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Rethinking Our Approach To The Basic Course: Making Ethics The Foundation Of Introduction To Public Speaking, Jon. A. Hess

Basic Communication Course Annual

The basic public speaking course is often taught from a standpoint of effectiveness. That approach can be problematic due to the dangers of technique. The use of ethics as a foundation for public speaking can overcome this drawback and has other advantages. Included in these advantages are its fidelity to the subject matter, promoting more responsible use of power, improved fit with the liberal arts mission of higher education, and better meeting student needs.

Issues in implementing an ethics-based course are discussed, such as identifying ethical issues and engaging in dialogue. The model is illustrated through a description of one …

What's Basic About The Basic Course? Enriching The Ethosystem As A Corrective For Consumerism, Roy Schwartzman

Basic Communication Course Annual

A marketplace mentality featuring the student as consumer reaches deeply into educational practice today. This essay examines the roots and implications of framing public speaking education in economic terms. The amorality of the marketplace could be supplemented by closer attention to how values infuse the communication process. A value-laden communication environment, or ethosystem, may contribute to greater student awareness of their obligations to others and yield a fuller description of communication education.

Communication And Professional Civility As A Basic Service Course: Dialogic Praxis Between Department And Situated In An Academic House, Ronald C. Arnett, Janie M. Harden Fritz

Basic Communication Course Annual

Communication departments frequently offer basic service courses to other campus departments or schools. A communication course sensitive to the mission of the university or college of which it is a part, as well as to its own mission, allows programs that include such a course in their curriculum to distinguish themselves from competing programs. Additionally, such a mission-sensitive course further defines departmental and university identity, assisting in institutionalizing a mission. Offering such a course provides an opportunity for dialogic praxis to occur between departments situated within the context of a local institution. Dialogic praxis involves knowledge of one's own position, …

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Basic Communication Course Annual Vol. 13

Basic Communication Course Annual

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2001 Faculty Senate Meeting Minutes, Morehead State University. Faculty Senate.

Faculty Senate Records

Faculty Senate meeting minutes for 2001.

Clare Jarecki: Premier Tool And Die Man, Gordon L. Olson

Grand Valley Reports and Histories

Biography of Michigan entrepreneur Clare Jarecki. Jarecki provided funding for the Fred M. Keller Engineering Laboratories Building at Grand Valley.

Leslie E. Tassell: Fun-Loving Entrepreneur, Grand Valley State University, Gordon L. Olson

Grand Valley Reports and Histories

Biography of Michigan entrepreneur Leslie E. Tassell. Tassell provided funding for the Fred M. Keller Engineering Laboratories Building and the Engineering programs at Grand Valley.

Undergraduate And Graduate Catalog [2000-2001], Georgia Southern University

Undergraduate & Graduate Catalogs

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The Lubbers Legacy: A Salute To Arend D. Lubbers, President Of Grand Valley State University 1969-2001, Grand Valley State University

Grand Valley Reports and Histories

Illustrated publication comemorating the 32-year tenure of Grand Valley's second President, Arend D. Lubbers, on the occasion of his retirement. On this day, April 17, 2001, President Lubbers also received the university's highest honor, Doctor of Humane Letters.

E-Learning: Introduction To Personal Computers, Ahmad Anwar

Student Works (2000-2009)

WXES3182 is the final year project which involves doing a thesis. The purpose of doing this thesis is to apply the techniques learned during classes. The Final result of the thesis is to produce complete software. To actually produce the software, a development process will have to be followed through. Here application of the development phases are put to use such as analysis, design and implementation. In the first part of the thesis WXES3182, development in started and carried through up until design phase. WXES3182 will continue the development process until the completed product is produces. Software developmet phases such …

Sistem Pembelajaran Cerdas Dan Pengatucaraan C (Spc), Ahmad Norzam Yusri

Student Works (2000-2009)

Sistem pembelajaran cerdas dan pengatucaraan C (SPC) adalah Intelligent Tutoring system (ITS) yang dibangunkan untuk pelajar-pelajar univsersiti yang mengambil kursus Sains Komputer dan Teknologi Maklumat serta pelajar fakulti kejuruteraan di mana subjek Bahasa Pengatucaraan C merupakan suatu subjek yang wajib. SPC merupakan satu alat perisian untuk memerhatikan serta mengawal pembelajaraan pelajar dan menyelesaikan masalah-masalah subjek yang khusus. Sistem pembelajaran cerdas adalah pakej arahan berasaskan komputer yang menggunakan teknik-teknik yang ditemui dalam penyelidikan-penyelidikan Kepintaran Buatan untuk membantu dalam pengajaran sesuatu subjek atau kepakaran. Tidak seperti sistem konvensional lain, rekabentuk SPC menggunakan pendekatan Cognitivisim dan ia mempunyai tiga bahagian iaitu Model Pelajar, …

Hebrew Thought: Its Implications For Christian Education, Ferdinand O. Regalado

Journal of the Adventist Theological Society

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Handwritten Notes: Tv Schedule And Thanksgiving 2001 Plans, Edna Louise Saffy

Saffy Collection - All Textual Materials

Dr. Edna L. Saffy personal handwritten notes.

Buku Masakan Multimedia, Abdul Jalil Suhailla

Student Works (2000-2009)

Projek Latihan Ilmiah adalah kursus wajib bagi pelajar tahun 3 Fakulti Sains Komputer dan Teknologi Maklumat, Universiti Malaya Latihan Ilmiah II adalah sambungan dari kursus Latihan Ilmiah ini yang ditulis pada semester satu sesi 2000/2001. Latihan Ilmiah II merangkumi projek aplikasi oleh pelajar kepada penyelia dan moderator. Tajuk Latihan Ilmiah II saya ialah Buku Masakan Multimedia. Saya menggunakan perisian Macromedia Authorware 5.1 bagi proses pengimplementasian projek ini. Selain itu, saya juga telah menggunakan perisisan Macromedia Flash 4.0 bagi menambah grafik animasi pada buku masakan ini. Saya menggunakan model air terjun untuk menyiapkan projek ini. Fasa pertama dalam model ini ialah …

Student Management System, Sandrasecra Thevagi

Student Works (2000-2009)

Overall, it can be said that this project is really important for the administration of students in the school. This system in general requires the retrieval, analysis and reporting of student’s records. Other than that, this system also enables the teachers to tap into the students information system without the hassle of going through student’s manually written records. The manually written record is very hard to locate and it is very time consuming and tedious procedure to be contemplated. Student management system is really a feasible tool since it boast the usage of electronic database. It is a system that …

Sistem Pembelajaran 25 Rasul, Mohamad Linda Megawati

Student Works (2000-2009)

Dalam era teknologi maklumat yang semakin berkembang ini, penggunaan komputer dan multimedia menjadi satu perkara ang harus diketahui dan dititikberatkan. Penggunaan komputer pada semua peringkat umur bermula pada umur 6 tahun merupakan sesuatu yang perlu di mana ia seiring dengan seruan kerajaan untuk mewujudkan satu masyarakat yang celik komputer dan peka kepada teknologi terkini. Sistem pembelajaran 25 Rasul bagi kanak-kanak merupakan satu kaedah sistem pembelajaran secara bermultimedia yang digunakan untuk menarik minat kanak-kanak mempelajarinya. la dihasilkan dalam 2 versi iaitu Bahasa Melayu dan Bahasa lnggeris yang mudah. la merupakan satu kcmudahan multimedia interaktif. Melalui teknologi ini kandungan sebuah buku atau …

Sistem Cerdas Pembelajaran Pembezaan Fungsi Matematik (Pfits), Sulaiman Zainab

Student Works (2000-2009)

Pembelajaran melalui komputer menjadi semakin popular dan pelbagai kajian dilakukan untuk menghasilkan sistem pembelajaran yang lebih baik dan efektif untuk menarik minat para pelajar dan meningkatkan fahaman dan kebolehan pelajar. Projek ini secara khususnya memberi penumpuan terhadap pembangunan Sistem Cerdas Pembelajaran (Intelligent Tutoring System - ITS) bagi Pembezaan Fungsi (PFITS). Pembezaan merupakan satu topik kalkulus yang melibatkan fahaman beberapa langkah penyelesaian dengan menggunakan petua-petua matematik seperti petua tambah dan petua rantai. Ia berbeza berbanding algebra yang lebih melibatkan kepada penggunaan rumus dan aplikasi rumus yang tidak melibatkan banyak langkah penyelesaian. PFITS ini juga dapat membantu pengajar untuk pembelajaan yang lebih …

Designing An Intelligent System For Genetic Biology Learning, Seenivasagam S.Gangatharan

Student Works (2000-2009)

With the changing education scenario, an issue which has come strongly on how to create intelligent tutoring system to educate learners in a more intelligent way. So a need has emerged for the development of an intelligent tutoring system. This part or thesis describes the design of a collection of intelligent systems under the name GENETIC BIOLOGY for basic genetic biology tutoring. GENETIC BIOLOGY consist of three intelligent systems which arc designed for cell, DNA and gene learning. GENETIC BIOLOGY systems employ natural language processing and various techniques normally used in the construction of intelligent systems. Production rules and frames …

2001 Touro College School Of Health Sciences Yearbook, Touro College School Of Health Sciences

Yearbooks and Newsletters

2001 Touro College School of Health Sciences Yearbook.

Reflecting On The Presidency Of Herman B Wells, Alfred C. Aman

Articles by Maurer Faculty

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Educational Leadership Through Service-Learning, Melvin J. Pedras, Jennifer J. Olson, Kim Flottemesch

Northwest Journal of Teacher Education

Leadership is the ability to envision connections and inspire change. The University of Idaho, College of Education is engaged in a project to integrate service learning into coursework for educators. These efforts are designed to inspire the leaders of tomorrow to link formal learning with community needs. The purpose of the study is to discuss the use of service-learning as a leadership strategy to help teachers become independent learners continuously seeking to integrate community concerns with educational needs. The authors discuss how to partner with community organizations, both public and private, to augment university coursework in education. Results of a …

Distance Learning: Creating A Teacher-As-Researcher Learning Environment Via The Internet, Gary C. Alexander

Northwest Journal of Teacher Education

This paper discusses the creation of a teacher as researcher learning environment in one small rural Idaho elementary school via the Internet. At the request of five elementary school teachers the researcher created an on-line course, "Teacher as Researcher, " which provided instruction on both Action Research and Teacher as Researcher methodology. The researcher examined, analyzed, and described the learning process that took place among the teachers as novice on-line learners, between the teachers as teacher researchers, and the elements and processes that constituted their creation of a local learning community. The researcher met with the students at their request …

Linking Children's Literature With Mathematics Instruction, Judy Schroeder, Jane Liu

Northwest Journal of Teacher Education

The purpose of this study was to experiment and analyze the effectiveness of children s literature in promoting mathematics learning in a second grade classroom. The focus of this project was to address the following questions: How does children s literature help with mathematics understanding? To what extent does the literature help students increase interest in mathematics? What possible impact does integrating the literature have on students' mathematics achievements?

Sharing Stories Of Teaching, Thomas Mcfarland

Northwest Journal of Teacher Education

Teaching is what matters most for improving student learning in the new millennium. Unfortunately, the teaching profession needs heros and heroines-it is sadly in need of caring teachers who have the ability to influence the general public. If teachers and teacher educators are to be influencers or public leaders, then they must consider the constraints of the unschooled mind as shown in the writings of Howard Gardner. They must present their expertise so that their ideas influence parents, students, and community members-not just other professionals. All teachers must model caring in their classroom. A few teachers or teacher educators need …

Preparing Teachers For Educating Linguistically Diverse Students, Teresa Kennedy

Northwest Journal of Teacher Education

The nations resident population on Census Day, April 1, 2000, was 281,421,906- a 13.2 percent increase over the 248, 709,873 counted in the 1990 census. Since the ethnic profile of the United States is steadily increasing, the current drive for educational reform must strive to rethink and restructure schools to serve all students well. The intended modification of curriculum and instructional practices necessary to achieve this goal must focus on challenging and engaging all students while articulating programs across grade levels in a coherent, sequential manner. The teaching contexts are changing direction, and so, too, must teacher training and staff …

Transforming Technology Management Courses For Web Delivery, Wayne Wakeland

Complex Systems Faculty Publications and Presentations

This paper explores the ramifications of using web technology in teaching technology management courses, computer-based modeling and simulation courses in particular. The emphasis is on what works, but disappointments are also mentioned. Web technology is being used to supplant lectures with self-paced materials and lab exercises that enable students to take courses remotely and asynchronously. Web-based exams are also discussed.