C o m m u n i c a t i o n

Throughout the class, we were ask to communicate between each other. First Jimmy, my professor for 220 concept development, ask us to sit in chronologically order of our birthday days. We all started to ask amongst each other when our birthdays were. This was fairly easy due to the fact that you only had to know what a small amount of information to communicate with. I only communicated with people near my birthday, may and July. Once we sat down, Jimmy ask us who thought we weren't sitting exactly in order. About half the class rose their hands. He ask why and we all thought that we weren't sitting correctly and we all said that there was bound to be one error due to a lack of communication. We eventually said our birthdays and turns that we were sitting correctly the whole time.
We then had to place our comics in the front of the class. Our comics consisted of a 4 panel story of how we ended up at CSULA. The previous class we drew them out and had to add color the next class. We were ask to place the drawings from the best to least best according to what we thought as a class. The timer was set at 20 minutes and we all began to trying to rank the 25 something comics. I had did my comic in bright sharpie colors. I choose to a use a color combinations of complementary colors to attract the eye. I think I was successful at this because my comic got pick up to go to the front of the line for best comic.
As a class we choose 4 different criteria for how we would rank them. Creativity, aesthetic appeal, color, and the clarity content of the comic. As the timer came to about 10 minutes we were still trying to decide how to rank them by being logically. In a panic we choose to have 5 Tally's each and we would mark the ones we liked the most. I chose the ones with clarity of content, most creative and the well colored comics. I knew mine was lacking creativity because it was a simple content.
At the end we all decided that we had picked the best comics because of the aesthetic appeal. Most of the class had said that they really didn't get the chance to read the comics. I think if we would of had more time, we could of properly rank the comics with all the criteria we had wrote on the board. In my opinion mine probably wouldn't of been pick second best if we would of had more time. I believe this because I was lacking 2 out of the 4 criteria.
I think Jimmy did this exercise for us to realize what kind of person we are during group communications. Are you someone who sits there and waits to be told what to do? Or are you someone who takes charge? I notice a lot of people taking charge and a lot of people who said nothing the entire class. I said what I need to say and nothing more. I think the reason for this was because there was already so many people who took charge. Usually, and if I had to, I would of said more input. I do think we all now know what communicating between a large group is pretty difficult.