Welcome to the weekly UTLC Newsletter supporting teaching and learning at UNCG.
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This section is full of timely and evidence-based practices to apply in your teaching.
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Importance of Closed Captions: Closed captions are essential for many students with disabilities, but they are also very helpful to students without disabilities. It’s not as commonly known that many students without disabilities use closed captions frequently, often using them as a learning aid. In the latest A11Y Corner blog post, UNCG Accessibility Fellow Heather Moorefield Lang shares her accessibility journey and how she’s used closed captions throughout her career as an educator. EDUCAUSE also has an article that explains the benefits of closed captions for all students.
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EDUCAUSE Inclusive Language Guide: EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education through the use of information technology. They provide resources and community-building opportunities that can shape the various levels of higher education. In their commitment to starting and sustaining dialogue to uncover the ways language can cause harm have developed an official style guide for inclusive, bias-free, and equitable language. The Inclusive Language Guide is helpful in approaching the issues with curiosity and guided discretion when choosing the actual words that are used to communicate with students, colleagues and those in the community.
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Rethinking Participation/Engagement: Is student engagement more than just speaking up in class? Do students understand the expectations of participation? Engagement can mean more than being present and asking questions. Consider sharing with students the different ways they can engage with the class. Explore more ways to discuss engagement with your students by reading Beth McMurtrie’s Chronicle article called, “Is It Time to Redefine Class Participation?”
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UTLC FEATURED ANNOUNCEMENTS
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Check out the latest updates and offerings from the UTLC.
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| UTLC Website Redesign | Take our 5 minute survey!
The UTLC is evaluating and updating its website, utlc.uncg.edu. The goal of the new UTLC website is to reflect our expanded capacity for serving faculty to deliver instruction with the highest degree of academic excellence. The website redesign work group invites you to share your perceptions of the UTLC website, ideas for improvement, and your individual needs and expectations of the website in this brief survey by Friday, November 18, 2022. Survey results will inform the needs assessment and consequent plan for updating the UTLC website. Please contact UTLC Project Manager Miranda Lim at mvbradle@uncg.edu.
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New Episode | Small Steps, Big Impact Podcast
Episode 13 of the Small Steps, Big Impact podcast features a conversation with John Lucas, Director of the Office of Financial Aid and Scholarships at UNCG. Our conversation today focuses on the intersection of EDI and financial aid.
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Community-Engaged Learning Roundtable | Nov. 15 at noon
As part of the HIPs Brown Bag conversation series, this virtual discussion will center the High-Impact Practice of Service-Learning and Community-Based Learning to showcase the diversity of ways in which these practices can be embedded into (co)curricular experiences. This conversation is open to all faculty regardless of experience using service- or community-based learning. If you use any community connections in your work with students, we would love for you join us!
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Reminder | Thomas Undergraduate Research Mentor Awards Call for Nominations
URSCO requests nominations of outstanding UNCG faculty mentors for the Thomas Undergraduate Research Mentor Awards. We seek to recognize professional track, pre-tenured (early career), and tenured (career) faculty for their efforts to engage undergraduates in experiential learning through research. These honors will include a plaque and $1,000 to support activities related to research and/or creative inquiry as it involves undergraduates during the following academic year. Deadline Extended to Thursday, November 3 at 5:00 pm
ICYMI: Check out the recently published Campus Weekly article about the impact of undergraduate research!
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FACULTY ENGAGEMENT & DEVELOPMENT
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Check out these upcoming opportunities from the UTLC and other partners on campus. Additional training opportunities are available at workshops.uncg.edu.
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Upcoming Events, Training, and Workshops
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| 📚 Library Research and Application Webinar | Intro to Twine
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Join UNCG librarian, Maggie Murphy, for an introduction to Twine, a free, open-source tool for making interactive fiction, computer games, and new media art that can be shared or published as HTML files. No programming knowledge required!
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| 🏛 Using Museum Collections in Teaching and Learning
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This practical, hands-on workshop will provide an introduction to the ways that faculty at UNCG can use the Weatherspoon Art Museum to support teaching and learning across academic disciplines. Please register as space is limited to 20 participants.
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| ⚙️ Q&A Session | Accessibility in the Classroom from an Instructor's Perspective
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UNCG instructors share their experiences with the benefits and challenges that instructors often face when addressing accessibility in the classroom.
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| 🏫 Community-Engaged Teaching Roundtable
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As part of the HIPs Brown Bag conversation series, this virtual discussion will center the High-Impact Practice of Service-Learning and Community-Based Learning to showcase the diversity of ways in which these practices can be embedded into (co)curricular experiences.
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This segment features instructors who exemplify excellence and innovation in teaching at UNCG.
We are pleased to announce our next nominee, Dr. Angela Bolte!
Click the image below to read the nominee's Words of Wisdom.
To nominate yourself or a colleague, please complete the form at go.uncg.edu/minerva-mentions.
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| Pathways to Achieving Civic Engagement (PACE) Conference | Call for Proposals
NCCE’s annual Pathways to Achieving Civic Engagement (PACE) Conference seeks to grow and share the practice and scholarship of engagement. PACE is the longest running conference focused on this topic. Plenary and breakout sessions advance the higher education SLCE (service-learning and community/civic engagement) field by sharing research findings, innovative programs and partnerships, effective curricular or co-curricular models, strategies for institutional capacity building, and best practices.
The PACE conference will be held at High Point University on February 15, 2023. Proposals are due on November 15 at 5:00 pm.
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