Hello Class! I enjoyed reading your posts this week! I have commented on your blogs, so check those out.
Here is what's on the schedule for this week:
1). Your second assignment is due on Friday, October 31st by 11:59pm. Please plan ahead, and send your assignments on time, if not early!
2). Read Chapter 7, Group Communication.
3). Quiz for Chapters 7 & 12.
Tip: It may be helpful to review the chapters before writing your papers.
Saturday, October 25, 2008
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Tuesday's Post Updates
Hello class! Here is Tuesday's post updates. Enjoy!
Blondie talks about overlapping cultural identities. She mentions a friend who celebrates both Christmas and Hanukkah. My question is this - what cultural identity do you think your friend mostly identifies with?
Cherry has already blogged three times. Good job! One thing that I liked that she mentions that she has broken through the limits of her culture. Why do you think this was the 'best thing you ever did'?
Chocoyuko has blogged twice. She mentions in one of her posts that eating rice everyday is important to her culture. How do you think this differs from American culture? And, why is it so important to eat rice everyday? (Maybe you can enlighten us).
Daron Story talks about how he 'somewhat' agrees with Ruth Benedict. He mentions how alcoholism may not be learned given similar circumstances across different people. Daron, do you agree that alcoholism can be genetic in certain people? If so, do you also think this can be a learned behavior? How do you think each impacts an alcoholic?
EMadden11 agrees with Ruth Benedict. She thinks that we learn through observation and accepted behaviors. She mentions that what is acceptable in America may not be acceptable in another country. EMadden11, have you had personal experience with this?
Licizpieciz also agrees with Ruth Benedict. She thinks that we are creatures of our culture. Licizpieciz, how can you directly observe that someone is picking up on their culture?
Molly McMuffin gives a comprehesive account as to why she agrees with Ruth Benedict. Molly - what about twins that were in separate families who reunite years later, only to find out that they have similar manurisms, inflections in their voice, and similarities in other behaviors?
Zamoradesign has posted twice already. He talks a bit about venturing out from one's ascribed cutlture. My question is actually your question to the class - IS it, in fact better to become multicultural and more tolerant?
Blondie talks about overlapping cultural identities. She mentions a friend who celebrates both Christmas and Hanukkah. My question is this - what cultural identity do you think your friend mostly identifies with?
Cherry has already blogged three times. Good job! One thing that I liked that she mentions that she has broken through the limits of her culture. Why do you think this was the 'best thing you ever did'?
Chocoyuko has blogged twice. She mentions in one of her posts that eating rice everyday is important to her culture. How do you think this differs from American culture? And, why is it so important to eat rice everyday? (Maybe you can enlighten us).
Daron Story talks about how he 'somewhat' agrees with Ruth Benedict. He mentions how alcoholism may not be learned given similar circumstances across different people. Daron, do you agree that alcoholism can be genetic in certain people? If so, do you also think this can be a learned behavior? How do you think each impacts an alcoholic?
EMadden11 agrees with Ruth Benedict. She thinks that we learn through observation and accepted behaviors. She mentions that what is acceptable in America may not be acceptable in another country. EMadden11, have you had personal experience with this?
Licizpieciz also agrees with Ruth Benedict. She thinks that we are creatures of our culture. Licizpieciz, how can you directly observe that someone is picking up on their culture?
Molly McMuffin gives a comprehesive account as to why she agrees with Ruth Benedict. Molly - what about twins that were in separate families who reunite years later, only to find out that they have similar manurisms, inflections in their voice, and similarities in other behaviors?
Zamoradesign has posted twice already. He talks a bit about venturing out from one's ascribed cutlture. My question is actually your question to the class - IS it, in fact better to become multicultural and more tolerant?
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Week of October 19-25
Intercultural Communication, another love of mine! After having spent time in Kazakhstan, Peru and Russia, Intercultural Communication has become a subject close to my heart.
Here is what's on the schedule for this week:
Participate in Week 9 discussion
Answer one in each of your three posts, at least 24 hours apart:
*Do you agree with anthropologist Ruth Benedict that we are "creatures of our culture" and that our habits, beliefs, and impossibilities are shaped by our culture? If so, how can we break through the limits of our culture?
*Do you believe in the rationality, perfectability, and mutability premises? What social institutions and practices are based on these beliefs?
*Pick one concept from the assigned readings that you found useful or interesting and discuss it.
Reminder: Post 2 responses to your colleagues blogs at least 24 hours apart.
Here is what's on the schedule for this week:
Participate in Week 9 discussion
Answer one in each of your three posts, at least 24 hours apart:
*Do you agree with anthropologist Ruth Benedict that we are "creatures of our culture" and that our habits, beliefs, and impossibilities are shaped by our culture? If so, how can we break through the limits of our culture?
*Do you believe in the rationality, perfectability, and mutability premises? What social institutions and practices are based on these beliefs?
*Pick one concept from the assigned readings that you found useful or interesting and discuss it.
Reminder: Post 2 responses to your colleagues blogs at least 24 hours apart.
Sunday, October 12, 2008
Week of October 12 - 18
There are a couple of things this week:
1). The midterm is posted online along with the study sheet. Please make sure you are done with the midterm by Saturday night. The study sheet can be accessed through Blackboard.
2). Cultural Event - the Cultural Event paper is due by October 31st (Halloween). I need to approve your cultural event prior to your attending to make sure that it is a qualifying event. If you haven't already, please email me with the cultural event that you are going to attend. I have sent out the two or three events I have been notified of. Beyond those event, I have not been notified of any others besides attending 'personal' events such as a different religion, or an event that is not public. So, in short, please attend a cultural event soon, and run it by me. :)
As always, I will be available all week in case there are any questions, or issues with the midterm. Good luck!!!!!
1). The midterm is posted online along with the study sheet. Please make sure you are done with the midterm by Saturday night. The study sheet can be accessed through Blackboard.
2). Cultural Event - the Cultural Event paper is due by October 31st (Halloween). I need to approve your cultural event prior to your attending to make sure that it is a qualifying event. If you haven't already, please email me with the cultural event that you are going to attend. I have sent out the two or three events I have been notified of. Beyond those event, I have not been notified of any others besides attending 'personal' events such as a different religion, or an event that is not public. So, in short, please attend a cultural event soon, and run it by me. :)
As always, I will be available all week in case there are any questions, or issues with the midterm. Good luck!!!!!
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Feedback
Well, I'm glad the first assignment is over and done with, now we can all focus our attention on the Cultural Event Paper. As I mentioned in the last post, the due date for the assignment is October 31st, Halloween. And no, before you ask, I did not make it due on Halloween to torture the class. :) It was just a natural time in the schedule to turn in the assignment.
On a bit of a different note, I need some feedback from everyone in the class. So, please post your comment on this blog to the questions I pose here. If you don't feel comfortable doing it here for everyone to read, please email me privately, as I would like to hear from everyone if possible.
1). What did you think about the first assignment? I have given an assignment like this before quite a few times, but in a bit of a different format. What did you like about it? What didn't you like about it? What would you change if you could?
2). My posts about your posts.....are they helpful? I have be hesitating to comment on your blogs personally so that the class interacts with one another instead of with me. So, I have adopted writing little summaries on my blog about your posts. Is this helpful? How would you like to see me interact in the future? Keep doing what I have been doing? Or, change my interacting in some way? If you vote for change, how would you change it?
I would appreciate your comments as I am trying to figure out (without being in a face to face situation with you all) how you would like me to interact, and what you think about the assignments. Since you have received your grades for the assignment, you can be assured that this WILL NOT have any bearing on your grade now or in the future. This is just general feedback for me since I know every online instructor does things differently, and every class for that matter desires something different from their online instructors.
I hope you all found my comments on your papers helpful. I really enjoyed reading them, and I must admit, I can't wait until the next project is due. :)
On a bit of a different note, I need some feedback from everyone in the class. So, please post your comment on this blog to the questions I pose here. If you don't feel comfortable doing it here for everyone to read, please email me privately, as I would like to hear from everyone if possible.
1). What did you think about the first assignment? I have given an assignment like this before quite a few times, but in a bit of a different format. What did you like about it? What didn't you like about it? What would you change if you could?
2). My posts about your posts.....are they helpful? I have be hesitating to comment on your blogs personally so that the class interacts with one another instead of with me. So, I have adopted writing little summaries on my blog about your posts. Is this helpful? How would you like to see me interact in the future? Keep doing what I have been doing? Or, change my interacting in some way? If you vote for change, how would you change it?
I would appreciate your comments as I am trying to figure out (without being in a face to face situation with you all) how you would like me to interact, and what you think about the assignments. Since you have received your grades for the assignment, you can be assured that this WILL NOT have any bearing on your grade now or in the future. This is just general feedback for me since I know every online instructor does things differently, and every class for that matter desires something different from their online instructors.
I hope you all found my comments on your papers helpful. I really enjoyed reading them, and I must admit, I can't wait until the next project is due. :)
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Assignment #1 Speech Critique
I am happy to say that you will be receiving your papers back with a grade within the next few days. I will have them completed by Thursday at the latest, hopefully sooner, though some of you will start receiving them tonight through email. I have thoroughly enjoyed reading your analysis of the videos, and can't wait to see what y'all do for the coming assignment. In case you did not read the bottom of the last blog, the next assignment is due on October 31st, which happens to be Halloween. So, if you have big Halloween plans, please make sure to get your papers in early. Some class participants really cut it close by emailing me their Speech Critique a minute or two before it was due.
In case you have not, please email me your cultural event. I have been keeping a list, but it seems like a number of people live out of the area, so those events would not be relevant to most in the class.
One thing about format for the papers, please read EVERYTHING I have listed on the assignment sheet. Quite a few people forgot to bold the course concepts in their first assignment. In short, please read the directions carefully and follow them for your coming assignment. :)
In case you have not, please email me your cultural event. I have been keeping a list, but it seems like a number of people live out of the area, so those events would not be relevant to most in the class.
One thing about format for the papers, please read EVERYTHING I have listed on the assignment sheet. Quite a few people forgot to bold the course concepts in their first assignment. In short, please read the directions carefully and follow them for your coming assignment. :)
Monday, October 6, 2008
Nonverbal Communication
I am very excited about this week's discussion. These are the weeks I wish I could talk to you all face to face so we could really get into a deep discussion about nonverbal communication and share what we have learned through our reading, and of course through our experiences in life. While I was in school I participated in a Nonverbal Research Study as a research assistant, which was quite interesting. Although the statistics in that particular research study did not prove to be significant, my conjecture was that the sample size was too small.
Now that you are probably asking, "What was the study about?"....I'll tell you briefly in case you are interested. Dr. Tim Hegstrom who is the Dean of Social Sciences at this point in his career, videotaped dyads to see if their body positioning matched each other during the course of their 10 minute conversation. Most of the participants did have matching body language at some point in the discussion (An example of this would be where one person crosses their arm, and the other follows shortly after. This could either be matching or mirroring with body positioning with legs, arms, etc...). I analyzed the videos one by one (I think there were 50 or so 10 minute videos) and recorded their body positioning to reflect matching, mirroring, or no correlation at all. I stopped the video every minute and recorded their body positions. Like I said, when we ran the statistics through SPSS (a statistical database), the results were not significant. But, had the research been done a bit differently, it absolutely would have produced statstically significant results. Had it, we probably would have been published in a Communication Journal, but alas, it was not written in the stars. :)
Needless to say, Nonverbal Communication interests me quite a bit. My husband's family is constantly trying to figure out if I'm analyzing them. Just this past weekend, one of his family members looked over to a few people and asked me what thier body language was saying. Of course this sparked a very interesting conversation between a few people, myself included.
Have fun with this weeks discussion, and don't forget to download the midterm study sheet from Blackboard to prepare for your midterm next week.
Until tomorrow....
Now that you are probably asking, "What was the study about?"....I'll tell you briefly in case you are interested. Dr. Tim Hegstrom who is the Dean of Social Sciences at this point in his career, videotaped dyads to see if their body positioning matched each other during the course of their 10 minute conversation. Most of the participants did have matching body language at some point in the discussion (An example of this would be where one person crosses their arm, and the other follows shortly after. This could either be matching or mirroring with body positioning with legs, arms, etc...). I analyzed the videos one by one (I think there were 50 or so 10 minute videos) and recorded their body positioning to reflect matching, mirroring, or no correlation at all. I stopped the video every minute and recorded their body positions. Like I said, when we ran the statistics through SPSS (a statistical database), the results were not significant. But, had the research been done a bit differently, it absolutely would have produced statstically significant results. Had it, we probably would have been published in a Communication Journal, but alas, it was not written in the stars. :)
Needless to say, Nonverbal Communication interests me quite a bit. My husband's family is constantly trying to figure out if I'm analyzing them. Just this past weekend, one of his family members looked over to a few people and asked me what thier body language was saying. Of course this sparked a very interesting conversation between a few people, myself included.
Have fun with this weeks discussion, and don't forget to download the midterm study sheet from Blackboard to prepare for your midterm next week.
Until tomorrow....
Saturday, October 4, 2008
Week of October 5 - 11
This weeks participation is as follows:
*Read Chapter 5, Encoding Messages: Nonverbal Communication
*Participate in week 7 disucssion
Discussion Questions: Answer one in each of your three posts at least 24 hours apart:
1). Because nonverbal messages can be ambiguous, they are open to misinterpretation. Have you ever been wrong about the meaning of someone's nonverbal message? Describe what happened. How can people increase the accuracy with which they interpret nonverbal messages.
2). Although nonverbal messages are more universal than verbal messages, nonverbals do not always carry the same meanings in other cultures. Can you give examples of some of the nonverbal displays that take on different meanings in other countries? If you have moved around within this country, have you ever encountered regional differences in nonverbal meaning?
3). Pick one concept from the assigned reading that you found useful or interesting and discuss it.
Remember to post 2 responses to your colleagues blogs at least 24 hours apart.
NOTE: The second assignment is due on October 31st. The Schedule and Syllabus lists the due date as Sept 26th (which was the due date for this past assignment).
*Read Chapter 5, Encoding Messages: Nonverbal Communication
*Participate in week 7 disucssion
Discussion Questions: Answer one in each of your three posts at least 24 hours apart:
1). Because nonverbal messages can be ambiguous, they are open to misinterpretation. Have you ever been wrong about the meaning of someone's nonverbal message? Describe what happened. How can people increase the accuracy with which they interpret nonverbal messages.
2). Although nonverbal messages are more universal than verbal messages, nonverbals do not always carry the same meanings in other cultures. Can you give examples of some of the nonverbal displays that take on different meanings in other countries? If you have moved around within this country, have you ever encountered regional differences in nonverbal meaning?
3). Pick one concept from the assigned reading that you found useful or interesting and discuss it.
Remember to post 2 responses to your colleagues blogs at least 24 hours apart.
NOTE: The second assignment is due on October 31st. The Schedule and Syllabus lists the due date as Sept 26th (which was the due date for this past assignment).
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Wednesday Posts
Hello Class. Soon I will be updating a list of Cultural Events your colleagues have sent to me. I should be posting it tomorrow. In the meantime, here is what your colleagues are talking about on their blogs:
Blondie chose to blog about how many dimension there are to listening. She also mentions how listening is different than hearing.
Cherry has blogged a couple of times so far. She covers the quest of men and women using language differently. She give a personal account of how she and her fiance use language differently. She also answers the question of assumptions and judging in another blog.
Chocoyuko makes a good argument about categorizing and judging and uses the book to bring out the point of 'cognitive complexity'.
Darnisha mentions that it could be the responsibility of society that we do not pay attention to individuals as much as we should. She brings up an interesting point.
DaronStory also thinks that it is not possible to perceive others without judging them in some respect. He mentions that the human brain groups things into categories in order to make sense of them.
EMadden11 brings up the point that people do judge. She talks about how she 'observes' people when she first meets them to get a sense of who they are by their behavior, both verbal and nonverbal.
Lady in Society likes how Chapter 3 instructs the reader how to listen. She also highlights the point that communication is a two-way interaction involving both the speaker and the listener.
me010400 gives personal experience about making judgments of other people. She also points out that it is probably a good thing to be aware of the judgments you are making.
Molly McMuffin has posted three great blogs this week. In her 'free' post this week, she talks about evaluating sources from the world wide web. She mentions that it can be a great source of information, and well as a source of misinformation.
Sakishot covers the idea that men and women use language differently, but she also asserts that it may not always be consistent with their own gender. And interesting idea.
settle4what? brings up the point that from a young age, men and women are taught to use language differently. She talks about baby talk from a young age, and how gender roles, as it pertains to language and behavior.
zamoradesign, contrary to what some other people in the class have mentioned, believes that a person can indeed perceive others without making judgments. He also gives some personal experience about practicing mindfulness when dealing with others.
A good start to the week! :)
Blondie chose to blog about how many dimension there are to listening. She also mentions how listening is different than hearing.
Cherry has blogged a couple of times so far. She covers the quest of men and women using language differently. She give a personal account of how she and her fiance use language differently. She also answers the question of assumptions and judging in another blog.
Chocoyuko makes a good argument about categorizing and judging and uses the book to bring out the point of 'cognitive complexity'.
Darnisha mentions that it could be the responsibility of society that we do not pay attention to individuals as much as we should. She brings up an interesting point.
DaronStory also thinks that it is not possible to perceive others without judging them in some respect. He mentions that the human brain groups things into categories in order to make sense of them.
EMadden11 brings up the point that people do judge. She talks about how she 'observes' people when she first meets them to get a sense of who they are by their behavior, both verbal and nonverbal.
Lady in Society likes how Chapter 3 instructs the reader how to listen. She also highlights the point that communication is a two-way interaction involving both the speaker and the listener.
me010400 gives personal experience about making judgments of other people. She also points out that it is probably a good thing to be aware of the judgments you are making.
Molly McMuffin has posted three great blogs this week. In her 'free' post this week, she talks about evaluating sources from the world wide web. She mentions that it can be a great source of information, and well as a source of misinformation.
Sakishot covers the idea that men and women use language differently, but she also asserts that it may not always be consistent with their own gender. And interesting idea.
settle4what? brings up the point that from a young age, men and women are taught to use language differently. She talks about baby talk from a young age, and how gender roles, as it pertains to language and behavior.
zamoradesign, contrary to what some other people in the class have mentioned, believes that a person can indeed perceive others without making judgments. He also gives some personal experience about practicing mindfulness when dealing with others.
A good start to the week! :)
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