The Teaching and Learning Innovation Digest - May 2023
Welcome to a truly special edition of the Teaching and Learning Innovation Digest! Our seventh annual academic publication has assumed an incredibly meaningful shape and form for a number of reasons. Not only did we receive an enthusiastic response with over 30 submissions via our institutional broadcast, but we also have consciously and intentionally embraced the principles of Universal Design for Learning by attempting to represent and celebrate the varied forms of expressions therein. From reflective essays, poetry, visual and performing arts, podcasts, video conversations to scholarly work, academic and applied research, news and updates, and interviews, this is truly a power-packed publication!
Welcome to a truly special edition of the Teaching and Learning Innovation Digest! Our seventh annual academic publication has assumed an incredibly meaningful shape and form for a number of reasons. Not only did we receive an enthusiastic response with over 30 submissions via our institutional broadcast, but we also have consciously and intentionally embraced the principles of Universal Design for Learning by attempting to represent and celebrate the varied forms of expressions therein. From reflective essays, poetry, visual and performing arts, podcasts, video conversations to scholarly work, academic and applied research, news and updates, and interviews, this is truly a power-packed publication!
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FACULTY SUMMIT HIGHLIGHTS<br />
re/CONNECT<br />
DEAR DIARY<br />
Ambreen Rana<br />
Student, Pharmacy Technician, SCHS<br />
Reconnecting with faculty is a lot<br />
easier; it’s good to have people at the<br />
college to share, connect, <strong>and</strong><br />
chat with.<br />
A new reality.<br />
I’m very glad we are coming<br />
back to “normal” life.<br />
It’s about students, but not only. It’s<br />
about staff—people I miss so much.<br />
We’re excited about reconnecting<br />
with those we haven’t seen for two<br />
years, but it’s also challenging due<br />
to things we got used to.<br />
If we as faculty can re-connect<br />
<strong>and</strong> re-build our relationships, the<br />
students will sense that we are all<br />
part of a community <strong>and</strong> this will<br />
help them feel more comfortable.<br />
Excited, but also nervous<br />
about the return.<br />
Dear Diary,<br />
Tomorrow is my first day of college!<br />
And I can’t wait to see...<br />
What the campus looks like,<br />
Where my lecture halls <strong>and</strong> lab rooms could be.<br />
Meet the professors,<br />
And find a friend...or three!<br />
I am nervous <strong>and</strong> excited<br />
for them <strong>and</strong> for me.<br />
For the unfamiliar faces<br />
of peers sharing desks<br />
in unfamiliar spaces,<br />
All united in our experience of beginning this new chapter<br />
Together.<br />
Oh, what a journey college shall be!<br />
“Dear Student,<br />
We regret to inform you that in-person classes will be suspended in accordance with<br />
the safety protocol announced to prevent the spread of COVID-19 this Winter 2022.<br />
Please check your eCentennial account for instructions on your courses continuing<br />
online.”<br />
Attend college from home?<br />
How does that even work with labs, <strong>and</strong> content heavy courses?<br />
And what about the lecture halls?<br />
<strong>The</strong> professors bellowing their wisdom?<br />
<strong>The</strong> meeting the peers that are going to share similar experiences as me?!<br />
What about finding a friend or three!<br />
Oh, no…what kind of journey will college be…<br />
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