Name: BEA Ignite: Rapid-Fire Innovative Teaching Ideas
Start: 2026-04-19T14:00:00-0700
End: 2026-04-19T15:00:00-0700

BEA Ignite: Rapid-Fire Innovative Teaching Ideas

Sunday April 19, 2026 2:00pm - 3:00pm PDT

W310

Showcasing your most innovative teaching ideas. As part of our quest for the most innovative teaching ideas, we present “BEA Ignite” – where you can share your best classroom project/exercise/ideas. Following the traditional “ignite” format, presenters get 5 minutes and 20 slides to share their passionate teaching idea. The seven best “ignite” ideas were selected to make their presentations “live” during this BEA2026 session.

Andrew David, Moderator/Host
Michael Bruce, Producer

Lauren Bavis, Syracuse University - How PR and Journalism Students Collaborate on “Both Sides of the Podium”

Kara Gould, Samford University - Using Informal Debate within Panel Discussions to Encourage Student Engagement in the Classroom

Christine Guest, Ithaca College - Co-Lab with Yamdu: Unlocking TV/Film Team Teaching

Angelica Kalika, University of Colorado Boulder - Beat the Machine

Teresa Puente, California State University - Long Beach - Creating a Social Video Awareness Campaign

Danna Ramos, University of the Incarnate Word - Pop Culture Broadcast

Lakshmi N Tirumala, Drake University - Voice Before Camera - Teaching Media Students to Speak Story First

Moderators

Michael Bruce

Dept. Chair, Associate Professor & Director of Digital Media Center, University of Alabama

Speakers

Christine Guest

Associate Professor, TVR, Ithaca College

Chrissy Guest is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media Arts, Sciences, and Studies at Ithaca College. She earned her M.F.A in Creative Writing from Full Sail University and her B.S. in Cultural Studies with a concentration in Television Production from Empire State College. An award-winning... Read More →

Angelica Kalika

Teaching Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Boulder

Angelica Kalika is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Journalism. She holds a BA in Psychology from UC Berkeley (2006), MA in Newsgathering from the University of Colorado (2012), and a PhD from the University of Colorado Boulder (2019). Specializing in alternative media, her r... Read More →

Teresa Puente

assistant professor of journalism, California State University - Long Beach

Teresa Puente has spent her career reporting on immigration and Latino issues in the U.S. and has also reported extensively from Mexico. Previously, she was a staff reporter at the Chicago Tribune and was on the editorial board at the Chicago Sun-Times. Early in her career, she worked... Read More →

Lakshmi N. Tirumala

Associate Professor, Drake University

Andrew David

Morgan Media

Andrew David has a BBC career spanning BBC Radio 2 through BBC Local Radio to anchoring the Midland’s Region's nightly news show, He was a senior manager at BBC Radio Nottingham and worked at the University of Lincoln where he set up and ran the UK's first community radio station... Read More →