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Teaching Environmental Communication in a Compressed Format: A Focus on Collaboration
Type of Presentation
Concurrent
Session Abstract
Presenter will discuss teaching environmental communication to college students in a compressed, collaborative format. Challenges, strengths, and opportunities for improvement and application will be considered.
Target Audience
Individuals interested in alternative delivery formats, environmental education, communication instruction, application-oriented learning, collaborative work projects, and social responsibility instruction. Faculty and student services personnel may find the information particularly useful for social responsibility assignments.
Learning Outcomes
Attendees will leave with concrete methods to incorporate collaborative learning projects in their organizations. Understanding a project from another perspective will be encouraged along will developing messages for receivers to understand. Session attendees should leave with new ideas for collaboration.
Session Description
During this session I will briefly describe the content of the course, share the learning objectives, and how the application-oriented assignments and learning occurred in this compressed format. The focus of the session will be on the learning tools used. Emphasis will be placed on the collaborative nature of the project. In this Special Topics class I coordinated our learning activities with the sustainability committee on campus. Students learned about environmental issues & persuasive techniques and applied these concepts to solving a communication problem experienced by the sustainability committee. In the last class students presented their implementation plan to two committees, the president of the college, and facilities management personnel. Ideas presented in the plan have been implemented on campus. Attendees to the session will walk away with concrete ideas to implement in their classes and on their campuses.
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Friday November 8
Primary Presenter
Sarah Strom Kays, Ph.D., Elmhurst College
Work Title
Associate Professor/Director, Organizational Leadership and Communication