07 Oct 2020
by Karleen West, CDL Faculty Affiliate
Labels: News
democracy
Statue of Liberty, by Flickr user Steve Parker, CC-BY-2.0
With the General Election less than a month away, it’s important that our students know how to exercise what’s arguably their most significant responsibility as a U.S. citizen: their right to vote.
In order to help my students learn about the voting process, I created an Announcement on Canvas that succinctly summarizes the three ways to cast a vote in the General Election in New York state. I was inspired by a mailer that I received from the Monroe County Board of Elections that provided the same information in an easily digestible format. (If my link above to the Announcement doesn’t take you directly to it in Canvas, you can find it by going to your Canvas dashboard, clicking the link to Commons, and searching for it in the Geneseo Commons. Look for an image of the Statue of Liberty.)
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01 Oct 2020
by Amanda Wentworth Schmidt, CDL Digital Humanities and Learning Coordinator
Labels: News
online learning
The Association of College and University Educators is providing a timely and constructive webinar series that focuses on “Effective Online Instruction” through “Inclusive Online Teaching”. These webinars, featuring leading faculty experts in digital equity, are free, live, run for approximately 1 hour, and will include Q&A for participants at the end of each session. The Center for Digital Learning and the Teaching and Learning Center at Geneseo encourage any and all who are interested in attending this event to register with the ACUE.
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30 Sep 2020
by Paul Schacht, CDL Director
Labels: News
online learning
Megaphone, by Flickr user Jeff Ferzoco, CC BY-NC 2.0
The Office of the Provost is excited to offer a new round of faculty incentives for Intersession 2021.
Before planning to take advantage of one of these incentives, please be sure to check with your department chair or dean about any courses you intend to teach. Remember that department chairs and deans, not individual faculty, submit courses for inclusion in the intersession schedule.
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17 Sep 2020
by Paul Schacht, CDL Director
Labels: Perspectives
covid-19
Design Museum, London by Flickr user diamond geezer, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
As a result of the coronavirus pandemic, many more Geneseo faculty are teaching online. Not surprisingly, then, department chairs, deans, and personnel committees are wondering how they can best evaluate their colleagues’ online instruction for the purposes of professional development and review.
Procedures and standards for peer review of faculty are, of course, properly a matter for shared governance and contractual negotiation. At some point it will fall to Geneseo’s college senate to approve guidelines for “observing” online instruction similar to those it adopted in 2006 for on-ground instruction, possibly together with some online-specific modifications to the personnel evaluation forms for tenured/tenure-track and adjunct faculty. But because schools and departments need help with this question right now, I put down some thoughts and shared them with the CDL faculty affiliates, student affiliates, associates, and leadership team, as well as the Academic Experience Planning Team convened last spring by Provost Robertson to develop recommendations for the transition to remote learning. I also consulted Wes Kennison, Geneseo UUP chapter president. I got a lot of terrific feedback, especially in the faculty affiliates’ meeting on September 9.
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24 Aug 2020
by Paul Schacht, CDL Director
Labels: News
digital pedagogy
humanities
The SUNY Center for Professional Development, together with the Office of Library and Information Services and SUNY Press, has issued a call for interest in “Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities Classroom,” a series of online events and workshops designed to help create a community of practice and support research on humanities-focused digital pedagogy within SUNY.
The series will kick off with an online gathering September 25 at which humanities faculty can showcase what they and their students are doing with digital tools and methods that aim to “make learning more inclusive, participatory, collaborative, transparent, and active.”
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