In this event John Marx, English
Department Professor and Aggie Square Faculty Liaison presented on Aggie Square initiative. Then, Dr. Emily Merchant,
Assistant Professor Science and Technology Studies, presented on
“Teaching about Health Care Equity at Aggie Square.” Professor Merchant discuss the proposal and planning
process, curriculum development, utilizing instructional technology to
make the program work remotely, and lessons learned.
Then Dr. Andy Jones shared his new
collaborative curriculum project that he is launching in my advanced
journalism class this quarter. Rather than his choosing all the assigned
readings, his students will make a record of relevant readings they have
discovered, sharing their findings with their classmates via
always-growing interlinked Google Docs. Dr. Andy plans to substite this approach
for a traditional textbook this quarter, with the hope of using this
shared research and analysis project to encourage in his students a
regular habit of reading ambitious contemporaneous articles about the
important issues of the day, as well to find another way to support the
social and intellectual community created by the remote class.
Finally, ATS Instructional Technologist Fernando Socorro
will give a presentation that I have cheekily titled “I Came, I Saw, I
Clicker.” As our resident personal response system expert, Dr. Socorro commented on some of the ways faculty have taught with
iClicker and other tools during the remote teaching era. Fernando shared how faculty can get one-on-one support from Instructional
technologists, remind them of the Knowledge Base pages that can help to
answer the instructional technology questions. He also shared past and present webinars offered by Academic Technology Services.
