Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: Intercultural Communication: Gestures
In this learning module, students will recognize common gestures and identify the meanings associated with those gestures.
Everything ESL
Everything Esl: Avoiding Offense When Communicating With Gestures
Important resource for understanding the different cultural implications of common gestures. Certain gestures, though inoffensive to Americans, may convey rudeness or an obscene message to persons of other cultures.
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University of Bielefeld: Categories of Gestures
Gestures carry much meaning and some have universal meaning, i.e.emblem or illustrate. The site gives details about many gestures.
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Chapter 2: The Social Leverage in Active Hand Gestures
This chapter, from the Westside Toastmasters, gives a detailed explanation of how to use handshakes to communicate.
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Massey Univ.: Saying, Showing, Gesturing, and Feeling
This paper by John Shotter examines language development through Wittgenstein and Vygotsky. He contrasts the theories of language development from both of these psychologists.
Auburn University
Auburn University: Hand Gestures for Phonemes
Come and learn some hand gestures for phonemes designed by the faculty and students at Auburn University. Students and teachers will find these gestures beneficial in the learning process.
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How to Gesture Effectively
Six rules that apply to anyone seeking to become a dynamic and effective speaker.
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Arts Edge: Rhythm and Art
This curriculum unit from the Kennedy Center's ArtsEdge program presents an introduction to the concept of visual rhythm and explores the intersection of visual and auditory rhythm. The unit is divided into six lessons focusing on...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Contemporary Drama: Characteristics of a Drama
This lesson focuses on the characteristics of a drama including the four elements of a play: characters, dialogue, action, and gesture. It features a presentation of characterisics of drama, a Wikipedia article "Drama," and Quizlet:...
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A Beginner's Guide to Effective Email: Gestures
Another site giving advice to beginning email users; this one deals with gestures in emails, such as smileys, pause equivalents, and creative punctuation.
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Centervention: Body Language Activities Using Telephone Game
In this activity, students will play the game of "Telephone" in two different ways. Students will first play "Telephone" with the traditional version of the the game and then only communicate via their body language.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Effective Visual Delivery
This lesson focuses on effective visual delivery including appropriate dress and open posture, eye contact and facial expressions, body movements and gestures, and effective visual aids.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Multimodality: The Five Modes of Communication
This lesson focuses on the five modes of communication: visual, linguistic, spatial, aural, and gestural along with examples of each.
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Kiddle Encyclopedia: Body Language Facts for Kids
This resource provide a list of common types of body language. Each type of body language is described.
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The Responsive Counselor: Body Language and Tone of Voice Lesson Plan
This blog post from shares several activities that will help students understand how to interpret voice tone and body language.
Understood For All
Understood: How to Help Your Child Understand Body Language
This article provides tips on how teach children to pick up on social cues.
Curated OER
Web Gallery of Art: Man Making an Obscene Gesture
An image of "Man Making an Obscene Gesture", created by Godfried Schalckenz (Etching).
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Bright Ring Publishing: Thomas Eakins
Here is a gesture drawing activity which looks at the art of Thomas Eakins.
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Spanish 1: Unit 5: Los Colores
In this fifth unit of an introductory Spanish course that focuses on Costa Rico, students learn to talk and write about themselves, how gestures are interpreted differently in English and Spanish, to recite a song, investigate how...
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Spanish 1: Unit 1: Saludos
In this first unit of an introductory Spanish course, students learn how to greet and say good-bye to each other, how to say an alphabet rhyme, some common phrases, how to address and talk about people using pronouns, who Pancho Villa...
University of Pittsburgh
University of Pittsburg: Communicating Behaviors for Effective Work Groups
Successful working groups are marked by a range of different communication behaviors-actions people do with words and gestures, which they can practice and improve over time. This site lists seven behaviors to improve communication in...
PBS
Art21: Susan Rothenberg
Susan Rothenberg is most well known for her minimalist horse paintings. PBS has included her in their series art:21 and here on the website you can see her work, read interviews, watch video clips, and read her biography.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Craft Stick Game: Identifying and Generating Rhyming Words
A fun game where students draw/colr and happy face on one end of a craft stick and a sad face on the other end. Then they hold up these sticks to identify whether or two words that their instructor says rhyme.
Free Reading
Free Reading: Phonemic Awareness Activities
This site contains activities for Phonemic Awareness. They provide activities for students to learn to identify and manipulate phonemes.
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