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

2. 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.)

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

4. 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?

5. 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)

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

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

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