Projects
AREAS OF INTEREST
Digital learning design, inclusive practice, museum education, Asian critical theory, qualitative data visualization, interdisciplinary art education
Social Justice Art Education Curriculum Project
Researcher/ Instructional Technologist, 2015-present
Design and manage the Social Justice Art Education with Linda Stein’s Art curricular encounters website (SJAE, http://h2f2encounters.cyberhouse.emitto.net/) to support this research project funded by National Art Education Foundation (2017-18). I coordinate with a group of educators to facilitate a series of participatory online curricular encounters with tapestries and sculpture by Linda Stein.
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Related publications:
Keifer-Boyd, K., Knight, W.B., Pérez de Miles, A., Ehrlich, C.E., Lin, Y., Holt, A. (2023). Teaching and Assessing Social Justice Art Education: Power, Politics, and Possibilities. Routledge.
Keifer-Boyd, K., Ehrlich, C., Knight, W., Lin, Y., Pérez de Miles, A., & Sotomayor, L. (2016). Curricular encounter with Linda Stein’s Holocaust heroes: Fierce females. In L. Stein (Ed.), Holocaust heroes: Fierce females (pp. 71-75). Old City Publishing.
Visual Culture & Educational Technology
Graduate Instructor
I taught AED 322 Visual Culture & Educational Technology at the School of Visual Arts, The Pennsylvania State University, in Fall 2013 and Spring 2014 at Penn State. AED 322 is a 3-credit course that provides a foundation for innovative integration of digital technologies in art making, viewing, and teaching for Art Education major. The course explores issues, practices, and pedagogical implications of contemporary digital technologies such as Webs, blogs, video, virtual reality, threaded dialogue, WebQuests, online games, media communities, collaborations, and adaptive and assistive technologies for art education.
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Related publications:
Motter, J., Lin, Y., Keifer-Boyd, K. (2020). WTF? Feminist pedagogy and 3D printing in a preservice virtual field experience. Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy, 19(2), 95-114. https://doi.org/10.1080/15505170.2020.1835756
Carpenter, B. S., & Lin, Y. (2014). Looking back, looking through, and looking beyond: Translating new media art education into virtual world pedagogy. In M. Stokrocki (Ed.), Exploration in virtual worlds: New digital multi-media literacy investigations for art education (pp. xx-xx). The National Art Education Association.
Designing Event Potential with ICTs in a Museum Context
Dissertation
Designing Event Potentials with Information and Communication Technology in a Museum Context, is action research that aims to understand the process of designing event potentials with information and communications technologies (ICTs) in a museum context. I identify ICTs as actors that can create event potentials, a concept suggested by Elizabeth Ellsworth (2004). Event potentials are learning activities that engage learners in forming associations with the self and others to construct knowledge. Event potentials in this study refer to social media’s capacity to facilitate emergent knowledge by making social and cultural associations and differences visible in a pedagogic assemblage. Pedagogical assemblages are comprised of learning activities that network learners in constructing knowledge through interactions with others about their perspectives, knowledge, and life experiences. Building upon Ellsworth pedagogic approach of creating event potentials, I argue that a museum exhibition is a pedagogic assemblage of personal memory and public discourse and that the design of ICTs can translate a museum exhibition from an assemblage of events into a space of emergent knowledge.
Visual Images on the Web
Graduate Instructor
ART003 Visual Images on the Web is an online course I taught in Summer 2015. It is a 3-Âcredit general arts course for non- art majors at Penn State which provides opportunities for students to prepare visual and verbal media for presentation online with special emphasis on the aesthetics of image-making and web design. I encourage students in consider the work of other bloggers, online photographers and other artists and writers in order to build their online presence in a virtual space that reflects their personal style and aesthetic. Students in ART003 work to create their own personal blog space and learn to analyze, critique, create and curate collections of their own original images using Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator. Students also share resources that inspire their work in progress with each other via Twitter.
PostSilence
Web Coordinator
While I was the Web Coordinator in The Pennsylvania State University Graduate Art Education Student Association (2011-2013), I was involved in a collaborative art event titled Post Silence in Zoller Gallery in early December, 2011 and exhibited post cards made by participants reflecting art and story breaking the silence and contributing to an enduring culture of change. The project was inspired by the PostSecret project. This image is the logo I designed to publicize the event.
Related publication: Motter, J., Jung, Y., Lewis, L., Bloom, A., & Lin, Y. J. (2012). Post Silence: Visible markers of collective rememberance, awareness, and action toward systemic change. Cultural Studies – Critical Methodologies, 12 (4), 346-351.
The Judy Chicago Art Education Collection Website
Web Designer and Coordinator, 2012- 15
Designed and managed the Judy Chicago Art Education Collection Website: http://judychicago.arted.psu.edu and cultivated social media outlets to develop economical ways to promote the website.