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I'm not feeling like an expert in interpersonal communication?  Am I alone in this?

Videos on gestures!

Hi ya'll!

I'm doing a small section on gestures and am planning on using these videos that show how gestures are not always similar culture to culture. I figured I would post them just in case someone else is needing to fill a little extra time.

First: Inglourious Basterds bar scene. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TJJtEIcKjU (It's gory at the end, FYI) The gesture he uses for the number three at 0:49 is an English counting gesture. Germans use the thumb, pointer, and middle finger to gesture the number three.

I'm also probably going to use this video from Japanesepod101.com from their video series on learning Japanese body language and gestures. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD3xPFui8bA

Changing tactics and Dr. Dow

Hi all,
After Mirah posted her class 2 post, I asked her about the Bb blog cites for all of us and told her we had an offsite blog going instead, and sent her the address. My apologies for not informing you all sooner. So this will one of our records of collaboration for her, along with other forms of sharing we happened to do.
My presentation took a decided turn today as I was thinking about what I really wanted to bring up, and I kept thinking about a TED talk that was longer then I wanted but really brought up some very prescient and current points I wanted to discuss. So, I'm going that way, professional or not, I think it will relax me enough to at least make myself presentable and not just a puddle.
I have to keep reminding myself that Mirah wanted us to have fun with this.

Presentation "Mood"

How casual (or professional) are you planning on making your presentation? So far mine is looking like it will be extremely casual so I'd be interested to hear what other people are doing...

History & theories

Are any of you touching on the theories surrounding interpersonal communication?

Body Language Video

Here is an interesting video on body language with 2 minutes interviews with CEOs and a questionnaire about their body language. The questionnaire has some crappy questions, but some of them are useful. I might show a section or two of the video to my group and then discuss it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpiUohPPyks

Some other sources for nonverbal

Hey all,
Here is a site that has a lot of resources re: nonverbal issues. It is Northern Virginia Community College. Nice design....

http://novaonline.nvcc.edu/eli/spd110td/interper/message/linksnonverbalresearch.html

Here is the overall list of resources on this site...http://novaonline.nvcc.edu/eli/spd110td/interper/index.html

I am still looking at nonviolent communication as a way to prepare for active listening and reframing, such as in a reference interview. I am struck by the amount of parallels I am finding in the research, as I went from nonviolent communication, which brought me to empathy and back to interpersonal communication. I guess I am in the ball park.

In my presentation, I will speak on context for the communication between two people, and how that shapes the success of the interaction. Moving to nonviolent communication, I will share the ideas that we all want to connect, and to do that, we have to understand and reach out to each person's needs (ideal for librarians, eh?), rather than jumping to snap judgements. I expect to have each member of the group share a brief comment in which they reacted negatively, which will let me bring it to reframing it so it is about understanding a person's needs, rather than an attack or slight.

I like the idea of adding a little on nonverbal communication - eye rolling, shrugging, something that can convey a person not very in tune to the dyad. I will explore this.

I think I read what John and Elizabeth are doing...what about the rest?