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Dear Faculty Colleagues,

We greatly appreciate everyone who could make it to this last DOLCE of the 2021-2022 school year. For those of you who couldn't make it, here is a quick 5-minute recap of the event, along with the recording of the full event for your viewing pleasure.

Dr. Andy Jones

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Thank you to everyone that joined us for joining us for our Faculty Form on preparing for the Summer Institute on Teaching and Technology (SITT). Please enjoy the brief four-minute summary of what we heard from you during the Faculty Form and also the full event recording.

Dr. Andy Jones

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Please join us via Zoom on Friday, June 3rd at noon, for the last DOLCE of the academic year. 

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

On Friday, May 20th 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 everyone who joined us for our DOLCE meeting on May 6, 2022 about teaching diverse students effectively and using the lavishly-produced setting of a video game to teach river science. Please enjoy the brief seven-minute summary of what we heard from you during the event as well as the full event recording.

Dr. Andy Jones

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Midway through the spring quarter, we have a few more opportunities this school year to hear some examples of innovative teaching at UC Davis. Please plan to join us via Zoom on Friday, May 6th at noon for a meeting of DOLCE: Discussing Online Learning and Collaborative Education.

Thanks to all the faculty and staff who joined us for a special Faculty Forum on strategies for both applying to teach and actually teaching future hybrid and online classes at UC Davis. Thirty-five participants from across the disciplines joined us for a conversation that touched on meeting the needs of students with disabilities and medical concerns, terminology and definitions relevant to hybrid and online teaching, strategies for teaching with lecture-captured video, and negotiating the process of applying to teach new classes, or established courses in a new mode.

We are thrilled to announce that the Summer Institute on Teaching and Technology (SITT) will return for 2022 on Thursday and Friday, September 8th and 9th!

During the first week of this spring term, Academic Technology Services staff again held Ed Tech Week where instructional designers and technologists hosted live webinars and curated asynchronous resources to help UC Davis instructors quickly set up the technologies for their upcoming courses. For those of you who could not join us, here’s a quick look at what you missed!

Welcome to Information and Educational Technology, Joshua Hori! Many of you know, or have heard the name Josh Hori, formerly of the Student Disability Center (SDC) and now, as of Feb. 6, 2022, part of IET in Academic Applications.

Meggan Levitt, assistant vice provost/associate CIO for Academic Applications, is excited about the opportunities that will come with this new hire, saying, “One of the goals with this position is to build a culture of accessibility within IET to help us learn from each other and share what we’ve learned with our campus affiliates.”

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Some of us loved teaching remotely so much that we would like to continue to exercise that option in the future. Let’s talk about it!

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Thank you for joining us for our DOLCE titled “Service With a Smile: Effectively and Affirmatively Supporting Learner Control in Canvas” on April 1, 2022. Please enjoy the brief 3-minute summary of what we heard from you during the event and also the full event recording.

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Welcome to Spring Quarter! We hope that you have had a relaxing or a productive spring break, and that you are excited for a new quarter. We also hope that you’ll join us for the first DOLCE of the quarter, on Friday, April 1st, at 12pm on Zoom, where we will hear from faculty who use some of our core campus instructional technologies.

Preparing educational technologies for your next class can be a daunting task. Academic Technology Services stands ready to help.

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Thank you to those who joined us for our March DOLCE, featuring Lisa Rapalyea, Alisa Shubb, and Josh Hori. Please enjoy the brief summary of what we heard from  you during the event and also the full event recording.