Your Presentation (Midterm Exam)

Hi everyone!

Your Public Speaking Midterm Exam is happening this Thursday, Oct. 29th at 7pm. The room in N405, according to the message I got from the office. You should have received the same message, too, by text message on your phone.

In class, please have the name of your business ready — I will need it to prepare for the midterm exam, since I have a special plan. There will be a sheet passed around for you to write the name of your business.

News & Homework!

Hi everyone,

The videos will be available soon, but technical problems are holding up the progress. One group’s video was TOO HUGE to upload, and the other wasn’t on the DVD they gave me.

In the meantime, here is your new homework assignment. You have a week (from today, Oct. 28th) to complete it. So this interview is due on Nov.4th.

Interview a Non-Korean.

In this task, your job is to interview a non-Korean.Your interview can be personal, about issues, about their home country, or about anything else, as long as it does not violate the rules below:

YOU MUST:

  1. You will interview a non-Korean. For this assignment, non-Korean means anyone who is not of Korean heritage. That means that foreign-born Koreans don’t count. (This is not a permanent definition, just the definition for this assignment.)
  2. Do the project alone. You can bring a partner if you like, but each person will perform his or her own interview with a different individual.
  3. Speak only in English during the interview.
  4. Prepare questions on several subjects (ie. 5-6 topics) and let the interviewee choose which one he or she would like to discuss with you.
  5. For each topic you prepare, you must get some information BEFORE visiting the person and getting the interview. If you are interviewing someone from Bangladesh, you should know at least a little about Bangladesh.
  6. You should audio-record the interview.Keep a copy of the recording, in case your professor asks for it at a later time.
  7. You must perform the interview OUTSIDE of campus, with someone who is NOT a university employee.
  8. Make the interview interesting and fun for yourself and the interviewee.
  9. Transcribe the interview in the interview format (ie. using the name of each person speaking, followed by what they said, as used in Interview Magazine) and submit it on the due date.

YOU MUST NOT:

  1. Don’t speak Korean among your group members during the interview.
  2. Don’t ask rude or impolite question, such as personal questions or culturally inappropriate questions. Use the cultural norms of English-language conversation when deciding what is culturally inappropriate.

Jeong-ok’s essay, and one more thing!

Hi everyone,

Sorry for the short notice on the class cancellation, as with so many opportunities it was a last minute thing… I attended a meeting in Daejon about SETI, a very rare opportunity.

Here is Jeong-ok’s Article (PDF), which we will discuss in class on Thursday. We will need to have a make-up class, and I’ll talk to you about that in class  on Thursday too.

Also, please make sure that you have made a Gmail account before class on Thursday. It is homework, and if you haven’t done so, you will lose homework marks. We need to start sharing articles using Google Docs, for efficiency and ease of sharing.

See you Thursday!

Jingwen’s Article

Hi everyone,

Sorry this is late, but I got attacked by a Russian.

(A Russian spyware virus program, actually: my computer was disabled for a day till I could kill the virus.)

We really need to start using Google Docs so that you can share the files with one another more conveniently!

Let’s try set that up tomorrow: everyone come to class with a working Google account, okay? Thanks!

For now, here’s the article:

Download Your Presentation Contest Proposal Stuff Here!

Here are some things for the Presentation Contest:

The Questionnaire will help you to prepare your Presentation Contest Proposal, which you need to submit (and which needs to be accepted) in order for you to participate in the Presentation Contest this semester.  You must also bring a filled-out copy of this from when visiting a professor for advice or feedback about your upcoming presentation.

The successful proposals are only examples — your proposal can be somewhat different and still be accepted, if your proposal answers enough of the important questions from the questionnaire and is interesting enough!

Good luck, and remember, your proposal is due soon! (And you must submit for the first deadline in order to be eligible to resubmit for the second deadline!)

Self-Evaluation for Midterm

Hi there!

Here’s an example of the self-evaluation paper I expect you to hand in on Monday, October 19th. The example is ridiculous, but the (scary) student touches on all the important points:

  1. what he is learning
  2. what he is doing well
  3. what he is not doing well, or in other words, what he can improve
  4. his plan for improvement and for study during the rest of semester — in class and outside class alike!
  5. the grade he thinks he has earned (so far)

I’ve made it silly for your enjoyment, but it’s actually a pretty good example of a self-evaluation paper… though of course yours will not be so crazy, you should also touch on the five points above.

Okay, here is the example paper:

Listening & Speaking Midterm Self-Evaluation Paper (PDF)

Hyun-Hye’s article

Here it is!

Hyun-Hye’s Article (PDF)

Eun Young’s Article

Here is her article. If there’s a problem please email me immediately!

Women & Taxis (PDF)

Hyun Hye’s article hasn’t arrived yet but she promises it by 5pm Monday.Please check back for it this evening, I’ll post it as quickly as I can.

Everyone else should be pretty much done drafting by now, so we can have anyone’s article for critique after tomorrow!

Jaewon’s Guide

Hi folks!

Here’s Jae Won’s guide to making Such a Long Journey work in Gom player.

We can see the movie “Such a Long Journey” after changing Gom option.

1. Click Gom player.

2. Click right button of mouse, and choose option(환경설정)

3. Choose Filter option(필터옵션)

4. Choose “‘Wm ASF Reader’를 사용하여 재생

5. Close the option(닫기)

6. Run the movie.

I attached a picture which is contained how to change the option.

I hope to everybody can watch the movie as soon as possible.

Here is the screenshot he mentioned (click to see it bigger):

 Jaewon’s guide screenshot (BMP file)

I hope this helps!

Otherwise, try VLC.