One of the courses I teach on is LB160 Professional communication for Business Studies and for their final assignment, students need to write about issues that are important to their businesses. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Brexit is a topic that has been mentioned as a threat to the businesses they work in. As mentioned in an earlier posting, it looks like Brexit will have profound effects on the Open University and it also looks like it will on many other businesses in the UK.
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Recording some teaching materials
Tuesday, 12 May 2015, 15:29
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Yesterday, I was interviewed on reading strategies (along with a colleague, Anna Calvi) as part of the development of listening materials for a rewrite for LB160 "Communication Skills for Business Studies" (the new module will be LB170).
It was an interesting experience. I was surprised at how quickly we finished the recording and most of it was done on the first take. One of the few parts that went to a second take were the result of my drinking some water being picked up by the microphone. Other reasons for second takes included very obvious stumbles over words and a missed cue (I though Anna was responsible for one answer I should have spoken on).
I think there will be some editing of the product but authenticity is more highly prized than linguistic polish. So, some hesitators, false starts etc will be included.
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