Class Requirements (Starting today.)

Class Requirement 1

From this day forward I only reply to professional emails.
What does that mean?
First, you need to understand . .. 

What is your audience’s relationship to you—for example, is the reader your teacher? Your boss? A friend? A stranger? How well do you know him/her? How would you talk to him/her in a social situation?

What do you want your audience to think or assume about you? 
What kind of impression do you want to make? 

With that said then make sure:

1. There is a specific subject line
2. There is a greeting to the person receiving the email
3. You get directly to the point. Use no exclamation points, emoticons or slang.
4. Use proper grammar, spelling, and style. Email is not an exception, especially since it might be the first or only was someone gets an impression of you.
5 Use a closing.
For your closing, something brief but friendly, or perhaps just your name, will do for most correspondence:
      Thank you,
      Best wishes,
      See you tomorrow,
      Regards,
For a very formal message, such as a job application, use the kind of closing that you might see in a business letter:
      Sincerely,
      Respectfully yours,
E-mail from Student 1:
      hey,
      i need help on my paper can i come by your office tomorrow
      thx
E-mail from Student 2:
           Hi Dr. Crowley,
      I am in your MCOM 101 class on Thursdays, and I have a question about the paper that is due next Tuesday. I’m not sure that I understand what is meant by the following sentence in the prompt:
      “Write a 10-page paper arguing for or against requiring MCOM 101 for all SU freshmen and provide adequate support for your point of view.”
      I am not sure what you would consider “adequate” support. Would using 3 sources be o.k.?
      Can I come by your office tomorrow at 2:00 pm to talk to you about my question? Please let me know if that fits your schedule. If not, I could also come by on Friday after 1:00.
      Thank you,
      Tim Smith

Class Requirement 2 

You will create a Google Drive folder and share it with me no later than Thursday, September 12 at midnight. This will house most of you assignments and links to those assignments. 

Class Requirement 3 

Starting on Monday, bring your iPad to class. By Monday have the following bookmarked on your computer and downloaded on your ipad:

    Production
    Adobe Spark Page
    Adobe Spark Post
    Adobe Spark Video
    Adobe Photoshop Mix
    Canva

You've been working on puking and mind mapping to get to understand what you think about things - to be introspective.  

 Why be introspective?

  • Self-aware = human-aware
  • Human aware = Relation aware
  • Relation(s) aware = resonance aware  = Connection = Communication
Let's look at some photos to see how connections are made: 




What do we see that connects us to great photos? 



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