2005 CRLT TTI Grant Projects

Link to CRLT TTI Grant Projects 2004, [1] 2006, [2] 2007, [3] 2008, [4] 2009, [5]2010, [6] 2011 [7]

• Integrating Multi-Media Sources into PowerPoint Presentations and Student Assignments in a Modern Latin American History Lecture Course

  Sueann Caufield, Associate Professor, History Department, LSA (scaul@umich.edu [8]). Prof. Caufield will consolidate and improve existing PowerPoint presentations, create new presentations that integrate sound and film or video clips, and develop method to encourage more interactive learning. In particular, students will use the web and CTools site to work with images and recordings used in class in their assignments.
  Example slides from the PowerPoint presentation [9]

• Integration of Multimedia Technology into Board Teaching Rounds in the Emergency Department

  Jeffrey Freeman, Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine (jefffree@umich.edu [10]). Information about patient care is discussed at the time-honored practice known as ‘board rounds’ where students and young doctors gather frequently during the day, to review each patient’s findings, management, and present oral summaries, while senior physicians discuss options and teach. This project aims to bring multimedia capabilities to the teaching at board rounds.  Using digital cameras and video, data transfer of lab, EKG, ultrasound and radiology images, board rounds can be transformed into multimedia exposure to the patient.
  Example pages from the web site [11]

• Travels in Time: Visualizing the Spanish Comedia

  Enrique Garcia, Associate Professor, Romance Languages and Literature. Using materials gathered in the past 5 years, Prof. Garcia will design a webpage on early modern Madrid. Prof. Garcia will also explore PowerPoint software and create a presentation using the same materials.
  Example slides from the PowerPoint presentation [12]

• Digital Histories of Africa

  Nancy Rose Hunt, Associate Professor. History (nrhunt@umich.edu [13]). Prof. Hunt will create a basic web site which includes timelines and other organizing rubrics, sub-organized by theme, spaces, and special topics, into which images and film clips will be integrated. Further work would include interactive components and modules that encourage students to create and showcase their own web sites and review class materials in effective ways.

• Upgrading Topics in Digital Media Studies (FV 368)

  Sheila Murphy, Assistant Professor, Program in Film and Video Studies (scmurphy@umich.edu [14]). Students have come to expect digital presentations and learning tools in their courses. In order to make the best possible use of technology while lecturing about film, television and computer technologies, Prof. Murphy will up-date her command of the use of technology in the classroom, focusing on materials for Film/Video 369, Topics in Digital Media Studies.
  Example slides from the PowerPoint presentation [15]

• Building an Interactive and Collaborative Student Research Team Web Space

  Thomas O'Donnell, Lecturer II, Residential College and CMENA (twod@umich.edu [16]). Exploring technology options, Prof. O'Donnell will develop a web site for to two courses, MENAS-491, The Global Oil System and the Middle East, and RC/PitE/UrbStudies-263, Energy and Environment. Reading daily articles identified by on-line topic alerts, students working in teams will write and post concise, regular summaries (akin to governmental 'daily briefing' summaries). The site, together with other student research, will provide material for development of analysis for research papers.
  Link to the web site [17]

• The Digital Palimpsest: A Critical Reading and Analysis Tool for Students of Literature

  David Porter, Associate Professor, English Language and Literature (dporter@umich.edu [18]). Prof. Porter will develop an innovative new web-based software application designed to encourage students in his literature courses to explore and analyze formal and conceptual connections among related elements of one or more literary texts. The program would enable the user to create links from textual units (phonemes, words, phrases, lines, sentences, or paragraphs) to other related units and to their own written interpretations of or reflections on the function of these units and the patterns that they form within the text.

• Psychology in the Wild

  Colleen Seifert, Professor, Psychology, (seifert@umich.edu [19]). The structure of project is to acquire, edit, and prepare digitized video for presentation in classroom discussions and as laboratory exercises through a class website. Rather than abstract discussion, the video vignettes will allow students to see real settings where the results of research studies should apply, and to evaluate whether studies capture the psychology of these complex settings.

• The Art of Narrative: Telling Stories in Words and Images

  Naomi Silver, Lecturer III, Sweetland Writing Center (nesilver@umich.edu [20]). By developing a series of web-page templates that will present course texts and images, students will be able to chart their own paths through course modules, and discern their own connections among the materials. Templates will also allow linking the online viewing and reading "rooms" to the CTools Discussion Board. In addition, students will learn to design and publish their own web pages incorporating literary and visual analysis.
  Link to Sitemaker Site [21]

• Gender and Popular Culture

  Pat Simons, Associate Professor, History of Art/Women’s Studies (patsimon@umich.edu [22]). The goal is to update HA/WS 211 “Gender and Popular Culture” so that the multimedia educational experience is available to students in digital form, for potential use in lectures, discussion sections, web pages, and CTools.  In particular, both still images and longer “video” clips from movies would be incorporated in the instructional environment using the appropriate software.
  Example slides from the PowerPoint presentation [23]