Video from the April’s DOLCE on student engagement and the multi-phase syllabus
Dear Faculty Colleagues,
Thanks to everyone who attended our DOLCE on Friday, April 5th. We enjoyed the engaging presentation from Victoria Cross speaking on “Encouraging and rewarding attendance and engagement without coercion.” Tor grades using a fascinating point-based system where a superfluity of available points provides students the autonomy to create their own path towards a passing grade in her Psychology classes.
Rob Furrow spoke on “Student Engagement and the Multi-Phase Syllabus,” reminding us that creative redundancy of resources in a Canvas course site can help students feel oriented no matter how and where they look to be updated on course-related obligations. Furrow is an assistant professor of teaching in Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology.
Enjoy this short preview before you review the full recording.
Please plan to join us every first and third Friday of the month at noon (via Zoom) for forums like this one.
Dr. Andy Jones
Academic Associate Director, Academic Technology Services
Editor in Chief, The Wheel
University of California, Davis
Access the Zoom chat from the event.
Resources shared during Tor Cross’ talk:
- This is a fantastic, tangible example of Recruiting Interest (Checkpoint 7) of the Universal Design for Learning Guidelines! 👏
- Tor shares some of the Excel MAGIC that lets the “point-choice grading” work in her SITT 2023 on-demand talk
- From Mark Verbitsky: If anybody missed it, Debbie Fetter (Nutrition) and I (PolSci) also had a DOLCE session on encouraging attendance
- AND they wrote a great article about their ideas and how they work
- Article on promoting disciplinary reading that may be helpful to some
- SITT 2023 talk by Russ Carpenter about how he uses “Letters from their Besties”
Resources shared during Rob Furrow’s talk:
- CEE’s Faculty Learning Communities
- Working with the “home page” in Canvas
- About “Files” in Canvas
- About a “liquid syllabus”
- About the Canvas Teacher app
- There is an online forum in the Canvas Community about using the Canvas Mobile apps
- Yes, Gen Z students use websites/Canvas/search engines in unique ways. This info is from Student Affairs: Writing for Gen Z
- Tor Cross gave a great talk for SITT 2020 about tips for organizing your Canvas course
- ATS instructional designers taught a webinar about maximizing the effectiveness of instructional videos - lots of great tips
- Another recorded webinar on making sure that students stay engaged while watching video lectures - This webinar talks about using PlayPosit.
- Editing captions in AggieVideo