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fandomhigh2013-02-08 08:16 am
furnaceface) wrote in fandomhigh2013-02-08 08:16 am
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Fandom Invasions: A Survival Guide- Friday, Period One
"Communication," Jono announced as he walked into the classroom today. "I'm doing it right now. Lord knows some of you do it during my lectures when you roll your eyes while I'm speaking. It's that little touchstone that lets us all get across everything from 'I'm hungry,' to 'there's a giant scorpion around that corner, you might not want to go that way.' And, during a crisis situation, it doesn't become any less pivotal. The trouble is... for all that people are excellent communicators, sometimes our messages get a little mixed up in the giving, particularly if they need to travel between several people before finally making their way to their final destination."
He gave a little grin, picking up his cup of coffee.
"Have any of you played the game 'telephone?' One person starts with a message, and they whisper it into the ear of the person beside them. The message travels this way all the way around a circle until the last person shares what message they actually received. It is very rarely the same message that the game started with. Today, we're going to do a take on that. I'm going to get people to stand out into the hallway, and then I'm going to give one person who stays in here a message. That person will relay that message to the next person to come into the room, but they have to find some way to do it that isn't just blatantly speaking it to them. They can pick up a phone and give this person a phone call. They can write it on a piece of paper. They can attempt to pass it on in a single attempt at charades. If they have certain powers, they can just telepathically share what they think the message is. The sky is really the limit, here, just so long as you're not looking that person in the eye and saying, 'The message is...'"
He gestured with the coffee to the door.
"Once the message is passed along, the person who shared it will leave the room, send someone else in, and it'll be up to the person who entered the room before them to pass on the message, next. Let's see by the end of the class just how garbled your messages can get. And then if any of you did last week's 'get across the island' homework, feel free to tell me what you chose to do."
[Open!]
He gave a little grin, picking up his cup of coffee.
"Have any of you played the game 'telephone?' One person starts with a message, and they whisper it into the ear of the person beside them. The message travels this way all the way around a circle until the last person shares what message they actually received. It is very rarely the same message that the game started with. Today, we're going to do a take on that. I'm going to get people to stand out into the hallway, and then I'm going to give one person who stays in here a message. That person will relay that message to the next person to come into the room, but they have to find some way to do it that isn't just blatantly speaking it to them. They can pick up a phone and give this person a phone call. They can write it on a piece of paper. They can attempt to pass it on in a single attempt at charades. If they have certain powers, they can just telepathically share what they think the message is. The sky is really the limit, here, just so long as you're not looking that person in the eye and saying, 'The message is...'"
He gestured with the coffee to the door.
"Once the message is passed along, the person who shared it will leave the room, send someone else in, and it'll be up to the person who entered the room before them to pass on the message, next. Let's see by the end of the class just how garbled your messages can get. And then if any of you did last week's 'get across the island' homework, feel free to tell me what you chose to do."
[Open!]
Homework?
You don't have to play telephone for this part.
Re: Homework?
Of course she'd done her homework. She was
a giant dorkthe TA!