Week of December 3 - December 9: #3

Throughout this semester, I think that the one concept that could be further discussed is group communication. It was pretty hard working with people I've never met or even seen. Just meeting up with them was somewhat difficult; everyone had their schedules planned out and was busy most of the time. I think that one of the things that would have helped us a lot was if we had discussed how to properly act in a group and how to share the decisions we make. Although it may seem as if it's not related to this class, I believe that it is because we will have to work with others in the future. We may be critical thinkers, but critical thinkers do not think alike and have different opinions. I think it would have been nice to discuss the chapter in the O'Hair and Wiemann book titled "What makes a good group?" I found a lot of things helpful in that section.

Week of December 3 - December 9: #2

One of my favorite things about this class was blogging. Blogging is not a new concept to me; however, blogging for class was! I really enjoy having new topics to discuss and blog about each week. What made it very interesting was being able to discuss the topics with the other students in our class. Because of this, I have learned a lot more. Having to remind myself to blog each week has taught me to depend less on my professors; because they remind you online, you have no physical reminder. I think this is a great thing to carry with you in the future. Not all professors are going to remind you that a test is coming up, or homework is due the next class meeting. I have learned a lot, especially by meeting deadlines no matter what happens during my week. My least favorite thing about this class were the group projects. I found it very difficult to find a mutual meeting time with my group members; everyone was always very busy. When it was time to submit the essay, it was hard asking everyone for their parts because it always seemed as if they weren’t prepared. I think this class would be a little better if there were less group projects. I think it helps with working together, but I think there are more negative results than positive.

Week of December 3 - December 9: #1

Something that I enjoyed learning in this class over the course of this semester was about advertising. It was interesting to see how advertisements can be deceptive in different ways. I learned about some common fallacies that happen during advertisements and also how marketers use different tactics to get a consumer’s attention. This shows us that advertisers analyze how society makes decisions about things and uses that to get what they want. This helped me analyze the different ways that advertisements may attract me, thus using that to decide whether or not I want to purchase that item or do what it says, for example. I have also learned that advertisers use celebrities to endorse certain products, causing people who like the celebrity to be attracted to the products that they are advertising. I have definitely been that person that bought something because it was attached to a celebrity I liked. Now I know that the celebrity may not have even used it before!