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Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Thanks to everyone who attended our recent DOLCE on innovative and engaging teaching with multiple media. Presenters Walter Leal and Rebecca Lybrand reminded us with their talks why they are so popular and effective in the classroom. The remarkable use of videos from the field and close-up photography inspired everyone present to consider new ways to support their classes with media and to take advantage of the Educational Technology Resource Awards (ETRA) offered by Academic Technology Services.

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

You are cordially invited to join us on Friday, March 7th, at noon (via Zoom) for our March DOLCE presentations and discussion. If you are unable to join us live on Zoom, please visit The Wheel in the subsequent week to watch the recording.

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Thanks to everyone who participated in our recent Faculty Forum on managing high-enrollment classes. We called it “Tech tools to the rescue: Managing large classes and overwhelming teaching and assessment workloads.”

Dear Faculty Colleagues, 

On Friday, February 21st at noon (via Zoom), Academic Technology Services will be hosting a Faculty Forum on teaching high-enrollment and labor-intensive classes. We are calling this event “Tech tools to the rescue: Managing large classes and overwhelming teaching and assessment workloads.”

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Thanks to everyone who attended our recent DOLCE on teaching with video and with PlayPosit. Reviewing the video of this event, you will discover excellent presentations on these topics by Lisa Oaks of Psychology and Jorge Peña from Communication.

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

You are cordially invited to join us on Friday, February 7th at noon (via Zoom) for our February DOLCE presentations and discussion. If you are unable to join us live on Zoom, please visit The Wheel in the following week to watch the recording.

We will enjoy presentations by two DOLCE speakers. 

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Thanks to everyone who participated in our “Teaching With Open Educational Resources” event on Friday, January 17th. We’ve received a bunch of (only) positive feedback, and I’m sure we piqued the interest of the more than 20 attendees in OER and their use in current or future classes.

Dear Faculty Colleagues, 

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Thanks to everyone who attended our December DOLCE on faculty use of Educational Technology Resource Awards. Every quarter, faculty can schedule time with instructional designers and with our media specialists to create images, video, and even 2D animations in support of the undergraduate classes we teach.

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

You are cordially invited to join us this coming Friday, December 6th at noon (via Zoom) for our December DOLCE presentations and discussion. If you are unable to join us live on Zoom, please visit The Wheel in the subsequent week to watch the recording.

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Thanks to the more than 50 faculty who attended our recent forum on Authentic Assessment and Generative AI. So many hands went up from attending faculty, many of them first-time participants, with questions and suggestions regarding these important topics.

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

On Friday, November 15th at noon (via Zoom), Academic Technology Services will be hosting a Faculty Forum on authentic assessments in the age of GenAI. We hope you will join us.

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Thanks to everyone who attended our DOLCE on approaches to engaging undergraduates and creative use of AI in written assessments. Faculty who attended shared comments such as “Both talks were informative. I specifically appreciate the practical strategies that the speakers shared,” and “The honest discussion from the presenters — this was fantastic!”

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Please register now to join us Friday, November 1st at noon (via Zoom) for our November DOLCE presentations and discussion. If you are unable to join us live on Zoom, please visit The Wheel in the subsequent week to watch the recording.

We will enjoy presentations by two DOLCE speakers.

Cam Hostinar

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Thanks to everyone who attended our Faculty Forum on Friday, October 18th on teaching with interaction and engagement. With the help of our three invited experts, Victoria Cross (Psychology), Laci Gerhart (Evolution and Ecology), and Joël Porquet-Lupine (Computer Science), we discussed a variety of teaching practices and techniques, most of which depended upon different tools for collecting, sharing, and even harnessing our students’ enthusiasm and ideas in the classroom.