The ATS Roadshow: How ATS and IT can support your teaching and your students’ learning. 3:15-4PM

The ATS Roadshow: How Academic Technology Services and instructional technology can support your teaching and your students’ learning

Join us for the Academic Technology Services Roadshow! We will share strategies and resources for integrating technologies into your courses to enhance teaching and learning. ATS can support you while you are…

• Imagining and building engaging uses of Canvas
• Creating media and other resources to increase access to learning materials
• Adopting teaching technologies to enhance student engagement (e.g., iClicker, PlayPosit)
• Developing flipped, hybrid, and online learning experiences
• Innovating to overcome common teaching and learning challenges inside and outside of the classroom

We look forward to sharing ATS’ services and resources with you to support your courses, teaching initiatives, and student success goals. So that our time with you will best meet your needs, please take a few minutes to complete this survey by Wed, Jan. 17, 2024. 

Dr. Andy Jones has been teaching at UC Davis since 1990, mostly in the University Writing Program. He has also spent more than a decade as the Academic Associate Director of Academic Technology Services where he hosts faculty forums and enjoys meeting with UC Davis faculty colleagues.

Mark Wilson is a Senior Instructional Design Consultant with Academic Technology Services. He works with faculty to assist with designing courses and integrating instructional technologies into a variety of teaching scenarios, especially blended, hybrid, and online learning. By helping faculty combine research-based pedagogical strategies with appropriate tools, he attempts to bridge the divide between emerging technologies and effective teaching. Previously, Mark has taught writing courses, led faculty support programs, and advised faculty who are developing hybrid and online courses.

Margaret Merrill, PhD, has been an instructional design consultant at UC Davis since 2016 and has worked at the intersection of teaching, learning, and technology for a couple of decades. She enjoys consulting with faculty and teaching workshops about using technology in pedagogically sound ways in face-to-face, hybrid, or online courses. In previous roles, Margaret has worked on faculty support programs (including in Jordan for English teachers from Iraq), created technology-supported foreign language learning materials for universities and governments, taught junior high French, and held the boom mic for the filming of a movie in Romania.
 

Additional Information and Resources

• Knowledge Base articles about classroom podium tech, including link to classroom hotline contact info
  • General Assignment Classrooms FAQs: https://kb.ucdavis.edu/?id=07966 
    • Includes links out to detailed instructions on how to work the different media panel controllers in different rooms
  • Teaching and Learning Complex General Classroom Instructions: https://kb.ucdavis.edu/?id=07870 
• Mark Verbitsky’s SITT 2023 talk about Perusall - “Using technology to foster a class learning community”

Recorded Video: https://video.ucdavis.edu/media/t/1_z1sbogj3