Evaluation / Assessment: Students will be evaluated based on participation in initial class discussion and subsequent conversations, research, presentation of mock talk shows and thoughtfully written reflection papers.
You can listen to artists and Met staff members discuss the opera live at 4 p.m., or watch an encore presentation of the live talk at 6 p.m. (Screening times vary, and both "Don Pasquale" lectures are sold out: lectures, $12, Opera Learning Center, Rose Building, 165 West 65th Street, Lincoln Center, sixth floor; (212) 769-7028, metoperafamily.org).org
In the spirit of practicing what they are preaching, Ms. Antonelli and Ms. Carmody have experimented with new communication techniques in the planning and presentation of "Talk to Me".
End activity with the presentation of specimens to talk about extinct life forms and similarities to birds today.
This is a powerful skill that once mastered, will indeed help you see immediate results in your daily communication – be it sales, presentation of ideas, talking to your friends or simply getting your child to do what you want.
A "Tribeca Talks: After the Movie" presentation of Grandma, A Thousand Times by Mahmoud Kaabour is another event not to be missed.
You may present things that you've been studying but mostly you'll listen to the presentations of others and talk with your colleagues.
Evaluation / Assessment: Students will be evaluated based on initial journal responses, participation in class discussion, participation in group research, thoughtful presentation of perspectives during the talk show, and well-supported persuasive letter to the National Marine Fisheries Service.
And woven throughout the talk is the presentation of myself as a representative of a minority group that has been rendered invisible by prejudice and oppression, a participant in a discussion that would not occur in a just world.
So I am signing up for another Powerful Presentations class on October 16th, from 7 pm to 10 pm ($135), when each participant can deliver a five-minute presentation with real visuals of an actual talk they may be giving.
