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The 2021 Summer Institute on Teaching and Technology starts September 9th, so now is the time to register for this two-morning Zoom opportunity to hear excellent and relevant presentations by our UC Davis colleagues, and to connect with fellow faculty on your teaching and instructional technology concerns. 

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Please plan to join us at the 2021 Summer Institute on Teaching and Technology (SITT) on the mornings of September 9th and 10th.

Dear  Faculty colleagues,

Dear Colleagues,

I’m writing to invite you to our last DOLCE (Discussing Online Learning and Collaborative Education) event of the school year. We hope you can join us remotely on Friday, June 4th at noon to learn about approaches to assessing our students. This event will be recorded.

Dear Faculty Colleagues, 

Thanks to all of you who joined us on May 21 for our Faculty Forum on our uses, challenges, and successes with lecture capture at UC Davis. The recording of the event is available now.

Dear Faculty Colleagues.

Thanks to all faculty colleagues who joined us on May 7 for our monthly DOLCE event.  A guest speaker from Boise State University joined two of our faculty colleagues in discussing novel and innovative ways of responding to remote teaching challenges. Dr. Leslie Madsen, Boise State University IDEA Shop Director and Associate Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning (and UC Davis alumna) was followed by Dr.

Dear Faculty Colleagues.

Please join us for our May DOLCE (Discussing Online Learning and Collaborative Education) meeting taking place this Friday, May 7th at noon via Zoom. Three faculty presenters will share their thoughts on course design, learning frameworks, and lessons learned about teaching remotely.

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

We are excited to invite you to present at the 2021 Summer Institute on Teaching and Technology!

In response to the continued need for physical distancing, this year’s Summer Institute on Teaching and Technology (SITT) will take place entirely online with a mix of pre-recorded presentations, faculty interviews, and live talks on Thursday and Friday, September 9th and 10th, 2021. The theme of this year’s SITT is “Bouncing Back: Flexible Teaching in a Year of Recovery.”

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Thanks to all faculty colleagues who joined us on April 2 for our monthly DOLCE event. Our speakers included John Marx, English Department Professor and Aggie Square Faculty Liaison, and Dr. Emily Merchant, Assistant Professor Science and Technology Studies. The video recording of the event is now available.

Dear Faculty Colleagues.

I’m writing to invite you to our April DOLCE (Discussing Online Learning and Collaborative Education) meeting that will take place this Friday, April 2nd at noon PST via Zoom. We have three speakers presenting. I am especially excited to hear from the first one.

Thanks to all faculty colleagues who joined us for our March DOLCE. Our speakers included Dr. Randy Haas, Assistant Professor at the Department of Anthropology, ATS Senior Artist Matthew Verdolivo, and Keith David Watenpaugh, Professor and Director of Human Rights Studies.

If you’ve attended any of our previous PlayPosit webinars, you have seen the many features of PlayPosit, and how it can be used to create interactive videos. It turns out that video is only ONE of the types of media that PlayPosit can be used to enhance. This coming Thursday, you can join the PlayPosit Instructional Design team to learn about new PlayPosit use cases. Please join us to learn about the following: