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PROVOST’S LEARNING INNOVATIONS GRANTS

2015 APPLICATION I. INSTRUCTIONS

Complete this form in its entirety and email it to [email protected] no later than January 26, 2015. Please note to save and rename this document substituting your name (in place of “NAME”) in the file name.

Ask your Department Head complete to complete the Department Head certification on page 12 and send a digitally-signed or printed, signed, and scanned copy with this application.

If you have any questions about completing this application, please email them to [email protected] or call Michael Starenko at 585-475-5035.

II. APPLICANT INFORMATION

Name: Peter Kiwitt Email: [email protected] Phone: 475-5303

College: CIAS Department: SOFA

Faculty rank: (full-time faculty only): Assistant Professor

Department head name: Malcolm Spaull

Proposed project name: Advanced Production Processes

Total funds requested: (requests of $1,000 to $5,000 will be considered): $2,500

Administrative use: ❏ Focus Grant ❏ Exploration Grant

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III. PLIG TYPES

Exploration Grants (approximately 30% of the funding pool for this cycle)

These grants provide seed funds for faculty to investigate an innovative mode or model of teaching and learning in terms of its potential to positively impact student outcomes and the student experience at RIT. These are funds for "proof of concept" investigations into the development, adaptation, or application of a new or different teaching approach, practice, or procedure.

Focus Grants (approximately 70% of the funding pool for this cycle)

Focus Grants provide funds for faculty to develop, apply, and/or research an innovative mode or model of teaching and learning that directly supports an RIT priority. These are funds for the development, adaptation, application, and/or research into a new or different teaching approach, practice, or procedure in the priority areas of focus.

The two focus areas for this cycle are:

Flipped Classroom

The flipped classroom model (sometimes called the inverted classroom) is one in which traditional in-class activity—the lecture—is delivered outside of class via recorded lectures and other web-based materials. In-class time is used for collaborative project work, small group problem-solving, and other such activities that allow students to engage at a deep level with the content they viewed outside of (and before) class. To learn more about the model, visit the Teaching and Learning Services webpage at rit.edu/tls/course-design/flipped-classroom.

Learning Analytics

According to the 2014 NMC Horizon Report, (http://www.nmc.org/publications/2014-horizon-report-higher-ed), “Learning analytics research uses data analysis to inform decisions made on every tier of the education system, leveraging student data to deliver personalized learning, enable adaptive pedagogies and practices, and identify learning issues in time for them to be solved.”

Simon Buckingham Shum notes: "Micro-level [learner-level] analytics support the tracking and interpretation of process-level data for individual learners. This data is of primary interest to learners themselves, and those responsible for their success, since it can provide the finest level of detail, ideally as rapidly as possible. Researchers are adapting techniques from fields including serious gaming, automated marking, educational data mining, computer-supported collaborative learning, recommender systems, intelligent tutoring systems/adaptive hypermedia, information visualization, computational linguistics and argumentation, and social network analysis." (http://iite.unesco.org/pics/publications/en/files/3214711.pdf).

Smaller sets of data are permitted in this PLIG focus area. The scope of a proposal may be on the order of a single course or a few courses.

For further background about learning analytics, please see: https://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7059.pdf.

This application is for a: ❏ Focus Grant X Exploration Grant

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IV. BUDGET SUMMARY

There is a Microsoft Excel worksheet to calculate your budget

The total shown in this worksheet must match the “Total funds requested” on the first page of this application form.

• The worksheet will automatically calculate the appropriate benefit rate based on the salaries entered.

• This figure must be included in the total award request when any salary dollars are requested. Lastly, please do not override any formulas in the worksheet.

You can download the worksheet at https://www.rit.edu/academicaffairs/plig/index.php.

Note that any equipment or other materials purchased with grant funds are the property of your department and revert to the department after your project is completed.

V. TIMELINE

Please indicate any variances to the planned PLIG schedule and your reasons. If you do not intend to deviate from the schedule, you may leave this section blank.

Task Date Proposed variance and reason

Full project plan submitted Aug. 24, 2015 Rough cut of film

Preliminary findings submitted Jan. 25, 2016 Final cut of film

Summary of final findings submitted Aug. 22, 2016 Film completed and screened

Final budget accounting submitted Aug. 22, 2016

Faculty Teaching and Learning Commons posting (a summary of findings, examples of teaching designs or materials, etc.) due

On or before Oct. 2, 2016

Participation in Teaching and Learning Services PLIG dissemination event

On or before Nov. 21,

2016

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VI. STATEMENT OF UTILITY (two pages maximum)

Using the proposal evaluation criteria provided in Evaluation section of the Call for Proposals document, provide an overview of the project you are proposing, including: • Project objectives • An explanation of the teaching/learning problem(s) it is designed to address • An explanation of the significance of the project to student outcomes and/or the student

experience.

• A brief description of how the project integrates with activity already underway at RIT in the priority area and/or how this approach has been successfully used at RIT already.

The project objective is for faculty and students in the School of Film and Animation to jointly produce a short film as a model for a proposed course.

Currently, students do not get to see how an experienced producer or director operates in the making of an actual film. Their role models are all other students with, at best, only a little more experience than they have. There is no practicum for advanced production management lessons and, without faculty leadership, many of those taught are never utilized on actual films. And even more basic production processes are sometimes omitted because of a lack of supervised reinforcement with only student-led productions. A faculty-led production would be a positive contributor to all of these issues.

This spring we are running a pilot course under special topics and internship designations. The goal is to develop a permanent, high impact Advanced Production Processes course where faculty and students work together in an engaged learning experience that will better prepare students for internships and jobs by more closely modeling professional practices. It will also create a film that can be distributed through festivals and the Internet, hopefully promoting awareness of RIT to prospective students, peer institutions, and film professionals.

SOFA students and equipment currently contribute to the production of numerous student shorts. Faculty can also use SOFA equipment for faculty shorts. But, despite the majority of our film students concentrating on narrative production, there is almost no narrative faculty production because of the logistical challenges of making a narrative film verses experimental or documentary productions. However, working with students, I shot one outside of the academic framework in the summer of 2013, so there is a recent and successful example.

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STATEMENT OF UTILITY (continued)

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VII. STATEMENT OF CREATIVITY (three paragraphs maximum)

Provide a brief description of how this is a novel approach, or a new application of an existing mode or model of teaching and learning, and/or research about teaching and learning represents an entirely new paradigm. (Please note that special consideration will be given to proposals that demonstrate a new use/application of a model, system, or technology already in use at RIT.)

Although in many respects the School of Film and Animation is a national quality program, in others it lags behind. Numerous schools have faculty/student collaborations but RIT does not. In 2006 there was attempt to make a joint faculty/student production at RIT, but it relied on an outside script and acting company. When the acting company pulled out of the project, along with their script, the production was left scrambling. What was produced did not really qualify as a traditional narrative, nor did it fully model professional practice. It was also not intended to be a permanent part of the curriculum.

Our approach is to keep everything in-house so that we can reliably and repeatedly produce collaborative films with a professional model with the intention of setting an example that will also raise the professionalism of student-only productions.

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VIII. STATEMENT OF EFFICACY (two pages maximum)

Provide a brief description of the experiment/research design, methodology, and methods of data collection you will use to gauge efficacy.

During lecture hours, the professor will instruct and lead students in the professional practice of development meetings, production meetings, casting sessions, rehearsals, storyboarding, locations scouts, department head meetings, screen tests, tech scouts, dailies screenings, and editing.

During studio hours, the professor will provide advanced leadership, collaboration, and guidance to the student department heads and crew, modeling the creative and organizational methodology of an experienced producer or director on a professional set.

Students will evaluate their learning experience and be evaluated for their personal performance. The film will stand as a gauge of the overall success of the endeavor.

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STATEMENT OF EFFICACY (continued)

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IX. DISSEMINATION PLAN (optional)

Provide details about the journal, conference, show, other external vehicle with strong potential for dissemination of your results. Include supporting documentation such as preliminary interest or acceptance with your application, if available. (Please note that special consideration will be given to proposals that have a defined opportunity for external dissemination, such as an academic journal or professional conference.)

Teaching and Learning Services will arrange channels for disseminating results within RIT.

The film will be screened at RIT, the University Film and Video summer conference, submitted to festivals, and then posted online. There are commercial sites like Funny or Die and public sites like YouTube. It will also be feature on the SOFA webpage as a draw for prospective students.

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X. ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATIONS

Please address these questions, if needed. • Will your project require assistance for extensive or unusual media, multimedia, simulation,

and/or software development? If so, please explain?

• All courses offered by RIT must be accessible to students with disabilities, according to

Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (rit.edu/studentaffairs/disabilityservices/info). Is your proposed teaching approach accessible to all students, with reasonable accommodation? If not, please explain.

• RIT abides by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA), which

prohibits instructors from making students' identities, course work, and educational records public without their consent (rit.edu/xVzNE). Will any data gathering or sharing for your project raise any FERPA issues? If so, please explain.

The budget request of $2,450 is for approximately half of the production budget. Faculty time will be as an unpaid overload, so it does not require additional funding.

Yes.

No.

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XI. DISSEMINATION AGREEMENT

By completing this grant application, I agree to provide the materials described here, in support of disseminating what is learned from this project to other faculty at RIT.

I also agree to return all/a portion of the funds that I receive for this project to RIT if I fail to complete or provide the materials described here. • Full project plan (including roles and responsibilities, milestone dates, and pertinent project

details)

• Overview of preliminary findings (may include experiment/study design, lessons learned, initial data collection, and/or literature review summary)

• Final project summary (including data collection, lessons learned, implications for further study, and which may be in the form of an article abstract, conference presentation outline, or short report)

• Faculty Teaching & Learning Commons posting (a summary of findings, examples of teaching designs or materials)

• Participation in a faculty dissemination event • Final budget accounting (reconciliation of budget provided with your application and the

actual project expenses)

By submitting this application, I accept this agreement.

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XII. DEPARTMENT HEAD CERTIFICATION

I support this PLIG application and budget, and verify that Peter Kiwitt is a full-time faculty member in good standing in my department.

Department head name: Malcolm Spaull Date: 2/2/2015

Department head signature: (Signature approval indicated by forwarding email)

Phone: 585-475-2779 Email: [email protected]

PLIG 2015 Budget Worksheet

Applicant's Name:

Personnel Purpose/Justification AmountFull time Faculty/Staff

1 -‐$ 2 -‐$ 3 -‐$ Adjuncts/Part time Faculty/Staff

1 -‐$ 2 -‐$ 3 -‐$

T Personnel Total -‐$

T Benefits -‐ Calculated Automatically -‐$

Equipment Purpose/Justification Amount1 -‐$ 2 -‐$ 3 -‐$

T Equipment Total -‐$

Licenses Purpose/Justification Amount1 -‐$ 2 -‐$ 3 -‐$

T Licenses Total -‐$

Travel Purpose/Justification Amount1 -‐$ 2 -‐$ 3 -‐$

T Travel Total -‐$

Other (Specify) Purpose/Justification Amount1 Production Funds Approximately half of the production budget (below) 2,450$ 2 -‐$ 3 -‐$

T Other Expenses Total 2,450$

Total Award Request 2,450$

Locations $500Set dressing $300Props $300Wardrobe $200Makeup $50Talent $400Expendables $200Van $500Mileage $500Meals $800Music $250Festivals $500Total $4,500.00

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