Southern States Communication Association
Just a quick note as I depart Norfolk, VA and the Southern States Communication Association Convention. I missed some of the early part of the convention becasue of being involved in so much else, so I could only come over for Friday through Sunday, but it was still a good experience.
In one of the most useful sessions I attended, Ideologies, Pedagogies, and Disciplines Converge to Improve Classroom Communication, Deborah Walker of Coastal Carolina University talked about the research project she and Denise Forrest are doing to show how middle school and high school teachers could be better prepared for communicating in the classroom with students. While this project is focused on grade school, not college or university teaching, and on math, not general subject areas, I found the information to be quite useful regarding what all of us are dealing with in modern education--communicating expectations of engagement and active learning to students, with the expectation that they will be involved with the learning process.
The session I participated in also went well. Jeff South and Marcus Messner of Virginia Commonwealth University joined me in a roundtable discussion of 'new media' issues in the traditional communication curriculum, With me being a broadcast person, Jeff being a print person, and Marcus being a 'multi-media' person, it made for lots of good insight into what Mass Communication programs should be doing right now to update the curriculum.
SSCA has become a much better organization in recent years, so I'm glad I made it to this year's conference--I've attended SSCA for almost 10 years in a row now. Next year it's in Memphis, then 20111 in Little Rock, and 2012 in San Antonio.
In one of the most useful sessions I attended, Ideologies, Pedagogies, and Disciplines Converge to Improve Classroom Communication, Deborah Walker of Coastal Carolina University talked about the research project she and Denise Forrest are doing to show how middle school and high school teachers could be better prepared for communicating in the classroom with students. While this project is focused on grade school, not college or university teaching, and on math, not general subject areas, I found the information to be quite useful regarding what all of us are dealing with in modern education--communicating expectations of engagement and active learning to students, with the expectation that they will be involved with the learning process.
The session I participated in also went well. Jeff South and Marcus Messner of Virginia Commonwealth University joined me in a roundtable discussion of 'new media' issues in the traditional communication curriculum, With me being a broadcast person, Jeff being a print person, and Marcus being a 'multi-media' person, it made for lots of good insight into what Mass Communication programs should be doing right now to update the curriculum.
SSCA has become a much better organization in recent years, so I'm glad I made it to this year's conference--I've attended SSCA for almost 10 years in a row now. Next year it's in Memphis, then 20111 in Little Rock, and 2012 in San Antonio.
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