The Collaborative Resource Guide will be a place where participants can share models and their own reflections about classroom artifacts like syllabi, policies, lesson plans, assignments, etc. that they encounter throughout the workshop (or elsewhere, or have built themselves) which are equity and accessibility-conscious.
While these artifacts do not necessarily need to only address the online learning context, it would be helpful if they do! Alternatively, this is a place where you could tell us how you might modify a face-to-face artifact to make it more well-suited to the online context. These might be artifacts which:
- Invite personal reflection and / or structural power analysis
- Encourage students to bring their knowledges, languaging practices, ways of being, and community lifeways into the classroom
- Challenge traditional notions of academic merit, achievement, and quality
- Provide many ways (rather than just one) for students to participate, act, express ideas, or share knowledge
- Focus on students’ strengths and assets rather than on their deficits
- Help students (and / or instructors) to think about disabling / inequitable institutions
- Represent a variety of voices
- Something else?
Because we all come from different fields and have different types of knowledge to contribute, we might hold different definitions of what does (or does not) constitute “equity” and “accessibility” or an “equity-conscious practice.” Rather than erasing someone else’s definition to replace it with your own, think about how you could add to what is already there. You might do this through using the comment function or the suggestion function on Google Docs, for example.
You can access the collaborative resource guide and some further instructions on how to add a resource in the “Collaboration Materials” subfolder of our shared Google folder. If you have filled out the Welcome Survey, you should have already received access to the Google folder. If you haven’t received access, please e-mail me at [email protected].
