Cover: Communication in the Classroom: A Collection of GIFTS, 1st Edition by John Seiter; Jennifer Peeples; Matthew Sanders

Communication in the Classroom: A Collection of GIFTS

First  Edition ©2018

John Seiter; Jennifer Peeples; Matthew Sanders

ISBN:9781319109257

About

Student engagement is key to teaching communication, and no one understands that better than teachers. For years, the National Communication Association and other conferences have invited instructors to share their ideas for classroom activities that drive home key concepts in a variety of communication courses. In Communication in the Classroom, editors, John Seiter, Jennifer Peebles, and Matthew Sanders, have collected and chosen the best 100+ of these Great Ideas for Teaching Students, or "GIFTS," in one book. All of these activities, for courses ranging from public speaking, interpersonal communication, and group communication, to mass communication, health communication, rhetoric, and more, have been submitted by real communication instructors who have tested and perfected them in real classrooms. Each activity includes a detailed explanation and debrief, drawing on the instructors’ experiences. This is an invaluable resource for anyone teaching a communication course who is looking for new ideas to spice up their course and engage students.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Great Ideas for Teaching Students: An Orientation

John S. Seiter, Jennifer Peeples, Matthew L. Sanders

 

Part I: Public Speaking

Audience Analysis and Adaptation

1. Creating Community Time Capsules: A Creative Approach to Analyzing Audiences

Lisa K. Hanasono

2. "I Totally Missed That!" Using Twitter to Teach Critical Listening

Megan M. Wood

3. Argument Framing Based on Audience Disposition

Katie L. Turkiewicz

4. Middle School Service-Learning Informative Speech

Joshua F. Hoops

5. Analyzing Diverse Audiences to Recruit Students to Your College

Nathan G. Webb

6. Myers-Briggs Communication Exercise

Patrick Breslin

7. Take a Stand for Persuasion: Teaching Audience Analysis for Persuasion and Beyond

Jenny Tatsak

Apprehension/Anxiety

8. Worst Case Scenario: Public Speaking Edition

Laura Beth Daws

9. What Do You Prefer? Understanding Communication Anxiety

Andrea L. Meluch

10. Ten Second Stand-Up or Scribble: Build Community and Reduce Communication Apprehension

Rachel C. Murdock

11. Even Dwight Schrute Suffers from Public Speaking Anxiety

Kelly Soczka Steidinger

Arrangement

12. An Organizational Pattern for Narrative-based Ceremonial Speeches

Eddie Glenn

13. Apples to Apples: Connecting Disconnected Ideas

Nicholas T. Tatum, Anna-Carrie Beck

14. Transitioning from Essay Writing to Speechwriting: Using Post-It Notes for Invention

Susan M. Ward

15. Talk Story: Developing Thematic Narratives

Rose Helens-Hart

16. Hot Potato Extreme: An Exercise to Enhance Presentations, Problem Solving and Personal Relationships

Colleen Packer

Persuasion

17. Can They Survive the Shark Tank? Identifying and Evaluating Monroe’s

Motivated Sequence in Persuasive Appeals

Sarah VanSlette

18. John Oliver’s Long Rants: Teaching the Modes of Persuasion in an Online Public Speaking Class

George F. (Guy) McHendry, Jr., Erika L. Kirby, James L. Leighter

19. Shark Tank: Connecting Ingenuity, Interpersonal Influence, and the Entrepreneurial Spirit in Communication Classes

Lisa K. Hanasono

Delivery and Style

20. From Politics to Zombie Survival: Teaching Gestures in Presentational Speaking

Erin F. Doss

21. Acting Out: An Interactive Activity for Reducing Ineffective Public Speaking Behaviors

Narissra Maria Punyanunt-Carter, Vladimir Santiago Arias

22. Animation and Attention Exercise: Helping Your Students to Become More Dynamic Speakers

Carole Bennett

23. Stylish Speech Day: A Fun way to Learn Schemes and Tropes

Lorelle B. Jabs

24. Seussically Speaking: An Elocution Activity

Stephanie Kelly

25. Knowing Jack: Comprehending Stylistic Choices

Vanessa A. Condon, Joshua N. Westwick

26. Historic Speech Assignment

Jacob Metz

Visual Aids

27. Stop Talking to PowerPoint!

Tara M. Franks

28. See What I Mean: An Applied Approach to Teaching about Visual Aids

Mary K. High

29. Your Life in 100 Words or Less: A PowerPoint Activity for the Basic Course

Tim Rumbough

Speech Contexts

30. Building Informers through Team-Teaching

Katherine Beich-Forkner

31. Gizmos and Gadgets: A Small Group Impromptu Public Speaking Experience

Harriet Sharlow Benavidez

 

Part II: Interpersonal Communication

Models, Concepts and Theories

32. Adapting the "A-B-Scene" to Communication Classrooms: An Exercise for

Understanding the Role of Context, Empathy, Perceptions, and Message Dimensions

Christian R. Seiter, John S. Seiter

33. Alex and Sarah: Experiencing Emotions through Role-Playing

Mark D. Cruea

34. Alternatives to Self-Disclosure Activity

Deborah Chasteen

35. The Interpersonal Communication Playlist

Mary Vaughn

36. Teaching the Communication Process with a Grab Bag

Jennifer B. Gray

37. Defining Communication with Legos: Building an Understanding of the Constructivist Approach

Lindy Grief Davidson

38. "Do you remember that time when…?": Modeling StoryCorps Interviews to Teach Family Storytelling

Kristina A. Wenzel Egan

39. One Truth and Two Lies: A Game That Reinforces Narrative Paradigm

Yifeng Hu

40. Barbie, Lego, and Playdough: Exploring Communication Theory Through Childhood Experiences

Nancy Bressler

41. Did You Just See That? Using Critical Communication Pedagogy

and Observation to Teach about Identify and Social Norms.

Kristina Ruiz-Mesa

Perception

42. Do Clothes Make the Student? Makeover Day Selfie Project

Terri Toles Patkin

43. "I am…": An Exercise in Self-Concept

Deleasa Randall-Griffiths

44. Music in the Communication Classroom: Using Music to Teach about Stereotypes and Expectations

William Mullen, Faith Mullen

45. Experiential Learning and Perception: Cutting through the Assumptions

(The Knife Exercise)

Lou Davidson Tillson, Marilyn D. Hunt

46. How Do You See Me? Understanding the Perception Process

Mark D. Cruea

47. The Shopping List: An Exercise in Perception and Symbolic Interactionism

Laura A. O’Connell

Verbal and Nonverbal Communication

48. "Tell Me a Little About Yourself": Nonverbal Communication and Interviewing

Jennifer Peeples, Matthew L. Sanders, John S. Seiter

49. Screaming for Your Attention without Saying a Word: Finding Nonverbal Immediacy Cues in an Episode of "The Bachelor"

John R Katsion

50. Mark My Words: Using Etymology to Understand Words and Phrases

Nakia Welch

51. The Nonverbal Scavenger Hunt: Active Application of Concepts as They Occur!

Nakia Welch

52. Explosion of Meaning: The Complexity of Context and Language

Daniel Overton

53. Increasing our Understanding of Gendered Nonverbal Communication

Rita Daniels

Communication Competence

54. Crafting Competent Messages

Katie L. Turkiewicz

55. Writing for Dear Abby: Analyzing Issues and Constructing Advice using Interpersonal Communication Concepts

Holly J. Payne

56. "Will you date me?" Understanding the Importance and Application of Audience Analysis

Mary Beth Asbury, Nathan G. Webb

57. Perspective Taking: Communicating Multiple Perspectives in Mental Health, Multiple Disciplines

Jennifer B. Gray, Neal D. Gray

Conflict Management

58. Going Green Dispute: A Role Play in Mediating Others’ Perceptions and Potential Biases in a Conflict

Kathleen M. Propp

59. Who Gets the Office? Creating Conscious Approaches to Conflict

Katherine Hampsten

 

Part III: Intercultural Communication

60. The Sights and Sounds of Rapport-Building Across Cultures: Intercultural Interaction Analysis in The Last King of Scotland

Lauren Mackenzie

61. Exploring the Relationship between Multiple Identities and Communication Through a Classroom Art Gala

Tara J. Schuwerk

62. Using The Hunger Games to Teach Intercultural Communication

Karen McGrath

63. Melting Pot or Garden Salad: Draw a Metaphor

Jacqueline Barker

64. Why Are All the International Students Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? Teaching About Cultural Adaptation through Community Engagement

Paula Hentz, Jelena Petrovic

Part IV: Group and Organizational Communication

65. NBC’s "The Office" and Working with New Employees: A Lesson in Organizational Socialization.

Kyle B. Heuett

66. Convergence in the Classroom: A Speedstorming Approach to Group Formation for Projects and Presentations

Stacy E. Hoehl

67. Case Study of Personal Group Work Interaction for Online Courses

Sarah E. Wilder

68. Teaching Small Group Decision Making Through The Walking Dead

Nathan G. Webb

69. Developing a Team Contract as a Means of to Understand, Apply, and Reify Small Group Communication Concepts

Nicole A. Ploeger-Lyons

70. Sources of Power and the Impact on a Small Group: An Activity to Help Students Experience the Impacts and Effects of Power and Power Imbalances

John R Katsion

71. ‘Is that Work Related?’ The Implications of Staying Connected through Technology at Work

Jeremy P. Fyke

72. Skunkworks! Using Unconventional Paper Airplanes to Teach

the Communication of Technical Information and Procedural Instructions.

Kurtis D. Miller, Marcy Lendaro

73. Identifying Organizational Values for Customized Career Communication

Rose Helens-Hart

 

Part V: Ethics and Citizenship

74. Goal Directed Graffiti: Using Chalk Quotes for Critical Thinking about Free Expression

Terri Toles Patkin

75. Ethical Reasoning in Action: Using 8 Key Questions to Facilitate Group Decision-Making

Timothy C. Ball

76. Using Jon Stewart’s Appearance on Crossfire to Teach Students about

(In)Civility and the Elaboration Likelihood Model

Angela M. McGowan

77. Communication, Choices, and Consequences: Patrice’s Problem or a Case in Organizational Communication Ethics

W. Thomas Duncanson

78. The Ethical Speaker: A Discussion of Ethical Concerns Facing the Public Speaker

Rita Rosenthal

79. Smoke and Mirrors?: Using Thank You for Smoking to Teach Persuasion and Ethics

Jennifer B. Gray

 

Part VI: Rhetoric

80. Dinner and Movie: Introducing Students to Rhetorical Criticism

Christopher M. Duerringer

81. Teaching Narrative, Identification, and Criticism

Christopher J. Oldenburg

82. Teaching the Value of Narratives in Speeches Through Analysis of Presidential Campaign Discourse

Kevin T. Jones

83. Selling Guilt: Using Kenneth Burke to Teach Critical Readings of Advertising

C. Wesley Buerkle

84. Social Justice on Ice: Lessons from The Sporting News about the Rhetoric of Victimage

Alena Amato Ruggerio

 

Part VII: Persuasion, Argumentation, and Advocacy

85. Whatchamacallit: An Exercise for Understanding the Power of Symbols

John S. Seiter, Jennifer Peeples, Matthew L. Sanders

86. Not Sold In Stores! Using Infomercials to Teach Persuasion Theory

Brett Lunceford

87. The Law & Order of Using Effective Sources to Build an Argument

Mary Beth Asbury, Virginia B. Jones

88. Apples to Apples with a Twist: Practice for Constructing a More Effective Argument

Lindsay Harroff, Cassandra C. Bird

 

Part VIII: Mass Communication and Media

89. Teaching Students to Become Curators of Ideas: An Exercise in Applied New Media Literacy

Corinne Weisgerber

90. Learning Fundamentals of Public Relations via WordPress

Regina Luttrell

91. Is it Really JUST Twitter!?: Agenda Setting in Social Media

T. Kody Frey, Nicholas T. Tatum, Anna-Carrie Beck

92. The Narrative Machine: Constructing Narratives and Deconstructing Ideology

Scott M. Walus

93. On the Go: Reporter Updates in the Field with Videolicious

Jennifer Ware, Carie Cunningham

 

Part IX: Research Methods

94. Five Star Ratings: Using Funny Amazon Product Reviews to Teach Students about Validity and Reliability

Lisa K. Hanasono

95. Conversation Analysis Using StoryCorps Dialogue

Lance Brendan Young

96. Which Super Power Should Students Have? Using Buzzfeed to Teach Students How to (Re)Design Surveys

Lisa K. Hanasono

 

Part X: Health Communication

97. Evaluating Health Campaign Websites: A Focus Group Exercise

Patrick J. Dillon

98. Voice in Healthcare Interactions: Burke, Agency, and Student Experiences

Erin F. Doss

99. Using Videos Wit and Ed Story: The Dragon Chronicles To Teach Health Communication Concepts

Deleasa Randall-Griffiths

 

Appendix: Teaching Resources

100. Five Minutes of Fame: Educating Others about Communication

Theories beyond the Classroom

Lisa K. Hanasono

101. Inviting TED to Your Class: How to Use TED Talks to Teach Public Speaking Courses

Nathan G. Webb

102. I Saw It in the Movies: Using AmericanRhetoric.com to Teach Core Concepts

Trudy L. Hanson

103. Designated Reader in Online Discussions: An activity to teach about listening as a skill and as a concept

Natalia Rybas

104. Poem, Picture, Prop: Student Engagement with Style

Stacy E. Hoehl

105. Engaging Student-Driven Metaphors to Extend Understanding of Course Concepts

Linda D. Manning

John Seiter

John Seiter earned his Ph.D. from the University of Southern California. He is a professor at Utah State University, where he was previously named the university’s Teacher of the Year. With Robert Gass, he coauthored the textbook Persuasion, Social Influence, and Compliance Gaining. His research, which has received eight national awards, focuses on a variety of topics, including deception detection, political aggression, and hospitality. In his spare time, he enjoys writing, travelling, stumbling through streams with a fly fishing rod, playing games, watching films, and eating Nutrageous candy bars.

Jennifer Peeples

Jennifer Peeples is an award winning teacher, twice nominated for the US Professor of the Year Award from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching by Utah State University (2014, 2015) in addition to departmental and college teaching awards. She is also a Fellow for the Association of American Colleges & Universities Faculty Collaboratives program. In addition, she has presented on classroom innovation for the AAC&U Student Success and the Quality Agenda conference and for the “What is an Educated Person?” conference for the Utah System of Higher Education. At Utah State, she teaches interpersonal communication, conflict management, and courses dedicated to the rhetorical analysis of written, visual, and environmental discourses.

Matthew L. Sanders

Matthew L. Sanders is an Associate Professor of communication studies at Utah State University. He holds a Ph.D. in communication from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Matt conducts research in the areas of nonprofit organizations and student empowerment and his work has been published in academic journals in communication, business, and public administration. He is the author of the book Becoming a Learner: Realizing the Opportunity of Education, which is used in First Year Experience programs at several universities. Awards recognizing his work with students include being named Teacher of the Year for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (2010) at Utah State University; Undergraduate Research Mentor of the Year for the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (2013) at Utah State University; Certificate of Merit – Outstanding New Faculty Advisor (2011) for the National Academic Advising Association; and the Graduate Teaching Impact Award for the Department of Communication (2008) at the University of Colorado at Boulder.