Tuesday, April 7, 2009

2415 Group Communication What Happened in Class

Note: This is our only class this week, due to Good Friday.

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We chose topics for the three-four minutes speeches which start next Tuesday.

Five people volunteered to go in this order:

Victoria
Dagmara
Anthony
Bruce
Denyce

After that the instructor will call on students.

Steve: Conjunctive & disjunctive tasks
Nneka: Decision making by leader in consultation w/members p 318
Dagmara: Decision-making by consensus
Theo: Majority vote
Scott: Phasic progression
Victoria: Fisher's Model of Group Phases
Bruce: What can go wrong in decision making
Denyce: Group polarization/Social Comparison Theory
Justine: Group polarization/Persuasive Arguments Theory (PAT)
Groupthink: Roberto/ theory
Groupthink: Nicole/ symptoms
Groupthink: Adriana/ preventing
Diane: RISK Technique
Anthony: PERT
Brenden & Emily: Problem characteristics
Ismael: Group Support system
Ursula: teleconferences

After choosing the topics, we did some work with terms from Ch. 10

The instructor then handed out the No Angels assignment and we discussed it in class.

Next class:

come prepared for your text explanation

--one source from academic database
--one graphic (A)
--Outline with intext cite
--References