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• Adjustment to Modern Life (College of St. Benedict/St. John's University, MN) Richard M. Wielkiewicz. This is a course web site, but as a course it probably doesn’t belong here. The reason it is listed here is because Dr. Wielkiewicz provides in his "course related web links" a large and well maintained list of cool sites, many of which would be of interest to you and your students. http://employees.csbsju.edu/rwielk/psy220/default.htm

• Basic Course Home Page: This site is maintained by the Department of Communication Studies, University of Kansas, for the NCA’s Basic Course Commission. The site provides reviews of instructional resources including books, software, and equipment. The links index is big and has brief descriptions. http://www.cc.ukans.edu/~sypherh/bc/bcrev.html (Not active as of September 14, 2003)

• COMFILE is a set hyperlinks to communication on the Internet for many different categories. To link to general communication resources go to: http://commfaculty.fullerton.edu/jreinard/internet.htm#GENCOM

• CommCentral is a McGraw-Hill’s website which promotes their titles and provides an extensive, well-organized set of links for students and faculty. Joan Aitken developed the site. http://www.mhhe.com/socscience/speech/commcentral/mghome.html

• The Management Assistance Program for Nonprofits is a professional organization which has a well maintained library of web resources. It is aimed at the manager of "human resources." Still, many interpersonal and small group instructors will find the Free Management Library a gold mine for linking to some free, well-done web sites. The general categories which are likely to be of interest include: communication (interpersonal), group performance, group skills, guiding skills, interpersonal skills, interviewing, and leadership development. Under these categories you will find sub-categories. For example, under interpersonal skills you will find conflict, etiquette, handling difficult people, valuing diversity, negotiating, and office politics. http://www.mapnp.org/library/

• Instructional modules on communication & diversity: The U.S. Army, Fort Bliss, has an interesting web page providing course materials. These materials appear to have been created by their Equal Opportunity office. These documents detail instructions on a variety of subjects likely to be of interest to interpersonal, small group, intercultural, and gender communication instructors. The modules present introductions, exercises, and sometimes testing methods. Click here for a list of the documents (modules) available at this site. They are in Microsoft Word format. Go to the bottom of the page to see their "documents." http://www.bliss.army.mil/services/eo/eor.htm

• Test-Out Option.Winona State University, Minnesota, has a test-out option for their basic course (hybrid). If you are interested in creating such an option at your institution, this site will be of interest to you. Part of the site includes a test out study guide which includes general overview questions, public speaking questions, small group discussion and dynamics questions, and interpersonal communication questions. These questions clearly define the objectives for their course. http://www.winona.msus.edu/communicationstudies/191TestOut/http://www.uwsp.edu/education/lkirby/interpersonal
  
• Communication Links Web Navigation offers "one stop access to relevant communication sites." http://www.cios.org/encyclopedia/comlinks/websites.htm

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• Conflict Resolution Resources is well-maintained by faculty at Nova Southeastern University. Subject included in the five indices including arbitration, dispute resolution, justice concerns, mediation, and peace movements. The site has five indices: Internet Resources and Listserves (this is an overwhelming list of resources, many of them very good), Newsletters, Journals, Membership Organizations, Resource Organizations. http://www.nova.edu/ssss/DR/

• Consensus through Transformation, Evolution, and Emergence is a lengthy statement about conflict resolution presented by the United Planetary Federation/Unified Peace Foundation. "To achieve consensus, we must overcome four major obstacles: 1.The complexity of ideas. 2.The limitations of the written word. 3.The fact that everyone views life and the world a bit differently. 4.The unpredictable nature of accidents that can occur at any time at any level or in any space of life for any number of reasons." http://upf.org/transcon.htm

• Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University College, University of Toronto, is a promotional site for their academic program. The site has a small number of interesting links. http://www.library.utoronto.ca/pcs/

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• A Handbook for HP Mentors by Hewlett Packard employee/mentor Bill Wear. This online handbook provides guidance and instruction about a number of principles and skills which might be useful for interpersonal and group communication classes looking for examples of applications. The handbook is well done. It is part of a larger site which promotes telementoring (Internet based mentoring). http://www.telementor.org/hp/info/handbk1.html#s14

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• Committee for Children is a site concern with preventing youth violence and enhancing school safety. http://www.cfchildren.org/

• Family Life is a product provided by Clemson University’s Cooperative Extension Service and the Department of Family and Youth Development. They have a few interesting links plus some links to brief articles appropriate to family life. http://fyd.clemson.edu/famlife.htm (Not active as of September 14, 2003)

• Family Relations is a site created in 1996 by students in Dr. Nancy Darling’s Family Relationships course, it doesn’t appear to be currently maintained. However, nearly all links are active. Besides links to such topics as parenting, brothers & sisters, divorce, death & dying, substance use, family violence, etc., the students provided a set of their paper centered on five topics: relationships, parenting, grandparents, family problems, and intimate violence. Dr. Darling’s 1996 course web site was also still available. http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/n/x/nxd10/family3.htm (Not active as of September 14, 2003)

• Interfaith marriages: Rabbi David Pinkwasser, for 20 years Rabbi of Temple Emanuel in Tempe, Arizona, now Rabbi Emeritus, has developed training kits for interfaith family (when one is a Jew and the other a non-Jew). His goal is to encourage interfaith families to come back to the Temple and have a high comfort level by helping spouses, parents, grandparents, children, siblings and friends understanding their relationships in a Jewish community. The site has five survival kits, and instructions on how to enhance Shabbat and holidays. http://www.ssmartco.com/interfaith/ (Not active as of September 14, 2003)

• Mapping of Rules (Frederick R. Ford) is a list of rules followed by people in several different kinds of families. This site features a web based test (with online scoring) which measures five family systems: Two Against the World, Children Come First, Share and Share Alike, Every Man for Himself, & Until Death Do Us Part. Links provide explanations and a bibliography. http://home.pacbell.net/frccford/index.html

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• COMFILE is a set hyperlinks to communication on the Internet for many different categories. To link to small group resources go to:   http://commfaculty.fullerton.edu/jreinard/internet.htm#SMALLGP (unfortunately the small group links are exclusively Parliamentary procedure sites as of July 1999).

• The Group Communication Division of the National Communication Association maintains an excellent web site. The site serve primarily a depository for the divisions bylaws, minutes, and other institutional business. There is a "People Directory," information on how to join their listserv, and an especially valuable page called "other resources on the web." Lisa Millhous is the current web master. http://communication.wcupa.edu/groupdiv/

• Social Poker is an online simulation/game which has been organized by a group of mostly political science people. The game is designed to investigate the pattern of individual and collective decisions that lead to the formation of groups out of a pool of individuals. http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~harrow/spdes.htm

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• COMFILE is a set hyperlinks to communication on the Internet for many different categories. To link to interpersonal sources go to: http://commfaculty.fullerton.edu/jreinard/internet.htm#INTERPER

• Group Performance Systems, Inc. Interpersonal Communication Resources on the Web and on the Net. This site provide many quality links other sites. http://www.gpsi.com/interper.html

• Interpersonal Communications Skills: Video Training Course (c1998, On With Learning, Inc., Arroyo Grande, CA, USA). This commercially produced training video shows you how to minimize conflict and build collaboration in today's team-oriented Workplace. In this program, communication expert Debra Sutch combines the powerful learning experience of a live training seminar with real-life role-plays that gives you an inside look at specific communication techniques in action. The web site provides program highlights, goals, and ordering information. http://videoed.com/c1211.html

• SSCA's Interpersonal Communication Division webmaster, Jim Roiger,  has links to many interesting sites which have instructional value. http://cotton.uamont.edu/~roiger/ipcomm/

• Y? forum is a topical forum for people to talk about their differences. Eleven general topic define what people discuss here: religion, sexual orientation, gender, general diversity, disabilities, age, sensitive matters, geography, race/ethnicity, class, and occupation. This is a big, well-maintained site which might be useful for participation or applied research assignments. http://www.yforum.com/

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• Conducting the Information Interview developed by Stephanie J. Coopman, San José State U. It features 7 tutorial modules. The modules correspond with the 7 stages in the information interview. There is a Pre-Test, a set of references, etc.  http://www.roguecom.com/interview/

• The Interview is a career services web site maintained by Virginia Tech. It includes links to articles on: Types of Interviews, Frequently Asked Interview Questions; Questions to Ask; Lawful and Unlawful Interview Questions; The On-Campus Interviewing Program; Business Etiquette; Interview Attire, and links other college placement and career sites with information about interviewing. http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~cs3604/careers/interview.html

• Career Span Interview Information Resources provides a site with links to practical articles on job interviewing, links to other sites with information about interviewing. http://www.careerspan.com/interviewinfo.asp

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• COMFILE is a set hyperlinks to communication on the Internet for many different categories. To link to sources about language and code systems go to: http://commfaculty.fullerton.edu/jreinard/internet.htm#CODESYS

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• The Active Listening Exercise was prepared by the New England Regional Leadership Program. This site provides a lengthy explanation of active listening. The document is provided by Center for Rural Studies, which is a nonprofit, fee-for-service research organization, based in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at the University of Vermont. http://crs.uvm.edu/gopher/nerl/personal/comm/e.html

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• CMC Studies Center. This Web site is dedicated to serving the needs of researchers, students, teachers, and practitioners interested in the study of human communication via computers. This field of study is called Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC). People interested in CMC study a range of phenomena--from the dynamics of group communication in Usenet news articles to how people use hypertext to shape meaning. The CMC Studies Center helps people share information, make contacts, collaborate, and learn about developments and events. If you are interested in CMC studies, you are invited to participate. http://www.december.com/cmc/study/center.html

• "Researching Personal Relationships in Cyberspace" by Malcolm Parks (U of Washington) and Joseph Walther (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), originally presented at the INPR meeting in Seattle in 1997. This is a rich 72 slide presentation about the impact of computer-aided communication (e-mail, moos, etc.) on interpersonal relationships. http://www.rpi.edu/~walthj/inpr96/sld001.htm  (Not active as of September 14, 2003)

•  Joseph Walther has a large bibliography of computer-mediated communication which supports "Researching Personal Relationships in Cyberspace." You will need to go to his personal webpage and click on "CMC Bib." The file is in rtf (rich text format, readable by most word processors). http://www.rpi.edu/~walthj/  (Not active as of September 14, 2003)

• Social Issues of Computing. This page is designed to serve as a single entry point into a set of resources dealing with social issues of computing, connecting some of the work of Rob Kling, at Indiana University - Bloomington, Tom Jewett, at C.S.U. Long Beach. http://www.engr.csulb.edu/~jewett/social/cover.html   (Not active as of September 14, 2003)

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• Association for Psychological Type, Utilizing Instruments such as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. This site is primarily for consultants and career counselors. The "related web sites" provide links to high quality web sites providing interpretation and application of psychological typing. There is also a link to a series of statements about the ethical use of psychological typing. http://www.aptcentral.org/

• Body-Mind QueenDom is a student's site. Some of the interesting links include Cyberia’s Tests, Test Junkie, Mind-Stretching, Sexuality Articles, Self-Help Corner, WebPsych Club, Dr. Judith’s Advice Column. It is really about sex. http://www.queendom.com/

• Will Shutz Associates, Creator of FIRO Theory has a web site which provides information about his books and instruments he markets. http://www.willschutz.com/

• Great Ideas in Personality is maintained by G. Scott Action (Northwestern U). While primarily a psychology site, Action has a well-developed interpersonal theory section and it seems to be a major research interest. Other aspects of personality theory including sociobiology are well-treated here. http://www.personalityresearch.org/

• Keirsey Temperament Sorter and Keirsey Temperament Theory web site is operated by David Keirsey, Ph.D. The site provides several computer scored personality tests which allow visitors to describe their personality. Keirsey provides a 36-item version of his temperament sorter as well as the better known 70-item version. The 70-item version is also available in Spanish, Portuguese, German, and Norwegian. Keirsey's work is built on Carl Jung's theory of personality and the work of Myers and Briggs. The temperament sorter can be very useful in demonstrating how personality shapes communication style and how personality differences can result in communication problems.  http://www.keirsey.com/

• Resource materials on personality types (an annotated bibliography of books and periodicals). This is a plain text site, apparently not current. When we visited the site in June 1999, it had last been updated in 1997. Still the notes on the books and periodicals might be useful for a teacher or student interested in Jungian theory of personality and communication styles. http://metalab.unc.edu/personality/faq-mbti.html

• The Society for the Teaching of Psychology maintains Project Syllabus. These syllabi have been reviewed and selected for inclusion. Some of the subject headings likely to be of interest to EMPATHY subscribers include: clinical, cognitive, counseling practicum, introduction to psychotherapy, personality, personality development, psychology of adjustment, social, and training in organizations. http://www.lemoyne.edu/OTRP/projectsyllabus.html

• Socionics attempts to explain the role of personality in predicting interpersonal relationships. It uses the same four variable found in Myers-Briggs. According to the web site, "The roots of Socionics protrude deeply into Jung's theory of psychological types, Freud's theory of conscious and subconscious and Kempinski's theory of information metabolism." This is a cool site with an adjective checklist to give you a psychological profile. And there is plenty of interpretative material available. The site promotes a book which is not available at Amazon.Com. http://www.socionics.com/ 

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• Films for the Humanities & Sciences is a distributor of films for the classroom. Selection of items for their list is screened by an editorial board. They distribute of catalog for "communications" which is heavily films and media oriented, but their main list has many items likely to be useful for interpersonal & small group communication. http://www.films.com
   
• Insight Media is a distributor of films for the classroom. They distribute film titles which might be of interest for various communication courses including interpersonal communication, gender communication, and group dynamics. Some of the title available with year of production and length) include: Interpersonal relationships (1997, 30 minutes), Dynamics of Person-to-Person Communication: Perspectives (1995, 28 minutes), Dealing with Difficult People (2000, 45 minutes), The Differences in People (2000, 45 minutes), Interpersonal Communication and the Communication Process (1996, 28 minutes), He Said, She Said: Gender, Language, and Communication (2001, 50 minutes), Body Language Skills (2002, 47 minutes), Nonverbal Communication in a Global Marketplace (2004, 24 minutes), Group Dynamics and Communications (2000, 21 minutes), and Effective Decision Making in Groups (1989, 28 minutes). There are many titles. http://www.insight-media.com
   
• University of California Extension, Center for Media and Independent Learning produces and distribute educational films. Their Social Psychology, Sociology and Nonverbal Behavior catalogue list a number of films which would be of interest for communication classroom: A World of Love: Cultural Difference in Courtship, Love, and Marriage (2003, 40 minutes), Gender and Communication: Male-Female Differences in Language and Nonverbal Behavior (2001, 42 minutes), and The Interpersonal Perception Task (1987, 40 minutes). There are several other title likely to be of interest. http://ucmedia.berkeley.edu

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