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Home 8 Simulations and Role Play II Presentations from the 2007 Teaching and Learning Conference Session A: Simulations and Real Life A Bridge for Students From College to a Career Susan J. Martin, Indiana University of Pennsylvania Session B: Tools for Simulations and Teaching Taking the Classroom to the Net: Online Class Simulations Jocelyn  Parkhurst, Lewis-Clark State College Problem-Based Learning: An Interactive Approach to the Teaching of American Government Shawn L. Easley, Cuyahoga Community College Open Source Learning and Teaching: The ISN Way  ( .ppt version ) Sean S. Costigan, ETH Zurich Alexandra Farina Toedt, ETH Zurich Session D: Engaging Students in Learning Creating a Learning Community in a Large Lecture Elizabeth Arbuckle Wabindato, Northern Arizona University What Creates Engagement? An Analysis of Student Participation in ICONS Simulations Andrew Blum, University of Maryland Audrey Scherer, University of Maryland The Online Polling Project: How Internet-Based Surveys Expand Political Science Student Learning Mark J. O'Gorman, Maryville College Session F: Resembling Politics "Playing Politics":  Assessing American Government Students in Different Environments ( .ppt version ) Jane Bryant, John A. Logan College “It’s not poly sci, I sigh:  Educating Community Groups about Poli Sci” Peter W. Brusoe, American University Games on Power (and the Lack thereof): Theater of the Oppressed in the Political Science Classroom Juan Gabriel Gomez Albarello, Illinois Wesleyan University Session G: Courts and Active Learning Live Cases v. Fictitious Cases: A Moot Court Experiment Anthony C. Gabrielli, High Point University Incorporating a Sophisticated Supreme Court Simulation in an Undergraduate Constitutional Law Course John A. Fliter, Kansas State University Presentations for Other 2007 Teaching and Learning Tracks