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Taylor, Julie L.; Blevins, Maria – Communication Teacher, 2020
Students are often inseparable from Internet and streaming services through various technologies. This reality invites instructors to think about nuanced ways of employing technologies to engage students through both consumption and production of media in classrooms. Our assignment uses the modality of podcasts to encourage critical thinking and…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Audio Equipment, Information Dissemination, Internet
Violanti, Michelle T. – Communication Teacher, 2021
When we spend the first class period focusing on the syllabus and letting students leave early, we miss an opportunity to expose them to the course content. What happens to those who drop that day? By spending the first day illustrating expectancy violations theory, both instructors and students can explicate anticipated behaviors and use them to…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Course Content, Expectation, Classroom Communication
Lucas, Melissa A.; Anderson, Lindsey B.; Gray, Katlin – Communication Teacher, 2022
Incorporating civic engagement in the undergraduate curriculum has become a goal in higher education generally and the communication discipline specifically. Given this emerging priority, we offer a framework that integrates civic engagement in the communication classroom and meets students and instructors needs, experience, and goals. Drawing on…
Descriptors: Civics, Undergraduate Students, Communication (Thought Transfer), Social Problems
Huber, Aubrey A. – Communication Teacher, 2020
In this semester-long activity, I describe how to create a collaborative cabinet of curiosities that engages critical methods of inquiry as an alternative summative assignment. Courses: Communication Pedagogy, Gender and Communication, Performance Studies. Objective: The objective of this assignment is for students to identify and analyze how…
Descriptors: Communications, Teaching Methods, Cooperative Learning, Critical Thinking
Zoffel, Nicholas Alexis – Communication Teacher, 2010
This article describes an activity in which teachers and students use music in the form of a "Mix-tape" to relate communication theory to students' lived experiences. When students identify and use their own familiar popular culture texts to explain concepts and identify relationships, they do so in ways that the course textbook cannot. This…
Descriptors: Popular Culture, Course Content, Music, Communication (Thought Transfer)
McBride, M. Chad – Communication Teacher, 2006
Group cohesiveness is a topic addressed in most small group communication texts and courses and is often defined as the degree of attraction members feel towards one another, the degree of loyalty within a group, or the "groupness" felt among members. Further, groups which are cohesive tend to be happier and more productive. When working on…
Descriptors: Assignments, Group Unity, Ethics, Group Dynamics
Walls, Celeste M. – Communication Teacher, 2005
According to Corman (1995), theory and practice are two sides of the same coin. Each is essential for effective function in organizational contexts and effective teaching in organizational communication courses. However, the classroom experience can benefit from increased efforts to provide students with activities that allow them to apply theory…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Organizational Communication, Learning Activities, Theory Practice Relationship