Social Action & Communication Skills

http://www.takepart.com/actions/play-for-safe-water-play-freepovertycom/133892
This site is best for students taking geography (6th graders), students in high school and college. The Web site encourages some type of action to take place to get people to donate healthy water to countries with a high poverty level. It contains a game that has the world map. The Web site gives you a location such as Rome, Italy and asks that you locate it. The closer you get to the location the more cups of water the Web site will donate to a country of poverty. This activity could be used for teaching students about geography and real-world poverty issues/concerns.

http://socialworkaction.blogspot.com/
This site is best for students either in high school or college who are taking some kind of government or economics class. The Web site is a blog that discusses social actions that are taking place in the United States government. It is a good use of reference for teaching students about the government and economics. It is also good to show students how to blog and to share information, specifically information about social action.

http://www.takepart.com/issues/education-reform/13734
This Web site is specific toward education actions. There are videos, links to be able to tweet a statistic that is give on the site, links to donate and other informational texts. However, the takepart.com Web site is a site that encourages action to be taken for a huge range of issues from Environment to Social Welfare issues. This Web site can be best for any range of students as long as they know how to read somewhat detailed text and can comprehend the subject manner. Teachers can use this Web site to relate to basically any subject or content area that is being discussed in class.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htbNbmVLvkU
This video site is best for students at the middle school level. Middle school and be a tough time, especially for trying to communicate to one's parents, friends or school teachers. This video breaks down very simply concepts but states the information in such an easy way to understand. Teachers can use this video to teach students how to resolve conflicts. Teachers can also use this video to teach how to effectively give a speech or presentation to a class.

http://www.speakeasyinc.com/
This site is best for students in the business field. Middle schools and high schools tend to offer business classes and then of course once you reach the college level there is a whole college for business. The Web site discusses how important communication is within the business sector and how it is a key component to success. This site can be used as reference guide when discussing and teaching about communication skills. This site can also be shown as an example of how to incorporate key business skills with communication tactics.

http://stress.about.com/od/relationships/ht/healthycomm.htm
This site is best for students in high school because the depth of information may not be understood by those any younger. This site can be used by teachers to learn how to effectively communicate with their students. The site can also be used by students to study these concepts for classes that deal with communication skills (such as interpersonal communication skills at UF). This is another good communication Web site to use as a reference because it lists 10 ways to communicate effectively and then a range of tips to keep in mind.