Syllabi Updated

If you click on the ADM 316 and COM 115 links above, you will now be able to view those course syllabi in PDF format. I will soon have an updated syllabus for MGT 205 in the next week or so.

Watch the Twitter Feed

You might think I’ve been gone for more than a week… well, I have, but that doesn’t mean that I’m not updating things around here while I’m gone.

You might find the following links useful. They are hashtags on my Twitter feed set up by course. I’m hoping to get all the pertinent IWU CAPS courses hashed on here eventually, but for now, these are the ones I teach. Happy reading!

ADM316

BUS105

COM110

COM115

MGT205

Twitter Feed

I’ve expanded the Twitter feed to the right, because so many of the blogs that I subscribe to and are listed on the left are also on Twitter. It makes it a lot easier for me to forward great ideas and content over to the blog here without having to post directly through WordPress (still haven’t gotten the hang of it yet for iPhone). Check it the sidebar to the right for some great retweets!

This also reminds me that I need to clean up the blog roll… the work is never done *sigh*

ADM 316 Workshop 1 Slides

I had some trouble uploading this, which is why they’re so late. Since most of class was taken up with introductions, the quiz, and Microsoft Office, there isn’t too much here.

PowerPoints Update

I updated Slideshare with PowerPoints that will work. You should be able to see them for COM 115 Workshop 2 and COM 115 Workshop 3.

COM 115 Workshop 3 Slides

We didn’t cover Chapter 4, but the slides are all still there.

COM 115 Workshop 2 Slides

Some of the slides have been edited for brevity over the internet.

New Link

I added a new link to the right, Speaking Pro Central. It aggregates the content of several public speaking and presentation blogs. Looks very informative. Here are some interesting links from there to start you off:

What’s the Future of Speaker Support Graphics? – Our own WTHR in Indianapolis gets roasted a little bit in this one. The article makes an interesting point that news graphics are a good model for our own PowerPoint presentations and visual aids.

How Room Design May Affect Your Presentation – There are all kinds of acoustic and psychological research on this topic that you could review. A very interesting topic.

Slide Make-Over: US Coast Guard – Interesting to see the graphicless, busy, and wordy “before” pictures compared to the more polished “after” pictures.

Face to Face Communication is Worthless! – Not really, but a good advertisement on how important preparation is.

Should You Display the Live Twitter Stream on a Large Screen? – This wasn’t on that site, but it should be. A lot of presenters (even some churches) are using new media such as text messageing and Twitter feeds to enhance their presentation experience. It allows the audience to discuss topics quietly, elaborate on ideas, and give feedback on the presentation itself.

In fact, I recently listened to a podcast of a sermon where the audience was invited to text questions about the Bible, about the church, and about the pastor himself, and they ran a feed that displayed the questions that had been asked. Pretty nifty… it allowed the pastor to maintain some control over the topics that were discussed and it allowed the questions to be asked without a lot of logistics (such as someone running around with a microphone pretending to be Phil Donahue).

Anyway, check out Speaking Pro Central.

COM 115 Workshop 1 Slides

Here is the PowerPoint for tonight’s class.

Looking forward to meeting everyone tonight!

Information Overload

I have to tell you, between Facebook, experimenting with Twitter, keeping up with my RSS feeds, and e-mail, I think the information overload now available from the internet is going to make my eyeballs bleed. Seriously.

That’s probably a little bit harsh, but how much time can you waste with this stuff? I mean, I came back from vacation, and it took about two days to wade through the most important of the muck.

The problem is that I think that I’m going to miss out on something of benefit. So, in that case, am I putting my faith and trust in God or in Google Reader?

Not much else to say, but a lot for me to chew on. If you’re in the COM 115 class, I’ll see you on Monday.