DJ Quinn on engaging students with an ongoing use of Zoom: A SITT Interview with Dr. Andy

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Please check out our first SITT 2022 interview with DJ Quinn!

As a teaser for the 2022 Summer Institute on Teaching and Technology, we are posting a series of Wheel articles showcasing interviews with faculty on the theme of this year's SITT, "Unmuting our students." The first of our interviews features DJ Quinn of the University Writing Program; DJ focuses on keeping students engaged with the class content and activities in the ongoing age of Covid.

Student-centric writing classes depend upon the participation of enrolled students, but the challenges of teaching students who are wrestling with Covid, with learning disabilities, and with the anxiety of returning to in-person instruction makes enforcing attendance and participation a challenge. By keeping the Zoom camera on while teaching face-to-face classes, Quinn has discovered some ingenious ways of keeping all his students active in the class while supporting all the students who wish to review class content presented synchronously.

We invite you to review the full interview with DJ Quinn! Expect more prerecorded SITT content to be shared here throughout August and September, 2022.

As the SITT website is now live, please sign up now for live talks and start to review the on-demand content. We will have speakers, panels, and forums for attendee participation. Also, please contact us if you know a perhaps new (or new to SITT) colleague whom we could contact directly to invite to join us. We hope to see you at SITT 2022!

Dr. Andy Jones

Academic Associate Director, Academic Technology Services
Editor in Chief, The Wheel
University of California, Davis