CEILS wishes a warm welcome back to our UCLA instructional community!
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Dear CEILS community,
I hope that you all had a wonderful summer and were able to rest and regenerate your energy. CEILS is excited to welcome you back to teaching your students in the classroom.
There are important changes happening on campus related to teaching! Last week Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Darnell Hunt announced that there will be a new university-wide Teaching and Learning Center, which will coordinate many of the existing teaching and learning efforts on campus. There will also be a search for an inaugural vice provost for teaching. In the meantime, Dean Adriana Galván will serve in the role of interim VP.
There is very little impact of this change on CEILS. As a discipline-based teaching center, CEILS will maintain our mission to serve all STEM faculty, with continued guidance and support by the Deans of Physical and Life Sciences.
I want to express my gratitude and appreciation for Adrienne Lavine, the current Associate Vice Provost for the Center for the Advancement of Teaching. Adrienne has been a thoughtful and considerate partner and leader, supporting the growth and development of teaching excellence across campus.
CEILS will work collaboratively as a campus partner with interim VP, Dean Galván, and once appointed, the next VP for Teaching.
I am looking forward to seeing you all at CEILS events in the coming school year.
Warm regards,
Rachel Kennison, CEILS Executive Director
(Deans Johnson and Garcia-Garibay)
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Dean Johnson on Teaching with Joy |
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We invite you to take a few minutes to watch the message shared by Life Sciences Dean, Dr. Tracy Johnson, on the theme of "Teaching with Joy" presented during our annual faculty workshop on September 14th. We have overcome many challenges these past couple of years, and look forward to strengthening our community and celebrating with you all this year. Click the image above or the link below to view the video message.
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3-Part Series: Becoming an Anti-Racist Educator
Series begins October 17th with multiple sessions from 2:00pm - 4:00pm
Register today- only 10 spots left!
The CEILS Becoming an Anti-racist Educator Conversation Series reflects and creates space for discussion of one’s own racial identity development and how racial identity and other social identities impact our learning environments. With colleagues, participants in these discussions will spend intentional time on student-centered, inclusive and equitable, and anti-racist action strategies that can be implemented in the classroom and laboratory learning environments to work against the impacts of racism.
These workshops will be in-person, interactive 2 hour sessions with didactics and small group discussions. Each session builds on the content and experience of the previous session, therefore we ask that you attend all 3 sessions. Please see the workshop descriptions below:
Part 1 – Inside work: Reflecting and Exploring Identity, Privilege, Definitions of race, racism and antiracism. Offered Monday, Oct 17 and Tuesday, Oct. 18th (pick one).
Part 2 – Outside work: Identifying inclusive and antiracist pedagogy and strategies in the classroom, tools and practice interrupting microaggressions. Offered Monday, Oct. 24 or Tuesday, Oct. 25th (pick one).
Part 3 – Discuss and identify strategies to implement and create a more anti-racist climate, apply to an action plan to take anti-racist action in your learning environment, get feedback from colleagues. Offered Monday, Oct 31st or Tuesday, Nov. 1st (pick one).
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Ed Talks @CEILS | Learning Community Meetings
Wednesdays from 3:00 – 3:50 PM | Oct 19 - Nov 9
Location: Terasaki Life Sciences 1100
About Ed Talks @CEILS: Join us as we explore the latest high quality STEM Education Research studies and how to implement effective and inclusive teaching. We welcome guest speakers from UCLA, other academic institutions, and community partners to share their research and lead small group discussions with our teaching and learning community. Faculty, graduate students, postdocs, and anyone interested in STEM education research are welcome to participate.
We’re looking for presenters for Winter 2023! Want to present? It’s a great way to motivate yourself to synthesize your results and a welcoming space to receive feedback on your science education research. If you are interested in presenting at Ed Talks @CEILS, email ksupriya@ceils.ucla.edu.
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Line-up for Fall 2022:
October 19: K. Supriya, Associate Director at CEILS, UCLA, “Participating in a high-structure general chemistry course increases student retention to organic chemistry”
October 26: Josh Samani, Assistant Teaching Professor of Physics, UCLA, “What does optimal human practice look like?”
November 2: Linda Sax, Professor of Higher Education at the School of Education & Information Studies, UCLA (This talk will be followed by a reception in Hershey Hall Inner Courtyard)
November 9: Nadeeka Karunaratne, PhD candidate in UCLA’s Higher Education & Organizational Change program “Employing Trauma-informed and Healing-Centered Pedagogy”
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October is National Disability Employment Awareness Month, which promotes diversity and accessibility in the workplace. We'd like to highlight two upcoming accessible shows at the UCLA Planetarium:
"Taking Photos of Planets" with American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation. Wednesday, October 14th from 8 - 9PM.
- DID YOU KNOW? There are no official signs for planets, besides Earth, in ASL! Folks often just fingerspell them (i.e., use the manual alphabet to sign the letters J-U-P-I-T-E-R, for instance. Chart below — try it out!)
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The Deaf community is working to propose and adopt more STEM-specific technical signs. See the ASLCORE project for more.
- The ASL event is sold out of Eventbrite's guaranteed entry, but the note said that there will be walk-in room available.
"The Lives and Deaths of Stars" with audio description and 3D-printed models for blind and low-vision folks.
Wednesday, November 9th from 7 - 8PM.
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DID YOU KNOW? NASA provided alt text and image descriptions of the photographs captured by the Webb Space Telescope earlier this year.
- "Space is for everyone. It shouldn't matter who you are.” — Tim Rhue, education specialist, the Space Telescope Science Institute
***😷❗️♿ Please note that, to ensure access needs and honor attendees' health, the Planetarium requires upgraded masks (surgical, KN94/95, N95 or better), proof of COVID vaccination, and proof of a negative COVID test within 48 hours of the event. (Thank you, Access Heroes!)
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Instructional Design Showcase
Online Teaching and Learning & LMS Transformation Project
iClicker & iClicker Cloud - Students’ Response System and Polling Tool
Thursday, October 6th at 10:00 am
This is an online event
Presenters:
Jennie Ribera & Melissa O'Brien (Macmillan)
Shanna Shaked (CEILS)
What to Expect in this Showcase
This showcase is 90 mins and includes a 45-minute iClicker demonstration and 45-minute of user experience discussion.
Here’s an overview of what this training will cover:
- A quick iClicker overview. Then we’ll dig deeper into the iClicker Cloud instructor options.
- The different response options you can pick for your students and discussion of the iClicker student pricing.
- How instructors use iClicker Cloud before, during, and after class. We’ll run through a mock class session so you can see how the iClicker activities (polling, quizzing, and attendance) work from both the instructor and student perspectives.
- Assignments for asynchronous learning using iClicker.
- Support options for instructors and students
- CEILS teaching guide and resources for using iClicker to foster interactive classrooms
Please feel free to get started before our session by clicking on the link below.
About the Instructional Design Showcase
Do you want to learn about UCLA’s new learning management system, Bruin Learn, and its features such as Modules, Assignments, Rubrics, Grading, and more? Do you want to discuss pedagogical strategies to improve teaching and learning? Do you want to integrate external educational tools in Bruin Learn? Join us to begin the discussion!
As a joint effort between the UCLA Online Teaching and Learning (OTL) and UCLA LMS Transformation project team, we are taking an opportunity to showcase:
1) sharing types of course design in the LMS platform, Bruin Learn and addressing pedagogical approaches and strategies,
2) highlighting features of Bruin Learn to enhance teaching and learning in various courses and disciplines, and
3) appreciating the faculty’s teaching and design efforts in the new platform
The Instructional Design Showcase event is a monthly event and will feature two different courses each month. See our schedule below.
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CEILS Faculty Workshop 2022: Student Panel FAQs
Our student panel answered these questions and more at our Faculty Workshop. We invite you to review the questions and answers in our Student Panel FAQs (with some input from instructors and CEILS staff) google doc linked above.
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Visit the new CEILS website
We look forward to engaging with you this year to build community and support teaching and learning at UCLA. To help with our communication efforts, resource curation and sharing, and event planning we are thrilled to share that we have launched a new website.
Who designed this beautiful website?! CEILS wants to thank our Communications Manager, Megan Lebre, along with Web Designer for the Life Sciences, Andrew Tran, for their work developing and launching our new site!
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Bruin Learn Updates & Resources |
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Bruin Learn & CCLE Sunset
We are nearing the full sunset of CCLE and SSC Moodle, and the final transition of courses and materials from CCLE to Bruin Learn. As of September 10, no new courses or collaboration sites are allowed on CCLE and SSC Moodle. All content has transitioned to Bruin Learn, however requests for archived information can still be made from Bruin Learn Support. Both CCLE and SSC Moodle will formally sunset on November 18.
Digital Toolkit
The digital toolkit provides you with tools and resources for a robust teaching experience. Use Zoom and Slack to connect with students and colleagues. Adobe Creative Cloud provides access to creativity apps like Photoshop, Illustrator, and Acrobat. Box, Google Apps, and Office 365 facilitate teaching and collaboration, provide storage for class materials, and much more. These resources are available to all faculty at no cost to your department.
Connection
Whether you are on campus, at home, or on the go, we want to ensure that you have access to the campus network.
Information Security
Maintaining the integrity and security of our data relies on the effort of every Bruin. Please review UCLA cybersecurity resources and best practices to keep your data and devices secure. In partnership, we can keep our information secure.
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Upcoming Events & Trainings
- Quickstart: Preparing to Teach in Bruin Learn
- Set Up Your Bruin Learn Site with Migrated CCLE Content
- End-of-Term Grading in Bruin Learn & MyUCLA
- Build Your Bruin Learn Site from Scratch Using a Template
Office Hours are also available for individuals to drop-in to discuss advanced topics or design considerations.
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Support Over Zoom
Virtual trainings and office hours are available! View the full and updated schedules below:
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Reminders:
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24/7 Help is available through live chat and via phone.
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Once logged in click on "Help" from the global navigation to view all of the instructional support resources and to connect to a live person.
- Bruin Learn Support Site
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Recruiting for Research Study |
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A research study investigating the efficacy of Astrobites-based lesson plans.
If you are teaching an undergraduate course for astronomy-related majors in the 2022-2023 school year, and would be willing to implement an Astrobites lesson plan in your course, you may be eligible for this study. The requirements for the study are implementing an Astrobites lesson plan in your classroom, administering pre- and post- lesson surveys to your students, collecting student work, and participating in a follow-up interview. Participation is expected to take approximately 5 hours, spread over multiple weeks at times that are mutually convenient to the instructor and the research coordinators.
If you are interested in participating in this study, please fill out the following form at your earliest convenience: Link to Recruitment Survey
Participation in this study is voluntary, although allowing use of your data will benefit future iterations of the course and inform future science education methods. If you have any questions, feel free to contact either of the study leads directly (Briley Lewis, brileylewis@g.ucla.edu or Abby Waggoner, arw6qz@virginia.edu). Please share this call for participation with your networks as well!
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Looking for a job? Check out our jobs board!
For the most current job openings, please visit this link:
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Connect with UCLA's Center
for Education Innovation &
Learning in the Sciences
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For more information about CEILS events and resources, including a list of STEM education events from previous mailers, please visit the CEILS website at www.ceils.ucla.edu or stop by our CEILS office in 222 Hershey Hall. If you wish to be added to the CEILS mailing list for future newsletters and special announcements, please send your request to media@ceils.ucla.edu.
Please note, this monthly newsletter is circulated through many departmental listservs. Most other CEILS correspondence, including special event announcements and reminders, are sent to CEILS mailing list recipients only. If you have questions or have difficulty reading this newsletter, please email us at media@ceils.ucla.edu. Thanks!
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CEILS is on social media!
Follow CEILS on social media as we share special announcements, faculty spotlights, featured articles, and more! In between newsletters, this is a great way to stay connected with CEILS and our community. Click below for the links to our social media pages:
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