Guest Instructor, "Communication" (Feb. 8, 2006) - PowerPoint & Feedback

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Communication

Russell, Leadership in Recrea


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What Are We Communicating

What are you communicating, by beinyour seat?

What brings you here The clothes you wear

The people you sit near

The way you sit

Whom you look at or avoid


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What Influences Communicati

Activity: Gossip


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Is This Communication?

What if the communicator meant one thing, andit as something entirely different is that com


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What if nobody ever reads, hears, or underis it still communication?


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If so, what is it saying? If not,


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(In other words, I have nothing to say to


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What Is Communication?

Lets find a way to tie together all of

different things we call communica


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A Communication Model

A model is a simplified image of a comp

What is this model trying to depict?


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Participants

Resources

Informal Communication Channels

Formal Communicatio

Parts of a Communication Mo

Specifics

etting/co

ntext


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The Communication Medium: Th

by Which We Communicate

Verbal: speech or writing

Nonverbal: images, gestures, beh

Recorded: tangible forms (e.g., in

photo) and intangible (e.g., electron

Perhaps not recorded: experience

present, memories from the past, hothe future


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Communication Resources and

Your culture how you were taught

communicate

What you know, think, and believe

Your habits, needs, interests, desire Ability to express yourself: skills

Ability to understand: listening, per

Willingness to understand somethin


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Formal Communications

Business communications: memora

letters, other documentation

Entertainment and artistic communi

photos, video, sound, dance


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Informal Communications

Conversation: face-to-face, e-mail,

telephone

Entertainment: telling stories, jokes

horseplay, games Gossip!


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A Communication Scenario

Suppose you are leading a group on aSuddenly a group member stumbles aAnother group member takes his arm him back up. A short while later, the mfell complains of back pain.

What kinds of formal and informalcommunications are likely to occur in thalf-hour?

How about in the next 24 hours?


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Assumptions of This Model

Person = resources. Your communication alimits remain the same in all situations

Medium just sort of sits there

Message is a thing somewhere between se

receiver. Communication shoots straight on Setting/context is independent, not shaped

message, sender, receiver, or resources


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Factors That the Model May N

Effectiveness of the medium

Communication dynamic

Games people play

Communication culture, tradition, rules Multiple participants


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Can people communicate only about common eDo people co-create meaning?

The Communication Dynamic


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Communication Games: Liste

Ideology: commitment to a belief syis always partially false

The blind eye & the deaf ear: you msaying what I want you to be saying

Self-centeredness / ulterior motivesyou say is only important if I can uspurposes


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Ideology: Lets Speak the Real

But would that be your real truth, o


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Reflection: A Kind of Listenin

Listen to what the person has said

Reflect (like a mirror) what the person seesaying

Dont let your own views or feelings come Dont simply parrot the persons statemen

word

Give the person a sense that s/he has beand understood


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Listening Practice: Reflection

Groups of 5-7 people

Speaker: tell group your views on a cont(e.g., political, religious, gender) topic

Respondent: reflect the speakers views

him/her Second respondent: same thing

Speaker & others: give feedback on howtwo have reflected the speakers views wadding their own

Repeat with a second speaker on anothe


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Groups: Construct Your Own

Groups discuss what a good model ofcommunication should include

Groups decide whether to construct onor to allow each member to draw his/he(and then select the best)

Non-author test-drives the chosen modfeedback from group), then presents it


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Resources:yourlimits,habits,communicationskil

Informal Communication Channels

Formal Communicatio

Communication Model Parts L

Specifics

etting/co

ntextParticipants

Communication Dynamic

Ideology

Truth

Belief


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Processing / Meta-Analysis of

Communication

Communication about this experiecommunicating


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Assignment

Read Abraham Lincolns Gettysbu

Address (235 words).

In one page or less, explain why pe

might consider it an example of effecommunication.

Due next week.

Use as many of todays concepts as

in your explanation.


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Postscript

I used this PPT on February 8, 2006guest instructor in a session of R27Recreation Activities and LeadershMethods, in the Dept. of Recreatio

and Tourism Studies at Indiana Uni This was my first hourlong, lecture-s

college teaching experience

I later received five feedback sheets

from students (attached) Video excerpts at http://youtu.be/1g


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