Funded Projects
| Project Title | Overview of the Project |
|---|---|
| Promoting Transition to Professional Practice of Senior Nursing Students through the Use of Pagers in the Clinical Setting Deborah Price Nursing Elizabeth Brough Nursing $500.00 |
The preparation of baccalaureate graduate nurses in becoming confident, competent practitioners as they enter professional practice is challenged by increasingly complex health care delivery systems that consist of high patient acuity and increased nursing workload. One aspect of professional role development includes efficient and effective patient and interdisciplinary communication. Nurses use pagers in the University of Michigan Health Care System to communicate with patients and other health care team members. The student is left out of the loop of communication when they do not have the ability to receive pages from the patient, or other disciplines. They also do not experience prioritization of immediate demands communicated through the pager system, respond promptly to patient care needs or experience typical competing demands placed on the nurse. In short, they are not being socialized to the entire role of the professional nurse, which may contribute to decreased confidence and/or ‘readiness to practice' upon graduation. Senior nursing students experience clinical immersion in N457/459 which is an apprenticeship-type course designed to promote transition of the student to professional nursing practice. It is proposed that students placed on UMHS moderate or general care units be provided with pagers during this clinical immersion course. Positive student outcomes should include increased communication, autonomy, prioritization, delegation and confidence in their nursing role. Implementation of this innovation will occur in the winter, 2013 semester, and again in the fall 2013 semester. Evaluation will occur through survey feedback from nurse mentors and students following implementation. |
| Using a tablet computer to teach BME 418 Ariella Shikanov Engineering $500.00 |
I am planning to teach BME 418, which is a math intense biological course for biomedical engineerings, using a tablet computer. The ability to solve and derive complicated equations combined with biological concepts and images in power point will allow me to describe the concepts better. Additionally, several athletes in this class cannot attend the lectures, which requires recording. I believe using this technology will maximize my interactions with the students and greatly improve the quality of the recorded lectures, which can be viewed by all the students for the review purposes. |
| Rocket Science 101 Dorm Room Lab Mark Moldwin Engineering $279.00 |
Develop a rocket launching activity for student teams to compete in designing, building and launching a soda straw rocket using a simple air powered launcher. The activity is designed to help students observe the impact of different design decisions on the aerodynamics (as measured by distance a rocket travels). The Dorm Room Lab will be implemented in AOSS 101 (Introduction to Rocket Science and Engineering) that currently has 200 students enrolled with a wait-list. |
| Africanist Dance Traditions Robin Wilson Music, Theatre & Dance $500.00 |
Africanist Dance Traditions This proposal is support and enhance the instruction of the course Dances in Culture: Africanist Dance Traditions from Minstrelsy to Hip Hop through guest lectures and movement sessions with experts in such Africanist dance forms as Rhythm Tap, African American stepping, Hip Hop and Dunham Technique. Offered each winter and cross-listed in Dance and Afro-American and African Studies (AAS), the course uses a mixture of lecture, class discussion, movement sessions, and video screenings to explore the relationship between African-American vernacular dance forms and their influence upon 20th century American popular and concert performance, and places embodied learning at its center. Movement sessions and master classes in various Africanist dance forms provide the means for students, non-dancers and dancers alike, to understand the history and impact of African Diaspora dance in the United States through their own dancing bodies. Funds will provide honoraria for guest lecturers Alde Lewis, Jr., Penny Godboldo, and others, providing expertise in Rhythm Tap, Dunham Technique, African-American stepping, Hip Hop, and West African dance, thus enhancing student experience of these forms. It will also provide specialist drummer/accompanist fees for sessions that require live accompaniment. Funds may be spread over a two-year period to bring in experts on a rotating basis, based on artist availability. |
| Game On! Elizabeth Keren-Kolb Education $489.00 |
Elementary preservice teachers enrolled in EDU 490 Teaching with Digital Technologies will spend four months exploring how popular video game systems could be used in K-8 teaching and learning. The preservice teachers will spend these months "playing" with the video game systems and evaluating their potential to connect and enhance classroom learning goals. They will report all of their research and experimentation on an iSearch blog (using Kidblog.org) throughout Fall 2012. During the Fall they will develop two lessons plans that would integrate the video game consoles into their student teaching placement, they will present one of these lessons plans at a Gaming Salon in December 2012. Next, the preservice teachers will implement their lesson plans during their student teaching in Winter 2013. Finally the presevice teachers will present their lesson plans, experiences, artifacts, game demonstrations and management ideas at the 2013 MACUL (Michigan Association for Computer Users in Learning) conference in Detroit. |
| Free Women of Color in Africa and Its Diaspora. A Roundtable in Conjunction with DAAS/History/Women’s Studies 336 (African American Women’s History, Part I.) Fall 2012 Martha Jones LSA $500.00 |
In fall 2012 DAAS/History/Women's Studies 336 will organize and host a public roundtable discussion on free women on color in African and its Diaspora. The roundtable will bring to our campus community a discussion begun in June 2012 at an international symposium held in the city of Saint-Louis in Senegal: Colloques internationaux Saint-Louis du Sénégal et La Nouvelle-Orléans : Histoire comparée et croisée de deux cités portuaires de part et d'autre de l'Atlantique du XVIIe au XXe siècle [An international colloquium on Saint-Louis, Senegal and New Orleans: Historical comparisons and connections between two Atlantic world port cities, 17th to 20th centuries.] Speakers will discuss free women of color and entrepreneurship, sexuality, and politics across the Diaspora.Professor Emily Clark (Tulane University) on free women of color in New Orleans, Louisiana; Professor Jean Hébrard (EHESS, Paris and visitor at the University of Michigan) on free women of color in colonial Saint-Domingue; and, Professor Hilary Jones (University of Maryland) on free women of color in Saint-Louis due Senegal. We are especially excited to bring back to campus Hilary Jones, who was a DuBois-Mandela-Rodney postdoctoral fellow in CAAS some years ago. DAAS/History/Women's Studies 336 devotes 60 perxent of its class time to study of free women of color in the United States, in both slave and post-emancipation societies. This roundtable will expand and provide broader context for our in-class discussions and will encourage students to think comparatively across DAAS's three geographic areas of interest: the U.S., the Caribbean and Africa. |
| Karaikudi S. Subramanian: veena performer, scholar, and educator Evan Chambers Music, Theatre & Dance Michael Schachter Music, Theatre & Dance $500.00 |
Students and faculty of the Musicology and Composition departments at the School of Music, Theatre, and Dance joined together to bring legendary Karnatak (South Indian Classical) musician Karaikudi S. Subramanian to Ann Arbor for a five-day residency at UM. During his stay, he visited classes during which he conducted workshops with students, he held private meetings with faculty and students, he gave a public concert at the Britton Recital Hall in the E. V. Moore Building, and he conducted a lecture-demonstration open to students, faculty, staff, and members of the community. |
| Evaluating teaching strategies in an online course, BIT 330 Scott Moore Business $400.00 |
I teach BIT330 "Web-based Information Resources" to approximately 30 University of Michigan undergraduates (primarily business students). It is primarily an online class. I created a Drupal Web site to support the class (at http://bk4a.com/bit330f2012/) along with 43 instructional YouTube videos (under the username drsamoore). Through a survey and two focus groups, this project investigates the effectiveness teaching strategies implemented in this class, especially the highly interactive online components and their impacts on student motivation and learning. |
| Performance Criticism Workshop Research and Development Clare Croft Music, Theatre & Dance $496.00 |
This application seeks funding for a research and development trip to explore the possibility of taking students, on an annual basis, to New York City. The purpose of this annual program, which would be taught as an independent study in conjunction with my Winter term course, Reading and Writing Dance Criticism, would be an immersive performance criticism workshop. The workshop would be held the first weekend of every winter semester, coinciding with three New York dance/performance festivals: American Realness, DanceFocus, and COIL. Securing funding for attending these festivals in January 2013 would allow me to explore the feasibility of this program; meet with festival directors to discuss the possibility of additional programmatic elements that could be added, specifically interviews with arts presenters and artists; and to gauge whether the Michigan program should center on just one festival or move across all three. Other logistical questions to answer include approximating how many days the program would need to last for the students' to get full benefit, while also keeping cost at a minimum. |
| Seminar Actors Small Grant Proposal Leslie Hollingsworth Social Work $500.00 |
This request is for funding to support payment to professional male and female actors who will assist with role play simulations in an advanced graduate course in Interpersonal Social Work Practice with Families. (This is similar to a couples and family therapy course.) The course prepares Master of Social Work students with knowledge, skills, and values associated with evidence-based models of social work practice with couples and multigenerational families. Part of the structure of the course is a one-hour experiential segment devoted to practicing the model being covered for that week. Prior to the start of the term, students submit de-identified case studies from their practice or prior social work experience. I select those case studies in which the content coincides with a practice model. These model-based case studies are assigned randomly to students at the start of the term. Students then take turns serving as practitioner or co-practitioner (depending on the number of students in the class) in a role play simulation demonstrating the implementation of the practice model assigned for that week. |
| "What is History? Thinking Through the Past" $500.00 |
I am applying for the CRLT Instructional Development Fund Grant to help purchase books for a new course I am developing, titled "What is History? Thinking Through the Past." I will pilot this course as a small upper-level seminar (History 397/CICS 401) in Winter 2012, in preparation for co-teaching it as a large introductory lecture—History 101, a new department gateway course—the following Fall and in subsequent years. |
| Captions for Video Tutorials Rebekah Modrak Art & Design $86.00 |
I am applying for funds to add captions to photo-tutorial videos so they would be available for students who are deaf or hard of hearing. All students enrolled in the School of Art & Design take TMP:Messages. During this semester-long class, they rotate through a series of media-based courses, one of them being photography. Their exposure to photography is compressed to 2.5 weeks. The video tutorial series enables instruction involving demonstration and materials outside of course time. |
| Initiate Change in Community Health Education Amber Dallwig Nursing $500.00 |
I would like to submit to the CRTL for the Instructional Development Fund for a $500 grant to be used for the ACHNE 2012 Annual Institute- Public Health Nursing: Promoting Healthy Physical, Social, and Global Environments. The Institute will take place in Portland Oregon on June 7-9, 2012. I will need the grant to help pay for the Institute fees of $325, member's fee and to provide for some of the hotel cost, $175. I am willing to pay or find additional funding for the airline cost, meals and incidentals. The primary objective will focus on undergraduate curricula innovations designed to prepare students to promote healthy practice environments. The secondary objectives are to focus on innovative teaching and learning strategies that promote physical, social, culturally congruent and global health in local clinical environments. |
| Mobile Character Trainer App for First-Year Chinese David Porter LSA Laura Grande LSA $500.00 |
I am requesting a grant of $500 to adapt instructional software I have already createdon my own for use in first-year Chinese language courses at the University of Michigan. The software is a mobile app to help students learn to write Chinese characters. |
| Urban and Community Studies: Opportunities for Engaged Learning Stephen Ward LSA $510.00 |
This project seeks funds for two out-of-class activities to supplement course instruction and deepen students engagement with key course content in "Urban and Community Studies" (RCSSCI 330/AAS 330) during the fall 2011 semester. The first activity is viewing the documentary film "The Interrupters" at the Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor on October 13, 2011. The second activity is participating in "Re-Imagining Work," a conference taking place at Focus:Hope in Detroit on October 28-29, 2011. |
| Bringing digital technology to small group radiographic interpretation seminars Erika Benavides Dentistry $500.00 |
At the School of Dentistry, every semester we offer small group radiographic interpretation seminars to the second and third year dental students. As part of these seminars, we teach the students how to develop a systematic approach to interpret intraoral and panoramic dental radiographs. Each student receives a different case one week in advance and is required to prepare a written interpretation of it and be ready to present the case to their classmates. The seminars are facilitated by an Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology or Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology faculty member. Concepts of normal anatomy, anatomical variations, and developmental vs. acquired abnormalities are stressed during these seminars. Up until now, we have been using conventional films and view boxes to teach these seminars. Since our School is in the process of transitioning to digital imaging, in order to prepare the students for this big change and get them used to viewing radiographs on a digital format and using all of the available image enhancement tools, we have decided to make these seminars digital. With this in mind, all of the radiographs have been scanned and the School of Dentistry has donated us four used computers (without monitors) to teach these seminars. We plan to use this $500 grant to purchase four (22") monitors for these computers to bring digital technology to these small group radiographic interpretation seminars. |
| Take-‐Home Control Experiment Dawn Tilbury Engineering $500.00 |
Funds will be used to build small mechatronic systems in a cigar box that students can bring them home in their backpacks. The intended learning outcome is for students to gain hands-‐on experience in the practical issues that are encountered when implementing controllers. |
| Instructional Development Fund for Teaching Oral Radiology Wisam Al-Rawi Dentistry $500.00 |
The purpose of this proposal is to support the teaching of oral radiology at the school of dentistry. The course is taught mainly through PowerPoint slides in format of lectures and hands-on training. To enhance the learning experience the faculty member can put notes on the slides and draw diagrams. For that we need to have access to a pen input device like Wacom Bamboo tablet. The hand-written notes will be embedded either in the slides themselves or as separate image files.The use of PowerPoint presentation remote helps the faculty member navigate through the slides without having to be close to the computer. However, rather than getting a hardware remote control for PowerPoint, it is possible to use Android App to accomplish this via PPT Remote app. The app offers connectivity between the computer and the Android phones and can not only navigate through the slides but also display the slides on the phone eliminating the need to look at the computer screen or the projector screen. This frees the faculty member for having to be close to the computer or keep looking back. Another useful application is a remote desktop on the tablet which allows the capability to access radiographs and lecture information on the go through SplashTop app.With the rapid advancement of technology, 3D displays and 3D glasses have become the trend for watching movies and sports events. 3D displays or stereoscopic vision offers new level of reality not possible with traditional 2D flat panel. To evaluate this technology in oral radiology a set of 3D glasses is needed as part of NVIDIA 3D Vision Kit. The faculty will be able to visualize volumetric data sets of patients from dental Cone Beam CT on the computer monitor. |
| Francesca Brittan, Guest Lecturer forMusic Theory 405/Comparative Literature 492 “The Fantastic in Music and Literature” $453.00 |
I seek the support of the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching to bring Francesca Brittan to my fall undergraduate class, "The Fantastic in Music and Literature." Dr. Francesca Brittan--an Assistant Professor at Case Western Reserve University--is one of the foremost American authorities on the burgeoning field of musicological research that applies the literary theory of the fantastic to the study of classical music. During her visit to my class, Professor Brittan will speak to us about her recent research and share her findings concerning little-known and heretofore unpublished musical works in the fantastic genre (including works thought to be lost). Because Professor Brittan is also a noted keyboard performer, she will enhance her academic lecture with live demonstration at the piano. |
