Tracy Armijo

Accounting

Lecturer I

tracyarmijo@unm.edu

As a Remote Teaching Fellow my project focuses on being proactive and collaborative to ensure remote teaching provides the optimal student experience and helps ensure student success. Forming a community of practice with colleagues is at the cornerstone of ensuring effective and efficient remote teaching. The community of practice will be focused on maximizing efficient communication between colleagues to help ensure knowledge is shared and disseminated.

Shihong Li

Accounting

Associate Professor

shli@unm.edu

Facilitate exchange of information about issues encountered in online teaching and solutions attempted; promote teaching resources at the CTL; share new perspectives and techniques pertaining to online teaching; provide one-on-one consultation at request.

Saurabh Ahluwalia

Accounting

Associate Professor

sahluwalia@unm.edu

I am exploring different ways to increase student engagement in online courses. I plan on conducting workshops and create space for faculty members to share and help each other to increase student engagement.

Chih-Huei (Debby) Su

Accounting

Assistant Professor

csbanks@unm.edu

Online learning environment can make learning very challenging due to the limited interactions or facial reaction detection, especially for finance, business, or mathematics intensive subjects . Therefore, it becomes very critical to provide sufficient amount of exercises that tailored to individual students’ needs to help student practice the problems individually, and to come up with in-class activities that ease students’ anxiety about numbers.

To deal these issues and challenges, I would like to share my experiences in workshops with my colleagues in the following topics:

• A. Making randomly number generated Blackboard assignment/ quiz/ exam questions (i.e. calculated formula) with various types of settings (unlimited attempt, timing, due dates, display time, etc.).
• B. Designing and implementing in-class activities (i.e. simulations, group projects, or discussion board topics) in a remote setting.
• C. Constructing rubrics on Blackboard (UNM Learn) and how to utilize gradebook information to send individualized emails using Word Mailings function, which will enhance the interactions between students and lecturers.

Satya Witt

Biology

Senior Lecturer III

smwitt@unm.edu

Faculty and graduate students in the Biology Department have faced significant challenges with the sudden and forced move to remote teaching that began in Spring 2020. I am working with our faculty and graduate students to address their remote teaching concerns, including offering general help with tools available in the LMS, assisting with engaging academic technologies outside the LMS, and developing best practices for facilitating both synchronous and asynchronous class discussions and small group projects. I am offering 1-on-1 consultations in combination with group consultations when specific topics are of interest to multiple faculty and/or graduate students.

Kuangchiu (Joseph) Ho

Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Principal Lecturer III

khoj@unm.edu

In the spring semester, the onlineMAX version of the Expended Course-based Undergraduate Research Experience (ECURE) for General Chemistry I Laboratory for STEM Majors (CHEM 1215L) and General Chemistry II Laboratory for STEM Majors (CHEM 1225L) are offered for the first time. A Community of Practice (CP) for remote teaching of laboratory courses is also created in collaboration with faculty teaching the remote lecture courses. The TEAM based CP, Chemists & Friends for Online Teaching, welcome faculty and graduate students to join.

Ezra Depperman

Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Lecturer III

ezrad@unm.edu

Ezra C. Depperman has worked in the Chemistry department for the past 6 years, and has always been interested in harnessing the power of educational technology to achieve better outcomes for students and to make instructional tasks easier and more consistent. He’s created a library of short instructional videos for his classes and moved to a hybrid “flipped” classroom mode in his synchronous courses. As an online teaching fellow, he’s joined forces with Dr. Diana Habel-Rodriguez to work to create a menu of on-demand tutorials for both instructors and TAs to make available for colleagues in service of implementing effective online teaching.

Diana Habel-Rodriguez

Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Lecturer III

dianah@unm.edu

Diana Habel-Rodriguez has been teaching in the department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at UNM since 2013. As an online teaching fellow, she joins forces with Dr. Ezra Depperman to create a menu of on-demand tutorials for both faculty and teaching assistants in our department in service of implementing effective online teaching. Providing a safe and structured way for teaching assistants to explore and practice in our Learn 'sandbox' course shell will give the confidence and tools the teaching assistants need to thrive as online assistants prior to being in a 'live' class. For faculty our on-demand tutorials will be aimed at providing successful ideas and resources for online teaching in a way that requires only a modest time investment from the faculty.

Anthony Seat

Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Graduate Teaching Assistant

aseat@unm.edu

Working in conjunction with Dr. Ho, Anthony is working to promote a fellowship among Science courses to support the inclusion of Online Max offerings moving forward past the current pandemic, with specificity toward Laboratory classes online. Anthony's part in this is to demonstrate effective collaboration of teaching assistants with the instructors so that instruction can remain consistent across sections and office hours to better promote the objectives defined by the instructor and course designer. This delegation of duties becomes even more important in an online environment, as the teaching assistants are more often the first line of communication between instructors and students while improving access to the university and laboratory classes.

Adan Avalos

Chicana & Chicano Studies

Assistant Professor

aavalos@unm.edu

Gabino Noriega

Chicana & Chicano Studies

Graduate Teaching Assistant

gabino@unm.edu

Cleophas Muneri

Communication & Journalism

Senior Lecturer III

cmuneri@unm.edu

The Communication and Journalism Department continues its commitment to high quality teaching and learning, by forming a structured approach to online teaching excellence in Spring semester 2021. Using workshops, training, and evaluation, C & J will address the challenges resulting from the pandemic.

Kathy Isaacson

Communication & Journalism

Senior Lecturer III

mediate1@unm.edu

The Communication and Journalism Department continues its commitment to high quality teaching and learning, by forming a structured approach to online teaching excellence in Spring semester 2021. Using workshops, training, and evaluation, C & J will address the challenges resulting from the pandemic.

Kate Cunningham

Communication & Journalism

Part Time Instructor

knc2011@unm.edu

My project aims to create a digital community for faculty members to learn some of the newer apps in the Adobe Creative Cloud, with a focus on software that can be used to make teaching materials and assignments that foster interaction in online classes. As students increasingly become familiar with apps for video and web page production, the goal of this project is to help faculty understand the tools available and use them to better connect with students.

Laura Crossey

Earth & Planetary Sciences

Professor

lcrossey@unm.edu

My project as a CTL Fellow is focusing on modifications to a lower-division majors course, Historical Geology, which also serves as a gen ed requirement for UNM students. I am focusing on active learning strategies for online virtual field activities, as well as effective online assignments. I have already incorporated google earth in several assignments, but would like to add more specific field elements to these virtual experiences. Additionally, I am partnering with a concurrent CTL effort by EPS graduate students who are developing targeted co-curricular modules for EPS majors.

Aurora Pun

Earth & Planetary Sciences

Lecturer III

apun@unm.edu

Jessica Johnson, Keely Miltenberger, and Dr. Aurora Pun are a part of the Earth and Planetary Sciences Department. This semester we are working with faculty and graduate students in our department to create guided tutorials utilizing the best practices for making instructional videos for remote learning. These include showing students how to use a suite of different software, engaging field videos, and lab demonstrations that would typically involve hands-on learning.

Jessica Johnson

Earth & Planetary Sciences

Graduate Teaching Assistant

jejohnson00@unm.edu

Jessica Johnson, Keely Miltenberger, and Dr. Aurora Pun are a part of the Earth and Planetary Sciences Department. This semester we are working with faculty and graduate students in our department to create guided tutorials utilizing the best practices for making instructional videos for remote learning. These include showing students how to use a suite of different software, engaging field videos, and lab demonstrations that would typically involve hands-on learning.

Keely Miltenberger

Earth & Planetary Sciences

Graduate Teaching Assistant

kbosch@unm.edu

Jessica Johnson, Keely Miltenberger, and Dr. Aurora Pun are a part of the Earth and Planetary Sciences Department. This semester we are working with faculty and graduate students in our department to create guided tutorials utilizing the best practices for making instructional videos for remote learning. These include showing students how to use a suite of different software, engaging field videos, and lab demonstrations that would typically involve hands-on learning.

Marissa Greenberg

English Language & Literature

Associate Professor

marissag@unm.edu

Marissa Greenberg, Associate Professor of English and 2019-2020 Online Teacher of the Year, is offering programs that foster inclusive conversations in online classrooms. Drawing on research-driven, classroom-tested strategies, Dr. Greenberg is offering synchronous workshops that introduce faculty and graduate instructors to (1) student-driven social contracts and (2) affinity-based caucus discussions. These strategies apply to other teaching in various disciplines, including STEM fields, so interested instructors from other departments and programs should feel free reach out (marissag@unm.edu) for more information on Dr. Greenberg’s programs.

Belinda Deneen Wallace

English Language & Literature

Assistant Professor

bwallace@unm.edu

My work centers on strategies for and benefits of implementing prewriting assignments into the remote classroom and developing prewriting assignments faculty can use and adapt for their specific SLO needs.

Kalila Bohsali

English Language & Literature

Graduate Teaching Assistant

kbohsali@unm.edu

This semester, Kalila has created a core writing, remote arranged resource page that will continue to be revised and changed as needed to represent the needs of English department TAs and a Discord community page for English graduate students. She is currently working on resources centered on Learn features and suggestions for use, and accessibility options for online courses. She is also working on a workshop designed around online assessment.

Motomi Kajitani

Foreign Languages & Literatures

Graduate Teaching Assistant

mkajitan@unm.edu

My project involves conducting research on online foreign language pedagogy and making and compiling communicative activities for the lower-division online Japanese courses.

Lukas Denk

Linguistics

Graduate Teaching Assistant

ldenk@unm.edu

When teaching an endangered language faces specific challenges, it will face more so during a pandemic. My task as an ambassador between CTE and the Navajo program consists in helping our instructors create curricula that implement the newest benefits of remote teaching. Since Navajo is spoken and taught more and more by older people, making them comfortable with the online tools (managing their course content, showing how to record their voice, offer sessions for using the Navajo keyboard, offering CTE workshops) will be fundamental for recreating the immersive environment that is usually present in learning Navajo.

David Páez

Linguistics / Spanish Portuguese

Graduate Teaching Assistant

dandresp@unm.edu

Meaningful, educational experiences require purposeful agents within a personal, communal and far-reaching narrative. My goal is to incorporate this narrative approach in all areas of course design.

Marina Popova

Mathematics & Statistics

Part Time Instructor

mpopova@unm.edu

Marina is developing her department’s workshops regarding teaching online and design of online courses. She promotes faculty/staff/graduate students for learning systems and teaching online resources and sharing the resources. She offers individual Zoom sessions to her department by request. She will publish a paper on how to connect people with resources.

Matthew Simpson

Political Science

Part Time Instructor

msimpson2@unm.edu

I will be working with faculty members and graduate students in Political Science on proficiency with Learn, the design of online assignments, encouraging participation in online discussions, and encouraging academic engagement during a global pandemic. Our plan will involve both one-on-one meetings and group meetings of a departmental online teaching cohort composed of faculty interested in a sustained conversation about the challenges and opportunities surrounding online teaching.

Katie (Kate) Cartwright

School of Public Administration

Assistant Professor

kcartwright@unm.edu

Kate Cartwright, PhD, MPH, is an Assistant Professor in the School of Public Administration. She teaches in the Master of Health Administration program and the Combined BA/MD program. Her primary teaching areas are health administration, management, and policy, prioritizing culturally responsive care, pursuing health equity, and program and policy evaluation. For this fellowship, Dr. Cartwright will be fostering a remote instruction community of practice among the School of Public Administration faculty and developing resources focused on best practices in remote learning for working professionals, optimizing hybrid face-to-face and synchronous learning experiences, and developing tools for assessment.

Ana Gabriela Hernandez-Gonzalez

Spanish & Portuguese

Lecturer III

aherna@unm.edu

Mario Esteban del Angel Guevara

Spanish & Portuguese

Graduate Teaching Assistant

mdelangel@unm.edu

Through the ambassadors for online teaching fellowship, teaching assistants in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese will build a community of practice with colleagues, and workshop series will be developed in which instructors will be able to learn, practice and ask specific questions about how to create and address previously identified interests and challenges or new ones that arise as we teach online.

Phyllis Palmer

Speech & Hearing Sciences

Associate Professor

ppalmer@unm.edu

The Water Fountain Project seeks to provide an online correlate for the informal redundant interaction with new knowledge and skills that often occurred in the graduate student lounge or around the water fountain in our department. With support from our faculty and the use of student ambassadors, we will establish remote peer-learning clusters to provide these opportunities in a socially safe fashion. The remote events will provide an opportunity to practice new knowledge and skills in a low-stakes environment.

Susanna Cole

Speech & Hearing Sciences

Graduate Teaching Assistant

secole@unm.edu

Susanna Cole is a second-year grad student who relocated here from Seattle and is loving New Mexico's sunshine and high desert landscape. She is a former teacher who hopes to pursue a new career in medical speech-language pathology.

Isabel Last

Spanish & Portuguese

Graduate Teaching Assistant

ilast@unm.edu

My project deals with equipping the TA's in the Spanish as a Second Language program (as well as SHL programs and the Portuguese program) here at UNM with the necessary tools, practice, and theory to increase student participation in their live zoom sessions and to create a student-centered environment. I am going about transferring this knowledge by creating workshops on classroom management, intellectual work in the classroom, and the creation and enaction of task-based lessons and activities utilizing the TA's own creativity as well as a handful of online resources.