Cover Letters

Advertisement Ah, the dreaded cover letter. Boring to write, difficult to get right, and you’re usually preoccupied by other things (such as the portfolio and resume, which are also really important). Unfortunately, your cover letter is a company’s first exposure to you, and it determines whether your application is trashed or fast-tracked to the company’s to-hire list. The status of the cover letter is changing in the Web industry. You may be interested in the following related posts: The Old Way: Copy, Paste… Personality-Free Anyone who has ever recruited for a job has received “that letter.” No Sirs or Madams! Addressing an actual person is so important. We trash generic inquiries (i.e. form letters) automatically. I want to click delete if I see “Dear Sir/Madam” or “To whom it may concern.” The worst thing someone could do is send over a generic copy-and-pasted email in which they’ve just changed your name or company name. Bcc Is Not Your Friend We’ve all done it. Really? Be Professional

Twitter in PPT Speakers and presenters at conferences are increasingly finding their audience live tweeting during their presentation. In most cases, the presenter has no clue about what the audience is saying on Twitter. This leads to a disconnect between the true thoughts of the audience in contrast with that of the presenter. Timo Elliott of SAP Web 2.0 has developed several free Powerpoint Twitter tools. Auto Tweet Notes From PowerPoint Presentations AutoTweet is a PowerPoint Add-in that automatically tweets Notes from your presentation. From the Manage drop-down, select PowerPoint Add-ins, and click Go”¦. Next, open the presentation in PowerPoint, and go to the Add-Ins tab on the ribbon. This tool auto tweets the Notes from each slide in your presentation. Here is how the tweet appeared on Twitter with the #hashtag specified in the dialog automatically added by the tool: Remember that each time you run a slideshow of this presentation, the tool will send out tweets on your Twitter account!

Required Skills Technical Technical or specialised skills required for an engineering career include the study of maths and science. As with most careers these days, students need to start planning now to ensure they take the right kind of subjects which will enable them to take up engineering later at university. Following is an outline of why maths and science subjects are important. Maths Students will need to take lots of maths subjects at school if they are interested in pursuing engineering at a tertiary level such as algebra, geometry and trigonometry – they may sound or be difficult but they will open the doors to many exciting opportunities for students who take these subjects. Algebra -vital for developing problem-solving skills. Geometry – the study of the properties of and relationships between points, lines, angles, and surfaces. Trigonometry -the study of triangles and trigonometric functions like sine, cosine, and tangent. Science Biology – is the study of living organisms. Other sciences

21st Century Classroom Chapter 11 Figure 11-1. Community of inquiry. In a work on teaching presence, Anderson, Rourke, Archer, and Garrison (2001) delineated three critical roles that a teacher performs in the process of creating an effective teaching presence. The first of these roles is the design and organization of the learning experience that takes place both before the establishment of the learning community and during its operation. Second, teaching involves devising and implementing activities to encourage discourse between and among students, between the teacher and the student, and between individual students and groups of students and content resources (Anderson, 2002). Third, the teaching role goes beyond that of moderating the learning experiences when the teacher adds subject matter expertise through a variety of forms of direct instruction. top Activities in this category of teaching presence include building curriculum materials. Getting the Mix Right Assessment Frameworks 1. 2. 3. 4. Table 11-1.