Summer 2024 Northern California Teaching Center Meet-Up
Stevenson Hall
10:00 am
– 3:00 pm
The Center for Teaching & Educational Technology (CTET) at Sonoma State University is hosting the Summer 2024 Northern California Teaching Center Meetup. This event was initiated in 2023 by the UC Berkeley Center for Teaching & Learning.
In hopes of expanding both the reach and the participation in this event, we have partnered with the CSU Chancellor's Office Innovative Teaching & Learning (ITL) programs as a sponsor to help foster intersegmental and hopefully private/public campus partnerships around faculty development for teaching and learning.
Based on feedback collected after the first year's event, we are organizing this to provide more opportunities for networking, learning about each other's programming, and providing for collaboration around topics of mutual interest. Please see below for additional details.
Event Registration
Registration is now closed for the event. If you have any questions about your registration, please contact ctet@sonoma.edu.
Parking and Map
CSU parking permits are honored at SSU. If you still need to buy a pass, kiosks are located in each lot. Park in lot E or F for closest access to the registration desk located in the Lobby of Stevenson Hall.
Agenda
- 9:30-10AM: Registration in Stevenson Hall Lobby
- 10AM-12PM: CTL Program Presentations in Stevenson 1202 and via Zoom
- 10AM: Cory Davia, University of the Pacific, Student Observational Partnership Program: This year, our center launched our Student Observational Partnership Program. The pilot cohort of four faculty were paired with four student employees who observed their classes regularly and had weekly meetings to debrief. The core idea of the program is that in virtue of their positionality, students have unique access to insight about what it’s like to experience a class, and so they can give faculty a kind of feedback that’s distinct from and an important supplement to the kind of feedback they’d get from us as educational developers.
10:30AM: Adriana Signorini, UC Merced, Students Assessing Teaching & Learning Program (SATAL): This presentation is on collecting students’ perspectives on their learning experience as an equitable pedagogical practice. The SATAL program at UCM, supports instructors with Mid-semester Feedback (MSF) to collect students' perspectives on their learning experience. To collect MSF and provide instructors with actionable feedback, SATAL utilizes a mixed method approach by implementing various instruments and protocols such as Clark and Redmond’s (1982) Small Group Instructional Diagnosis (SGID) and Smith et al.’s (2013) Classroom Observation Protocol for Undergraduate STEM (COPUS).
11:00AM: Matt Larcin, UCLA: Enhancing Course Design and Development with AI Tools: This presentation, part of the GenAI program we are building, explores the integration of AI tools into the course design and development process, research techniques for faculty and students, highlighting how these new technologies can enhance creativity, emphasize the importance of storytelling in course design and engagement, streamline workflows, and foster innovation.
11:30AM: Sandra Ayala, Sonoma State: Using ChatGPT to Support Accessibility: This presentation parses out all the ways ChatGPT can serve as a tool to support students with disabilities. In this presentation I explain how ChatGPT is dynamic and grows with a user, and is a centralized source of tools and information. There are many examples provided in this presentation and then participants are given prompts to try out on their own to examine how to build individualized support systems.
12-1PM: Lunch provided by CSU Chancellor’s Office: Stevenson 1204
1-3PM: Round-Robin Interactive Workshops. These workshops are for the in-person attendees only; there is no Zoom component. Participants will be able to sign up at the registration table on the day of the event to indicate the workshop they plan to attend.
1-2PM Options:
Enoch Hale, Cal Poly Humboldt & John Lynch, Sonoma State: A Model for Faculty Development Program Evaluation (Stevenson 1202): Join us for a collaborative workshop on better aligning and demonstrating the impact of our faculty development efforts. Based on content presented at a recent CSU Faculty Development Council retreat, we'll walk through an abbreviated process for developing a CTL curriculum map that aligns with the needs of our various stakeholders. You'll walk away with a workflow that you can bring back to your center to help you prioritize both programs and assessment. OR
Jenae Cohn, UC Berkeley: How CTLs Navigate Institutional Inequity (Stevenson 1201): CTLs are often tasked with generating tools to support faculty to create inclusive and equitable teaching environments. But because elevating this work often requires significant changes in how teachers approach their classroom, their assignments and the resources associated with them, uplifting these kinds of efforts is a tremendous challenge. This challenge is compounded by contexts that may not be within individual control, such as increasing faculty workloads, budget cuts, and other institutional structural barriers. In this workshop, participants will a.) describe a type of program, initiative or dilemma that elevates or advocates for inclusion, equity and social justice in the context of faculty development; b.) name the key structural barriers that hinder progress in advancing such efforts; c.) identify strategies and partnerships that can help galvanize the proposed work even in the face of the identified structural barriers and d.) discuss the perceived impact and lessons learned from advancing these efforts.
2-3PM Options:
Carlos Seligo, Stanford: Promptcraft for GenAI (Stevenson 1202): Some dramatic recent improvements have come in Computer Vision, so in addition to reviewing promptcraft, I will focus on using AI for the visually impaired including demonstrating BeMyEyes, and a GPT by Joe Devon called Accessibility Co-Pilot. I will demo these tools and attendees can try it for themselves with Microsoft Co-Pilot, which is free and requires no account for access. OR
Megan McNamara, UCSC: Effective Active Learning in the Flipped Classroom (Stevenson 1201): Despite their questionable reputation among students and instructors alike, we know that, when well designed, active learning techniques are demonstrably more effective at producing meaningful, durable learning than the passive consumption of educational content via lecture/reading. We will start this session by looking at common sources of failure for small group activities. Then, we will critique the conventional wisdom of active learning design, some of which reproduces the very problematics that cause our active learning to founder. We’ll spend the bulk of our time together exploring an entirely new approach to active learning. The unique design strategies you’ll learn in this session will empower you to support faculty in creating exciting, pragmatic, and exquisitely relevant active learning experiences for your students.
3-5PM: Optional No Host Post Event Meet-Up at Old Caz Somo Village Brewpub (1500 Valley House Drive, Rohnert Park, CA 94928): To expand the social collaborations, everyone is invited to a local favorite, Old Caz! Just 1.7 miles from campus, the brewpub is open for pints, wine, and cider. The kitchen also serves snacks and dinner, hosted by local food vendors serving up delicious eats to pair with the beers. We've reserved space and we hope to see you there!