Lecture 30: Interview Analysis

Today's lecture is going to be in two parts. Those of you who have been following along on Twitter, would have seen that we'll have fellow student, Ian McNeill tall us about some software development he's made using what he's learnt in #ALES204. Exciting!

 This is what Ian says about his presentation:

LMS stands for "Learning Management System" and is used in one form or another by practically every company today.  LMS software has a large variety of different purposes, but they all follow the same structural format (Information presentation followed by Testing and online).  Over the last year and a half I have been making my own LMS software and you will notice much of what we learned in ALES 204 has been incorporated into the presentations!

For the second half of the class (if time permits), we'll practise analysing an interview. You will have the opportunity to find an interview related to your interest or field, and then you can analyse it using a google doc which can be found here.

Note: PLEASE make sure you *save a copy* of the google doc rather than simply writing in it! more like a workshop where you'll have most of the class to practise what we've been covering all week.

Lecture 30 interview analysis short version

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Lecture 29: Interviews

During the first partner assignment, the article in which Alison Redford is quoted is below: AlbertaPremier on path to push province toward its potential


Lecture 29:   interviews

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Lecture 28: Podcasting & Interview Techniques

Happy Monday everyone!

Lecture 28 Podcasting and Interview Techniques

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Module 12 Labs

In labs this week you'll have the opportunity to practise the interviewing and podcasting information we're talking about all week. I know you just can't wait!

Some of the things you're going to be doing:

image from audio boo.fm

1. Find a partner
2. Together, read through this handout
3. Choose whether you will ask employment questions, behavioural questions or journalistic questions
4. Take a few minutes to create some questions for each other
5. Conduct your interviews and record it using audioboo (your TA can help you)
6. Remember, you have the choice to announce your real name in the interview or use an alias
7. Think about your voice, breathing and pacing.
8. Share the link to your audioboo recording with your TA.

Read more in the google doc here.

Lecture 26: E-Mail Etiquette

For fun, read this article by Ms. Mentor: "Don't E-Mail Me This Way"

Lecture 26 email etiquette

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Lecture 25: LinkedIn for Students

Welcome to a brand new week everyone!

Today we'll be introduced to LinkedIn and we'll have a little bit of time during the lecture to register and begin our exploration with LinkedIn and how it can be useful to you as students.




A reminder about the science article assignment which is due on Friday (the 18th) at 17:00. You must send your assignment via e-mail (yes, e-mail!) to BOTH your TA and myself. If you are doing option four and have chosen the poster option, you need to send your assignment to us via e-mail and then (if you have decided to do a physical poster) you can give me the poster on Monday before we start class (otherwise, an attachment with your e-poster is fine!).

Employability & Social Media Use

Students should find this infographic very informative!

Infographic by Reppler via Mashable.

Lecture 15: Folksonomy & Tagging

Lecture 15: Folksonomy and Tagging

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Lecture 8: Facebook for Business

Today is the last lesson of the week focussing on using Facebook as an opportunity to brand ourselves as great potential employees. We are going to make an online cv that people can "like" and "share." Having this online business presence will illustrate a few obvious elements including:

• your professional profile
• your up-to-date education/work experience etc.
• your online presence

Also, think about some of the not so obvious aspects that you can show via your online cv:

• your creativity
• sense of humour
• you know how to create memorable content
• you know how to harness social media for a business purpose

NOTE: If you are wary of posting certain information online, please come and see me, and we will create a "paper" version of the assignment.

Lecture 8: Facebook for Business (E- C.V.)

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Note: Remember, this assignment forms part of your e-portfolio. It will not be graded separately BUT if you look at the rubric, you will see what you need to complete.

Note: Image found at Meghan Oliver 

DUE DATE EXTENDED to Monday September 26th, 17:00