Lumen Learning
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
Lumen Learning
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...
TES Global
Blendspace: Effective Communication
A learning module with links to texts, images, and videos on how to communicate effectively.
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...
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.
United Nations
United Nations Cyberschoolbus: Fighting Disease
The United Nations has distributed this list to make school age children aware of the communicable diseases that have most recently had an effect on society. Good descriptions are provided for each of the 11 diseases.
Other
Elated Communications: Paint Shop Pro Tutorials
This tutorial shows how to get the best out of JASC's excellent budget image editor. Whatever your level of experience with Paint Shop Pro, you'll learn lots of cool techniques for producing great Web graphics!
Smithsonian Institution
National Portrait Gallery: Ballyhoo! Posters as Portraiture
Visit an example-rich exploration of poster art and learn how famous faces have been used to convey meanings and messages across the decades. An excellent resource for discovering how art can be a window into a particular time, Ballyhoo!...
New York Times
New York Times: Baghdad's Survivors
This interactive resource communicates the catastrophic effect that the war in Iraq has had on the Iraqi civilian population. It gives first person accounts that are translated for ease of following along with the audio. (23 July 2006)
Other
Nabj: National Association of Black Journalists
From the largest media organization for people of color, this imaginative site is graphically clever with content to support it. Interesting reading for all journalists, as well as a great teaching tool for anyone interested in effective...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Democracy in America: Understanding Media: The Inside Story
This unit highlights the integral role that the media plays in American politics to communicate between the leaders and the public. Offers video, readings, web resources, and activities.
Other
Rand: Toward an Ethics and Etiquette for E Mail
Report published in 1985 by NSF and RAND dealing with electronic mail and message systems and the issues related to use of e-mail. The report also presents a set of guidelines for effective use.
Other
Sprk: Sphero Bridge Stem Challenge [Pdf]
SPRK STEM challenges are fun, interactive activities that challenge students to use creativity and team-work to move through simple steps of the design process in order to build Sphero-based creations. In this challenge students will...
Other
Nsf International: Nsf Scrub Club
Keep yourself clean, kill bacteria, and stay healthy all year long by washing your hands (and under your fingernails) with warm soapy water. Play the "6 Steps Game" to learn how to properly clean your hands, meet the "villains" that...
Other
University of Nebraska at Omaha: Brains Rule! Games: Ecstasy Invaders
Go on a mission inside a nerve cell to find out about how neurons produce and release neurotransmitters to communicate with other neurons. Learn what happens to these brain chemicals when the drug ecstasy interrupts the process.
Other
Discovery of Sound in the Sea
Discover how animals use sound to communicate. Provides links to the uses of sound, effects of sound as well as sound production and reception.
Georgia State University
Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Sound Level Measurement
Home page for a hypertext physics course. Users can access subjects ranging from the sound wave parameters that effect hearing and communication to OSHA worplace standards.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Cross Cultural Communication Strategies
The keys to effective cross-cultural communication is discussed. Examples are given.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Application Student Selected Task: Prepare for a Discussion
Practice adhering to the discussion norms to prepare for a discussion. This will help students participate more effectively in the discussion.
Read Works
Read Works: Look Who's Talking
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about how elephants communicate with each other. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in cause and effect.
Other
Synergy Publishing: Listening: The Silent Side of Communication
Five steps to improving listening skills so that you understand what someone is trying to communicate to you and respond effectively.
University of Houston
University of Houston: Engines of Our Ingenuity: No. 435: Hedy Lamarr, Inventor
Read about the remarkable actress Hedy Lamarr who, together with composer George Antheil, invented a technology that used frequency hopping to improve the effectiveness of Allied torpedoes during WWII. Their invention was not put into...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: The Frontiers Decade: Medical Decade
Explore the challenges of communicating without speaking or moving by creating a communications board from plastic alphabet letters. Explore speech synthesis files for people with communication disabilities.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Fact Sheet for El Nino
This site from the Univ. Corp. for Atmospheric Research provides detailed information on El Nino and its effects on the trade winds is offered at this site, with satellite photos.