Week 10: Interpersonal Communication — Online and Workplace Settings (outline pending)
Week of Mon, Oct 19 · week closes Sun, Oct 25
This week's items
- Week 10 reading — Online & Workplace Communicationpoints in Canvas
- Social Media / Interpersonal projectpoints in Canvas
- Difficult Conversation Strategy Planpoints in Canvas
Exact due times are in Canvas.
Read this week
Know these cold
- Compare face-to-face and computer-mediated communication (CMC) — what is gained and lost?
- Explain how online disinhibition can lead to both honest disclosure and antisocial behavior.
- Describe hyperpersonal communication — why online relationships can intensify faster than face-to-face ones.
- Identify professional communication norms in workplace settings: email tone, appropriate self-disclosure, conflict escalation protocols.
- Explain how power dynamics affect interpersonal communication in hierarchical organizations.
- Describe workplace harassment and inappropriate communication — legal and ethical dimensions.
- Apply a strategic framework to plan a difficult conversation: state the issue, share your story, invite their story, problem-solve.
- Complete the Difficult Conversation Strategy Plan — apply the framework to a real challenge.
Meerk's quiz — open the Week 10 gate
10 questions, no time limit. 85% on your first attempt in a 24-hour window opens the gate. Retakes inside the window are practice — they help you learn, they don't count. Work alone; the point is to know it, not to have seen it.
Stuck?
Raise your hand. Mr. James gets a message right away and can help you remotely. Nothing else is stored — just your last name, grade, and where you're stuck.
Dinner Table Question
Ask at home: Have you ever sent a message online that was misread as angrier or colder than you intended? What was missing that a face-to-face conversation would have included?
En español: ¿Alguna vez enviaste un mensaje en línea que fue malinterpretado como más enojado o frío de lo que pretendías? ¿Qué faltó que una conversación cara a cara hubiera incluido?