Week Nine communication

Lecture

Today’s lecture covered communication between people through various communication devices and systems. This type of communication serves great purpose for many people and/ or organization: people use it for various reasons such as for personal usage, business, and organization. Today we also learned that there are four types of networking through communication:

1. Chain Network
2. Circle Network: between people at the same level
3. Wheel Network: team that report to managers
4. All Channel Network: brainstorming

As the lecture goes on, we learned that when we communicate through online there is a system that tells us that whether we are communicating in real time and the same place or vice versa. Such a system called Synchronous and Asynchronous. Synchronous takes place when everyone participated at the same time at the same place or different place: IM, MSN Messenger…etc. Asynchronous, in contrary to Synchronous, is when everyone takes part at the same place or different place and both cases in different time: Email, Bulletin Board…etc.

We then intensively talked about how many people in the class uses the above mention system as the mean of communication and quite a lot of students answered yes. As we surveyed about communication via internet orally, many student said that they use this communication system as a way to be in touch with others who they don’t see often.

When we communicate through Asynchronous way, we have to be extra careful about the way we convey our message because the message you want to pass down through email maybe misread by receiver and that can lead to confusion.

Tutorial

A-In tutorial class we had to go on www.google.com, and type in a term of our choice and click group.

B-I choose basketball as my term choice and Wikipedia came as my first group where it explains the nature of basketball as well as the inventor of the game. It was interesting to read about that article, however, I wanted to read about the actual teams that play this game today. Therefore, I went to my second group which it was somewhat interesting. It highlights NBA headlines and features.

C- Podcasts are becoming popular because of its ability to let everyone share an audio file through listening online or downloading onto the computer or any electronic devices that is capable of recording audio files for later usage. It can also store images. It is very helpful for students who do have poor listening comprehension; they can replay the audio until they understand about whatever files say.

Reading One

In this reading passage illustrates some of the things we should or shouldn’t write when we communicate through email. It also gives some information on how to keep the reader interested in what we have written. It said that we should refrain from sending sensitive materials. In writing the message, we should be extra careful about font size, capitalization…etc. Don’t use sarcasm because the reader might not understand about your intention. And also, when you write for the first time to someone, address that person appropriately. For instance, instead of saying ‘Dear Sir/Madam’, address him or her by his or her first and last name.

Reading Two
Spam is the topic for the second reading assignment which almost everyone who has email experienced it. This selection of reading informs the reader about some precaution that an account holder should take because opening spam message can lead to other trouble. This reading is very helpful especially for the people who don’t really know about much about spam.