Kariann Yokota, Assistant Professor of American Studies and History, and Michael Klingbeil, an Assistant Professor in the Music Department, have been awarded Yvonne and John McCredie Fellowships in Instructional Technology for 2009.
Kariann Yokota’s fellowship will focus on developing a web-based teaching/research gateway to material objects in Yale’s collections that will help scholars explore the transoceanic exchange of objects, ideas, and people between America and Britain as well as America and Asia during the post-Revolutionary period. Also as part of the fellowship, Yokota is working with the Instructional Technology Group and the Library to design assignments for her “American Culture in the Revolutionary Era” course which will encourage students to develop their visual and material literacy skills by investigating objects as historical evidence.
Michael Klingbeil
Michael Klingbeil’s fellowship provides resources for students to work directly with advanced digital media hardware for interactive, real-time, digital media creation and live performance. These resources will enhance two courses, “Fundamentals of Music, Multimedia Art, and Technology” and “Applications in the Composition and Performance of Music, Multimedia Art, and Technology” taught by Klingbeil. The use of the advanced hardware, including alternate controllers and sensor interfaces, will encourage students to be more critical and reflective about the nature of digital media creation, the underlying assumptions made by interface and instrument designers, and the artistic influence of these assumptions. Klingbeil’s students will chronicle their reflections and recordings of their performances using web-based portfolios that are being developed as another key component of the fellowship.
For more information on the McCredie Fellowship, please visit http://itg.yale.edu/mccredie.
