peru--to the term's conclusion.



This week, again, you have three videos. At the conclusion of this message, you will find a brief (twenty minutes) video of greeting in which I go over this week's assignments and offer some particulars about the final projects.


The video offers, in addition, some guidelines about collaboration that you can begin with this week's writing assignment and the initial proposal for your final project you will share with everyone by the week's conclusion.


Make sure to watch last year's greeting and the quiz review. Remember: last year's greetings, as was the case with the previous week's video, does not address the same writing assignment: things changed.

But they remain the same for both 2010 and 2011--another new edition will come out, I am told, so next year, the course will change again.


So, for that specific information, read carefully this week's reading and writing assignments and watch the video at the conclusion of this introduction.


You have two engaging discussion threads this week, one of which asks that you work on and share a resume--and on the the other, you will offer in addition to doing some on-line research a brief proposal for your final project.

And in a note for 2012, I have enjoyed this week reading the excellent work a few of you have done on the discussion threads; those engaged in the process do a good job. So make an effort to keep these threads active and interesting, for they play an important part in a class such as this one.

The following video comes from last term:

Review for Quiz Four

Quiz Review for WEEK FOUR

Hello Everyone,

We reach the half-way mark in this class--congratulations to one and all for your continued hard work.

Here you will find twenty questions that cover Chapters 11, 12, and 13; questions for Chapter 14 will appear on next week's quiz. And a couple questions refer to the important issues covered in Chapter 10, concerns you will continue to address in all your class work..

Listen carefully to the discussion, for I do touch on every question and want each of you to do a good job. And a couple questions refer to matters related to what the text has to say and to which I add a couple things.


I will hope that snow does not assault with great vengeance the area over the next three or four days.

Do a good job on the quiz, Bill

Week Four Greetings

At the conclusion of this week, we will reach the midpoint in our quick term. Congratulations to all who keep up with the work.

As this new video indicates, you have a good deal of reading this week; however, concentrate your efforts on Chapters 11 and 14, to which the Discussion Threads refer as does this week's writing assignments.

The new edition forces, as the video indicates, me to revise considerably again this week.

Read the other two chapters, to be sure, for the material is of no small importance to your understanding of Technical Communication. Nothing goes to waste.

I will post as well a video later in the week for this week's quiz.

Continue to experiment with Google Groups and Documents. And uses the following address for downloading pod casts:

http://web.me.com/bclemente/podcast.xml

Enjoy a productive and warm week.

Week Three Quiz

Hello One and All,

I made the following video Wednesday evening in the office to ensure that the quiz got going on time.

Here I talk about the central points the quiz covers; as always, my comments try to address each of the questions asked on the quiz.

Do a good job, Bill