Small Group Communication

Josh Emington

emington@msu.edu

Housekeeping

No food or drink in this building

Consultation is welcome via, email, chat, LinkedIn, Facebook or by appointment (FTF).

Content will be regularly added to the Facebook group and the BlackBoard. *Careful review may yield extra credit.

Review of the Syllabus

Reading this document should have taken you less than 8 minutes at a 4th grade reading level and speed.

Any questions at this time?

Introduction to Groups

Communication Group Communication Groups vs. Individuals Groups as Processing Systems

Communication

The Transactional Model

- NCA

Groups Communication

Why?

Dyads Trouble with 3s Sweet Spot 5 to 7

Noise Example

Is this Physical Noise or Systematic Noise?

Film Example compliments of NBC

Do you have an example of Systematic Noise?

The Perils of Diversity

Class discussion: The merits of diversity Is it appropriate to encourage? If so when and how? How can we diversify ourselves to

add value?

Let’s Ben Franklin this one.

What did the book come up with?

Group vs. Single Work

Wilderness Survival Exercise > + + >

Individual Sheet

It is important to work toward the growth and success of your collection which just became a group. At the conclusion of the semester the group with the most points will achieve 3 extra credit points for each of their members! Each of the two exercises today will be worth one point to the winning group.

You have 10 minutes. Who will survive.

Group Sheet

Cross-Training

Informational-Processing System *A descriptive model

System Properties

Boundaries Hierarchy Equifinality

Types of Group Meetings

Information-Sharing Decision-Making Special-Event

Patterned or Combined

In the theme of survival scenarios here is a meeting. What type of meeting is this?

Extra Credit Opportunity 1pt Create a 3 - 5 minute screencast of an online group

interaction (1) and identify the type of meeting (2), two sources of noise in the conversation and the type of noise (3) then post the video link and answers to the Facebook group.

*3 to 7 members in the group A free screencasting tool: Jing A few meeting forums: Skype, Facebook, Google+,

Group Texting, Chat, Twitter Hashtag, or Shared Docs. An example may be located on the Facebook group

*Example taken from YouTube video “Newt’s Second hangout on Google Plus.” Your recording should be an original, a meeting your observe or instigate.

Due at the same time as the second quiz.

Lost on the Moon Sometimes a team can get very creative

and save the life of an individual: Apollo 13

On a side note if a group member has a laptop this site will let you enter your choices with more accurate results readings: http://nasa.perbang.dk/

Individual Survival Choices

The Count Down

Group Survival Choices

The Count down

What did we learn from the exercises?

Class discussion

If you have a laptop you can use this link to get even more accurate results from the Lost on the Moon Adventure in terms of group vs. Individual success: http://nasa.perbang.dk/

Charades

If we have time I’d like to do 5 charades.

Volunteers please.

Thank you

Don’t forget to read for next class and complete your online assignment for points.

Also send any questions you or your

group have and I will focus on answering them.