By Alex Rockey Graduate Student Researcher, Academic Technology Services Many of the blog posts in The Wheel appropriately focus on instructional technology and faculty at UC Davis. In honor of summer vacation, this post will take us a little further afield … to Colombia. I had the pleasure of spending three summers in Colombia from […]
Dear Faculty Colleagues, Academic Technology Services is excited to invite UC Davis faculty to the 2017 Summer Institute on Teaching and Technology. With a nod to our recently-adopted learning management system, we’ve chosen as our SITT theme “Painting on a New Canvas.” Presenters will focus on pedagogical strategies, UC Davis Canvas, data-driven teaching, teaching large […]
In August two members of our ATS Faculty Support team, Instructional Designer Dr. Margaret Merrill, and Graduate Student Researcher Alex Rockey, will be making the trek down to San Diego to present at the University of California Computing Services Conference on a mobile learning research project on which they have been collaborating with three other […]
Dear Faculty Colleagues, You may have noticed that The Wheel has a new look. We have been collaborating with our talented colleagues in Academic Technology Services to develop this new site with an emphasis on streamlining and forefronting our Twitter stream. As the editors of an instructional technology blog, we are constantly working on ways […]
Colleagues, Academic Technology Services has been partnering with the UC Davis Center for Educational Effectiveness (CEE) in helping adapt one of UC Davis’s most popular courses, Introduction to Beer and Brewing, into a fully online course. This has been a huge project! The fully online course launched for the first time this Spring quarter, […]
Dear Faculty, Thank you to all that were able to attend DOLCE on June 2nd! If you were unable to attend, please feel free to check out the recording. Dr. Margaret Merrill focused her discussion on instructional uses of video. Steve Faith shared his expertise in regards to lecture capture. Both presenters shared practical and immediately […]
Dear Colleagues, I write to invite you to our June 2nd DOLCE (Discussing Online Learning and Collaborative Education) meeting in 1310 Surge III / The Grove, at which time we will hear from two experts on instructional technology tools and practices. This will be our last DOLCE of the school year – looking to the […]
Dear Faculty Colleagues, On the third Friday of every month during the school year, the Faculty Support Team of Academic Technology Services and I invite UC Davis faculty to join us in 1310 Surge III (AKA The Grove) for a brown bag discussion of one or more pertinent topics in instructional technology. Tomorrow, May 19th, […]
Dear Faculty, Dr. Janine Wilson’s presentation at the May 5th DOLCE (Discussing Online Learning and Collaborative Education) meeting was incredibly inspiring. Dr. Wilson presented tips and tricks for using PlayPosit videos as well as the learning glass in the eLearning studio. She discussed her experiences transforming her face-to-face Microeconomics course into a hybrid course and now into […]
Dear Faculty Colleagues, I write to invite you to our May 5th DOLCE (Discussing Online Learning and Collaborative Education) meeting in 1310 Surge III / The Grove, at which time we will hear from Janine Wilson of the Department of Economics. She will tell us about her work transforming a face-to-face Microeconomics class into […]