2006 GIFT SCHOLARS

• Changing Your Local Newscast
  How to work with a news station to conduct a content analysis on diversity of local news
  Cristina L. Azocar, San Francisco State
  
  
• Exposing My Thin Skin
  How to teach editing students to work with writers
  Matthew Baker, Utah
  
  
• Technology as the Teacher
  How to use the car to teach communication, media and society
  Gene Burd, Texas-Austin
  
  
• Get Involved!
  How to help students understand journalism ethics through community service
  Lynn Schofield Clark, Denver
  
  
• Finding That Dream House Without FOI Nightmares (2006 WINNER)
  How to make access to public records relevant in reporting and law classes through a house and neighborhood document background search
  David Cuillier, Arizona
  
  
• Grist from the Rumor Mill
  How to use the interview as treasure hunt
  Juanita Darling, California State-Monterey Bay
  
  
• News Judgment Call to Action
  How to show students that with journalism, there are no �right� answers
  Kate Roberts Edenborg, Minnesota-Twin Cities
  
  
• Click and Brick
  How to incorporate online Associated Press style instruction into a seated mass communications classroom
  Linda Harvey and Joye C. Gordon, Kansas State
  
  
• Building a Brand Architecture
  How to construct a solid foundation for great advertising
  Daniel M. Haygood, Tennessee
  
  
• Six Steps to Burning Love
  How to use the Synectics instructional model to enhance student creativity in advertising
  Myleea D. Hill, Arkansas State
  
  
• Investigate your Professor
  How to poke into your instructor�s past, present and future�and get an A for curiosity
  Christopher D. Karadjov, California State-Long Beach
  
  
• The Shoe Box Project
  How to foster unique student expressions about the media through an unexpected tactile assignment
  Karen E. Kline, Lock Haven
  
  
• No Need to Be So Tense! Or, Do I Have to Draw You a Picture?
  How to get Students to �draw� from the right sides of their brains when learning grammar and syntax
  Susan M. Knight, Arizona
  
  
• Reading to Learn
  How to help students read, discuss and learn course concepts
  Jan Larson, Wisconsin-Eau Claire
  
  
• Get Them Up and Moving
  How to bring active learning to a large lecture hall
  Amy Mattson Lauters, Wichita State
  
  
• Critiquing without Crying
  How to critique advertising assignments without bruising students� egos and killing their creative juices
  Karen Mallia, South Carolina
  
  
• Your Historical Self:
  How to teach students to understand media history in terms of their own lives
  Jane Marcellus, Middle Tennessee State
  
  
• Name that View
  How to use descriptive writing to help readers visualize a story�s setting
  Renee Martin-Kratzer, Florida
  
  
• Calming the Seas
  How to focus and engage large lecture classes
  Diana Knott Martinelli, West Virginia
  
  
• Breaking News Strategy Game
  How to prepare broadcast journalism students for the unpreparable�live �real time� news coverage
  Mary T. Rogus, Ohio
  
  
• The Media with 20/20 Hindsight
  How the media recorded the events that shaped the 20th century
  Felecia Jones Ross, Ohio State
  
  
• The �Big Idea� in Media Planning
  How to get students thinking strategically about selecting media classes
  Janas Sinclair, North Carolina-Chapel Hill
  
  
• White Wedding
  How to audit diversity in nuptial announcements
  Jeff South, Virginia Commonwealth
  
  
• On the Health Beat Coverage
  Multimedia stories on health issues facing University of XXX students
  Andrea Tanner and Kim Smith, South Carolina
  
  
• Freewriting Fridays
  How to shift your students� creativity into high gear
  Margo Wilson, California-Pennsylvania