Chapter Reviews

            During speech class these past few weeks, we had to read three chapters and make a powerpoint on theme. Each group had their own chapter who then split it up into smaller parts! I personally did race and gender roles, your race being biological characteristics and gender roles being what you identify as despite your sex. During these presentations, we mostly learned about communication in groups, physical and mental characteristics, and leadership.           In one half of group one’s presentation, we learned about characteristics. Characteristics are features of you that determine what you act like and look like. Even though this is what they are, many people have issues with mixing up visual characteristics with trait characteristics. An example of this, is your sex being male but your gender being female! Many people from older generations or specific cultures are not as used to this idea, a lot of them being transphobic or homophobic. Of course this is not the case for

For our first class assignment we were divided in three groups and each group was assigned a chapter that we went over in class. In each chapter there was sections and each person in the group had to choose a section. Once the section was chosen, the group leader created a google drive powerpoint where we all had to do 3 slides talking about our section. The chapters that we were covering were, chapter 3, Intercultural Communication. Chapter 9, Communicating in Groups and Chapter 10, Group Leadership and Problem Solving. Personally, when it comes to groups projects and presentations I get pretty timid and I struggle with being able to be comfortable when presenting to my peers. I understand it is a battle many fight with but I am hoping that by assignments like these it will help us to overcome our shyness and anxiety when it comes to presenting. With these presentations I did not see someone be overcome with nerves, it was actually the opposite, each person in each group was able to p

Starting my fall semester as usual I am taking a speech course with professor Sinkoff who I have taken her class before. I am retaking this class for the third time (something which I am not ashamed) and I have made such an improvement from when I last took it 2 years ago. From the way I would make my PowerPoints and the way I spoke. I was scared to retake this class seeing as I used to be TERRIFIED of public speaking, but I took what I learned through the years to prepare for my 1 st presentation of the fall semester.   What makes the presentations a little easier is having our professor tells us what we are presenting and then we are in charge to determine how to make our PowerPoint. Our 1 st presentation was a chapter presentation where the professor would assign us a group and based on that group it determined the chapter we would present. Our group was chapter 3 which was about Intercultural communication. And what intercultural communication is the interactions that happen betw

In my group (group 1) , we spoke and presented about intercultural communications. As a group we each had 3 slides to do and presented accordingly . That was chapter 3. I really enjoyed how everyone gave there presentations . Everyone was able to speak upon the power point but also wasn’t word for word what was on the power point. It was refreshing because they didn’t sound like robots. I wish I would have included a video myself because everyone else who included a videos added to the presentation so much more. We live in a very technological world that allows people to have this type of access to videos. In this chapter we discussed , intercultural communications , which talks about different type of cultures and there views and ideas . One of the first topics we discussed was how your background can affect your perspective and viewing of things . An example I see in my own personal life is living in Miami with mostly Cubans including myself . There perspectives are changed from here

Public speaking is the number one fear around the world. Most people are afraid of speaking in front of other people, it could be due to the anxiety generated for what others would think, the pressure of not making any mistakes, or simply because we, as human beings, are afraid of being looked for too many people at the same time. In my case, I wasn’t born in the United States, I grew up speaking Spanish and English is just my second language. For that reason, I don’t feel too confident when I do a presentation in English. This time, on the other hand, everything went so smoothly with my teammates, and we worked so well as a team that I didn't feel the pressure I always feel. Everyone finished their slide on time and on the day of the presentation we were ready.   I was in group number one. We talked about Chapter 3, culture and communication. Culture is defined as a set of shared values, beliefs, attitudes, and norms that govern what is acceptable among a specific group of people.

GROUP 1 Group 1, which I was a part of, talked about Intercultural Communication (Chapter 3).  I believe everybody did a good job diving in into their topics. The examples given were really good and it made me understand the topic more. I really liked that they didn’t read word by word off the PowerPoint like robots and that they gave examples that were not on the screen, it felt like everyone knew what they were talking about which made the presentation more engaging. I would have liked for some slides to not include too much text, but very educational regardless. Every video was on point and were able to provide different explanations of the various topics             The pictures included in the slides were eye catching. The majority of the slides had precise and concise text information. When they talked about religion, I liked that the speaker did not talk badly about any of them. I learned a lot from my classmates. For example, to communicate to people with different backgrounds

  Alejandra Saenz                                    Reflection                                                       Our group was given Chapter three to analyze and interpret as a team. We had to dissect the key information into a summarized bit for the power point presentations. Chapter three is titled Intercultural Communications where they speak about different cultures and their views. We as a group read the information and picked our own subsection to present. The first subsection was culture which we explained how coming from diverse backgrounds can affect your perspective on things. A group member mentioned that culture shock can affect those who are new to a certain area. For example, if they moved from Cuba to Miami then they would go under culture shock from missing their home and feeling like that they do not belong because they don’t know English.       This example intertwines with intercultural communication because it explains how people can find it hard to communi