Increasingly community colleges are challenged to improve the basic skills in reading, writing, speaking and listening their students need for success in the business world and for transfer to a senior college. One attempt to meet the challenge has been to incorporate more writing assignments into classrooms across all disciplines. Concurrent with the need to improve basic skills has been an increasing use of technology in the classroom. Greater use of the Internet for research, the use of email between students and teachers and the use of course sites to put all or part of a course online has been a growing trend. While many subjects might lend themselves to these approaches, communications courses are more problematic due to the inherent nature of the face-to-face interaction and emphasis on oral rather than written skills. In this article the author describes how she combines the Writing Across the Curriculum initiative and the use of technology to support writing in teaching a public speaking course at a community college. Results of a student survey are included as well.