This paper reports on a collaboration between two academic teaching staff who jointly coordinate an undergraduate foundation course. One aim of the course, entitled 'Computers, Communication and Society', is to give the students experience in and access to the skills required to search, evaluate, manage and save information for later access. The staff utilised their diverse strengths in information management and in electronic publishing to integrate these information literacy skills into the course, via a foundation course portal. The students were consistently taught from and referred to the portal. Suggestions for improving the effectiveness of the portal are discussed.

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This paper analyses student construction of case studies, using dialogue and role plays, to stimulate and consolidate understand of organization communication research , theory and methodology. Students undertaking a course as part of a Masters program in communication management need to absorb a range of organizational research perspectives and organizational communication theories. Making the theorists and methodological perspectives 'about you' is one way of stimulating interest and engagement with demanding and complex concepts. Student response to the case study construction and some dialogue examples are included.

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