I have been reading your comments and emails and listening to all the great ideas that you have to come to consult with me about. I AM SO VERY PROUD OF YOU!!!! You are such a wonderful class to teach, and I am so glad that I have the opportunity to work with you. The ideas that you have come up with for the project are simply the best ones that I have seen in my entire 10 years of teaching.
WELL DONE.
Thank you also for being so diligent, and so willing to learn. Always remember that you are the only person who can change things for yourself, only you have the power to become the best that you can possibly be. I promise you that if you keep going the way that you have been, if you keep trying, if you are not afraid to make mistakes and learn from them, you will be great!
Once again - I would like to say I am so impressed with how hard you have worked. Keep up this fantastic spirit of yours.
a summary and extra study guide for the seriously interested -
Wednesday, 24 March 2010
Saturday, 20 March 2010
MOVIEMAKER - how to use!
How To Use Movie Maker
View more presentations from mjhasley.
Windows Movie Maker Tutorial 1: How to Make a Picture Slideshow with Music - The best bloopers are here
Windows Movie Maker Effects the Basics - The best video clips are right here
How to Use Windows Movie Maker - More Advanced - Click here for funny video clips
Thursday, 18 March 2010
Hey guys - some presentation help
Perhaps you want to make a PowerPoint show to along with your project but you dont really know how to do this. In this post, I am putting in a few links to places where you can go to learn about how to use PowerPoint - the first link is how to use Powerpoint version 97 to 2003. The second link is how to use PowerPoint 2007. If you dont know what version of PowerPoint you have - these pictures might help - PowerPoint 97 - 2003 looks like this picture on the right. The menu and tool bars are quite small and narrow and there is still a text menu
On the other hand - PowerPoint 2007 looks like this picture on the left. Notice that there are a lot more "visual" guides.
There are some great video tutorials on the net - In them you can learn how to do just about anything on PowerPoint. I would like to encourage you guys to visit, learn and then to practise your PowerPoint skills - it is a vital skill for anyone, but more especially for those doing Public relations or Communication studies.
But anyway, back to the links: The first link is for those people who have never used or made a presentation onf PowerPoint before. Click on the links below next to the PowerPoint opening picture. There are video and the transcripts from the videos.
The second set of links is for PowerPoint 2007 - click on the link to go to what you want to learn. These are not video tutorials, but they do have screenshots
I hope that this information helps a few people who want to be a little more creative. Stay tuned for tomorrow's installment - how to make simple movies on Windows MovieMaker!!!
Mrs Austin
Wednesday, 17 March 2010
New Jonestown video links
Try these direct links for the Jonestown videos:
(click on the link [blue underlined text] below to go directly to the video on google video where it is stored. It will take a few seconds to buffer and then click the play button if the video doesnt play automatically)
VIDEO: Jonestown - The Final Report
(click on the link [blue underlined text] below to go directly to the video on google video where it is stored. It will take a few seconds to buffer and then click the play button if the video doesnt play automatically)
VIDEO: Jonestown - The Final Report
THE AHIV PROJECT
In this post you can find out all about the AHIV group project.
As part of your continuous assessment for this course - you are required to submit a group project. This project is like a test. It will count as part of your mark/grade for this course. It is mandatory - that means you MUST do it.
What is a group project?
It is a piece of research, the research is shared and put together into a presentation by all members of the group. The group is made up of members of your class. Organise yourself into groups of at least 5-10 members - you may not have more than 10 members in your group. Each group must provide the names of the members and their student numbers on the list provided - to me (Mrs Austin), no later than Tuesday the 23rd of March 2010. Please sign up your group on the list pasted on the wall, next to my office (710, 5th Floor, Arts).
All members in the group MUST contribute to the project. At the back of the project, all members must outline or indicate what they have contributed, what research they provided and what they did in the overall composition or presentation of the project.
The project will be assessed in the following manner -
• The group will submit their project -
• There will be a panel of "judges" who view the project.
• The group will be called in for an interview based on their project.
• Each member in the group will be interviewed on the group project.
• The mark for the project will be awarded according to:
o the actual project submitted.
o how all the group members perform in the individual interview.
• Groups are encouraged to ensure that all their members are adequately knowledgeable in what their project is about as their collective mark is dependent on how well other members in the group perform.
THE AHIV PROJECT QUESTION
Karl Marx said: “Religion is the opiate of the masses”. He sees religion or some cultural beliefs as an ideology that controls the minds of people, in such a way that it has a negative impact on their lives and yet that they are satisfied with their disempowerment and may even think that it is a good thing or the right way to be.
In your project, amongst one of the following:
• religion,
• a traditional belief or cultural practice,
• event in history,
find your own example to demonstrate that one of the above may work like an ideology.
(For example – I used the Jonestown tragedy, Hindu beliefs, Islamic beliefs etc- as an example, now you come up with your own examples – )
Format of the project
While you are free to be creative and design a thought provoking, exciting project, the project itself must contain a written analysis of the example you have chosen.
However, in addition, you may supplement your analysis with extra material – pictures, music, or videos, you can turn it into a chart, you may make a PowerPoint show, write, enact and film a screenplay. If you do use extra material, it must prove your case, illustrate your point or be used a case study (e.g. Jonestown Tragedy).
You must also “acknowledge” your sources – that means you have to say where your information, images or media comes from. Be warned not to “lift” or merely copy and paste text from websites, books or movies – you have to be original. You will not get a mark for something someone else has written. This will be checked using the anti-plagiarism (anti-copying) software “Turnitin”.
As part of your continuous assessment for this course - you are required to submit a group project. This project is like a test. It will count as part of your mark/grade for this course. It is mandatory - that means you MUST do it.
What is a group project?
It is a piece of research, the research is shared and put together into a presentation by all members of the group. The group is made up of members of your class. Organise yourself into groups of at least 5-10 members - you may not have more than 10 members in your group. Each group must provide the names of the members and their student numbers on the list provided - to me (Mrs Austin), no later than Tuesday the 23rd of March 2010. Please sign up your group on the list pasted on the wall, next to my office (710, 5th Floor, Arts).
All members in the group MUST contribute to the project. At the back of the project, all members must outline or indicate what they have contributed, what research they provided and what they did in the overall composition or presentation of the project.
The project will be assessed in the following manner -
• The group will submit their project -
• There will be a panel of "judges" who view the project.
• The group will be called in for an interview based on their project.
• Each member in the group will be interviewed on the group project.
• The mark for the project will be awarded according to:
o the actual project submitted.
o how all the group members perform in the individual interview.
• Groups are encouraged to ensure that all their members are adequately knowledgeable in what their project is about as their collective mark is dependent on how well other members in the group perform.
THE AHIV PROJECT QUESTION
Karl Marx said: “Religion is the opiate of the masses”. He sees religion or some cultural beliefs as an ideology that controls the minds of people, in such a way that it has a negative impact on their lives and yet that they are satisfied with their disempowerment and may even think that it is a good thing or the right way to be.
In your project, amongst one of the following:
• religion,
• a traditional belief or cultural practice,
• event in history,
find your own example to demonstrate that one of the above may work like an ideology.
(For example – I used the Jonestown tragedy, Hindu beliefs, Islamic beliefs etc- as an example, now you come up with your own examples – )
Format of the project
While you are free to be creative and design a thought provoking, exciting project, the project itself must contain a written analysis of the example you have chosen.
However, in addition, you may supplement your analysis with extra material – pictures, music, or videos, you can turn it into a chart, you may make a PowerPoint show, write, enact and film a screenplay. If you do use extra material, it must prove your case, illustrate your point or be used a case study (e.g. Jonestown Tragedy).
You must also “acknowledge” your sources – that means you have to say where your information, images or media comes from. Be warned not to “lift” or merely copy and paste text from websites, books or movies – you have to be original. You will not get a mark for something someone else has written. This will be checked using the anti-plagiarism (anti-copying) software “Turnitin”.
Monday, 15 March 2010
The JONESTOWN TRAGEDY
Hi Guys
I set up this blog so that I can post relevant information for the course. The philosophy department at Unizul has a website where relevant course material is published as well. You can also sign up to be a member there. Go to http://www.philosophyuz.ning.com/
This site doesnt require you to be a member. You can just type in the address and read all the blogposts.
In class we have been speaking about Ideologies. I have decided to use the Jonestown Tragedy as an example to show how people who really believe in something, even though it might seem like a good thing, a good idea, something great to live by and work toward - how that thing can actually be a bad thing in the end. Remember what we said:
An ideology is something, a belief or set of beliefs that disempowers the believer, while making the believer satisfied with his or her disempowerment.
In Jonestown - 913 people believed in something so much that they convinced themselves that suicide was the best and only option for them! Seems crazy doesnt it? But remember what Marx said: "Religion is the opiate of the masses"? Watch this video and think about how it relates to what we have been talking about.
Mrs Austin
I set up this blog so that I can post relevant information for the course. The philosophy department at Unizul has a website where relevant course material is published as well. You can also sign up to be a member there. Go to http://www.philosophyuz.ning.com/
This site doesnt require you to be a member. You can just type in the address and read all the blogposts.
In class we have been speaking about Ideologies. I have decided to use the Jonestown Tragedy as an example to show how people who really believe in something, even though it might seem like a good thing, a good idea, something great to live by and work toward - how that thing can actually be a bad thing in the end. Remember what we said:
An ideology is something, a belief or set of beliefs that disempowers the believer, while making the believer satisfied with his or her disempowerment.
In Jonestown - 913 people believed in something so much that they convinced themselves that suicide was the best and only option for them! Seems crazy doesnt it? But remember what Marx said: "Religion is the opiate of the masses"? Watch this video and think about how it relates to what we have been talking about.
If you would like to know more about the Jonestown Tragedy - you can also find more information here (cick on the link below):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonestown
http://www.guyana.org/features/jonestown.html
http://www.owlnet.rice.edu/~reli291/Jonestown/Jonestown.html
Here is another video that you may want to watch - it is documentary made for the 30th Anniversary of the Jonestown tragedy.
Mrs Austin
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