Monday, September 20, 2010

Post No. 2: Critical Listening in FCWR-101

Today, my writing class, FCWR-101 met.  The listening styles are mostly Action-oriented and Content-oriented.  This class does digress sometimes, but it returns back on to the main subject.  Today, more specifically, the class started in a different way.  Usually, the class would start with the professor coming in, and the lecture would immediately begin.  Instead, we started with watching a scene from Ocean's 11, pertaining to the assignment due. 

As far as considering the attention diversions, there were not many.  One would be that a student who forgot to put his phone on vibrate, went off, and he answered the phone in class.  Another distraction was that there was a technical difficulty with the sound.  There was sound playing; however, the sound was not loud enough for people who were sitting in the back row of the classroom.  For internal distractions, the major one that I could notice was that I was still somewhat jumpy.  I took the bus from home, transferred to another bus, and got to NYIT.  However, the time I got here was about 11 o'clock, and the class started at 11:10 am.  So, from the bus stop, I swiftly walked to Theobald Hall.  Thankfully, I was able to get to the class on time and before the professor got to class. 

I was able to respond to the diversions, pretty well.  First by calming down, and taking a deep breath to calm myself down.  I also was patient with the small difficulty with the volume of the sound.  The distraction with regards to the student and his cell phone was not significant; the diversion resolved itself. 

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