Happy 2015! May this new year sparkles a renewed spirit in all your personal and professional endeavors. Since classes here at the U don't start until the 20th of January, I am having the time of my life just reading and writing this winter break (spending most of my time at a Starbucks that's located a … Continue reading Language, Words, Writing: TED Talks for Your Writing Courses
Communication
A Dummy Guide to Creating and Giving a PechaKucha Presentation
You may have heard of the term "Pecha-Kucha" and you are interested to learn more about the concept, how others have done it, or you might simply be required to do it in one of your classes or work meetings and you just want to get some tips. You're in for a treat. In this blog entry, I intend to share with you my experience with Pecha-Kucha presentations and some tips for planning and making one. I am also going to share with you an example of my own presentation.
Vine Talk at #NCA 2014 Social Media Communication
Tham, Jason. "Vine: Redefining Racial Stereotyping in Six Seconds." National Communication Association 100th Annual Convention. Palmer House Hilton Hotel, Chicago, IL. November 21, 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12m8anx0PsM&feature=youtu.be Read manuscript and presentation deck here. In early 2013, a new mobile video creating and sharing application, Vine, was launched to allow users to record and share video clips up to … Continue reading Vine Talk at #NCA 2014 Social Media Communication
‘Don’t give them 4. Give them 2+2’
Effective storytelling is among the few units I teach in my first-year composition course. Every semester, I show Andrew Stanton's TED Talk, "The Clues to a Great Story," to the students and ask them to reflect on the traditional methods in storytelling and how they can tweak the ways to make their personal narratives interesting. … Continue reading ‘Don’t give them 4. Give them 2+2’
(Re)Introducing MOOCs: The Worst Idea at the Best Time
I co-presented this paper with my colleague, Jack Hannes, at the 11th International Symposium for Communication in the Millennium held May 22-24 at St. Cloud State University. The following is my portion of the roundtable presentation. (I apologize for the fragmented notes... Jack and I went back and forth during the presentation.)Definitions & BackgroundMOOCs, or massive … Continue reading (Re)Introducing MOOCs: The Worst Idea at the Best Time
Jason Tham, Ph.D. 