ACCIONA IN THE WORLD! COL. CRÍTICO PRESENTATIONS

I'm sure you all know by now that after the holidays you will have to go through a reinvention process, which in corporate business it's called, PRESENTATIONS.
Whether you deliver plenty of presentations or you don't even toast at the Christmas Eve dinner table, one thing is clear, you need a lot of help to present effectively and naturally. In order to do so, Sabine and Jamie have done their best, and will continue to do so next year, in giving you a few tips on how to make presentations part of your professional skills.
Here are some videos on the subject. Always consider these as exaggerations and not as how you have to present, but keep the simple things these speakers do in mind in order to deliver great presentations.
Hope you like the selection of videos and can make good use of them. Please let me know your questions and doubts regarding any of the videos by writing a comment.

STEVE JOBS IPAD KEYNOTE


TERRY SJODIN ON PRESENTATIONS


KILLER PRESENTATION SKILLS


GARR REYNOLDS PRESENTATION INTRODUCTION (WATCH TILL MINUTE 7:00)
http://www.presentationzen.com/presentationzen/2009/06/simplicity-in-las-vegas.html

YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN MASTER CLASS (WATCH FROM MINUTE 5)

IMMERSION COURSE 22-26/11/2010

As you all know, in the next couple of weeks we will be holding the second Immersion Course for the Colectivo Crítico. 40 hours that we'll spend together, trying to develop all of our skills in English and in order to make the best use of our time I'd like you to tell us what kind of things you'd like to see during the course. You must all be tired of me asking the same question over and over again, but its the best way to know what you actually need, and with the help of your regular teachers make the perfect course.

We really look forward to your suggestions.

EMAILS 2: A FEW TIPS

Take a look at this post from http://www.tracomcorp.com/blog/blog-topics.aspx on email styles in communication.

EMAILS 26/10

Check your website for the material for today in Class assignments, EMAILS.
Don't forget to comment.

WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE?

As our 4 week-period is coming to an end, we in SAT & SET would like to know what different items in English learning (more grammar, more writing, more vocab) you saw that you might need improvement in, what topics you'd like to take a look at, what things you saw that you liked that you'd like to do again or review.

As you can imagine I'd like to know what you would like to do this upcoming month of November and figure out a great program for the next 4 to 6 weeks.

Thanks a lot beforehand for your participation in the blog. Don't forget to comment.

MINING 2: RARE EARTHS

The second part of the mining week in ACCIONA's COLECTIVO CRÍTICO will relate mainly on RARE EARTH and its value in today's world. The methodology for this part of the course, will be more active, since you will have to look up the videos and articles we've chosen for you and comment about them in class with your instructor.

See if you can add anything to it and bring it to class. Any thing, an article, a video, a radio excerpt. Whatever you find interesting from the web.

You can check for these reference websites and videos over here:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/jan-june10/metals_06-14.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/01/business/global/01minerals.html

http://video.mining.com/videos/2742c0/growing_the_south_africa_economy_through_mining.aspx

MINING: HOW DID IT GO?

As you all know yesterday 05/10, you all shared some mining experience with Jamie. Please post some comments on how the class went. Did you find the mining part of the class interesting? What did you do afterwards? Did you find the material interesting? Let us know what you think.

Remember, on Thursday it will be Kurt Scheller, who will try to share some more information on Mining. Make sure you all have fun!

Don't forget to post your comments and stay up-to date with your website.

FEEDS TO YOUR BLOG!

This Friday October 1st 2010, we've added a few "feeds" to your blog. You can always check out what's new and what's happening in the topics we've chosen for you.
The first feed we've subscribed to is the English ESLPOD feed, where you'll be able to listen to typical social and professional situations. You can either download the podcast onto your Ipod or listen to it online. These will be updated regularly with new podcasts. Hope you enjoy them!
The second feed we've added is Engineeringnews.com. All of the latest news on International Engineering projects of all kinds. These are some articles and headliners that will keep you updated with the world of Engineering.
Very soon:
Construction & Architecture feeds and Everyday English Videos.
Don't forget to comment and stay up-to-date with your DOWNLOADS CRITICOS website.

DOWNLOADS CRITICOS website

We've created this website so that whatever extra material we want to share with you is easily accessible from anywhere in the world. So international business trips aren't an excuse if you want to stay up to date with what's happening in class and what your class mates are doing. Click here to access your newly created web.

This website will give you specific as well as general tips and information regarding various topics. Please don't forget to comment and keep up to date with the blog.

PRACTICE FILE 1-2

We've added your practice files to a website entirely devoted to you. You may find your PRACTICE FILE in the Homework Assignments section of your website or you may find it here. This website will feature sections suchs as the Word of the Day or Did you Know and other specific material that we'll keep updating regulalry. We've only added the first two practice files. Once you've done them you can send them to this email address and these will be corrected.
We've also added some readings, in this case to an Intermediate level, but I think everyone might find them interesting. Don't forget to comment in the blog and to check out updates on your website.

WEEK 20-24/09 WHAT DID WE DO?

Over here you will have to comment on what you did last week during your classes. What was good? What could have been delivered any other way?
You'll have to do that by commenting on these posts.
Commenting is fairly easy to do:
1. Click on COMMENT
2. Choose Name/URL
3. Select Name and write your name in
4. Make the necessary comments in the blank box
5. Click publish comment

We would appreciate if your comments helped us make the material, your classes and the blog and website more interesting for you.

Don't forget to comment nor visit your website.

OFF WE GO!

The main purpose of this blog will be to track your progress throughout the course. We need to make sure the objectives that you've set will be accomplished and that all of your learning time in English will be used profitably. The only way to achieve this will be to fully commit to your English learning process.

This blog will not only help you keep up with what's been done in class, but also take a look at interesting material, articles, videos and other blogs as well, never forgetting the main use for this Blog, which is none other than to log information and comment on it.

So, get ready and start up your engines because this is the last term of the course and we need  to make the effort to make the most out of it.

Good luck!