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Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Welcome back! I hope you enjoyed a restful summer.

If you had only one chance a year to attend SITT,

would you grab that opportunity, or let it slip?

OK. Dr. Andy

We’ve come to the peak of the week,

So try not to freak your freak or

Succumb to internal critique or

Be your typical too tongue-in-cheek

as you rushedly pressure our next presenter.

Tech don’t fail me now;

Just smile and somehow

Learn how to pronounce all the proper nouns:

We’ve got Delmar Larsen, Margaret and Mark and

Dear UC Davis Friends and Colleagues,

The Summer Institute on Teaching and Technology (SITT) returns soon, and we would love for you and your faculty colleagues to join us! Keeping in mind this year’s theme—Small Acts, Big Impacts—SITT 2023 will showcase UC Davis faculty who creatively use technology to help students succeed one step at a time.

Dear Faculty Colleagues,
 
Rather than hold a DOLCE event at the busy end of the spring quarter, this week we are asking you to fill out a brief survey so we can tailor our future faculty events and our summer instructional design support to your expressed needs. We value your feedback and insights on our services, events, and resources.
 

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Thanks to all of you who attended our May 19th Faculty Forum. 

Enjoy this short preview of the topics and SITT presentation plans of the attendees, and then please review the full recording.

When we return this fall, we hope you will join us every first and third Friday of the month at noon (via Zoom) for forums like this one. 

Many instructional teams at UC Davis are now using Gradescope to more efficiently review and give feedback on student work, benefitting from core features like automated answer sorting, collaborative rubrics, and paper-to-online grading workflows. Beyond those key functions, however, there are a number of new features and strategies to discover.

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

On this Friday, May 19th at noon (via Zoom), Academic Technology Services will be hosting our final Faculty Forum of the school year, and we hope you will join us.

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Thanks to all of you who attended our May 5th DOLCE. I always enjoy engaging with the virtual community that we create twice a month.

Enjoy this short preview, and please review the full recording.

Plan to join us every first and third Friday of the month at noon (via Zoom) for forums like this one.

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

As AI continues to be in the news, and as our town and campus community grieve recent tragic losses, we hope you will join us for discussions about how both of these contexts might impact our teaching.

At our DOLCE (Discussion Online Teaching and Collaborative Education) event this Friday, May 5th, at 12pm on Zoom, we will be joined by two faculty guests.

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Thanks to all of you who attended our April 21st Faculty Forum. 

Enjoy this short preview, and please 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. We would have even more fun if you were there!

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

The 2023 Summer Institute on Teaching and Technology is coming up this September, and we hope you will join us!

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Faculty often find that when they are seeking to accommodate students with documented disabilities, or when they simply wish to make their courses more effective and inclusive, the challenges of increasing accessibility can be daunting. Some of us lessen the anxiety of making learning materials more accessible by adopting a “plus 1” strategy to improve the accessibility of just one element of a course or activity per quarter, the benefits of which extend to all participating students.

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Thanks to all of you who attended our April 7th DOLCE with Cam Hostinar from Psychology and Matthew Butner from Computer Science. We were thrilled to have 35 attendees, and the conversation between and after the presentations was engaging and thought-provoking.

Enjoy this short preview, and review the full recording.

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Welcome back! I hope you enjoyed a restful spring break.

Our April DOLCE takes place this coming Friday at noon via Zoom, and I hope you can join us for an opportunity to hear presentations from faculty in Psychology and Computer Science. Dr. Cam Hostinar will be speaking on “Promoting Student Engagement in Large Courses,” while Matthew Buttner will be speaking about “Insisting Students Plan for Success.”

As UC Davis wraps up another successful winter term and looks ahead to spring, the staff at Academic Technology Services (ATS) invites instructional teams to join its quarterly Ed Tech Week of live webinars and curated resources intended to streamline setting up instructional technologies and learning activities for upcoming courses.

In addition to asynchronous resources like knowledge base guides and recorded webinars, this spring’s Ed Tech Week includes three live webinars during the first week of the term (click each title to RSVP):