Dual Coding Theory

I was not in class for the Dual Coding Theory lecture, but I have researched it and looked at our class PowerPoint. What I can conclude is that the brain processes visual images and textual images at different rates and then smushes them together so that the observer can put 2 and 2 together and come up with a conclusion as to what the picture (or in this case AD) is about. When I first saw this image, I read the words first, just like the Dual Coding Theory said I would. Then I saw that this picture is obviously in some sort of gymnasium, or locker room for a sports team. When I was in high school, I played Varsity soccer, and our locker room had a message above the door that said "Play Like Champions Today" on it...or something like that I don't really remember. Anyway, although I did read the words first, I did realize that it had to do with sports, not only because the words are in a locker room, but because they are motivational and clique of any sports team. This is an effective ad for Nike I think. It got the message across to me.

Miscommunication...

I can think of many instances when miscommunication occurred in my past workplaces. But I'll just name a few...first, for 6 years before I came to college I worked in my family's business, so one day when I was running the register and taking people's orders in the coffee bar, my brother called on the store's phone and was yelling about something. Well it was really busy and I was swamped with customers, and I yelled back on the phone "HOLD ON A SECOND!!" The poor little lady at the register waiting to place an order thought I was talking to her and got really upset and left. I have never felt so bad before. I tried to tell her that I was only talking to my brother on the phone, but she was long gone by then. If I would have controlled my temper and just hung up, or maybe if he wouldn't have called inthe first place, it wouldn't have happened. Oh well.
When I was a Junior in high school, one afternoon, it was just me and my mom working at the store, because some one had called in sick. Well apparently the City was doing a smoke test in all of the pipes and failed to alert any of the downtown restaurants. My Mom and I thought that the refridgerator was on fire and expelled an entire fire extinguisher all over the restaurant. It took about a month to clean that place absolutely spotless from all of the extinguisher residue. If the city would have alerted the downtown business we wouldn't have had to close the business down (because we did and lost 7 hours of business), and wouldn't have had to deal with all of the mess that we accidentally made.
Thos are just a couple of my work miscommunications!

Mock Interview

On Friday I had my mock interview, and I was not nervous at all. The one question that really threw me off guard was "What is the biggest accomplishment?" I wasn't sure how to answer this because I have never really thought of that before. So I just kinda went by the seat of my pants and made a quick answer, which I don't think made a lot of sense, but it was all that I could think of at the time. If I could do this interview again, I would not have gone out the night before, because I was feeling rough at 9 in the morning. Also, I would have practiced some answers to regular interview questions so that i would have been more prepared for my interviewers questions. I learned a lot from this experience because I thought that it was going to be a lot tougher than it was. Although, during the "real" thing I'm sure that I will be very nervous, but I realized that the most important thing is to just be confident and take the questions all in stride.

Presentations

This week I really enjoyed the presentations by Margaret, Chelsey, and Ashleigh. Margaret's presentation was very original and I learned something new! Chelsey's presentation was very fun because it was interesting to learn more about South Africa and her pictures and stories were very funny! Ashleigh's presentation was also one of favorites because it was about Spanish and I obviously appreciated that. It was also original. I enjoyed all of the presentations in class but these were my three favorites!