2009 GIFT SCHOLARS

• Spot That Spam
  How to use unwanted e-mail to show how grammar and punctuation affect credibility
  Andy Bechtel, North Carolina
  
  
• Judge Judy Goes to Class
  How to use a court TV show to help students cover two sides of a story
  Kris Boyle, Creighton
  Carol Zuegner, Creighton
  
  
• Don’t Mind Me…
  How to get students to capture conversation, evaluate stereotypes and come up with culturally relevant story ideas
  Susan Brockus, California State-Chico
  
  
• Law and Disorder
  How to cover court trials
  Laura Castaneda, Southern California
  
  
• Every Intersection Has a Story
  How to engage students in the community outside the university bubble, allow them to develop their own journalistic story ideas, and help them overcome their reluctance to talk to strangers
  Angie Chuang, American
  
  
• The Super Bowl of Advertising Courses
  How to get all majors pumped up about advertising
  Bonnie Drewniany, South Carolina
  
  
• Media Diary 2.0: Time, Money, Text Messages and Media Multitasking
  How to inspire students to think critically about the true costs of digital media
  Jennifer Fleming, California State-Long Beach
  
  
• Refrigerator Stories
  How to use (pseudo) observational research to draw conclusions and create profiles
  Kendra Gale, Colorado-Boulder
  
  
• “Creeping” Around Students’ Facebook Pages
  How to make research methods scarily relevant
  Dina Gavrilos, St. Thomas (St. Paul, MN)
  
  
• Roll the Dice for Diversity
  How to roll a role to introduce diversity
  Joel Geske, Iowa State
  
  
• Research-Informed iPhone Design: Where Students and Users Meet
  How 20 students and six faculty from four departments created interactive iPhone advertising and news content - and survived
  Michael Hanley, Ball State
  Jennifer Palilonis, Ball State
  
  
• The Keys to the Kingdom
  How to teach information fluency through a campus sunshine audit to unlock the secrets of government
  Rick Kenney, Central Florida
  
  
• (Web)Monkeying Around in the Classroom
  How to use new technology in the classroom
  Michael Kent, Oklahoma
  Maureen Taylor, Oklahoma
  
  
• Stylebook Scavenger Hunt
  How to reinforce editing skills by using online search engines and Web sites to find and collect examples of AP Style
  Jan Leach, Kent State
  
  
• Wasting Away?
  How to engage students in television history through critical interaction with Minow’s “Vast Wasteland” speech
  Susan L. Lewis, Abilene Christian
  
  
• Hooray for Hollywood
  How to teach students to write active news leads
  Tracy Lucht, Simpson
  
  
• Posting to the Web in Real Time
  How to teach beginning news-writing students to rapidly report, file and revise stories online
  Jamie Tobias Neely, Eastern Washington
  
  
• Getting Speakers for Class When Their Schedule Matches Yours
  How to use video and audio conferences for classroom speakers
  Gregory Pitts, Bradley
  
  
• Truly Viral Videos
  How to learn the rules of video reporting—by breaking them
  Daniel Reimold, Nanyang Technical
  
  
• So Unfunny You are Required to Laugh
  How to show Intro to Mass Communication students the subtlety of television manipulation
  Chris Roberts, Alabama
  
  
• Pulitzer Prize Winning Photos
  How to make mass communication history interesting
  Jim Sernoe, Midwestern State
  
  
• Creating Clouds of Beliefs
  How to visually display and share students’ personal codes of ethics
  B. William Silcock, Arizona State
  
  
• What’s Your Cover?
  How to harness Facebook fun to teach word and visual editing skills—and more
  Leslie-Jean Thornton, Arizona State
  
  
• How Do You Play When You Don’t Know the Rules?
  How to raise student awareness of cultural bias and privilege
  Jennifer Bailey Woodard, Middle Tennessee State
  
  
• What Would You Do?: A Scripted Simulation of Journalistic Decision Making
  How to use a scripted simulation to engage the students in critical thinking about the ethical decisions reporters face
  Anne Golden Worsham, Brigham Young
  Emily Reynolds, Brigham Young