Week 5

This week was about nonverbal communication. On Monday we started with a warm up activity where we had to come up with a total of 11 fingers in the middle of the circle without talking. It took us a couple of times but finally manage to communicate using foot stomps. It was funny trying to communicate without verbal words. We also did a back to back drawing where one person had to explain a drawing while the other person had to draw the picture we sat back to back and also did it facing each other. The drawing that we did back to back I think was harder because you could read any facial expressions to see if  what you were trying to communicate to the other person was being received clearly. It was a lot of fun to see the drawings.  On Wednesday we did a warm up activity where without communicating we lined up in alphabetical order by last name. Misty was a great help since she knew every ones names. Then we had to line up according to our birthday months. That was a little trickier but we finally got it. We watched several movie clips on nonverbal communication. The one I thought was interesting was how touch is the first sensory experience that we feel as humans. The artifacts that people place in their homes or offices was interesting. I didn't realize how it tells everyone about who you are. "We use artifacts to announce our identities and and to project a particular image to others." (Woods, 2010, p. 133)

Part 2
I chose to read the article, Nonverbal Communication: The Poser of Nonverbal communication and body Language. The ten things that I really liked were:
- It take more than words to create relationships with people
-Nonverbal communication is a vital form of communication
- Many people send confusing or wrong nonverbal signals
-That our faces are able to express a lot of different emotions without saying a word
-The way that we move can tell a person a lot about us
-In different cultures and regions gestures can mean different things
-The way we say things is more important than what we say
-To maintain the flow of a conversation you need good eye contact
-Nonverbal communication needs your full concentration or you miss important clues
-We communicated a great deal through touch



Wood, J. T.  Interpersonal communications: Everyday encounters (6^th ed.).  Boston, MA: Wardsworth.