SPC 1017- 2462 Project Managers

  Blog Post Number 2 - Tyler Matchette If our previous 3 Intro to Communications presentations were surrounded around the topics of groups, group roles, and how they function in the world, then these sets of projects focus more on the people that could be considered leaders by you and me. Each person who was not assigned Co-Host had to make a few slides on a person who positively changed the world; and because this class is in the United States of America, most of our change makers are Americans. Since me and Zebadiah were both Co-Hosts for the class, we instead wrote summaries of what happened in each American century, from the late 1700s, to the 2000s (our current time as I am writing this post). With so much to talk about for each American century, me and Zebadiah split our discussions of each century into halves; where she talked about the first half of each century, while I talked about the latter. The only exception was for the 1700s, since America started in 1776; so Zebadia...

 Zebadiah Mckenzie- Chapters 3,9, &10 Presentations Reflection via GIPHY “Basically everyone before class presentations”      Last week in my Intro to Communication class, our class did group presentations based on three different chapters from our textbook. Even though all of the presentations came from the same textbook, each group focussed on different communication concepts and explained the material in their own way. Because of that, every presentation had a different style, structure, and energy. Watching the presentations made me realize how much communication affects the way information is delivered. Things like organization, confidence, transitions between speakers, leadership and even slide design can change how engaged the audience is. Being part of one of the presenting groups also gave me a different perspective because I experienced both listening to presentations and presenting in front of the class myself. Overall, I thought the presentations wer...

Blog Post Number 1 - Tyler Matchette:   Every group had to present while on camera about their given chapter from our e books. Each chapter discusses the human nature of communication, whether that is through intercultural communications, social groups, or group leadership and problem solving. My role for each group was to create and present a conclusion of all required chapters, since I was given the role of co-host, which meant, I had to make sure to read every chapter from the e-book, and every presentation each of my groups had made. As tiring as it was, it was not hard and made me understand the functioning of cultures and roles better.  While we all worked on our group presentation slides together, we have never actually met each other before; so, I had no idea on how good or bad our presenting skills would be. There were also some problems before our presentations were finished, such as my old partner dropping out of our class (which means no group had an intro for our ...