2001 GIFT SCHOLARS

• The Scholary Tourist
  How to utilize the virtual tour to stimulate student learning and enhance computer skill development in introductory mass communications courses
  Beverly S. Bailey, Tulsa Community
  
  
• The Feature Teacher as Preacher and Practitioner
  How to integrate a teacher's own writing experience into the classroom
  Gene Burd, Texas-Austin
  
  
• Media Literacy Project
  How we can learn from the media
  Lisa Burns, Maryland-College Park/Prince George's Community
  
  
• Building Cyber-Communities for the Classroom
  How to use on-line resources to involve students in and out of the classroom
  John Chapin, Pennsylvania State
  
  
• Crossing the Lines
  How to bring together far-flung disciplines into a single project
  E.J. Conzola and Cecilia Friend, Utica
  
  
• Creative Aerobics
  How to generate advertising creativity on demand, minimize students' anxiety and encourage their creativity and productivity
  Linda Conway Correll, Florida
  
  
• Technology as a Teaching Assistant
  How to use readability tests in writing classes
  Dixie Shipp Evatt, Syracuse
  
  
• Doing Instead of Just Planning Public Relations
  How to make a public relations capstone class more meaningful through implementation projects
  Lisa Ferree, Eastern Kentucky
  
  
• Hands-on Experience for Public Relations Students
  How to meet departmental needs
  Salma Ghanem, Texas-Pan American
  
  
• Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
  How to revive student enthusiasm
  Donna Hale, Bowling Green State
  
  
• Using Student Group Projects in the Classroom
  How to diminish the dread for students and faculty
  Julie K. Henderson, Wisconsin-Oshkosh
  
  
• From Focus Group to Completed Ad
  How to teach advertising students to recognize and use consumer insight in creating ads
  Thomas Kim Hixson, Wisconsin-Whitewater
  
  
• Karloff's 'Tis a Nice Day to Get Out' Information Search and Search Strategy Exercise
  How to get beginning reporting students up, out and investigating the world around them
  Kim Karloff, California State-Northridge
  
  
• News In Brief
  How to teach media law creatively
  Patricia Kennedy, Syracuse
  
  
• Dirty Words and Dangerous Ideas
  How to teach the realities of book banning
  Kim Landon, Utica
  
  
• The Importance of Saying "Thank You"
  How to turn a simple courtesy into a valued teaching tool
  Phyllis Vance Larsen, Nebraska-Lincoln
  
  
• Journalistic Read-Aloud
  How to analyze and improve a story/article
  Tina Lesher, William Paterson
  
  
• Test Partners
  How to take the stress out of exams and promote student interaction
  J. Barlow LeVold, Illinois
  
  
• History Helpers
  How to engage students in American journalism history when they might rather be watching Oprah
  Karen List, Massachusetts
  
  
• Beat Reading
  How to get students talking about the news (and thinking about the reporter's craft)
  Miles Maguire, Wisconsin-Oshkosh
  
  
• Making the Best of Disaster
  How to teach effective and sensitive coverage of large-scale tragedy
  Scott Maier, Oregon
  
  
• News Team Peer Critique
  How to teach your students to give each other helpful feedback and still be friends when it's all over
  Jane Marcellus, Oregon
  
  
• "You Decide What's Right" Exercise
  How to integrate ethical issues into the classroom
  Nancy Mitchell and Michael J. Consbruck, Nebraska-Lincoln
  
  
• Reading Response Management
  How to help students improve reading comprehension and prepare for discussion sections
  Mark Plenke, Anoka-Ramsey Community
  
  
• Murder They Wrote
  How to teach journalism history, research, writing and citation
  Anna Paddon, Southern Illinois-Carbondale
  
  
• The Crash of CommAir Flight 4083 (Award Winner)
  How to join a journalism and public relations course by using a simulation
  Patricia Radin, California State-Hayward
  
  
• Just Do It
  How to teach strategic thinking skills in an advertising course
  Jan Slater, Ohio
  
  
• Using Vigorous Verbs and Colorful Phrases in News Writing
  How to write a stronger lead and news story that grabs an audience attention
  Patricia Tillotson, Southern University and A&M/Nicholls State
  
  
• Deconstructing the Newspaper Feature Article
  How to teach students about the component parts of a newspaper feature article
  Diana Tonnessen, Florida
  
  
• Job Search Package
  How to prepare your students to be successful in job interviews
  Lauren Vicker, St. John Fisher
  
  
• Please Don't Eat the Data: M&M's and Polls
  How to teach basic math skills to journalism majors using problem-based learning
  Kathleen Woodruff Wickham, Mississippi
  
  
• Grammarama
  How to build competence in and enthusiasm for grammar
  Carol Zuegner, Creighton