We enjoyed presentations by two DOLCE speakers, Debbie Fetter and
TJ Ushing, both speaking about ETRA grants. Educational Technology
Resource Awards (or ETRAs) are small grants available every quarter to
faculty (staff resources permitting) who would benefit from the
expertise of photographers, illustrators, audio engineers,
videographers, and even 2-D animators in support of undergraduate
classes taught at UC Davis. Find more by reading this Wheel article titled “Free What?! (What’s an ETRA?).”
Debbie Fetter – “Oh the Places You can Go...with an ETRA!”
Debbie
Fetter, Associate Professor of Teaching for the Department of
Nutrition, shared her various experiences with using ETRAs to bring
lecture material to life by working with the experts at ATS--from
designing new lecture slides to creating new in-studio lecture
videos--the possibilities of using an ETRA are (almost) unlimited!
TJ Ushing – “What is an ETRA and why would I want that?”
Our
second speaker, TJ Ushing, is the Audio, Video and Events Team
Supervisor of Instructional Media and Creative Services (IMACS) at
Academic Technology Services at UC Davis. Ushing oversees the staff that
will work with faculty to create the media content that will support
classes that benefit from ETRA grants.
