Monday
Workshop: Typography
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Monday
- Discussion: Active listening
Tuesday
- Practice Active Listening skills
Wednesday
- Social Media (Discussion practice):
- As a group, discuss and record your experiences with social media by answering the following questions:
- What apps do you use?
- What feelings do you have about social media?
- What are good experiences you have had with social media?
- What are bad experiences you have had with social media?
- How much time you spend on social media? How does that compare to the majority of the people you connect with?
- What strategies do you use to deal with social media?
- What are some wishes you have in regard to social media?
- Report out to class on small group discussions
Thursday
Friday
May 7—11
- MONDAY: Presentations
- TUESDAY: Presentations
- WEDNESDAY:
- Presentations and debrief
- Journal
- What were the 3 most important things (to you personally) that you learned in this unit?
- What one aspect of oral presentation would be the most beneficial for you to work on?
- THURSDAY: Stuff
- FRIDAY: Active Listening
- As a group, read these articles on active listening:
- Then: write up notes that combine (or synthesize) the important points from the articles into one set of guidelines for effective listening.
- Submit to Google Classroom
Monday
- Hey? Where'd everybody go?
Tuesday
- Work on your final oral presentation, due on Friday. When you are planning, follow the steps outlined in the requirements document (at the link). Don't just try to make the whole thing up when you present; it will not end well!
- Additional Resources:
Wednesday
- Continue to work on your presentation.
Thursday
- More work time. Consider practicing!
Friday
Monday
- Work on super-hero speech re-dos
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
- Skim this article on types of transitions
- Begin work on final oral presentation
Friday
- Super power make-up presentations
- Continue to work on final presentation
Resources
Agenda
Monday
- Notes on presentation surface style and structures
Tuesday
- Notes on presentation surface style and structures
Wednesday
- Journal on Steve Jobs' Commencement speech (Update: or not)
Thursday
Friday
- Work on presentation re-do
Monday
- After reading this article on types of non-verbal communication, create a slideshow on the different categories of non-verbal communications. Your slideshow will have two sections.
- Section I: Types of Non-Verbal Communication. For each category of non-verbal in the article, create one or more slides that:
- Gives the name of the non-verbal communication
- Describes it
- Gives examples and their possible meanings
- Displays at least one image that illustrates it (all images should be created by the group)
- Section II: Non-verbal examples
- Act out, photograph, and put into slides pictures that illustrate different combinations of non-verbal communication for specific situations. The situations include:
- Listening well
- Listening poorly
- Confident public speaking
- Two situations of your own devising
- Each slide should include:
- The situation
- The picture you created
- Text boxes and arrows labeling the categories of non-verbals and the messages they convey.
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Monday
- Develop good/bad communication presentations
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
- Decontaminate the following messages by rewriting them in a way that makes them whole (separate out each type of relevant expression). You can fill in details if needed to make your expressions more meaningful.
- “I feel like you can’t ever take me seriously.”
- “It looks like you’ve ruined another perfectly good relationship.”
Monday
- Notes on connotation and denotation and the uses of language
- Journal in Google Classroom
Tuesday
Wednesday
- Discuss yesterday's article (small groups).
- How does it tie into language and verbal communication?
Thursday
Friday
Monday
- Slang presentations (group project):
- Research slang from a particular decade
- List: 20 slang terms and their definitions
- Create and perform a skit using as many slang terms as possible as correctly as possible
- Due Thursday
Tuesday
- Work on slang presentations
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Monday
Tuesday
- Small Group Project:
- Present
Wednesday
Thursday
- Discuss:
- Definition
- a process by which information is encoded, exchanged, and decoded between individuals through a common system of symbols, signs, or behavior and filtered through individual sets of perceptions
- Characteristics
- Communication is a Transaction
- Communication is Learned
- Communication is Governed by Rules
- Communication is Inevitable
- Communication is Irreversible
- Communication is Unrepeatable
Friday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
- Finish notes on different factors affecting the Communication Model: beliefs and values
- Journal (in Google Classroom):
- Evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of this model
- How does the complexity of the model relate to real life? When have you observed this complexity?
Thursday
Friday
Monday
Tuesday
- Course Selection Fair
- Notes on Communication Model
Wednesday
- Continue notes on Communication Model
Thursday
- Different Factors affecting the Communication Model
Friday
Monday
Welcome to class!
- Attendance/names
- Intro to the course
- Our goals
- Syllabus
- How I work
- what you’ll need
- course info and syllabus
- Connect to Google Classroom: ab89z0r
- My Website
- Icebreakers
Tuesday
- Interview activity
- Debrief
- Quote
Wednesday
- Google Classroom code: ab89z0r
- Project 1: What is communication? understand and apply the communication model.
- Group Assignment:
- Small group discussion:
- What is communication?
- What are different ways we communicate?
- What kinds of things do we communicate?
- When does communication work well? When does it not?
- Create an extended definition of communication in your own words using your answers to the questions above. Illustrations and diagrams are acceptable as part of this.
- Create a slide show and present your ideas on Thursday.
Thursday
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