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Digital Accessibility Tip: Using Headings Appropriately
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Looking to expand your knowledge of digital accessibility and learn quick strategies that you can easily integrate into your workflow? CATL’s blog post series on digital accessibility catalogues some helpful tips and tricks we’ve shared in our Teach Tuesday e-newsletter! In this tip, we’ll highlight two common accessibility issues and how to fix them: missing…
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Understanding Today’s UWGB Students: Trends & Strategies for Success
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Article by Kris Vespia, Director of the Center of the Advancement of Teaching and Learning (CATL) As CATL prepares for our semester-long focus on Teaching Today’s UWGB Students, the first step is to identify who those students are. There’s a common narrative out there that UW-Green Bay’s students are fundamentally different today in terms of…
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Spring 2025 Events & Programming Overview
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Find all of CATL’s events and programming all in one place! We already have several exciting opportunities planned for Spring 2025, so mark your calendars. “Teaching Today’s UWGB Students” Event Series & Canvas Course As we head into a new semester, you may be asking yourself, who are the students in my classroom and why…
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Teaching Today’s UWGB Students: A Preview of CATL’s Spring 2025 Programming Series
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Article by Kris Vespia, Director of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning (CATL) One of the comments I have heard the most since becoming CATL Director is some variation on the following: “I just don’t understand students today. They [fill in the blank].” Whether that sentence is completed with “don’t do their…
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Spring 2025 Co-Writing Community (Tuesdays & Fridays 8:30 – 9:30 a.m.)
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Tara DaPra, one of CATL’s Instructional Development Consultants, will lead another “Co-Writing Community” this semester. A co-writing community is a zero-obligation, zero-preparation, zero-outside work activity. Use this time to work on creative or scholarly projects that might otherwise get pushed aside by the demands of teaching. All faculty and staff are welcome! The co-writing community…