Sharing Our Stories
Vignettes on Teaching
These vignettes are a collaborative effort between the University of Windsor Open Learning Community and the University of Washington | Bothell Teaching & Learning on the Open Web Community.
Recordings of the Zoom sessions are availabe in links above.
Sarita Shukla
Why a Liquid Syllabus?
Sarita uses Google Sites to create a “Liquid Syllabus” for her classes. This idea comes from Michelle Pacansky- Brock and has helped Sarita reach her students in ways traditional documents cannot.
Dave Cormier
Attention stories -
Learning in a time of abundance
Dave will tell a few stories about how students have been talking about their ability to attend to different tasks and his thoughts about how he might be adapting his syllabus to address it.
Gemma Smyth
Learning in Place:
Co-creating experience-based knowledge with law students
Gemma is working with law students in transition-to-practice spaces. Students co-create content (often in story-based format) shared from year-to-year based on their placement experiences.
Tranum Kaur
Embracing Open Textbook
Tranum will share their experiences in publishing and adopting the open textbook Pressbook in the medical biotechnology program and H5P interactives for student engagement and inclusive learning.
Becca Price
Grading Challenges & Solutions
Rebecca has led the way here at Bothell with alternative grading practices. Becca will share some successes she had and challenges she faced.
Todd Conaway
Open Writing Challenges
for Faculty
Todd will share the story of some very successful faculty reflective writing “challenges” and some of the ways they can be done at your institution. This small book and this larger one will be used as examples.