Peer Mentor Mission Statement

I am dedicated to making a positive difference in the lives of students by developing their potential for premier leadership, personal growth, and career success. To accomplish this I will:
-Promote public speaking
-Encourage involvement in clubs and extracurricular activities
-Challenge to do for themselves not just for the grade
-Strengthen one's own confidence
-Enhance career seeking skills

Sunday, March 13, 2011

SPRING BREAK!!!!!

I hope all you guys and gals are having a good break so far, I know I am! There is nothing like waking up at 6 in the morning to stand out in 20 degree weather to build a house. If I would have been thinking, I would have wrote this earlier this week so I wouldn’t have to do it on my spring break trip in good old Cedar Rapids, Iowa. I will apologize for the shortness of this blog but we are heading out to eat soon then playing some games with my fellow ConE’s. See you all in Tuesday after spring break!

  • What is your favorite way to communicate? What is a common communication tool that you don't like to use?
    I personally enjoy Skype as a communication tool because with the video chats, you can use sarcastic or tone of voice instead of a text or IM. If you don't want to see someone Skype allows to IM or just voice chat. One communication tool I despise is Web-CT
    "email" probably because I never check it.
  • How has your communication style or mediums in which you communicate changed since coming to college?

Something I never would catch on is Twitter! I am not sure why I thought that but Twitter is becoming more popular. One that is very useful in professional world is Linked In, for those of you that don’t know that this is. It is a facebook site for businesses, you can find jobs, interviews, employers, or other colleagues

  • How did you honestly feel about the Twitter activity or just Twitter in general?

I thought the Twitter activity was good, although the thought of sitting in class “Twittering” sounds a bit ridiculous. I was actually fun just tweeting back in forth about random stuff and then answering questions although it is hard to type on my phone as fast as people could on the computers.

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3 comments:

  1. Beth MordhorstMarch 20, 2011 at 12:18 PM

    Nick,

    Good to hear you had a good spring break. I have never tried Skype before but it does sound kind of fun. I also greatly dislike the webct email, I dont understand why normal email isnt good enough. See you in class tuesday!
    - Beth

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  2. Joey DeeMarch 22, 2011 at 5:28 PM

    I also think skype is a more effective way of communication between two people face to face. Like you said, its possible to use sarcasim and other tones of voice opposed to text messages, emails, or blogs. I also dislike the WebCT email option too. I usually never check it and end up behind in class. Great post Nick.

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  3. Anthony SimonMarch 27, 2011 at 7:41 PM

    Last year we had a Jeopardy game on twitter, and it was insanely hard to keep track of everyone's posts and who all had them right and so on. So, what we did in class was a little "ridiculous" but it could have been much worse :)

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