If you have questions...

Just email us...

livialisacommunication@gmail.com

We are looking forward to getting messages from you all.

Thanks.

a week more... then we gonna have holidays!

Today we are going to submit our Reflection, our 3rd Assessment in this class.

We are in the end of the semester! A week more!

then we will have our 4 weeks holidays... Can't wait!!!!haha

I'm going back to Japan; )

Livia will go back to Indonesia too!

And the NEXT Semester is the last semester for our course.

the coming semester is gonna be hard... but we will do our best and...

we all will graduate from this course successfully hahahahaaaaa

But... we don't think that we could have Janice's class in next semester...

I like her class.... making blog stuff... We will miss her and her class....

Anyways we still have got heaps to do...

On coming Monday, in class assignment for COMM319

On coming Tuesday, we gotta submit an essay...

Do our BEST!

UTS City Campus Info Day

Tomorrow... Saturday 30th September 2008

9 am to 4 pm

Our teacher, Janice told us about it today in the class.

I'm planning to go!

It is really interesting and it is going to be a good experience.

If you have a time, go and have a look! Don't miss this opportunity! 

More information, visit UTS Info Day 2008 website

http://www.infoday.uts.edu.au/

Finally...

the assignment is done!but, we still have other assignments to do.

wish us luck...

Radio Podcast

Today in the class Comm 315, we have done to make radio podcast.

We just posted it on our blog, the right hand side column.

We've done some interviews from teachers and students in this course.

Hope to enjoy our interviews and you can get information.

If you have any questions, please comments or messages us.  Do not hesitate! Feel free to send messages!

We are looking forward to getting comments and messages from you all.

Thanks.

Maralyn Parker's Blog

Maralyn Packer is the award winning education columnist for The Daily Telegraph in Sydney, Australia. Packer is well known for her support for public education in Australia and has left leaning political views. Maralyn believes that school education is particularly underfunded in Australia and that the federal and state governments must seriously reinvest Australia's public systems. Her columns appear weekly in The Daily Telegraph.

I read one of her columns 'I hate homework'.

She posted it on Monday. 21st July 2008.

In this post, she discuss the homework.

A girl said 'I hate homework' and Maralyn analysed that why some students hate it and cannot enjoy...

She insisted that Kindergarten children should never be given homework.

And up yo Year 6 it depends on how much the child is enjoying  the work and how hard it is to do.

This is good information for both students and their parents.

I agree with her.

Kindergarten children shouldn't have to study hard...

Children have to enjoy their lives especially they are young...

It is really important to enjoy studying.

I just wrote about 'I hate homework'.

But you would be able to find out more interesting her columns.

Go and check it out!

http;//blogs.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/maralynparker

Posted by Lisa

Why study communication?

Studying communication is more fundamental than selecting a major for a job. Communication is the primary social process. It would be impossible for social institutions to exist as we know them without communication. Human beings engage in communication as a means to facilitate meaning and to coordinate human activities. Other disciplines recognize the importance of communication but place it among other variables while communication majors recognize the importance and central role that communication plays in daily life.

Oral communication has long been our main method for communicating with one another. It is estimated that 75 percent of a person’s day is spent communicating in some way. As a college student, 69 percent of your communication time is spent on speaking and listening.

As a communication major, you develop skills in each of the areas outlined above by designing a major program and possibly a minor program, which will make you a strong candidate in the future job market, but not limited to a particular career path.

this information has been taken from Eastern Illinonis University, if you want to know about study of communication, just directly go to this link 

http://www.eiuspeech.net/eiucomm.php?page_name=why_study

hi guys, what do you think about the article above?do you find something useful for it and feel want to join communication course?i think what the article about is really interesting because it is true that communication is needed now in the modern world where people is more technological advance and nowadays many companies are looking for a good communication partners or staffs XD.

Posted by Livia

Lisa's B'day

Today, it was my 20th birthday...

My classmates, Livia, Sandra, Friska gave me a surprise cake for my B'day...
I'm extremely HAPPY now.

I didn't expect that... my classmates are so sweet, love my girls; )
Well, I put a pic of me and some of my classmates...and the sweet cake.

Study Week

We are on Study Week now.
Each semester has 13 weeks.

Communication studenys don't have any mid-exams...

So we don't have school on 'week 7'.
We call it 'Study Week'.

Well, we've got 18 assignments in this semester, stage 3.

We are in week 7 now and we've done just 5 assignmensts so far....

That means....after this week, 6 weeks left, we will submit 13 assignments....
We will study... should study..... have to study hard during this week.

okay now I'm doing an Marxism Essay due on Tuesday, week 8.
Length: 2000- 2500 words....wow......

I will do my best.....!

2nd stage Heaps of Assignment again...

Oh again....

We've done heaps of assignments in 2nd semester as well. It was also nearly 20 assignments.

So yeh... We've done more than 40 assignments so far.....

I'm sort of surprised... didn't realise that!hahaha

but You Know What!

We don't have any exams! 

Actually we have 1 in-class assignment each semester except 4th semester, end of each semester....

BUT basically we do not have any exams...that means

We have 4-week holidays after each semester! It is COOL huh...haha

Don't forget about it! WE have HEAPS of ASSIGNMENTS during semesters though!

2nd stage

Well, in 2nd semester

we also took 6 subjects....

COMM 215 - Production skills

COMM 216 - Communication Skills

COMM 217 - Society and culture

COMM 218 - Communication environment

COMM 219 - Media analysis

ACAD 201 - How to write an Essay

Fortunately, ACAD 201 was 2 hours class...

so we used to study 22 hours a week in 2nd stage.

In COMM 216, we made our own newsletter and online newsletter.

I really liked and enjoyed making these newsletters!

I made my newsletters about Melbourne.

Livia made her newsletters about "Visit Indonesia 2008".

You can choose your topic whatever you want.

Hope to enjoy making your newsletters as well!

1st stage Heaps of Assignments

As We mentioned before, we took 6 subjects in 1st semester.

Each subject has 3 or 4 Assignments.... so....

We've done nearly 20 assignments in 1st semester OMG...haha

One thing I can say to you all is....

It is IMPORTANT to manage your TIME!

1st stage

In first stage of this course, diploma of communication...

we studied 6 subjects which were 5 communication subjects and 1 academic study.

COMM 115 - Production skills

COMM 116 - Communication Skills

COMM 117 - Society and culture

COMM 118 - Communication environment

COMM 119 - Media and analysis

ACAD 103 - How to write a Report

We studied 24hours a week. It was really busy and hard... but we all could pass all subjects..

So if you feel difficult for this course... don't worry.

Do your best and you can do it!

What is UTS: Communication?

UTS communication has a national and international reputation for its dynamic, innovative and interdisciplinary academic programs in Communication, Information and Social Science.

The courses place a high value on creativity and production with many graduates emerging to become outstanding practitioners across the media and communication fields. The programs also emphasise problem solving; the development of research skills; convergences between fields of practice; and social advocacy, community service and contribution to public debates concerning relevant social and political issues.

Why UTS: Communication?

If you are thinking about studying in UTS, here is a list of unique advantages that only UTS: Communication can offer. Also see what's it like to be a Communication student.

Our facilities and equipment

All of the students have access to a wide range of technical equipment and other resources

Our staff

The teaching staff, researchers, production support, equipment services and administrative staff - together create a dynamic environment for teaching, research and academic culture.

Who should I contact?

Phone numbers, locations, postal and email addresses of the main contact points in the UTS: Communication.

People Spotlight

Interesting background stories of people, events and places, connected to UTS: Communication.

The Program Areas

-Info and Knowledge Management

-Journalism

-Public Communication

-Media, Arts and Production

-Social Inquiry

-Writing and Cultural Studies

For more information, you can visit the UTS website www.uts.edu.au

Hope you guys can gain more information about the subject...

First Post

We are studying in communication course 3rd stage. 

One of our 5 subjects in this semester is 'COMM315', Production Skills. 

Now we are learning 'Citizen Journalism: Podcasts and Blogging'. 

Our topic is about communication course in UTS or Insearch for new students who have not decided what major they want to take.

In this class, we are using a computer lab and apple computers (see the picture, left).

He is Rubes, one of our classmates. He is also working on his group's blog as you can see.

Studying communication is really interesting!