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WAC LIAISONS practices can increase learning and reduce grading time in any class.

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Critical Thinking with AI:  A Few Ideas
Facilitated by Leslie Bruce

This asynchronous WAC LIAISONS workshop will introduce recent research on critical thinking and AI use, then explore a few generalizable ideas for using student-LLM interactions to strengthen students' critical thinking skills as they increase their subject mastery.

Using Writing to Learn in Any Class
Facilitated by Alison Marzocchi

Through this asynchronous, Canvas-based workshop, faculty will learn about Writing to Learn (WTL) activities. WTL activities typically include quick, informal, low-stakes writing tasks in which students consolidate their learning of a course’s content. Adding WTL activities to a class can improve student learning and writing, enrich class discussion, and allow faculty to quickly assess even large classes’ understanding of core concepts. Come to this workshop to learn five effective WTL activities all instructors can apply in their classes.

Adapting Major Assignments to Reduce AI Overreliance
Facilitated by Leslie Bruce

Attempts to evade and detect generative AI use in coursework are never foolproof. To ensure student learning, we can adapt our assignments to better engage students. Focusing on longer assignments and projects, this asynchronous workshop introduces several strategies for reducing AI use in your favorite major assignments.

Authentic (and Potentially Publishable!) Writing Assignments I: Designing the Task
Facilitated by Alison Marzocchi

Through this asynchronous, Canvas-based workshop, faculty will learn about scaffolding student success on authentic, discipline-specific writing assignments. This Part 2 workshop builds on Part 1 which coached faculty on choosing an authentic, discipline-specific writing task and consulting real samples to build a rubric. Part 2 will share ideas for embedding mini writing workshops into your course to build students' authentic writing skills.

Faculty Writing They Don’t Teach You in Grad School
Facilitated by Alison Marzocchi

Through this asynchronous, Canvas-based workshop, faculty will learn tips for different genres of faculty writing that are not typically taught. In graduate school, we all learned how to write a research paper, but what about recommendation letters or challenging emails? How do you self-promote on grants or award nominations? Faculty will be provided with tips for writing outside of our typical research paper genre.

Using NotebookLM to Support Teaching & Learning
Facilitated by Leslie Bruce

This one-hour, asynchronous workshop will show faculty how to reduce their workloads using Google's NotebookLM. This free LLM research tool is easily accessible and does not train AI using users' data. The workshop shows faculty multiple faculty- and student-facing ways to use NotebookLM to lighten their teaching and service workflows.

Leading Effective Peer Reviews
Facilitated by Alison Marzocchi

Students learn more from writing assignments when they receive written or spoken feedback during the writing process. In- or out-of-class peer reviews will add more quality feedback to your students’ writing processes. This asynchronous workshop introduces faculty to strategies for focusing and improving student peer reviews. Students receive rubric-driven feedback on their writing before turning it in, yielding higher quality papers and decreasing grading time. (2-hour certificate credit)

Engaging AI Critically with Your Students
Facilitated by Leslie Bruce

Take this asynchronous workshop at your own pace.  Learn some of the promises and perils of AI chatbots, explore ways to support critical thinking about AI in class, and draft your own in-class AI-infused activity for feedback. (2-hour certificate credit)

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Outcomes

WAC Workshops

  • Faculty will apply workshops' best practices to improve student writing and Learning. 
  • Faculty will apply workshops' best practices to teach with writing. 
  • Workshops will build a campus culture that values the ways writing can enhance learning.


LIAISONS Workshops

  • Faculty will increase their critical AI literacy. 
  • Faculty will apply workshops' best practices to improve student writing and learning. 
  • Faculty will apply workshops' best practices to teach with writing and LLMs. 
  • Workshops will build a campus culture that values the ways writing and LLMs can enhance learning.
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Want Help Adapting to AI?

WAC LIAISONS Boot Camp and Faculty Learning Community members have built a fantastic resource for faculty adapting to AI in the classroom. Outcomes are:

  • Faculty will build their Generative AI literacy.
  • Faculty will curate and supplement the GenAI Faculty Resource Canvas site to support their Colleagues.
  • Faculty will create an AI-infused critical thinking activity to share with campus faculty.

Self-enroll using the button below.

Enroll in the Generative AI (ChatGPT/LLM) Faculty Resources Canvas Page

Linguistic Justice and Disciplinary Writing

Want to teach your discipline’s writing expectations while respecting your students’ right to their own language? As a WAC Program guest speaker, Dr. Nicole Gonzales Howell (U San Francisco, Dept. of Rhetoric & Language) created a self-paced Canvas site for our faculty. You can self-enroll in this Canvas site to review materials and resources provided by the WAC guest speaker.

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Participating faculty rate WAC LIAISONS workshops highly

  • 99%
  • WAC LIAISONS workshop attendees rated their workshop as “very useful” or “useful.”

 

  • 94%
  • WAC LIAISONS workshop attendees say they incorporate WAC practices into their teaching

 

  • 81%
  • of faculty that applied WAC LIAISONS practices in their teaching said they ‘noticed a positive impact on student learning and/or writing’
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Access Your FDC Certificates For Past WAC LIAISONS Workshops

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Contact: Dr. Leslie Bruce, Faculty Fellow
Hours: Monday - Friday, 8am - 5pm
Location: GH 435
Phone: 657-278-3155
Email: [email protected]

WAC LIAISONS is located in Gordon Hall (formerly University Hall), Room 435.

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Mailing Address:
California State University, Fullerton
WAC LIAISONS, GH 435
800 North State College
P.O. Box 6850
Fullerton, CA 92831

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