My Experience SPC1017 - Blog Post 1

January 31st, 2022

Diego Morales 


The Necessity of Group Work!

SPC1017 is my speech class and so far I have had a pretty good experience with it so far.  However, there is group work to say the least 😟. I know what you're thinking because I thought the same way. "My grade depends on other people!" But nowadays, if you want to work on any major project in the work force, it requires for you to depend on a number of people throughout the project. Therefore, making this an essential no matter how much someone can dislike group work. You probably are doing group work daily already and aren't even realizing it just by collaborating with others. To add on to that, the best way of learning a skill is by teaching it yourself. By doing so you are forcing yourself to apply it and just get better and better the more you teach something.


Humans putting a giant puzzle together to demonstrate teamwork.

My Real World Experience With Group Work

I may be a bit biased when I say I have the best group to work with and chapter 3 was the best presentation because it was my group. However to say the least the other groups had an awesome presentation full of useful information. To begin, when you hear the words group work everyone automatically becomes scared and worrisome. But, it is something great to embrace because more brains working together makes for something better than just one working on its own. 


PNG of many brains 


The way we began the project was that every team was assigned a team leader. There were a total of three different teams. The team leader was in charge of making sure everyone had a role to choose from and the work was evenly divided between all of the classmates and much more. I would like to add that my team & other teams did an amazing job because everyone had an even amount of information regarding the information covered within the topics. My chapter covered the topics of 3-1 Culture & Communication, 3-2 Dominate Cultures, Co-Cultures, & Culture Identity, 3-3 How Cultures Differ, & 3-4 Developing Intercultural Communication Competence. At the end of it we all had a lovely powerpoint slide in which every teammate contributed to creating their own slide via Google Slides.

The Process of Contributing 

Gif of Loading symbol 


My process into generating the slide was simple. It began with gaining the knowledge by reading the chapter. I chose the topics in 3-2d Sex and Gender & 3-2c Sexual Orientation. I wrote down any useful knowledge that was essential to learn about these topics. From there, I transferred all of the information onto a collaborative powerpoint where I organized all of the topics covered in a bullet point fashion. Lastly came the presentation.

Having a Memorable Presentation🙈

In order to have a quality presentation you must have a memorable presentation. If your presentation was not memorable than it did not really catch the viewers attention. This may happen due to the lack of photographs/video or poor quality of information shared. Also, you want to make sure you know the information you are sharing like the back of your hand in case anyone in the audience may have any questions regarding the presentation. 

Apple Keynote Presentation

My personal experience with presenting my portion of this project was great.  This was because the information was clearly presented and it was short. The nerves while presenting where not there. Although some people do get nervous and dislike presenting anything you will just have to face your fears and give it your best, so it will be done quickly.

A Part of the Audience👂

Being a part of the audience may just be the best part about seeing the presentations. You can sit back relax😌, take notes, & ask any question regarding the topics. I believe that everyone gave a great presentation and the audience was interactive with each and everybody who presented. I really do believe everyone had a great presentation and the knowledge of  chapters 9 and 10 were learned throughout. 

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Infrastructure Blog 2 By Fabienne Cadet

Image
Among all the good in the world, and all the progress being made in global issues, there is still much more to be done. Given the overwhelming disasters that nations, including the U.S., have been or still are going through, it is important to be aware of the most pressing global issues. Being knowledgeable and educated on these issues can become the reason why we overcome them. Project 2 focused on themes of topics that needed to be addressed. And the three topics discussed were climate change, infrastructure and gender equality. We were given the task of taking these three topics and deciphering all the things we can do to understand and help our country and the world in the upcoming years. The three topics were divided into our original groups of 3. Group 1 which was my group handled infrastructure, while group 2 had gender equality and group 3 Climate change.    Starting this project was very frustrating to say the least. I did not know where to start. But the thin...
Read more

Infrastructure Blog 2 (Alfredo Olivera)

Image
Introduction to infrastructure (PART ONE) My group and I were challenged with a pretty interesting task; creating a theme project based around infrastructure. This project was based around subtopics which everyone in our group had to do. These topics included: a history overview on infrastructure, an american perspective on infrastructure, a world perspective, where we will be in 10-20 years, local organizations surrounding infrastructure, national organizations, important events, government laws on infrastructure as well as federal laws, and the environment and how it is affected by infrastructure. These subtopics within the full structure were divided per person and everyone in the group had to present their part accordingly. I would say everyone in the group did a great job. Introduction to infrastructure (PART TWO) After we all worked together and came out with a well organized plan on how we were going to do the prject, we got straight to work, I would say my group as well ...
Read more

Blog 2

Image
                                                       Infrastructure    The beginning: This project was quite the journey. From the very beginning I was excited because I love every single topic, infrastructure, gender inequality, and climate change; and I actually enjoy talking about them. We got infrastructure which I believed, at the time, that it was the one I knew the least about. However, I was highly mistaken. Infrastructure is quite literally everything and everywhere: from the electricity in your house, to your car, to the dinner you have that night. I was really looking forward to finding out what entailed infrastructure. As a group, we made different sections to best explain infrastructure from as many angles as possible. Then, we did the research! Favorite Parts: I loved finding research for my portion of the ...
Read more