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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...
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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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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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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,...
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A More Beautiful Question: How Can We Teach Kids to Question?
This article discusses how to guide students in developing good questions, improving them, prioritizing their questions, acting on them, and reflecting on their learning. The writer is the author of books on questioning skills. Includes...
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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 Communications: The Importance of Audience Analysis
This lesson focuses on analyzing your audience including the benefits of understanding your audience, what to look for, how to identify with your audience, and tips for the speaker.
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Contextual Factors to Consider
This lesson focuses on contextual factors to consider when analyzing your audience including physical contexts, values, beliefs, attitudes, and needs, audience opinion of you and your topic, and audience knowledge of your topic.
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Adapting to Your Audience
This instructional activity focuses on adapting your speech to your audience including analyzing your audience using direct observation, interviews, surveys, or Likert rating scales and then apply knowledge about the audience to adjust...
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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 plan 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: 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...
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Finding and Selecting a Topic
This lesson focuses on selecting a speech topic including the importance of choosing a good topic by considering your areas of expertise and areas of interest, brainstorming, tips for choosing a topic, and narrowing the topic to fit the...
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Gathering Evidence: An Overview
This lesson focuses on the importance of gathering information that provides evidence for your topic that is credible, current, and relevant. It also discusses how to find and evaluate sources. SL.9-10.1a Prepared/Discuss
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Introduction to Persuasive Speaking
This lesson focuses on persuasive speaking including identifying the qualities, components, goals, and ethics of persuasive speaking.
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Types of Persuasive Speeches
This lesson focuses on three basic types of persuasive speeches: fact, value, and policy and information about each. It also provides questions you should ask yourself when analyzing a speech.
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Getting the Most Out of a Persuasive Speech
This activity focuses on presenting a good persuasive speech. It discusses the selective exposure theory, kinds of appeals, and expectations.
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Evidentiary Appeals
This instructional activity 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: Logical Appeals
This lesson plan focuses on using logical appeals in persuasive speeches including inductive and deductive reasoning, inductive reasoning and associative reasoning, forming a rational appeal, and errors in reasoning-formal and informal.
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Principles of Organization
This lesson focuses on the importance of organizing your speech including critically thinking about the contents of the speech, the components of the speech, the patterns of organization to fit the different types of speeches, and...
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Main Points
This lesson focuses on choosing the main points of your speech based on your audience and purpose. It also discusses ordering and highlighting your main points using visual and textual cues and using a variety of examples.
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Conclusion
This lesson focuses on writing the conclusion of your speech including the role of the conclusion, summarizing ideas, signaling the end, and managing Q&A.
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Lumen: Boundless Communications: Speaking in the Real World
This lesson plan 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 instructional activity focuses on interacting with your audience when delivering a presentation including direct questions and answers and body language.