Freshmen

Two freshmen classes in morning.   first with 20 and second with 12.  First had a couple that english wasnt that bad.  Second class knew very little English.  I went over the syllabus by asking questions and having them circle or underline to demonstrate understanding.  Learned some names and departments.  In second class did groups of three.

Presentations

Did a bit on the student's experience presenting.  Some pitfalls and advice.  Some examples were a presentation on Venus where the file crashed and the student ended up drawing on the board and lost the plot.  Disaster.  Others included just reading and having no eye contact.  We heard that presenting in a foreign language makes it even harder.  Even if your English is good and you feel comfortable doing group work, once you are all alone in the front of the class things can go awry.  I will try to update with pic from the book.

We looked at how presenters opened.  Usually introducing themselves  their position, their topic, who the intended audience is, and a bit on varying levels of formality.  Homework was to prepare the opening to a talk on one of 3 topics.

7 week presentations

First half of presentations week by week break down

Sophmore week 2

Did titles.  Nationality and occupation.  Fuctions introduce people and lowering levels of formality.  Started conjunctions too.

This guy is a tool.  A couple students were unsure about what was last name fro themselves and put hometown in for occupation.

I watched a bit then skipped ahead to 10:30.  This is simply amazing.  

Nice colour scheme.  hard frame in the back.  I wonder if the little springs on the seat will give any comfort?  No front fender.  Big fat front tire.  Terrible in the rain.

I really could use a box of Oreos right now.