chapters 3, 9, and 10 reflection

July 8, 2020      Today I will be talking about the presentation that occurred a few weeks ago. These presentations were about disabilities, like cognitive, invisible, and other types of disabilities. They was 3 groups total, I was in group 3, the final group to present. Group one was about mobility, spinal, and head disabilities. Group 2 was based on visual and hearing disabilities. My group was based on cognitive, invisible, and psychological disabilities. My job was based stating the struggles children and adults might face throughout their life with a cognitive disability. I was also tasked with stating the American and World views.      Group 1 was the first to present, they were tasked with mobility, spinal, and head disabilities. Group 1's introduction was about mobility, spinal, and head disabilities. They defined what every disability was and they gave examples for each one. They also explained how these disabilities influence an individual's l...

Throughout the time I was to make My Experience Learning about Mental Health Disabilities By Jennifer Fernandez  my portion of the disabilities presentation I was able to make a lot of interesting and useful discoveries. My topic of research was anxiety and depression. I feel like my generation has a lot of anxiety and depression growing up and it's very important for everyone to be informed on how to catch signs of these disabilities and how to help both others and yourself. I'm very glad to have been a part of this presentation to raise awareness for disabilities especially my particular subgroup focused on psychological disabilities. My group consisted of both Amanda and Katie who focused on post-traumatic stress disorders, psychosis, and eating disorders to name a few.   I was able to find out the risks of undiagnosed depression and anxiety which in extreme cases can lead to the loss of a loved one. It's very important to be able to notice sig...

Hey guys welcome back to my blog! Today's topic will be covering the  presentations that took place in SPC1017 this past week. This project/speech was more time consuming and elaborate than the previous chapter 3,9,10 presentations. In my opinion, it was also more interesting and much more useful in the long wrong. Once again for this project we were split up in groups and luckily, we were able to remain in our previous groups for better comfort. The three groups received different topics with group 1 focusing on Mobility, spinal and head disabilities. Group 2 focused on hearing and visual disabilities, and Group 3 did invisible, cognitive, and psychological disabilities. The project components and requirements were to make a PowerPoint and present a speech going over the subtopics, turning in a poster and a brochure.    To start off I would like to say, I think every group did an outstanding job. I surely learned about disabilities, circumstances and treatments I had nev...

Hello, this blog will discuss the last presentation we did in class concerning disabilities. The overall purpose of this assignment was to raise awareness and gain more knowledge about a topic that many are not familiar with. This can be a tricky subject to address as some points may come out offensive if not addressed and talked about properly. There were many components to this assignment besides a powerpoint, which included: interviews, research, an agenda, a poster, a brochure, and a study guide. At first, this seemed a bit overwhelming but as I started to do some research about the subject, the information seemed very interesting and useful. There are a lot of disabilities out there and they were divided among the class groups so more information could be found about them. First thing I want to do is give some feedback to the classmates who were not in my group. Group 1 talked about Mobility, Spinal & Head Disabilities. I think they presented their information very well and th...

                                                                          Disability Presentation Blog                                                                                   Amanda Rodriguez                                              Raising awareness of different types of disabilities and how they impact lives is important for several reasons.  People who don’t have a disability or kn...

          Today I will be writing a blog about our presentations regarding disabilities. I was really interested in this presentation because it allowed me to learn about different disabilities in depth and gain more knowledge about how to help people in these situations. I was also kind of nervous about how I would present my ideas for this project. I wanted to make sure that how or what I said did not come across as offensive to some people and I wanted to make sure the information was accurate.           Group 1’s presentation was about mobility, spinal, and head disabilities. They explained what each disability was and they gave examples for each type. They also described how these disabilities affect a person's life and how they can get these types of disabilities. I felt that they did a really good job presenting but I do feel that they should have tried to keep a cohesive theme throughout their powerpoint and that they c...

     Good Evening, in today’s blog I will be going over the second presentation created by our speech class this semester. The presentations this week were focusing on the many disabilities that people experience. It was interesting to look into all the different disabilities that may not be visible to the naked eye. During our presentation, my group covered cognitive, invisible, and psychological disabilities. There are many disabilities that cause chronic pain and can be debilitating. I spoke about chronic pain, chronic dizziness, and chronic fatigue during our presentation. When people hear the word “disability” they often think about physical limits like someone in a wheelchair, but there are so many disorders that do not always show themselves when you are just looking at a person from the outside. Disabilities like anxiety and disorder are psychological disorders that affect people’s lives to the point where they may not be able to function properly. These kinds o...

   In this blog I am going to be talking about our group presentation for the themes. In this case, we had to talk about disabilities and how they were related to some of the book chapters. I will be talking about my group, how we interacted with each other and planned our presentation, and the results of our work. All this has been a new experience for all of us, since remote learning started because of the new pandemic coronavirus, and some of us are not too familiar with this online schooling.      First, we started texting in the group chat  about the role of each person and figuring who was going to do each thing in the slides. We divided ourselves into mini groups. The disabilities that we had to talk about were: cognitive disabilities, psychological disabilities, and invisible disabilities. Me and Martina chose invisible disabilities. I did a big research about all the invisible disabilities that exist and found it very interesting to learn all of th...

My goal throughout this blog is to critic all the group presentations and state my personal opinions on how each one did. I personally was a bit timid about the presentation to begin with because I wasn’t well acquainted with anyone in the group. However, come to think of it everyone in the group could not have been more supportive and helpful. We were truly and honestly able to creative a very healthy and productive creative atmosphere and I can honestly say I am very happy with what my group was able to accomplish and the connections we’ve managed to make between us. Group one spoke about intercultural communications. They talked about how important intercultural communications can be in today’s world especially living in the united states where diversity is encouraged. Every culture has its own customs and rules and slang what could be offensive to someone else might not necessarily be offensive to you. I think group one did an excellent job presenting this and made it very clea...

     In this post I will be talking about the presentations that my class did for our speech class. My group was in charged of Chapter 10, so we were the last group of all the groups. I was really happy that I was able to be in a group with some of my friends, especially with Jorge since we are cousins, and we worked together for the presentation. Usually I'm not nervous when presenting so I was just calm during everything and whenever I needed to speak up, I would. Overall I was pretty relaxed with the presentation and It was generally easy to find the information for the presentation.       The first group was sent to present chapter 3, which was about intercultural communication. In my opinion their presentation was good, however of course each presentation has its flaws. I believe a large flaw was that everyone did seperate little seperate presentations instead of one large presentation in which people would just speak one after the other. I do t...

          Hey Guys! As you probably guessed by the title, in todays blog I will be focusing on the presentations taken place in the first couple weeks of June. This summer term I decided to take SPC1017 as an online course. Although the transition has not been easy, I am more than grateful to the professor for putting in her best efforts. A good method she included in her ways to teach the class was by having the students split up into three groups, in each group, a different chapter was assigned. This way, we heard the most important parts of a chapter from students like ourselves and at the same time, the components of speaking infant of people and communicating was taken place. Group 1 was assigned chapter 3, Group 2 chapter 9, and group 3 chapter 10.            First up was Group 1 introducing chapter 3. Their presentation focused on culture and communication, cultural identity, dominant cultures, how some cultures can be differ...

     In this blog I will be talking about the presentations that occurred last week in my speech class. I was so excited to work with my group because I knew a couple people so it was a bit easier for me to talk to other people. I was also excited and nervous before my presentation because I didn’ t know the majority of the class. But when it came to present I saw that it wasn’t as bad as it seemed. It was nice to see the creative liberties each group took when creating their powerpoints and overall the groups did an amazing job.  Group one was the first to present their project. They talked about intercultural communication which is very important in today's world because we are surrounded by people with different cultures and customs and it's good to know how you should communicate with different people. Although, I do feel that they should have only used one powerpoint to save time and they should have condensed the information a bit in order to make the slides ...

               Hello, this blog will be going over our first presentation that my class did for our speech class. All of the students in our class were split into three groups, so that we may all cover a different chapter. Group one went over chapter three Intercultural Communication, group two went over chapter nine Communicating in groups, and last my group went over chapter ten Group leadership and problem solving.  I was really happy that my chapter was about leadership and problem solving because I just got out of the military and leadership plays a very important roll in your military service. Overall, I was pleased with assignment, and I did not find it to be very difficult for our first presentation, hopefully the rest of the semester is the same. As stated above group one presented first and they covered chapter three. They spoke about culture and communication, dominant cultures, co-cultures, and cultural identity,...

               Amanda Rodriguez              In this blog I will share my viewpoint on each of the presentations as well as what I learned from them. Usually I am extremely nervous to speak in front of of the class but since we are all at home and I had my friends in the class with me, I felt more confident in my presentation. I am looking forward to what our professor has in store for the rest of the semester.     The first group spoke about Chapter 3:  intercultural communication. Their presentation consisted of culture communication , dominant cultures, co-cultures, cultural identity and how cultures differ. The United States is a multicultural society therefore, it is imperative that each of us learn how to effectively communicate with different cultures. One small flaw I saw from group 3 were that some slides had paragraphs of writing; it would have been better to incorporate more im...

Hello, this blog is going to be focusing on our first presentation in SPC1017. I will basically be giving feedback on my classmate’s presentations and provide some other details about the whole process. To begin, our class was split into three groups and each was assigned a chapter. Each person had to do at least three slides and include a few words with some pictures and graphs that went along with their assigned section. I was nervous in the beginning as this is my first semester in MDC and I have never really presented in front of or worked with people I am not familiar with. However, my nerves went away as soon as I realized that everyone had respect for each other and everyone was very committed to the assignment. Group 1 was assigned chapter 3, Intercultural Communication. They spoke about dominant cultures, co-cultures, and cultural identity and how they all interrelate with each other. They were the first group to present and I was very impressed with their presentation. They...

          In this blog I will be sharing to my classmates my opinion on the presentations that we had last week during class. I want to start off by saying that I am very surprised at how awesome the groups did, in general. Although this is only the second week of class and sadly I cannot get to see my classmates in person, I feel like if I have known them for months. Honestly, I was a little nervous even though I knew nobody was going to see me. I have always been a little shy, and the simple fact that everyone has to be hearing my voice for more than one minute makes me nervous. Also, I have an accent and that makes it even worse.Working in teams is a very great way to communicate our ideas.                                via GIPHY                               The first group of our class pr...