Spring 2024
Going Digital: Audio Essays and Podcasts
Tuesday, March 12th from 2:00p – 2:50p in HCC 407
Register to attend and enjoy a coffee and cookie break while learning how you might create an audio assignment too! Digital Learning Support and Digital Knowledge Center staff will share how they can support you and your students with audio projects.
And then, one week later, let us help you build your own digital assignment at our Digital Assignment Jam!
Digital Assignment Jam: Audio Essays and Podcasts (Or Anything Else!)
Tuesday, March 19th – Drop in anytime between 1:00p and 4:00p in HCC 407
Digital Assignment Jams are open work sessions aimed at providing instructors an opportunity to bring their digital assignment ideas and develop them for implementation into a course. We will work through ideas, provide guidance, and explore the many ways we can support you and your students. The session will be informal, but we hope that by the end of it you’ll be well on your way to having a digital assignment ready to go.
Register to attend and enjoy a coffee and cookie break while you work on your digital assignment!
Going Digital and our Digital Assignment Jams are presented as in-person experiences without a recording, but we are happy to cover any of this information in a personal consultation with you, your group, or your department – just send a quick email to dls@umw.edu and we can get you scheduled.
We look forward to showing you how easy it can be to take one of your current assignments and turn it into a digital assignment. If you have any questions, please contact us at dls@umw.edu.
Fall 2023
Going Digital: A Faculty Workshop Series on Creating Digital Assignments
With today’s widespread access to digital media technology, it is easier than ever to transform conventional class assignments into digital projects. The Going Digital series introduces best practices in designing and assessing digital assignments of various types and offers the opportunity to see examples and ask questions of other faculty who have developed digital assignments for their courses.
Digital Knowledge Center and Digital Learning Support staff will share how they can support you and your students with these projects. We will discuss how digital assignments can be an opportunity for students to use AI tools ethically and responsibly while also providing strategies for designing assignments that discourage improper use.
Video & Audio Essay Assignments: Applying the essay format to digital media
Wednesday, September 27th from 12:00p – 1:00p in HCC 407.
This workshop will focus on video and audio essay assignments. We will discuss methods of applying the essay format to digital media and see examples from faculty who have used media essay assignments in their classes.
Digital Learning Support and Digital Knowledge Center staff will share how they can support you and your students with these projects. We will discuss how digital assignments can be an opportunity for students to use AI tools ethically and responsibly while also providing strategies for designing assignments that discourage improper use.
These workshops are presented as an in-person experience without a recording, but we are happy to cover any of this information in a personal consultation session that you can schedule with DLS staff at your convenience – just send a quick email to dls@umw.edu to get scheduled. As part of this workshop series, we create online resource guides that will be available after the workshop. You can view our previous and future guides on this page.
We look forward to showing you how easy it can be to take one of your current assignments and turn it into a digital assignment.
If you have any questions, please contact us at dls@umw.edu.
Past Session “Going Digital” Resources:
Creating Podcasting Assignments: Presented on Tuesday, September 27, 2022
Creating Infographic Assignments: Presented on Wednesday, October 26, 2022
Creating Video Assignments: Presented on Monday, November 14, 2022
Creating Web Assignments: Wednesday, February 15, and Tuesday, March 21, 2023
Topics Covered in Each Workshop Session:
- Tools available and how we can support you and your students
- Deciding on project scale
- Structuring the project
- Making it accessible
- How to assess the project
- Review of the Digital Intensive SLOs and how your project could satisfy one or more of them
Previous Events:
Spring 2022
The Digital Side of Your Classroom
Any course – whether face-to-face, fully online, or somewhere in between – can leverage digital tools to expand and enhance the classroom experience. Discover new features and new ways to use common tools (like Canvas, Zoom, and Screencast-o-Matic) and potentially unfamiliar ones (like Discord and Hypothesis) to increase student engagement and encourage students to invest in your classroom community.
Date: Thursday, May 15 from 3:30 – 4:30PM
Location:
In-person in the DLS suite, HCC 410 or Zoom (link sent to registrants)
Resource:
The Digital Side of Your Classroom
Teaching on the Open Web with Domain of One’s Own & UMW Blogs
Interested in having your students create digital works and share them on the open web? Join us to see examples of how faculty use the Domain of One’s Own and UMW Blogs platforms to engage students in writing, research, and communication in their courses. Learn how Digital Learning Support and the Digital Knowledge Center can support you and your student’s digital scholarship with these platforms.
Dates:
- Tuesday, February 15 from 3:30 – 4:30PM
- Wednesday, February 16 from 3:00 – 4:00 PM
Location:
In-person in the DLS suite, HCC 410 or Zoom (please e-mail dls@umw.edu for Zoom link)
Resource:
Teaching on the Open Web with Domain of One’s Own and UMW Blogs overview