Communication in the Classroom: A Collection of GIFTS

Collecting over 100 activities from communication instructors, Communication in the Classroom: A Collection of GIFTS, aides teachers in courses ranging from public speaking, interpersonal communication, and group communication, to mass communication, health communication, rhetoric, and more looking to enhance student engagement.

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.

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.

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.

Introduction

Great Ideas for Teaching Students: An Orientation

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

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

3. Argument Framing Based on Audience Disposition

4. Middle School Service-Learning Informative Speech

5. Analyzing Diverse Audiences to Recruit Students to Your College

6. Myers-Briggs Communication Exercise

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

8. Worst Case Scenario: Public Speaking Edition

9. What Do You Prefer? Understanding Communication Anxiety

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

11. Even Dwight Schrute Suffers from Public Speaking Anxiety

12. An Organizational Pattern for Narrative-based Ceremonial Speeches

13. Apples to Apples: Connecting Disconnected Ideas

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

15. Talk Story: Developing Thematic Narratives

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

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

Motivated Sequence in Persuasive Appeals

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

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

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

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

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

24. Seussically Speaking: An Elocution Activity

25. Knowing Jack: Comprehending Stylistic Choices

26. Historic Speech Assignment

27. Stop Talking to PowerPoint!

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

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

Tim Rumbough

30. Building Informers through Team-Teaching

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

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

34. Alternatives to Self-Disclosure Activity

35. The Interpersonal Communication Playlist

36. Teaching the Communication Process with a Grab Bag

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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"

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

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

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

53. Increasing our Understanding of Gendered Nonverbal Communication

54. Crafting Competent Messages

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

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

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

Jennifer B. Gray, Neal D. Gray

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

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

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

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

62. Using The Hunger Games to Teach Intercultural Communication

63. Melting Pot or Garden Salad: Draw a Metaphor

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

Part IV: Group and Organizational Communication

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

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

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

68. Teaching Small Group Decision Making Through The Walking Dead

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

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

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

72. Skunkworks! Using Unconventional Paper Airplanes to Teach

the Communication of Technical Information and Procedural Instructions.

73. Identifying Organizational Values for Customized Career Communication

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

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

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

(In)Civility and the Elaboration Likelihood Model

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

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

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

80. Dinner and Movie: Introducing Students to Rhetorical Criticism

81. Teaching Narrative, Identification, and Criticism

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

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

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

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

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

90. Learning Fundamentals of Public Relations via WordPress

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

92. The Narrative Machine: Constructing Narratives and Deconstructing Ideology

Scott M. Walus

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

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

95. Conversation Analysis Using StoryCorps Dialogue

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

97. Evaluating Health Campaign Websites: A Focus Group Exercise

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

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

100. Five Minutes of Fame: Educating Others about Communication

Theories beyond the Classroom

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

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

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

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

Stacy E. Hoehl

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

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