Monday, April 30, 2012

BMGT 2305 Final Exam

The BMGT 2305 online Final Exam will be available to you from May 3-8. If you have Disability Accommodations, please email me this week so that I can make the necessary adjustments.  The exam will be 30 minutes long. Although the questions will be taken from the quizzes from all of the chapters, they will be re-worded. To prepare, study the quizzes, but make sure you know the meaning behind the questions and answers.  

Friday, April 20, 2012

Resume Help for Returning to Work After Raising Kids Read more: Resume Help for Returning to Work After Raising Kids

To the ladies in my classes:  If you took time off to raise your kids, and then instead of sitting on your butts watching TV, you are taking classes at Blinn, then YOU ARE AMAZING!!!  

Your resume will be a little tricky, though.  It will need to be in the functional format, not chronological.  Start with this article, then follow the other links until you feel more confident about writing your resume.   Resume Help for Returning to Work After Raising Kids

Read more: Resume Help for Returning to Work After Raising Kids | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/info_12132332_resume-returning-work-after-raising-kids.html#ixzz1sakYfnsl

Wednesday, April 11, 2012

BMGT 2305 Career Report PowerPoint Presentation Rubric

BMGT 2305 Career Report PowerPoint Presentation

Use the headings from the Career Report that you turned in to create a Power Point.

Elements of style for slide show presentations
  • 6 x 6 rule, minimal animations, no timers, parallel construction of bullet points within slides, moderate sprinkling of images; attractive, coherent design.
  • Design: Should contain minimal animations, no timers, moderate sprinkling of images; attractive, coherent design.  
  • Details: Should be only the outline to guide you with your talking points and be a visual reinforcement to the audience. They should not be reading every word of your report in the Power Point.  
  • Use of career report to create PowerPoint. Slide headings match report  
  • Timely submission  
  • F2F class will also be graded on presentation, including remembering to introduce oneself, concluding with a call for questions and a graceful exit, as well as staying within the time limit (3-5 minutes)

Sunday, April 8, 2012

Q Day

Friday is Q day. Check your grades. If you are hopelessly failing, and you drop the course by Friday, you will get a W instead of an F.

Final Project

The end of the semester is looming, and so are your final assignments. Check the "Major Project" folder and let me know if you have questions.

Wednesday, March 28, 2012


The Sarc Mark 

In ALL business messages, including email, discussion forums, wikis, and blogs, we still must follow traditional writing rules.  Capitalize the word "I".  Write "you" instead of "u". 

I know I have a very hard time not writing "lol" or using the smiley emoticon.  Communication in an online class can sound very cold due to the lack of body language.  I personally believe that writing and spelling rules will evolve quickly over the next few years as a result of electronic/instant communication, but for now, we must follow these conventions.  I think emoticons will become common and acceptable, as well as a newly invented punctuation icon called the "sarc mark".  The sarc mark, like the exclamation point or the question mark, humanizes a statement, indicating to the reader that the preceding statement was intended to be humorous or ironic.  Click the link above to read more about it.

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Quotation Marks: Where Do the Periods and Commas Go--And Why?

Quotation Marks: Where Do the Periods and Commas Go--And Why? Now I understand why this is a tough rule for me to remember: The British and American rules are different. So if you, as I, read extensively during the years you were learning grammar rules, you read both British and American classics, which followed different rules. British: period varies depending on usage (of course!), whereas American: period goes inside the quotation marks.