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CxC Fall Kick-Off

CxC Fall Kick-Off. Welcome! As you wait for the workshop to start, you have 2 communication assignments. Opening writing assignment: Write on 2 questions until we convene (about 5 minutes):

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CxC Fall Kick-Off

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  1. CxC Fall Kick-Off Welcome! As you wait for the workshop to start, you have 2 communication assignments. Opening writing assignment: Write on 2 questions until we convene (about 5 minutes): If CxC could help me promote communication in my courses, what would I, as a faculty member, most appreciate from them? If CxC could help my students with their communication, what should they focus on first? Opening speaking assignment: Introduce the person sitting next to you by name and department and then by summarizing what he or she wants most from CxC.

  2. CxC Staff • Lillian Bridwell-Bowles, Director • Ernest Enchelmayer, Associate Director • Karen Powell, Assistant Director

  3. Overview of Today’s Workshop Mission Support for You Support for Your Students Your Suggestions LBB

  4. Mission The Communication across the Curriculum (CxC) Initiative at LSU promotes effective communication across the university and to outside audiences. The program encourages critical use of written, spoken, visual, and digital media as vehicles for learning and discovery, as well as for conveying information. While the CxC Initiative recognizes differences in communication styles and media among the various disciplines, it also emphasizes shared goals such as effective style, imagination, accuracy, critical thinking, mutual understanding, and information literacy. See website: http://cxc.lsu.edu LBB

  5. What can CxC do for you? • Emphasize communication through C-I courses • Establish a venue for research and publishing on CxC (e.g., publication series at the University of Minnesota) • Post syllabi, teaching suggestions, and assignments for writing, speaking, communication technologies • Display examples of good communication • Develop new support systems • Provide a speaker series • Celebrate faculty and student accomplishments with awards, travel, mini-grants, etc. LBB

  6. How to Certify a Course • The CxC Advisory Council has been appointed by the Provost and the Director of CxC. This group, in consultation with the appropriate committees (e.g., Faculty Senate General Education, Senate Committee on Educational Policy, etc.), will develop criteria for "Communication-Intensive" (C-I) courses.These criteria will define course standards for: • Significant writing components • Significant speaking components • Uses of technology for communication • Once these criteria are announced, this website will include a digital form for submitting information about any courses that should be designated "communication-intensive." See website: http://cxc.lsu.edu, Faculty > How To Certify A Course LBB

  7. How Should We Build C-I Courses? • Everything in one package? • Separate packages for writing, speaking, and information technology? • Some combination?

  8. Hypothetical Student Checklist

  9. Hypothetical Student Checklist(Weighted) How many courses? Should we emphasize any of the components, e.g., writing? Can departments adjust? More than one course?

  10. What can CxC do for your students? • Provide more opportunities for them to develop sophisticated communication skills in Communication-Intensive Courses • Publicly recognize students who demonstrate exemplary levels of communication, through awards and official certification • Showcase outstanding examples of communication unique to majors • Support communication needs in service-learning courses or internships • Support communication for leadership • Promote state-of-the-art technology for digital communication needs • Connect students to other important communication resources on campus such as the Libraries at LSU, the Center for Academic Success and the START Program KP

  11. Digital Portfolios During 2004-5, a team of faculty and staff members from LSU will choose (or build) software that will allow students to build digital portfolios. Our goal is to make this possible for all students, but initially we are getting volunteers for pilots during the spring semester of this program. Uses: • For potential employers (digital resume or connection to Resume Builder), • for graduate school applications, • for personal satisfaction, for assessment See website: http://cxc.lsu.edu Students > Support for Technological Communication > Building a Digital Portfolio Sample (early stages) KP

  12. Student Recognition • CxC High-Level Certification requirements • Departmental requirements? • University-wide requirements? KP

  13. Discussion

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