COMM 470 Agenda - Week 14Housekeeping:• LC2 – Returned in Your Folders Today• LC3 – Put in Folders Today• UMD Course Evals - ONLINE

• Final Exam – Friday, May 19, 10:30 – 12:30, in Our OLD Room - Tydings 2109

Activities:• RAT 6• Dr. Finn’s “Teammate Evaluations”

• Dr. Finn’s Course Component Evaluation

• Rules for “Social Networking” Sites (My Space, Face Book, Friendster, MSN Spaces)

• Lecture, Week 14 ITE

Procedures for RATs

Clear Your Desktop of Everything Except:• A # 2 Pencil (Absolutely NO Ink today!)

• A Scantron Bubble Sheet

• Your Copy of the RAT Questions

• A Blank Sheet of Paper (You MUST Shield Your Answers)

• You must write your name on the RAT Question Sheet

• NOTE - Erasure Marks or Smudges May COST YOU POINTS

Refer to the Sheets in Your Folder for Other Procedures

In-Class Team Exercise # 14a

Individually – write down (and hand in)• What were, for you personally, the 5 most

important concepts / ideas / lessons learned this semester?

Discuss as a Team:• What were the 5 most important concepts /

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Deliverable – List the team’s top 5

Things I’d Like You to RememberAbout Speaking - • The World is Created in Language• The Words You Use are Important –

• Words Spoken to Others• Words Spoken to Yourself

• Speak into the Listening of Others• Avoid Weak Speaking• Speak Authentically• Have the Courage to Make Commitments, Make Requests, and

Acknowledge Others

About Listening - • Listen Generously

• Consider Our Common Humanity (Empathy)• Consider Individual Differences (Types and Temperaments)• Occasionally Reexamine the Parts of Your Type/Temp that Don’t Seem to Fit

• Show Respect With Positive Listening Habits• Show Respect by Dropping Negative Listening Habits• Don’t Make It All About You

In-Class Team Exercise # 14bDiscuss:• How did you do with Complaining & Gossip

this week?• Share 2 examples• Was it Easy? Difficult?

Deliverable – Every individual should write a brief statement on the ITE form describing what they got out of their examination of complaining (if anything).

Note: I just want the truth, even if that mean writing that you didn’t do the exercise this week, it stunk, you disagree, etc.

Speaking frankly gets you the full points.

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