2004 GIFT SCHOLARS

• War Story
  How to teach converging media writing and liberal arts through learning communities
  Cheryl M. Bacon, Abilene Christian
  
  
• Remembering Through the Media, Then�and Now
  How to use collective memory to teach media history
  Lisa M. Burns, Quinnipiac
  
  
• Using a local community events guide to teach news writing basics
  How to give beginning journalism students their first shot at a byline
  Sue Ellen Christian, Western Michigan
  
  
• The Jayson Blair Witch Project
  How to teach effective interviewing skills through a student-produced interactive video
  David Cuillier, Idaho
  
  
• Practice What You Preach in Photojournalism
  How to maintain credibility and inspire creativity
  John Freeman, Florida
  
  
• The Media Diversity PSA Poster Campaign
  How to teach students about media diversity issues through researching, collaborating, writing, designing, revising and displaying poster PSAs
  Kim Golombisky, South Florida
  
  
• A Diamond Is Forever, and Other Myths
  How to teach students to appreciate advertising�s ability to invent tradition
  Bradley W. Gorham, Syracuse
  
  
• Before and After
  How to measure journalism students� progress through the written word
  Steve Hallock, Ohio
  
  
• An Applied Approach to Undergraduate Communication Research Class
  How to get students excited about communication research
  Volker R. Henning, Southern Adventist
  
  
• �Mapping� a Nation�s Media Environment in a Research Web Site
  How to merge research, analysis and multimedia storytelling in an international communication course within a converged curriculum
  John Hyde and Kimberly Sultze, Saint Michael�s
  
  
• One Professor�s Junk�A Treasure Box of Student Learning
  How to give a hands-on approach to analyzing direct mail effectiveness
  Lisa M. Irby, Washington State
  
  
• The Men�s Tie Theory of Color Harmony
  How to teach students about color harmony and introduce them to the basics of Adobe Photoshop in one easy lesson
  Brian Johnson, Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
  
  
• The Versatile Featuresgram
  How to put students in touch with role model and each other through e-mail �blogs�
  Leslie-Jean Thornton Jessee, Arizona State
  
  
• Putting the Moon in the Right Part of the Sky
  How to get student-journalists to pay attention to the world around them�in six easy exercises
  Kim E. Karloff, California State-Northridge
  
  
• Teaching Public Relations Tactics in the Digital Age
  How to use CD technology as a digital supplement in PR writing courses
  Ann Peru Kabe, Wisconsin-Whitewater
  
  
• You Want Me to Do What?
  Teaching public relations students to pitch story ideas
  Diana L. Knott, Ohio
  
  
• The Shadow (Editor) Knows
  How to use the Internet to turn students into thoughtful, critical readers of the campus newspaper
  Miles Maguire, Wisconsin-Oshkosh
  
  
• Using Hotornot.com to Assess Attractiveness: An Intercoder Reliability Exercise
  How to get students to think critically about how intercoder reliability works in communication research methods
  C. Leigh Nelson, James Madison
  
  
• One-Page Wonders Save the Day
  How to get students to read for class
  Donnalyn Pompper, Florida State
  
  
• Ken Burns is Coming to Campus
  How to get students to use the Internet for effective background
  Jack Rosenberry, St. John Fisher
  
  
• The Language of the Senses (Award Winner)
  How to use your five senses to add color and detail to feature stories
  Carol B. Schwalbe, Arizona State
  
  
• Unlocking the Lead
  How to demystify lead writing by reinforcing the connection between a strong opening and strong reporting
  Rosanne V. Pagano, Alaska-Anchorage
  
  
• Everybody Has a Story
  How to teach students to conduct interviews with strangers
  Alison Plessinger, Slippery Rock
  
  
• Empowering Students: Transitioning to Journalistic Writing
  How to improve journalistic writing instruction by connecting to what is taught in freshman composition
  Kimberly Wilmot Voss, Southern Illinois-Edwardsville
  
  
• Serving Seniors and Ourselves in Feature Writing
  How to meld service learning and journalism principles
  Margo Wilson, California U of Pennsylvania