Grades have been updated

Hello Fabulous Students,

I have entered grade into D2L.

As a reminder, it is your responsibility to check your grades often (at least once a week), and email me if you have any questions.

Have a great day everyone!
:)
The Blogging Prof.

Week of November 26 - December 2

Hello Folks!

Here is what is listed on the Participation Page from D2L for this week.  The schedule for the entire semester, and the discussion questions for the entire semester are listed on the Schedule and Participation Pages, respectively.  In case you do not want to wait for the "Monday Post", you are more than welcome to get started by looking at those two pages on D2L.

Due this week:
*Read Chapter 3 - Perception and Communication
*No discussion this week
*Finish working on the final project:  Relationship Development Paper.  This paper will be due by Dec. 2 @ 11:59pm.  Be sure to submit your assignment early.   This paper should be your BEST work, as it is the culminating project in the class. 

Week of November 19 - 25

Hello Folks,

There is nothing else due this week besides your Relationship Development Paper.  As a reminder, the final paper is due on Sunday Dec 2nd by 11:59pm.

Have a great week everyone!


:)
The Blogging Prof.

Reminder

Hello Fabulous Students,

As a reminder, you are able to contact me a number of different ways:

1). Email
2). Tues/Thurs - Yahoo Messenger:  carolperezcommclass  I hold office hours from 9:30am-11:30am.
3). Phone conversation - I'm always available to chat over the phone.  Just email me and we can set a time/date to chat.  I know it seems strange for students to chat with their instructor over the phone, but I let me assure you that I chat with students over the phone consistently.  So while it may seem a little strange to you, it is common practice for me.

In short - I'm available whenever you need to chat.

Have a great day!
:)
The Blogging Prof.

Week of November 12-18

Hello Folks!


Here is what is listed on the Participation Page from D2L for this week.  The schedule for the entire semester, and the discussion questions for the entire semester are listed on the Schedule and Participation Pages, respectively.  In case you do not want to wait for the "Monday Post", you are more than welcome to get started by looking at those two pages on D2L.

Due this week:
*Read Chapter 12 - Communication in Families 
*Participate in the discussion (see questions below)
*Quiz - Chapters 10, 11 & 12.  Please log onto D2L to take the quiz. 
*Continue working on the final project:  Relationship Development Paper.  This paper will be due by Dec 2nd @ 11:59pm.  The assignment sheet is available for download on D2L.
*Remember to look through the "Helpful Links" page, pertaining to the chapter we are covering this week.

Discussion Questions:
Answer one question in its entirety in each of your three separate posts, at least 12 hours apart. Please make sure you are creating a NEW POST for each question on your blog. You MUST WAIT at least 12 hours from the first post in order to create a second post. The same is true for the second and third post. I will record dates and time of your posts, so make sure they are at least 12 hours apart. EACH POST MUST BE 150 WORDS OR MORE. Each post is worth a maximum of 5 points.

1). How do you define family?  What do family members do for each other? Which types of relationships discussed in this chapter do and do not fit your definition?

2). In this chapter, you have read about some of the ways in which marriage has changed over time.  Based on cultural trends and evolving values of your generation, what changes in marriage would you predict over the next 50 years?

3). Pick one concept from the reading this week and discuss it in detail.

Comments - Remember to post ONE comment ON THREE DIFFERENT BLOGS between 12:01am on Monday and 11:59pm on Sunday. This means that you will log onto MY BLOG at: http://comm10perez.blogspot.com/ to see a list of your colleagues blogs. Click on those blogs, read what was posted for this week and respond. You need to make sure you are responding to only what was discussed THIS WEEK (starting Monday and ending Sunday of the current week). Comments posted to blogs that were NOT within this week will not be counted for points. Each comment must be a minimum of 100 words and is worth a maximum of 3 points.

Note about comments: When you leave a comment on another blog, make sure you are logged into your blogspot account. In other words, you will need to make sure your "Display Name/Alias Name" shows up on the blog you are commenting on. I record the locations, dates and times of your comments. Please keep record of your posts and comments in case questions arise about where comments are located.

Grades updated in D2L

Hello Fabulous Students,

I have entered grade into D2L for a few items.

As a reminder, it is your responsibility to check your grades often (at least once a week), and email me if you have any questions.

Have a great day everyone!
:)
The Blogging Prof.

Study Abroad Summer 2013 - Beijing

The Blogging Prof. is leading a study abroad trip to Beijing during the summer of 2013!!!!!!      

Visit Beijing and earn four upper division units in communication studies!

During the summer of 2013 I will be leading an intercultural communication study abroad program to China, with a special emphasis on tourism, modernity, and urban life.

Students will stay at Communication University of China, which provides comfortable dormitory housing, low-cost meals, and easy access to the sights of Beijing.  Classes focus on conversation and real-life exploration, and you will have lots of free time.  That means opportunities to climb the Great Wall, wander the Forbidden City, experience the Peking Opera, and more.

Great Wall

Forbidden City

Peking Opera

Pricing (excluding airfare and visa fees) is about $2,500, which covers housing, course fees, food, and several local tours.  Cost for airfare and visa fees is estimated at an additional $1,500.  The course meets COMM 161F requirements, but course substitutions can be made if you've already taken that class.  If you a communication major, you should apply for this terrific opportunity.  However, this opportunity is open to all SJSU students.

Want to learn more:

Please contact me for more information.  Students are currently working on getting their passports and deposits, but there is still time to join the trip.  

I look forward to hearing from you.

Instructor Wrap Up - Wood Chapter 11

Committed Romantic Relationships

Key Concepts:

Agape

Commitment 

Dyadic breakdown

Dyadic phase

Environmental spoiling 

Equity

Eros

Explorational communication

Grave dressing

Intensifying communication 

Intimacy

Intrapsychic phase

Invitational communication 

Ludus

Mania

Navigating

Passion

Placemaking

Pragma

Psychological responsibililty

Relational culture

Revising communication 

Social phase

Social support

Storge 

This instructor wrap-up is going to be a bit different this week.  In the spirit of self-disclosure, I'm going to give you a little information about my husband and I.  I should note here, that I do not generally talk much about my husband in my online classes.  However, he does come up quite often in my lectures when I teach face-to-face classes due to the nature of his personality.  My husband is an incredibly unique individual with some interesting communication patterns, interests and hobbies.  Having said that, here's a brief story about how we met.

Shawn and I have been together for over 10 years, but we've known each other for almost 15 years.  It was a Sunday afternoon immediately following a church service one of my best friends and I had attended.  We were getting established in a new church in San Jose after having been away at college, and we were getting to know the folks in the college group.  The college group, as a whole, were going out to In-N-Out Burger on Blossom Hill and Santa Teresa for lunch, and we were invited to go.  As two 21 year old women, we decided it would be great to get to know some people our age, and decided to stop by to say hi.  We were a little late showing up because we had some other business to attend to prior to lunch.  We walked over from the church to In-N-Out Burger, and while walking up we spotted a few new people we hadn't previously met sitting at the table with some folks from the college group.  Everyone introduced themselves, and when Shawn turned around to say hi, my friend Vanessa and I gave each other a look.  Nothing notable happened until we were walking away.  Being two ladies in our early 20's, of course we sized up everyone we had met that day.  Vanessa mentioned that Shawn was cute, and 'just my type'.  At that time my response was, "yeah, he's cute but I would never date him because he's too young for me".  I was 21 and he was 18 at the time.

Fast forward a week or two later.  Shawn was having a college group get-together at his grandparents house complete with a BBQ, pool and hot tub party.  To make a long story short, we spent quite a few hours getting to know people at the party, socializing and having a great time.  My friend Vanessa and I ended up spending a number of hours getting to know Shawn while he was hanging out in the hot tub (of course we were far too cool to have brought our bathing suits, so we sat at the edge).  To this day Shawn will tell you that "we tried to kill him by keeping him in the hot tub for so long".  But this was the beginning of a long friendship.  

Shawn and I stayed friends for about 3 years before we started dating.  In fact, we had absolutely no interest in one another as anything other than friends.  Well, that is until one day we started to see each other in a different light.  It happened at exactly the same time for both of us, where we were no longer interested in just a friendship, but something more.  We officially started dating in early 2002, and have been together ever since.  I won't bore you with all of the details about dating, engagement, and our wedding, but I will say that we've had an amazing relationship so far.  From the start, our relationship has fit like a glove.  I would venture to guess, because we had been friends for so long before we ever started dating, is the reason why our relationship felt so natural. Shawn and I are truly best friends, and can't imagine living our lives apart from one another.  

If you want to read about other relationships that exemplify some of the concepts in this chapter, go HERE.

Thanks for letting me do the instructor wrap-up a little differently this week.  I figured since you have the ability to read the chapter, this might be more of an interesting way to wrap-up this week's reading.  

Week of November 5-11

Hello Folks!

Here is what is listed on the Participation Page from D2L for this week.  The schedule for the entire semester, and the discussion questions for the entire semester are listed on the Schedule and Participation Pages, respectively.  In case you do not want to wait for the "Monday Post", you are more than welcome to get started by looking at those two pages on D2L.

Due this week:
*Read Chapter 11 - Committed Romantic Relationships
*Participate in the discussion (see questions below)
*Continue working on the final project:  Relationship Development Paper.  This paper will be due by Dec 2nd @ 11:59pm.  The assignment sheet is available for download on D2L.
*Remember to look through the "Helpful Links" page, pertaining to the chapter we are covering this week.

Discussion Questions:
Answer one question in its entirety in each of your three separate posts, at least 12 hours apart. Please make sure you are creating a NEW POST for each question on your blog. You MUST WAIT at least 12 hours from the first post in order to create a second post. The same is true for the second and third post. I will record dates and time of your posts, so make sure they are at least 12 hours apart. EACH POST MUST BE 150 WORDS OR MORE. Each post is worth a maximum of 5 points.

1). Some critics (Van Gelder, 1991, Stone, 1996) of online communities believe that there is greater potential for deceit in online relationships than in face-to-face ones.  They point out that in online relationships, people may misrepresent their appearance, sex, sexual orientation, and so forth.  Do you think it is ethical for people to represent themselves inaccurately?  Do you think that deception is more likely in online than in face-to-face interaction, or are different kinds of deception equally likely in the two kinds of interaction?

2). Have you experienced relationships in which love or commitment, but not both, were present?  Describe relationships in which there was commitment but not love.  What can you conclude about the impact of each?

3). Pick one concept from the reading this week and discuss it in detail.

Comments - Remember to post ONE comment ON THREE DIFFERENT BLOGS between 12:01am on Monday and 11:59pm on Sunday. This means that you will log onto MY BLOG at: http://comm10perez.blogspot.com/ to see a list of your colleagues blogs. Click on those blogs, read what was posted for this week and respond. You need to make sure you are responding to only what was discussed THIS WEEK (starting Monday and ending Sunday of the current week). Comments posted to blogs that were NOT within this week will not be counted for points. Each comment must be a minimum of 100 words and is worth a maximum of 3 points.

Note about comments: When you leave a comment on another blog, make sure you are logged into your blogspot account. In other words, you will need to make sure your "Display Name/Alias Name" shows up on the blog you are commenting on. I record the locations, dates and times of your comments. Please keep record of your posts and comments in case questions arise about where comments are located.

Grades have been updated

Hello Fabulous Students,

I have entered grade into D2L for a few items.

As a reminder, it is your responsibility to check your grades often (at least once a week), and email me if you have any questions.

Have a great evening everyone!
:)
The Blogging Prof.