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Yifeng Hu – Communication Teacher, 2025
This assignment is integrated into the generative AI unit of the Emerging Communication Technologies course. It includes step-by-step designs and reflective examples from students, highlighting the evolution of their perceptions of generative AI. The assignment uniquely focuses on understanding and raising awareness of stereotypes present in…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Stereotypes, Communications, Student Attitudes
Evelina Jaleniauskiene; Kallia Katsampoxaki-Hodgetts – Communication Teacher, 2024
Students' engagement in multimodal remediation of learning material in the form of slideshow presentations dominates universities. Yet, diversification of learning artifacts through the creation of more diverse types of multimodal content is scarce. The current article therefore proposes an innovative project during which students summarize…
Descriptors: Multimedia Materials, Journal Articles, Research Methodology, Visual Aids
Taylor, Amanda Grace; Stump, Patrick – Communication Teacher, 2023
In most higher education institutions, course evaluations are conducted at the end of the term. While many instructors implement a feedback system such as a questionnaire or poll at the midterm point, we propose that having students use an arts-based representation (i.e. memes) for a feedback channel can help students and the course instructor to…
Descriptors: Art, Feedback (Response), Humor, Visual Aids
Christine M. Platt – Communication Teacher, 2024
In this activity, students will create a flag that symbolizes their perceived identity. Each student will create and use a legend to define their perceived meaning behind the selected elements and how they came to associate that meaning with their identity. Finally, they will share their flag, its associated legend, and what they learned by…
Descriptors: Self Concept, Class Activities, Visual Aids, Sense of Community
Anderson, Scott – Communication Teacher, 2022
Courses: Rhetorical Criticism, Communication Theory, Media Criticism. Objectives: This activity uses a diagram to help students visualize Kenneth Burke's theory of dramatism. Specifically, through an analysis of the film Hell or High Water, students learn to identify each stage of the guilt-purification-redemption cycle and gain insight into its…
Descriptors: Films, Undergraduate Study, Drama, Motivation
Mark A. Flynn – Communication Teacher, 2025
This activity prompts students to go beyond the often reductionist responses to new technologies (e.g. technological determinism) by creating a media literacy-focused infographic about the role, uses, ethical concerns, and/or impact of generative AI (e.g. ChatGPT). Sample topics have included the role of AI in specific industries (e.g. film,…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, Media Literacy, Visual Aids
Jonathan W. Camp; Heather Johnson – Communication Teacher, 2025
This paper introduces generative AI for the graphic design of student presentation aids in a university public-speaking classroom. Students learn to use generative AI as an efficient enhancement to the creative process while preserving the integrity of the content. Students' slide presentations show improvement resulting from the activity, and…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Technology Uses in Education, Public Speaking, Computer Software
Scott, Amber Lynn – Communication Teacher, 2023
Analysis of political and visual arguments is a key exercise traditionally included in undergraduate argumentation courses. This activity teaches students how to identify and analyze political candidate arguments presented on visual social media platforms, demonstrating how argumentation theory applies to social media campaigns. In the exercise,…
Descriptors: Politics, Social Media, Teaching Methods, Political Attitudes
Hintz, Elizabeth A.; Huber, Aubrey A. – Communication Teacher, 2020
This activity extends the rich pedagogical scholarship on impromptu speaking by integrating visual imagery into the impromptu speaking exercise. The goal of this semester-long series of exercises is to provide students with the opportunity to apply effective delivery skills across general purposes of speaking, receive feedback, and thus develop…
Descriptors: Public Speaking, Undergraduate Students, Speech Communication, Anxiety
Helens-Hart, Rose; Carlson, Gordon – Communication Teacher, 2022
Impromptu speaking is a typical exercise in communication-focused courses. This format is often used to practice reducing or assess speaking anxiety, getting to know one another, and delivering project updates and ceremonial remarks. For students to practice their skills in quick thinking and speech preparation, instructors commonly have students…
Descriptors: Communications, Anxiety, Teaching Methods, Public Speaking
Durrani, Sameera – Communication Teacher, 2021
Courses: Visual Rhetoric, Visual Communication, Multiplatform Journalism, Advertising, Journalism, Public Relations. Objective: This unit activity requires that students analyze and produce imagery with the help of semiotic theory. Students will: (1) learn to connect theory with practice holistically by simultaneously practicing visual analysis…
Descriptors: Semiotics, Units of Study, Imagery, Teaching Methods
Paul, Aditi – Communication Teacher, 2020
Courses: Interpersonal Communication, Introduction to Communication. Objectives: Students will be able to explain complex theoretical concepts in interpersonal communication through the use of Internet memes. They will then upload these memes to a communal Instagram page where they will be able to review each other's work, thus building a learning…
Descriptors: Visual Aids, Internet, Interpersonal Communication, Formative Evaluation
Waisanen, Don – Communication Teacher, 2018
Courses: Public speaking; communication courses requiring speeches. Objective: Students will learn how to apply humor principles to speeches through a slideshow method supportive of this goal, and to become more discerning about the possibilities and pitfalls of humorous communication.
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Humor, Public Speaking, Communication Skills
Kibsey, Talia – Communication Teacher, 2022
Online activism is a space of opportunity for students to encounter social justice issues, explore the possibilities of visual rhetoric, practice persuasive speaking skills, and actively contribute to the momentum of social movements. At the same time, digital activism raises concerns about "slacktivism," limiting the necessary…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Public Speaking, Persuasive Discourse, Advocacy
Yang, Yiyi – Communication Teacher, 2020
Courses: Undergraduate courses in interpersonal communication, nonverbal communication, relational communication, computer-mediated communication (CMC), and intercultural communication, as well as basic communication courses. Objectives: The purpose of this activity is twofold: (1) to demonstrate how nonverbal communication shapes content and…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Visual Aids, Computer Mediated Communication, Intercultural Communication