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Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Please join us this coming Friday, April 19th via Zoom for a noon Faculty Forum on Generative AI and Writing hosted by Academic Technology Services.

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.

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Happy springtime! Please join us on Friday, April 5th for our first DOLCE of the spring quarter, this one featuring talks by Victoria Cross from Psychology and Rob Furrow from Wildlife, Fish, and Conservation Biology.

Dear Colleagues,

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

We appreciate the enthusiastic and expert participation of our three faculty presenters and the thoughtful questions from the audience at our most recent DOLCE event last Friday, March 2nd. The teaching and presentation skills of Mark Verbitsky, Debbie Fetter, and Martin Hilbert were on full display. Lest you feel full of regret if you couldn’t join us, we have recorded the entire event for your measured review.

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Please join us for a March DOLCE event on Friday, March 1st, from 12-1pm. We will enjoy demonstrations from three faculty who have been teaching asynchronously with the interactive video learning tool PlayPosit. We will be joined that Friday by some teaching all-stars: Debbie Fetter from Nutrition, Mark Verbitsky from Political Science, and Martin Hilbert from Communication. Each of the demonstrations will be quick and visually rich, and I’m sure they will prompt questions and conversation from the attendees.

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Thanks to everyone who attended our Canvas-centric Faculty Forum on Friday, February 16th. All the attendees and speakers are appreciated.

Please enjoy the recording of the event.

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

On Friday, February 16th at noon, Academic Technology Services will host a Zoom Faculty Forum on strategies for organizing your Canvas course.

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Thanks to everyone who attended our DOLCE on Friday, February 2nd. I loved hearing Russ Carpenter and Patricia Turner present on the fascinating, creative, and effective ways that they teach classes and chart out pedagogical our use of Chat GPT and other AI programs, skillfully mixing innovation, deep thinking, and coverage of necessary academic skills. We are lucky to have such accomplished and thoughtful members of the UC Davis community.

Dear colleagues,
 
ChatGPT has obviously raised a lot of fears. Some students and faculty both are quite perplexed about how students are or should or should not be using it, and any AI-generated text is considered plagiarism by OSSJA. At the same time, we know that our students will enter professions in which generative AI is being incorporated into all kinds of workflows.
 
If we don’t train them how to use AI ethically—and help them understand why and when they should not use it—it may deepen the digital divide and increase inequity in education.