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Dome Speeches

 

Susan Bonzi, associate professor and director of instructional quality at the iSchool, has been awarded an Enitiative grant to enhance her course, IST 444 Information Reporting and Presentation.

IST 444 is a required course for iSchool and Whitman undergraduates. Students will learn to pitch an innovative or entrepreneurial idea to their boss at a professional sporting event, while the boss is being served food and drinks, by implementing a "dome speech," similar to an "elevator speech." The students will practice their pitches in a skybox at the Carrier Dome.
Preliminary findings of research conducted by iSchool professor Ruth Small and graduate students in the Center for Digital Literacy (CDL) show a statistically significant increase in the ELA test scores—almost a 10 point difference—among fourth-grade students whose schools had certified librarians over students in schools without certified librarians.
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