ASSETT Newsletter - September 2021

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.

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.

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. 

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!

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. 

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.

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.

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

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

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.