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E&D Prezi
- “Great Job E&D team....Your prezi was sick!! It was a great summary of the IPC in our class... #LbLLP” (Sgershlak)
- @sgershlak: Great Job E&D team....Your prezi was sick!! It was a great summary of the IPC in our class... #LbLLP I agree! Good job guys :) (ddavies)
- despite @shannonheff's desire "Set the standards low.. I mean high! O:)" I agree with @sgershlak @ddavies315 "Your prezi was sick!!" #LbLLP (stephjoke)
- @sgershlak: Great Job E&D team....Your prezi was sick!! It was a great summary of the IPC in our class... #LbLLP I agree! Good job guys :) (ddavies)
Letter Grade Confusion
- @stephjoke is the "if letter now" grade out of 100? or is it out of 124?? #LbLLP (ddavies)
- @ddavies315 think the number next to "3rd quartergrade" is our total points and the one next to "if letter now" is out of 100? #LbLLP (sarah_Ellis926)
- @ddavies315 it is conceivable someone's cumulative grade if they were at 100 at midterm but B avg since #LbLLP (stephjoke)
- @ddavies315 think the number next to "3rd quartergrade" is our total points and the one next to "if letter now" is out of 100? #LbLLP (sarah_Ellis926)
Clinchy Team Meet Up
- Clinchy team! What time works for everyone tonight? 8? #LbLLP (ddavies)
- .@ddavies315, I'm going to be doing a project with my food science class at 630, and i dont know when ill be back, so i might be late #LbLLP (ckmetz)
- @ddavies315 8 works for me. @ckmetz we probably can wait for you no worries. #LbLLP (kimdelehanty)
- @kimdelehanty sweet, i probably won't be too long. hopefully 8 will work for @demifo14 (ckmetz)
- @ddavies315 8 works for me. @ckmetz we probably can wait for you no worries. #LbLLP (kimdelehanty)
- .@ddavies315, I'm going to be doing a project with my food science class at 630, and i dont know when ill be back, so i might be late #LbLLP (ckmetz)
harry Potter
- Just signed up for the harry potter project. I'm pumped! #LbLLP (ddavies)
- @ddavies315 you can sign up for the HP project on the wiki? or are you metaphorically signed up? I'm totally in for the project btw! #LbLLP (ckmetz)
Harry Potter Team Meet up
- What time can hp meet?? #LbLLP (shannonheff)
- @shannonheff I'm free between 2:45ish and like 6:30, then again at like 8:30ish. Maybe 9 is a good time for everyone? #LbLLP (ddavies)
- @shannonheff im good after 430, and then good after 8ish. so i agree with @ddavies315 that 9 works. #LbLLP (ckmetz)
- @ckmetz @ddavies315 ill miss gossip girl for a meeting lol #LbLLP maybe we can plan tomorrow at class? (shannonheff)
- @shannonheff, awh, im sorry. well we can figure something out...hopefully we wont make you miss your show. #LbLLP (ckmetz)
- @ckmetz @ddavies315 ill miss gossip girl for a meeting lol #LbLLP maybe we can plan tomorrow at class? (shannonheff)
- @shannonheff im good after 430, and then good after 8ish. so i agree with @ddavies315 that 9 works. #LbLLP (ckmetz)
- @shannonheff I'm free between 2:45ish and like 6:30, then again at like 8:30ish. Maybe 9 is a good time for everyone? #LbLLP (ddavies)
The Buzz Buzz Boom by Seth Gore
Library Recon Team
Initial Thoughts on the Buzz Buzz Boom
- These are some brief notes of the discussion our group had after reading The Buzz Buzz Boom
- My group and I believe Dean to be deaf
- Dean never "hears" Mary Ann, he just knows when she has "said" something
- Dean does not laugh at Seinfeld (we think this to be because he can't hear the jokes)
- At one point, Dean "takes a break from [Mary Ann's] acoustical world," meaning a world of sound
- We think that Mary Ann doesn't know that Dean is deaf
- His Uncle Richard is in denial of his different qualities
- Dean embraces every other sense he has to the fullest extent, making up for his lack of hearing
Identifying Details in The Buzz Buzz Boom by Seth Gore
- Dean, Mary Ann, Uncle Richard, God, Gaea, Jesus, Jerry
- Dean and Mary Ann are watching Seinfeld and discussing the possibility of moving in together.
- Mary Ann is using her eyes and ears to watch Seinfeld. Dean on the other hand, is watching by using all senses except his ears.
- We have learned that there are various ways to communicate. Communication does not only consist of talking and hearing. We must use all of our senses in order to communicate.
- If we continued to look at the story, we would probably find more evidence that Dean is in fact deaf, and we would learn exactly how he is able to communicate without using this particular sense.
- Questions:
- Is Dean deaf?
- Was his uncle in denial?
- Does Mary Ann know that he is deaf?
- If Dean is deaf, how is he able to hear what Mary Ann is talking about? Or his uncle for that matter?
What's thunder got to do with it?
- September 8, 2010 at around 6 a.m.
- We all felt very scared because of how loud the noise was, but we were also quite annoyed that the storm woke us up. Most of us had never experienced such a loud noise waking us up in the morning.
- We were all able to hear the storm as opposed to see it. It was the noise that initially woke us up, but once we looked outside the window, we saw that it was raining.
- When the thunderstorm hit, we were all asleep. Our eyes were of course closed making us almost "blind" to what was going on around us. This is similar to Dean being deaf. We all had a disability that caused us to use other senses to make sense of what was actually going on around us.
- The difference was that Dean has to live with his disability his entire life, while the rest of us simply have to wake up, and we are immediately relived of our blindness.
- It is important to compare and constrast experiences because it makes us aware. If we don't take into consideration all forms of handicap that people have to endure, we become ignorant to other forms of communication. Dean lacks one form of communication, yet that makes his other senses stronger. His experiences are able to teach us that we take for granted the senses that we do have and should dive deeper into our other senses.
Another Angle on Interpersonal Communication
Theory determines Interpretation
- Non-verbal communication. Psychology, Parapsychology, Occult
- You need to communicate with other senses than just verbal communication. Body Language and facial expressions are very key points of interpersonal communication.
- It emphasizes that not everyone has the ability to communicate verbally, and that all aspects of communication are just as important as any other.
- It minimzes the fact that verbal communication is very critical to society today and those who can not verbally communicate struggle on a day to day basis.
- Yes, because it supports the fact that we though he had hearing problems and struggled to communicate with others.
- No, because he struggles to communicate verbally and he wanted to bu he couldn't so he wouldn't want other to know he's deaf.
"Signs Dean is Deaf"
- "She said or something like that"
- I Love You
- began walking out of my eyes
- "take a breather from Mary Ann, from her acoustical world"
- Uncle Richard would ask me in awkward incumbent sign"
- It was for me being unable to hear
- I'm not hearing it with my ears but with my whole body
- I stared deep into my eyes and reached for the metaphysical stuff inside, the boom boom buzz, the world that I knew through my eyes
- Do I smile Yes
- One hand roamed her back, the other surveyed for messages that her hand sent-her hand in mine like a ball, saying things
- "Hands. Touch and feel. No light, no more sound, just the ridges on your fingers...she kept on moving, touching reaching." (The entire paragraph)
Essay applying SPEAKING
For Monday, 4 October 2010
DUE: 500 word essays on "What The Buzz Buzz Boom says and means;" composed by your new teams from the SPEAKING fishbowls. You must have a thesis (the point you will make, commonly called an argument), cover each category of the SPEAKING model, include supporting evidence (quotes!) from The Buzz Buzz Boom, and a conclusion.
The Non Verbal Communication view of IPC in The Buzz Buzz Boom
For non-verbal communication, the speaking model is very similar to the one we created in class because we focused on how Dean communicates with sign language. The setting is the motel room. The participants are Mary Ann, Dean and Uncle Richard because they all communicate with Dean non-verbally. The ends are that Mary Ann and Dean are both trying to understand where they are in the relationship and reaching their goal of communicating effectively without having the ability to talk. The key is still serious, because when signing, or communicating non verbally, you must use body language and facial expressions to display your emotions so the other person can understand how you are feeling. The instruments is sign language. The norms are the same for the ones we made in class when talking about Mary Ann and Deans relationship. They must use the society rules and standards for having a relationship even though they can not communicate verbally. The genre does not change for our discipline because even though they are not communicating with words it would still be considered a drama and a love story. It especially considered a multi-cultural story because they are coming from two different cultures. Dean being deaf and Mary Ann being hearing they both had to put their differences aside in order to have a working relationship.
New Team!
Meanings of The Buzz Buzz Boom
For Monday, 4 October 2010
DUE: 500 word essays on "What The Buzz Buzz Boom says and means;" composed by your new teams from the SPEAKING fishbowls. You must have a thesis (the point you will make, commonly called an argument), cover each category of the SPEAKING model, include supporting evidence (quotes!) from The Buzz Buzz Boom, and a conclusion.
Theories in combination and competition?
Thunder in Theory
Communication Theories
Dell Hymes' Speaking Model
- Setting & Scene-Where and what is happening
- Participants- who is doing the actions
- Ends- the intended outcome
- Act sequence- the order of events
- Key- tone or mood of utterance
- Instrumentalities- styles (slang, formal, voice or gesture)
- Norms- accepted behavior of scene. Social Rules
- Genre- humor or comedy,educational, social, work,etc
The Negative- Kenneth Burke
- Homework Question
- Definition
- "Being bodies that learn language
thereby becoming wordlings humans are the symbol-making, symbol-using, symbol-misusing animal inventor of the negative separated from our natural condition by instruments of our own making goaded by the spirit of hierarchy acquiring foreknowledge of death and rotten with perfection (qtd. in Coe 332-333)."
American pragmatism -John Dewey
- "Pragmatism is a philosophical movement that includes those who claim that an ideology or proposition is true if it works satisfactorily, that the meaning of a proposition is to be found in the practical consequences of accepting it, and that impractical ideas are to be rejected" Wikipedia
- "John Dewey (October 20, 1859 – June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. Dewey, along with Charles Sanders Peirce and William James, is recognized as one of the founders of the philosophy of pragmatism and of functional psychology. He was a major representative of the progressive and progressive populist[2] philosophies of schooling during the first half of the 20th century in the USA.[3]
- Although Dewey is known best for his publications concerning education, he also wrote about many other topics, including experience, nature, art, logic, inquiry, democracy, and ethics. Despite the technology not having existed during his lifetime, Dewey also predicted the rise of text messaging as a communication practice, arguing for its efficacy in the development of a more populist democratic society.[citation needed]
- In his advocacy of democracy, Dewey considered two fundamental elements—schools and civil society—as being major topics needing attention and reconstruction to encourage experimental intelligence and plurality. Dewey asserted that complete democracy was to be obtained not just by extending voting rights but also by ensuring that there exists a fully formed public opinion, accomplished by effective communication among citizens, experts, and politicians, with the latter being accountable for the policies they adopt."-Wikipedia
Speech Acts Theory
- A look at an alternative class project that Pearce suggested!
Gender,Identity, and Intimate Communication
- Assignment
- Foeman Article
- Intimate Communication
- Team page!
- Class Notes & Final Paper
- Communication-based theories of language and social Interaction
How does Foeman and Gore's articles Relate
- "Communication shapes and reshapes the relationship between couple and culture" (pg. 238)
- The communication struggles that Mary Ann and Dean face and overcame shape the way their relationship functioned. Dean being deaf, therefore from a different culture makes the couple an interracial couple. Because Dean is deaf it changes the way they interact and the different problems they faced.
- "Attraction for an interracial couple is both an interpersonal and cultural experience"(pg. 239)
- Mary Ann knows, and understands how to communicate with Dean and she can sense when he is ready to talk. Dean is attracted to Mary Ann because she does understand him and she doesn't push him to talk when he doesn't want to. Unlike Uncle Richard, Dean didn't enjoy being in his presence because they did not have the interpersonal experience to create an interracial couple or relationship. (not in any type of romantic way, just a relationship between uncle and nephew).
- "In couple where backgrounds and attitudes are most challenged by an interracial relationship, the partners may have a difficult time reconciling inconsistent world views, cultures, and goals in maintaining their relationship." (pg. 243)
- All throughout the story of The Buzz Buzz Boom, they are trying to figure out their goals in the relationship that they have. Since both Mary Ann and Dean come from different cultures and backgrounds they are struggling to come to an agreement on what they want to do with their relationship. They don't know if they should take it to the next step, and they are not sure what they want from each other.
In Search of Gorillas
Selective Attention Report
- We all think that the video was quite interesting because it portrays how if people are completely focused on one thing they can be completely blind to another. Mike also believes that the [video] was unique because he had never seen anything like it before and he thought it was very strange that he actually did not see the gorilla the first time. Both Mike and Ali did not see the gorilla the first time. Dan and Danielle on the other hand spotted the gorilla. However Danielle has seen the video before. The four of us all noticed the gorilla the second time but the element of surprise stopped all of us from noticing the color changing in the background or even the member of the black team leaving as the gorilla came in.
Cool Potentials of the Wiki
False- 1, 3, 13, 14, 20, 22 Top Three- 6, 27, 18 Team Favorite- #18
Struggles With the Wiki
In the Aquarium with Steph
Observing Fishbrains in Action
Buzz Buzz Boom Article By Seth Gore
Fishbrain observations
- Characters: Mary Anne, Uncle Richard, Dean, Pops, Jerry from Seinfeld, God, Gea, Jesus
- Is the type of car that Uncle Richard has important? Is it important because it makes a specific sound? It's a timeless classic, and Dean is able to feel the engine.
- Both Uncle Richard and Dean understood the value of the engine
- Uncle Richard has "no senses but hearing" and he didn't except Dean for being different.
- Uncle Richard is ashamed of him. Why would he keep asking if he could hear the engine if he knew he was deaf?
- Dean used different senses to feel/hear the engine
- Superficial vs. engulfed
- Dean Can't hear Mary Ann
Thunder Questions during the Fishbowl
- The Thunder shook the dorms
- Scared everyone that heard it
- Some experienced it differently, like Dean and Uncle Richard experienced life differently.
- The topic changed the tone of the class
- Uncle Richard and Dean had different opinions on hearing the car (who heard the thunder vs. who didn't)
- Did those who didn't hear it deaf?
SPEAKING about The Buzz Buzz Boom
- Setting- Motel/Scene- Soccer field, bed/them talking (Dean & Mary Ann). Talking about the future-> Intimate (relationship) Pregnancy Scare scare provokes the scene
- Participants- Mary Ann, Dean--> Deaf? In the past, Uncle Richard (INTRA-PERSONAL COMMUNICATION) Mary Ann externalizes what she thinks about. Cultural relationship, heterosexual
- Ends- Mary Ann is trying to have an understanding with Dean trying to convince himself that it will work. Not sure of the communication looking for her to understand him. POV negative frame. Dean wants Mary Ann to recognize his experiences. Broader picture. Mary Ann is making an attempt to understand him. Compare and Contrast Mary Ann and Uncle Richard.
- Act-Sequence-Deans day dreaming/ Mary Ann watching Seinfield. Checks reality -> comes back mentally. Mary Ann is still there, she's respecting his dreaming and doesn't speak until he's back to reality. Adds humor to release tension. Still trying to trust her slowly letting her in.
- Key- Comfortability. Serious (discussing the future)--> Figure out serious matter. Dean -> putting it off, Mary Ann wants an answer now. Uncle Richard is serious the entire time. She has more feelings and decides to switch things up. Mary Ann laughs at how hard its been to get to this balance.
- Instrumentalities- Sign Language, all senses, communicate in silence, "we are because we are"-like gorilla, once confirmed deaf easier to find, feel the rain, saw the rain-> never heard, feel them talk he had no sense but hearing silence. Vision-> have to see the signs.
- Norms- relationship between Mary Ann and Dean memories (of thunderbird) family relationship (Uncle Richard and Dean) intimacy of couple. Act one way with lover, different way with family. Didn't get it--> move on? men socialization vs women socialization. women express their feelings, men are taught to hold in. Dean changes the topic and doesnt want to tell Mary Ann how he feels.
- Genre- serious tone/convo, awkward we're participants in the story, watching a reflection (Dean's), love sotry, same age, dean more mature? intercultural love story. Dean=white. Story about language/communication
Fishbowl: Skeptics, Questioners, Alternatives
- Alternative: A different story and use what we have learned in buzz buzz boom to put to use on a new topic.
- Charades
- our project is just fundraising
- Steph is the only one interested in it, just personal for her
- Uncertainty on what it would be
- We don't have to sign
- How are we getting graded? We need some directions
- We should have had an idea what to do by now
- Fundraising: how would we do it? too time consuming and difficult. What is it for? What's going on. What's the point?
- Money is tight, fundraising= unrealistic
- we love on campus, all kids with own expenses
- Fundraising quote will make or break people's vote
Steph Conversing With us through feedback
Understanding the Lifelike Pedagogy
Nfoys Understanding of the Lifelike Pedagogy
- I wrote that "the lessons' come up by the way the class' conversations are going" and I Steph put a star next to it and underlined it. I think that it's important because it has a lot to do with how the dynamics of our class are going to work.
- I also wrote that those conversations will "spark an idea" and "lead to another class discussion" I think Steph put a smiley next to this because she liked the comment.
- I wrote "The point is to show us how each class can be different and that there are many different ways to learn and be taught." I think Steph underlined this because she thought it was a good point and it shows that what she's doing is not the wrong way to teach.
- I wrote "By teaching this way it lets the student be almost like the teacher and move the class the way the way the class is interested in." Steph put a lot of !!! because this is the way that the class works, she doesn't want to bore us by teaching us things that we aren't interested about, and she wants the class to move in the way that we want it to move in.
- I wrote that in class we use "constant communication" and I think she underlined that because it is important that communicate efficiently.
- I wrote that "with our discussions we take the class where we basically want to go with it" and Steph questioned, could you say where this is? What direction ware heading?
- I wrote "Especially when we did the fish bowl discussions we got very interested in some topic but not in others, and we would continue where we wanted to lead it to." Steph had much to say about this quote. She first said that it was an excellent example, and then she asked if I could list which topics that we were and were not interested in. She then questions if we I had any sense of how to define or explain where you/the class want to be led.
Distinguishing Difference
- When defining difference, I wrote that it is "what is unlike" and Steph underlined that
- I wrote that we are "comparing them [different objects] in a certain situation" and Steph underlined it and wrote that it is very important to establish the parameters.
- I wrote that "Some people in even worse situations communicate with others through electron boards that speak for them" and Steph circled in even worse situations and wrote What is implied with this phrasing? What values or norms are shown to be part of your theory at communications?
- I wrote that I think American Sign Language is a very interesting language and sometimes I find it more useful. Steph underlined sometimes more useful
- I wrote that "since I had a background prior to this class about American Sign Language and the deaf community, I was more accepting to the this different way of communication" Steph said "yes, it seems exposure is vital, in order to find value in difference"
Marking Discipline
- In my sentence "if the communication act or dynamic stands out then it becomes an important" Steph underlined "then it becomes important"
- Steph put a check mark next to my sentence "Marked is something that stands out in a conversation"
- In my sentence "This part stood out from the rest of the conversation because it had nothing to do with what was actually going on in the class" Steph underlined it had nothing to do with and she wrote or, what "it had to do" was in competition or contrast with the larger dynamics of what is happening in class.
- In my sentence "Another definition of discipline is a certain focus or area of a very broad topic" and Steph underlined a certain focus
- In my sentence "Non-verbal communication and with that discipline we focused on the Buzz Buzz Buzz in a different way then with groups with a different discipline" and Steph under lined focused on the Buzz Buzz Boom and in a different way.
- This is part of the expressive logic of message design because in my quiz I did express my feelings about the class and why we got the "discipline we needed"
- This picture is an example of a marker because though it had nothing to do with what was going on in the class we all began focusing on it and talking about the word muggle.
Pink Stuff
- Steph wrote to me that "the choice of photo seems completely random- and that is more like the opposite of what it means to be marked! Any ideas what links you might have added for depth completed"
- I thought that muggle was a good connection because we had talked about it for a while and on my pop quiz I had discussed our conversation about the door being open or shut and I thought that those two connected.I thought that both of these events were similar and that the one that I posted was a good example.
Class Project
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Awesome ASL videos!
Party In the U.S.A - Miley Cyrus
Love Game- Lady GaGa - fast forward to 45 seconds :)
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