Listening for Details Self-Assessment
By Dr. Cynthia Ellenbecker
In this learning activity you'll use active listening skills to answer 10 questions based on a story.
Writing Instructions/Directions
By David Wehmeyer
The student watches a car move through a city and writes directions based on the car's route.
Mechanism Description: Stopwatch
By Bev Paulick
In this learning activity you'll write a technical description of a stopwatch.
Tricky Communication Situations: Magic Secret Formulas
By Marilyn Carien
In this learning activity you'll create strategies for sending and receiving complaints and requests.
Noise in the Communication Process
By Rosie Bunnow
In this activity, students practice recognizing the different types of noise in the communication process.
Distinguishing Between the Content Message and the Relational Message (Screencast)
In this screencast, you'll distinguish the differences between the content message and the relational message.
Creating and Formatting a Memo
By Deborah Seline
In this learning activity you'll explore different reasons to write a memo and how to create it.
Overcoming Barriers to Critical Thinking: Being Human
By Therese Nemec
The learner will identify ways to overcome barriers to critical thinking and problem-solving including false memories, personal biases and prejudices, and physical and emotional hindrances.
Developing the Central Idea
By Dr. Rose Marie Mastricola
In this learning activity you'll apply techniques for identifying a central idea to a practice exercise.
Nonverbal Communication
By Barbara Liang, Andrea Krabbe
Learners read about nonverbal communication. In a drag-and-drop exercise, they evaluate photos of people interacting and determine if the behaviors shown interfere with communication or enhance it.
Communicating in the Workplace
By Jennifer Heinritz
Compare the behaviors and situations that interfere with effective communication in the workplace with those that enhance listening skills and career performance.
Plagiarism
Students read an explanation of plagiarism. They then read examples of student papers and decide if an original work was plagiarized.
Barriers to Critical Thinking: Use of Language
Learners examine how language can interfere with clear communication. They select examples of ambiguity, assuring expressions, doublespeak euphemisms, jargon, emotive content, false implications, meaningless comparisons, and vagueness. In an interactive exercise, learners identify ways to overcome these barriers.
The Johari Window (Screencast)
By Kathy Henning
In this screencast, you will see how the Johari Window works when determining a relationship with someone.
Barriers to Critical Thinking: People-Related Obstacles
The learner will identify barriers to critical thinking related to internal and external factors after viewing scenarios.
Perception - Understanding the World Around You
By VickyWeiland
Learn the definition of perception, its process and how it affects communication
Listening for Retention
Learners listen to a workplace conversation and are tested on their retention of information. This activity has audio content.
Mechanism / Ballpoint Pen
By Terri Langan
In this learning activity you can practice writing a technical descriptions of a pen.
Overcoming Barriers to Critical Thinking: People-Related Obstacles
The learner will identify techniques to use to overcome people-related barriers to critical thinking.
Barriers to Critical Thinking: Communication
This activity will examine several of the barriers related to problems with communication.
Seven Barriers to Listening
The learner will identify common barriers to effective listening.
Barriers to Critical Thinking: Basic Human Limitations
Learners examine seven basic human limitations that prevent people from seeing or understanding the world with total clarity. In an interactive exercise, learners identify ways to overcome those barriers to critical thinking.
Listening Practice
This activity is cognitive. Learners will actively listen to a story activated by the computer. Then learners will take a quiz on their comprehension. Lastly, learners will compare their chosen answers against the answer key to determine how well they really did "actively" listen. (Credit given to Tom E. Wirkus, University Of Wisconsin-LaCrosse for this activity.)
Mechanism Description: Can Opener
In this learning activity you'll write a description of a can opener.
Communication: Identifying Active and Passive Voice
By Elizabeth Jones
The learner will identify active and passive voice and distinguish between the two.