A brief, 10-question plagiarism tutorial designed to challenge students and highlight the less obvious cases in which sources...
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A brief, 10-question plagiarism tutorial designed to challenge students and highlight the less obvious cases in which sources might be used incorrectly or irresponsibly. Provides immediate feedback and allows the learner to submit results to any email address.
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Kevin Gilbertson, Kyle Denlinger
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Feb 07, 2013
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You can create an attractive PowerPoint presentation today. Get basic visual communication pointers and take the challenge to...
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You can create an attractive PowerPoint presentation today. Get basic visual communication pointers and take the challenge to create a presentation from scratch. You can do it!Poke around through the links on these pages to get a feel for PowerPoint 2013; then, take a look at the PowerPointers for information about visual communication recommendations and techniques. Even if you're using an older version of PowerPoint, the suggestions for creating good presentations remain the same. And, the general steps and locations of buttons in the software will be similar in PowerPoint 2007 and PowerPoint 2010.When you're ready, try to create your own presentation using the guidelines provided.
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Karen Walker
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May 09, 2014
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Sep 06, 2016
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This is a free textbook offered by Saylor Foundation.'Understanding Media and Culture: An Introduction to Mass...
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This is a free textbook offered by Saylor Foundation.'Understanding Media and Culture: An Introduction to Mass Communication was written to squarely emphasize media technology. Jack believes that an introduction to mass communication text should be a compelling, historical narrative sketching the *ongoing evolution* of media technology and how that technology shapes and is shaped by culture — and that is what he set out to deliver with his new textbook. Today’s students are immersed in media technology. They live in a world of cell phones, smartphones, video games, iPods, laptops, Facebook, Twitter, FourSquare, and more. They fully expect that new technology will be developed tomorrow. Yet students often lack an historical perspective on media technology. They lack knowledge of the social, political and economic forces that shape media technology. This is not knowledge for knowledge’s sake. It is knowledge that can help them understand, comprehend, appreciate, anticipate, shape and control media technology. With this focus, Understanding Media and Culture becomes an appropriate title. Indeed, the title has particular significance. Marshall McLuhan’s Understanding Media is a key text in media studies. Written in the 1960s, Understanding Media was the subject of intense debates that continue to this day. Its central message was that the technology of media — not their content — was their most important feature. In a typically pithy phrase, McLuhan said, ”The medium is the message.“ The title, Understanding Media and Culture: An Introduction to Mass Communication, situates the introductory text in a large, engrossing theoretical conversation. The goal is to adopt a textbook that will support and complement your teaching of this course. Jack Lule’s, Understanding Media and Culture: An Introduction to Mass Communication, will support an engaging and interesting course experience for students that will not only show them the powerful social, political and economic forces will affect the future of media technology, but will challenge students to do their part in shaping that future.'
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Jack Lule
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Jan 09, 2013
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Step-by-step instructions on getting a website started in WordPress. It assumes that students have their own domain name and...
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Step-by-step instructions on getting a website started in WordPress. It assumes that students have their own domain name and a WordPress hosting account at wordpress.org (not wordpress.com). The author recommends GoDaddy for both of these services. For further information, see http://theresabclarke.com/100_credit
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Theresa Clarke
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May 19, 2011
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Sep 24, 2016
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״Grassroots journalists are dismantling Big Media's monopoly on the news, transforming it from a lecture to a conversation....
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״Grassroots journalists are dismantling Big Media's monopoly on the news, transforming it from a lecture to a conversation. Not content to accept the news as reported, these readers-turned-reporters are publishing in real time to a worldwide audience via the Internet. The impact of their work is just beginning to be felt by professional journalists and the newsmakers they cover. In We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People, for the People, nationally known business and technology columnist Dan Gillmor tells the story of this emerging phenomenon, and sheds light on this deep shift in how we make and consume the news." This free, online textbook was originally published in 2004, but is now available online.
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Dan Gillmor
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Feb 18, 2010
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Voxopop is a free recording tool that allows instructors to create talk groups or online discussions. Have students complete...
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Voxopop is a free recording tool that allows instructors to create talk groups or online discussions. Have students complete an oral exercise or take part in a conversation or debate, and then see as their work is uploaded as sequential, playable threads.
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Development Tool
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Dean Worth
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Mar 08, 2013
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Oct 15, 2013
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'The Boundless Communications textbook is a college-level, introductory textbook that covers the exciting subject of...
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'The Boundless Communications textbook is a college-level, introductory textbook that covers the exciting subject of Communications, with a particular focus on public speaking. Boundless works with subject matter experts to select the best open educational resources available on the web, review the content for quality, and create introductory, college-level textbooks designed to meet the study needs of university students.This textbook covers:Public Speaking -- What You Can Accomplish With Public Speaking, Elements of Speech Communication, Types of Public SpeechesPublic Speaking Ethics -- Significance of Ethics in Public Speaking, PlagiarismPreparing a Speech: A Process Outline -- Components of a Speech, Steps to Preparing a SpeechBuilding Confidence to Speak -- Understanding Anxiety, Managing AnxietyLearning to Listen and Helping Others Do the Same -- Understanding Listening, Stages of Listening, Barriers to Listening, Enhancing Your Listening, Helping Your Audience Listen More, Giving and Receiving CriticismChoosing a Topic -- Finding and Selecting the Topic, Establishing a Purpose and a ThesisAnalyzing Your Audience -- Importance of Audience Analysis, Demographic Factors to Consider, Contextual Factors to Consider, Adapting to Your AudienceTopic Research: Gathering Materials and Evidence -- Evidence Gathering Overview, Library Research, Internet Research, InterviewingSupporting Your Ideas -- Deploying Supporting Materials, Using Examples, Using Statistics, Using Testimony, Using Other Supporting Materials, Using Life Experience (Narrative)Organizing and Outlining the Speech -- Principles of Organization, Main Points, Introduction, Conclusion, Transitions, OutliningWording the Speech -- Understanding Language, Variations in Language, Using Language Effectively, Deploying Style Effectively, Understanding the Bias in LanguageDelivering the Speech -- Methods of Delivery, Speaking in the Real World, Components of Effective Vocal Delivery, Components of Effective Visual Delivery, Rehearsing the Speech, Managing Q&A'
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Boundless
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Oct 16, 2013
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Media Studies 101 is 'the open educational resource for media studies studies in New Zealand, Australia, and Pacifica. We...
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Media Studies 101 is 'the open educational resource for media studies studies in New Zealand, Australia, and Pacifica. We have constructed this text so it can be read in a number of ways. You may wish to follow the structured order of 'chapters' like you would in a traditional printed textbook. Each section builds on and refers back to previous sections to build up your knowledge and skills. Alternatively, you may want to go straight to the section you are interested in -- links will help guide you back to definitions and key ideas if you need to refresh your knowledge or understand a new concept.The textbook is divided into 4 parts each with multiple sections: Reading Media Texts, Culture and Contexts, Production and Structures, and Audiences & Identity. It also includes a glossary.
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Erika Pearson, Editor
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Sep 17, 2014
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Public Speaking: The Virtual Text is a free online public speaking textbook available through publicspeakingproject.org. A...
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Public Speaking: The Virtual Text is a free online public speaking textbook available through publicspeakingproject.org. A variety of speech professionals who are dedicated to providing free and low cost instructional materials contributed their original work. There are 18 chapters covering a wide variety of topics related to public speaking, each by a different author. Outlines for chapters and testbanks are available for faculty who register at the website. Each chapter may be downloaded or viewed in PDF and may be printed in black and white or in color. Video modules and other learning aides are also available.
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Various
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May 22, 2014
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This is a free, online textbook offered by Saylor Foundation. 'The two key themes to Stand up, Speak - The Practice and...
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This is a free, online textbook offered by Saylor Foundation. 'The two key themes to Stand up, Speak - The Practice and Ethics of Public Speaking make it a welcomed addition to the choices you have for a public speaking textbook.First it focuses on helping students become more seasoned and polished public speakers, and second, its emphasis on ethics in communication. It is this practical approach and integrated ethical coverage that sets Stand up, Speak out: The Practice and Ethics of Public Speaking apart from the other texts in this market.In a world that is bombarded by information, the skills set of public speaking is more important today than ever. According to an address given by Tony Karrer at the TechKnowledge 2009, the New York Times has more information in one week than individuals in the 1800s would encounter in a lifetime. Currently, the amount of information available to people doubles every 18 months and is expected to double weekly by 2015. In a world filled with so much information, knowing how to effectively organize and present one’s ideas through oral communication is paramount. From audience analysis to giving a presentation, Stand up, Speak out: The Practice and Ethics of Public Speaking will guide students through the speech making process. The authors focus on the process of speech making because they have created this book to be a user-friendly guide to creating, researching, and presenting public speeches.While both classic and current academic research in public speaking guide this book, the authors believe that a new textbook in public speaking should first, and foremost, be a practical book that helps students prepare and deliver a variety of different types of speeches — and that is the primary goal of this book. With practicality in mind, the authors developed, Stand up, Speak out: The Practice and Ethics of Public Speaking, as a streamlined public speaking textbook. Many public speaking textbooks today contain over twenty different chapters, which is often impossible to cover in a ten-week quarter or a sixteen-week semester; this textbook is eighteen unique chapters. The fifteen chapters are divided into four clear units of information: introduction to public speaking, speech preparation, speech creation, and speech presentation. In addition to practicality, this text has a focus on the ethics of public speaking from both a source’s and a receiver’s point of view. In 2006 Pearson, Child, Mattern, and Kahl examined the state of ethics in public speaking textbooks. Specifically, the researchers used the NCA Credo on Ethical Communication to guide their study of ethics in public speaking textbooks. Ultimately, the researchers focused on eight specific categories of public speaking ethics content areas: freedom of speech, honesty, plagiarism, ethical listening, ethical research, hate words, diversity, and codes of ethics. As a whole, the top ten public speaking books varied in their degrees of exposure to the various ethical issues.The authors believe that using the NCA Credo on Ethical Communication as the basis for discussing ethics within this book in addition to the latest research in ethics and communication will help students see how ethics can be applied to the public speaking context. All three of the coauthors on this text have conducted research on the topic of communication ethics and written about how ethics is important in every facet of students’ communicative lives. Stand up, Speak out: The Practice and Ethics of Public Speaking, is intended for the one-semester Public Speaking course. Check it out for yourself and see if its combination of practicality and ethics will suit the needs of your course and students.'
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Bernardo A. Attias, Anne Goding, Jason S. Wrench, Danette Ifert Johnson
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Jan 26, 2012
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