Classroom Activities

Communicating Experience

      

A communication situation that I once found myself in and failed was the first time I ever had a job interview. It was a job interview for a job at my local waterpark. It seemed that once he started asking me question that my brain just turned off and I couldn’t think of anything to say. When I would finally speak my tone of voice was soft and unsure. I don’t know what happened. Before had I prepared myself over and over by constantly playing the interview out in my mind. I wasn’t making any eye contact and my answers were absolutely horrible. I guess I just got nervous because usually I would like to think of myself as a good communicator and this was the absolute opposite. Failing at communicating and be a poor communicator, cost me that job. For example he would ask me questions like why do you think we should hire and and I would kind of stare blankly at him and say things like uhhhh before I even answered the question. I have since greatly improve my communicating skills and actually start at the same waterpark this summer.

1. The purpose of my communicating skill was for the interviewer to see if I was the right fit for the job. I thought what I was doing was a no brainer and that an interview is something that is a blow off and I never even thought I would have to be prepared for the questions that he would ask.

2. The audience of this situation was just the one interviewer and I was trying to prove to him that I was the right fit through the job. But to do this I had to show him throw my communication skills.

3. The context of this was at a set time and place. The context should have been in my favor because I knew when the interview was going to happen and I had the time to prepare for it.

4. I didn’t really go into the interview with any strategy. Which I realize now was a big mistake. My strategy should have been that I make eye contact with the interviewer and talk to him with a firm voice to get my point across. I should have been able to show my seriousness towards the job.

5. The medium I used was a face to face interaction. I think that people tend to expect good eye contact and a firm tone of voice while using this medium. An interview is a medium that is best done face to face.

6. I really didn’t affect the arrangement of the way the interviewer conducted the interview. He controlled the interview. He asked the question and I had to give the answers. Although I could have made my answers better and arranged the way I answered my questions better. Instead of starting my sentences off saying something like “uhhh” and being unsure of myself, I could have just got right to the answer.

7. And finally I could have prepared my answers better. I should have rehearsed and had a practice interview with someone before the actually interview occurred.

Poster Analysis

  Crazy Stupid Love was made a couple years ago, it was on TV recently and was in theaters a couple years ago. Vertigo was made in the 50s and you can tell by the abstract designs and pictures that aren’t as clear. Cars 2 was made a couple years ago as well and you can tell because it’s CGI. Disney-Pixar is a company that’s only been around since the mid-90s too.

2.       Crazy Stupid Love is a romantic comedy, you can tell by the name of the movie and the fact that Steve Carell is in it. Vertigo is a thriller with romance in it which you can tell by the loving embrace the characters are doing and it’s a thriller by the weird logo. Cars 2 is a family comedy and you can tell by all the cartoon characters (Talking cars with eyes.)

3.       With Crazy Stupid Love they made the top of the picture is bright while the bottom is dark and filled with pictures of the cast and the title. Vertigo is a Red Poster which automatically catches your eye and the symbol in the center is mysterious and you want to know what’s going on. With Cars 2 the logo is red to put empathsis on the title and the earth behind it makes us wonder what’s going on.

4.       In the Crazy Stupid Love poster, I’m first drawn to the title, then his face and then the lady’s shoe. I feel as if they want you to see the title first so you get a sense of what’s going on. In Vertigo, I’m drawn to the spiral, then the couple and then the title. The poster makers want you to be curious about the spiral, and then see that romance is involved and then see the title to try and piece it together.  In Cars 2, I see the logo then follow the arrow down to the cars. The poster makers simply want you to know that the cars talk.

Peer Review of Shanye's Annotated Bibliography

Peer review for Shayne

Lucia, Alexander

1.       Only one book is cited.  You need 8 sources with at least 2 books and three articles.

2.        APA but slight mistake in the author format. Nothing that can’t be fixed easily

3.       Yes

4.       A. Central theme is music changes how he feels.

b. Does not talk about the background of the author

c. no intended audience

d. Doesn’t compare or contrast with other citied articles

e. Explains the main point of the book but doesn’t show how he will use it in his paper.