Teaching & Learning News

"In the age of online everything, Lecturer Deborah Forger used snail mail to transport her class back in time—way back, to when the ability to write was uncommon." Read about how Forger partnered with the Book Arts Workshop to bring hands-on learning to her virtual course.

Through Noelia Sol Cirnigliaro's innovative teaching with her Tango Argentino class, students learned through studying culture and literature, and engaging in community-based programming -- but also through dancing together. That course was in pre-pandemic times and it may be a long time before we have another class like this, but enjoy the video if you'd like to be transported to another time.

DCAL is offering experiential learning mini grants to support faculty in the development and implementation of experiential learning activities in current Dartmouth courses. Courses have already been funded to purchase and ship materials to students, fund speakers honoraria, and pay for software, subscriptions, and more tools to help students learn. Preference will be given for activities focused on community building and student interaction and/or examining/addressing systemic racism. The small pool of funds to support these courses became available with the cancellation of in-person events. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis, starting immediately, until funding is exhausted.  Learn more about these grants and apply on the DCAL site.

If you are a new TA, sign-up to join the Graduate TA Canvas site by completing this short survey. Explore modules about roles & expectations, preparing to teach & time management, feedback & assessment, and inclusive teaching & building community.  A new module has been added for International Scholars who are TAs!

We have updated our syllabus guide page to include new language from Student Accessibility Services.

Are you teaching your courses with remote components for the first time in the fall term? Want to learn about some new tools to use with your students? Sign up for one of our workshops. We continue to offer opportunities to learn about core tools like Canvas and will be adding additional workshops over the next several weeks. Bookmark our training page on Teach Remotely — we're here to help.

Making the Most of Teaching on Zoom
Tuesday, Sept 22    2:30pm - 3:30pm Registration Required
Wednesday, Sept 23    12:50pm - 1:50pm Registration Required
Thursday, Sept 24    1:15pm - 2:15pm Registration Required
In this session, we'll discuss strategies for delivering content, engaging students, and building community in your class on Zoom. Attendees will have the opportunity to practice, as host and participant, with Zoom tools like breakout groups, screen sharing, polling, and annotation. Sessions will be capped at 10 people and require at least 5 attendees to run.

VoiceThread Advanced Skills
Tuesday, Sept 22    7:00-8:00pm
In this workshop, participants will learn about more advanced VoiceThread features. We will demonstrate how to integrate Google Drive content via our Media Sources, how to change language displays, adjust playback settings and more. Portions of the workshop will be hands-on.
More information and registration here.

Slack Training for Faculty
Wednesday, Sept 23    10:00am - 11:00am
The workshop will feature a basic how-to introduction to Slack, including a short demo and Q&A section. Attend this workshop via this Zoom link: https://dartmouth.zoom.us/j/97154507288?pwd=R3NmeDltRHZiZjk3L1JSYUtQRWpBdz09&from=msft  

Links below are to Slack help resources available on the ITC Services Portal: