Community Friday and Campus Forum videos and documents (for videos, use password “Grinnell2020” unless otherwise noted)
- Community Friday (18 March 2022): “IGE Funding Opportunities” … video (password: Grinnell2022)
- Community Friday (11 March 2022): “Creating Wicked Students: Higher Ed in the Age of COVID ” … video (password: XhvuysV7)
- Community Friday (25 February 2022): “Assessment as a High Impact Practice: Elevating Faculty Expertise and Student Agency” … video (password: Grinnell-FaCE-Feb25)
- Community Friday (11 February 2022): “Research in a Pandemic: Challenges, Opportunities, and Lessons” … video
- Community Friday (4 February 2022): “Fostering International Student Success II: Immigration Status in the Academy” … video
- Community Friday (28 January 2022): “Fostering International Student Success I: Multilingual Writers in the Academy” … video
- Community Friday (19 November 2021): “Navigating Conflict Purposively: What Gets in the Way?” … video
- Community Friday (12 November 2021): “Humanities in Action: Involving Students in Course Development” … video
- Community Friday (November 5, 2021): “Test-Optional Admission: Looking Back and Forward, with guest Dr. Kevin Rusk” … video
- Community Friday (October 15, 2021): “Textbook Adoptions with Day One Access” … video
- Community Friday (October 8, 2021): “Strategic Planning for the Common Good” … video
- Community Friday (September 24, 2021): “Humanities in Action: New Approaches to Gateway Courses” … video
- Faculty Forum (September 16, 2021): “Student Health Issues” … video
- Community Friday (September 10, 2021): “Introducing the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” … video (password: Grinnell2021)
- Community Friday (May 7, 2021): “The Teaching Archive, with Rachel Sagner Buurma” … video
- Community Friday (April 16, 2021): ” The Student Residential Experience: A Curricular Approach” … video (password: Grinnell2021)
- Community Friday (March 19, 2021) “Post-Grad Life: Faculty-CLS Collaborations” … video
- Community Friday (March 5, 2021): “Student Residential Experience: Renovation and Innovation” … video
- Community Friday (February 26, 2021): “Restorative Practices Framework” … video
- Community Friday (February 19, 2021): “IGE Development Opportunities and Updates” … video
- Community Friday (February 5, 2021): “Community Friday: “Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity During COVID-19 and Beyond” … video
- Community Friday (December 4): “Black Linguistic Justice” … video
- Community Friday (November 20): “Do the Humanities Have a Future? Thinking Beyond Crisis” with Dr. Eric Hayot … video
- Community Friday (November 13): GCIEL Speaker Series with Dr. Martha Alibali, “The Role of Gesture in Mathematics Teaching and Learning: Challenges and Opportunities for Remote Instruction” … video
- “Creating Community in the Virtual Classroom” (November 2) … slides … advice for instructors and students
- Community Friday (October 16): “Curricular Change in Hard Times” … video
- Community Friday (September 25): “Lower the Hurdle and Pass the Book: Actively Contributing to Low-Income and First-Generation Student Success” … video … “Confronting Wealth: Low-Income Student Experiences at Grinnell” (Report from Office of Analytics and Institutional Research, February 2020)
- Community Friday (September 18): “How to Be an Ally to the Black Community” … video
- “Walking the Ally Path” (pdf) [note: this and the other pdfs listed here may take up to 30 seconds or so to load in your browser …. just keep the tab open, and they will load]
- “Stages of Allyship” (pdf)
- “Ally Action” (pdf)
- “Ally Action: A Process of Growth Handout” (pdf)
- Community Friday (September 11): “Academic Honesty: Discussing Scholarly Integrity with All Students” slides … Academic Integrity Online Quiz … video presentation to new students on the importance of academic integrity (Tim Arner and Joyce Stern)
- Community Friday (September 4): “Student Engagement” … video … slides … Grinnell Program and Center Engagement Opportunities for 2020-21
- Community Friday (July 24): “Preparing for Fall Courses”
- Community Friday (July 17): “Pedagogies and Technologies for Fall 2020” … video … slides … chat transcript
- Community Friday (June 26): “Advising Students for the Coming Academic Year” … video … slides
- Community Friday (June 19): “Juneteenth”
- “Beyond Empathy: Sharing Anti-Racist Resources” (June 15)
- Community Friday (June 5): “Campus Life in the Fall Semester” … video … slides … chat transcript
- Community Friday (May 22): “Fall 2020 Planning Conversation with Joan Ostrove of Macalester College … video (with captioning and transcript)
- Community Friday (May 8): “Planning for Fall 2020” … video (nb: first two or three minutes is missing) … slide deck … chat transcript
- Community Friday (May 1), “Mental Wellness in the Time of COVID-19” … video … slide deck … chat transcript
- Community Friday (April 24), “Recovery and Stewardship” … video … slide presentation
Faculty Materials and Instructional Sessions
Recorded Sessions
2021
- “Accessibility, In-Person Teaching/Advising, and Other Topics” … video … slide deck for creating accessible course materials … further guidelines for creating accessible course materials … guidelines for use of teaching and learning spaces …
- “Aligning Time and Priorities” (January 2021) … video … shared document
- “Making the Invisible, Visible: Strategies for Aligning Learning Outcomes and Assessment” (January 2021) … video … slide deck … handout on grades and assessment … handout on assessment tools/approach
- “Finding the Balance Between Synchronous and Asynchronous in Online Teaching” (January 2021) … video
2020
- “Pedagogies Across the Divisions” (April 23), with Angelo Mercado, Ross Haenfler, and Elaine Marzluff … video
- “A Discussion of Academic Advising” (April 21), with Joyce Stern and Jason Maher … video
- Community Friday (April 17), “Dealing with Inequalities in the Learning Environment” … video … chat transcript
- “Designing Open Book/Notes Exams” (April 16), with P-M Osera … video … chat transcript
- Open forum on instructional continuity (April 10) … video
- Community Friday (March 27) forum on instructional continuity … video … chat transcript
- Community Friday (March 13) panel on instructional continuity … transcript of livestreamed session from Harris Center
Documents and Materials Shared by Faculty
- Strategies for Aligning Time and Priorities (shared document) (January 2021)
- Ideas for poster presentations from Jim Swartz
- Email language to students from Mark Laver
- Student technology access survey (used by Mark Laver and Erik Simpson)
- Adjusted participation guidelines (used by Katie Walden)
- Twitter thread from Erik Simpson with suggestions for low-tech remote solutions
- Twitter thread from David Neville on developing asynchronous online teaching assets
- Angelo Mercado’s resources for students:
- Peter Michael Osera’s course modifications for CSC 208 (Discrete Mathematics)
- Message from Grinnell Museum Director Lesley Wright on museum support for teaching across the curriculum
- Assignment extension policy language developed by Kathy Jacobson
- Paula Smith, “An Asynchronous Interactive Method Devised for Discussion in Humanities 101“
- Tyler Roberts, methods for asynchronous engagement with students
- Angelo Mercado, methods and updates (with screenshots) from LAT
