ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Introducing Each Other: Interviews, Memoirs, Photos, Internet
This lesson plan is designed to teach various methods students can use when researching background information on one another in order to introduce each other in written and oral form.
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Center for Teaching Excellence: Activities to Engage Students [Pdf]
This resource gives numerous strategies to engage students in different types of collaborative discussion.
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Online News for Journalists
This is a well written, nicely designed site from the United Kingdom. With dozens of stories about journalists and journalism in the news, this world perspective makes for interesting reading. Updated daily. You can even sign up for its...
Mind Tools
Introducation to Communication Skills
This article reveals the purpose of communication: to get your message across to others. This may seem elementary, but the process that involves both the sender of the message and the receiver is complex and can lead to confusion and...
TES Global
Blendspace: Effective Communication
A learning module with links to texts, images, and videos on how to communicate effectively.
Leaf Group
E How: How to Write a Talking Points Paper
This article by Byron Walsh focuses on writing a talking points paper for a public speaker which consists of researched, accurate information provided in bulleted lists with follow up sentences on specific topics.
Biz Move
Biz Move: Overcoming Communication Barriers How to Overcome Noise in Communication
Discusses communication barriers, particularly in the work environment, and examines how to overcome them. Barriers discussed include noise, faulty feedback, poor media selection, mental barriers, poor word selection, time and space...
Biz Move
Biz Move: Master Your Non Verbal Communication Skills
This article dicusses many aspects of nonverbal communication - eye contact, facial expressions, distance, paralanguage, and more. This is a very good introduction to the subject.
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The International Press Institute
The International Press Institute describes itself as "a global network of journalists, editors and media executives, dedicated to freedom of the press and improving the standards and practises of journalism." To that end, this site...
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Workshop 2: Making Writing Meaningful
Workshop 2 demonstrates how teachers use authentic sources and topics to prompt students to write about things that matter to them, subjects that relate to their lives, relationships, and communities. The topic may be the students -...
Community Learning Network
Community Learning Network: Journalism Theme Page
This site from the Community Learning Network has great information on the art of journalism. The site is outlined by links for easy navigation and contains a rather exhaustive section on general resources. A great site to check out on...
College Grad
Job Hunter: The Nonverbal Interview Technique
This article discusses the non-verbal communications skills that need to be mastered in order to succeed in an interview.
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Ona: The Online News Association
With access virtually unrestricted, this site was created by journalists to help raise the standards of news reporting currently available via the Internet.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Note Taking Techniques
A five-slide presentation explaining techniques writers can use to take effective notes while gathering information for a research project. SL.9-10.1a Prepared/Discuss
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Workshop 1: Creating a Community of Writers
Workshop 1 explores the components of a community of writers and what teachers can do to create and foster such a community. After a brief introduction to the goals of all eight workshop sessions, middle school teacher and writing expert...
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The World Association of Newspapers
This huge global organization includes approximately 17,000 publications, associations and news agencies with representatives on all five continents. This well designed newsletter-style resource offers daily updates about news happening...
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University of Edinburgh: Conversation as Communication
At this site from the University of Edinburgh, the author claims that planning and control produce good communication. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.SL.1
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Negotiation Styles in Mediation
This article presents five styles or methods most often used by negotiators and methods of dealing with each.
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Vancouver Community Net: The Citizen's Handbook: Facilitating
Offers tips to help facilitate a meeting effectively. Provides several important suggestions along with examples and details.
Education Development Center
Tv411: Reading: Parts of a Newspaper
A series of three activities help readers become familiar with parts of a newspaper, from sections to headlines and captions.
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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,...
AdLit
Ad lit.org: Classroom Strategies: Paired Reading
The Paired Reading strategy encourages peer teaching and learning. Students are divided into pairs and read along together or take turns reading aloud to each other. Pairs can have the same reading ability or can include a more fluent...
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Active Listening
The site descibes what active listening is and provides some links for further study.
University of Houston
University of Houston: The Journalist's Desk
This site includes eleven brief newspaper stories. Students must identify the main idea of each short news story.