This qualitative study explored graduate students' use of blogs to support the achievement of teaching and learning goals. Blog postings and comments were analyzed and coded with the aid of HyperRESEARCH qualitative data analysis software. Once the blogs were coded, themes emerged from the data. The blogs were found to function in an integrated manner as a forum for students to engage other lea…
The article examines the problems of the modern print media in the context of intercultural and intergenerational dialogue. The article analyzes the current scientific literature and the opinions of leading experts expressed in the media on this issue. Large periodicals, as well as student newspapers, are faced with a lack of funding, their materials are not creatively different, and so they ar…
Children with a cleft palate ([+ or -] cleft lip; CP[+ or -]L) can have difficulties communicating and participating in daily life, yet speech-language pathologists typically focus on speech production during routine assessments. The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health: Children and Youth Version (ICF-CY; World Health Organization, 2007) provides a framework for h…
A competency-based course on the fundamentals of management communications has been developed. The course utilized a list of competencies and behavioral objectives for each of the four developed modules. Competency-based education has been chosen as the ideal approach to teaching since it is built around behaviorally state objectives which are easy to observe and measure. The approach also allo…
This article describes the frequency, characteristics, and predictors of father-school communication in preschool and kindergarten in a sample of children "at risk" for school failure based on family sociodemographic characteristics. Data were gathered during the implementation of the National Center for Early Development and Learning Transition to Kindergarten Intervention. Preschool and kinde…
Students' communication skills can be sharpened through a communication across the curriculum program which develops community service learning (CSL) projects. Students are required to perform certain services for a nonprofit group under the CSL project. The organization itself can determine its needs or the business communications professor can suggest services which the students can do for th…
The purpose of this study was to determine students' communication in the college classroom through faculty-led methods of enhancing classroom participation. The students in this study perceived that faculty members work to engage them in various classroom activities and enhance their participation through discussions, debates, dialogue, group work, and presentations; students understood these …
Children acquire communication skills within a socially and culturally influenced context. Communication professionals need to be aware of the ways cultural differences influence communication. This article describes the influence of cultural backgrounds on communication patterns along a continuum of behaviors. The purpose is to review relevant literature as an operating framework for professio…
As colleges of education prepare to meet NCATE standards they will find technically savvy allies and willing partners at their campus libraries. The information literacy and technology targets in the standards of the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE) parallel the information literacy standards developed by the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). A…
The Sudanese feminist movement crystallized in the political and social field, and it was brought into existence from the stage of secrecy and the feminist cultural and charitable societies, whose activity was initially limited to teaching women to read, write, and sew, so its role later turned to fighting the customs and traditions that prevent women from exercising their rights like men, so t…