At a time in public life where truth feels both tenuous and more important than ever, how might we integrate understandings of the truth into any and all of our classes? As a Teaching and Learning Collaborative tip of the week, core curriculum director and psychology professor Andrew Guest offers some liberal arts inflected ideas for teaching the truth on the TLC blog as part of the periodic Core Matters series.
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How to Use “How To Be An Antiracist”: TLC Tip of the Week
How might this year’s ReadUP/Schoenfeldt selection inform our teaching? In this week’s Teaching & Learning Collaborative tip, Lars Larson gathers a few ideas from Ibram X. Kendi’s powerful work How to Be an Antiracist. Please note that electronic copies of Kendi’s book can be accessed through the Clark Library here, and paper copies will be distributed in early February, with details forthcoming.
For more information contact Larsen at larsen@up.edu.
TLC Teaching Tip of the Week: Using Clark Library During Fall 2020
The Clark Library continues to support teaching and learning during remote instruction. For full details, please visit our Fall 2020 Library Services guide.
Here are a few highlights:
- Borrow a laptop (for local users only). Perhaps your work laptop needs repair, or a student in your class indicates that their laptop stopped working. Visit the library during our open hours to borrow a laptop; advance reservations are not needed. Laptops checkout for 24 hours, with the possibility of longer loans if laptops are available. See the Equipment page of the Fall 2020 guide for more information.
- Borrow Digital Lab equipment (for local users only). Cameras, tripods, sound recorders, etc. are available. Call the Digital Lab (943.7796) on Tuesdays or Thursdays between 10am-1pm to discuss your equipment needs. Requested equipment will be held for you to pick up at the library’s Service Desk during open hours. For more information, see the Equipment page of the Fall 2020 guide.
- Request scans of book chapters. The library is offering a new service where you may request scans of chapters from books owned by UP; we will deliver them to you online as PDFs. You may also request chapters from books not owned by UP, which we will obtain from other libraries. Under fair use guidelines, up to 10% of an entire book may be scanned. To make your request, use the Book Chapter request form in our interlibrary loan system, UP ILLiad. For more information, see the Items We Can Deliver Online page of the Fall 2020 guide.
Do you have other questions about using the library during remote instruction? Visit the Fall 2020 guide or contact the library at 503.943.7111, library@up.edu, or use Library Chat.
TLC Tip of the Week: Meet With a Librarian
Could students in your classes use some extra assistance with finding good sources for their papers or presentations? Or maybe you would appreciate some literature searching leads for your own research project. Make an appointment using this link to meet with a librarian! Appointments are a great way for you or your students to get personalized and focused assistance with a research question. Librarians assist with questions about any aspect of the research process, including: defining a topic, choosing the best places to search, creating effective search strategies, narrowing searches, evaluating sources, accessing full text, and citing sources.
Use the online Make an Appointment system (linked from Get Help/Contact Us and many other library web pages) to see the availability of reference librarians. All the librarians assist with questions in any subject area, or use the blue “i” icon to identify and select a librarian who specializes in your discipline. Next, choose a date and time that works for you, and then fill out a brief form to tell us about your research question. After submitting the form, the appointment is automatically added to the librarian’s calendar, and both you and the librarian will receive an email confirmation.
For more information about the library’s meet with a librarian service, please contact Stephanie Michel (michel@up.edu, x7418). We hope to meet with you or your students soon!
TLC Tip of the Week: Teaching Reading, No Matter What You Teach
In this IGNITE-funded video, Ellyn Lucas Arwood, education, offers five strategies for increasing the capacity of your students—regardless of academic content area—to be more adept readers of course texts and notes. “How Can I Teach Students to Read In My Academic Discipline?”
For more information contact Karen Eifler, Garaventa Center, at eifler@up.edu.
TLC Tip of the Week: What is Useful Educational Technology?
In this IGNITE-funded video, Eric Anctil, education, offers suggestions for choosing educational technology options from among the gazillions now on offer. Rather than discuss specific tools and apps, he offers guidelines that are portable across disciplines, all firmly rooted in teaching and learning priorities.
TLC Tip of the Week: Creating Inclusive, Engaging Class Spaces
In this brief IGNITE-funded video, Jeff Kerssen-Griep, communication studies, offers portable suggestions for creating a classroom where all feel welcome and valued. As a special bonus, embedded within this video is a link to another one in which he explores the notion of “facework” in interpersonal communication with students and colleagues.
TLC Tip of the Week: Enhancing Class Discussions
In this 10-minute IGNITE-funded video, David Turnbloom of the theology department offers strategies for increasing the quality and quantity of student participation in class conversations. His ideas are portable across multiple content areas.
For more information contact Karen Eifler at eifler@up.edu.
TLC Teaching Tip of the Week: A Treasure Trove!
UP has a stupendously talented and generous faculty, with lots to teach one another about effective, engaging teaching. Over the summer, the Teaching& Learning website (up.edu/tl) was overhauled to be more user-friendly. This week’s TLC teaching tip is to point us all to the amazing treasure trove of Teaching Tips of the Week from the past four years of upbeat, gathered for the first time into one place, at this link. Enjoy a cup of your favorite beverage as you scroll through 64 titles covering everything from the upside of failure to making groupwork work. Each title is linked to a brief (1-2 pages, tops) practical article or video shared by faculty all over campus.
For more information contact Karen Eifler, Garaventa Center, at eifler@up.edu.
TLC Tip of the Week: Untethered Lecture Capture
At a recent brownbag lunch, four faculty members shared tips for getting started on Untethered Lecture Capture. Their lessons learned in two years of implementing this approach are distilled at this link.
For more information or questions, contact Karen Eifler, Garaventa Center, at eifler@up.edu.