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ASSETT Newsletter - September 2021

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Innovation Incubator Inclusive Data Science Team Receives National Science Foundation Award

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ASSETT Innovation Incubator Inclusive Data Science Team Receives National Science Foundation Award

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ASSETT Innovation Incubator Inclusive Data Science Team Receives National Science Foundation Award for their Project, CODE:SWITCH (Collaborative Data Science Education: Statistics With Integration of Technology, Computing, and the Humanities)

Letters from the Advisor

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Quality Teaching Initiative From One Department’s Point of View

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What if a criterion for effective teaching was assessing how much energy was created in the room? It may be that for the teaching of African Dance, that could be just the thing. In community with all departments within the College of Arts & Sciences, we in the Department of...

ASSETT Teaching Excellence Award

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David Paradis Winner of the 2021 ASSETT Excellence in Teaching with Technology Award

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Congratulations to David Paradis, winner of this year’s ASSETT Excellence in Teaching with Technology award! Since ASSETT’s early days, David has taken advantage of almost all of ASSETT’s professional development offerings, including participating in the 2017-18 Faculty Fellows cohort and the current Innovation Incubator Student Success Team . Through these...

Incubator News

FUTUREPROOF Author Kevin Roose to speak in October!

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Join the ASSETT Innovation Incubator Inclusive Data Science team for their 2021-22 CODE:SWITCH speaker series kick-off featuring a virtual keynote by Kevin Roose on Wednesday, October 13, 2021 from 2:30-3:30pm This event is co-sponsored by ASSETT and the President’s Fund for the Humanities. Kevin Roose is an award-winning technology columnist...

CODED BIAS Virtual Watch Party featuring Q&A with Director Shalini Kantayya!

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Join the ASSETT Innovation Incubator Inclusive Data Science team for their 2021-22 CODE:SWITCH speaker series kick-off featuring a virtual watch part of the CODED BIAS documentary and Q&A with director Shalani Kantayya on Wednesday, October 13, 2021 from 7:00-8:30pm Coded Bias explores the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy...

Congratulations to the Student Success Innovation Incubator Team

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Congratulations to the Student Success Innovation Incubator team for being a recipient of the 2021 President’s Fund for the Humanities! Their proposal, Reenvisioning the Future of the Humanities Through the Reacting to the Past Pedagogy seeks to promote a system-wide inquiry of thought focused on teaching and learning in the...

New & Notable

BuffsCreate Has a New Design

BuffsCreate has a new website design, featuring an FAQ to get started, a glossary of terms for quick reference, and an ever-growing library of tutorials and help documentation. The website redesign helps students, faculty, and staff learn how to reclaim their online presence and cultivate their digital identity.

BuffsCreate Office Hours

Starting September 8th, ASSETT graduate assistant Olivia Marrese is hosting drop-in office hours for BuffsCreate. Office hours are dedicated drop-in time for any user who wants to get started with BuffsCreate, troubleshoot features, brainstorm design ideas, and everything in between. Come with your questions on Wednesdays from 11am-12pm PST on Zoom.

Welcome ASSETT's New Graduate Assistant

ASSETT is pleased to welcome Olivia H. Marrese to our team! In her new role in ASSETT, Olivia will be bringing her expertise to support the Buffscreate project, the Faculty Fellows program, and Innovation Incubator CAMPP (Collective to Advance Multimodal Participatory Publishing) team. 

All Things STC

As more and more students have been transitioning back to campus, the Student Technology Consultants team is preparing to help students and faculty navigate how technology can help them accomplish their learning objectives in this increasingly hybrid environment. To kick the semester off, we’ve been able to work with a few faculty members interested in providing podcasting assignments for their classrooms. Also, we are currently seeking new hires for our team! If you know any undergraduates interested in helping improve the student classroom experience, send them our way!

Featured Events

Quality Teaching Initiative Events - Fall 2021

Workshop Series September - December, 2021: What is great teaching, and how do departments recognize and reward it? These are questions the Quality Teaching Initiative embraces and supports departments in answering. 

Radical Open Access: Experiments in (Post-)Publishing Symposium

October 1, 2021 from 9:00am-2:30pm MT: ASSETT is co-sponsoring the Radical Open Access: Experiments in (Post-)Publishing Symposium at the University of Colorado Boulder. The symposium will question the current corporatized systems of academic publishing and the commercial-driven art museum and upmarket gallery systems, as well as serve as a forum to interrogate new models of collective action for collaborating on, creating and sharing scholarship and art. Following the symposium will be a “Clinic for Open Source Arts,” for a conversation about open source digital tools for creativity. This is a hybrid event, taking place in-person at CU Boulder and virtually. Registration is required.

Gamification Community of Practice

October 13, 2021 from 9:00am-10:15am MT: If you are curious about how others are using games in their classroom and would like to learn more, join our Gamification Community of Practice(GCOP) sessions. These sessions are open to everyone and are meant to build community around gamification pedagogy; to learn together and to champion gamification among colleagues through new connections and special speakers, dialogue, and sharing.

CODE:SWITCH Speaker Series Kick-off with Kevin Roose

October 13, 2021 from 2:30pm-3:30pm MT: Join the ASSETT Innovation Incubator Inclusive Data Science team for their 2021-22 CODE:SWITCH speaker series kick-off featuring a virtual  keynote by Kevin Roose

CODE:SWITCH Speaker Series Kick-off with Shalani Kantayya

October 13, 2021 from 7:00pm-8:30pm MT: Join the ASSETT Innovation Incubator Inclusive Data Science team for their 2021-22 CODE:SWITCH speaker series kick-off featuring a virtual watch part of the CODED BIAS documentary and Q&A with director Shalani Kantayya

Revolutionize your Teaching with Role-Playing Games

October 15, 2021 from 9:00am-11:00am MT: In this session, we will introduce you to Reacting to the Past, an immersive role-playing pedagogy in which students develop skills in critical thinking, persuasive writing, public speaking, leadership, and teamwork while wrestling with primary texts and important ideas. 

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