Listening assessment information and link

Morning all.

The link to the third assessment for the FA1W 12 Unit, Listening, is noted towards the end of this post.

I’d respectfully ask that you don’t provide any feedback in the comments section this time please, given that it’s an assessment.

All the information has been noted in the e mail of 24/2/23 and I’ve also popped the info on Moodle for you. The folder is called LISTENING ASSESSMENT.

The final date for this to be sent, by e mail to me, is 12:00 on Tuesday 14th March 2023. I suggest you get your draft completed answers to me before this date though, in case there is any remediation to attend to. All scripts will be marked by Friday 17th March 2023. 

I will mark the answers in good time (around my other commitments) to provide feedback to you. All submissions will be acknowledged with a rough marking turnaround time. 

Please use the PP slides I showed you in class in my teaching and any sample answers for the practise talks we looked at together. That will help you with how you might want to formulate your answers.

Only questions 1 and 5 have word counts attached to them. 

Don't forget to use the transcript and highlight examples in your analysis. The language is a little different in this talk, more formalised, so think about the content of the presentation. This is a straightforward one to make comment on language, due to the subject matter. Try not to compare this presenter's style to the practise talks!

Here is the assessment link: Ofer Levy: The new science of personalized vaccines
https://www.ted.com/talks/ofer_levy_the_new_science_of_personalized_vaccines

Good luck as always, and of course you must work independently. 

Once you have finished the assessment after any remediation, I will ask you to upload to Turnitin, but that isn't for some weeks yet. You’ll be advised of that date in due course.

All the very best,

Mark 🤞

Meaghan Ramsey TED talk - Listening practise 2

Please click on the link below and answer the questions you have been e mailed and on Moodle for next Friday's class for discussion (17/2/23).

Why thinking you're ugly is bad for you Meaghan Ramsey - YouTube

See you next Friday,

Mark

Jamie Oliver TED talk - Listening practise 1

Hi all.

Below is the link to the TED talk we watched in class today.

Please make sure you watch this and have answers to the questions for discussion in the respective Communication classes next Friday.

Jamie Oliver: Teach every child about food | TED Talk

All the best,

Mark

Running order in semester two - classes will be split into two

 

Social Care / Social Work Weekly Schedule

Communication NC - (FA1W 12)

By now, all of you should have passed the first two assessments – 5-8 minutes oral presentation and the 650-1000 words formal report. If not, you MUST attend to this as a matter of priority. There are two further assessments – Listening and Reading analysis. They are straightforward, if you follow my help notes and attend my classes…

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27/1 – easing back into the semester with some reflective writing / tidying up of reports as necessary.

3/2 – PP on listening information, what that assessment entails and watching a TED talk. Questions given out in class and discussed in small groups next week.

10/2 – go over the TED talk questions in small groups and sample answers supplied. Second practise talk qs and link given out.

17/2 – go over the second TED talk questions in small groups. Sample answers supplied.

24/2 – Listening assessment watched in class. Assessment brief given out. Brief discussion.

3/3, 10/3, 17/3 – Listening assessment done in own time – submission date, 17^th March 2022 – by e mail. You will be authorised for these three weeks so you can work on your answers in your own time.

24/3 – listening marking returned to you and you can work on any remediation in class time.

31/3 – reading analysis PP, practise text and sample qs given out.

7 and 14 April – holidays

21/4 – go over the practise text and answers in small groups. Sample answers distributed. Practise text two given out.

28/4 - go over the practise text and answers in small groups. Sample answers distributed. Info about final assessment discussed.

5/5, 12/5, 19/5 – reading assessment done in class.

26^th May – holiday

2/6 and 9/6 – classes only used if necessary. Everything MUST be passed by 9^th June 2023.

Mark.Hetherington@nclan.ac.uk

13/1/23.

Presentation success, week 2!

 Hello all,

Well done to all the presenters who were successful this afternoon with their oral presentations.

Six talks, six passes - very well done to Mia, Jasmeen, Makenzie, Marion, Sophie M and Nikitta - 6 excellent talks, all of which passed. 

The subjects were varied and interesting and well researched, as they were last week. 

I thoroughly enjoyed the talks mainly for the following reasons - your input, your research, your enthusiasm, q and a and more, excellent. This is the standard I am looking for.

For those of you who were at the session today, I would like you to comment on how you felt the session went this morning when it is fresh in your mind. You may wish to use all, some of these prompts.

• did it go as well as you had planned?
• what did you do well?
• could you have done better?
• did you learn something about yourself and your peers?
• what did you think about the feedback etc.?

These are just pointers for you to consider. Please feel free to namecheck anybody in particular whose talk you particularly enjoyed.

This post assessment reflection will be our starting point when we return as a full class on Friday 18th November once the two sessions have been completed. 

Well done everybody and I look forward to your thoughts.

Mark

Presentation assessment, week 1, success

Hello all,

Well done to all the presenters who were successful this afternoon with their oral presentations.

Nine talks, nine passes - very well done to Amanda, Leigh, Scott, Siobhan, Lori, Liam, Nicola, Hannah and Lauren - 9 excellent talks, all of which passed. 

The subjects were varied and interesting and well researched. 

I thoroughly enjoyed the talks mainly for the following reasons - your input, your research, your enthusiasm, q and a and more, excellent. This is the standard I am looking for.

I also heard my very first Sway presentation today, went well. Bravo, Amanda. 

For those of you who were at the session today, I would like you to comment on how you felt the session went this morning when it is fresh in your mind. You may wish to use all, some of these prompts. It will help next week's presenters too, I would imagine:

• did it go as well as you had planned?
• what did you do well?
• could you have done better?
• did you learn something about yourself and your peers?
• what did you think about the feedback etc.?

These are just pointers for you to consider. Please feel free to namecheck anybody in particular whose talk you particularly enjoyed.

This post assessment reflection will be our starting point when we return as a full class on Friday 18th November once the two sessions have been completed. 

Well done everybody and I look forward to your thoughts.

Mark

Happy Halloween!

Hello all,

I thought you’d like to see my themed golf trews from yesterday. I always wear flashy and colourful breeks when I’m golfing, but these are always reserved for the nearest game I play to Halloween! 🦇🎃🏌🏻‍♂️😂

Cheers, and I will see some of you on Friday for assessment one.

Mark