Presentations on Governance

Hi Everyone,

I hope you'll enjoy working on your group and individual presentation on governance and citizenship!

Here's one way to divide up the topic if you are presenting on a federal political party:

1. Introduction

2. History of the party (e.g. the N.D.P. party grew out of the C.C.F. party)

3. The party's stand on key issues, such as immigration, the environment, the economy, health care, and education   (NOTE: This can't be partly covered in the introduction.)

4. Famous leaders of the party (e.g. Pierre Trudeau)

Please ask me if you are doing a topic that isn't a political party and I'll try to help you structure the presenters and the content of your presentation. :)

Levels of Government in Canada

Hello LINC 8 Morning Students,

As we move into Unit 9, Governance and Citizenship, here's an excellent overview of the three main levels of government in Canada. Please read it over so you have a general idea of what federal parties are concerned with.

Reference Letters

Hello LINC 8 Morning Students,

Please read over the following tips for writing a reference letter. This webpage contains a good example of a letter of reference for an employee.

Here's another useful link with another sample reference letter. You can get some good ideas here.

Please use these resources and complete the WRITING TASK as homework. You can hand it in on Monday!

Running Your Meeting

Hello LINC 8 Morning Students,

I hope you are having fun preparing for your meeting!

Here are a couple of videos about conducting a successful meeting:

This video focuses on the Chair's job.

This video focuses on Debating during a meeting.

These videos are both about six minutes long, but I encourage you to watch them several times and watch them with the captions (text of what is said) on. :)

Writing Minutes for a Meeting

Hello LINC 8 Morning Students,

Here's the link to audio 6.16 (Part 1). Please listen to it and correct any errors in the minutes on p. 289.

Here's the link to audio 6.16 (Part 2). Please listen to it and write your minutes on the back of the handout.

And here's the link to the "Small Talk" video we watched. Please view it again and see what you see the second time! :)

Have a great weekend!

Doug

Formal Meetings

Greetings LINC 8 AM students,

Here's the link to the audio about formal meeting procedures that we listened to in class on Monday.

Here's the link to the audio of a Parent and Community Council Meeting from Wednesday's class.

Doug

Running Effective Meetings

Hi LINC 8 AM Students,

Here's the link to Running Effective Meetings.

Please watch it again and take notes on the "timekeeper" and "recorder" roles.We'll discuss this video in class on Wednesday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtzXHre536M

This is now a LINC 8 Blog!

Welcome LINC 8 AM Students!

For the sake of simplicity, I'm just going to use my fully established blog -- no longer for LINC 7.

This is now for my morning and afternoon LINC 8 classes, although everyone is welcome.

It's easy to access -- all you have to do is type in "newlinc7" into Google.

I hope you'll check it out on a regular basis! Especially when I ask you to go there do complete homework assignments!

Since we are investigating group dynamics, personal interactions, and meetings, this weekend I'd like you to review Parts 1 and 2 of this set of steps on "How to Conduct Effective Meetings":

http://www.wikihow.com/Conduct-Effective-Meetings


Take some notes on the material in Parts 1 and 2 only. Please come prepared to discuss the most important points on preparing for a meeting.

Cheers,
Doug