COMM 470 Agenda - Week 3 Questions about WebCT Diary Entries? RAT1 Team Pictures Setting Grade Weights Lecture Components of Listening ITE3 – Acknowledgement Exercise

Examine this Image What do you see? Discuss it with your teammates. (If you’ve seen this before, say nothing until after all teammates have commented.)

Procedures for RATs Clear Your Desktop of Everything Except: A Scantron A Blank Sheet of Paper Read the Directions in Your Team Folder

Setting Grade Weights Decision 1: Decision 2: 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?

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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Additional Team Work (if time permits) Plan TP2 (Peer Evaluation Procedures and Criteria)

MTW I: Acknowledgment Acknowledgement is . . . Personal Powerful A Contribution to Another Person A Connection with Another Person Simple Satisfying An Aid in Building “Team”

MTW I: Acknowledgment Accepting Acknowledgement is . . . Generous Open Honest A Connection with Another Person Simple Allowing Another to Contribute to You

In-Class Team Exercise # 3b Part II: Two rounds of Acknowledgment Deliverable: No Written Deliverable ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Additional Team Work (if time permits) Plan TP2 Revisions