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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Effective Visual Delivery
This lesson focuses on effective visual delivery including appropriate dress and open posture, eye contact and facial expressions, body movements and gestures, and effective visual aids.
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Using Language Effectively
This instructional activity focuses on using language effectively in your speech including using clear words and phrases, defining key terms, writing descriptively, using vivid language, considering your style and tone, and determining...
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Effective Informative Speaking
This lesson focuses on how to present an effective informative speech including keeping in mind the goals, scope, audience, and connections to the speech.
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Deploying Style Effectively
This instructional activity focuses on rhetorical devices and how to use them effectively in public speaking. These include alliteration, antithesis, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, personification, repetition and parallelism, and simile and...
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Understanding Listening
This lesson focuses on understanding listening including defining active listening, the five stages of the listening process, listening and critical thinking, and the four main barriers to effective listening.
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Evidentiary Appeals
This lesson focuses on the use of evidentiary appeals in persuasive speeches including definition, evaluating your evidence, and strategies for using evidence effectively. Click on next at the bottom right to continue.
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Types of Sensory Enhancements
This lesson focuses on the types of sensory enhancements and how to effectively use them. SL.9-10.2 eval & integrate sources, SL.9-10.5 Audio Visuals
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Deploying Supporting Materials
This lesson focuses on supporting materials including types of supporting materials and how to effectively incorporate them into your presentation. W.9-10.2b Strong Support, W.11-12.2b Topic/support/aud
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Preparing Sensory Enhancements
This site provides four links to information about the effective use of sensory enhancements such as audio visual to your speeches. These include the do's of using sensory enhancements, the don'ts of using sensory enhancements, design...
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Conclusion
In this section of a textbook, students learn how to develop and facilitate an effective closing to a speech. It includes links to the following topics: the role of a conclusion, summarizing ideas, and signaling the end of the speech and...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Animation Basics: Homemade Special Effects
Animation is used everywhere to communicate big ideas-- in movies, television, and media. Do you ever stop and wonder about the magic of it all? And have you ever wanted to create your own special effects? TED-Ed animators show just how...
TES Global
Blendspace: Effective Communication
A learning module with links to texts, images, and videos on how to communicate effectively.
Stanford University
Stanford University: Failure to Communicate
This article from Stanford University outlines the oral communications course from Stanford. The article discusses the need for teaching oral communications.
Other
Cyber Talk/about Communications
Links to several articles on interpersonal communication. Titles include "Know Your Style of Communication,"Listening as a Communications Skill," "Acknowledgment when Talking and Communicating Skills," "Conversations and Attending when...
Mind Tools
Mind Tools: Improve Your Communications Skills
While the original audience for this site is the business community, the advice regarding communication skills is relevant for anyone, especially students who are preparing for the job market. Sections include tips on improving public...
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Sti Lesson 16: Barriers in Communications
From Robert Frost's 'Mending Wall' to Pink Floyd's 'The Wall,' humankind erects and maintains real and symbolic barriers to protect and defend opposing stances, beliefs and territories. Examples of real walls in history have been the...
Other
Inter Link: Achieving Effectiveness Through Team Communication
Article discusses how to achieve better team communication. Lists the components of team communication along with barriers to effective communication. Also provides a section on feedback. SL.9-10.1d Possitive Communication Stratagies,...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: The Habitable Planet: Disease Lab
Manipulate characteristics of fictional diseases and see how the changes effect a population. Simulator includes a data table available for download for student records.
Other
Dirksen Center: Resource: How to Communicate Effectively With Congress
Resource provides expert tips for reaching your Congress person. Describes the role of Congressmen and women and what they can and can't do for citizens. Site for students and others to better understand Congress.
Other
Advancing Women: Learning Effective Workplace Communications
Author provides simple but helpful guidance to start effective workplace communication. Advancing Women: Learning Effective Workplace Communications
Mind Tools
Mind Tools: Writing Effective Email
This resource has ten techniques to use when writing an effective business email message.
PBS
Pbs News Hour Extra: Tracking the Health Effects of Natural Disasters
Students examine the impact of natural disasters, such as flooding, on public health, and study diseases and other secondary conditions associated with stagnant water. Lesson includes resources for students to research epidemics and...
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Effective Vocal Delivery
This instructional activity focuses on the vocal delivery of a speech including volume, rate, pitch, pauses, and articulation and pronunciation.
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Barriers to Listening
This lesson focuses on barriers to listening including cultural differences, gender, and technological distractions.