Great Ideas for Teaching (G.I.F.T.)--2016
Finalists--
Dianne Bragg, University of Alabama
Making the First Amendment Real: Creative Ways to Encourage Students to Learn Their Freedoms
Susan Bullard & Andrew Bechtel, University of Nebraska
Skimming the News: How to engage audiences with curated newsletter content
Kay L. Colley, Texas Wesleyan University
Crisis! Zombie Apocalypse Descends on Campus: Live News Coverage and Crisis Communications Management Practice for Mass Communication Students during a Simulated Crisis
Shugofa Dastgeer, University of Oklahoma
Visualizing Research Methods
John Freeman, University of Florida
The lives of others: How our Hearst team project got students off-campus and into another culture
Lisa Waananen Jones, Washington State University
Making Data Personal: Using the “lifelogging” movement to create datasets that inspire curiosity for visualization
Adam Kuban, Ball State University
Privilege
Nicole Kraft, The Ohio State University
You Be the Justice: Learning media law through role-playing podcasts
Kathleen McElroy, Oklahoma State University
Vote for Journalism: A Real-World Project to Build Reporting and Writing Skills
Chad Painter, Eastern New Mexico University
FOIA Your School: Teaching Access Through a Public Records Project
Donnalyn Pompper, Temple University
Overcoming Time Zone Barriers When Teaching Students about Crisis Communication in a Social Media Age
Carol Schwalbe, University of Arizona
Pairs and Squares: Engaging all students in class discussions
Rachel Somerstein, SUNY New Platz
Picturing Diversity: Using Theory and Content Analysis to Drive Journalism Practice
Darren Sweeney, Central Connecticut State University
Going Live! Owning The Breaking News Story
Tamara J. Welter, Biola University
Using a Tool to Teach a Tool
Susan Kirkman Zake and John Bowen, Kent State Universtiy
The People vs. The Simpsons: The First Amendment Survey, Multimedia Style