Sunday, October 19, 2008

Welcome to HSBC 2.0

What is Web 2.0? The trend of using the World Wide Web as a platform to enhance information sharing and collaboration among users.

What is HSBC 2.0? We'll build that definition together! To start, we're moving our paperwork online - reducing our carbon footprint - and exploring new ways of learning. Classroom activities will still be highly communicative. Now we want to add a highly communicative online component to make it easier to complete homework exercises while exchanging ideas with colleagues - not excluding your teachers!

In this course you will:

  • Enhance your command of professional and everyday vocabulary (We're still going for 10 words a week.)
  • Expand your use of verb tenses to make you a more effective speaker (We'll be working out on the "verb-circuit" 15 minutes a class.)
  • Develop ways of talking about causes and effects (One more step that leads to greater fluency!)
  • Build on your meeting skills for teleconferencing (including an international conference call in the new year. Make your New Year's resolution to participate now!)
  • Give your writing more accuracy and impact (practice makes perfect!)

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