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GERALD SHERRATT

All those involved with SUU Athletics are collectively mourning the passing of former university president, Gerald R. Sherratt, who will go down as one of the most influential people in the history of the Southern Utah University Athletics Department. A friend and advocate of the many athletic programs at SUU, Sherratt was also instrumental inContinue reading “GERALD SHERRATT”

TEACHING DLL

Teaching Young Dual Language Learners to Be Writers: Rethinking Writing Instruction Through the Lens of Identity When I was serving an LDS mission in Lisbon, Portugal, I was told a great joke. My companion and I stopped a man on the road to gauge his interest in hearing our message. Unsurprisingly he didn’t, but heContinue reading “TEACHING DLL”

DIGITAL (DE)VICES

DIGITAL DISTRACTIONS IN THE CLASSROOM: STUDENT CLASSROOM USE OF DIGITAL DEVICES FOR NON-CLASS RELATED PURPOSES Hands down, this is my favorite academic article I’ve read about the classroom. You see, every semester as I begin teaching Interpersonal Communications to a new group of students, we always start by reviewing the syllabus. This is a commonContinue reading “DIGITAL (DE)VICES”

MLB & TWITTER

Major League Baseball and Twitter Usage: The Economics of Social Media Use The role that social media plays in the development of professional sports is an increasingly growing phenomena. Likewise, the growing role of social media in professional sports is an increasingly researched topic. As new research is conducted and more data is gathered, theContinue reading “MLB & TWITTER”

Visual Framing

An Excerpt from “How Visuals Contribute to Framing Effects.” In today’s modern news coverage, photos, illustrations, graphics, and other visuals play a prominent role. It is accepted that visuals in news media help define and frame issues. Framing is often used in discussing news media reporting. Gamson and Modigliani (1987) explain that a frame isContinue reading “Visual Framing”

WBB: WEB @ SUU

Cedar City, Utah – The Southern Utah University Thunderbirds welcomed their in-state rival, the Weber State Wildcats, into Centrum Arena Saturday evening. Early turnover troubles and a failure to effectively move the ball doomed the Thunderbirds from the start, as they fell 70-51. Southern Utah head coach Chris Boettcher was disappointed in his team’s performance.Continue reading “WBB: WEB @ SUU”

COACH LAMB

Just a little bio piece I wrote for Coach Lamb’s award ceremony. He is such a class-act. He and his family will definitely be missed here in Cedar City. Former Southern Utah University head football coach, Ed Lamb, has been named the 2016 Cedar City Chamber of Commerce Citizen of the Year. Lamb’s success onContinue reading “COACH LAMB”

SEMIOTICS

Semiotics Semiotics, or the study of signs, includes a host of theories about how signs come to represent objects, ideas, states, situations, feelings, and conditions outside of themselves. The study of signs not only provides a way of looking at communication but also has a powerful impact on almost all perspectives now employed in communicationContinue reading “SEMIOTICS”

METAPHORS

Metaphors are play a prominent role in our society. Whether they are being used to teach a lesson or make a concept more approachable, they are prevalent in many aspects of our public and private lives. Foss defines a metaphor as, “A non-literal comparison in which a word or phrase from one domain of experienceContinue reading “METAPHORS”