Past Initiatives

When Covid-19 pandemic forced a hiatus in in-person learning, Bryn Mawr College develop a much-emulated Online Teaching Institute in summer 2020 to help faculty transition courses to fully online or hybrid formats. A professional development conference delivered entirely online and developed through a partnership between Assistant Professor of Social Work Tamarah Moss and LITS staff, the Online Teaching Institute engaged participants in hands-on, supported practice aimed at designing key elements of an online or hybrid course, providing opportunities to learn about online pedagogy; share ideas and strategies for adapting courses; receive feedback on planned course designs, assessments, learning materials and use of technology; and meet with LITS consultants. 

• Contact OTI founder, Christine Boyland, for more information or to be added to the Moodle page for an asynchronous version of the course.
• Schedule an educational technology support consultation.

On May 25, 2021, LITS held a Symposium on Post-Pandemic Teaching and Learning for faculty to gather and share successes and lessons learned from the 2020-2021 academic year, including teaching practices and learning technology uses they intended to continue over coming semesters. Recordings of these presentations are linked below; use the bookmarks within them to jump to a specific presentation.

• Symposium Recording Part 1
  • “Padlet: A Tool for In-Class Communication,” Amanda Cox
  • “Padlet as a Multi-Purpose T&L Tool,” Ignasi Gozalo-Salellas and Inés Arribas
  • “Online Learning: Mapping Languages Via Storymap,” Agnès Peysson-Zeiss
• Symposium Recording Part 2
  • “It is on the syllabus Moodle: Using the LMS to Clarify a Foreign Language Curriculum,” Irina Walsh
  • “Using Moodle and Zoom for Foreign Language Teaching,” Ying Liu
  • “Pre-Class Questionnaires for Flipped Classrooms,” Lisa Traynor
  • “Using UDL Concepts to Create a Collaborative and Inclusive Learning Environment in a Remote Hispanic Linguistics Course,” Kaylea Berard and Tala Anderson
• Symposium Recording Part 3
  • “Classroom Zoom Visits from Away and Abroad,” Martín Gaspar
  • “Encouraging Student Engagement Using Zoom Private Chat,” Chris Murphy
  • “A Fun and Rewarding Summer Project: Film Translation with Your Students,” Manar Darwish and Esther Kim
• Symposium Keynote: "Saving the Silver Lining: How the Pandemic Opened the World of Learning to Students with Disabilities and How We Can Keep Access in Our New Normal," Grace Cipressi

See also:

• Presentation slides (requires login) and
• Sample Padlet site used during Amanda Cox’s presentation.