Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Comm 128, March 18, What Happened

The instructor returned students' notes from the films. The notes received a grade.

Next the instructor went over the rough drafts of the film application/theory paper. She showed various formatting procedures, such as page margins, correct font and form of the title, and ways to do the internal citations. The instructor showed how to do a header in Microsoft Word. The class looked at the various papers on the document cam. One student has completed the paper while others have done the theory explanation section. The assignment for the coming week is to do the corrections provided by the instructor, finish the movie summary, and tie the movie scenes to the theory. The rough draft does not receive a grade.

Next we reviewed the steps in active listening, pages 189-96. Such steps are receiving, attending, understanding, responding, etc.

The instructor passed out a five-page worksheet that we read in class. The worksheet was entitled "Active Listening" and provided exercises for students to work on in the paraphrasing step of the active listening process. Students saw 5-6 examples and then broke into teams to do their own paraphrasing steps. Students turned in their examples and will receive a grade.