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Pre-Class Survey
It's helpful to survey your students before class begins to learn about their accessibility and/or technology needs. This contributes to students feeling welcome in your course and gives you practical information about both learners' needs and whether to follow-up with specific resources. There is a template accessibility survey (titled "[COURSE#] Accessibility pre-start Survey") within the CTLI's library of surveys that you can copy and adapt to your own course; instructions on how to access and make your own version are here: https://iteach.msu.edu/iteachmsu/groups/iteachmsu/stories/2810

Applications are now open for the AT&T Excellence in Teaching with Technology Awards, which recognize effective uses of instructional technology to support student success in credit-bearing courses at MSU. Faculty, instructors, and teaching assistants can submit applications starting Sept. 1 through Oct. 28.

More info: https://attawards.msu.edu/

JUSTIN - I only know about gaming from my partner (watching and sometimes exasperatedly trying to understand the appeal/time investment). I am not a gamer myself. I have recently done a little personal research on video games that help with youth ADHD and I know a little about "gameful learning" from my friends Maddie Shellgren and Nick Noel, but haven't a clue about digital approaches. Where should I start?

Ahead of our first meeting next week on September 30, I've been doing a bit of digging around and came upon two interesting resources from Dr. Monica Burns that combine EdTech with collaborative learning:

1) EdTech Fundementals: Tech-Friendly Models of Collaboration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lB1dGk3BTO8

and

2) Class Tech Tips: All Things EdTech
https://classtechtips.com/

Interesting, perhaps useful, and certainly will help start our conversation when we meet next week.

I first learned about ungrading from my the APA's Society for Teaching of Psychology facebook group, and they had so many conversations around this that they started a slack channel. I haven't kept up with it but they use specs grading, which is perhaps a better fit for larger courses. I tried a version of this during remote learning in 2020. Here's the slack channel if you're interested in joining those conversations: https://join.slack.com/t/specsgradingi-pm17499/shared_invite/zt-1wqybjovp-RXBIkLwF0vxmERppKBMGWw

Hey everyone, we have a CEIG grant to develop resources and training around helping trainers be aware and educated of best practiced related to creating and facilitating educational materials and programs. I'd love to get ideas from anyone in this group on what has been successful, what are pain points, etc. This was inspired by this document, which is a sort of starting place of this project. https://www.canr.msu.edu/resources/dei-in-action-developing-planning-and-facilitating-educational-programs-and-events

Returning to the Classroom After a Tragedy: A 7-step Approach to Starting Class Again

This week, faculty, instructors, and graduate assistants will be returning to their classes for the first time after the tragic events of this week. There will be some classes where they have lost one of their classmates, which may add to the intensity of the experience of both students and instructors. Included in the resource attached (3-page PDF) are recommendations for how to structure the return to class for your students and yourselves, with trauma-informed considerations and practices.

This artifact is one of a collection of evidence-based resources for educators coming back to class after collective tragedy was compiled by Spartans:
Jason Moser (Professor of Clinical Science, Cognition, and Cognitive Neuroscience in MSU's Department of Psychology & PhD Psychology | Clinical Science)
Jon Novello (Director of MSU Employee Assistant Program & Licensed Clinical Social Worker)
Mark Patishnock (Director of MSU Counseling and Psychiatric Services [CAPS] & Licensed Psychologist)
Joshua Turchan (Assistant Director of Training, Assessment and Planning at MSU CAPS & Licensed Psychologist)
Karen Stanley-Kime (Assistant Director of Intensive Clinical Services at MSU CAPS & Licensed Psychologist)
and more throughout University Health and Wellness departments.