Final presentations, round 2!

Well done to Gary, Alma and Dave who gave wonderful presentations on Narcotics Anonymous, Anorexia Nervosa and The Death Penalty respectively. And thank you to Gary who stepped up and delivered his talk a week early so that there wouldn't be a backlog in subsequent weeks. I really enjoyed the question and answer session and the informal discussion afterwards. Good work all!

First two assessed presentations overview

Two excellent presentations to kick off the final round of assessed oral presentations this morning.

 Michal on the Basque country and Christian on the alternative vote. Well done to both and I thoroughly enjoyed listening to them.



Assessment times for the second presentation (analysis)

Hi all,

Today we used the time for you to finalise your presentation topic and research on the subject that you have chosen. The  topics you have picked are wide ranging and interesting. Remember, this presentation counts as an integrated outcome for Communication IV and Oral Presentation Skills (Learning Outcomes 3 and 4 respectively).

Don't forget when you put your slides together to follow the structure we adopted for the first presentation:

• Title slide (your name, topic, date of delivery)
• Structure slide (what you will talk about)
• Content slides (the amount is up to you, but remember you are speaking for 8-10 minutes this time)
• Conclusion slide (recapping your talk with some bullet points)
• Sources (VERY important for this talk)
• Q and A session slide.

The delivery times for the talks are as follows. I have given a brief outline of what the presentation topics are for each student (although I may be wrong in some cases, so please keep me right next Monday in case I have made any errors)!

Remember, you only need to attend your presentation slot, but I would encourage you to attend as many sessions as you can to support your peers and enjoy the myriad of topics.

Monday 21st March (120) - Christian (alternative vote) and Michal (Basque country).

Tuesday 22nd March (409) - Luigi (racism), Jonathon (global warming), Alma, Dave (death penalty), Leigham.

Monday 28th March (120) - Sean (La Cosa Nostra) and Hanni (Tourism analysis between Scotland and Canada).

Tuesday 29th March (409) - Gavin (drugs) , Gary (drugs), Vesela (binge drinking), Aaron (Tsunami analysis), Christie (History option).

Monday 4th April (120) - Ania (implications of banning the burqa in France) and Ellen (stereotypes in advertising).

Assessment brief / blogging discussion

Hi all,

We went over the brief for the next assessment - an 8-10 minute oral presentation. This has a different focus to the last talk you delivered (the 'how to do') in that you are asked to communicate information using statistics (where possible), objectivity and a wide range of sources. There are lots of different topics you can choose under four broad headings: health, social issues, environment and charities. You can also choose a topic from an area you have studied in History or Investigating Europe. If that wasn't enough choice, there is also the 'another topic not on the list to be agreed with me' option! If you were not in attendance today, I will bring the brief to the 4th floor tomorrow along with a copy of the slides I used today and Alma's (Head Librarian) PP information from October.

We also chose the presentation slots for you to deliver your talk and there are only a few times left I'm afraid.
I also enjoyed hearing about what you might deliver your talks on and the topics were varied and interesting.

We finished off the session with a discussion on blogging and that was fascinating. I learned a lot from our chat and this may form part of my paper for the Scotland's Colleges initiative that I made reference to.

See you all tomorrow on the 4th floor at 9.

All the best, Mark

STV link

http://news.stv.tv/video/glasgow-west/stv-news-at-six-west-20110301/

Hi all, I know many of you were at the day of action on March 1st, so the link above is the STV news coverage from the day across all colleges in Scotland. There have been other articles too in the Herald and interviews on Radio Scotland.

See you in 120 on Monday for the briefing on the assessed presentation.

Mark

Blue Peter's Helen Skelton in Comic Relief tightrope walk

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-12595359

This charity tightrope walk was inspired by Monsieur Petit!

German Defence Minister steps down after he was found to have copied large parts of his university doctorate

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12608083

The link above is a very interesting read!

Remember, the reviews are to be in by Monday (7th March) and thank you to those of you who have submitted already. On Monday I will go over the next brief (oral presentation - one presentation where you are credited for an OPS outcome and a Comm. IV outcome) and I'll give you some guidance on that. It will be a very wide choice of topics and there is the possibility of you using info from work you have done in other classes too (Investigating Europe or History for example).

See you in 120 at 9am on Monday then and at 1pm for the 'show education cuts the red card' at lunchtime today.

Mark