Final

= Connessione = ** Book of Lists Assignment ** When I first attended a seminar with Johnson & Hackman one of their main points was “shifting the paradigm.” As you made connections with course content and your activities have you experienced a paradigm shift? How do you make sense of new information if it doesn’t fit into your paradigm or world view? Examine the path you’ve taken, the journey you’ve traveled.


 * PART I: Organize the information and experiences you’ve had this quarter as it relates to communication. Use a mind map or other visual representation. It is up to you what tool you want to use. **


 * PART II: Write a paper explaining your understanding of communication and creativity. You may create your own definition of communication or select one that I have provided, why that definition resonates with you and what are your current communicative strengths and what are your weaknesses. In what way will you improve your communication skills in the future? Create your own definition of creativity. **

=MIND MAP- Arte/Scienza = = Tony Buzan created the concept of the mind map. “ // All mind maps have something in common. They all use color. They all have a natural structure that radiates from the center. And they all use lines, symbols words and images according to a set of simple, basic, natural and brain-friendly rules // .” Let’s use the map of a city as a comparison. The center of the map is like the center of the city. “ // The center contains your most important idea. The main roads leading from the center represent the main thoughts in your thinking proess; the secondary roads or branches represent your secondary thoughts and so on. Special images or shapes can represent sights of interest or particularly interesting ideas // .” = = = § Determine the most important word or short phrase and place that in the center of the sheet. § Think for a minute about what you just wrote down, and then circle it. § Thinking freely, write down any and all other important words, concepts, or symbols related to the topic outside the circle. Now, use lines and/or arrows to connect items. § Leave lots of white space so your concept ** map ** can grow. § Don't worry about being exact or perfect. Don’t analyze your work at this point!
 * PART I **

= = =Other Visual- Arte/Scienza =
 * //Analyze what you //****// have done so far: //**
 * Think about the relationship of outside items to the center item.
 * Erase and either replace or shorten words to some key ideas.
 * Relocate important items closer to each other for better organization.
 * Link concepts with words to clarify relationships.
 * Have you communicated the central idea of creative communication?

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">If you prefer you can organize your information through another visual rather than using the mind map.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">PART II **

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Write a well developed essay, including an introduction (including a thesis), body and conclusion. Grammar, sentence structure and spelling are a portion of the grade. Write a paper explaining your understanding of communication and its relationship to creativity. You may create your own definition of communication or select one that I have provided, why that definition resonates with you and what are your current communicative strengths and what are your weaknesses. In what way will you improve your communication skills in the future? Are you creative? Do you have a better understanding of your creative process? In what ways has your creative process been refined or strengthened? Be sure to support your thesis with examples from course material, assignments, discussions, theorists and your experiences.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Turn in your notes.

WHERE DO I START?

As you think back over the past few weeks, we examined the relationship between creativity and communication (specifically the following areas):

q <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">Burke’s definition of communication

q <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">Other communication definitions

q <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">Mead’s development of mind

q <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">Symbolic interactionist view of communication

q <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">Various contexts of communication

o <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">Intrapersonal communication: exploration of self; assets & obstacles;

o <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">Interpersonal communication: interactions with one other

o <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">Organizational communication

o <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">Mass communication: advertising

o <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">Mediated communication: Wikispaces postings and responses

q <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">Questioning

o <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">50 questions and emerging themes

o <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">Types of questions

o <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">Bloom’s taxonomy

q <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">Creativity

o <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">Definitions provided by theorists

o <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">Creative process as identified by theorists

q <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">Persuasive Communication theories

q <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">Seven daVincian Principles

o <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">Curiosita

o <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">Dimostrazione

o <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">Sensazione

o <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">Sfumato

o <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">Art & Scienza

o <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">Corporalita

o <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">Connessione

q <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">Major Assignments

o <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">Adopt a Genius

o <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">Problem Solving assignment

o <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">Print Advertising assignment

q <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">Field Trips

o <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">Peggy Notebaert Museum

o <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">Perception- Millenium Park or your choice

o <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">Experiential Encounter – Sensazione

o <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">Experiential Encounter Corporalita

q <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">Class discussions

q <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">Essays and writings


 * CURIOSITA **<span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">: Questions you could ask yourself
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">Has your view of Burke’s definition of communication changed?
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">What role have symbols played in your growth this quarter? Can you better use them, understand them or are you still confused by them?
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">Where did you start at the beginning of the quarter? Where are you today?
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">What did you learn about yourself after completing the 50 questions?
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">Examine the self-assessment sheets, including the daVincian principles, you completed for this class. Would you evaluate yourself the same way today? What if any changes have you seen in yourself?
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">What did you learn about yourself after completing the Creative Problem Solving assignment? Identifying your goal to sell yourself on.
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">Which concept or idea did you most enjoy?
 * 8) <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">Which concept or idea was the least enjoyable?
 * 9) <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">Which concept or idea opened new doors for you, even if it was difficult?
 * 10) <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">Will you apply any of the new information and experiences of the quarter to your work?
 * 11) <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">As you look at your responses and interactions with ideas and activities were there any themes that emerged?
 * 12) <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">Do you feel you can better communicate your creative ideas and projects?
 * 13) <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">Do you feel you have improved as a communicator?
 * 14) <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">What challenges were there for you this quarter as a communicator?
 * 15) <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">What context of communication do you feel you excel in and in which context are deficient?
 * 16) <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">Looking at the elements of verbal and nonverbal communication, where are your strengths and weaknesses?
 * 17) <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">What made you feel uncomfortable/ comfortable?
 * 18) <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">What if any limiting beliefs or misconceptions about your creativity do you have?
 * 19) <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">Do you think of creativity in terms of a specific kind of accomplished artwork?

<span style="font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB','sans-serif';">What does <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">paradigm <span style="font-family: 'Berlin Sans FB','sans-serif';"> mean? Here is a definition. q <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">One that serves as a pattern or model q <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">A set of assumptions, concepts, values, and practices that constitutes a way of viewing reality for the community that shares them, especially in an intellectual discipline
 * Sfumato **:

<span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">Middle English, //example//, from Late Latin <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">, from Greek <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">, from <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">, //to compare// : <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">, //alongside//; see **para-** <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">1 <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';"> + <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">, //to show//; see <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">in Indo-European Roots.] //**<span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Usage Note: **////<span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;">Paradigm //<span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif'; font-size: 14.6667px;"> first appeared in English in the 15th century, meaning “an example or pattern,” and it still bears this meaning today: <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">Their company is a paradigm of the small high-tech firms that have recently sprung up in this area. For nearly 400 years //paradigm// has also been applied to the patterns of inflections that are used to sort the verbs, nouns, and other parts of speech of a language into groups that are more easily studied. Since the 1960s, //paradigm// has been used in science to refer to a theoretical framework, as when Nobel Laureate David Baltimore cited the work of two colleagues that //“really established a new paradigm for our understanding of the causation of cancer.”// Thereafter, researchers in many different fields, including sociology and literary criticism, often saw themselves as working in or trying to break out of paradigms. Applications of the term in other contexts show that it can sometimes be used more loosely to mean “the prevailing view of things.” The Usage Panel splits down the middle on these nonscientific uses of //paradigm.// Fifty-two percent disapprove of the sentence <span style="font-family: 'Californian FB','serif';">The paradigm governing international competition and competitiveness has shifted dramatically in the last three decades.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">path

//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">n. //<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> //pl.// **paths**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">1. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">A trodden track or way.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">2. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">A road, way, or track made for a particular purpose: <span class="illustration1" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">a bicycle path.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">3. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">The route or course along which something travels or moves: <span class="illustration1" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">the path of a hurricane.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">4. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">A course of action or conduct: <span class="illustration1" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">the path of righteousness.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">5. **//<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Computer Science //
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">a. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">A sequence of commands or a link between points that is needed to reach a particular goal.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">b. **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">A pathname.

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">O.E. <span class="foreign2" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">paþ, pæþ, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> from W.Gmc. <span class="foreign2" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">*patha- <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> (cf. O.Fris. <span class="foreign2" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">path, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> M.Du. <span class="foreign2" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">pat, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> Du. <span class="foreign2" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">pad, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> O.H.G. <span class="foreign2" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">pfad, <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> Ger. <span class="foreign2" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Pfad <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> "path"), of unknown origin. In Scotland and Northern England, commonly a steep ascent of a hill or in a road. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Middle English, from Old English <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">; see <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> in Indo-European roots.]

<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">road <span style="color: #660000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">journey <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">–verb (used without object) <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">c.1225, "a defined course of traveling," from O.Fr. <span class="foreign2" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">journée <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> "day's work or travel," from V.L. <span class="foreign2" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">diurnum <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> "day," noun use of neut. of L. <span class="foreign2" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">diurnus <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> "of one day" (see [|diurnal] ). As recently as Johnson (1755) the primary sense was still "the travel of a day." The verb is from c.1330. <span class="foreign2" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">Journeyman <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> (1424), "one who works by day," preserves the etymological sense. Its Amer.Eng. colloquial shortening <span class="foreign2" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">jour <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;"> (adj.) is attested from 1835.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">1. || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">a long, narrow stretch with a smoothed or paved surface, made for traveling by motor vehicle, carriage, etc., between two or more points; street or highway. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">2. || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">a way or course: <span class="ital-inline1" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">the road to peace. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">1. || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">a traveling from one place to another, usually taking a rather long time; trip: <span class="ital-inline1" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">a six-day journey across the desert. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">2. || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">a distance, course, or area traveled or suitable for traveling: <span class="ital-inline1" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">a desert journey. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">3. || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">a period of travel: <span class="ital-inline1" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">a week's journey. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">4. || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">passage or progress from one stage to another: <span class="ital-inline1" style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">the journey to success. ||
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">5. || <span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 13.3333px;">to make a journey; travel. ||

=Communication Overview=

A word devoid of thought is a dead thing,

and a thought unembodied in words remains a shadow **. **

Vygotsky

Defining Communication
§ ** Taylor, Meyers, Rosegrant & Samples, 1992 **

Communication is the process of receiving stimuli and interpreting them (assigning meanings to them)

§ ** Galanes & Brilhart,, 1997 **

Communication refers to the perception, interpretation, and response of people to signals produced by other people

§ ** Stevens, 1950 **

Communication is the discriminatory response of an organism to a stimulus

§ ** Barnlund, 1968 **

Communication …is an ‘effort after meaning,’ a creative act initiated by man in which he seeks to discriminate and organize cues to as to orient himself in his environment and satisfy his changing needs

§ ** Masterson, Beebe & Watson, 1983 **

Speech communication is a human process through which we make sense of out of the world and share that sense with others

§ ** Berelson & Steiner, 1964 **

Communication: the transmission of information, ideas, emotions, skills, etc. by the use of symbols

§ ** Trenholm, 1986 **

Communication is the process by which a source transmits a message to a receiver through some channel

§ ** Trenholm & Jensen, 1992 **

Communication is the process whereby humans collectively create and regulate social reality

§ ** Robesch, 1992 **

Communication is a process in which a person, through the use of signs (natural, universal)/symbols (by human convention), verbally and/or non verbally, consciously or not consciously but intentionally, conveys meaning to another in order to affect change. robesch@beacon.regent.edu

§ ** Burke, 1966 **

Human is the symbol using, making, and mis-using animal, inventor of the negative, separated from his natural condition by instruments of his own making, goaded by the spirit of hierarchy, and rotten with perfection <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 16.6667px;">.