Trauma Informed Learning Webinar
This webinar focused on how teachers can help their students manage stress, anxiety and trauma as a means of regulating these emotions for better learning. The webinar focused on the inform piece of the Trauma-Informed Pedagogy Care model by breaking it down into:
- The physiological impact of stress and traumatic experiences.
- How the brain handles stress and trauma.
- Impact on learning
- How to regulate your emotional response and continue to learn.
- Recognize- what are you observing?
- Investigate- what is going on with me?
- Understand- why is this a normal reaction?
- Negotiate- how can you regulate the emotions you are feeling?
- Distract and reactivate- occupy your thoughts with something else.
- Imagine- visualize your future with you in it.
- Free local and national resources to help you.
- Local/State Resources:
- UVU Student Health Services
- UVU Safety Emergency Management
- Utah Health Department: COVID-19 information
- National Resources:
Technology Tips
Final Exam Resources
Spring 2020
OTL understands that academic integrity within online final exams can be a concern, thus we are developing a set of resources to address both technological and pedagogical aspects of assessment design.
You can access the final exam resources on the OTL homepage beginning April 10th.
Editing a PDF
(for Students and Faculty)
Instructors – while Word Docs and Google Docs are the easiest file formats for students to edit, sometimes there are times you may need to give your students a PDF to edit and resubmit. In those cases, share the instructions below on editing PDFs. Showing your students how to edit and resubmit documents without printing can reduce paper usage and help save the environment.
- Use Adobe Acrobat DC to edit the PDF. Access to this software comes from the UVU Creative Cloud, available to every UVU faculty and student. Also consider checking out the iOS and Android Acrobat Reader apps which have PDF editing options for tablets and phones.
- Depending on the PDF, Microsoft Word might serve your purpose for editing.
- If you are using a Mac, you can use Preview to edit a PDF.
- There are many other third-party PDF editors which allow you to edit and download your PDFs – but be sure to review the terms and conditions and use these software at your own risk.