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Week 4 learning activity

Please read all “Instructor Notes” prior to attempting the learning activity questions. Post responses to both learning activities in one post to make it easier for classmates to respond to your posts. You must provide your initial response by Thursday night, and provide responses to more than two classmates by Sunday night for full credit. All responses are to be substantive, showing critical thinking. They must also be free from grammatical and spelling errors (there is a spell check readily available in the response box to assist you). Here are the guidelines:

– Responses must be in paragraph format and be interactive to promote further discussion unless the activity requires otherwise;

– Respond to at least two other class members using these same requirements (full credit will only be issued for more than two responses to other class members);

– Responses must demonstrate critical thinking and be fully justified;

-Use resources from any assigned course material or own research;

-Use APA formatting for any in-text citations and references.

Please see our syllabus for a participation rubric, participation instructions, and the “Learning to Use APA” directions for our course (especially for the “How to cite the ebook for this course”).

Learning Activity #1

For the Chapter Eight discussion, take a look at http://www.takingontobacco.org/intro/funny.html to see a list of some cultural misunderstandings. Pick one dealing with communication that especially appealed to you and discuss it. How do you think the misunderstanding could have been avoided? Do you have another example of a cultural misunderstanding dealing with communication?

Learning Activity #2

Think about a time or times in which you were a member of a team, whether in school or in another type of organization or workplace. Was it an informal team or a formal one? Looking back on the experience or experiences, how do you feel about working in teams? Have you experienced the 80/20 effect or “groupthink”? If so, how did you deal with it? Remember to check back often to respond to other students’ postings.