GIFTS

If you’re coming to Washington, DC, bring GIFTS!  Whether you are a long-time master teacher, a first-year educator, or someone in between, help celebrate this year’s theme of Connections by connecting your great ideas to the convention of scholars and teachers who will meet in Washington, DC, for the NCA 99^th Annual Convention.  Great Ideas for Teaching Students are class-tested activities, assignments, projects, games, simulations, or assessment techniques that address a specific communication theory, concept, skill, or learning objective.  We encourage submissions from across the communication discipline to submit creative pedagogical ideas.  Top submissions will be recognized with a Certificate of Merit.  

Submitters should select “individual paper” as their submission type in NCA Submission Central. Submissions should include a title, a two-paragraph description of your GIFTS suitable for the online program, and a rationale including the goal of the submission, and a brief articulation of how it connects theory, concepts, and practice. In addition, you are required to upload a supporting document, no more than two pages in length, reinforcing how your GIFTS will address a specific communication theory, concept, skill, or learning objective.

All submissions must be made via NCA Submission Central. Emailed or mailed submissions will not be accepted.All submitters are encouraged to review the Professional Standards for Convention Participants prior to submission.  Helpful resources, including live and recorded step-by-step instructions on how to submit, are available in the Convention Resource Library.

Click here to go to NCA Submission Central to begin your submission.

For questions related to the content of a proposal, please contact Katherine Hendrix, University of Memphis, khendrix@memphis.edu.