COMM 470 Agenda - Week 3

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COMM 470 Agenda - Week 3

• Questions about WebCT Diary Entries?
• RAT1
• Team Pictures
• Setting Grade Weights
• Lecture
• Components of Listening
• ITE3 Acknowledgement Exercise

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Examine thisImage

• What do you see?
• Discuss it withyour teammates.
• (If youve seen this before,say nothing until
  afterall teammates have commented.)

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Procedures for RATs

• Clear Your Desktop of Everything Except
• A Scantron
• A Blank Sheet of Paper
• Read the Directions in Your Team Folder

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Setting Grade Weights

• Decision 1
• How Does Your Team Want to Split 100 Among
  Individual Points, Team Points, and Helping
  Behavior Points?
• Decision 2
• How Does Your Team Want to Split 100 Among
  Individual RAT Points and Final Exam Points?

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In-Class Team Exercise 3

• Discuss this famous conundrum
• If a tree falls in the forest and there is no
  one there to hear it, does it still make a
  sound?
• Then BREIFLY answer the following items
• Answer Yes or No
• Explain your answer (Why?)
• Describe the implications for communication
  listening
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• Additional Team Work (if time permits)
• Plan TP2 (Peer Evaluation Procedures and Criteria)

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MTW I Acknowledgment

• Acknowledgement is . . .
• Personal
• Powerful
• A Contribution to Another Person
• A Connection with Another Person
• Simple
• Satisfying
• An Aid in Building Team

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MTW I Acknowledgment

• Accepting Acknowledgement is . . .
• Generous
• Open
• Honest
• A Connection with Another Person
• Simple
• Allowing Another to Contribute to You

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In-Class Team Exercise 3b

• Part II
• Two rounds of Acknowledgment
• Deliverable No Written Deliverable
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• Additional Team Work (if time permits)
• Plan TP2 Revisions