[Plantsci] FW: Teaching Continuity update 3/24: Polling, library resources, student resources

[Marquez, Mario A - (marquezm)]

Teaching Continuity update 3/24: Polling, library resources, student resources

Hi All,
Apologies if this is a repeat. See latest communication to instructors from the Instructional Continuity team.
Thanks,
Adam

From: "Elfring, Lisa K - (elfring)" <elfring at arizona.edu<mailto:elfring at arizona.edu>>
Date: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 at 8:42 PM
To: D2L Support at OIA <d2l at email.arizona.edu<mailto:d2l at email.arizona.edu>>
Subject: Teaching Continuity update 3/24: Polling, library resources, student resources


Dear instructors,

It is nearly one week since we began teaching remotely. Here are some updates and resources that may help you and students in the days ahead:



Library resources

If you need help with online access to course materials such as ebooks<https://libguides.library.arizona.edu/disruption/ebooks>, journal articles<https://libguides.library.arizona.edu/openaccess/OA-COVID19>, or streaming videos<https://libguides.library.arizona.edu/disruption/video>, please contact your librarian<https://new.library.arizona.edu/about/contact/your-librarian> or Cheryl Cuillier in Content & Collections<https://new.library.arizona.edu/people/cheryl-cuillier>. A growing number of publishers and vendors are providing free access for courses<https://libguides.library.arizona.edu/disruption/textbook-access>. As of today, anyone in the world can get free access to more than 1.4 million ebooks in a National Emergency Library<https://archive.org/details/nationalemergencylibrary> from the Internet Archive. Users can now borrow ebooks from the National Emergency Library without joining a waitlist, ensuring that students have access to assigned readings and library materials that the Internet Archive has digitized. This waitlist suspension will run through June 30, 2020, or the end of the U.S. national emergency, whichever is later. Learn more about the National Emergency Library<https://blog.archive.org/2020/03/24/announcing-a-national-emergency-library-to-provide-digitized-books-to-students-and-the-public/> and see FAQ<https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QjErbouWG7pUlzcxPcRk4YEtbYs8ItlVTgLa1DfGh68>.



Student resources

There are numerous remote-learning resources<https://remote-learning.arizona.edu/> available to help students adjust to the demands of learning remotely, from finding technology equipment and internet access, to downloading software, to learning which computer labs are open. Student Success and Retention Innovation, which houses the units that provide many student-success services,  has developed a web page<https://studentsuccess.arizona.edu/resources> with links to the various services that can support students in this transition. Please share these resources with your students!



Turning Technology polling solutions for remote operations

Our campus polling solution, TurningPoint, can be used in a remote or online environment for both synchronous and asynchronous polling, and is a great way to engage students in real-time formative assessment as well as enabling interaction outside of class time. Turning Technologies, the company behind TurningPoint, has offered their web product free to instructors and students until July 1.



The Academic Technologies team is partnering with Turning Technologies to present a series of 50-minute webinars to walk instructors through using Turning Point Web. These webinars are identical and will also be found at the Remote Teaching Webinars<https://remote-teaching.arizona.edu/webinars> site. Please see the attached document for more information.

  *   Thursday March 26 @ 1pm - https://arizona.zoom.us/j/279397057
  *   Friday March 27 @ 10am - https://arizona.zoom.us/j/593535797
  *   Friday March 27 @ 4pm - https://arizona.zoom.us/j/943642448
  *   Monday March 30 @ 12pm - https://arizona.zoom.us/j/106223797
  *   Tuesday March 31 @ 9am - https://arizona.zoom.us/j/423449470



The work you have done to re-envision your teaching in this remarkable couple of weeks is astonishing, and we are proud to support you in your work.



With best regards,

Lisa Elfring, on behalf of the Instructional Continuity Support Team




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Lisa K Elfring, PhD
Associate Vice Provost
Office of Instruction & Assessment<https://www.oia.arizona.edu/>
THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA

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