COM111 Example Escape Room

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Klamath Community College

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dragon

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Legend says that a faraway kingdom forged a sword that together with the power of the Elemental Gems (fire, water, air, and earth) and knowledge about public speaking could defeat any evil. Gather the gems to assemble the ultimate weapon and defeat the dragon hiding in the dungeon.

Thank goodness you’ve come! We need your speech knowledge! You need to find the 4 Elemental Gems so that the sword has enough power and then defeat the fearsome dragon that is terrorizing our people…

Of course!

No thank you, I’ll pass

Help us, only a person like you can do it!

Hehehe, I was kidding. Ahem, of course I’ll help you

Ouch! I thought you were cool ... What will become of us!

I knew you would not fail me! Thanks a lot! Here is the holy sword. Now gather the Elemental Gems to complete it and defeat the dragon.

EARTH GEM

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Watch out, a wandering skeleton is in your way! Get the Earth Gem by passing a quiz about successful speech preparation & delivery…

LEVEL 1 - EARTH GEM

Where do you think you’re going, mortal?! You won’t be worthy of the Earth Gem until you get all my questions correct. Do you dare to try?

When preparing a speech, it is important to think about the ethics of public speaking from the beginning. When a speaker sets out to be ethical in their speech from the beginning, arriving at ethical speech is much easier.

True

False

Eye contact and body language are not important components of a successful speech.

True

False

Critical listening is the process a listener goes through using careful, systematic thinking and reasoning to see whether a speaker’s message makes sense in light of factual evidence. When listeners are not critical of the messages they are attending to, they are more likely to be persuaded by illogical arguments based on opinions and not facts.

True

False

For an outline to be useful, it’s important to follow five basic principles: singularity, consistency, adequacy, uniformity, and parallelism.

True

False

For an outline to be useful, it’s important to follow five basic principles: singularity, consistency, adequacy, uniformity, and parallelism.

True

False

There is nothing that can be done to alleviate communication anxiety.

True

False

Congratulations!! Here is your reward, you have earned it

Hahahaha, what do you say? ...

Oh, I've lost my mind, give me another chance!

LEVEL 2 - AIR GEM

AIR GEM

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Choose the correct answer to get out of the room alive and get the next gem.

is the idea suggested by or associated with a word. The majority of communication problems involving language occur because of differing .

Connotative Meaning

Denotative Meaning

True or False: A good Informative Speech conveys accurate information to the audience in a way that is clear and that keeps the listener interested in the topic.

True

False

Studying ____ is important today because it helps us become more persuasive individuals, become more observant of others’ persuasive attempts, and have a more complete understanding of the world around us.

Denotative Meaning

Persuasion

____ is the specific meaning associated with a word. We sometimes refer to ____ as dictionary definitions.

Denotative Meaning

Connotative Meaning

Entertaining Speeches should include four key considerations: preparation, adaptation to the occasion, adaptation to the audience, and mindfulness of the time.

True

False

You got the Air Gem!

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GAME OVER

LEVEL 3 - WATER GEM

WATER GEM

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Gather the mystical tears of the sky! Select the correct water droplets to unveil the precious water gem. But heed this warning... incorrect droplets, like sirens' songs, can beckon a fate most dire.

Monologue

Dialogue

The first tenet of the dialogic perspective is that communication should be a .

Examples

Support

The strategies a public speaker can use to provide corroborating evidence for the speech’s central idea and specific purpose are called .

SpeakingOutline

Credibility

The helps you stay organized in front of the audience without reading to them.

Dialogue

Credibility

One of the quickest ways to lose in the eyes of your audience is to use support that is inaccurate or even questionably accurate.

Speaking Outline

Examples

____—positive, negative, non, and best—help the audience grasp a concept.

Nice work! You collected all the water droplets. Here's the Water Gem!

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GAME OVER

LEVEL 4 - FIRE GEM

FIRE GEM

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You're almost there! One more gem left to collect.

Core Belief

Attitude

A(n) ____ is defined as an individual’s general predisposition toward something as being good or bad, right or wrong, or negative or positive.

____ refers to an individual’s perception of the usefulness, importance, or worth of something.

Dispositional Belief

Value

____ are propositions or positions that an individual holds as true or false without positive knowledge or proof.

Beliefs

Core Beliefs

True or False: Core Beliefs are beliefs that people have actively engaged in and created over the course of their lives (e.g., belief in a higher power, belief in extraterrestrial life forms).

False

True

_____ ____, on the other hand, are beliefs that people have not actively engaged in but rather judgments that they make, based on their knowledge of related subjects, when they encounter a proposition.

Attitudes

Dispositional Beliefs

You got the Fire Gem!

GAME OVER

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FINAL LEVEL - DRAGON

Defeat the dragon!

How dare you bother me, you fool!

Credits

You defeated the dragon! The kingdom is at peace again. And you’ve become became a legend!”

THE END

What will become of us!

Are you SURE YOU WANT TO Leave?

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Game Designed by Rochelle Daniel & Sam Kauffman Content Selected by Rochelle Daniel & Michelle Runyan. Content adapted from Stand up, Speak out: The Practice and Ethics of Public Speaking under a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-SA). Klamath Community College

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