Blog Topic Due Nov. 11th

This past week, I saw a couple of commercials on t.v. and on youtube that used the dual coding theory to try and get customers to buy their product. Pizza Hut made a commercial with Jessica Simpson in promoting a special on one of their pizzas. She came out as a waitress delivering the pizza. Pizza Hut did an excellent job not only promoting their pizza, but using Jessica as another form of visual aid. That really made me want to go and order a pizza from Pizza Hut!

Hummer also did an excellent job in using the dual coding theory. In one of their recent commercials, they use the new H3 on different terrains and show how flexible and durable their vehicle is. They also show little phrases before they show what the H3 can do. Hummer does an excellent job with all of their commercials in using visual aid to promote their product because it makes you want to buy their vehicle because it can do all of those cool things.

Blog Topic Due Nov. 4th

I usually don't like group work because there is always someone who is uncooperative and all the work is thrown on certain people. I cannot say that about team bangarang. Everybody is doing their part and the work is getting done in a timely manner.

Everyone is communicating well. If someone can't come, they will call or e-mail to say so. That keeps everything moving because then we can form our meetings around who is not going to be there so that we can still have a successful group meeting. Our meeting times seem to accomodate the whole group and no one complained of having too much to do or meeting to much or too little.

What I like best about our group is everyone has creative ideas. We all listen to everyones ideas and then we create a plan of action based on those ideas. We all get along and everyone has a chance to talk and to be heard. As long as we keep our good work ethic and keep having productive meetings, then everything in phase 2 should run smoothly.