Earth Day @ CRC: Week of April 21st

Hi gang--thanks for being flexible and enthusiastic about Earth Week! This man helped us get an early start by saving electricity during his Amish cultural presentation! Here is the plan to prepare and participate in Earth Week, a fun comunication event!

April 21st: Monday, 715pm-930pm, outside at picnic area next to BS 126: Star Party, COMS 301 students recite short verse or quote (30 sec-45 sec, memorized) about earth/stars, COMS 361 display their poster/creative projects, creative writing students share some writing, everyone snacks and has fun! HAPPY EARTH DAY EVE

April 22nd: 10am-2pm, fun tables, evcents and free stuff in the quad for Earth Day, free admission, Carribean music at noon.

Wed Apr 23rd: 12-1:30pm: Film in L-104 called "Crude Oil"

Thursday April 24th @ 7pm, guest speaker, one of Arnie's peeps: Climate Change and Adaptation "The Missing Link" location to be announced soon,
Sat. Apr. 26th, 9am-noon: Clean Up Day, clean the Strawberry Creek and get a free T-shirt, sign up by thurs Apr 24th at 5pm in the student development office, L-103

We will not formally meet for my Thursday COMS 361 7pm meeting, most of you will join us on Monday and those that can't make it can attend any of the other Earth Day events, prepare a one page summary/observation sheet w/a signature from a teacher there and a camera phone photo. Class outings with your group to recognize earth day issues will take place any time between April 13th and April 26th.

Please post any questions for me on comments below! I am proud of you!

BLOG 7: All About You...Tube

Awesome input on visual aids last week, very creative thinking! I hope seeing your classmates great (sometimes hilarious) ideas was fun and helpful--can't wait to hear those dinosaur and Batman speeches--WOW! LOL! Ok, now let's turn to technology a bit and think about You Tube, what it means in terms of communication. You'd probably use it in one of our classes as either as visual aid source, a research gathering site for entertainment or pop cultural topics, a distraction from your boring homework (!) or....?????? In this weeks LIFE ALTERING, MIND BLOWING blog-o-rama, inquiring minds want to know...???:

1. what your favorite (class appropriate) U Tube selection is

2. why and if you use the site

3. how you could use it for a speech or report

4. what does the term "DIY (do it yourself) media mean & how does it challenge our conceptions of communication/fame?

Blog On--S

BLOG 6: The week after...

Well, break is over, it went by too quickly and now we turn to serious scholarly concerns...NOT!!!! Let's do a fun CHAIN- blog about visual aids. They should be big enough to see, not too busy and fairly professional looking. They should not remain up for your entire speech, yet long enough to be seen and make impact. They should be printed or typed in simple, clear and clean fonts and they should add emphasis to your spoken message. What would a good visual aid be for a speech about the weather? Whoever answers has to throw out the next topic in their blog, ok? Try and get creative here people, I know we are all still mentally on the beach!!! Smiles--S

Have a great vacation! Blog #5

What a fun storytelling experiment, you guys crack me up!!! Ok, this week let's focus on speaking informatively, if you have coms 301, that is your next speech, if you are in 361, you'll learn about it and build on this style to create persuasive reports. Informative speech topics should be dynamic, timely, unique and fairly entertaining when applied to classroom audiences such as your bright, discerning selves. Sometimes coming up with a bad topic (REALLY BAD. like funny it is so bad) helps us avoid them and keeps it light so you can relax and see your way to a good idea for a fabulous speech or report. What, in your opinion, would be the worst possbile informative speech topic, and why? Ok, what is a topic you'd enjoy learning more about? REMINDER: Lazy bloggers, this means u! Read the other responses first, duplicate answers won't be counted, come up with something original! I'll go first: A terrible topic for me to have to grade would be: The Infield Fly Rule in Baseball, because it is obscure and confusing and too narrow and specific for a whole speech...I would love to learn more about current music trends and artists since I don't stay up with that like I used to and I don't want to be a geeky old parent listening to bad 80's glam rock or something....HELLPPP!!!!!