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• This module was designed and written with you in mind. It is here to help you master the settings, processes, methods, and tools in communication.
• The scope of this module permits it to be used in many different learning situations. The language used recognizes the diverse vocabulary level of students. The lessons are arranged to follow the standard sequence of the course. But the order in which you read them can be changed to correspond with the textbook you are now using.
• Communication settings


  The physical surroundings in which communication occurs, environmental conditions and knowing why audience need to receive communication
• Communication process


  Accounts for what happens between the source of message and the recipient, the skills employed in giving and receiving information, and conveying our ideas and opinions with those around us
• Key components of the communication process

  • Encoding
  • Medium of transmission
  • Decoding
  • Feedback
• Sender


  An individual, group, or organization who initiates the communication. Their experiences, attitudes, knowledge, skill, perceptions, and culture influence the message.
• Communication methods


  • Verbal (sounds, language, tone of voice)
  • Aural (listening, hearing)
  • Non-verbal (facial expressions, body language, posture)
  • Written (letters, memos, emails, blogs, text messages)
  • Visual (signs, symbols, illustrations, pictures)
• Nonverbal communication


  Actions, gestures, and other aspects of physical appearance that, combined with facial expressions, can be powerful means of transmitting messages
• Tools in communication


  All that we use in both communicating with others and interpreting the information received from others, ranging from language, tone of voice, to technology like television, radio, photographs, cyberspace, digital and social platforms, and the Internet
• Mass media


  All forms of communication that are devoted to transmitting standardized messages to widespread audience, including newspapers, magazines, books, e-books, radio, social networking sites and the Internet, television, and motion picture
• Settings of communication


  • School
  • Community
  • Civil Society
  • Private Sectors
  • Government
• School setting


  Delivers educational goods to the public and engaged communities in agenda settings regarding educational goals and means
• Community setting


  Where all sectors interact: government, businesses, civil society, and all individuals and groups
• Civil society setting


  Includes various group of government and non-government organizations, charities, foundation people's organization and to advocate marginalized sectors and minorities
• Private sectors setting


  Refers to business community involved in the delivery of public services but are not of the government. Communication is advertisement to inform the public of goods and services for sale and available
• Government setting


  Delivers social and public services and communicates to inform the public about national plans, opportunities and public services. Relied on mass media to disseminate propaganda and public information
• Tools of communication in different settings

  • School: Online enrollment, virtual classrooms, new media and technology, student-student/student-teacher communication
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  Civil Society: Documentaries, movies, news and social media

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  Private Sector: Advertisements, understanding public demand, Corporate Social Responsibility

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  Government: Mass media, new media and technology like social media, SMS, Facebook
• Information communication technologies (ICTs)

  Personal and networked computers, mobile telephones, the internet and emails, including social media platforms (i.e. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Linked, etc.)
• ICTs


  • Used as powerful communication tools in advancing work, activities, advocacies, and furthering inter-personal relationships with friends, family members, colleagues, and even strangers living in the country and abroad
• Use of ICTs during COVID-19 pandemic

  Filipinos have turned to social media, digital media, collaborative platforms in carrying out public affairs and exercising "active citizenship" virtually
• Social media platforms


  No longer just facilitate social communications, now used as communication tools through which Filipinos engage the state, state apparatus, and power-holders in the affairs of the government
• Social media


  Any of several online platforms that utilize the technology of the internet to facilitate social interaction through written, visual, or audible communication
• Social media


  • Blogging, podcasts, forums, online press releases, and social networking sites like YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn
• Role of social media during COVID-19 pandemic

  • Facilitates and disseminates vital information about the COVID-19 pandemic, especially on government and societal responses to the crisis
  • Becomes the most relevant "democratic space" for public discussion, debate, and understanding of the novel coronavirus among Filipinos
  • Facilitates real-time peer to peer information exchanges on COVID-19 related issues and concerns
  • Serves as a medium where Filipinos can directly voice out their criticisms as well as their appreciations of their leaders in government and the government as a whole and even of the private sector concerning COVID-19 and non-COVID-19 issues
• Role of social media influencers

  • Facilitate a virtual sense of leadership especially in the dissemination of important information, even in countering misinformation
• Public (state apparatus) and private institutions are now integrating social networking and social media tools into their communications strategies
• Purposes of institutions using social media tools

  • Enable them to connect and collaborate formally and informally across institutional and even national boundaries, and with people from different backgrounds quickly and inexpensively
  • Allow interactive conversations with their constituencies and the public in general
  • Have direct and real-time discussions with people, informing them about their cause and potentially influencing the minds of the public and vice-versa
  • Keep people more engaged and responsive to their causes and discussions
• Coping with stress


  Can be either problem-focused or emotion-focused
• Problem-focused coping


  Facing the situation squarely and exerting efforts to solve the problem
• Problem-focused coping


  • Has been linked to effective adjustment, including enhancing study skills, time management skills, problem-solving skills, and increased participation in a support group
• Time management skills


  Related to making one's life less stressful
• Improving time management


  1. Carefully monitoring time

  2. Planning activities using a schedule

  3. Increasing efficiency to finish tasks in less time

  4. Tackling only a single task at a time

  5. Grouping similar tasks together

  6. Making use of down time
• Attitude


  A person's disposition about certain life experiences
• Attitudes may be contagious and can positively or negatively influence another person</b>
• Emotions serve as a critical factor in the development of one's attitudes
• Process of self-development


  1. Creating a vision of yourself

  2. Setting specific goals

  3. Identifying action plans

  4. Evaluating outcomes
• Improving oneself doesn't happen overnight
• Successful personal development is dependent on targets, such as one's goals and strategies
• Social awareness


  Appreciation of both the inner-ecology and the social ecology
• Self-awareness


  Capacity to understand your personality, behaviors, habits, and emotions