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Welcome to our July 2024 Newsletter!
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[Adobe stock photo]
I got my first pair of glasses at the age of six, unhappily enduring them until my sophomore year of high school, when I switched to contact lenses. For the next thirty years, I rarely wore glasses in public, mainly because doing so made me feel like I was still a gawky middle schooler. However, I returned to glasses during the pandemic, acquiring bold and colorful frames as a fashion statement. This summer now marks another eyewear milestone: I just ordered my first progressive lenses.
Progressives, as you may know, enable the wearer to see three distances—near, middle, and far—all in one lens. While part of me laments that wearing progressives means that I might be eligible for an AARP membership, another part of me is thrilled by the prospect of being able to read my phone without pushing aside my specs and holding the screen two inches from my face.
More than anything, progressives have inspired me to reflect on where I am, personally and professionally, this summer. I find myself asking:
- What are the most immediate projects and tasks on my mind?
- What am I looking to accomplish in the next two or three years?
- What am I working towards over the long term, ten years and more?
It strikes me that while the nearest projects may feel most urgent, the reality is they will be resolved before we know it—and if we’re not careful, we might forget to plan for longer stretches of time ahead. Likewise, if we envision only our biggest, furthest goals, we can overlook the current action items that serve as stepping stones towards that future state. Just as my optometrist warned that progressives may take time to adjust to, so too does it require some practice to view three different horizons of time all at once. Yet, the more we work towards doing so, the more integrated our short-, medium-, and long-term goals can become.
Whatever you are up to this summer, I hope you can give yourself the time and space to clarify your most critical goals across each of those timelines. You just might find that doing so will enable you to start a new academic year with a crystal clear vision for what is meaningful to you and why, and shape your choices so that you are able to bring your best self to campus as we look to AY 2024-25 and beyond.
Sincerely,
Magdalena L. Barrera
Vice Provost for Faculty Success
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Updates from the Center for Faculty
Development and eCampus
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Stop by during the Open House event on August 22 from 11:30am to 1:30pm to view the new space for faculty and staff and continue building connections and community with your colleagues!
Join us and reconnect with YOUR space!
On the second floor of the Instructional Resource Center, you’ll find:
- Two meeting spaces for faculty and staff! Meet colleagues, collaborate or just relax!
- The media studio! To book a recording session, see Media Production Services.
- The main office for the Center for Faculty Excellence and Teaching Innovation (CFETI) (Please note the CFD + eCampus’ new name!)
- Coffee, tea, water and snacks.
- CFETI instructional designers’ offices. Remember we’re always here for consultation, collaboration and coaching! Schedule a consultation today!
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Canvas Studio will no longer be available at SJSU after September 30, 2024. Panopto is currently available and integrated with Canvas. Review the eCampus Panopto FAQ Webpage to learn more.
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Camtasia 2024 is now available for faculty and staff! Please complete the Camtasia Request Form to gain access. The new features in Camtasia 2024 are more useful for those creating non-academic videos, but for quick announcement videos, you might be interested in the open captioning feature. When each word is spoken, it’s highlighted on screen. These captions are open captions which means they’re burned into the video recording and cannot be turned off.
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This Spring, faculty from 21 departments campus-wide successfully completed the Adding Interactivity to your Courses program, a self-paced course designed to support faculty in creating more interactive learning experiences in in-person, online and hybrid courses. They explored how to incorporate teaching best practices such as Universal Design for Learning, flexibility, accessibility, inclusivity, and ease of navigation, as well as tools like Adobe Express, Poll Everywhere, Panopto Video Quizzes, Hypothesis, Peer Review and Padlet. Please keep an eye out for future programs in the Faculty Friday Newsletters!
Participant Testimonial
“The asynchronous Adding Interactivity to Your Course program was fantastic. Led by Sara Bakalian and Rachel Lazzeri-Aerts, the well-designed curriculum covered a wide range of topics, from the benefits of adding interactivity to how to use a variety of different interactivity tools. The Overview, Resources, and sample Activities provided an excellent foundation for building multiple interactive lessons, reviewed by Sara or Rachel to use in our own courses. I highly suggest participating in any program Ecampus provides - participation has long-term and lasting benefits for not only yourself as an instructor but, more importantly, your students!”
— Wendy Hales Mora, Aviation and Technology Department
Congratulations to the Spring 2024 Certificate Recipients!
| Singmay Chou |
Courtney Boitano |
Alayna Mills |
Erin Nokes |
| Yu Chen |
Anji Buckner |
Vakini Santhanakrishnan |
Sravani Vadlamani |
| Nathan Lupton |
Gabriela Swamy |
Fredrick Larabee |
Christopher Lew |
| Danielle Mead |
Jordan Liz |
Hamed Mouseghy |
Wendy Hales Mora |
| Joy Foster |
Janet Kitajima |
Christine Vega |
Jennifer Bean |
| Kim Tsai |
Vanessa Fernandez |
Jennifer Diehl |
Tridha Chatterjee |
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The participants in this Spring’s Audit Your Syllabus program took a deep dive into their own course syllabi and updated their materials for accessibility, cost, diversity! They also created surveys to gain valuable insight from their students. Are you interested in learning more? If so, please check out the
Audit Your Syllabus - Public Version
to get inspired!
Participant Testimonial
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The Audit Your Syllabus course gave me a fresh perspective on a class that I’ve been teaching for a number of years. I regularly engage in course review, but I appreciated the opportunity to systematically study my course— highlighting accessibility, cost, and diversity. The design of the course is user friendly, materials are thought provoking, and reflection exercises are relevant. One of my favorite aspects of the course is the supportive community that Sara Bakalian and Jane Dodge foster.They are knowledgeable, inspiring, responsive, and encouraging.”
— Aubrey Uresti, Counselor Education Department
Congratulations to the Spring 2024 Audit Your Syllabus Certificate Recipients!
| Jennifer Bean |
Jjihyun Lee |
Kate Steffens |
| David Barry |
Seung Ho Chang |
Essy Barroso-Ramirez |
| Melinda Simon |
Nancy Park |
Aubrey Uresti |
| Shawn Vecellio |
Julian Vogel |
Mary Hall |
| Kunal Sampat |
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Get Ready for the ATXpo 2024 at UCSF!
Monday, October 7th, 2024 | 8 am to 3:30 pm
UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center
The 2024 ATXpo (Academic Technology Expo), a one-day event hosted at the UCSF Mission Bay Conference Center in San Francisco. This in-person event brings together faculty members, instructors, students, and academic technology staff/practitioners from Saint Mary's College of California, San Francisco State University, San Jose State University, Santa Clara University, Stanford University, UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco, and the University of San Francisco to share, discuss, and promote effective practices for teaching and learning with technology, all the while generating collaborative opportunities with our regional colleagues. The 2024 ATXpo will feature plenary sessions, dozens of IdeaLab sessions, lunch, student and faculty panel discussions, and a closing social/mixer. For more information, including descriptions of previous IdeaLab sessions, please see the ATXpo website.
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July
August
5-9: Jump Start (new tenure-line faculty orientation) in person activities
15: Course Prep Marathon 9:00am - 2:00pm
19: Fall semester begins
19-20: Faculty pre-instruction activities
28: RTP: Chairs’ Deadline to submit names of faculty seeking early review to UP-FS
28: RTP: Chair’s Description shared with candidates
September*
2: Campus closed
6: Sabbatical and Range Elevation: Deadline for eligible faculty to inform UP-Faculty Services of intent to apply
10: Sabbatical: Applications due
19: Range Elevation: Candidate packet due
20: Sabbatical: Chair’s Statement sent to candidate
26: RTP: Dossiers closing and submission date
* Please note: Sabbatical, Range Elevation, and RTP dates noted in September are projected deadlines, soon to be confirmed by UP-FS.
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Anatomy of an AI Essay: “While the capabilities of large language models such as ChatGPT are impressive, they are also limited, as they strongly adhere to specific formulas and phrasing.”
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Do you have a story, highlight, reading, or tip that you would like to share in this newsletter?
Please reach out anytime to faculty-success@sjsu.edu .
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Contact Us
Magdalena L. Barrera, Ph.D.
Jennifer Redd, Ph.D.
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