Week of October 29 - November 4

1). How does CMC differ from f2f communication? (Think outside the box).

In order to answer this question I am going to recall the time I graduated from this Santa Clara county three month long hybrid course. The course was about computers  and iI remember taking courses face to face at my community college. Being that I am a father of two and work 40 hours a week I wanted to strengthen my computer skills and basically get a certificate that I can use on my resume for a job. When our first group assignment came up I noticed we were all engaged in what the assignment was. Looking back I can recall times when I was in other classes such as the computer courses at my community college and the time came to form groups I notice that some students tend to stand around before getting started. When the time came to start and complete the online resume I notice how fast everyone was moving to complete this assignment. It was almost as if they were completing the assignment to get it out of the way and focus on the next assignment. When I was in my other communication courses which is face to face as well I notice how long it takes just to get started. First you have to gather the group members, exchange information, pick a date, time, location on where to meet and once you are there you have discuss what you are going to talk about that is providing that everyone shows up. It can be some what of pain to go thru this process as opposed to CMC. I noticed the attitude did  not change in CMC during thus course. Although you do some of this in CMC you do not do as much of it, if I had to guess I would say that you save about an hour to an hour half in CMC than face to face in terms of man hours.

Another things that I noticed in face to face communication that the book talks about against CMC is that attitudes change all the time. For example when I was in another communication course a guy and girl became a little bit more closer than what they were originally. In what started out as classmates turned into puppy love then when the boy decided to cheat on his new girlfriend with the another girl in our group all heck broke lose. We did not even get the chance to complete our assignment we had to go ask the teacher if we could all do our own assignment because of so much high tension. In face to face you do indeed have to see that person as opposed to sitting behind the desk as I am doing here.