Learning is often most effective when students and teachers exchange places. When students must articulate concepts and support them with examples, ideas learned in more passive (e.g. lecture) formats are strongly reinforced and students develop an enhanced sense of "ownership" of their knowledge. In this module, student teams will synthesize class findings from one or across several of the five thematic modules and will conduct a formal presentation using modern presentation technologies in a symposium at the end of the semester that is open to the university community. A lecture hall in the new Biology/Biochemistry building at NAU is equipped with state-of-the-art technology for computer-based presentations. These presentations will also be published on the web. During the first year of the project, students will draw on data they collected that year for their analyses, but in subsequent years, data from previous classes will be available so that students can examine interannual variability in patterns and processes. A requirement of each presentation will be the use of the computer facility for quantitative analysis and visualization of the data. Currently, this type of formal presentation is required in upper-division ecology courses (Field Ecology, Stable Isotope Techniques), raising the bar for student performance in these classes. By demanding this level of professionalism from younger students, this module will raise student self-confidence and better prepare them for upper-division courses, independent REU projects, graduate programs, and the workplace.