Browse Exhibits (7 total)

The Conservation Tales Immersive Learning Project develops books about wildlife conservation for students. The 2022 team is producing books about Macaws and Sloths, including versions in both English and Spanish.

This immersive learning project creates a website featuring an interactive map that details and promotes organizations operating sustainably in Indiana. Journalism students produced original media content highlighting various organizations during fall 2021, and Geography students incorporated the media content into a publicly available online map during spring 2022.

The Whitely Community is a traditionally African American neighborhood in Muncie that, from a historical point of view, has not been “on the map”, both literally and metaphorically. The aim of this interdisciplinary immersive learning project is to produce paper and virtual maps together with the neighborhood association and the broader community to tell personal histories of Whitely in time and space. Special emphasis is given to so-called story maps that combine individual accounts, memories of place, images and videos and allow map users to navigate through the past and present of the neighborhood.

Students in this course explored the potential of stories to enable connections among readers from diverse backgrounds and considers how such literary points of contact can expand outward. Students read contemporary American fiction that treats of the lived experience of characters belonging to different religious groups. We visited local religious centers and interacted with participants in Maring-Hunt Public Library book clubs. Students developed reading guides to empower people to facilitate difficult conversations in their own communities about religious diversity.