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Communication 2zero7 Required Work Fall 2002 |
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Each student will take two major objectives exams over the
content of the textbook
2. Each student will complete a take-home-final examination. The take-home-final examination is analysis and critical reflection of the history and communication processes in your 2zero7 projectt eams. For a full desciption of the take-home-exam click here. The final exam must be emailed to the instructor on or before the day of the final exam.
4) Project Overview
a)) construct an 10 to 15 page double-spaced reserch paper/essay.
Read The
Requirements For The Group Essay
b)) construct a PowerPoint presentation containing at least 50 slides.
Click here To see the Basic
Template That PowerPoint Presentations Need to Follow
c) deliver a oral presentation as a team of at least 45 mintues.
Read
the Requirements For The Group Presentation
Grading
Criteria Used To Evaluation Semester Presentation
5. Each student will complete four peer evaluations of their
own and their other team
members contribution to the team project through out
the course of the semester.
6. Each student will participate in activities designed to develop
group cohesion e.g. the
name, slogan, and logo contest, the Tower of Babel contest,
the 2zero7
cadence, and
the 2zero7
march , the 2zero7 line
dance, and so forth.
In the fall of 2003 there emerged a
2zero7 supergroup, "The Marrow Suckers."
It was their time.
"The Marrow Suckers"
Topic: Leadership in the Film "The Dead Poets Society"
"2zer7 - where legends are made and memorize are played."
7) Each week each group must post a status report to Blackboard furnishing the following information.
a) who is in your group,
b) what was accomplished that week in the group,
c) what you plan to do next,
d) what information/ help you need from other groups/individuals
e) other information you want to share.
8) In addition to posting the status report to
Blackboard, you will also send a private e-mail (only to
me) that distributes 100 "quality" points to group-mates
based on their level of participation in
the group for the week. At the end of the semester, the % of
points received by each person
will be averaged into their group grade.
Not Operative
4. Each team will complete a semester project. Each team will select a topic from the potential topics list (Inoperative Sp
Journal Requirements (no operative this semester)
Team-Building Activities (not operative this semester)
10.Each student will take a midterm and final examination. The midterm examination will be an objective exam over the required readings. The final examination which will be a "take home" essay examination which will be handed in during the regularly scheduled final exam period. (not operative this semester)
Each student will keep a journal during the course of the
semester, analyzing the nature,
function, and process of communication within their
project team during the course
of the semester. Every time there is a group
meeting the individual group member
should try to record an entry in their group journal.
Each journal entry should:
1) be numbered, you should have one entry for each time
your team meets, meeting
numbers should be identical for each
journal handed in by members of your team.
2) contain at least one TBC's, (textbook
connections)-references to the concepts, ideas,
and assumptions about communication in small
groups, contained in the textbook.
You will notice on the course calendar, that each
weeks under "Journal Question of the Week" theres tructured questions which should be answered in the
journal. The journal will
be handed in on the last day of class of on the day of final exam. Your
journal entries should be structured like the the five sample journal entries
from the 2zero7 Class of 2000.
Sample Journal Entry 1 2zero7 Class of 2000
Sample Journal Entry 2 2zero7 Class of 2000
Sample Journal Entry 3 2zero7 Class of 2000
Sample Journal Entry 4 2zero 7 Class of 2000
Sample Journal Entry 5 2zero7 Class of 2000
Journal Entry From 2zero7 Class of 97
Journal Entry From 2zero7 Class of 93
2.Each student will complete a semester group project. The semester group project will which will be to construct a learning module on a concept or skill need to communicate effective in virtual teams. The major parts of the project consist of a 10 page FULL content outline and a 45 minute oral presentation.
For a more complete overview of the semester project Click Here
Click here To see the Basic Template That PowerPoint Presentations Need to Follow
All Team Project Will Contain the Following Sections
Module Title
Section 1
OVERVIEW
Write a one page single spaced executive summary of your project.
Section
B.
OBJECTIVES
The objectives state in concrete terms what you want your learns to know or be
able to do when unity of instruction is completed.
SECTION 3
REQUIRED READING
Each team will identify selected readings which the learner will need to read in
order to be able to demonstrate mastery of the objectives stated above.Do not
just list general sources. This is not a bibliography. Identity
specific readings and page numbers of the reading the learner needs to master in
order to accomplish the module of this objective.
SECTION
4
CONTENT AND SUBSTANCE
Each team will construct a
full content outline (full metal jacket)
SECTION 5
REFLECTIVE QUESTIONS
Each team will generate at least five higher order thinking questions which can
be used to facilitate discussion during their public presentation, or which
could be used to as a catalyst for asynchronous discussion.The questions must be
higher order questions designed to foster critical thinking. Here you want
to foster application, analysis, synthesis and evaluation.
SECTION 6
PowerPoint
Each team will present a 45 minute oral presentation demonstrating mastery of
PowerPoint.
SECTION
7
ROAD TRIPS
Identity five Internet sites where the learner can deepen their understanding of
this particular topic, see the concepts applied in various contexts, and so
forth.
Team Project Topics
TEAM 1 THE NATURE OF TEAMS AND
VIRTUAL TEAMS
Project Defining the Nature and Function of
Virtual Teams
TEAM 2 RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT
Skill-Using Talk/Constructing Message To Engage in Effective Role Performance
Project Roles and Effective Role Performance in Virtual Teams
TEAM 3 RELATIONSHIP
MANAGEMENT TRUST
Skill-Using Talk/Constructing Messages To Manage Relationships
Project Title Building Interpersonal Trust in Virtual Team
TEAM 4 LEADERSHIP-EXERTING
INFLUENCE MANAGING BELIEFS AND BEHAVIORS
Skill-Using Talk/Constructing Messages To Exert Influence and Effective
Leadership
Project Exerting Effective Leadership in Virtual Teams
TEAM 5 ENHANCING INTERCULTURAL
COMMUNICATION COMPETENCE
Skill: Enhancing Intercultural Competence
Project Enhancing Intercultural Competence In Virtual Teams
