Today, at the beginning of the class, we exchanged photos. Hmmm... well, in reality, the ones who brought their pics shared them, and the ones who didn't joint to them. It was an interesting experience because we had to make up a story from just one image (a baby's one)! To make that possible, our perception played an important role. For example, my partner and I analized one picture, and we came to the conclusion whose it was just because it was sort of old-fashioned. And, even though we had some information about him from previous activities such as self-disclosure and short-interview, we decided to made something up. We added some information, and we changed his nationality!!
Besides ours, there were other interesting pics' interpretations. There were even some classmates who got confused with the gender of the kid in their picture. That activity was a very good example of how the perception process is. We select information, organize it and give it a meaning, which makes us react certain ways before certain stimuli. I also learned how important good listening is. It enhances our communication because it will enable us to better understand the sender's message; however, we first have to get rid of some blinders that prevents us from doing so (this way, we would create a comfortable environment that leads to effective communication). I also learned that conscious awareness is the best way to handle any situation; it will enable us to be proactive rather than reactive, which allows effective communication to take place.
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Third Class
Today seemed like a really long day. We did an exercise about perception and how we view things that we see. Then we talked about what perception is and how we can use it to better ourselves and communicate better with others. I really love this class. I am getting so much information about things I never even thought about. We talked about Listening and how important it is to interpet what it is that the person talking to you is trying to convey. That sometimes people just want you to listen and not have an opinion or judge them.
We also started out groups today. We have 6 people in our group, Me, Fannie, Tenille, Billo, Johanna and Yuang. We decided that we are going to do our presentation on " How does the media affect communication". We are going to do half video and half presentation. I am very excited about it and can't wait to get started.
In the beginning I was a little nervous about this class and presenting in front of them. But now in the third week I am a lot more comfortable around everyone in the class and I am not as nervous as I was before. I am actually looking forward to learning more and presenting infront of the class.
We also started out groups today. We have 6 people in our group, Me, Fannie, Tenille, Billo, Johanna and Yuang. We decided that we are going to do our presentation on " How does the media affect communication". We are going to do half video and half presentation. I am very excited about it and can't wait to get started.
In the beginning I was a little nervous about this class and presenting in front of them. But now in the third week I am a lot more comfortable around everyone in the class and I am not as nervous as I was before. I am actually looking forward to learning more and presenting infront of the class.
3rd session of class
Today I was an half an hour late due to traffic :-( but the good thing about it was the professor was later then me which made it look like I was on time :-) . Today my class had a interesting lesson. We had to bring in our baby pictures and a random classmate had to write a story behind the picture. The baby picture I wrote a story on, I had figured out all wrong. I try to point the person out by the shape of their eyebrows which was the worst idea ever. The guy I pointed out to be in the picture happen so to be a girl. My perspective was totally off but I still enjoyed the lesson as well as the class.
The professor give a simple and clear definition of Communication" The sharing+ creating of meaning through human symbolic interaction". He also made it clear that the word Meaning can be use and presented in different terms. Two people can have different meanings of something that's the same. Its best to be open minded and try to understand the other person meaning before you judge or comply it as being wrong.
The professor give a simple and clear definition of Communication" The sharing+ creating of meaning through human symbolic interaction". He also made it clear that the word Meaning can be use and presented in different terms. Two people can have different meanings of something that's the same. Its best to be open minded and try to understand the other person meaning before you judge or comply it as being wrong.
Pretty Cool Day Today
Our professor was late today!. however, that problem has not change anything in the class, it was still awesome and alive. Well last week we had an assignment and that is to bring a picture of us when we were young. Unfotunately, almost 70 percent of the class did not bring their picture. I felt that professor Tarapani got kind of upset because of that. However, the show must go on. He decided to put the students who had pictures with the students who did not have. We combined in the groups, some had groups of 3 and some were just group of 2. Fortunately I was assigned in a group of three.
Professor Tarapani the pictures we had and distribute it to each group. Each group had different picture--pictures that we should not know who was in it. After distributing all of the pictures. he told us to look at the picture and by looking at it, create a story;where the child was born, what is his/her age in the picture, what are his/her hobbies, background and what does he/she wanna be in the future. It sounded like pretty impossible,"how could we make a life story in an non moving picture?" well, i thought it was hard. However, it came out well. After finishing the story, each group had to stand up in front of the class and discuss their stories that they made for the particular picture. some groups were funny because they had mistakes on the child's gender but that's just the way it is. One important thing I learned in the class was that all of us make the first impressions and judgments to people when seeing them at the first time. It is something that we would not control, however it also changes as we start to know the person very well.
My second communication class
Today's class was another great class, we began the class by reading and talking about the article "Why take this class?" It is a very interesting article that explains you how communication is important in our daily life, at our job, with our friends and family.
In any places you are, you always need to communicate. We talked about how we communicate differently depending with who we are. We also talked about how communication can be important even though we have a degree, sometimes you can be hired not for what you know but for who you are, I like this quote, that was on the article. Some people have such strong personality not matter where they come from they can become very successful.
Then, we talked about how ancient interpret communication and how it was used, we mentionned Aristotle and how he could persuave other people.
We also discuss the core competencies, the professor also mentionned how pejorative comments can be bad and does not give you any solution yo your problems.
We, then continue with presentions, they were great because we all know how we feel when we have to stand a front of the classroom.
I will say again that I begin to like communication, thanks to professor Trapani to make us enjoy this class.
In any places you are, you always need to communicate. We talked about how we communicate differently depending with who we are. We also talked about how communication can be important even though we have a degree, sometimes you can be hired not for what you know but for who you are, I like this quote, that was on the article. Some people have such strong personality not matter where they come from they can become very successful.
Then, we talked about how ancient interpret communication and how it was used, we mentionned Aristotle and how he could persuave other people.
We also discuss the core competencies, the professor also mentionned how pejorative comments can be bad and does not give you any solution yo your problems.
We, then continue with presentions, they were great because we all know how we feel when we have to stand a front of the classroom.
I will say again that I begin to like communication, thanks to professor Trapani to make us enjoy this class.
Today we had to bring our pictures as we were babies, than we exchanged them with other classmates .We gave our perception about the person who was on the picture. Thanks to that exercise I have learned how the PRECEPTIONS works, we need to: 1-select,2-organize and 3-give it meaning. It was very interesting experience because we not only learned something but also it made all people laughing.
The ethnocentrism is the belief that one culture is superior to everyone else. Extremism is when we start to look down at other cultures like: KKK, NAZIS etc. There are many people who still belief in stereotypes and for most of the time they are closed minded by the religion, life style or other aspects. I have learned the definition of communication which is “The sharing+ creating of meaning through human symbolic interactions”. We are meaning making machines and some people belief that the only meaning that life has is the only meaning you assigned to it. Meaning causes turmoil which is; giving the wrong meanings or stress etc. I have also learned about Psychological Perspectives, Social perspectives, Pragmatic perspectives and Cultural Studies.
After all we made groups and we decided what about our final presentation is going to be about. I happy about with whom I will be working because we have the same idea of the topic and I think we understand each other well.
The ethnocentrism is the belief that one culture is superior to everyone else. Extremism is when we start to look down at other cultures like: KKK, NAZIS etc. There are many people who still belief in stereotypes and for most of the time they are closed minded by the religion, life style or other aspects. I have learned the definition of communication which is “The sharing+ creating of meaning through human symbolic interactions”. We are meaning making machines and some people belief that the only meaning that life has is the only meaning you assigned to it. Meaning causes turmoil which is; giving the wrong meanings or stress etc. I have also learned about Psychological Perspectives, Social perspectives, Pragmatic perspectives and Cultural Studies.
After all we made groups and we decided what about our final presentation is going to be about. I happy about with whom I will be working because we have the same idea of the topic and I think we understand each other well.
7.7.10
Today was fun. we sharing our photos and make up a story. the hardtest part was making the story. after listen to few others story, i finally have idea how to do it.(guess what? just write it.) what i learned from today was life was has no meaning, but the one you assign. we also form a group with six.
Discovery
Every day of this communication class is as exiting as important. Today again I found out about how perception can sometimes lead someone to the wrong direction. When I and Tenille looked at the picture we had, we saw a cute boy from philinpine. However, after presentation, we found out that she was actually a girl from China. This mistake happens frequently in real life. When you see an unknown person and then by either his or her skin color or by the way she or he is dressed you think of them as someone he or she is not. This means that our perceptions of people or things must be interpreted very carefully. We should also be careful with our perceptions because they may lead us to stereotyping other people for wrong raisons.`
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