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Debate Across the Curriculum: A Case Study
Get PDFIn this essay, the author promotes the intersection of debate and communication centers as a way to enhance the development of oral communication competency skills for students in the classroom.
Rudolf Laban's Dream: Re-envisioning and Rescoring Ballet, Choreutics, and Simple Functional Movements with Vector Signs for Deflecting Diagonal Inclinations
Get PDFSeveral methods of movement notation, forerunners of modern-day Labanotation/Kinetography were published by Rudolf Laban in his 1926 book Choreographie. One of these has been referred to as vector signs because they represent movement as orientations (slopes) of lines through space. This article begins by comparing Labanotation direction symbols with Laban's earlier vector signs by looking at differences when simple sequences are scored in both formats. Concepts of space within the vector signs are examined, particularly Laban's idea of deflecting inclinations where movements are categorized as mixtures of two fundamental contrasting spatial and dynamic tendencies: dimensional stability and diagonal mobility. This framework was embedded in several of Laban's notation methods, with the vector signs receiving the most use. Following Laban's method, these signs are applied to re-envision ballet movements, and this is augmented by using the center-of-mass of any limb or coordinative structure as the guide for movement pathways, an approach with ecological validity and promoting greater connectivity. The vector signs are further explored in free-style motifs of simple functional movements. Considerations are then given to how vector signs can be used to envision Laban's choreutics as deflecting diagonal motions, an alternative to the point-to-point method that is often used. Finally, Laban's persistent desire that movement is notated as motion (rather than positions) is highlighted, a wish remaining an old dream. An appendix is provided as a tutorial on reading vector signs, including several possible translations of each sign into Labanotation direction symbols
On Brand: Communication Center Tutors as Social Media Content Creators
Get PDFBecause social media is a significant factor in how students and faculty in higher education engage with the world, it is important for communication centers to consider this medium as a method to meet those audiences where they are. While there are challenges to creating a social media presence, this article argues that engaging your tutors in both developing your communication center’s branding strategy and as content creators will help you address those challenges. Building your communication center’s social media presence offers you not just an avenue to communicate the core values of your center to your institution, it is also an opportunity to develop your tutoring staff’s intellectual engagement and enhance their professionalization.
Fostering the Art of Scientific Communication in the Center
Get PDFOur research asks how communication centers can assist advanced graduate students in the sciences to foster the art of developing scientific presentations for expert, non-expert, and generalist audiences. In a sustained collaboration supported by a national grant, the communication center at a mid-sized public comprehensive regional university in the Southeastern United States has facilitated a series of workshops for select graduate fellows in the sciences in recent years. In each of these workshops, we focus heavily on audience adaptation, thus creating a vibrant conversation between the disciplines of Communication Studies and the sciences. This research project collects data from workshops held in 2017 and 2018. Via a co-constructed narrative, we examine the notion of audience from the perspective of the research participants as well as administrators and graduate students who facilitated the workshops.
Aristotle’s Rhetoric: How it Plays into Effect between Managers and Consultants at a University Speaking Center
Get PDFThis paper looks at a mid-size state university’s speaking center. At this speaking center, managing peers oversee consultants for hour-long shifts, and those who work together during these hour-long shifts are referred to as shift families.
Roles of Communication Centers in Communicating Science: A Multi-Disciplinary Forum
Get PDFThis multi-disclipinary forum addresses how Communication Centers bridge the gaps between scientists and their public constituents, provides ways to teach scientific communication from the voice of a scientist, and invokng the perspective of science and technology studies, a reflection on how to bridge epistemological divides that often lead to confrontational relationships between scientists and non-scientists is offered
The impact of new collaborative learning spaces on tertiary teacher practice
Get PDFInstitutions may invest heavily into building and equipping new learning teaching spaces with the intention of encouraging active and collaborative learning to occur. However, there may not be a concomitant shift in teachers’ existing pedagogical practices. This qualitative study examined the perspectives of thirty-two tertiary teachers across a range of disciplines at a single institution. The findings suggest that working in new collaborative learning spaces challenged many participants to make changes to their existing practices that moved them along a possible continuum to be more facilitative and learner-centered in their approach
A Humble Grassroots Organization and the Appreciative Advising Approach
Get PDFWhen a small group of dedicated student support professionals collaborate, learn and celebrate together, students and professionals can benefit. This article demonstrates how the phases of Appreciative Advising were used to create and operate a campus association for advising professionals. In this article we delve into how each of the tenets of Appreciative Advising helped shape a NACADA affiliated grassroots group on a small non-flagship urban serving campus
Appreciative Active Learning
Get PDFAppreciative Active Learning incorporates the pedagogy of visible thinking with the tenets of Appreciative Advising to enrich active learning strategies. The relevance of active learning, Appreciative Advising, and visible thinking are discussed before an example offers a guide for an Appreciative Active Learning strategy. A framework is then provided for a facilitator to Appreciatively implement any active learning strategy
