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Wednesday, March 18, 2009

The Benefits of Media Assessment: Virtual Poster Sessions
Archived Video
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Speaker	Video
Dr. DeJong discusses how the idea for virtual poster sessions originated and how the assignment is structured.	Part I
Dr. DeJong gives examples and discusses issues encountered, take-aways and lessons learned.	Part II

Session Background

PRESENTER:
Dr. Christina DeJong
Associate Professor
MSU School of Criminal Justice

Overview:
Virtual Poster Sessions offer students in CJ811, Design and Analysis in Criminal Justice Research, the opportunity to collaborate and display the results of data analysis to provide examples of data-driven decision making. For this project, students select a relevant criminal justice research question, then use ANGEL to create a literature review, draw conclusions from data analysis (created in SPSS), and discuss implications of findings. Rather than write a paper to present their results, students use Google Sites to create a Web page that displays their work, creating a repository of learning resources for other students in the course. This presentation will discuss the development of this project, and how it can be implemented in both online and face-to-face courses of diverse subject matter.

Moderator:
Jessica Knott
jlknott@msu.edu
Virtual University Design and Technology

Advisory panel:
Byron Brown, Carrie Heeter, Jessica Knott, Kristen Lee and Susan Melnick