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2010 Teaching With Technology Institute

Deadline for Submission: 4 p.m. Monday, March 8, 2010

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Recent Teaching With Technology Institute Award recipients

INTRODUCTION

The Teaching with Technology Institute (August 11-12, 2010) helps faculty integrate instructional technology into their teaching, develop their technological skills, and explore the effective use of technology in the classroom.  The Institute provides: individual consultations on pedagogy and technology; sustained one-on-one support for faculty grantees during course planning and when the course is being taught; and hands-on technological training.

Awards of $2500 are available.

PROGRAM

The TTI program includes:

  • Three required meetings,
  • an initial lunch meeting for all grantees May 14, 2010; and
  • a 1.5 day Institute for all grantees on (August 11 and 12, 2010);
  • a December lunch meeting with the TTI group (be scheduled at the August meeting).
  • individualized consultation
  • collaboration with CRLT to document use and results if interested

ELIGIBILITY

The competition is open, on the Ann Arbor campus of the University, to members of the following groups:  all tenured and tenure-track faculty; clinical instructional faculty; and Lecturers who have continuing appointments and course development responsibilities (i.e., an assignment from the dean, chair, or designee to develop a new course or significantly revise an existing course). Faculty with various technological skill levels and experience with instructional technology – from novice to expert – are invited to apply.

To ensure that a variety of applicants have the opportunity to implement innovative teaching and learning activities, recipients of TTI grants during an academic calendar year (Sept-August) will not be eligible to receive funding for an TTI grant during the next academic calendar year, but they are welcome to apply again in the following year.

FUNDING DECISIONS

The following criteria will be used to evaluate the proposals and select program participants:

  • Potential impact on student learning,
  • Inclusion of sound pedagogy in the plan for using technology in teaching,
  • Applicability of this use of technology by other faculty members,
  • Innovation, and
  • Feasibility of the project to be completed and implemented during the 2010-2011 academic year.

EXAMPLES OF PREVIOUSLY FUNDED PROJECTS

The following examples are meant to be illustrative, not exhaustive.

  • Using U-M Sitemaker to allow students to respond to Pathology case studies online
  • Creating layered maps to illustrate the history of Rome
  • Creating an interactive timeline of key events in the history of sexuality
  • Teaching students to use digital markup tools to analyze archival documents
  • Using Garageband to learn music composition
  • Creating digital media archive for a course on Caribbean music

For more examples, follow this link to CRLT’s TTI Grant Projects Webpage: http://www.crlt.umich.edu/inst/TTIProjects2008.php

PROPOSAL CONTENTS AND SUBMISSION PROCEDURES

Proposals must be submitted to crltgrants@umich.edu, using the TTI Application Form.  Click here for Application Form.  The Application Form includes the following areas:

1. BRIEF COURSE DESCRIPTION: State the content and goals for the course; level of the course; requirements met by course (i.e. writing, humanities, race/ethnicity, prerequisite for upper level courses); diversity of students’ skills and background; and number of students.

2. GOALS FOR THIS PROPOSAL: Describe the technology tool, or set of tools, you want to integrate into teaching; why and how the technology will engage students; and the expected impact on student learning.

3. TEACHING METHODS:  Describe the learning activities and materials to be developed (e.g., in-class questions, assignments, student projects, etc.) and used with the chosen technology tool.

4. EVALUATION and DOCUMENTATION:  Describe how you will evaluate the project, especially what impact the technology has, and identify what kind of documentation (report, website, e.g.) could best let other faculty benefit from of your experience.

DEADLINES

Applications must be received by noon on Monday, March 8, 2010.

 

Consultations are available for faculty who need assistance in defining their goals and designing a technology project. If you have questions contact Erping Zhu by calling 763-3757 or sending an e-mail to ezhu@umich.edu.


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