In Professor
Barnhurst’s lecture, he talks about the art of storytelling and all of the
elements that it contains. At the beginning of the lecture, Professor Barnhurst
decides to start a group activity by making the whole class partner up with
other classmates. Between the two partners, they had to tell a story to each
other while the other one takes notes about the story. After 5 minutes, the
roles change and the activity is repeated. When the activity ends, Professor
Barnhurst chose 2 groups, consisting of 4 people, and made them compare the
notes that they took. Professor Barnhurst wanted to see what was similar and what
was contrasting with all the stories that were being told. As the activity
finished, Professor Barnhurst would go more in-depth with the elements of
storytelling.
The lecture of Professor talks about
multiple things that we learned in class. The most important component is effective
communication. When people are telling a story it is a form of communication.
While listening to a story, people must understand it as they do with the regular,
everyday communication. Thinking of when Professor Barnhurst talks about the
elements of storytelling, it reminds me of what I learned in my marketing
class. Like in marketing, the businessman is trying to communicate or persuade
its consumer to buy his or her product. Being more persuasive means that your
consumer is more likely to buy your product. You need to communicate to tell
your story in the best possible way. Storytelling with the correct use of its
elements can go hand-in-hand with many things around us.
The last
thing that Professor Barnhurst’s lecture talks about, something we also learned
in-class, is note taking. At the very beginning of the lecture when Professor
Barnhurst’s made everyone pair up, they had to take notes of each other’s
stories. I, once again, start to think about the time in class when we talked
about note taking. When we talked about Intro, Literature Review, Methods,
Result, Discussion, and Conclusion, it all dealt with the same thing: Note
taking. While listening to the stories being told to them, people try to get
the most important things down in their notes. To better yourself in note
taking, you could as easily read the first sentence in each paragraph get a
better understanding of the story. Doing this will also help you take more efficient,
faster, and better notes.
I did not watch this lecture but based on your blog it seemed very interesting and informational.It also sounds like he covered a lot of what we have talked about and learned which so far, I think is very useful.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Tony about the importance of effective communication. As I watched this lecture, I thought about how many ways there were to tell stories, and how many things could make them successful or unsuccessful. It made me realize how complex our culture's communication is, because there are so many ways to create excitement through story telling, but there are also so many ways to lose someone's interest. For example, if you fail to "announce" a story, or explain the setting properly, the listener may not understand the story the way you want them to.
ReplyDeleteI like and agree with your addition to this post by bringing up how stories need to be announced. I never really put much thought into but if I ever have just started telling a story I almost always get a puzzled reaction, resulting in me being cut off and asked what I am talking about or where this is coming from. It seems so second nature to us now, especially the older we get, that thinking about it makes it seem so insane that effective communication actually involves so many steps and framing, etc. that we don't even realize we're doing it.
DeleteI think you did a great job with this article. I also wrote about this article and also found a connection to the structure of story telling to our class discussion with analyzing journal article. It's interesting how we both related to that.
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