We continued to finish off the bits and pieces foe the communication course today (see previous post for what has to be done).
Some folk managed to complete the unit today - others have said that they'd email the work to me. Again, here is my email address: jerryoneill@stevenson.ac.uk
Remember that next week is the last week that we have to finish off work.
If you have any queries or concerns, get in touch.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Thursday, January 7, 2010
The beginning of the end ..
Thanks to the four brave souls who made it in today.
There are just two classes left for communication. We will be using these two classes (and your own time) to complete all the pieces of work for the communication unit.
Here is a brief reminder of what you need to complete to pass the unit:
There are just two classes left for communication. We will be using these two classes (and your own time) to complete all the pieces of work for the communication unit.
Here is a brief reminder of what you need to complete to pass the unit:
- complete and/or correction responses on the London Olympics report
- produce a notice and an agenda for the research meeting
- take part in a research meeting
- write minutes for research meeting
- produce report on social, economic and political impact of your chosen event (see previous entry for agreed sections to that report)
You can, of course, email any of these documents to me as you complete them. You may find that you need more than the time we have in class to complete the work.
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Putting the report together
We started today by thinking about reports in general.
Four groups designed posters that came up with ideas to my question, "what makes a report a report?"
We had some good ideas on this - some points focused on the various sections which we would expect to find in a report. Other ideas mentioned the style of a report - how it was written and how it looked (the layout). Some points were also made about the purpose and readership of reports. Great work on that - well done!
I then asked the groups to come up with headings for the report that forms part of the assessment for this unit. Between you all, you came up with a good structure. While you had a break, I tweaked it a bit, so that we ended up with this as the structure for the report:
Title page
Contents page
1 Introduction (the purpose of your report will be made clear here)
2 Research methods (what did you do to research the report - ie internet research, consultation of course text, research meeting)
3 Findings
3.1 Overview of event (this should come from what you had to do for Caroline's report)
3.2 Social impact (this should come from what you had to do for Caroline's report)
3.3 Economic impact (this should come from what you had to do for Caroline's report)
3.4 Political impact (this should come from what you had to do for Caroline's report)
4. Conclusion (In general terms, or in summary form, what are the social, economic and political impacts of your chosen event - write a sentence on each)
5. References (detail of specific sources you used to research the event - ie. website address and when you accessed it.)
6. Appendices (copy of agenda and minutes for research meeting)
Everyone typed this structure up and saved it as the starting point for the report for this class.
We finished with an exercise on formal writing style. The point of this exercise was to get you to practise more formal writing as is required for report writing.
Here are some links on report writing and formal writing that you may find useful:
http://www2.napier.ac.uk/gus/writing_presenting/reports.html#style
http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/writing/
Next week, it's just a matter of putting the information that you have into the report structure which we devised today.
Four groups designed posters that came up with ideas to my question, "what makes a report a report?"
We had some good ideas on this - some points focused on the various sections which we would expect to find in a report. Other ideas mentioned the style of a report - how it was written and how it looked (the layout). Some points were also made about the purpose and readership of reports. Great work on that - well done!
I then asked the groups to come up with headings for the report that forms part of the assessment for this unit. Between you all, you came up with a good structure. While you had a break, I tweaked it a bit, so that we ended up with this as the structure for the report:
Title page
Contents page
1 Introduction (the purpose of your report will be made clear here)
2 Research methods (what did you do to research the report - ie internet research, consultation of course text, research meeting)
3 Findings
3.1 Overview of event (this should come from what you had to do for Caroline's report)
3.2 Social impact (this should come from what you had to do for Caroline's report)
3.3 Economic impact (this should come from what you had to do for Caroline's report)
3.4 Political impact (this should come from what you had to do for Caroline's report)
4. Conclusion (In general terms, or in summary form, what are the social, economic and political impacts of your chosen event - write a sentence on each)
5. References (detail of specific sources you used to research the event - ie. website address and when you accessed it.)
6. Appendices (copy of agenda and minutes for research meeting)
Everyone typed this structure up and saved it as the starting point for the report for this class.
We finished with an exercise on formal writing style. The point of this exercise was to get you to practise more formal writing as is required for report writing.
Here are some links on report writing and formal writing that you may find useful:
http://www2.napier.ac.uk/gus/writing_presenting/reports.html#style
http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/words/writing/
Next week, it's just a matter of putting the information that you have into the report structure which we devised today.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Working on minutes - more meetings.
Today groups 1, 2 and 3 worked on producing their minutes for the research meeting. Remember that everyone has to submit their own minutes - I can't accept the same set of minutes for each member of the group. I know that this isn't the way minutes would be done in a work setting, however, as part of the assessment, each student is required to produce minutes (I asked people to submit their work at the end of the class - I got some, but not all, of the minutes. I presume the rest are on their way to jerryoneill@stevenson.ac.uk).
As the groups worked on that, Group 4 had their meeting (I'll give you feedback next week). And we set up a Group 5 for the three folk who still need to do their meeting.
One thing that came out of the meetings so far is that there is little use in going to the first sites that Google suggest. These sites are often more to do with the marketing and promotion of the event and you may find that there is little there on the political, economic or social impact of your event. You need to dig a bit deeper and, as one member of Group 4 said, "Go old school - use the library".
However, all of this is part of the reasons for having these research meetings in the first - you get to discuss some of the problems you are having with your research topics.
Next week, you will be putting all of your research together in your report.
As the groups worked on that, Group 4 had their meeting (I'll give you feedback next week). And we set up a Group 5 for the three folk who still need to do their meeting.
One thing that came out of the meetings so far is that there is little use in going to the first sites that Google suggest. These sites are often more to do with the marketing and promotion of the event and you may find that there is little there on the political, economic or social impact of your event. You need to dig a bit deeper and, as one member of Group 4 said, "Go old school - use the library".
However, all of this is part of the reasons for having these research meetings in the first - you get to discuss some of the problems you are having with your research topics.
Next week, you will be putting all of your research together in your report.
Thursday, November 26, 2009
Continuing with meetings
We continued with the meetings today.
While the meeting was taking place, the rest of the class worked on completing the reading assessment.
Next week, most of you will complete the meeting assessment by writing up the minutes of your meeting.
While the meeting was taking place, the rest of the class worked on completing the reading assessment.
Next week, most of you will complete the meeting assessment by writing up the minutes of your meeting.
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Starting the meeting assessments
Today we got started on the meeting assessments with groups 1 and 2. Thanks to everyone who came prepared.
We had two useful discussions on the research that you've done so far. One of the reasons for having these meetings is to talk about some of the problems you have had with researching the various impacts of your event. It is good to be able to identify gaps in your research at this stage, rather than a week before you need to submit your report.
Groups 3 and 4 worked on preparing themselves for next week and, for some at least, finishing off the reading assessment.
As always, if you have any questions, make a comment ...
We had two useful discussions on the research that you've done so far. One of the reasons for having these meetings is to talk about some of the problems you have had with researching the various impacts of your event. It is good to be able to identify gaps in your research at this stage, rather than a week before you need to submit your report.
Groups 3 and 4 worked on preparing themselves for next week and, for some at least, finishing off the reading assessment.
As always, if you have any questions, make a comment ...
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