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Special Event @ BEA2013 -- BEA Ignite!
Tuesday, April 9 | 2:30 pm – 3:45 pm | Pavilion 1, LVH

BEA Ignite shares the best enterprise ideas for the classroom. Presenters will have 5 minutes, and 20 slides, to share their top teaching tipping points. Following the traditional IGNITE format, atendees should come prepared to take home these passionate teaching ideas. The ten best IGNITE ideas have been peer reviewed, and are ready to make their presentations live during this BEA2013 session.

Moderator: B. William Silcock, Cronkite School/Arizona State University

Heidi D. Campbell, Bob Jones University; Video Blog Assignment - This is a simple and fun assignment that provides students with experience with video recording, as well as writing in a converged environment.

Kim Fox, School: The American University in Cairo (AUC); Storify for Young Journalists - Many people are using Storify to share stories but how can you use this curation tool in the classroom.

Anthony Adornato, Syracuse University; Too Good to be True? - Verifying Info on Social Media When cobras tweet, how do you know what to believe?! Group exercise helps students determine credibility of info on social media platforms.

Cynara M. Medina, Trinity University; 20x20 Project: Using Pecha Kuchas to Teach Graphic Design - Teaching graphic design principles using the Pecha Kucha 20X20 presentation format.

Max Utsler, University of Kansas School of Journalism; Twitter Dee Big Guys - Twitter Dee, Twitter Dumb is an end-of-semester group tracking project where students track groups, teams, individuals of their choice in their social media use.

Scott Winter, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Start a Movement - This Prezi explores four folks who started movements through storytelling. Telling stories of storytellers inspires students to go big.

Leigh L. Wright, Murray State (Ky.) University; Storytelling 3.0: Using Social Media Curation Tools to Craft Multimedia Stories - Journalism educators are constantly looking for new tools to enhance the traditional news values and story structures that we teach in all our classes.

Robert Anthony Galvez, Rhode Island College; Multimedia Scrapbook - Challenging first year media students to use multimedia to present topics covered extensively in traditional and social media.

Pamela Doyle Tran, University of Alabama; Ignite Through Interaction – (Not your mother's fishbowl exercise!)
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Ignite your students' electronic reporting skills! Vote on the top story using Facebook. Crowd source grads for an ethics debate and more.

Nick Taylor, University of Texas Pan American; Creating Non-Linear PowerPoint Games to Create Interesting, Educational and Fun Online/Distance Learning Modules - Linear PowerPoints draw a direct line to boredom. Bring adventure to distance learning by creating a PowerPoint game.