Immersive learning projects are interdisciplinary and provide class credit. Talk to your academic advisor about finding the right project for you.
Organizers of the following projects are currently recruiting students:
Building Better Communities Fellows
Sponsored by Departments/Colleges
Old Stories Made New-The Life of George Rogers Clark
Use your imagination and technical skills to bridge 18th century America to 21st century elementary students. This project team will replace fading film and missing perspectives with a new social studies video curriculum about the life of Revolutionary War figure George Rogers Clark. The American Revolution west of the Appalachian Mountains is an important test standard for which there is no curriculum for fourth and fifth grade students. Provide the solution as you incorporate digital animation, education, history, marketing, and public relations to create a dynamic tool for learning.
Majors: All
Contact: Ron Morris, professor of history, and Daniel Ingram, assistant of professor of history, for more information. Apply now!
Building Better Communities Fellows
BBC Fellows, Emerging Media Fellows, and Health Fellows projects allow you to work with an interdisciplinary team to help address a specific challenge for an Indiana business or organization. If selected for a project team, you will gain valuable technical skills, network with potential future employers, and attend professional development training at no cost to you.
Selected students are also eligible to apply for a Fellows Leadership Award. Students with leadership experience or special skills in emerging media may apply for this award, which involves a $1,000 scholarship to assist with tuition.
Majors: The program is open to all undergraduate and graduate students. Most Fellows projects are available for 3 credit hours.
Contact: Ruth Coffey, fellows project coordinator. Apply now!
East Central Indiana Youth Health and Wellness Camp
As part of an interdisciplinary team of Ball State students, you will spend six weeks designing and two weeks executing a health and wellness camp for third through sixth grades in the Blackford and Jay County school systems. The East Central Indiana Youth Health and Wellness Camp will be in Hartford City and Portland, Indiana. You will plan and conduct a camp project that will demonstrate to approximately 50 students how to live a healthier lifestyle through physical activity. Classes are scheduled to meet three days per week from May 9 to June 17 from 9:30 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. During the two weeks of camp (June 20 to July 1), the time commitment is 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Majors: All majors are welcome to participate in the project.
Contact: David Pierce, assistant professor of sport administration. Apply now!
Digital Archeology Simulation-Summer II This immersive course is a research project in emerging media using archaeological information from three Midwest historical archaeology sites. The information will be used to develop a computer-simulated archeology experience to be used in elementary classrooms. The archaeology simulation will teach young students about archaeology, material culture, and Midwest history. Under the leadership of faculty mentors from history, anthropology, and computer science, a simulation using information from the Moore-Youse house in Muncie, Indiana, Huddleston House in Wayne County, Indiana, and the Clemens farm in Darke County, Ohio will be created. Ball State team members will define the format, design the simulation, gather sources of information and illustrative content, identify comparison artifacts, create graphics, and work with schools and other community partners on testing and review.
When complete, the experience for elementary students will include field work preparation, excavation, documentation, lab analysis, artifact examination and interpretation. This course will be offered to Ball State students during the Summer II 2011 semester. Participants will be expected to work on the project from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday through Friday. Selected students will receive 3-6 hours of credit in a variety of disciplines.
Contact: Ronald Morris, professor of history; Paul Gestwicki, associate professor of computer science; or Mark Groover, associate professor of anthropology. Apply now!
Sponsored by Departments/Colleges
Safe At Home
Provide the member schools of the Indiana High School Athletic
Association (IHSAA), their staffs, parents, and communities with the
necessary tools to address potential issues and to devise a plan for
crisis management. You will gain service-learning experience as you work
in the field to observe, evaluate, educate, and help create policy for
our community partners in the areas of supervision, risk management,
safety, and crowd control.
Majors: Pre-law and any with video production interests
Contact: Leigh Ann Danzey-Bussell, assistant professor of sport administration
Deadline: recruiting students throughout 2010-2011 school year