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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Learning How to Speak Publicly
This site provides a variety of ways for people learn how to speak publicly and the best practices in preparing and presenting speeches. SL.9-10.4 Presentation
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Lumen: Boundless Communication: What You Can Accomplish With Public Speaking
This lesson lists and discusses the benefits of public speaking including personal satisfaction, critical thinking, career advancement, social connections, and influence the world around you.
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Elements of Speech Communication
This lesson discusses the elements of speech communication including the speaker, message, types of channels, audience, and feedback.
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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: Barriers to Listening
This lesson plan focuses on barriers to listening including cultural differences, gender, and technological distractions.
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Helping Your Audience Listen More
This lesson focuses on helping your audience listen better by offering strategies such as read feedback cues, employ strategies for maintaining audience focus, use strategies to maximize audience understanding, build credibility, and...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Facs: Communication
This lesson plan is to help students identify good listening and talking skills. The different kinds of communication are verbal, written, and non-verbal. Included in this lesson are activities for each type of communication.
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Understanding Language
This lesson focuses on understanding the language, both verbal and non-verbal, of your speech. It discusses the importance of language, word choice, purpose and audience, ways of thinking about language, venue and occasion, and delivery.
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Using Language Effectively
This lesson 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 and addressing...
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Speaking in the Real World
This lesson focuses on providing practical tips for speaking in a non-academic setting such as a wedding, charity event, or interview.
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Interaction in Public Speaking
This lesson focuses on interacting with your audience when delivering a presentation including direct questions and answers and body language.
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Managing Q&a
This lesson focuses on answering questions after or during an informative speech including how to prepare for Q&A by anticipating questions and practicing with a friend or colleague and methods of receiving and answering the questions.
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Ire: Investigative Reporters and Editors
This non-profit group was created in 1975 as a networking tool for the exchange of ideas and attitudes concerning the quality of investigative reporting for the media. Site is newsletter-style with up-to-date information.
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Self growth.com: Questioning Skills for Salespeople
The article deals with the difference between open-ended and closed questioning skills. Good questioning techniques can improve business.
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Lumen: Writing Skills: Audience Analysis
This lesson focuses on audience analysis and recognizing rhetorical approaches to building common ground. A practice activity is provided.
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Lumen: Multimodality: The Five Modes of Communication
This lesson focuses on the five modes of communication: visual, linguistic, spatial, aural, and gestural along with examples of each.
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Lumen: Examples of Multimodal Texts
This lesson focuses on providing examples of multimodal texts, those using more than one mode of communication in the same text.
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Working in Groups
A lesson on leadership styles and responsibilities of working in groups.
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: Intercultural Communication: Gestures
In this learning module, students will recognize common gestures and identify the meanings associated with those gestures.
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Wisc Online: Productive Meetings
In this lesson, students will identify the steps for preparing and facilitating a productive team meeting. The content easily transfers to various types of group discussions. SL.11-12.1b Group Rules
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Texas Gateway: Learning Skills for Interview and Group Discussion Communications
This lesson focuses on the skills needed for interviews and group discussions including taking notes, exploring a topic, and staying on topic. It also provides a link to a model interview. SL.11-12.6 Speaking tasks
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: The Importance of Audience Analysis
The first question you should ask yourself, before you begin crafting your speech, is this: "Who is my audience?" As you begin to answer this question for yourself, here are some key elements to consider as you begin to outline and...
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New Converstations: Seven Challenges Workbook: Communication Skills for Success
Extensive online tutorial from Cooperative Communication Skills on interpersonal communication, covering listening, conversational intent, expressing yourself clearly, asking questions, expressing appreciation, and incorporating better...
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Ncsall: Relationship Between Reading and Speaking
The interview discusses the relationship between reading and speaking.