Silver Linings: Lessons Learned from Teaching during the Pandemic

Culturally Enhanced OER
Tracy Worley

This lightning talk will explore using culturally relevant open educational resources (OER) to enhance the learning experience in rhetoric and rhetorical analysis courses, including fully online courses. Participants will examine new OER for expository writing and will learn about strategies for helping students boost reading comprehension; understand lexis, jargon, and context; and improve writing proficiency.

Teaching Equity and Inclusion through Virtual Service-Learning
Mary Slade & Lisa Herbst

Service-learning extends traditional lecture to a more meaningful learning experience through authentic engagement with the community, but exploration of this pedagogy in virtual or remote learning courses is warranted. This lightning talk will focus on virtual service-learning employed in an undergraduate early childhood education course emphasizing equity and inclusion.

Use of the Course Climate Safety Survey to Increase Student Comfort and Participation
Susan Fetcho

As the initial assignment in any course, a Course Climate Safety Survey invites students to list the qualities they need in the course, in their instructor, and in their peers, in order to participate comfortably in class activities and discussions. Participants will learn how to construct the Course Climate Safety assignment, how to interpret it, and how to present the major themes of the assignment to the class. The value of the assignment will be demonstrated through examples of student responses.