W&M Studio for Teaching & Learning Innovation // 2019 - 2020 Annual Report

Community
Interest Groups
A critical goal for the studio in building and fostering community is to maintain a healthy and
vibrant ecosystem of people, ideas, and practices involved in innovative and transformative
teaching and learning. Within a healthy ecosystem, important needs are more easily
identified and solutions can be pursued through targeted programming and initiatives.
The Digital Humanities (DH) Interest Group and Large Classrooms Interest Group
are two examples of this sort of community. As part of the DH initiative, the studio
hosted the first-ever 2020 Digital Humanities Teaching Symposium, which brought
together instructors and co-educators from across the digital humanities for a day
of presentations, round-table discussions, and workshops.
Workshop Series
The 2019 - 2020 Workshop Series consisted of three sessions each semester
and were built around faculty projects and practices, with a unifying framework
provided by the studio. The topics selected for the workshops were meant to have
broad applicability among all of W&M faculty. Workshops were also offered to remote
attendees via Zoom, as well as recorded for on-demand viewing.
Fall Workshop Series:
“Introspection, Investigation & Iteration”
>> Small Steps to Big Changes facilitated
by Rowan Lockwood & Arthur Knight
>> The Evolving Course facilitated by Clay
Clemens & Jim Barber
>> Re-Imagining Your Course facilitated by
Drew Stelljes
Spring Workshop Series:
“The Human Factor”
>> Cultivating Joy in Your Teaching
facilitated by Kelly Crace
>> Am I My Student’s Therapist?: Managing
Student Anxiety While We Adjust
facilitated by Kelly Crace & Mazarine Rossert
>> Maintaining Academic Integrity in Extraordinary
Times facilitated by Dave Gilbert