SPC1017-1814 - 8:00 AM - Group #1

 Communicating with the Group Having a presentation due at the end of the week during the first week seemed like an annoying assignment. When it comes to class presentations, I'm not very fond of them as group members tend to have a hard time communicating or choose not to communicate at all. But seeing how this presentation is on communication, it would be strange if we didn't talk. The result turned out as good as expected and even led me to research it a bit more on my own time after we presented. Working with a group can show the communication challenges people experience but, we thankfully didn't have those issues, and worked perfectly fine. While we did go into different topics, certain slides like generational differences, disability inclusion, and the metaphor of America as a melting pot or salad stood out to me. This presentation showed how communication can go beyond language and into non-verbal behaviors and cultural influences. Generational Differences The slide...

💬 Reflections based on the Presentations    By:Emily Ocampo    Class:SPC 1017  reviewing Group 1: Chapter 3, Group 2: chapter 9,and group 3:chapter 10 My Slide Overview My team group were assigned intercultural communications. We each picked our own topic to do our slides on, I picked disability, because it’s a very important topic to discuss, in my slide I discuss points about the topic.  I begin with saying that disability has had a big impact on people’s lives, and that’s because of their disabilities people are often not accepted into society. I also defined that a disability is a physical, emotional, or mental or cognitive impairment that impacts how a person functions in society. In fact, people always judge others by their looks. According to my research, the social model defines disability as the decisions that society makes about what makes our bodies and minds valuable.    Society’s ideas then lead to decisions about physical spaces, te...

Intercultural Communications: What is it? Group #1 - Chapter 3      Communication is key to understanding a person, groups, situations in the world, etc. Without this main form of lifestyle, this world would be chaos as a whole. In intercultural communications there are beliefs and values that were mentioned in our presentation. It included: religion, race, ethnicity, disability, age, generations, and social status. In the section of ethnicity, something I found interesting was 'native language'. Growing up in a rapid moving society like America, but in Miami, Spanish is the second tongue to many. Having a second language like Spanish is important because not only is it beneficial to talk to more groups of people, it kelps the culture and its roots alive.  Language as the key - intercultural, cross-cultural communication      In the video above, it talked about Lee starting a new job in Turkey and feeling out of place. Even if she tried to learn the la...

First, I didn't want to be here.  To be quite frank, when I first sat down in my seat to observe the two class-period presentations (one on intercultural communication [Chapter 3] and the other on group communication [Chapter 9]), all I could consider was how much I’d rather have been enjoying that time elsewhere. Ideally, at the gym, throwing some weight around instead of looking at slides. But credit where credit’s due: in the end, I enjoyed both presentations more than I thought I would. They got me thinking about how we communicate, day to day, the extent to which context and group dynamics shape everything we say and do. Hand gestures mean different things? The Chapter 3 presentation started with, “Hand Gestures Among Different Cultures,” which almost had me at hello. It all began with the universal “A-OK” sign meaning totally different things from nation to nation—the in the U.S. it means Ok or good, and Brazil it means fuck you. That alone woke me up to just how easy you can...

Between Connections and Collaborations, we all use Communication (by Alux Toledo) The other day, my fellow colleagues and I presented our slides pertaining to our assigned chapters in class. I believed these presentations were going to be boring, tedious, and overall mentally exhausting. However, I am pleased to say that I wasn’t completely wrong as some of the presentations were able to keep me awake throughout the entire two hour morning class. There were presentations that had interesting and engaging ideas and methods while still being relevant towards the presented subject in question. Allow me to share my thoughts, starting with… Chapter 3: Intercultural Communication. This chapter for intercultural communication was actually one that I myself worked on. Each of us picked a topic to talk about on a slide. I opted to go with Race and Ethnicity since it seemed like a topic I could actually get an idea from while making the slide. What this chapter overall dives into is how people w...

    Slides,  Struggles , and Success!  When I volunteered to become a project manager, I had no idea what I was getting myself into. All I heard from Professor Sherri was “this is something you could put on your résumé” and “you won’t be part of a group; you’ll be helping me”. The idea of some of the workload being lifted off my shoulders intrigued me. I figured that not being part of a specific group would mean less work. I’ve been told that I am a very well-spoken person. I know that I’m a very good group leader and I knew that becoming a “project manager” for this class would make a team leader of sorts, which I was excited about! But I didn’t realize that the workload would be just as taxing as being a regular group member. I underestimated Sherri when she said, “you won’t have more or less work than everyone else”. I had to learn how to work with every single one of my classmates. And it’s safe to say that everyone I worked with for our past presentation were al...