New Activities

So I did new things in two of my classes yesterday (which is why I didn't have time to post them yesterday!). In my communication ethics class, we met in one of the university cafeterias in order to talk about ethics outside the classroom (pun very much intended). I passed out the paragraphs that I had students write at the beginning of the semester regarding how they made ethical decisions, and I asked them to make notes on any changes in what they would write now, whether it was a dramatic change of perspective or just a change in vocabulary. They then shared those ideas around a table, and we ended by processing what we've learned so far together. I think it was an idea that I will try to do each semester now.

In my organizational communication class, they presented the methods that they are using for their final org. comm. analysis project. After the presentations, I had them get into groups with people from other research teams and critique each other, giving at least one piece of positive feedback and one piece of negative feedback. I'm not sure yet how that went as far as the students are concerned, but it gave me time to skim through the methods papers. When the research teams came back together at the end of class, I was able to give some feedback to them based on not just their presentations but also their papers. So even if the students didn't get good feedback from each other (which they may have), I was able to give immediate feedback.

I sent the revise and resubmit off yesterday for the paper with the 11-month review. My impression from the editor is to expect a pretty quick turnaround time. Fingers crossed.