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Welcome to the Teaching Newsletter SUMMER EDITION! Engage with us!
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Welcome to the summer edition of the Teaching Newsletter! We're shifting things up a bit. We will still provide you with timely resources to support your teaching, but would also like to focus more on incorporating your voice.
In this first edition, we're giving particular attention to preparing for teaching and learning in the changed landscape by reflecting on our experiences over the past year. We'd love to hear from you about any significant or impactful changes you made to your teaching in 2020-21–What did you do that worked or that you plan to use even as we return to more in-person instruction? Let us know using this Flipgrid board. If you're new to Flipgrid, it's an interactive video board where you can create and comment on other's posts. It's also an engaging way to make some of your course discussions more interactive and to generate more thoughtful responses.
Please share and learn with us and your colleagues and explore a new teaching and learning tool while you're at it!
– Michael Tassio, Online Education Director &
Sam Foster, CITL Managing Director
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Click the photo above to add your story to the Flipgrid board.
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The Great Reset: University Teaching and Learning after COVID with Jody Greene
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In this interactive conversation, Stephanie Chan (PhD in Literature from UCSC and English Instructor at Foothill College) will interview Jody Greene, UCSC’s first Associate Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning and the Founding Director of the Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning, about the changes COVID has brought about and will bring about in college teaching and learning. From technologically-enhanced education to trauma-informed pedagogy, COVID has not only precipitated but also accelerated changes already under way at UCSC and elsewhere. Chan and Greene will discuss UCSC’s long history of educational innovation and what teaching and learning might look like post-pandemic, and leave plenty of time for engaging with the audience’s questions.
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Summer Teaching Resources & Integrated Course Design for Hybrid Instruction
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Are you teaching this summer?
This handy Instructors’ Guide has all the information you need, including the course design template, a Summer Session 2021 introduction module and syllabus template, how to get instructional support in Slack, and so much more.
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Are you interested in designing a course that features the best aspects of both online and in-person instruction?
Developed by Online Education, ICD-HI is a training program designed to help you reimagine your teaching for hybrid instruction by blending pedagogical practices with practical tutorials for fostering engagement, designing digital assignments and assessments, creating lecture videos, working more effectively in Canvas, and incorporating other instructional tools.
The three-week cohort-based training will take place Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10:30am to 12pm between July 27 and August 12. It is open to all interested faculty on a first-come, first-served basis.
To register, email Online Education.
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Improve Consistency in Feedback and Save Time with 'SpeedGrader Comment'
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Canvas just added a powerful new feature called the SpeedGrader Comment Library. With this new tool, you can create a library of saved comments that can be used across all your Canvas Assignments and courses. You can add new comments on the fly, and delete old ones that are no longer necessary. You can access your saved comments by clicking on the “library” or by typing in the Assignment Comments which will give you previously entered suggestions to choose from. This new feature is a great timesaver and easy to use.
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Free Online Courses for the UCSC Community
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One-Change Challenge Boards
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Do you have a summer reading list? How about a summer online course list?
Through the campus partnership with Coursera, the entire campus community (all people with @ucsc.edu email addresses) will soon have free access to over 3,000 online courses from hundreds of institutions and instructors, including courses from UCSC professors Bettina Aptheker, Erika Zavaleta, Ira Pohl, and several others.
Keep an eye out for the announcement of the program in upcoming Tuesday Newsday, which will include your invitation link to the Coursera for UCSC program.
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This Spring, nearly 40 instructors participated in Online Education’s Spring One-Change Challenge. In recognition of the overwhelming labor it took to keep teaching during the pandemic, the One-Change Challenge encouraged instructors to commit to making just one change to their Spring course. Faculty across campus adopted a range of strategies, from small tweaks—such as enabling Zoom live transcriptions or adding a welcome video—to larger redesigns around incorporating equity-minded practices and active learning in synchronous class sessions.
The program was a great success and will be offered again in Fall 2021. What changes will you consider making to your Fall courses? Sign up in September!
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Daily Open Office Hours & Support
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Join us for drop-in office hours here, 2 pm – 3 pm every day
(passcode is ‘help’).
Check out the Keep Teaching and CITL websites for instructional resources.
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If you have any questions about teaching and technology, post on Online Education’s Slack space or email online@ucsc.edu.
For general teaching questions, email citl@ucsc.edu.
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CONTACT US
Center for Innovations for Teaching and Learning (CITL) • citl@ucsc.edu
Online Education • online@ucsc.edu
Faculty Instructional Technology Center (FITC) • fitc@ucsc.edu
University of California Santa Cruz
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