This document discusses two examples of practical communication in an academic environment: flipped classrooms and blogging for students. It describes a flipped classroom approach where students engage with course content outside of class, allowing class time to be used for discussion and exercises. It also outlines a workshop for PhD students to learn blogging skills, with the goals of making science communication fun, teaching what it means to blog, and producing blog posts that can be reused with permission. The document emphasizes that communication is about dialogue both inside and outside the classroom.