Friday, September 21
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11:00
– 4:00
Registration,
MTSU Foundation House
Refreshments
provided by the MTSU Debate Program
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11:00 a.m. – Noon
Convergent Journalism in Mass Communications: Integration from Numerous Perspectives Sponsor: Mass Communication Interest Group
Interest Group Chair: Chris Blair,
Panel Chair: Chris Blair,
Presentations: Steve Beverly, Union University, Michael Chute, Union University, Jim Veneman, Union University The widespread movement toward convergent journalism—where print, broadcast and interactive stories are merged, primarily through the Internet—is causing Communication programs across the country to rethink the way they prepare their students for careers in journalism. Convergent Journalism has implications throughout the curricular process, from the courses we teach to the programs we offer, from howour faculty teach their courses to who we hire as new faculty. This panel discusses the challenges and opportunities for Mass Communication programs from a variety of traditional perspectives.
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12:15 p.m. – 1:15 p.m.
Surviving the Departmental Academic Audit
Sponsor: TCA Executive Committee
Interest Group Chair: Greg Simerly,
Panel Chair: Len Assante,
Presentations:
Len Assante,
Chris Blair,
Debra Jones,
Beth Stewart,
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1:30 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.
Workshop: Crafting Student Learning Outcomes
(or, Get SACS Off Our Backs)
Sponsor: TCA Executive Committee
Interest Group Chair: Greg Simerly,
Panel Chair: Margaret McCree,
Presentation:
This
workshop will lead participants through the process of writing Student Learning
Outcomes for departments and courses.
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Note:
there are two panels during this time slot.
2:30
p.m. – 3:45 p.m. (main meeting room, first floor)
Curriculum, Instruction, &
Experiential Learning
Sponsor:
Curriculum and Instruction Interest Group
Interest Group Chair: Lori Kissinger,
Panel Chair: Lori Kissinger,
Presentations:
Excellent
Educators: From Ordinary to Extraordinary, Robin Ringer,
This presentation explains that
excellent teaching must involve seven specific words: attention, connection,
invention, motivation, expectation, interaction and individuation.
What is Media
Ecology and Why We Need It Now? Arthur Hunt,
This presentation justifies the
addition of Media Ecology to the curriculum as a coping mechanism to address
drastic technological change.
They're Fired .
. . Up: Service Learning through Client -Based Projects in Undergraduate Public
Relations Classes, Kevin S. Trowbridge,
This paper discusses the
practicalities, benefits, and outcomes of incorporating service learning with
actual client-based projects in upper-level public relations courses.
Confronting
Facts Based on Assumptions, Taylor Richard,
This paper explains an instructional
method to help students understand the difference between facts and
assumptions.
The Moving
Image, Larry Stephen Clifton,
This presentation examines the
historical, theoretical, and social impact of cinema and why it should be
taught in community colleges.
Classroom
Material Checklist: A Basis for Mutual Understanding, Jeff Mendenhall,
This presentation will explore the
use of the individual student checklist as a tool for creating student
understanding regarding instructor expectations, classroom procedures, and
instructor policy.
2:30
p.m. – 3:45 p.m. (large conference room, first floor)
Contemporary Issues
in Public Address
Sponsor:
Public Address
Interest Group
Interest Group Chair: Michael Leff, TheUniversity of
Panel Chair: Michael Leff, The
Presentations:
The Sales Presentation of the First Speech of the Semester
for Public Speaking, Arthur Hunt,
This
presentation suggests that a Sales Presentation using
The Rhetoric of Human Cloning, David Walker, Middle
President George W. Bush argues “all human cloning is wrong, . . . advances in biomedical technology must never come at the expense of human conscience.” Pro-life Senator Orrin Hatch argues that embryonic stem cell research may bring treatments and cures for many maladies. This paper analyzes contemporary argumentation on this issue.
Metaphors and the Purpose
Driven Life: What on Earth are they there for?, Robin Ringer,
Even a
cursory glance at the Purpose Driven Life
leads the rhetorical critic toward a metaphoric approach. From the preface to the final page, author
Rick Warrren uses multifarious metaphors, anything from the Biblically based to
the modern mechanical and technological to illustrate, explain, and persuade. This essay applies metaphoric analysis to the
following questions: What do the metaphors in The Purpose Driven Life suggest about
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4:00
p.m. – 5:15 p.m.
Experiential Learning and Organizational
& Corporate Communication I
Sponsor:
Organizational & Corporate Communication Interest Group
Interest Group Chair: Janet McCormick,
Panel Chair: Janet McCormick,
Presentations:
Leadership and
EXL, Deana Raffo,
There are two major paradigms that frame our understanding of leadership
theories – the industrial paradigm and the post-industrial paradigm (Rost,
1993). This presentation demonstrates how experiential learning can bring these
paradigms to life for students.
Country When Country Wasn't Cool, Lisa Moore,
Barbara Mandrell sang that she loved the Southern country
lifestyle before it was fashionable or acceptable. Professors who've
taught experiential learning courses before the term "experiential
learning" was made popular understand that concept. Skills
application in courses such as Interpersonal, Gender, and Organizational
Communication has been rewarding for ten years to this professor as
well as her students. I will share some exercises for
each class and describe the benefits for all concerned.
Extending Helping Hands: Blending Service Learning with Small Group
Pedagogy, Eletra Gilchrist,
The
Small Group Communication course teaches students how groups perform
task-related activities and how individuals from divergent backgrounds come
together to transform a group into a productive task force. Students can enhance their understanding of
working group dynamics through experiential education. Service learning represents a
community-oriented form of experiential pedagogy and is comprised of four
stages: preparation, action, reflection, and demonstration. Research
consistently indicates that blending service-learning initiatives with Small
Group pedagogy enables students to complement textbook scholarship with
applied, practical knowledge. Through
service-learning initiatives students actively engage in learning opportunities
that deepen their understanding of course content, cultivate a sense of civic
virtue and responsibility, increase employment prospects, and enhance their
cooperative spirits. This paper provides
a theoretical rationale for blending service learning with Small Group pedagogy
and then provides several service learning initiatives that empower students to
extend helping hands to their surrounding communities.
Learning to “Excel”: The Utilization of the Excel Program to Connect to
the Community, Lori Kissinger,
EXL requires hands-on experience for
classroom learning. This presentation
will examine an EXL experience that took place at the Ryman Auditorium. Key to
the experience was the development of partnerships between the university
classroom, corporations, and non-profit organizations all working towards a
common goal.
Interview Communication: EXL style, Janet McCormick,
This presentation will detail an
experiential learning assignment for the Interview Communication course offered
at MTSU. The course is mainly designed
to prepare students for the employment interview, however, it also emphasizes
disciplinary, counseling, health care, persuasive, recruiting, survey, probing
and performance interviews. The EXL
component of the course is creating an interview portfolio and then securing a
real or mock interview in the community.
The students are evaluated by the interviewers as well as the professor.
Students in
Event Planning and Research Classes Learn by Doing, Sharon Smith,
This presentation focuses on
Experiential Learning in two Organizational Communication courses. Students
taking Event Planning this fall are involved in events all over campus,
especially in Student Programming. They
are on committees to plan, implement, and evaluate events on campus, from
Homecoming to awards banquets, and they are also involved as volunteers with
events in the community. These service
learning activities add considerably to topics covered in class, as students
relate their experiences to course material. Students taking Organizational
Communication Analysis (a research class) are involved in applied learning
activities such as a readership survey of the campus newspaper Sidelines,
employee exit questionnaires and interviews, and a survey of communication
preferences and satisfaction. Student
groups write questionnaires, collect data, and report findings and
recommendations to the class.
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5:30
– 6:30 Friday
Dinner
at the Foundation House
Italian Feast
Buffet - Chicken Parmesan with pasta, veggie lasagna, seasoned vegetables,
Caesar salad, garlic bread, tiramisu, iced tea, coffee, water
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6:30-7:00
Friday
Key
Note Speaker: Dr. M. Jill Austin, Director, Experiential Learning
Program; Chair, Department of Management and Marketing,
Chair: Greg Simerly,
Speaker: TBA
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8:00p.m.
– 10:00 p.m.
An
informal gathering to enjoy cocktails or your favorite beverage and appetizers,
on the Concierge level.
Saturday,
September 22
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7:00
a.m. – 8:00 a.m.
Continental
Breakfast provided by the MTSU Debate Program
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8:00
a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Registration
(at the MTSU Foundation House)
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8:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.
Learning through Rhetorical Action: Southern American Women
Advocate Social Change
Sponsors:
Student Papers and Rhetoric & Public Address Interest Groups
Interest Group Chairs: Malcolm McAvoy,
Panel Chair and Respondent: Sandra Sarkela, The
Presentations:
Despite admonitions of silence and
subservience, southern women throughout American history learned to use
language on behalf of social change by “doing it”--speaking, writing and
listening in the public sphere as well as the private. This panel explores the rhetorical
contributions of five southern women who learned through experience.
Thomas Scudder,
The University of Memphis (undergraduate student)
This paper nalyzes the
correspondence, private and semi-public of Sarah and Angelina Grimke, 19th-century
abolitionists from
Jonathan
Woodall, The University of Memphis (graduate student)
This paper onsiders the arguments of
Silena Moore Holman, President of the Tennessee Christian Women’s Temperance
Union and women’s rights advocate.
Jodie Gobler,
The University of Memphis (graduate student)
This paper critiques Lillian Smith
of
Morgan Ginther,
The University of Memphis (graduate student)
This paper recalls the power of
Fannie Lou Hamer’s testimony before the National Democratic Credentials
Committee on behalf of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
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9:30
a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
Learning through Rhetorical Action: Twentieth-Century Women Rhetors
Sponsors: Student Papers and Rhetoric & Public
Address Interest Groups
Interest Group Chairs: Malcolm McAvoy,
Chair and Respondent: Kimberly
P. Johnson, The
With passage of
the 19th Amendment in 1920, American women found more opportunities
to become involved in political issues, while women in
Melody Lehn, The University of Memphis
(graduate student)
Examines how Senator Margaret Chase Smith
challenged Senator Joseph McCarthy’s discourse in her “Declaration of
Conscience” address to Congress.
Shirley Oakley,
The University of Memphis (graduate student)
Introduces the
rhetoric of Hebe de Bonafini, president and co-founder of the Madres de la
Plaza de Mayo in
Jennifer Jackson, The University of
Memphis (graduate student)
Shows how Cindy Sheehan counters the
traditional role of patriotism during wartime with a Matriotic rhetoric.
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10:45 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Student
Papers
Sponsor:
Student Papers Interest Group
Interest Group Chair: Malcolm McAvoy,
Panel Chair: Malcolm McAvoy,
Panelists: TBA
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Noon – 12:30 p.m.
Interpersonal
Communication & Learning
Sponsor: Interpersonal and Small Group Communication Interest
Group
Interest Group Chair: Teresa Collard, University
of Tennessee-Martin
Panel Chair: Teresa Collard, University
of Tennessee-Martin
Panelists:
Teresa Collard, University of Tennessee-Martin Understanding Motivation as it Relates to Student Learning Lisa LeBleu, University of Tennessee-Martin Interpersonal Relationships between Faculty and Students
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12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Awards Luncheon and Business Meeting
Sponsor: TCA Executive Committee
Chair: Walt Kirkpatrick, The
Special Recognition Award: Malcolm McAvoy
Menu:
Chicken Caesar or veggie
cheese wrap with salad, chips, fruit, cookie, canned drink included