Tag: Poster Spring 23

Autumn Arcangel & Alexus Hernandez

Trouble in Paradise?

Abstract- The focus of this presentation is to highlight the troubles that tourism can bring to small tourist destinations. Sometimes tourists who travel to certain destinations fail to take proper precautions and do their research, which can often lead to dangerous or unfortunate situations for the locals and tourists. In this project, we will be looking at Oahu, Hawai’i and how tourism affected the land and the locals. After researching, we found that tourism for Hawai’i cause a lot of problems and dangerous situations. This project is not to bash on tourists but to bring awareness for small tourist destinations like Hawai’i. We will be focusing on economy, society/culture, and environment. 

BUS207- Travel and Tourism

Dr. Pete Diffenderfer

Poster Judging Contest (L203: 10am – Noon)

Bobby Byrd

A Financially Ideal Trip to Japan

This presentation will detail the ins and outs of finding a way to travel and tour different areas in Japan, while still being financially conservative in as many ways as possible. It can be hard to travel anywhere on a budget, but Japan has many options for traveling and touring for cheap that are overlooked. This will list the rates of travel companies, different hotels with varying qualities, specific tours, and destinations that are must-see tourist attractions, including their pricing and the length for those as well. 

BUS 207 – Travel and Tourism

Dr. Pete Diffenderfer

Poster Judging Contest (L203: 10am – Noon)

Bre’Azia Bourg

Poverty and School: It does make a difference!

In this presentation I will examine the effects of poverty on student learning, specifically at the high school level. I will discuss things like parental, support, mental health, graduation/college rates, and more! Lastly, I will present ways to address those challenges in the classroom.

EDUC321- Classroom Relations & Management

Dr. Brian Kaelin

Poster Juding Contest (L203: 10am – Noon)

Christopher Rosebrook, Will Callahan

For Better or for Worse: Tourism in Chile

This paper will be discussing the advantages and disadvantages of tourism in the country of Chile. It will delve into the effects that tourism has on the natural environment as well as the local economies of Chile. The paper will show how tourism plays a role in conservation and how this outweighs the negative effects it has on the environment.

BUS307: Travel and Tourism

Dr. Pete Diffenderfer

Poster Judging Contest (L203: 10am – Noon)

Dylan Hough and Christian Benavides

Vail Resorts

We will be doing our presentation on Vail Resorts.We will be going over how the resort is the largest resort operator in North America with a record of 17.3 million skiers visiting and $2.5 billion in revenue for its fiscal in 2022. We will then go into talking about the Accommodations, History, Resorts within, Economics, Demand, Impacts, Transportation. We will also have bar graphs and pictures.

BUS207- Travel and Tourism

Dr. Pete Diffenderfer

Poster Judging Contest (L203: 10am – Noon)

Elizabeth Mathis, Aaron von Bruck

Sports Tourism

We are going to compare and contrast the impacts of sports tourism on the host cities during the major U.S. sporting events (Super Bowl, NBA Finals, World Series).

BUS207- Travel and Tourism

Dr. Pete Diffenderfer

Poster Judging Contest (L203: 10am – Noon)

Hannah Love 

How does Color affect Student’s learning

Different colors can influence people’s moods and reactions. Different types of colors and shades can make people feel safe or afraid. Putting calming and welcoming colors in a classroom is more effective at creating a healthy learning environment than blank walls or bright colors. 

EDUC321- Classroom Relations & Management

Dr. Brian Kaelin

Poster Judging Contest (L203: 10am – Noon)

Janea Robertson

Marketing of travel and tourism

I will be talking about the effects that marketing has on travel and tourism and specifically airlines and hotels and theme parks/ attractions and the different and similar ways they use marketing strategies to attract tourists. 

BUS207: Travel and Tourism

Dr. Pete Diffenderfer

Poster Judging Contest (L203: 10am – Noon)

Kyle Casperson

Best Classroom Discipline strategies that stay IN the class

The question at hand is, “what are the most efficient ways to discipline students in the classroom?” During my 2nd semester of observing my cooperating teacher this year, I noticed that her go-to discipline action was to send students either to the “office” or the “reset room”. This is in the PE setting, and I believe that students need a daily period of PE, so this seems harsh and lazy on the teacher’s POV. Her reasoning for not wanting to deal with the students is that “I’ve given them too many choices”, or “they don’t deserve another chance”. These are excuses, and I believe that my CT is being on the lazy side and doesn’t want to interact with these troubling students. Some methods that I have seen work are: having a conversation with the troubled student, putting them in a temporary “timeout”, give them a choice between different discipline actions, and last, positive discipline. Some findings that I have found include; Students lose retention, skills, and social opportunities when they are sent out of the classroom. This is an old-fashioned discipline action, and often this is what students are looking for. Also, Giving PE students physical engaging punishments as discipline works at a higher clip than sending students to the office or reset room, when measuring retention rates and overall participation. Lastly, Tinto’s model of student attrition and Knowle’s theory of adulting both support in-class discipline, and having student leave class does not benefit anyone.

EDUC321- Classroom Relations & Management

Dr. Brian Kaelin

Poster Judging Contest (L203: 10am – Noon)

Madison Steelman

How to get students more engaged in Physical Education?

This presentation serves to answer the research question, “How to get students more engaged in physical education?” I have experienced students within my high school practicum where students do not participate in physical education because they are not interested in the activity, its boring, they are scared they aren’t good enough, and they fear being judged. The methods used for this study were examining existing literature for research on engagement strategies for students in physical education and what causes students to not be as engaged. In this presentation, three studies were proved to answer the research question of how to get more students engaged in physical education. A study that was used for the research was a survey done by students based on their perceived physical competence of physical activity. Another study that was used for the research was a study of factors that influence participation in physical activity. Overall, the purpose of this presentation serves to provide practical strategies for high school teachers to use to get more students engaged in physical education. The limitation of this study was that the presenters did not have the opportunity to test each of these strategies within their own classroom. 

EDUC321- Classroom Relations and Management

Dr. Brian Kaelin

Poster Judging Contest (L203: 10am – Noon)

Mandy Fetters

Effective Ways to Handle Behavioral Students

How do we address behavioral students who are non compliant in the classroom and how do we motivate them? This research question is based on a student who was struggling behaviorally in my practicum classroom. Often she doesn’t want to do her work, throws extreme tantrums if she doesn’t get her way, etc. What I have found through the research, it’s best to incentivize this student particularly or work closely one on one with this student to succeed. What I’ve found to work, is working one on one with her closely, not giving in to the meltdowns she has, and using incentives. The most effective for me was personally sitting down with her and doing the worksheet together. She was more engaged, focused, and not throwing tantrums.

EDUC321- Education Classroom Management

Dr. Brian Kaelin

Poster Judging Contest (L203: 10am – Noon)

Matthew Knotts

How can teachers effectively get through a transitional period in the classroom?

When transitioning from one subject to another, or when students come in from break, there can be large disruptions that eat away at class time. Students are being too loud or not on task, to them it almost seems like its all over when they transition in the classroom. The question that I focused my research around is “How can teachers effectively get through a transitional period in the classroom?” There are three types of transitions: entering class and taking a seat, switching from one activity to another, and exiting class. Just like with any academic procedure, these transitions require clear expectations, rehearsal, and review. In this project, I looked at how students act during transitional periods, how teachers get through a transition, and what could get teachers through the transitional period easier.

EDUC321- Classroom Management

Dr. Brian Kaelin

Poster Judging Contest (L203: 10am – Noon)

Mayah Pappas

Communication in the Classroom

For a Classroom Management class, I observed a problem in my field placement. A student in my classroom, after beginning to answer a question that connected to prior knowledge, had a panic attack which caused her to emotionally shut down for the rest of the period. With silent tears streaming down her face, she had an experience that is common to many students.

EDUC321- Classroom Management

Dr. Brian Kaelin

Poster Judging Contest (L203: 10am-Noon)

Nathania Ortega

Engaging strategies for advanced learners 

A second grade student is not classified as a TAG student, but he is an advanced learner. Specifically, he gets done with his math assignments faster than anybody else, he can do the addition and subtraction problems in his head in less than a minute, he can already solve some double digit multiplication and is starting to understand division. He often sits at his desk waiting for everyone to finish their work. My plan is to research strategies to help him stay busy and expand his mathematical knowledge. 

EDUC321- Classroom Relations & Management

Dr. Brian Kaelin

Poster Juding Contest (L203: 10am – Noon)

Sierra Janikowski

Technology and Behavior Management

 For a relations and management classroom class, I performed a six-week case study research project in order to identify successful ways to help maintain classroom order. The goal is to improve the development of classroom behavior issues with the use of visual technology noise level tools in a fourth-grade class. I got the opportunity to observe and assess the behavioral issues with 3 main tools and a few additional methods too. After seeing students continuously interrupt classroom time due to behavioral issues throughout my practicum, I realized how big of a theme this is in classrooms all around. After doing research on behavioral issues like blurting out, getting distracted, being loud and disrupting I found some instructional tools that I could use. The method I attempted for data collection was incorporated into my practicum with this fourth-grade class. The tools I used in this experiment include visual noise level meters like bouncy balls.org, classroom noise-o-meter, class craft volume meter, and additional methods like a classroom doorbell and verbal attention getters. Although there were some bumps in the experiment, according to my data overall these technology tools were a great method when attacking the classroom behavioral issues I was experiencing, and the majority of the class reacted in a positive way. This was an important experiment to me because my entire life I have seen this issue across all classrooms of all grade levels, and I plan for it to not be a problem in my future classroom. 

EDUC321- Classroom Relations & Management

Dr. Brian Kaelin

Poster Judging Contest (L203: 10am-Noon)

Leah Anderson, Taylor Copenhaver, Mackenzie Hunton, Bethany LaFon, Kalani Miller, Taylor Morgan, Sarah Phillips, Peyton Ritchie, Brooke Silvernail & Amanda Torres-Sanchez

Spanish Short Story/Poetry Analysis

Bilingual analysis of a short story or poem from Spanish literature including the historical, religious and sociocultural context of the work, biographical information of the author, themes, literary techniques used and brief overview of its meaning.

Students: Leah Anderson, Taylor Copenhaver, Mackenzie Hunton, Bethany LaFon, Kalani Miller, Taylor Morgan, Sarah Phillips, Peyton Ritchie, Brook Silvernail, Amanda Torres-Sanchez

SPAN 315 – Intro to Spanish Literature

Jenee Cazares

Poster Contest (L203: 10am-Noon)