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"My Favorite Assignment": Selections from the ABC 2023 Annual Conference, Denver, Colorado, USA: Seeing the Future of Business Communication Teaching from a Mile High Perch
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D. Joel Whalen; Charles Drehmer; Andrew Cavanaugh – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2024
Artificial intelligence assignments lead this article's 11 teaching innovations selected from the "My Favorite Assignments" presented at the 2023 Association for Business Communication's (ABC's) 88th Annual International Conference held in the Mile-High City: Denver, Colorado, USA. Pedagogy presented here also includes ideas to enhance…
Descriptors: Business Communication, Business Education, Artificial Intelligence, Assignments
Selections from the ABC 2019 Annual Conference, Detroit, Michigan: Dancin' in Motown's Streets to the Beat of "My Favorite Assignments"
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Whalen, D. Joel – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2020
This article is the first in a two-part series. It features 13 teaching innovations selected from the 60 "My Favorite Assignments" presented at the 2019 Association for Business Communication's annual international conference in Detroit, Michigan. Pedagogy presented includes experiential learning methods to teach how to deliver peer…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Assignments, Teaching Methods, Business Communication
Selections from the ABC 2014 Annual Conference, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Let Favorite Assignments Ring: Sharpening Communication Tools and Self and Career Development
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Whalen, D. Joel; Crenshaw, Cheri; Ortiz, Lorelei A.; Vik, Gretchen N.; Meredith, Michael J.; Deambrosi, Alfredo; Luck, Susan L.; Rausch, Georgi; Canas, Kathryn; Hicks, Nancy; Newman, Amy; Hofacker, Cynthia M.; Webb, Susan Hall; Zizik, Catherine H. – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2015
This article, the first of a two-part series, catalogs teaching innovations from the 2014 Association for Business Communication Annual Conference. These 12 assignments debuted during two "My Favorite Assignment" sessions. Learning experiences included job-seeking skills--résumé writing, writing job applications, sharpening interview…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Instructional Innovation, Assignments, Business Communication
Selections from the ABC 2016 Annual Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico: Teaching Innovations Soaring Like a Flight of Balloons over Albuquerque
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Whalen, D. Joel, Ed. – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2017
This article, the second of a two-part series, presents 12 assignments designed to help students increase their online communication skills, conduct professional conferences, use advanced presentation software, develop problem-solving and critical thinking, gain greater awareness of gender effects in communication, and perform community service.…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Communication Skills, Critical Thinking, Problem Solving
Selections from the ABC 2013 Annual Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana: A Gumbo of Favorite Assignments: Global, Communicating Complex Information, Short-Message Packaging
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Whalen, D. Joel – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2014
This article, the first of a two-part series, catalogs teaching innovations presented at the 2013 Association for Business Communication (ABC) Annual Convention, New Orleans. They were presented during the My Favorite Assignment session. The 11 Favorite Assignments featured here offer the reader a variety of learning experiences including…
Descriptors: Assignments, Educational Innovation, Conferences (Gatherings), Cooperative Learning
Selections from the ABC 2017 Annual Conference, Dublin, Ireland: Teaching with Yeats's Elegance and Wilde's Wit
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Whalen, D. Joel, Ed. – Business and Professional Communication Quarterly, 2018
This article, the second of a two-part series, features 13 "My Favorite Assignments" that were introduced at the Association for Business Communication's 82nd annual conference held in Dublin, Ireland, in 2017. The pedagogical innovations include assignments that teach students how to conduct primary research, present their findings,…
Descriptors: Conferences (Gatherings), Professional Associations, Business Communication, Foreign Countries