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Honors director, student to present at national conference
July 17, 2003 | |||||
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KOKOMO, Ind.—Separate presentations proposed by IU Kokomo professor Robert Strikwerda and student Kathryn Widman have been accepted for the 2003 National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) conference in Chicago in November. Director for IU Kokomo’s Honors Program and an associate professor of philosophy, Strikwerda will report on ideas exchanged at the NCHC’s Institute for Honors Faculty, held in April in Savannah, Ga. Professors Ada Long and Dail Mullins of the University of Alabama, Birmingham, will be co-presenters. The April institute emphasized the integration of geological, ecological, historical, economic, sociological, and cultural factors in teaching, Strikwerda said. Suggestions for innovative teaching materials and methods seemed particularly applicable to the course “Trees, Treasures, and Trash,” a Freshman Learning seminar taught by Strikwerda. One activity he would like to try is a mock town meeting. “Students role-play people with different perspectives on ecological issues, such as land use or waste disposal regulations,” he explained. Widman is a senior Communication Arts Major and honors student from Rochester. Her NCHC proposal was 1 of 100 accepted for a conference poster session, which will showcase research and fine art projects by honors students and faculty. Widman will outline the creation of a promotional video of IU Kokomo’s Humanities Department. Holly Gordon and Doug Showalter, both of Kokomo, teamed with Widman on the semester-long assignment in a Corporate Communications class. They spent up to 30 hours per week this spring writing and revising scripts, conducting interviews, taping scenes, and editing them all down into 15-minute videos.
Course instructor Amy Graban, Ph.D., said, IU Kokomo’s purchase of new digital video cameras and an AVID computerized editing system in August 2002 made the capstone course feasible. “AVID is the professional standard for video editing,” she said. “All the skills the students learned (in using the AVID and making the capstone videos) are transferable if they go into professional broadcasting.”
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