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Dear Faculty Colleagues,

On this Friday, May 19th 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 all of you who attended our May 5th DOLCE. I always enjoy engaging with the virtual community that we create twice a month.

Enjoy this short preview, and please review the full recording.

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

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.

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Thanks to all of you who attended our April 21st Faculty Forum. 

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Please plan to join us every first and third Friday of the month at noon (via Zoom) for forums like this one. We would have even more fun if you were there!

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

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

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Faculty often find that when they are seeking to accommodate students with documented disabilities, or when they simply wish to make their courses more effective and inclusive, the challenges of increasing accessibility can be daunting. Some of us lessen the anxiety of making learning materials more accessible by adopting a “plus 1” strategy to improve the accessibility of just one element of a course or activity per quarter, the benefits of which extend to all participating students.

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Thanks to all of you who attended our April 7th DOLCE with Cam Hostinar from Psychology and Matthew Butner from Computer Science. We were thrilled to have 35 attendees, and the conversation between and after the presentations was engaging and thought-provoking.

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Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Welcome back! I hope you enjoyed a restful spring break.

Our April DOLCE takes place this coming Friday at noon via Zoom, and I hope you can join us for an opportunity to hear presentations from faculty in Psychology and Computer Science. Dr. Cam Hostinar will be speaking on “Promoting Student Engagement in Large Courses,” while Matthew Buttner will be speaking about “Insisting Students Plan for Success.”

As UC Davis wraps up another successful winter term and looks ahead to spring, the staff at Academic Technology Services (ATS) invites instructional teams to join its quarterly Ed Tech Week of live webinars and curated resources intended to streamline setting up instructional technologies and learning activities for upcoming courses.

In addition to asynchronous resources like knowledge base guides and recorded webinars, this spring’s Ed Tech Week includes three live webinars during the first week of the term (click each title to RSVP):

Creating opportunities for students to engage during learning activities can be challenging, especially in lecture settings where large audiences and limited instructor time can leave learners feeling anonymous and disconnected. Research tells us that students benefit from actively participating in their learning, but engineering those behaviors into lesson plans often demands new practices or tools to overcome the tendency toward passive, less engaged learning.

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Thanks to all of you who attended our March 3rd DOLCE about teaching with ChatGPT, with presentations from Andrea Ross and Lisa Sperber, both from the University Writing Program. We very much appreciated their thoughtful approaches to this new tool.

Enjoy this short preview, and review the full recording.

Dear Faculty Colleagues,
 
We are excited to announce that on Friday, March 3rd at noon via Zoom, the ATS March DOLCE (Discussing Online Learning and Collaborative Education) will be featuring ChatGPT presentations from two of our faculty colleagues from the University Writing Program: Andrea Ross and Lisa Sperber. You are invited to join us.
 

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Thanks to all of you who attended our February 3rd DOLCE about flipping a class using instructional videos. This DOLCE featured Professor Joseph Biello from the UC Davis Department of Mathematics.

Enjoy this short preview, and review the full recording.

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

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Before the pandemic made Zoom ubiquitous and home-recorded instructional videos commonplace, our colleague from Mathematics, Joseph Biello, had started sharing what he calls “really clear videos” in his Math 21D: Vector Analysis class, and then using class time to engage with students and solve math problems requested by the students. 

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Thanks to all of you who attended our January 20th Faculty Forum about ChatGPT and how it might impact our teaching and our students’ learning.

Enjoy this short preview, and review the full recording.

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