1 Opening Remarks
David Schmittlein
5.2.2 Opening up ideas: analysing the question
Writing reports and assignments can be a daunting prospect. This unit is designed to help you develop the skills you need to write effectively for academic purposes. You will learn how to interpret questions and how to plan, structure and write your assignment or report.
How you can be tracked on the Internet
It has a silly beginning, but the message is clear that bullying or thinkg one is invisible on the Internet is dangerous. Students would benefit from knowing some of the words used such as IP addresses. A good video for all ages.
Sir John Egan GLS 2010 interview PR and Racial Equality - Colleen Harris i ride my bike . . . (CCA's 2010 Second-Place Winner: R.A.W. Student Video Contest) 11.373 Science, Politics, and Environmental Policy (MIT) How to raise capital without giving away your company Parties, Campaigns and Representation: The Political Impact of Blogs and Social Media Don't Hate the Player, Hate the Game: Internet Games, Social Inequality and Racist Talk as Griefing Authentic Assessment in the era of Social Media: ideas and applications from Internet Communications 7.4 Visual tools 6 Questions 4.7 Putting topics into order for the main body of your presentation Discovering Diversity - Aaron HHMI Research Introductions: Jerry Gilfoyle Negotiation: Discover Legitimate Interests Lecture 16 - 11/18/2010
Sir John Egan (MSc01), Chairman, Severn Trent plc, on what we can learn from emerging markets
Colleen Harris has recently set a consultancy which helps map out issues of Equality and Diversity for companies such as Channel 4 and the Telegraph Media Group. She has previously worked as a PR advisor for Trevor Phillips, John Prescott, Prince Charles and Margaret Thatcher amongst others.
CCA Film major Robin Tilby won second place (and $500) in CCA's 2010 R.A.W. Video contest, which challenged filmmakers to document "CCA's Bike Culture" in a two-minute video.
This class examines the role of science in the US environmental policy-making process. It investigates the methods scientists use to learn about the natural world, the way scientific knowledge accumulates, the treatment of science by advocates and the media, and the role of science in legislative, administrative and judicial decision making. It also considers how other political systems use science in an effort to put the US approach in comparative perspective.
Entrepreneur Anat Bar-Gera on how to raise capital without giving away your company
Panel discussion during the Oxford Social Media Convention 2009 on whether the outcome of political careers and even campaigns is increasingly dependent on the successful mastery of new communication tools including social media. The outcome of political careers and even campaigns is increasingly dependent on the successful mastery of new communication tools including social media. Many MPs and members of Congress are embracing the use of social networking tools to keep in touch with their const
This talk recaps the history of racist griefing online and link the current crisis in racial discourse in the US with this practice, exploring the implications for digital games as a transnational public sphere. Games are a radically transnational medium: as Martin Lister writes in New Media: An Introduction, 'even before Pokemon, the videogame was perhaps the most thoroughly transnational form of popular culture, both as an industry (with Sony, Sega and Nintendo as the key players) but also at
The emergence of Web 2.0-enabled social media online provides a new opportunity to develop assessments that match with, and draw upon students' engagement with online knowledge networking, creating new possibilities for 'authenticity' in assessment. Authentic assessment refers both to the alignment of assessment with the actual outcomes of students' learning, and to the utilisation in assessment of approximations of real-world situations within which knowledgeable activity might take place. In b
Diagrams, mind-maps, tables, graphs, time lines, flow charts, sequence diagrams, decision trees: all can be used to organise thought. This unit will introduce you to a variety of thinking skills. Asking and answering questions is at the heart of high-quality thinking. Questions naturally arise from the desire to know and learn about things and may be the starting point for a journey of understanding.
Diagrams, mind-maps, tables, graphs, time lines, flow charts, sequence diagrams, decision trees: all can be used to organise thought. This unit will introduce you to a variety of thinking skills. Asking and answering questions is at the heart of high-quality thinking. Questions naturally arise from the desire to know and learn about things and may be the starting point for a journey of understanding.
Effective communication is the key to a successful presentation. This unit will provide you with a systematic approach to develop the necessary skills. It is important to understand that effective presentation skills can be practised and learned. It is the content of your presentation, and the simple delivery of clear and reasoned arguments, which will help you to achieve your objectives.
Aaron, director of housing operations, and Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Student Union (GLBTSU) advisor explains how important it is for faculty, staff and students to step outside of their comfort zones and learn more about their peers
The Research Introductions Series, sponsored by a grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, introduces students to the breadth of research happening at the University of Richmond. In these short, informal presentations, UR science, computer science, and mathematics faculty present their current research and discuss ways undergraduates can become involved in an undergraduate research experience.
For more on Jerry Gilfoyle visit http://physics.richmond.edu/faculty/ggilfoyl/
Alberto Vollmer, Chairman and CEO of Rum Santa Teresa in Venezuela, talks Nov. 16, 2010, at Thunderbird School of Global Management about cross-cultural negotiation. http://knowledgenetwork.thunderbird.edu/research/
Lecture 16
