Friday | October 4th
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Communication and Civility
in Traditional and Technological Contexts
9:00 – 10:15 | Opening Session
Sloan-Morgan | Bryant Recital Hall
Communication and Civility: What Can a Techno-Dinosaur
Contribute to the 21st Century?
Dr. Kathie Turner, Davidson College and
NCA First Vice President
Join us for the opening session to kick off a great conference. We will all be together as we are inspired by our friend, colleague, and leader in the Communication discipline, Dr. Kathie Turner.
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10:30 - 11:45 | Session Two
2.A. G.I.F.T.S. (Great Ideas for Teaching Speech) Focus on Technology: Ways to Incorporate Technology
Bryant Recital Hall | Sloan Morgan
Chair: Tracie Clark, Central Piedmont Community College
Using Twitter in the Classroom
Theresa Russo, Central Piedmont Community College
Owen Sutkowski, Central Piedmont Community College
Digital Poetry’s Discourse as Rhetorical Delivery: A Minecraft Demonstration
Walter Irate, Clemson University
Connecting Students in the Online Public Speaking Course Through Virtual Speeches
Amy King, Central Piedmont Community College
2.B. Technologically Co-constructing a Master Narrative: An Exploration of Physical and Mental Health Themes
Sloan-Morgan | 103
Chair: Jason Black, University of Alabama
Self Interest and Collaborative Communities: The Perspective of a Clinical Counselor
Nicole Adamson, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Breast is Not Always Best: A Communicative Analysis of Master Narrative
April Wright, Justine Eriksen, Sarah Hollingsworth,
Kaitlyn Wood, James T. Hosack, JR., Crystal Sutton, and
Loreen Olson, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
New Mediums of Communication Offer New Ways to Cope
June Furr, Queens University
Communicating Emotion in the Age of Social Media: Socioemotional Expression in the “In Memorial: Virginia Tech” Facebook Group
Peter Gloviszki, Coker College
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2.C. Communication Civility and Savvy as Necessary Elements in Post-College Success: a Partnership between the Communication Program and the Career Center at Columbia College
Sloan Morgan | 116
This panel will explore the partnership between the instructor for Business and Professional Communication and the director of the career center to create a course that developed the students' communication skills as well as their understanding of professional civility and technological savvy. We will detail the assignments created, exercises utilized, and college-wide partnerships developed for this course. We will also discuss the potential impact that a partnership between CCA and college career center professionals could have on communication programs and their students throughout the Carolinas.
Kyle Anne B. Love, Columbia College
Fiona Lofton, Center for Career Coaching and
Professional Development, Columbia College
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12:00 – 1:15 | Session Three
3.A. Maintaining Civility in the Community College in an Environment of Constant Change
Sloan-Morgan | 209
Community colleges play a vital role in transfer and technical education in the Carolinas. Instructors are teaching more, budgets are tight, and change is constant. Join is for a round table discussion to address key issues relevant to community college instructors and administrators in an open, conversational setting.
Chair: Christina Toy, Caldwell Community College
Matthew Malloy, Caldwell Community College
DeAnna Chester, Caldwell Community College
Nina-Jo Moore, Appalachian State University
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3.B. G.I.F.T.S. (Great Ideas for Teaching Speech)
Enhancing Communication and Civility in the Basic Course: Insights from New Instructors
Sloan Morgan | 116
In an age in which many students have developed and communicated their identities and communities primarily through online mediums, the Basic Communication Course often asks students to engage and share ideas in a traditional brick and mortar setting. This panel of MA students and recent graduates showcases several insightful ideas for enhancing communication, community, and civility through active learning and critical reflection. The new instructors on this panel explore different ways to teach group, interpersonal, and public communication. Together we hope to evoke new ideas and collaboratively develop a better understanding of how to enhance learning and instruction in the Basic Course.
Chair: Jessica D. McCall, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Self-Disclosure Gallery Walk
Mark Gogdon, Jr, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
What’s Trending?
Jacquie Downing, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Media Literacy RGP
Garrett Richardson, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Group (Disruption) Exercise
Patrick Sawyer, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Micro Speeches
Justine Eriksen, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
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3.C. G.I.F.T.S. (Great Ideas for Teaching Speech)
Producing & Promoting an Independent Film
Sloan Morgan | 105
Two faculty members and one former undergraduate student offer “Great Ideas for Teaching Students” by presenting how broadcasting and public relations teams joined forces to create a multi-disciplinary service-learning initiative with potential to bring awareness and change to students, community, and national audiences alike. In spring of 2013, educators in broadcasting, and public relations focused their efforts toward producing, promoting and raising funds for a documentary that highlights the struggles of an impoverished community and its large American Indian populace. Presenters will highlight successes and challenges of working on a high-profile community project within the political and social contexts of a small university and its local community setting.
Voices of the Lumbee
Jason Hutchens, University of North Carolina at Pembroke
Bringing Service-learning to A Full Circle: An Experiment in the Public Relations Capstone Course
Dandan Liu, University of North Carolina at Pembroke
Pop in for a Reel Good Time
Mia Winterbottom, University of North Carolina at Pembroke
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3.D. What You Should Read on Your Summer Vacation: Preparing for Graduate School
Sloan Morgan | 209
A diverse panel of faculty representing health communication, rhetoric, cultural studies, interpersonal communication, communication advocacy, and organizational communication will recommend books new MA students should read before entering graduate school. These books are intended to provide new students with a grounding of graduate level education in the Communication Studies field. Panelists will introduce their recommended books and discuss what the books represent and why they chose them. We will open the discussion to the audience so they can add their own books to the list. A list of the recommendations will be provided to the audience.
Chair: Christine S. Davis, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Jon Crane, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Dan Grano, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Chris Poulos, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Deborah C. Breede, Coastal Carolina University
David Carlone, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
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1:15 – 2:15 | Lunch Break
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2:15 – 3:30 | Session Four
4. A. G.I.F.T.S Sharing great ideas through mini-training sessions.
Sloan-Morgan | Bryant Recital Hall
Modeled after the very popular G.I.F.T.S. presentations at NCA, presenters will provide a series of mini –training sessions. Each session will offer an explanation of how an original teaching idea is used in the basic communication courses and beyond. Each participants will present (or co-present) just once.
Chair: Kimberly M. Cuny, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Finding Connections – Communication, Community & Culture
Spoma Jovanovich, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Incorporating Google+ for Group Work
Erin Ellis, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Students Bring UNCG Brand "Do Something Bigger Altogether" to Life Through Collaboration
Pat Farifiled-Artman, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
To Listen or Not to Listen
Carol Steger, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Utilizing Protector Masks to Explore Public Speaking Anxiety
Kimberly M. Cuny, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Alex Stephenson, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
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4.B. Cultural Norms: Representations and Violations
Sloan Morgan | 105
Chair: David Bollinger, University of North Carolina at Wilmington
The Mexican in the Media: How Mexican Immigrants are Portrayed in the News
Gabriel Cruz , University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Shooting Wide: Exploring Host-Country Web Presence Prior to the 2012 European Soccer Championship
Leanne Pupcheck, Queens University
Where’s the Beef: Organizational Culture and Apologia/Kategoria Based Apologia Responses within the Taco Bell Organization
Emory S. Daniel, Jr., North Dakota State University
Steve Madden, Costal Carolina University
Face to Face Sexual Abuse and Luring Communication Theory: A Case Study of Jerry Sandusky
Nicole A. Adamson, Connie S. Albert,
Emily C. Campbell, and Loreen N. Olson,
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
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4.C. Emergent Scholars: A Sampling of Graduate and Undergraduate Student Papers
Sloan Morgan | 209
Chair and Respondent: Deborah Breede, Coastal Carolina University
The Digital Community: Twitter Chats as “Third Places”
Ashley Farley, Queens University
Implications of Disclosure in the Digital World
June Furr, Queens University
Dead (Hegemonic) Man Walking
Sarah Hollingsworth,
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Patrick Sawyer,
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
How Managers Communicate Appreciation in the Workplace
Jason Sirmon, Sirmon Training and Consulting Group
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4.D. Panel Discussion: Negotiating Graduate School: Tales, Tips, and Techniques for Graduate School
Sloan Morgan | 211
Current graduate students will discuss how they decided that graduate school was the right fit for them. Panelists will share techniques for managing the elevated workload of graduate school, offer helpful tips to make the most out of your education with university resources, and discuss the benefits of earning a graduate degree to give an inside look of the graduate experience.
Panelists from University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Chair: Susan Opt, James Madison University
Panelists:
Rachael Thomas, MA Student
Meghan Snider, MA Student
Heather Sackett, MA Student
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3:45 – 5:00 | Session 5
5.A. Tragedy, Poverty and Civility: When undergraduate film-making becomes integrative learning
Sloan-Morgan | Bryant Recital Hall
“Civility” is a term grumbled about in its absence, yet, we argue, insufficiently discussed deliberately or defined carefully as a conceptualization not only of American civic life, but of the conditions needed in academia to assure that education might go well. As such, one might expect that every professor, no matter what the course topic, might operationalize civility’s definition during actual Communication courses. We suggest that although Communication majors bring into classrooms with them many 21st Century stresses that can make learning difficult, and they’re clutching and using abundant technology tools that often distract today’s students from listening (a requirement of true civility) to their faculty or their peers in class where they are expected to absorb new knowledge.
So how could the actions of two undergraduate filmmakers in creating documentary films about highly stressful conditions of human life and communication have awakened their professor to the need to deliberately discuss civility and to provide opportunities to explore the concept (including in department service-learning courses) to assure that Comm majors understand what it is to enact civility. and that students who are aware of the concept are likely to do more thorough work with technology, including in creating stressful Communication senior film projects.
Chair: Carol Dykers, Salem College
The Door That Would Not Shut
Virginia Broughton, Salem College
The Neophytes
Jasmine Huff, Salem College
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5.B. Technologically Speaking: Challenges and opportunities in mapping emergent communication theory and practice in traditional and technologically based pedagogy
Sloan Morgan | 105
The present moment in time positions higher education pedagogy in a matrix of synchronous and asynchronous communication channels. This evolving matrix is characterized by faculty desire for sound pedagogical frames, student engagement and retention, and learning objective fulfillment. As faculty navigate this terrain, grounded in their discipline expertise, their perpetual adaptability to new technology is imperative. The current panel explores faculty and students’ co-construction of the present rhetorical moment in time through varied technologically infused approaches to course delivery and degree completion. As the panelists will discuss, the notion of civil discourse morphs, presenting additional challenges and opportunities to propel higher education practice.
Chair and Respondent: Jean DeHart, Appalachian State University
There’s an APP for that!” Student Attitudes Toward Emergent Higher Education Technological Landscapes
Brad Frazier, Pfeiffer University
Paulita Brooker, Pfeiffer University
Using Blackboard Journaling in Traditional Seated Undergraduate Interracial Communication Course: Intrapersonal Explorations of Civil Discourse
Deborah Brunson, University of North Carolina Wilmington
Civil Discourse in Applied Research Contexts: Accounting Undergraduates’ Experiences with Free Tax Preparation Clients
Patrick Malloy, Pfeiffer University
Civil Discourse – as an Adjective or a Verb? A Social Constructionist’s Examination of Higher Education Realities and the Notion of Civil Discourse Amid the Emergent Technological Revolution
Kelli L. Fellows, Pfeiffer University
The Internet and Social Media - It’s all a Conspiracy! Using Conspiracy Theory to Explore the Demise of Aristotle’s Inartistic Proof in Social Discourse in the Technologically Driven Present Moment in Time
David Bollinger, University of North Carolina Wilmington
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5.C. G.I.F.T.S. (Great Ideas for Teaching Speech)
Sloan Morgan | 209
This panel provides practical activities for revitalizing our teaching approach to traditional topics and offers some tips for future innovations.
Chair: Carol Leeman, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Subversive Mentoring
Wes Fondren, Coastal Carolina University
Flat Cats
Susan Opt, James Madison University
Chair Exercise
William Purcell, Appalachian State University
Developing and Delivering a Communication-Based Study Abroad Program
Robert Westerfelhaus, College of Charleston
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5.D. Self-reflection: A Low Tech Strategy for Enhancing Teaching Effectiveness
Sloan Morgan | 211
This session is a mini-workshop, where will examine and practice ways to reflect on our own teaching, including looking at the stories we tell about teaching and reflecting on our own significant learning moments. We will explore strategies for using these self-reflections to enhance teaching and learning.
Workshop Facilitator: Charmaine E. Wilson, University of South Carolina Aiken
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5:00 – 6:00 | Business Meeting
Sloan-Morgan | Bryant Recital Hall
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6:30 – 7:30 | Reception
University of North Carolina at Charlotte | Uptown Campus
Charlotte Plaza Uptown has shuttle service which includes this location. UNCC will also provide a van to assist with transportation. If you elect to drive, parking info will be provided at the conference.