Tanja Softic has received funding to attend a Silkscreen Intensive workshop in New York.  From her proposal:

From the pedagogical point of view, silkscreen will add significant learning tool to our printmaking  and general studio curriculum; it provides for an uncomplicated integration of photographic and hand-drawn material and it allows those students who are taking that one FSVP printmaking class and do not really have mastery of drawing to create visually compelling images.

Melissa Ooten and Brian Daugherity have received funding to attend the 2008 Southern Historical Association conference in New Orleans.  From their proposal:

Specific challenges that we would like to address with our colleagues include how to provide background information to our students that would normally come from lectures, how to handle pre-class assignments, how to reconcile group conflict issues, how to balance student reading (and other assignments) while we are traveling, and how to provide an experience that is both intellectually demanding but also fun for the participants.

Faculty members deeply believe in experimentation, learning through trial and error, and gathering evidence, “but they do not apply these methods of inquiry to their own teaching,” Mr. Bok, who remains a professor of law at Harvard, said in an interview.

Do you research your teaching, or your students’ learning?  How?  What have you learned?