Title :
Technical communication education in a digital, visual world
Author :
Armfield, Dawn M. ; Gurak, Laura J. ; Kays, T.M. ; Weinberg, J.
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Abstract :
Digital and visual communication is becoming a more integral part of the classroom; teachers must be digitally savvy in order to keep up and be able to connect with students. An exploration of the overlap of communication online and in the classroom, particularly the technical/professional communication classroom, will show the necessity of the inclusion of both paper-like documents and robust visual, digital, and social medias. By investigating the state of “communicating vision,” a faculty member and three advanced PhD students from a leading doctoral program will be able to share not only the vision of digital instruction, but also specific classroom practices that help make that shift.
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; professional communication; teaching; classroom communication; classroom practice; communicating vision; digital communication; digital instruction; digital world; online communication; professional communication classroom; social media; teachers; technical communication education; visual communication; visual world; Avatars; Educational institutions; Media; Visualization; Writing; Pedagogy; practice; professional communication; service learning; social media; technical communication; visual;
Conference_Titel :
Professional Communication Conference (IPCC), 2012 IEEE International
Conference_Location :
Orlando, FL
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-2124-3
DOI :
10.1109/IPCC.2012.6408637