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Champion Creatively Alive Children Series
Creativity
Critical Thinking
Communication Expressing thoughts and feelings effectively
Collaboration
Arts-Infused Education Advocacy
PLUS
The 4 Cs: 21st Century Skills
Creativity Connects Us
Creativity Connects Schools with Families
Creativity Connects the World
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Objectives for Communication Workshop
What we will be
doing together…
Participant
expectations…
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Arts-Infused Education Builds
The Four Cs
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Think About
Communication
Introductions & Warm-Up Exercise:
What comes to mind
when you hear the word
“communication”?
Introduce yourself with a
“top of mind”
communication word within
your name (for example,
Joyce Conversation
Brown, Sam Graffiti Smith,
Miriam Media McCarthy)
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4 Cs of
Communication
Convey–Express
Customize
Compose–Construct
Check
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Convey–Express
What are the many ways
the ideas could be conveyed?
How many ways involve an art
form (music, drama, dance,
visuals)?
What thoughts do you
want to convey?
What emotions or feelings will
be expressed?
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How could you adjust your
communication so your
audience understands it?
Customize
What do you know about
your audience?
What does your audience
know about you or this
subject?
What does your audience
need to know?
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Compose–
Construct
Deliver the message.
Design the message.
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Check
How can you modify
your message to
improve communication?
How will you make sure
others understand?
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Dispelling Myths
Myth
Communication skills are
important only for people in fields
like publishing, marketing and
media.
Communication skills are essential
for everyone.
Reality Written or spoken language is the
only way to communicate.
Visual communication can be
equally effective—or even more
so: “A picture is worth
a thousand words.”
The message communicated
is the message received.
Effective communication demands
customized messages and checks
for understanding.
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Hands-on Exercise
Simple Symbols,
Universally Understood
Use colored pencils
to modify some of the
symbols on the Universal
Symbols worksheet.
Consider 4Cs:
Idea you want to convey.
Customize for audience.
Compose new symbol.
Check with others.
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A Picture is Worth a
Thousand Words
Hands-On Exercise
Demonstrates how difficult it is to communicate without visual clues
Four per team: 1 = Draw. 1 = Speak. 2 = Observe (can replace speaker)
Speaker and person who draws must sit back-to-back so cannot see what
each other is doing and cannot have eye contact.
Start = Speaker draws simple sketch with a circle, triangle, square and
rectangle. Any size. Any arrangement. Only speaker can speak.
Person who draws will try to replicate the shape drawing using only
verbal instructions.
If observer feels can communicate better, replace speaker.
After 8 minutes, stop process. Compare shape drawings. Discuss
difficulty communicating without visual clues.
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Emotional Puppets
Write a brief description of a character to
create.
Address the character’s appearance,
emotions & personality.
Swap your description with a teammate,
and create a finger-sized puppet that
expresses the personality, emotions and
appearance in the character description.
Hands-On Exercise
Display puppets and descriptions
separately. Ask participants to match the
written descriptions with puppets (not
revealing their own work). How difficult
was it to make the matches?
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Key Points
The 4 Cs of Communication—Convey–Express,
Customize, Compose–Construct and Check—help
us understand the key elements of communication for
students and adults.
Communication is basic to all human interactions,
even if not a single word is spoken or read.
All art is communication. Art empowers people to
convey and understand one another in meaningful
and memorable ways.
The visual arts are a powerful—and often underused
—way for students to learn and express themselves
in all of their classes.
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