[Air-L] AoIR 2022, Dublin: Undergraduate Teaching Workshop

[Holly Kruse]

Update: I’m working on finding out the correct link to register for the workshop. I’ll post it here once I know what it is. I apologize	for the confusion. -hk

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Adrienne Shaw (Temple University) and I (Holly Kruse, Rogers State University) are offering the Association of Internet Researchers’ second-ever pre-conference undergraduate teaching workshop, and first-ever in-person version of the workshop. There are still two or three openings available, so if you’re going to be in Dublin at the conference and would like to participate in the workshop on Wednesday, November 2 from 1:30-4:30 IST, please read more about the workshop and how to register for it here: https://aoir.org/aoir2022/preconfwrkshop/ <https://aoir.org/aoir2022/preconfwrkshop/>
If you won’t be in Dublin but would like to audit the workshop, we will accepting up to 20 auditors who will be able to watch and listen to it via Zoom. The workshop will be focused on the in-person participants who have registered. We won’t be able to accommodate fully hybrid participation, but if time and technology allow you will be able to ask questions and make comments while the workshop is taking place. If you’re interested in auditing, please email me at holly.kruse at gmail.com <mailto:holly.kruse at gmail.com>  If fewer than 20 people have asked to audit the workshop, I will send you the link to the Google doc for the workshop on which you will add your name and some other information.

Best wishes,
Holly
holly.kruse at gmail.com <mailto:holly.kruse at gmail.com>

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Undergraduate Teaching Workshop

Organizers: Holly Kruse, Rogers State University and Adrienne Shaw, Temple University

Last year we (Adrienne Shaw, Temple University and Holly Kruse, Rogers State University, along with Emily van der Nagel, Monash University) organized a first-ever Undergraduate Teaching Workshop at AoIR in order to address an overlooked area at AoIR conferences that is of critical importance to many AoIR members. Building on the momentum of that successful, entirely online workshop at AoIR 2021, we are offering a half-day (4-hour) undergraduate-teaching-focused workshop for the 2022 conference. The idea behind this workshop is that teaching is a big part of our academic lives, and in the classroom (on campus or virtual), our students’ understandings of social media and internet use don’t always align with broader press or research narratives. What do we learn from our students about the internet, how are we using the internet to teach, and what’s the best way of bringing AoIR research into our classrooms? How do we use the internet in teaching when our students don’t have broadband access, aren’t digitally-savvy, and when our institutions do not offer robust technical infrastructures or support?

As professors with experience teaching that spans types of institutions, student populations, and institutional support, we understand that there are no one-size fits all solutions to teaching in ever changing technological and social contexts. Also, and building on last year’s workshop, this year’s workshop will attend to the ways that teaching loads, expectations, terms, and more. are different in different regions of the world. For that reason the workshop will be discussion/conversation-based so we can all learn from and with one another.

The main event will be held in-person in Dublin, with the workshop planned primarily as an in-person event, but virtual participation by some registrants can also be accommodated by connecting them to each other and the in-person conversation over Zoom. The hybrid plans will remain flexible as the nature of the COVID-19 pandemic and other variables may demand and will be announced closer to the event.

This workshop will adhere to AoIR’s Statement of Principles and Statement of Inclusivity <https://aoir.org/diversity-and-inclusivity/>, which is a commitment to academic freedom, equality of opportunity, and human dignity. This means that in this workshop, just like in the rest of the AoIR conference, no harassment or discrimination will be permitted, and members must commit to the inclusion and recognition of all members. We appreciate the participants in this session arriving with a shared sense of purpose, community, and respect as we discuss teaching today.