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Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Thanks to everyone who participated in our May 16th Faculty Forum on Preparing for SITT 2025 and Considering the IET Five-Year Plan.

The attending faculty talked about their past experiences of the Summer Institute on Teaching and Technology, and their brief responses to IET plans for the coming half-decade.

Enjoy both this short preview and the full recording of our May 16th Faculty Forum.

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

On Friday, May 16th at noon (via Zoom), Academic Technology Services will be hosting a Faculty Forum on two topics:

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Thanks to everyone who attended our May 2nd DOLCE on teaching undergraduates to create collaborative independent research projects with Google Slides (Whitney Duim from Chemistry), as well as using generative AI to summarize peer comments on collaborative projects in Biomedical Engineering classes (by Jennifer Choi).

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

You are cordially invited to join us on Friday, May 2, at noon (via Zoom) for our May faculty DOLCE presentations and discussion. If you can’t 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 April 18 Faculty Forum on in-class and online discussions, discussion forums, and digital meeting rooms.

The attending faculty talked about a number of the opportunities and challenges inherent in guiding students into small work groups or digital breakout rooms to encourage collaboration and problem-solving.

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Thanks to everyone who attended our recent DOLCE on Teaching with AI and with Open Educational Resources. As you will see from the recording, Mairaj Syed from Religious Studies and Briel Brown from English engaged the group of more than 20 faculty on their innovative teaching in UC Davis classes.

Enjoy this short preview before you review the full recording of the April 4th DOLCE.

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

You are cordially invited to join us on Friday, April 4th, at noon (via Zoom) for our April DOLCE presentations and discussion. If you can’t join us live on Zoom, please visit The Wheel in the subsequent week to watch the recording.

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.