tag:open.umn.edu,2005:/opentextbooks/textbooks?commit=Go&page=9&term=communication&utf8=%E2%9C%93Open Textbook Library - Search results for "communication"2022-03-07T22:31:19Zhttps://open.umn.edu/assets/common/favicon/favicon-1594c2156c95ca22b1a0d803d547e5892bb0e351f682be842d64927ecda092e7.icohttps://open.umn.edu/assets/library/otl_logo-f9161d5c999f5852b38260727d49b4e7d7142fc707ec9596a5256a778f957ffc.png11442022-12-19T21:22:51Z2024-01-22T14:52:35ZWho Teaches Writing<img alt="Read more about Who Teaches Writing" title="Who Teaches Writing cover image" class="cover " width="870" height="1125" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6Mzc3NCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--e8d1b6972971b47d346e18afa7450b52d64e45cd/ENGL-1113-cover_OEN.jpg" />Who Teaches Writing is an open teaching and learning resource being used in English Composition classes at Oklahoma State University. It was authored by contributors from Oklahoma State University and also includes invited chapters from faculty and staff at institutions both inside and outside of Oklahoma. Contributors include faculty from various departments, contingent faculty and staff, and graduate instructors. One purpose of the resource is to provide short, relatively jargon-free chapters geared toward undergraduate students taking First-Year Composition. Support for this project was provided in part by OpenOKState and Oklahoma State University Libraries.11342022-02-19T17:22:35Z2024-01-22T14:52:30ZBeginning Spanish ¡Empecemos por aquí!<img alt="Read more about Beginning Spanish ¡Empecemos por aquí!" title="Beginning Spanish ¡Empecemos por aquí! cover image" class="cover " width="116" height="150" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MzM5MywicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--a7cd47892ac1a737e04dcbd861f8935af47e254d/thumbnail.jpg" />Beginning Spanish ¡Empecemos por aquí! focuses on the development of communication skills in interpretive, interpersonal, and presentational modes while centering student voices. Activities engage learners in real exchanges of information on topics that are relevant to adult students. In addition to language-acquisition learning outcomes, this text supports learning outcomes in diversity, equity, inclusion, cultural sustainability, and social justice.11252022-01-17T18:41:58Z2024-01-22T14:52:39ZWriting Guide with Handbook<img alt="Read more about Writing Guide with Handbook" title="Writing Guide with Handbook cover image" class="cover " width="488" height="631" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MzMwMywicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--2724ca58f77d6e837f243312ef248b80c5d83530/OpenStaxeh.JPG" />Writing Guide with Handbook aligns to the goals, topics, and objectives of many first-year writing and composition courses. It is organized according to relevant genres, and focuses on the writing process, effective writing practices or strategies—including graphic organizers, writing frames, and word banks to support visual learning—and conventions of usage and style. The text includes an editing and documentation handbook, which provides information on grammar and mechanics, common usage errors, and citation styles. Writing Guide with Handbook breaks down barriers in the field of composition by offering an inviting and inclusive approach to students of all intersectional identities. To meet this goal, the text creates a reciprocal relationship between everyday rhetoric and the evolving world of academia. Writing Guide with Handbook builds on students’ life experiences and their participation in rhetorical communities within the familiar contexts of personal interaction and social media. The text seeks to extend these existing skills by showing students how to construct a variety of compelling compositions in a variety of formats, situations, and contexts. The authors conceived and developed Writing Guide with Handbook in 2020; its content and learning experiences reflect the instructional, societal, and individual challenges students have faced. The authors invite students and instructors to practice invitational, rather than confrontational, discussions even as they engage in verbal and written argument. Instructors will be empowered to emphasize meaning and voice and to teach empathy as a rhetorical strategy. Students will be empowered to negotiate their identities and their cultures through language as they join us in writing, discovering, learning, and creating.11102021-11-19T01:54:39Z2024-01-22T14:52:29ZFoundations of American Education: A Critical Lens<img alt="Read more about Foundations of American Education: A Critical Lens" title="Foundations of American Education: A Critical Lens cover image" class="cover " width="683" height="1024" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MzA5NCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--c1873fa2554e0f943d39586556c93c63c46b3e75/cover-683x1024%20(1).jpg" />In this survey text, readers will explore the foundations of American education through a critical lens. Topics include the teaching profession, influences on student learning, philosophical and historical foundations, structures of schools, ethical and legal issues, curriculum, classroom environment, and the path forward.11072021-11-19T00:47:59Z2024-01-22T14:52:29ZTechnology, Media Literacy, and the Human Subject: A Posthuman Approach<img alt="Read more about Technology, Media Literacy, and the Human Subject: A Posthuman Approach" title="Technology, Media Literacy, and the Human Subject: A Posthuman Approach cover image" class="cover " width="800" height="1200" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MzA5MSwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--b96d807342db40af0c1d03207a827b3c8b5cbf97/1405.jpg" />What does it mean to be media literate in today’s world? How are we transformed by the many media infrastructures around us? We are immersed in a world mediated by information and communication technologies (ICTs). From hardware like smartphones, smartwatches, and home assistants to software like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Snapchat, our lives have become a complex, interconnected network of relations. Scholarship on media literacy has tended to focus on developing the skills to access, analyze, evaluate, and create media messages without considering or weighing the impact of the technological medium—how it enables and constrains both messages and media users. Additionally, there is often little attention paid to the broader context of interrelations which affect our engagement with media technologies. This book addresses these issues by providing a transdisciplinary method that allows for both practical and theoretical analyses of media investigations. Informed by postphenomenology, media ecology, philosophical posthumanism, and complexity theory the author proposes both a framework and a pragmatic instrument for understanding the multiplicity of relations that all contribute to how we affect—and are affected by—our relations with media technology. The author argues persuasively that the increased awareness provided by this posthuman approach affords us a greater chance for reclaiming some of our agency and provides a sound foundation upon which we can then judge our media relations. This book will be an indispensable tool for educators in media literacy and media studies, as well as academics in philosophy of technology, media and communication studies, and the post-humanities.11062021-11-19T00:12:17Z2024-01-22T14:52:29ZElementary Mandarin<img alt="Read more about Elementary Mandarin" title="Elementary Mandarin cover image" class="cover " width="487" height="624" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MzA4OSwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--eba9de87a970827ec28553ab1e21b226a2c55afc/Capture.JPG" />This course is designed for learners with no background in Chinese. It introduces basic structures of the Mandarin Chinese language with emphasis on listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. Students will gain these four skills in standard Mandarin Chinese, attaining approximately the Novice-High level on the ACTFL-ETS (American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages) proficiency scale. Topics of conversation include basic greetings, names, family, work, study, and hobbies. Upon successful completion of this course, the student should be able to: Exchange information about familiar topics using phrases and simple sentences, sometimes supported by memorized language, and ask and answer simple questions about everyday situations in short social interactions. (Interpersonal Communication) Verbally convey basic information on familiar topics using phrases and simple sentences. (Presentational Speaking) Write short messages and notes on familiar topics related to everyday life. (Presentational Writing) Interpret spoken words, phrases, and simple sentences related to everyday life by recognizing pieces of information and by identifying the main topic. (Interpretive Listening) Interpret familiar words, phrases, and sentences within short and simple texts related to everyday life and identify the main idea of written materials. (Interpretive Reading)11052021-11-18T23:41:53Z2024-01-22T14:52:29ZA Possession Forever: A Guide to Using Commemorative Memorials and Monuments in the Classroom<img alt="Read more about A Possession Forever: A Guide to Using Commemorative Memorials and Monuments in the Classroom" title="A Possession Forever: A Guide to Using Commemorative Memorials and Monuments in the Classroom cover image" class="cover " width="350" height="467" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MzA4OCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--8be7e7dd304c5e8c100b59f5227fe6223f725cda/Lamplight-Publishing-House-6-350x467.jpg" />This open textbook will guide educators and students through the process of using local monuments and memorials to contextualise, interrogate and extend their knowledge of historical events at a national and international level. Students will learn how to use local history to create an organic patchwork of local stories, interviews, photographs and artefacts contributed by, and for, the community and contextualised nationally and internationally. Through this process they will assume the role of historians rather than passive consumers of dominant ideologies and understand how historical events have shaped diverse views, including their own, of issues such as social justice, democracy, human rights and citizenship.10952021-10-16T17:34:18Z2024-01-22T14:52:28ZHumanizing Science through STEAM Challenges<img alt="Read more about Humanizing Science through STEAM Challenges" title="Humanizing Science through STEAM Challenges cover image" class="cover " width="350" height="453" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6Mjk4MiwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--1a2cc07551f9cc519ffc1c9ef5f966c4aa646fbe/HumanizingScience-cover-350x453.png" />In a science methods course during the Covid19 pandemic, 51 future elementary teachers authored children's books and then read them aloud as part of a giving-back, service-learning activity as Open Educational Resources (OER). The 51 children's stories and their accompanying audiobooks aim to integrate STEM and the Arts to humanize science and scientific inquiry with history and philosophy of science in mind.10752021-09-27T23:31:12Z2024-01-22T14:52:27ZPublic Health in Pharmacy Practice: A Casebook - 2nd Edition<img alt="Read more about Public Health in Pharmacy Practice: A Casebook - 2nd Edition" title="Public Health in Pharmacy Practice: A Casebook - 2nd Edition cover image" class="cover " width="129" height="170" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MjkwNCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--f0d36649b6b32977c61cff65efa03e3eaccad680/PublicHealth-Cover-Print-129x170.jpg" />This casebook, now in its second edition, is a collaboration of over 90 individuals with expertise and training in public health pharmacy. A total of 54 chapters are presented, covering a broad array of topics relevant to pharmacy applications of public health. These topics include, but are not limited to, cross-cultural care, health literacy and disparities, infectious disease, health promotion and disease prevention, medication safety, structural racism, advocacy/policy analysis, chronic disease, women’s health, rural health, travel medicine and more. The book is designed to allow educators/students to choose chapters of interest as they feel suited, as each chapter is independent from the others. Each chapter contains learning objectives and an introduction to the topic, followed by a case and questions. The chapter closes with commentary from the authors and patient-oriented considerations for the topic at hand.10392021-08-16T17:08:55Z2024-01-22T14:52:26ZBuilding Democracy for All: Interactive Explorations of Government and Civic Life<img alt="Read more about Building Democracy for All: Interactive Explorations of Government and Civic Life" title="Building Democracy for All: Interactive Explorations of Government and Civic Life cover image" class="cover " width="323" height="500" data-controller="cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MjczNSwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--c11d4a5059f7993c652db4f9ed25feb70fd81d7f/110_md_01-31-2020_132914.jpg" />Designed as a core or supplementary text for upper elementary, middle and high school teachers and students, Building Democracy for All offers instructional ideas, interactive resources, multicultural content, and multimodal learning materials for interest-building explorations of United States government as well as students’ roles as citizens in a democratic society. It focuses on the importance of community engagement and social responsibility as understood and acted upon by middle and high school students—core themes in the 2018 Massachusetts 8th Grade Curriculum Framework, and which are found in many state history and social studies curriculum frameworks around the country. Building Democracy for All has been developed by a collaborative writing team of higher education faculty, public school teachers, educational librarians, and college students who are preparing to become history and social studies teachers. The primary editors and curators are from the University of Massachusetts Amherst College of Education. Contributing teachers come from school districts in the Connecticut River valley region of western Massachusetts (Amherst, Gateway, Westfield, Hampshire Regional, and Springfield). As an open resource, the book is being revised constantly by the members of the writing team to ensure timely inclusion of online resources and information.
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