The forth day class

Although the weather was bad, the street was slippery after snow storm, but we still had to go to class. we had spent 4 hours on our group project, all we are cohesiveness, and we have the same purpose is that we want to try our best to present our film and we want to get the best grade. In the lunch time, we went to cafeteria where located opposite of the 7 train. So far that day, we finished the filming part, but we need to edit it in following weekday. When we went back to class after the lunch, we discussed the relationship, grow overtime and die overtime..... because i have the similar relationship...well, it's enough, that's one of my self-disclosure.
Moreover, we learned Mark Knapp and his approach about relationship, which has different stage. From his lecture, i recalled that i have 4, 5 best friend in my country, we only meet each other 1,2 time since i moved to US. But, we still keep in touch, we never forget each other. I really need to thank that we are living in the age of technology, so i can keep contact with my friend, no matter how far it is.

The fourth day class

The fourth day class, the professor gave us enough time to discuss our group project. Our group is ready to talk about ethos, logos, pathos, which is an useful topice for us to study and review. Everyone who is in our group is hard working. We have different tasks to do, and everyone researched and prepared. Finally, through our discussion we decided to use three speeches in our video. I like our group's memeber, and I believe we will have a good work at the end.
After that, we came back at 2pm, the professor taught us what interpersonal is. Also, I have learn whether a person lies. The professor told us that everyone has a baseline. After class, i recalled my relationship with my family, friends and so on.......

William Jablonski

Well it was the 4th day of class and it was very interesting. We had about 4 hours of group project work. My group went to the library and did research on our project for a half the time. Furthermore in class we learned about Interpersonal Communication and how it builds relationships. I learned how relationships either grow overtime or they die overtime. I learned about Mark Knapp and his study of relationships.

the fourth day of communication

Today was very simple, my group and I went to the school library to start working on the group assignment that we were given. So far all is well, my only dilemma is that I'm not so good with filming so I'm going to have to be a learner instead of a teacher.Everything else is going very smooth basically all of us finished our pieces that we are going to say on the video.Probably by next class we will be able to video tape. All the other groups seem to have the ball rolling on there projects too, I can't wait to see the outcome. Other than our project that we spent most of the time on we started talking more about interpersonal communication. He basically started off about people's baselines,and that is how a person normally acts or reacts to something. When that baseline chances something is wrong for example a bad liar, baselines are not visible that person may act totally different than there baseline. A good liar you may not see that he/she is steering away from the baseline because they don't make it noticeable,they are conscious of it. I also learned a little about Mark Knapp a relationship researcher and how relationships develop. First it is self disclosure, then experiment, then intimacy, lastly bonding. This is how relationships either grow,stay stagnate or die.

the fourth day class

Today professor gave us 4 hours to prepare our group project. So my group members went to the computer lab to find out the famous speech about how to show the ethos, pathos, and logos. Our leader gave different task for each one, so that we can just focus on our part. Also we share ideas to each other and everyone is very conscientious. So today we almost finish the reasch part and we plan to make the film next week. I think we can do well in this group project.
After we discuss the group project, professor continue to talk about the interpersonal community. I think it look very easy, but it is also hard to handle. Relationship are built through communication. Relationships fail because people blame each other rather than looking at their beahvior patterns. We can't change people, but we can change behavior. We also talk about the baseline. So we should observe ownbehaviors as well as those of our partners, self-disclose appropriately, give effective feedback.

Reflection on the Fourth Day of Class

After the class, I think about the relationship with my family and friends. Compare four years ago when I lived in China to now, I am fill with a thousand regrets. Some relationships we built for a long time seem starting to die over time. What is the problem with that? Is it the time or the region that we separated?  ... ... I think it is communication that I did not take certain time to connect with them. I have ever thought when my busy schedule slows down, I will call them back to make it up, but the funny part is that I often forgot as I was available; I remembered as I was busy. Now, I think I should treasure up my relationship because each relationship is not easily come by. Accounting to the study of Mark Knapp, building an intimacy relationship people should go through multiple steps to approach it. It took me more than 10 years to share our views and feeling, so I should keep in mind to rebuild my relationship as soon as possible.

Week 4

Today we got to work with our groups until 2 Pm, which was great we got a lot done. We putted our ideas together and then went out and film. My group film a lot of different things, that I wouldn't write about it because I want the class to know, when they see the video. Overall I feel very happy. We did a lot and our group everyone is share ideas and we are working very good as a group. Jinlong was shy to speak, but went he did wow he had excellent ideas. The best thing was that when he spoke and told us what he thought/ plan. His ideas were so good that we did what he said. Steve and Jason are great with the filming, editing and they have wonderful ideas. Raquel is there trying to help us and she is good too. I am leader but I there working hard too like all my other classmates. I am the type of person that likes to work hard and put time and love to what I am doing.

I also had lunch with my group and we had time to meet each other more. We all spoke more and got to know each other more like friends not like classmates. Which I think is great, we never know and maybe in the future we end up working together. I love my group, everyone is great and special. What I most like about my group is that everyone is there willing to help and work hard. They are all hard working students just like me, the best thing is that we are working as a group. We are all doing everything as a group, which is great because we are all giving ideas and doing equal amount of work. As a group making our ideas stronger, we even worked a little during lunch. We really didn't loose any time, I think we used the time very well.

4th Day Class.

IS IT Funny when somebody split on the floor? I don't think so, but others have different feedback. That was my case this morning. I split on the floor at supermarket. When I stepped on my feel, I saw a person who was laughing. That time I wanted to say stupid to him, but I said "Hi." and he stopped laughing.
I Worked in group in the class. We made plan how to interview some people. I enjoyed working with them because we can share our opinions and we respected what my others said. At 2 pm we came to the class. Also, Prop Trapani gave some examples how the relationship works.

4th class

today, i was later cause the snow. and before the regular class started. professor let us to do our goup project.  after 2 PM we came back to the classroom. today, the topic really interested me a lot was the baseline part. we seeing our friends by looking their baseline. and he also said a good liar act like the samething as they baseline are. it made me think alot. when i look at my friends i look at their baseline. and i was asking myself  did i missing anything. after that baseline thing, i feel  uncomfortable because i might missing lots of things before. therefore, from day on, i will try to find what is my baseline in other people's mind. That is the part that interest me alot.

4th Week of Group Work

During the 4th week we got the chance to work on our video projects. I find this extremely helpful as it saves us time from creating meeting schedules which can be very troublesome. During this time I found my group to be very productive, as they are all hard workers who want to get a good grade and are definitely putting the effort for it. I liked the way every member contributed and gave their ideas as this was the grease on our gears and helped us move on fast and efficiently.

the first day

The first day of class was interesting. We learned about the beginning of communication. I did not know that it was really Sicilians that originated rhetoric. We also spoke about some of the reasons why communication was needed and that it is something that is learned. we also talked about fear blocks communication. The reason why we are not good communicators is because we let our fear get in the way. we also did a presentation of a person in the class. I did Andy and he is from China. I really enjoyed the class and am looking forward to the classes to follow.

Reflections on Fourth Week

So far my group and I have made a lot of progress, in term of, our project. I really enjoyed working together with everyone. I feel we all collaborated well as a group. We all were assigned tasks and we all completed them efficiently. It felt good to be in a group where everyone respects each other and everybody puts in the same amount of effort and work. I have a good feeling about this project because my group is full of intelligent hard working people. I have no doubt that we will succeed as a group.

Today, we are in the middle of creating our group project. We started a little bit dizorganized because we didn't know when and where to started, but now we all know what we have to do and I think that our project will be good.
Everyone in my group works very hard to put this together, and I can wait for the final week to see the other projects that my class mates put together.

Group 4

Members:
Pamela Baez
Rong Fang Feng
Pan Zhonghui(Justin)
Marielba Toribio

As a group we have decided that we will work on the topic "The Role of Culture in Communication'
some of the questions that we ask ourselves are;
What are the differences between 2 different cultures; Hispanic and Asian?
What do this two cultures have in common?
How much does moving into a new country affects the way of ocmmunication between families?
Me Pam will bring the camera that I have and in class we will decide what kind of approach we would like to give to this video, in the meantime the rest of the members have done research about the topic and will bring on friday so that we can start deciding how to film, one of the ideas was to be able to film each other in our own enviroment with our wn friends to see the difference and the similartites of communication.

The "self"

As we started talking about how we see the difference between the "you' and the "self" I started to realize how much my past has affected what my present is,professor Trapani made me realize that many times we dont take into account something that has happened in our past and how this affects our present and even part of our future.When the class was discussing this new concept for us, my mind started to go in the past and try to remember things that I had left behind on purpose but that now that I think about it,it has made a big impact in my life.Another of the parts of the class was talking about how much we carry in our backs, how much we carry in our shoulders and how we dont let this, he tought us that leaving behind everything that affect us in a negative way, will make us happy people in the future, it will make us be proud of we have done, and we will be able to say that we had a full life,he made the comparison between two older people living in a nursing home, one that is angry all the time, that shows how angry they are because they never had the chance to fulfill their goals or just be happy,that they never had the opportunity to leave behind everything and move forward, then there is the other kind of older people that are always happy, always ready to tell you a story, that are sociable, this people are th eones that have lived their lives fully, they are the ones that have learned how to forgive, forget and move on and have nothing to carry intheir shoulder, it made me want to be that kind of person, the one that will accomplish her goals but at the same time, still be able to enjoy life and what it has to offer.Cant wait for next class and how much I will think about what is happening around me when Im there.

You Vs The Self

The third class was my favorite to date. I have always thought about the inner me, why it existed and if it was the same for other people. I can now understand a little bit better though not completely the difference between the inner self and the outer me. Every time I thought of doing something wrong, or bad, I would always have this feeling in me that fought back but was suppressed. It always tried to prevent me from doing wrong, and it turns out it was the innocent me, unharmed by society and it's standards.
The other part which is really liked was when Prof. Trapani gave us the example of the two older people, one who was happy and had lived life happily and was ready to face death, and the other bitter and with the unhappy life. When one starts to think of this it all makes sense but usually we go on about our lives without realizing why things happen and why things are the way they are.

Group 5 !

Group #5 Amanda Hong Yanhong Liao Loredana Mihai Ghilmar Rojas Andres Zhinin
The topic chosen by Group 5 is to demonstrate ethos, pathos, logos. We will analyze speeches from very influential people whether it be now or the past. We will see how they used ethos, pathos and logos to influence great masses of people and create such a following. Our assignment for the week was to look up 3 speeches that use Ethos, Pathos, and Logos.

3th of Class- Within you, there are two

This class was deep, it really made me think about my past what was that situation that happened in my life that made me who I am today. While he was explaining the class I was paying attention to what he was saying, then he started talking about the past which made me think about my past so he said that if we are thinking about the past we are not present in the present so I was really confused because how can't I be present when I'm listening to what you are saying and thinking about my past? In some way I undestand what he was saying but in other way this was really confusing. Then, he said one person is two people that we have a relationship with ourselves. The way he said it sound crazy but I always felt that I have someone inside who tell me what is wrong and what is right but I don't think about it because sometimes life and some stuff does not have any explaination. However, if you think about it he is right, but usually people do not act or feel with "the self" but with "you" the one created but the society, the environment where we grew up in. But when you behave with "the self" the pure-nothing is the only way to reach happiness.

Reflections on the third class

I really enjoyed today's discussion on the concept of time. It actually gave me the opportunity to view this concept in a different perspective. I learned to collaborate this idea with my goals and obligations effectively. I reflected a lot during class about my own personal experiences. I totally related to the concept of predetermined failure. I liked that the professor was teaching us ways to change our thinking and to become more positive. Those change of thinking will ultimately help us become better and achieve our goals.

the third class

The tired class kept interested as Prof. Trapani made a vivid lecture, by lifting chair and bag to illustrate how burnt out we looked. This kind of teaching skill or environment inserted in the class refreshed our tired mind and enforced our learning effect.  It helped transfer what was presented in class, and also in the mean while helped us understood and form a deep impression of the lesson into our memories. In class, the learning air was very refreshing and as a result we were very alert. This is one of the benefits for group discussion, although we only meet once a week, we are no longer stranger anymore.

the 3rd day of class 'Your-Self"

I was like what on earth is this all the about "yourself"? Isn't just the way you do every day? I'm kind of getting confusing. Well, after the professor's lesion, I felt like I lost some weights. Prof. Trapani well explained that "Your-Self" into two individual groups. First You( create and affect by people, family, friend, sociality, environment etc.). Second one Self (which is pure, institutional, comes from nothing, actualization etc.). Then , he gave us an example about when a person regrets after her lying. It shows us which one of YOU or SELF is greater.

After that Prof Trapani also told us about past, present and future. which was really surprised , I personally believe no matter what are you thinking right now(past, present or future). Do NOT bring your negative way of thinking from past into future. It will become reality in the present when you are going to do in future. Just like what Prof. Trapani told us in the first day of class: a person asking herself " why am I keep dating same types of men"?

Group # 1 !

My group consists of: Ra'Shanna, Maryam, William, Karolina, and me(Stephanie).
We plan to create a short film on "The Many Forms of Communications".
Through many displays of examples we will create a setting that shows the viewer different mini scripted acts of each distinguished form of language that we will research.
Each member of the group received and assignment of two topics that will be researched and they will find words/phrases that will be used in the film.
On friday we plan on discussing the information gathered, the structure & flow of the film, props, and location of the film.

Group # 3

My group members are Chanel Chenet, Monika Kusz, Andy Liu, Minyi Zhang and myself. The topic we decided to pick was "The role of Culture in Communication". What my teammates and I decided on, was to go to different neighborhoods that are predominate by one culture (for example, Chinatown, Greenpoint, Jackson Heights, etc.), film the way they interact with one another, interview a few people from these neighborhoods asking them questions about their thoughts on communication, then compare them. Our assignment for the week is to prepare the list of questions we'll be asking.

Your Self

I think yesterdays class was lesson was very interesting. Aside from Professor Trapani's hilarious remarks and presentation of "carrying weight from the past", we learned that we're made up of two people inside, one which is consider "you" ( a person created through, family, friends, society, environment, etc.) and "self" (which is pure, institutional, comes from nothing, etc.). When we sit down and think about what Professor Trapani is teaching us, he's absolutely correct and this is something anyone and everyone can relate to this. Whatever we do I strongly believe someone has a major influence on it. Now that I am aware of "YOU" and "SELF", I'm going to be more aware of my actions.

We also learned about the past, present and future, and how we are physically present but our minds is either in the past or the future. We learned a way to deal with procrastination, I myself am a big procrastinator for example right now I should be getting ready because my friends are picking me up in a little while but I decided to blog because I know it's still fresh in my mind and I know it'll be hard for me to get to it after tonight. When we did the feedback interview my friend also said that's one of my weakness I procrastinate way too much, but I'm working it on.

I was watching INCEPTION last night (which is an awesome movie!) and in the movie Leonardo kept mention catharsis, and given that we learned the meaning of the word it was a BIG help for me at the end of the movie. It is true what they say, everything you learn in school does play a role in our everyday life.

The third day of course

Today, we have talked "yourself" which was consist of "you" and "self". It exists in our human being, i thought that related to philosophy and psychology. Again, I was focusing on my professor's lecture, suddenly throw a bottle of water to me. Haha.... I caught it!! Because I knew it I'm in present mode! Everyone has its story.
And we discussed my group video with my group member, we are assigned the task. I think that cohesiveness is important too, in the moon exercise, I get some answer from group which is better than my answer, so the outcome in a group usually turn out good result. I readily enjoy this group project!

Project Group: 2

Valerie, Jinlong, Raqueal, Jason and Steven

Our group came up with the idea that we would like to work on the following topic: "How Language Affects Communication". The reason why we chose this topic was because our goal/plan is to go out and look for people from different cultures/backgrounds that speak different languages and are attempting to communicate. The language barrier becomes a conflict because one person misunderstands something through the language transfer and translation. We hope to highlight the effectiveness of the words being used to communicate, and how the slightest alterations can completely change the message the speaker is attempting to convey. Then we are going to preform one of these issues with our group members. There will also be a narrator elaborating on what is being acted out. We are also thinking of touching on how language can affect a child through 3rd party observation.

The task for next week will be for Steven to bring his camera. Jason will be joining him on the film editing. We will all be researching our topic to make identifying strong supporting examples simpler. We will all be filming the following friday as a group. This will be our first session filming and will not be conducted by individual tasks, more like free-range brainstorming. This will give us insight on how to organize our 7 minute presentation. It will also provide us with sufficient rough footage that can polished into a well rounded project.

Your Self

Today was the third week of class. I learned alot today in class, like how we can be successful in life if we just get rid and forget our past. It was great because I learned that in life that if we keep everything from our past bottled up deep within us, it has a huge affect on us in the future. I definitely can relate to this because when Im stressed out from everything I do I feel like theirs like all this weight dragging me down. Unless I talk about my problems with my friends or family. Thhat being said the proffesor did a great example of carrying a desk and 2 bags saying this is what it feels like to have guilt and all this weight bringing you down. This discussion today made me realize that we may have many problems in life currently but you can't let the problems dictate who your going to be in the future.

understanding you and becoming self

today was a very deep lesson. I explored the three phases of time which is the past ,present and the future. why is it that time is always negative or that negativity is the most influential part of our lives? Thinking about something good in the past always turns into something horrible for me ,does that happen to anyone else? Growing up it seems that Mr.Trapani's mother and my grandmother were very similar, tough women but i think she blamed herself for my mom not being a "normal" person. i just knew that she loved me because my grandmother always fought for me she would go against the president for me but then turn around and try to fight me too. I also realized about my childhood that some much was going on i was pushed to the back burner because everyone had there own problems or lives and maybe that's why i'm not so expressive at first. When people have a mental illness and you can read about, it takes a lot of time and energy when they relapse so there were times when i was up late nights because the only person that my mother would listen to was me but i was a little kid. i want in my future to change people's stereotypes of a person with mental illness, it doesn't have to be a person with drool hanging from there mouth, it can be someone you never expected. i don't want people to be afraid of them either like they are not people. That's what i want my goal to be in twenty years. I also learned a lot about my YOU while he was talking about the you and the self. I learned that right now i am definitely living in the YOU but i do actively try to bring out my self. The pain of my childhood still haunts me and yes i admit i carry all of my past like that chair and that bag Trapani demonstrated today.

Third Day of Class

It is interesting as the word of “yourself” is divided into two parts, “you” and “the self”. When I take a look at the meaning of the word, I think they are similar, but actually they are very different. “you” is created by society, culture, environment, friends and family, but “the self” is an intuition that is pure and self-actualization. Before the class, I realized people were able to be influenced by their experiences in the past, but I did not know there were so many factors that have strongly been influencing us. It is incredible that we are shaped by “you”. I felt sorry for the people who are tortured with their past. I wish communication course can be very popular, so people are able to know more about themselves to release the burden live better.  

Do you see that weight?

Todays class was pretty interesting.
Im pretty sure everyone found our professor's demonstration of carrying weight through ones life not only funny but true. I related to this because I used to bottle alot of things up, when my guidance counselor at school pulled me aside one day and allowed me to open up I felt everything just go away.
I also found the you vs. the self and the research that has been done on it extremely intriguing, its something that you wouldn't realize on your own. Its weird how you can use pieces of your life and everything else to explain what may be happening to you in the moment.
This topic is something that I myself will google up and read more about.

Third class

On our third day the professor taught us about ourselves. There are two within yourself. You is created by society (culture, environment, friends and family), and the self is pure, intuition.
We also talked about three elements of time: past, present and the future. I found out how big of a influence bad experiences from the past have on our future, and that its best to let them go. The rest of the class we spend collaborating in our groups, and learning about group communication.

The Third Class

The Third class Today is snowing, it is difficult for us to attend the class. Even though the weather was not good enough, most students still came to the class. The professor always has some interesting examples, which can make us to pay attention. Today's topic is about "you" and "self," the professor said that "you" is created by society, culture, environment and so on. "the self" is pure. Also, the professor taught us what past, present and future are different. The professor taught us how to plan our future life. Everything is useful for us to study.
At the end of class, the professor explain what we need to do in group project and how to be a strong group. I am looking forward to thenext class !

Third day of class`~

      Today, we learn about what is the word yourself. As the teacher 's said it can be defind as two side of us. the"evil" and the "good". which the "evil " represent as the past. it always change us , and make some how affected in our future. which makes me think that i need to fogot something in the past, or it will affect me a lot.
       The other part that he said about the age thing. we can image our age 45, and age 35 , than 25 ...  by using this exercise, i can find out my goal and how i am going to achive my goal.  As me, i always think that the person that i am right now will become the later i am. therefore, i am always think i can success in business.....so, i am surely about  i can success in the business world. that is what i am belive.

Your Self.

Today the class was interesting because Prof Trapani gave some examples which I identified with one of them. For example, when Prof Trapani talked about we thought that we were not good enough, and we carried negative issues,I was thinking that sometime I thought that way. I know when I think negative, I may perceive things as more stressful.
Sometime I want to change the way I think because I have negative attitude. It lets me know that people are successful ,for they think positively.

Your Self

Today in class we talked and learned about you-- and the self and how the three elements of time which are past, present and future could have a weight on you and affect your present life and your upcoming future. Also how one element could affect another, for example I never plan my future first and then my present. What I usually do is plan in my present what I am doing for the next couple of day or weeks in other words in my future. In today's class learned that what I am doing it's the correct way of doing thing. I learned that I have to start from future to present and present to past, because the past affects our life's. It's a weight that we might carry all of our life's and this issue or issues from our past are on us and it affects our goals and plans of the present and future. The reason way is because we might put into our mind's ideas that could be positive or negative, in which most cases is negative from our past and think that we aren't able to do something because of the issue of our pasted.

In class today while we were learning about your self it made me go back to the past and re think something the had a great impact in my life. Then plan how do I see myself when I am 35 in my future then my present at the age of 22 and look back when I was 15 my past. I come out with the conclusion that I am doing is a good job because when I was 15 years I was good in high school because I wanted to finish high school to move on to College. At the age of 22 I am at college preparing myself to be a professional at the age of 35 and why not own a house and a business.

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Sorry I made a little mistake with the white background, and I don't know how to fix it!!!!

the third day

Today we are talking about an interesting topic "your self". Within you, there are two, "you" and "the self." "You" is created by society, culture, environment and so on. "The self" is pure. That help me to know about myself.
Also we are talking about the three elements of time, past, present and future. We decide whether we are in the present by determine whether we are having actions. After we learn the three elements of time, I think I begin to know how to make a plan. Not making a plan for the future in the present time, instead of making a plan toward you to make you action.

your self

When I got up, I saw snowing outside. I thought should us go to school today? And I hope we won't, but at last, after I checked the Lagcc email, there are not any annoouncement said we don't need to go to school. I was upset.
But today professor talk about how to reconduct "yourself". There are different between "you" and "the self". I am interesting in this topic. "The self" is pure, meaning nothing. "You" is created by society, culture, environment, friends. We hard to change ourselves right now. It is a difficult topic. After this class, I think it is not easy to relative to myself, and know myself.

your self

So today we talked about how we have a relationship with ourselves.Wierd? Not really... Theres is a YOU, which is created through culture, environment, family, and friends. So preatty much the society shapes us. So the society puts us down. We are not great, and we are not succesful. As my professor said "We are a product of our environment, we don't have much to say, we were born into our family." That is very true, we don't choose where we are born into, it could be a rich life style, or a poor life style, a loving family, or an un loving family. So the way we are shaped as we are growing up while we are not dependent on our selves, we can't choose. Now for the SELF, which I like a lot more, the self is where greatness lies. We need to live through the self to accomplish what we want in our lives. We need to be true to our self, and be who we want to be. In todays class a lot came up for me. All of it was in a good manner because those things will help me be more of who I want to be. I need to do the things in life that I want, and not listen to what the society is. Another thing that I agree with is, don't be so quick to judge the people that are around you, you don't know what they are going through. Don't jusdge a book by it's cover.

You Vs The Self

Today in class we learned about ourself. We have a realtionship with you, and the inner self. We are born in to the world with our body but we have another side of us that this deep down inside of us. You is the human body and that includes where we act, behavior. We are also created by the society, our culture, environnment, friends, and family. The self is our intuition. It our gut feeling, you know how we think we think about a situation and we can etheir argree or disagree. We also learned the three elements of time which is past, present, and future. The past is for is something that happend years ago like for example when we used to watch vhs . The present what going on now. The future the up coming time.

Your-Self

Today the professor taught us that each of us consist of two characters. He went very deep today on how we affect ourself on negative and positive way. All this action towards ourself is because of our society, culture, family e.t.c. Also, he talked about the three elements of time (past, present and future). He analyzed each of it and he emphasized what influence each of it can have on us. After all we learned today I realized that basically all these seem to be true. First I didn't pay that much attention because it looked very philosophical to me, then when we went too deep and I start combining all what professor was saying to my past, it just made sense.

Second Day !!!!!!!!!

On our second day of class Prof. Trapani was discussing the importnance and difrences between listening and hearing. "We hear with our ears, but we listen with all our senses". One of the things I have learned today is that we listen much faster then we can speak. It gives us plenty of time to think while we listen. Another intresting thing i have read was how avoiding eye contact closes communication, and how personal appearence affects the way others act towards us.
During our self-disclousure presentation I found myself forgetting a lot of things i wanted to say about myself. However I'm glad I got a chance to share my experiences with other classmates.

the second class

 In the second class, Prof. Trapani talked about the importance of listening in the communication. To listen is to understand. I have personal experience of that. Because English is quite different from Chinese, and it is hard to acquire it in a short time, I have a big problem to communicate with some person who speak English fast. In order to give a right response, I always have to ask them to say again. From it to see, listening is really important in the communication process. I really enjoy this class because Prof. Trapani speaks so clearly that I can understand him almost.  Moreover, students’ enthusiastic participation that makes the class more active. A small show illustrates us two ways to comfort a sad friend that makes the effect different. It is a good example to understand what a proper response is.  The other big event is that each of us made the self-disclosure presentation, and it was not only a chance to practice our speech, but also a bridge to get to know each other.  

second day

       In Friday's class, The HUGE CHALLENEGE thing was  the Self-Disclosure thing. Prof. trapani let us sitting around the front . by changing the place, to feel the different fears.i was the second one who doing this self-disclosure presentation. i am strongly feeling this fear. i was keep shaking when i siting in the left side of the classroom. when i move to the middle...dmit. the shaking start to make me forgot everything. i already prepare the whole essay in my mind. after shaking i forgot everthing. . however, it is a good excercise for us to find out what the fear is. i hope we can have more this kind of excercise.
      Also ,In the class we learn the important of listening.  the changing channl part is the one that i remmeber the most.  We always ignore the conversation that we are not interesting.  And also  listening waste lots of energy . ~~~

Self-Disclosure.

My first day class,I was nervous because I didn't like to share information about myself with people whom I had never known or seen. However, I learned that it was important to express what we hid because it made us feel free. When I waited to talk in front, I just thought and had to be honest on myself. Also, it was sound so funny but interring.That time, I felt that there was some connecting with others.
I thought how I could begin to talk, and that time I remembered that someone had told me that life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it is about learning to dance in the rain. I applied that saying , and I was not afraid to speak. After speaking, I felt more comfortable.

the second class

The class was once again was good. We learned alot about listening. Listening is a communication skill and hearing is a physiological. I also found out that in 2011 we are faced with way more stimuli than we can handle, that in turn causes us to react instead of being proactive. I found this to be so true, especially when he used the alarm clock. The more I press the snooze button the more it makes me stress the fact that I have to get up in the morning. All that stress causes memory loss. My question is how to reverse the memory loss? because my short ten memory is poor and that if something about myself I would like too change. Another major assignment we had was the self disclosures, which was heart felt. I had something prepared but I was afraid to read it off the paper. At first I wasn't going to talk about my mother and father but I thought that I could inspire someone because I had it a little rough growing up and look I made it to college. It was very hard for me to talk about my parents, its more about me holding in the water works if you know what I mean. Other than myself alot of other disclosures were touching.

The Second Week.

Today I picked to be # 23 for the disclosure speech because of my old soccer jersey number. Though I was the last one to present I still felt jittery as I sat on the side chair. But I did experience that huge feeling of relief after presenting. As I heard everyone give their speech I was able to relate to other problems others have faced in the passed. I hope that with the group project can unite everyone in a way where they can communicate efficiently when it comes to managing who does what.
I found todays lesson quite interesting, especially the part of how draining listening can become. Most times I'll come home wiped out and its all because of listening to customers needs, and stressing over how to help them the best way as possible. Another thing I found interesting was the way this class relates to interviews; the other day my manager sent me to interview a potential sales associate for our store. After shaking hands I had asked her the same question Prof. Trapani told us about, "tell me about yourself"..by her mumbled response and awkward shifting in her seat I closed up the interview after a couple more questions and simply told her that my manager will give her a call in regards of the position. Lets just say its been a little more than a couple of days and with my report back about her she still hasn't been called. Therefore I believe that perhaps not all the time, but this class can totally take our life's to whole different levels.

Reflection on the self-disclosure presentation

Today the self-disclosure is a big, big, big challenge to me. There is no PowerPoint or other supporting material that are allowed to bring with us during the presentation.  While I was sitting by the platform and waiting to do the presentation, my heart started beating faster and faster. I couldn’t pay attention to listen to the representative. Only one thing I could do was to talk to myself not to think about the presentation, think about other enjoyable things that I am going to do after the presentation. ~~  It worked that I felt more comfortable sitting on there and hope to do presentation faster. I can’t believe that I can present a presentation without looking a paper or a PowerPoint. It is amazing.  

Week 2

Today doing my presentation I was very nervous. I felt cold and my body was shaking. This was weird because I've done oral presentations before for other classes. I think my awkwardness this time was because I had to specifically talk about myself. I had to share personal information, present my goals and obstacles I've faced in my life to others. I think doing presentations is not my strongest characteristic as a student but I manage to do well enough. The most important thing is that I want to learn more and more everyday. I also believe that we learn from our mistakes. I think that by doing more public speaking like this, partnered with the help of this course I will become a better communicator in respect to speeches and presentations.
This speech was helpful because we did it by our selves and the next one is as a group. This way we are better prepared for our group presentation, and more comfortable with public speaking to others. The main reason why I took this course is because when I become a professional with the help of God, this is a skill that I will have and be experienced in when it comes time to talk to others. I even left my FEAR to the side because I had some index cards and I didn't look at them. I spoke to our class very naturally. Everything I said came from my mind and heart but I also think practicing helped because I knew what I was going to say to the class. I did leave out some other things I was going to say. I guess it's because of FEAR, but overall I think I did pretty good.

Self Disclosure is not easy stuff......

Today, we discussed about listening and hearing, the different between listening and hearing, and their function. Professor Trapani is humor, he gave some examples that are related to our life. Once again, his lecture is the best, i can understand what the lecture is about. After we finished that, we had to go into the speech part. I was the first student to present my speech. I was little nervous because i didn't know how to say it, but i knew what i want to say. All we are human being, we have fear when we face the audience, the feeling is different. However, i finished my speech but i am not satisfy with my speech because i still have many thing i didn't say. It's really hard to say something that i have prepared to say. When i was saying, my brain is thinking what i want to say, here, i hesitated. However, It's an important experience for me. I will keep that in mind even i graduated in future.
After the lunch, we came back and talk about the nonverbal communication, which is the most interesting topic i love. I remembered before i had read these kinds of stuff by some reason. I read how the characteristic of the person looks like and i also read how the movement looks like when the women is flirting men. It's very interesting! I appreciate the professor like Trapani, modern, good looking, and especially his humor.

The second day

Today is the second day for HUC.101 class. The professor taught us what listening is and how to communcate with other people. I think that it is useful in our life, and also it is an important thing to know what the best way to listen and talk are. The professor showed us some examples, which made us more fun and easy way to understand.

Also, today we have self-presentation about "my journey," every student shared their experience. It was a good exerise, because it made us know each other more. Even though I still was nervous, this was my first time that I didnt see any paper to talk in front of the people. I think I have improved today.

Second day of class-horrible

At first, I was enjoying the class a lot. Although the idea that I had to get up and do a presentation was torturing me. Today we studied chapter three: listening and perception, which is a very interesting subject because I can relate it to my daily life. For instance, professor Trapani and one of my classmate played a scene of a girl who her boyfriend had just break up wtih. It was funny the way he acted; first he acted like a compresive friend an active listening and then like a selfish person who didn't vare about the girls problem. However, going back to the presentation subject. I was so nervous that I even forgot what I had prepared.

Self-disclosure presentation

I was very nervous at first to give my presentation and I kept rehearsing in my mind what I was going to say. I wasn't too sure whether to talk about something personal or just provide the basic information about myself, but as I started to talk on a more personal level I felt that it was easier to express myself. I wasn't able to go into deep details about my full background since it was only 3 minutes but I was able to give enough information so that my classmates could see where I stand. I realized the more personal the topics were, the easier it was for us to express ourselves. Overall, my classmates did a great job and the best part was that no one got cold feet. I expected at least one or two people to go up and have absolutely nothing to say. Since it didn't happen I believe it shows a good part in our behalf because we are providing a comfortable environment for one another.

SELF DISCLOSURE ASSIGMENT

As the 2nd day of class started, I kept thinking about what I was going to talk in the class, it was challenging trying to put my ideas together in only 3minutes and still try to make some kind of sense, as I was listening to my classmates, I started realizing how much we all had in common, how much we all have struggle, ones more than others, but how we all had for the most part left our birth countries to come start a new life, it seems that even if we are different we still have that kinf of common ground that brings us together.
Some of the stories were really encouraging, it made me want to keep going and get to the finish line, listening to people that have kids and still going to school is amazing, I feel really proud of them for taking such a big challenge and sticking with it.
Another part of the class that was very interesting was about the ways of communicating with each other, the way that sometimes we think we are listening, but at the end we are really just hearing and not paying attention, it made me realise how many times we make the big mistake of just not paying attention to the other person, and how important is to analyze things we want to say before we do it.
So far this class is teaching me on how to become a better communicator, and hopefully by the end of the semester I will be able to master this and apply it to my everyday life.

second day

This is the second day of the speech class. Today we are talking about "listening." Listening has five steps, like attention, interpretion, evaluation, responding and message. I remember this interesting example that the professor pointed out is "when you are sitting in front of your friend, the friend is talking with you, but you are listen someone who is sitting behind you." That is very funny, then it happens to me a lot. Sometimes my friend is talking to me, but it is boring. So I will keep looking at him, but I am actually listening someone talking.

And today I did the self-disclosure. I was very nervous at that time. I thought I did not do it very well. Anyway, it is a practice. I got some experience. I hope I will do it better next time.

Second day

Today is the second day we take HUC101 course. At the beginning of our course, the professor cleck our assignments and then teach us chapter 3 about the listening. Before that I think listening is the same with hearing. But now I know I'm wrong. They are different. Listening is the social congnitive process, and hearing is phscilogical process. Also there are 5 steps in listening. After this class, I can learn more about the listening, so that I can know how to become a good listener.
After that we have the self-disclosure presentation. Although it just take me 3 minute, and I prepare this the day before yesterday. I still feel nervous. I don't like to talk in front of people, but I know if I want to become an accountant, I must do more exerise to improve my speech and become more comfortable. So I will keep going to practise more, and try my best to do well in my presentation.

My first HUC101 Class

 

Today is Friday,I have registered for a HUC101 course which lasts from 9:15am to 4:15pm. I never took a whole day class like that, so this is a new trying .
When Prof. Trapani came in, I regornized him right away because when I took accounting class, he was once invited to teach us how to make a good presentation by our accounting professor, and his professional demonstration impressed me at the time. Soon I confirmed that my friend's reconmendation of him was right.
At the begining, Prof. Trapani introduced himself and this course.Also, he instructed us to list a bunch of essential and important benefits about communication that relate to our life.Then we started out communication :  getting to know each other. This is the part I scared of, because although I have been in the USA for many years, I still can not speak English fluently, and always feel shy to talk to people who speak English well. However,the thing that made me feel a little comfortable is most classmates were friendly and some of them were talktive and we get along well quickly. on the first day, Profressor not only talked about the history of communication, he also analyzed the four perspectives in understanding communication. I strongly agree twith one of his points, " Communication is a kind of art". I believe that for a speaker, choosing what kind of words or other body language which are appopriate in an conversation is as important as a musician choosing the way of performance to express his sprit in a concert, or same as an artist choosing the color to display his personality in a painting and a dancer choose the dance style to show her works. And I also believe that if I conquer my fears of English, I would enjoy this course very much.

Second Day

So today was the second day of class. I still have the same oppinion about the class, I like it. So far we went over chapter three in the text book. Today we talked about how we hear things and listen to things. Those by the way are very different. Hearing is just like being there and knowing the other person is speaking, while listening is something deeper and better than that. When you listen you fully comprehend what the other person is telling the imformation sinks into you. You are aware of your conversation and have better knowlege and understanding what is going on.

We also had our 2-3 minute speech of self disclosure. I am a very open person and not shy at all. When I go out I like to be open and I love meeting and interacting with new people, however standign up in fron of the class was nerve racking for me. I didnt say half the things that I wanted, but overall I don't think that I did that bad. I talked about I guess the simple things, like coming to America....

Now it;s my lunch period so I'm off to eat.. :)

reflection on second day of class

I was very nervous intially coming into class. I am not a very good public speaker so I was anticipating the worst. As time went by I slowly became more comfortable. I began to see that I wasn't the only one that was about to have a heart attack. I was also intaking all of the information from the lesson which I found very helpful and useful.
Waiting for my turn to present my self-speech was a nightmare at first but as I saw people present a started to feel a little more confortable. When I presented my speech I was still pretty nervous but it was less than I expected nonetheless. I am sure that by the end of this clas I will eliminate my anxiety and become a decent speaker.

In communication class.........

Today, I have learned all about the listening skills. It is so true that people only really pay attention to if it is very interesting. In class i really enjoy listening to people talk about their life jourany, where the come from, and about their life. But when i got up i was kind of scared because i am a little afrid of talking to people that i really dont know like that, but when i get used of being around the class more than two day i will be fine.

William Jablonski

My second class in communications was great. I had the opportunity to learn new things I may have not known about my classmates. And also share my experience of a time in my life where it changed my life. I liked the excercise, it is a great way to speak effectively in front of people. It will prepare me for the real world of work. I also learned about the ways we communicate and how people can misunderstand you and how to speak in different situations.

Hello Class!!!!
Today was very interesting to hear and learn more about my classmates about their journey in life, their struggles, hapiness.
I find that I am learning more and more intersting things in this class that can help me in life. Communication skills are very important!!!!!!

communication

Today at my communication class we learned a lot about how a communication has a huge affect in our lives. The professor helped us today to understand the real meaning of how the good relations between people work. Also, how to avoid bad situations by being proactive. Finally I gave my speech today and I feel more cumfortable and ready for my next speech project.

Day 1 of Intro To Communications class

Well lets see, the first day of communications class was fun. I took an acting class this past semester so going up an speaking will not at all freak me out. But I did learn alot of new things on the first day like how to communicate in the business world. For one my major is Business Administration, which you have to have effective communication speaking in that type of enviornment. I also learned about how communication orginated and how it originated. Furthermore I learned alot the first day and I can use some of the stuff I learned in class in the real world.

1st day of class...

As I enter the classroom I notice that there was a lot of people, and everyone was very shy and not talking at all, when the professor got into the classroom he made the room more relax, by having us stand up and go around and introduce ourselves, this exercise helped a lot specially myself, I found it very entretaining to have the chance to talk to different people about what they do for a living, what is their majors, how long they have been in La guardia. After this excercise we moved on to picking a partner and starting to interview the person, then we had to go in front of the class and introduce our partner, this excercise was lot more difficult as we had to show our personality and something different about us in front of everyone, in my case I'm not a nervous person, but profesor made me realise that I was not looking at my audience while I was talking, this class so far has thought me to be open and be proud of who we are and don't get nervous because is all about taking risks and learning to communicate better with our enviroment.

After doing this excercise we proceed to learning about history of communication, and how this has become the most important way to develop relationships, and how globalization has made this communication to become more abroad and has made the world smaller.So far I'm enjoying this class and looking forward to learning about more, and taking this knowledge to my everyday life at home, work and school.

Communication class

Friday was the first day of classes for me. I was a little hesitant at first about taking a communication class, not that I'm a shy person, I just imagined it being all about speech and presentations. I was happily surprised when at the beginning of the class Prof. Trapani gave us a chance to introduce ourselves to one another by walking around the room and starting a conversation. It made all of us a lot more comfortable and friendly with each other.
The communication tradition is what amazes me most. Who would think communication is 2500 years old and was called rhetoric long time ago. I've learned how important it actually is, and how it prepares us for so many different professions. Our class was seven hours long but not in a million years, I would think it would turn out to be so interesting. I didnt even realize it was time to go home. I'm looking forward to the next class!

Motivation & Student Success

For those of you who blogged, congratulations! Blogging is an experience that allows to reflect upon our experience. When we think about past experiences, we can make judgements, assess the experience, or change something about a behavior so that future experiences are different. How many of you blogged and then mulled over what you wrote about? How many of you looked at other blogs?

One of the reasons why the blogging exercise happens during our lunch break is so that the memories of the past experience stay with us, but for a very short time. Most of the students who left the classroom last week haven't blogged, nor have they finished their first exam. We sometimes leave an experience and only face it again when we HAVE TO. That is a big problem in education. Learning does not happen in the classroom, it actually happens outside of it. What takes place in the classroom is what we'll be talking about tomorrow! Want to guess what that is? Anyone who leaves a comment with the one word word that describes what I'm talking about will receieve bonus points on the first practice set! Good Luck. Hit the comment button below.

First Day Class

January 7, 2011 was the first day class for HUC.101 course.

I am a shy person, and I lack self-confidence, I had fear to stand and talk in front of all the classmates. It made me feel nervous. So I take this course and also i want to improve it.

The professor is a funny man, and he pronounce very clear. I like his voice. At the first class, the professor Stanto Trapani gave students some chances to talk with each other. it was a good pratice, becuase it could make us feel more comfortable. After ice breaking, we learned what communication is. Before I take this course, I never know communication has 2500 years old. Also, the porfessor had taught us about the history of communication, which is an interesting topic. after that day, i realize how important communication is in our life.

I think we will have funny in the nest six weeks.
Finally, sorry for posting late, because I have to work.....

first day of huc101

My first day of communication class was really interesting. I think Professor Trapani is the best to have in a class like this. I had some "fear" on me at the begging of the class but after we did our ice breaking activities with other students and getting to know some of them made me feel more comfortable and relaxed. We learned what "Communication" is and how it can define in manyways. Also we leaned the four perspectives in understanding communication. looking at the students eyes while been introduced was little difficult for me but I'm sure I'll overcome with that "fear" as the class go by doing more speeches in front of the class.

The first day of class

           On the first day of class, I was touched by the description of accent.  Prof. Thapani represented that accent was part of your unique identity and that made everyone special. What a wonderful description! I liked it very much and it gained me a lot of confidence to speak louder, and fought my fear. When I introduced William in the class, it was first time I had so little fear to stand in front of all the classmates.  It was not only the encouragement but also respect.  I felt pleased to speak English in the class.

            After the introducing, we learned about Chapter 1&2. The deepest memory was the Rhetorical triangle. Now, I still memorize clearly the meaning of Ethos, Pathos and Logos. The picture and the video were good for memory. Additionally, the history of communication gave me a shock. It has 2500 years old and so many sophists and philosopher studied it. I believe that I will never regret to take this class.

lalalalala...

What I expected from Fundamentals of Speech and Communication is nothing what I got on the first day of class. What I was really picturing was a mean teacher making us do a lot of  presentations, in a yelling kind of manner. Well I was wrong... And thats not the first time I was wrong about something. 

So my professor Mr. Trapani isn't mean at all. He's actually a pretty good guy. There was an ice breaker at the beginning of class... of course. In a course like that it is most appropriate. It helped me loosen up a little bit, and to look forward to the rest of the semester. We learned a lot about our fellow classmates, well what do you expect? To learn little when the class is SEVEN hrs long! Well six since we get an hr lunch.

Well anyway we learned of the history of communication which began 2,500 years ago in Sicily. And that our professors favorite quote is " Our World Is Created Through Words" I cant front it is a very interesting and true quote. I think however that communication was created way before that, except that no one has studies communication before that. When the first cave man and cave women were on earth they started communicating by banging each other on the head... haha. I am looking forward to the rest of the semester and am hoping to learn a lot more interesting things and facts of the Fundamentals Of Speech and Communication.

Karolina :) 

I have had a lot of fun in the class on friday! The Professor is really, really funny and good. He knows how to make people feel confortable in his class. He made us all go arround the room and introduce ourselves to eachother. I think that was a unique and a verry good idea for the first day of class.
I look forward to the next class !!!

January 7, 2011..

was the first day of HUC 101; originally I wasn't going to take any winter classes, but obviously I changed my mind.
When I came in the classroom I decided to sit in one of the back seats at the very end of the room, trying to avoid any sort of interaction, that too changed. Once we all got up and randomly went up to people it gave my first day jitters some peace and I decided it wouldn't be so bad after all.
My mind had trailed off for a moment and all I heard is Prof. Trapani ask for a four letter word that can't be said, yes I was the one that shouted out "fuck", but in any case that too can be something related to the real four letter word "fear."
After another exercise I found that a couple people and I in the classroom have some things in common, while standing up and talking about my partner though I was looking at everyone I found myself forgetting what I practiced and slightly stuttering.
I truly believe that this "fear" that our professor spoke about will be overcome with this course and some practice, and perhaps in the end we'll all be able to go inside and elevator and not turn to wait for the numbers to reach their indicated floor but address every one with a huge "good morning" and a smile.

First day of class

The first day of class was much better then I expected. First, given that the class was 7 1/2 hours I figure it would be complete torture. The minute the professor walked in making funny remarks I thought "thank god, he's not boring". Our first exercise was introducing ourselves to as many classmates in 5 minutes. After those 5 minutes were up there was a lot more chatter and laughter going on, since everyone was noticeable more comfortable with one another.

For our 2nd exercise, we had to pair up with another classmate interview them, then later introduce our partner to the class and vice versa. While our partner introduced us, we had to remain eye contact with the audience, which was very hard for a lot of us to do. My secret in being able to look at everyone is that I have horrible eyesight, so I can't clearly see everyone facial expression that actually made it a thousand time better hahaha.

We also learned during our communication course that there's a 4 letter word that starts with F that many of us are afraid to say because that's how we feel. But it wasn't the word many of us were thinking. The word was fear, which I completely agree with because at times we say things wondering what others think about your comment or we're afraid to speak up because we're afraid about what others might think, say or do when we say it. I think this course will help us ALL improve our communication skills that will help benefit us in our future goals.

I also said "Good morning" to the people I was in the elevator with this morning on my way to work, some smiled and said it back, others gave me that "I think she is crazy" look. But it actually made my day because I did something that caused me to step out of my comfort zone.

The first day

I am a shy person, so I am so afraid to talk in front of people, especially giving a presentation. Because of that reason, I take this course to practice and improve myself. At the beginning of the class, professor asked us to introduce to each other. After that, I felt very comfortable.

After the first class, I really understanded what is communication. Communication is not just talk to others. Communication is included mang things. And the professor gave us the history of the speech and Perspectives. I hope I will improve my communication skills and speech skills after this course.

Communication.............

I am really not a shy person, but when i am meeting people for the first time i do become very quite. I am very glad that we were able to walk around and talk to our classmates so i can break out of my shell. Professor Trapani had us to do two group activities for our class this was a good thing because we were able to talk to diffrent culture diversity,and to be in diffrent groups. The most important thing was that we were doing what we came here for, and that is to communicate with people.

I have learned alot from chapter one, and two. I have learned how communication was form, and where did it come from. It was formed it the fifth centy in Sicily. The five cannon of rhetoric, and they are invention, style, arrangement, memory, and delivery. In also what Aristotle believed, and it is that how someone can sway people. They are ethos to a personal charter , pathos is to arouse emontions, and logos is logic of message. Definitions of communication and there are ten including the Proffessor. The perspective are Psychological forcus on what goes on in your mind, social constructionist people using their culture in groups,pragmatic has to do with behaviors and the way the act around each other, and we learned much more.

The first day

This is the first day we take the HUC 101 course. I think it is a funny class for me. When we start the class, professor Stanto Trapani ask us to introduce yourself to our classmate walk around the classroom. At first, I was very scare and I didn't like to talk with the strangers. But I think I was wrong. After we did this exercise, I felt more confrotable and I thought we will have funny in this class in the next 6 weeks. Also this is my second times take professor Trapani's class, I think he is a nice and helpful professor, I believe we will have a good time in his class.
Before I take this course, I think community is just what each other share their information and we just learn how to talk with each other. I never image there are a lot of things we should learn about the community. In the first day, we learn about the history the community. It is I never know before. We also learn about the definitions,models and perspectives about the community. After this class, I realize how the community is important in our world.

First Day / Week 1

By first opening the door, I noticed that there was not much interaction between my classmates that had made it into the room before myself. Fortunately the awkward silence did not last long as we were all instructed to roam freely through out the room and interact with our fellow classmates. From there on there was a certain comfort level which allowed us to work with more of a group dynamic. As the class progressed I felt free to add my input to what was being discussed. By the time we had begun the interviewing process it was clear that the class was in full swing. The activities we had been participating in made for a much more productive environment as I felt slightly more familiar with everyone.

Once we got past preliminary introductions and "breaking the ice" everything seemed to flow seamlessly. By delving further into what communications as a whole really entails I learned the many depths of what goes into every human interaction. A primary example of this would be learning that communication, preformed and participated, involves understanding each other clearly. This process consists of both giving and receiving information. Although I was aware of this concept prior to taking this class, some light has been shed on the different ways communication is literally viewed. Body language is something that I have learned carries a lot more weight in communication than I had imagined. I will be taking all of this into account in my upcoming oral presentation as well as not letting "F.E.A.R." inhibit me from excelling at it.

First day

It was snowing in the morning , i was later because the train ....,..ok back to the topic .Fundamentals of Speech Communication is the only class that i have on friday.when  i was there, the professor was look at me. i was scare...when i sitting in the room, i feel like he is cool person. my major is business, because i am interesting with anything relate to business. he said he also like business. i gus this is the reason why i think he is cool.
        The first day of class is total fine, he is very clearn speaking , and a very nice preson. in the first class i learn lots of things about communication that i didin't know before. For example, the four perspective in understanding communcation. first one is psychological perspective, second one issocial constructionist perspective, and the next one is pragmatic perspective, and the last one is cultured perspective. i am only going to talk about one of it because this is the biggest thing that i learn in the first class. "PRAGMATIC PERSPECTIVE" it is kind of like we usually put different people into differernt types, for instance, we sharing secrets to one friend, and we play and jokinng with anothers. when we were talking to someone we always doing this, without even know it. this topic just make me think lots of things......which is sercets~

  PS:  First time in blog~~~

My first class

Today was great. When I first came into the class I thought that it was a huge classroom, but after we did the ice breakers I was totally comfortable with asking questions and talking. We are all human and most of us have a fear of speaking in front of large audiences,except for Monica ,she is funny. I also learned that Stephanie and I have the same english class on Saturday which is cool too. I love Steven other name caha Chang( i know that is beyond the wrong spelling) but it's like caching like the sound of change in a old fashion cash register. I did a presentation on Andy and he seems really smart. I even saw Karolina from my english class in fall 1. Prof Trapani seems like a really effective teacher and i am looking forward to the rest of the semester although i really don't think he is deaf, i think it is a technique to get us soft spoken people to speak up.
Other than that I learned the history of communication started with rhetoric,which was started in Sicily by sophist name Corax and Tisias. It was further developed in Greece by people who we are more familar with such as Aristotle. Although the Italians were the founders of the technique of persuasion, they were not ethical which meant they were not always truthful, that was the difference between Greek rhetoric. the Greeks studied methods ethos which is being truthful and using valid sources, pothos,which is tapping into a person's emotion so they can better understand you, and logos, which using critical thinking and statistics so that a person can also better understand why your topic is important to you.we also learned about perspective and how history is going in a circle academically,from rhetoric to faith during the renaissance era up to modern times using rhetoric and science.

1st class.

Starting

Today is snowing day, i'm going to my first day of classes, speech communication, which is consist of different kinds of communication.
At the beginning of the class, all people don't know each other, so we introduce ourselves.
The reason i chose this course because i need to be confident and improve my speaking skill.
Therefore, i don't want to be quiet. In the coming six weeks, i will try to speak as much as i can, even the english is not my first language. As my professor said, many asians are expected to be quiet, but i disagree with that. These asians are quiet because they don't speak well in english, the situation is simlar to if a person who speak english properly move to China, i believe that person will be quiet as well. In fact, they are outspoken, they are enthusiasm and they are talkative...etc...

THE WORLD IS CREATED THROUGH WORDS

During the Fall 1 break, i was disappointed that i can't register for prof. Trapani's course. I was late to realize i need to take speech communication course that requires for my major. I came back from the Tennessee trip before the first day of classes, i tried to register his course, and i got it!

I really like this professor, appreicate his work. I like the way he teachs and we can see how he concerns the student by making up the information and class notes on the blackboard. Also, he is experienced professor who makes the course interesting!!!!