getting started

I've checked the class blackboard (aka blackweb) site and nearly everyone has logged on. If you're having any problems accessing blackboard, please email me. There's more information on how to log on to blackboard on the eCampus website. Fortunately, eCampus recently updated the log in information (which initially left out the part that passwords were not reset this term).

I hope you're all enjoying the first few chapters of the text. They provide the foundation for the remainder of the text so are quite important. One point the authors make in the first chapter is that the study of organizational communication is more about asking questions than providing answers. That doesn't mean you can't search for answers. But it does mean as the environment changes, those answers change as well. What worked for organizations 10 years ago may not work today. That's certainly true of higher education. For example, online learning was in its infancy in 1998 (I took an online class that year in how to teach online and taught my first online class in 1999). Now students can get a bachelor's degree online--and not just from Phoenix U. The U of Louisville offers both a B.A. and B.S. in communication completely online.

So studying organizational communication means learning how to ask good questions. What questions do you have about organizational communication?

--Professor Cyborg