Funded Projects
| Project Title | Overview of the Project |
|---|---|
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 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). |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| "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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
