This article is the first in a two-part series. It features 13 teaching innovations selected from the 60 "My Favorite Assignments" presented at the 2019 Association for Business Communication's annual international conference in Detroit, Michigan. Pedagogy presented includes experiential learning methods to teach how to deliver peer feedback, new approaches for incorporating the Internet and social media into learning experiences, and a boost on a classic topic, ethics. Assignments include: (1) Using CRAP Design to Create Effective Documents (Leslie Seawright); (2) Sticky Note Peer Assessment (Mary B. Zink); (3) Intercultural Communication: Same, Same but Different (Robyn Albers); (4) Using Online Restaurant Reviews to Make Recommendations to Management (Laura O. Barrett); (5) Crisis Communication via Social Media: Can You Do Better? (Marie-Louise Brunner and Stefan Diemer; (6) Social Media Audit (Emily Carson Goenner); (7) Podcast Production to Build Technical and Oral Communication Skills (Heidi E. Huntington); (8) Personal Branding and Networking: Building a Professional Online Presence (Xiaoli Li); (9) The CRAP Test: Learning Healthy Skepticism (Andy Spackman); (10) Responding to Negative Online Reviews on Amazon (Junhua Wang); (11) The Power of Your Profile: Networking on LinkedIn (Susan Hall Webb); (12) Teaching Ethics in 50 Minutes (Kathy J. Langston); and (13) Creating an Ethics Acronym to Respond to Inflection Points (Georgi Ann Rausch and Kathryn Canas).