Don Payne, ISUComm Director, Donna Niday, ISUComm Assessment Coordinator, and Quinn Warnick, ISUComm Instructional Technology Coordinator, presented a panel on "Assessment: A New Challenge for Multimodal Communication Programs," on May 29, 2008, at the International Writing Across the Curriculum Conference, Austin, TX.
As part of a comprehensive assessment program, ISUComm has developed programmatic rubrics that can also be used, in modified form, for assignment and overall student assessment in the communication classroom. Here are the major rubrics:
Demonstrate your multimodal communication skills and receive up to $500 by submitting a video of your Iowa State Experience to a new student-run competition.
Go to http://www.myiowastateexperience.com/ to view the submission guidelines and see student videos.
On Feb. 29, 2008, at the new Kirkwood Center for Community Education (pictured below), Kirkwood Community College, Don Payne, ISUComm Director, and Donna Niday, ISUComm Assessment Coordinator, spoke to the Statewide Roundtable for Iowa Community College Teachers of English about "Multimodal Communication: Reshaping the Curriculum." Materials distributed with the presentation are available for download in PDF format.
Donna Niday discusses WOVE with ICTE colleagues
The session provided a brief overview of the ISUComm program and its WOVE pedagogy. A teacher's resource packet covered WOVE principles, assessment strategies, and some sample activities.
