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D&D Fortune Cookies

By ~LS~ On March 10, 2012 · 1 Comment · In Humor, I have to work? and tagged Tagged With: BRCC, D&D, Geek, Humor, Silliness, Speech

At the beginning of the semester I had to give a speech at convocation to the entire faculty, staff, and administration. I chose to speak about why the start of a new semester is like a fortune cookie. Throughout the speech I periodically opened up a fortune cookie, read the fortune, and made a comment. It was a fun speech and people liked it. They are still giving me fortune cookies and making jokes about it. I keep trying to explain to them that I don’t necessarily like to eat fortune cookies, I use them during Dungeons and Dragons. I just like to take the fortunes out and put them on the D&D battle mat. They give me a blank look, shake their head, and shove a stale fortune cookie my way. (Note: All fortune cookies are stale, right?)

So, it’s easier just to show you a picture than to [...]

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Pecha Kucha in Public Speaking

By ~LS~ On October 23, 2010 · Add Comment · In Pedagogy, Rhetoric, Technology and tagged Tagged With: For Wordies, Pedagogy, Rhetoric, Speech, Teaching, Teaching Activities

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On Office Hours and Better Teaching

By ~LS~ On September 29, 2010 · Add Comment · In I have to work?, Pedagogy and tagged Tagged With: BRCC, Pedagogy, Speech, Teaching, Work Sucks

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Another reason to like Hillary

By ~LS~ On September 18, 2010 · Add Comment · In Feminism, Politics, Pop Culture and tagged Tagged With: Feminism, Gender, Generations, Hillary, Politics, Sexism, Speech, Television

Nonverbal communication expresses power and dominance. In public, professional settings, who gets to touch whom and the nature of that touch plays out and defines gender relations. Because it’s typically subtle, people are often unaware of this dynamic. When it’s more obvious, those who are in the “one down” position see it clearly and those in the position of power remain oblivious as part of their sense of entitlement. The stereotypical male boss/female secretary and male customer/female waitress interactions illustrate this over and over again. However, as gender roles change, the accompanying nonverbal behaviors change with them. Hillary is the perfect example.

This clip from Mad Men illustrates my point (see :40 – :50). Mad Men is a wonderful show to use for examples like this because it does such a good job of capturing the cultural milieu of the 50s and 60s [...]

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Maslow’s Hierarchy

By ~LS~ On August 24, 2010 · Add Comment · In Humor, Pop Culture, Technology and tagged Tagged With: Facebook, Geek, Geek Cartoons, Silliness, Speech, Teaching

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Public speaking activity – first week of class

By ~LS~ On August 19, 2010 · Add Comment · In Pedagogy, Rhetoric and tagged Tagged With: Rhetoric, Speech, Teaching, Teaching Activities

I’ve twice used the following activity to open the semester and both times it was quite successful. I discovered the general idea by surfing around and I wish I could remember the site so I could acknowledge the creator whose idea I extended.

I have students search the web for public speaking classes, seminars, and workshops. Their task is to find the cheapest possible public speaking lessons but the caveat is that the courses cannot be from a college or university type program (such as continuing ed, University of Phoenix, whatever). Once they find a class, they need to identify the cost, hours to complete, assignments, topics covered, credentials of the instructor, and whether or not there’s an opportunity for practice and evaluation.

During class, we then review the courses they’ve discovered. There are a handful under a thousand dollars but usually the cost at least that much per person. [...]

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D&D Fortune Cookies

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