Proposal for a Tumble of the Nursing Staff at  Oregon State Hospital DATE: May 19, 2016 TO: Lindsey Sande (Assistant Director), Mike Soaper (Director of Nursing) FROM: Shelby Taylor (MHTT) SUBJECT: Proposal for Staffing Introduction The year of 2016 has brought many changes to Oregon State Hospital (OSH) and opened an exciting new chapter in […]

Proposal Report: Purchasing Scrub Tops for Hospital Memorandum TO: Mary Johnson, Uniform Supervisor of Hospital FROM: Meredith Blair, Registered Nurse at Hospital DATE: May 22, 2016 SUBJECT: Proposal to Purchase New Scrub Tops for Hospital Mrs. Johnson, I am writing in response to the RFP you published in the April issue of the Hospital newsletter. Your request was for hospital employees to research […]

Memorandum To:    Sandy Brown Jensen From: Amanda Zarate Date: May 29, 2016 Subject: Progress Report Introduction This progress report is to inform you of my current status concerning my proposal assignment. I have chosen to use my feasibility report that involved choosing which computer would be best to update Dr. White’s dental office with. In my feasibility […]

INTRODUCTION In my report I am proposing a restructure of the staffing at Oregon State Hospital due to Senate Bill #469. This bill is requiring nursing staff to work shifts no longer than 12 hour consecutively. At Oregon State Hospital, a portion of the shifts are 13 hours 20 minutes long, causing the need for […]

Persuasive Presentation – Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires;

Scenario: The Director of Nursing at River Valley Hospital, where I work, has requested that I research plans for new vitals equipment. There isn’t enough equipment currently and it has a tendency to be inaccurate due to its age. The Director has provided me three options to research: each CNA/RN gets their own set of […]

Feasibility Report: Medical Scrub Top Purchase Cost, Durability, and Functionality By Meredith Blair on May 15, 2016 Memorandum TO: Hospital Administrators and Budget Office FROM: Meredith Blair, Medical Scrub Purchasing Advisor DATE: May 15, 2016 SUBJECT: Feasibility Report for Medical Scrub Top Purchase As requested by the Hospital Administrators, I have prepared a detailed feasibility […]

  Below is a Haiku Deck I found on their site. It ends with a challenge to viewers. Obviously, I am not asking you to do the challenge, but please view the show, then stop and think about how you would do the challenge–and then ask how that might apply to reviewing someone else’s presentation…and […]

To: Sandy Brown Jensen, Writing 227 Instructor LCC From: Ryujiro Yoshioka Date: 23th April, 2016 Subject: User Test Report   Introduction My instructions are a step by step method for folding a T-shirt professionally and quickly. My target audience is almost everyone who does laundry but feels uncomfortable with folding their clothes. My instructions allow […]

Memorandum Date: 04/23/2016 To: Sandy Brown Jensen From: Amanda Zarate Subject: Final Revision of Instructions How to Make a Book Cover from a Paper Bag Introduction Today, we are going to use my instructions on how to take a simple, paper grocery bag, and turn it into a protective book cover. As college students, we […]

Ten Reasons Visual Communication Can’t Be Ignored – Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires; Oh, and did I mention that Haiku Decks embed easily and look beautiful. I think most online users would know to use the squares at the bottom to advance the slides or the right arrow that appears when you […]

To           Sandy Brown Jensen, WR 227 Instructor, LCC From      Amanda Zarate, Pre-Dental Assisting Student, LCC Date       April 23, 2016   Subject   User Test Report   INTRODUCTION My instructions are a step-by-step guide on how to make a paper bag book cover. My audience is for those who are in college, who want […]

So I made this short video for you. Think of it as a treasure map!

Exactly what IS a blog, anyway? I am midway through teaching a Technical Writing class online for Lane Community College using Edublogs. As I make my way through posts and comments by students, I find a lot of misconceptions about blogs. One big one seems to be that blogging has to do with age. A […]

Other Ways of Being in This World: A Day at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Our crazy so-called vacation in now over a week longer than we had planned, but really, it’ could be worse! I can sit in my hotel room morning and night and check in with my students. During the day, I receive […]

So you decided you want to embed a Google Doc on your Edublog–congratulations! You are (probably) going to have a first lesson in altering code! I imagine the first thing you did was do a search for “how to embed a Google Doc on my Edu Blog.” (At least, that’s what I did.) I got […]

Hi, Class! I finally finished grading all of your Blog Posts#1 and Writing Circle #1 sitting in a hotel window in Carmel-by-the-Sea, a cutesy little town in Central California. We are here to see the Monterey Aquarium. But you remember how the White Rabbit in either Alice in Wonderland or the Matrix has other plans […]

How to HyperlinkImage courtesy of: http://www.brainlesstales.com/2013-03-09/hyperlink

When you click on the “Home” page link of my blog, this is what you see (see Fig. 1 below). ACROSS THE TOP: Those are pages and include the Class Calendar, which I am always working on, the Syllabus, and our Textbook. These “Pages” are repeated at the bottom on the right. ALONG THE RIGHT: […]

These are the guidelines for Blog post #2. You can also find it posted here.

For this activity, you will give feedback on Blog post #2 to the people in your group. This feedback will be left as a comment on their blog. It should not just be “atta-boy” type comments. You should be complimenting people , for example, on the inclusion of images. You should notice and comment positively […]

Last summer, I taught digital storytelling at a hot shot National conference on tech here at Lane CC. Teachers came from all over the US to learn about teaching with tech–but this was an ADVANCED group who were supposed to already have a strong tech background. But as I discover in this video, techphobia seems […]

“I smile to hide how completely overwhelmed I am!” I’ve been getting e-mails from students saying things like, “I’m near tears,” or “I’m so confused!” And I try to calm everyone down and move forward. Then this morning I was working on the class Calendar using dates from my iPad Google calendar. I was getting […]

March Madness! Hello, WR 227 class! Today is Tuesday, and I am answering lots of e-mails and Moodle messages from students setting their blogs and connecting theirs to mine. Just a reminder that all those instructions are on Moodle in the welcome block below my welcome video but before you start clicking into Week One. […]

DEADLINE: Sunday April 2, midnight On your Eu-blog, leave an introduction of yourself. Focus especially on how you think Technical Writing will be useful in your upcoming education, college major, and possible career fields. In this class, “I don’t know” is never good enough, as that is why Google was invented. What you don’t know, […]

 

In the video above, kids a lot younger than any of us give good advice! Posting comments on blog posts you read is considered internet courtesy. Here are some tips: Compliment the writer in a specific way on the content of the post you read. Ask a question and/or add new information to the post. […]

Below you will find instructions for posting your first graded blog post. The document below is also available here.

How to Attribute Blog Images by David Koenig, Demand Media Adding relevant pictures to a blog post attracts readers and boosts the impact of your content. It’s good practice to acknowledge the owner of the image, and in some cases, proper attribution may be a condition of using the image. Failing to acknowledge the author […]

Shamelessly and thankfully copied from Brilliant Muskie Blog Blogging Safety Guidelines 1. Treat the “Edublog  spaces” as “classroom spaces” — use appropriate language and be sure that anything you write you are proud of and are prepared to take responsibility for.  Your blog exists as a public space on the Internet. When you put something […]