We enjoyed presentations by two DOLCE speakers, Walter Leal from Molecular and Cellular Biology and Rebecca Lybrand
from The Department of Land, Air, and Water Resources, 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?).”
We
love highlighting the work of our ETRA grant awardees because they do
such a fine job of highlighting the work of our media teams within
Academic Technology Services, and because such talks always inspire
other attending faculty to apply for such grants to support their
instruction. Working with pixels, pictures, and sound bytes, our ATS
experts help faculty represent and record phenomena and processes that
are sometimes otherwise difficult to convey.
Walter Leal titled his talk “Enhancing Student Engagement Through Real-World
Applications, Humor, Storytelling, and Interactive Learning.” A
distinguished professor, Leal has been a pedagogical and media and
instructional technology innovator for many years.
Rebecca Lybrand shared her experiences using Educational Technology Resource Awards
(ETRAs) to develop hybrid course materials for two soil science courses
rich with active learning activities in classroom and field settings.
Her talk focused on funded graphic design work for course slide
development, photography (of soil specimens), and videography.
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