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ASSETT Newsletter - February 2022

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CU NEXT Awards: Writing Your Proposal

Have you heard about the CU Next Awards?! This enthralling systems-wide award invites applications for innovations, especially with technology, in teaching and learning. This is right down ASSETT’s alley! And, along with the Center for Teaching & Learning (CTL), we’re here to support you in writing a proposal and possibly even write letters of support. 

An upside to the many challenges we’ve all faced over the last couple of years is that we’ve been forced to re-examine how we teach. It’s opened our eyes to possibilities that were previously rejected or brushed off until another time. Many have recognized that there are benefits to teaching and learning online. With these experiences, fresh in our minds, think big and put your wildest dreams out there in a CU Next Award proposal! What have you got to lose? I always draw teaching inspiration from my favorite feminist scholar who said: 

"The classroom remains the most radical space of possibility in the academy." 

- bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom 

Proposals are due April 4, 2022, at 11:59 pm. Below are a few pointers to help your proposal get noticed. A complete guide to writing a proposal is available on the CTL website. 

  • Technology and Innovation: Technology and innovation take a variety of forms, from discussion tools to virtual reality and everything in between. With that in mind, it’s critical to fully explain how your proposed technology and innovation will solve a teaching and learning challenge and improve student learning outcomes. The ASSETT team is ready to brainstorm ideas with you.
  • Collaboration: Collaboration between at least two CU system campuses is essential for a proposal to be considered. So, an early stage activity of your grant proposal process should be identifying and planning with a partner(s) from at least one other campus. 
  • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI): DEI is a campus priority and should be a defining characteristic of your proposal. It’s important to think about the accessibility of a technology and who might be left out with the implementation of particular technologies. Ask yourself: Does the use of a technology place undue stress or burden on a particular student demographic? 
  • Backwards Design a Proposal Timeline: Create a timeline by working backwards from one week before the due date (i.e., March 28th in this case). Plan when drafts will be complete and when feedback should be submitted from team members, when supporting documents (like Letters of Support, CVs) need to be collected. This gives you an extra week of wiggle room for inevitable delays and hiccups.
  • Assessment: A comprehensive assessment plan is a crucial component of a winning proposal. Start designing your assessment plan early! Stephanie Foster, the CTL’s Assessment lead, is available to help answer your assessment questions and to help strengthen your plan.
  • Budget Justification: Beware of bloated budget requests. Try to align your requests with other areas of your proposal and commitment letters from other campus support units. Be sure to look at the budget template early in your proposal writing process and engage your departmental finance lead in drafting and finalizing your budget and budget justification.
  • Communication Strategy: How will you share your experiences and results? By sharing loudly and proudly more people can be impacted by your project and that extends the reach of the award funds. ASSETT can help you design your communication strategy too!
  • Formatting: Among the many “cross-checks” you’ll want to do before handing in your final proposal is ensuring that you’ve followed formatting guidelines to a “T”. Incorrectly formatted proposals are grounds for rejection.

Upcoming Events

CODE:SWITCH Speaker Series Presents a Virtual Keynote with WEAPONS OF MATH DESTRUCTION Author Cathy O’Neil

February 23, 2022, 12:00-1:00pm - Join the ASSETT Innovation Incubator Inclusive Data Science team for this virtual  event  featuring Cathy O’Neil.  O’Neil earned a Ph.D. in math from Harvard and worked as a math professor at Barnard College before switching over to the private sector, working as a quant for the hedge fund D.E. Shaw and as a data scientist in the New York start-up scene. She is a regular contributor to Bloomberg Opinion and in 2016 wrote the book Weapons of Math Destruction: how big data increases inequality and threatens democracy. She is the CEO of ORCAA, an algorithmic auditing company, is a member of the Public Interest Tech Lab at the Harvard Kennedy School. Her new book The Shame Machine: who profits in the new age of humiliation is coming out in March 2022. Register here.

This event is co-sponsored by DataIku, the ASSETT Innovation Incubator,  and the CU Boulder Department of English.

Getting Started with Digital Accessibility

February 22, 2022, 11:00am-12:00pm - Join the Digital Accessibility Office (DAO) for a presentation on getting started with digital accessibility. This presentation will include content accessibility best practices that attendees can apply to their work. At the end of the presentation, attendees will be able to apply digital accessibility principles to create digital content that is more accessible to people with disabilities. Hosted by ASSETT staff. Register here.

Buffscreate Drop in Consultations

Wednesdays from 11:00am-12:00pm - Buffscreate.net is a space for all Arts and Sciences undergraduate students to experiment and learn to build websites, including professional portfolios, course projects, blogs, wikis, or other academic and creative works. Come to our drop-in office hours to learn more and get started! Join us on Zoom.

QTI Drop-In Consultations Office Hours

Fridays from 10:00am-1:00pm - Drop in anytime during this hour and bring your questions and concerns. Quality Teaching Initiative Consultants will be available to help you! Join us on Zoom.

Gamification Community of Practice

Wednesday, March 2, 2022, 1:30-2:30pm and Wednesday, March 16, 2022, 1:30-2:30pm - Connect with like-minded colleagues to engage in a discussion about Gamification Pedagogy. At our first spring 2022 Gamification Community of Practice (GCoP) session, we will determine the long-term direction, goals, and culture of this community. In this participatory session, we will ask attendees to contribute topics of interest salient to our community. These topics and interests will be the foundation of future sessions.  We look forward to a lively discussion.

GCoP hosts are members of the Student Success ASSETT Innovation Incubator team, including: Michaele Ferguson (Associate Professor, Political Science), Catherine Kunce (Associate Teaching Professor, Program for Writing & Rhetoric), David Paradis (Senior Instructor, History), and facilitators Jacie Moriyama & Blair Young (ASSETT). Join us on Zoom.

Captioning & Video Accessibility

March 3, 2022 from 10:00-11:30am - Join the Digital Accessibility Office (DAO) for an interactive presentation about captioning and video accessibility! Attendees will enrich their understanding of what makes a video accessible and learn efficient, practical workflows to create accurate captions for your videos. This session will cover the ins and outs of captioning, visual descriptions, and other best practices that help make the video content you create or manage more accessible for all. Hosted by ASSETT staff. Register here.

Buffscreate: Claim Your Possibility Space

March 3, 2022 from 11:30-12:45pm - Buffscreate.net is a space for all Arts and Sciences undergraduate students to experiment and learn to build websites, including professional portfolios, course projects, blogs, wikis, or other academic and creative works. Come explore the possibilities and learn how to get started. Register here.

Buffscreate: Claim Your Possibility Space

March 8, 2022 from 2:30-3:45pm - Buffscreate.net is a space for all Arts and Sciences undergraduate students to experiment and learn to build websites, including professional portfolios, course projects, blogs, wikis, or other academic and creative works. Come explore the possibilities and learn how to get started. Register here.

CODE:SWITCH Speaker Series Presents a Virtual Panel Discussion with Professor Andrea Armstrong, Professor Judson Mitchell....

March 9, 2022 from 12:00-1:00pm - Join the ASSETT Innovation Incubator Inclusive Data Science team for a panel discussion with Professor Andrea Armstrong, Professor Judson Mitchell and student collaborators from Loyola University on their collaborative effort to create the Incarceration Transparency database. Register here.

Student Tech Share | Session Two: Productivity

March 29, 2022 from 3:00-4:00pm - As end of semester deadlines approach, we want to get as much as we can out of our study time. How can technology help us "work smarter?" Stop by the Student Tech Share to chat with other CU students about platforms we can use to boost our efficiency when time seems scarce. Sign up for a reminder!

The Office of Information Technology (OIT) would like your help evaluating video delivery platforms for our campus.

How can you participate?

OIT will be hosting two webinars in which vendors will provide demonstrations of their platforms. Each vendor will present separately; one per webinar.

Register for Vendor #1 Demo - February 22, 2022 from 2:00-3:30pm

Register for Vendor #2 Demo - February 24, 2022 from 1:00-2:30pm

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