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Encouraging participation while balancing student needs with Mark Verbitsky and Debbie Fetter - video from a recent DOLCE

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Thanks to all of you who attended our first DOLCE event of the year on Friday, October 6th.

Enjoy this short preview, and please review the full recording. We appreciate the thoughtful presentations by teaching all-stars Debbie Fetter and Mark Verbitsky.

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

A poetic celebration of SITT

Lose Yourself at SITT

 

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

Please register now for the The Summer Institute on Teaching and Technology (September 14 and 15)

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.

Summer is almost upon us! Please fill out this survey to help Academic Technology Services support you this summer and beyond

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.
 

Gradescope webinar for existing users

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.

Join us on Friday for talks about ChatGPT and Teaching with Kindness

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.

Join us for SITT 2023!

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

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