Communication Activities for the Classroom

Ariel Gratch, PhD, Syracuse UniversityBio: Ariel Gratch is author of the textbook, Speech Performance: Public Speaking for All Occasions, co-author of Digital Performance in Everyday Life with Lyndsay Michalik Gratch, has published numerous essays, and regularly performs as a storyteller.Lyndsay Michalik Gratch, PhD, Syracuse UniversityBio: Lyndsay Michalik Gratch is an Associate Professor of Communication and Rhetorical Studies at Syracuse University. Gratch is co-author of Digital Performance in Everyday Life (Routledge, 2022), author of Adaptation Online: Creating Memes, Sweding Movies, and Other Digital Performances (Lexington Books, 2017), and is a Contributing Editor for Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies.Andrea Baldwin PhD, University of Houston-Clear LakeBio: Andrea Baldwin is a Senior Lecturer in Communication at the University of Houston- Clear Lake and advisor to the UHCL Storytellers. Baldwin received a Ph.D from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale. Her research explores pedagogical experiences in spaces outside of the classroom and genealogical embodied mentoring in the academy.

• Part 1: Relational Communication.- Chapter 01: Sculpting Gendered Terms.- Chapter 02 Leadership Stories and Leaving Legacies.- Chapter 03 Exploring Empathy and Compassion via Random Acts of Kindness.- Chapter 04 Memorializing Loss: Materializing Memory Through Everyday Objects.- Chapter 05 Identity Performance and Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried.- Part 2: Media and Communication.- Chapter 06 Digital Persona(e).- Chapter 07 Culture Jamming in the Intercultural Communication Classroom.- Chapter 08 Skepticism and X/Twitter: Meta-Tweeting as Embodied Communication Pedagogy.- Chapter 09 Immersing the Body in Ancient and Modern Media Practices: Using the Cricut and VR to Explore Culture and History.- Chapter 10 Crafting Digital Narratives: Integrating Feminist HCI Principles and Digital Identities in a Semester-Long Transmedia Storytelling Project.- Part 3: Organizational and Small Group Communication.- Chapter 11 Staging Group Dynamics: Teaching Group Roles, Types of Conflict, and Conflict Management Styles through Dialogic Performance.- Chapter 12 Creating Classroom Culture: Artifacts, Values, and Behaviors.- Chapter 13 “Persuade or Pivot?” A Persuasive Take on Would You Rather?.- Chapter 14 Behavioral Narrative Interviews.- Chapter 15 Creating A New Gender Myth: Social Construction, Gender, and Storytelling.- Part 4: Public Address.- Chapter 16 Workshopping “Freedom of Expression” in Speech: Practicing Public Performance Poetically.- Chapter 17 Designing Activist Street Actions for Social Change.- Chapter 18 A Workshop in Embodied Rhetorical Criticism: Visual Culture, Community and Place/Space.- Chapter 19 The Impromptu Construction Wheel.- Chapter 20 Telling Each Other’s Stories as a Co-Creative Activity.- Part 5: Communication and Cultur.- Chapter 21 Whatchu see? — Exploring Mundane Oppositional Gazes and Counter-Narratives in the Classroom.- Chapter 22 Cultural Recipe Book.- Chapter 23 Embodied Pedagogy Fixed and Fluid Rumor: Words Last.- Chapter 24 Everyday Life Performance (ELP) at a Sprint: Reperforming in the Communication Classroom.- Part 6: Creating Embodied Pedagogy.