2003 GIFT SCHOLARS

• Sticks, Stones, String and Clay (Award Winner)
  How to get students to think critically about the complexity of human communication in the past and today
  Tamara Kay Baldwin, Southeast Missouri State
  
  
• 55's the Limit
  How to use the 55-word short story in a feature writing class
  John Beatty, La Salle
  
  
• Diffusion of Diversity
  How to incorporate elements of diversity into most class lectures without overwhelming the students
  Lori Boyer, Louisiana State
  
  
• The Rescue of the Real From Mediated Virtual Reality
  How to teach with walking field trips to places of music
  Gene Burd, Texas-Austin
  
  
• Bringing the Courtroom into the Classroom
  How to make libel a reality for news writing students
  Juanita Darling, North Carolina-Chapel Hill
  
  
• Music, Politics and Protest
  How to use music to illustrate historical themes, time periods and media in mass communication history
  Glen Feighery, North Carolina-Chapel Hill
  
  
• Gumshoes
  How to teach students to do a little demographic detective footwork
  Joel Geske, Iowa State
  
  
• Watching the Watchdog!
  How to hold a mock hearing focusing on those foaming at the mouth
  John Irby, Washington State
  
  
• Syndication Marketplace
  How to get students excited about ratings, revenues, negotiating and, most of all, learning!
  Matt Jackson, Penn State
  
  
• Learning Photojournalism Through Community Service
  How to help students learn how to shoot picture stories while helping a volunteer agency in the community
  Brian K. Johnson, Illinois-Urbana-Champaign
  
  
• Toxic Sludge, Anyone?
  How to unite the city and campus communities in a project
  Paulette D. Kilmer, Toledo
  
  
• Finding the News
  How to fill a newscast with meaningful stories even on a slow Saturday night
  Richard Landesberg, North Carolina-Chapel Hill
  
  
• Power Publishing
  How to turn a lecture hall of fledgling writers into published reporters
  Scott R. Maier, Oregon
  
  
• Clip Notebooks
  How to get student reporters to read the newspaper critically for style, form and content
  Jane Marcellus, Middle Tennessee State
  
  
• In From the Hallway
  How to turn exam reviews into learning tools
  Jane S. McConnell, Minnesota State-Mankato
  
  
• TextBookMarks
  Coby O'Brien, South Florida
  
  
• Experience a Disaster
  How to give journalism students experience at covering a crisis situation affecting the local community
  Jack Rosenberry, St. John Fisher
  
  
• The Way It Is: A Student Zine
  How to integrate content (writing, photography, interactivity) and technology (HTML, Photoshop, Dreamweaver) in an online journalism course
  Carol B. Schwalbe, Arizona State
  
  
• Radio Listening Exercise: Figuring Out the Clock
  How to understand radio stations' rotating playlists
  Jim Sernoe, Midwestern State
  
  
• Keeping Great Examples Fresh
  How to integrate strategy critique and industry structure in an introductory advertising course
  Janas Sinclair, Florida International
  
  
• The Rural Elections Web Site
  How to learn online skills and serve the local community
  Amanda Sturgill, Baylor
  
  
• An Applied Lesson in Diversity as an Ethical Issue
  How to demonstrate that using race, nationality or ethnicity as physical descriptions is at best useless and at worst harmful to far too many people
  John C. Watson, American
  
  
• Who Wants to Be a Reporter?: The Broadcast News Quiz Game
  How to use a popular game show format as an assessment tool for current events quizzes in broadcast news and other reporting classes
  Evonne H. Whitmore, Kent State
  
  
• I Read the News Today--Oh Boy!
  How to get disengaged students excited about reading and writing political news
  Catherine Winter, Minnesota-Duluth
  
  
• Speech Week
  How to use a convergence strategy to teach students to cover speeches
  Gale A. Workman, Florida A&M