Open Grounds Schedule

Schedule of speakers 

9:30-10:45 Keynote: Reclaiming Justice in Open Education (Jasmine Roberts-Crews)

11:00-12:00 Panel: Getting Started

  • Spyros Simotas and Alexis Osipovs (French), Open by design
  • Esperanza Górriz Jarque, David Flórez-Murillo, Germain Badang (Spanish, Italian & Portuguese), A reality check of expectations in the writing process of an OER for SPAN 2010
  • Miao-fen Tseng (East Asian Languages, Literatures and Cultures), Transforming curriculum to interactive open resources

12:00-12:45 Lunch

1:00-2:00 Panel: How I Built This

  • Max Edelson (History), Visualizing a New World: Teaching John Ogilby’s America (1671) as a Digital Atlas
  • Anna Borovskaya-Ellis and Aaron Thompson (Slavic), Providing Linguistic Authenticity and Variety via OER in First-Year Russian
  • Alison Levine (French), Lessons learned and new challenges as A Vos Plumes! turns fourteen
  • Lilian Feitosa (Spanish, Italian & Portuguese), Plural Portuguese: Adopting & Adapting a DEI Focused Portuguese OER Textbook, a Work in Progress

2:15-3:15 Panel: Moving Toward Open 

  • Esther Poveda Moreno (Spanish, Italian & Portuguese), A Good Match: How Open Pedagogy and a Multiliteracies Approach to the Teaching of Writing in Foreign Languages Benefit Each Other
  • Lauren McQuistion and Kyle Schumann (Architecture), Spatial Translations Production Manual: An OER for Beginning Design Students
  • Kate Neff and Matthew Street (Spanish, Italian & Portuguese), From Refresh to Remix: Creating High-Quality OER Curriculum for UVA Spanish

3:15-4:15 Panel: Living Our Values

  • Karolyn Kinane (Contemplative Sciences Center), Open, Contemplative, Anti-Oppressive Pedagogy
  • Alicia López Operé (Spanish, Italian & Portuguese) and Diana Galarreta (Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, JMU), Creating Audiovisual Material for Medical Spanish Education: Realistic Clinical Encounters with Spanish-Speaking Patients
  • Stella Mattioli (Spanish, Italian & Portuguese), Creation and use of authentic videos in the Italian classroom
  • Paula Sprague (Spanish, Italian & Portuguese), Adapting and Adopting Existing OER

4:15-5:30 Reception and Ongoing Conversations with Jasmine