Funded Projects
| Project Title | Overview of the Project |
|---|---|
| New Course on Film Translation $500.00 |
I am developing a new course on film translation, the subject of one of my books. Inspired by both the LSA theme semester on translation and last semester's conference on the place of the liberal arts in the research university, I will offer a course that combines theory and practice of subtitling and dubbing. We will start the course by reading theoretical work, along with descriptions of the history of film translation. The latter two thirds of the book will be split between actual subtitling and dubbing projects, the latter involving voice actors performing in the North Quad studios. This grant will provide for student workers that will help design the technical side of the class, from software selection to workflow design to troubleshooting. One student will work with the subtitling component, the other on dubbing. |
| Professional Practices Workshop with curator Julie Lazar Heidi Kumao Art & Design $500.00 |
The goal of this project is to prepare MFA graduate students in the Professional Practices "Exit Seminar" (ArtDes 800) for professional careers in art or design after graduation. In order to survive as an artist or designer in today's competitive climate, students must learn how to professionally present themselves and their work to procure exhibition opportunities or financial support. While students are somewhat aware of opportunities that exist for creative production outside of the university, they lack direct experience with the process of developing proposals, applying for commissions or grants, approaching galleries or companies, and meeting with curators, to name a few. This class (and project) provides a bridge between graduate students' academic coursework and their professional lives, better enabling them to sustain their creative practice after leaving the University setting. Julie Lazar, an independent curator with decades of experience programming contemporary art (previously at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles) and director of a small arts consulting and production firm, (ICANetwork.org), will spend an entire day with the students, give a presentation on her curatorial practice to the seminar, lead a group discussion and meet students individually to provide critical feedback on their art/design work and written proposals (for jobs, exhibitions, public art, etc.). As a professional in the art world, she will provide a valuable perspective and up-to-date information that will better equip our students for life after the MFA program. |
| Design for Social Impact Conference Jill Greene Art & Design $500.00 |
In consultation with senior faculty, I am given the responsibility in my courses for the design of course assignments, identification of guest speakers, and other elements of the course content. The content of the AIGA national conference directly relates to the courses that I teach and will impact the design of assignments as well as other course content. In addition, the conference will also impact my professional research interests. |
| Enhancing Interprofessional Education Through a Virtual Simulation Pilot Study Shandra Caylor Nursing $500.00 |
As healthcare delivery continues to become more team-focused, there is a need to train health professions students to work together to provide quality and safe patient care. In the Winter 2014 term, my colleagues and I will be conducting a virtual simulation pilot study through Second Life, a virtual simulation technology. One of the common barriers to interprofessional education is getting the students in the same place at the same time. The use of virtual technology may eliminate or reduce this type of barrier. The pilot study will focus on interprofessional communication among nursing, pharmacy, and medicine students. Additionally, the pilot study will focus on improving healthcare quality and safety. Students will receive training in Team STEPPS, which is an evidence-based teamwork strategy developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Students will then complete a virtual simulation around teamwork and error disclosure using the learned Team STEPPS principles. The goal is that students will enhance their interprofessional communication skills and gain valuable teamwork strategies and techniques through the Team STEPPS training. Student volunteers from each health professions school will be recruited to participate in this unique learning opportunity. Based on the findings from this study, additional interprofessional learning activities may be developed using virtual technology. |
| Lecture to class $400.00 |
This funding will be used to support a visiting speaker (Lorry Fenner, a U-M Ph.D.) from Washington who served on the staff of the 9/11 Commission. The class in which she will speak is History 360, "September 11 and its Consequences." |
| Teaching with Curriculum Materials Library Development Gina Cervetti Education $500.00 |
The Instructional Development funds requested in this proposal would make possible the purchase of materials for the Teacher Education course, Teaching with Curriculum Materials (TwCM). The course, which is required for all preservice K-8 teachers in the School of Education, is designed to familiarize future teachers with the range of curriculum materials they will use in their first years in the classroom and to help them effectively plan with and adapt those materials to meet the needs of their contexts and students. We are requesting funds toward the purchase of current K-8 curriculum materials for the class. |
| Design & Build Portable Shelter for Ann Arbor’s Camp Take Notice Roland Graf Art & Design $489.00 |
This CRLT grant helped to facilitate a human centered design engagement course with Camp Take Notice - a community of homeless people in Ann Arbor. Camp Take Notice was evicted from its location on Wagner road before the course started. About half of the approximately 65 campers where provided temporary housing. Some of the other half was spending the nights next to two churches in Downtown Ann Arbor. Based on these events, the course had two main objectives: First, the design of portable lightweight shelter (such as extended sleeping bags) for urban downtown areas; Second, the design of large portable community shelter structures that could help to start a new camp on legal campsites that the community of CTN is looking to acquire. The CRLT grant was being used for the purchase of materials (such as corrugated card board sheets, poly traps, nylon cords, etc.) that enabled the students to quickly build 1:1 mock-ups and scale models of their shelter designs. This helped them to discuss their designs with the homeless individuals, which were invited to class. In addition, these materials were being used for skill building workshops. |
| Puppet Workshop Christianne Myers Music, Theatre & Dance $445.00 |
Attend USITT (United States Institute for Theatre Technology) Costume Symposium- "Puppet Boot Camp," hosted at Purdue University. For a detailed description of the 3 day event, please see: http://www.usitt.org/Resources/USITTEvents/CostumeSymposium2 |
| Promoting Collaborative and Active Learning in GSI Instruction Lisa Disch LSA $486.00 |
We propose to fund a graduate student (currently the GSM or Graduate Student Mentor for our GSI training course) to develop curriculum and instructional materials for consolidation and reorganization of our professional development sequence. These funds will go exclusively to support the development of curriculum and instructional materials by the Graduate Student Mentor who has been teaching 993 for the past 3 years, and who will be teaching it again this Fall and Winter in the new version. The Department will provide matching funding as needed for copying and purchase of instructional materials. |
| Facilitating the Use of Records of Practice in Support of Teacher Learning Kara Suzuka Education Timothy Boerst Education $500.00 |
We propose to use IDF funding to cover expenses for instructors in the School of Education's Elementary Master of Arts with Certification Program to explore the use Edthena, a web-based tool that supports feedback and interaction around records of teaching practice – particularly classroom video. We request $500 to pay for a "program staff license" that will allow instructors to experiment with the features of Edthena and to work productively with records of practice submitted by students learning to be teachers – who we call, "Interns," – across a 15 month program. |
| Quantitative Methods Across the Social Sciences $500.00 |
The grant, along with matching money from the communication studies department, will be used to hire a graduate student to identify and catalog a series of empirical research articles across a variety of social science disciplines by the methodology used. The project will directly support an innovative graduate-level quantitative methods class that will explore advanced social science methods based on the applications and assumptions of the methods rather than the statistical backdrop. The project will require around 40 hours of research assistance, most of which can be funded using a CRLT IDF grant (see attached proposal). |
| Bebkaan Nd'enwemi:Conversation Comparisons $500.00 |
Bebkaan Nd'enwemi:Conversation Comparisons Anishinaabemowin is the language of three distinct ethnic groups: the Ojibwe, Potawatomi and Odawa. It is spoken on over 200 reservations and first nations in the United States and Canada but it is an endangered language today. Anishinaabemowin classes at the University of Michigan have reached well beyond this campus and the state and have the potential to not only contribute to reversing the loss of the language, but also to contribute to sociolinguistic research across dialects. This project would archive contemporary conversations and dramatic narrative across genders, generations and geography. Conversations will be collected by Howard Kimewon as he visits communities in Wisconsin and Minnesota. These conversations will then be posted on the Noongwa Anishinaabemjig website (www.ojibwe.net) and incorporated into the second and third year Ojibwe courses AmCult 322, AmCult 323, AmCult 422 and AmCult 423. Conversations will be preserved and mined for verb use, sentence structure and pronunciation variation to be added to the second year courses. Narrative samples, often presented as dramatic retellings of events and traditional tales will be saved and used in the third year classes where they will be part of additional critical comparisons and translation assignments added to that course. |
| Cooking and Eighteenth-Century Meal Tina Lupton LSA $500.00 |
We are seeking funding for a two day cooking project, involving the recreation of eighteenth-century food based on cooking books held here in special collections. The project is designed to involve graduate students and advanced undergraduates interested in eighteenth-century literature and history. |
| Coaching Renaissance musical instruments Stefano Mengozzi Music, Theatre & Dance $500.00 |
I am currently teaching a seminar on "Renaissance Instrumental Music," open to undergraduate seniors and graduate students of the School of Music, Theatre, and Dance. Four DMA students and two undergraduate seniors are enrolled. The class meets on Mondays and Wednesdays from 8:30 to 10:00 in the Moore building of the School of Music, Theatre and Dance.There are both an academic and a performance component to the class. The primary academic goal is to lead students to acquire familiarity with the musical instruments and with the repertory in vogue in Europe in the period ca. 1470-1600. On the side of musical performance, students are expected to acquire some familiarity with one or more instruments that were common in that period. Our institution is blessed with the rich collection of the Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments, which includes many copies of original Renaissance instruments that once belonged to the Collegium Musicum specializing in early music. My students were able to check out these instruments from Stearns (recorders, crumhorns, sackbut, cornetto, and viola da gambas), and have been practicing on them for several weeks. If the level of performance achieved by the end of the semester will prove adequate, we will offer a short recital at Hatcher Gallery.I am applying for an IDF of $500 that would allow me to hire two Ann-Arbor residents for the purpose of coaching five classes during regular class time. Beth Gilford is an accomplished performer of recorders and crumhorns, and Kiri Tollaksen has a long experience as a cornetto player and as a member of early brass ensembles. Both of them have preliminarily agreed to visit our seminar (on dates to be confirmed) and to instruct the students respectively on issues of playing technique on recorders and crumhorns (Gilford), and on shawms, sackbut, and cornetto (Tollaksen).Please note: I was awarded an IDF grant of $500 for the same course in Winter 2010. |
| Field Trip to Detroit to see Fela Musical/Class visits by Choreographer/Artistic Director and Selected Cast Members Kwasi Ampene LSA $500.00 |
My undergrad seminar, Performing Arts and Power in Africa, interrogates the interconnections between performing arts, culture, and society by asking specifically how the arts constitute potent means of maintaining, contesting, and negotiating power. Fela Kuti, the Nigerian and African music icon, is well noted for using his music to challenge the shortcomings of successive governments in postcolonial Nigeria and, by extension, African states. To coincide with the broadway musical in Detroit, I have assigned students in my seminar a project from February 1-28, based on our class discusses, readings, and our field trip to Detroit to watch the musical. Additionally, I am working with the producer to bring selected members of the cast to my class at U-M for the students to engage in conversations with them about their experiences in the musical. All these activities will result in a seminar paper that is due on February 28. |
| Manuscripts to Movies: Teaching Medieval Literature with FinalCutPro Ryan Szpiech LSA $350.00 |
This project proposes to develop a few short movies based on public-domain footage for teaching medieval literature and medieval manuscript illumination in my current course, Spanish 373: From India to Iberia: Eastern Tales and Western Texts. |
| Teaching ME 211 using a tablet computer Liu Allen Engineering $500.00 |
I am planning to teach Introduction to Solid Mechanics using a tablet computer. The ability to include more sophisticated drawings will allow me to describe the concepts better. It will also enable to write to the project while facing the student, even as I walk about the room. I believe the utility of this technique will increase my teaching effectiveness and maximize student learning. |
| Applying Clinical Medical Education principles to Qualitative Methods in Public Policy: Using actors to portray informants in interview simulations Megan Tompkins-Stange Public Policy $420.00 |
Qualitative Methods is a new class at the Ford School, and represents a distinctively different approach from the predominantly quantitative MPP curriculum. The goal of the class is to teach students how to design and conduct rigorous empirical studies about how people construct, interpret and attribute meaning to their experiences and environments, and why people engage in actions and behaviors. I designed the class based on an experiential learning philosophy, wherein students are asked to be hands-on participants in class exercises and workshops that are intended to illustrate, extend and apply the concepts and frameworks that they read about and discuss. Reflecting this philosophy, the grant will fund my efforts to integrate actors into the curriculum for students to practice interviewing. The open-ended, semi-structured interview is the primary method used in the course, and requires a significant amount of skill and practice to execute in a rigorous fashion. In order to provide this practice, I have taken a page from the concept of Clinical Medical Education (CME). In CME, medical students' classroom learning is supplemented by clinical experiences wherein they examine "patients" that are played by actors. The actors are trained to present the students with specific medical issues that the students must accurately diagnose by asking questions. Along the same lines, the actors in my class will be trained to present students with different situational challenges that they may encounter during interviews, with the intent of illustrating the difficulty of managing some social dynamics. |
| Living with diabetes: a student experience to enhance knowledge and assess attitudes Barbara Freeland Nursing Cynthia Fenske Nursing Deborah Price Nursing $500.00 |
Diabetes prevalence has been increasing rapidly in the United States and worldwide. It is estimated that more than 26 million Americans are affected. This chronic disease when uncontrolled can lead to devastating complications and costs billions in health care dollars. For those living with diabetes, the disease requires continuous self-management, touching every aspect of life. Students will encounter people with diabetes in every clinical setting as well as their personal life and throughout their career. Having an understanding of living with chronic disease through the life cycle is imperative. Our aim is to provide students with a ‘lived experience' of diabetes in addition to the standard didactic content. They will take on a persona of a person with diabetes and practice self-management skills within the confines of a simulated environment. Faculty will provide sample challenges via text messaging to simulate various situations encountered by someone living with diabetes, for example: challenges with food intake, medications, and fluctuations in blood sugar levels. Students will be asked to problem solve the situation as if they were living with diabetes. There will be no actual use of medication or injection of any kind. Students will journal about their experiences and will be tested pre and post experience about diabetes knowledge and attitudes using previously validated tests. |
