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Fall’s First Faculty Forum - Please join us on Friday, October 21st at noon via Zoom

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

I’m writing to invite you to Friday’s Academic Technology Services Faculty Forum at which we will discuss ways that we can best instruct, inspire, and support our students during a time of ongoing change and pandemic recovery. We meet Friday, October 21st at noon via Zoom, and we hope you will join us.

In Friday’s forum, we will gather for an open-ended discussion about the ways our students have changed over the last few years. I anticipate that we will discuss our students’ readiness to achieve the learning goals for our classes, their attitudes towards hybrid and remote instruction, and their remaining anxiety about the effects of past pandemic disruptions. We will also review some of the ways that we can best support our students, such as the strategic use of UC Davis Canvas and other tools to extend classroom lessons and discussions to include everyone.

We have no planned speakers for this forum, so we hope you will Zoom by to make some contributions as well as some discoveries. Bring your questions and insights, your interested faculty colleagues, as well as your lunch. We always learn more when we are joined by a multiplicity of faculty voices in the ATS Zoom room.

I will host this discussion, and we will be joined by ATS staff and other subject experts to provide you their perspectives and referrals to relevant campus resources. This event will be recorded for future sharing.

In addition to joining us Friday, you may want to register for this bonus event tomorrow. If you have been facing the challenge of keeping students engaged while they watch your instructional videos, please join some of your faculty colleagues tomorrow, Thursday, October 20th, at 1pm, for a live webinar about PlayPosit, a tool that allows you to add interactions into your videos. Read more and register here.

See you Friday

Best,

Andy Jones
Academic Associate Director, Academic Technology Services

Faculty Forum on Supporting UC Davis Students
Friday, October 21st at noon
Register now to join us via Zoom


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