SEI 2024 Instructor Guide

The SEI honorarium is $250 per hour of instruction.

All SEI Instructors are welcome to attend any other SEI workshop session or social event that they wish to join, free of charge. This is fully optional and not required.

Because SEI is virtual, an SEI team member will be on hand during your session to introduce you, moderate the session, and provide any support for activities, polling, breakout rooms, or other features for you. The SEI Team is also available to discuss your lesson plan or brainstorm content, and we are happy to introduce you to other SEI instructors who are teaching connected topics to ensure continuity and coverage of certain topics.

After registration closes, we will share the list of SEI attendees and basic professional and biographical information about the attendees. In the past, some instructors wished to survey attendees about their experience with and interest in the topic before the session to help gauge attendees’ baseline knowledge and priorities for the session. If you would like to pursue this, please let us know and we would be happy to facilitate this for you.

Virtual Instruction

Instructors may select the remote teaching modality that suits them and their content best. SEI Curriculum Team members are more than happy to consult and brainstorm which approaches may be most conducive to your style and content. The SEI Curriculum Team can also arrange optional dry runs or “dress rehearsals” so you can familiarize yourself with the features and platform in advance of your module.

All SEI modules (regardless of delivery modality) will be recorded and made available on the password-protected SEI participants’ website for 2 weeks after SEI concludes so that attendees may review session content. We will not share the recordings after that time or with anyone who has not paid to attend SEI.

Synchronous

The instructor teaches live in Zoom with all attendees present. Slides, websites, and other content can be shared with attendees. Attendees can interact with the instructor and other attendees through the chat box or through live discussion, whichever the instructor prefers. Synchronous teaching in Zoom has other features available to you should you wish to use them, including Breakout Rooms, which allows for small group conversations in the virtual environment. An SEI Co-Chair Team will be present in the live Zoom room to assist monitoring the chat, provide basic troubleshooting assistance for attendees, and so on. Synchronous sessions will be recorded to the cloud.

Note: In an effort to support the accessibility of our live sessions, we will use Zoom’s closed captioning, which is generated by automatic speech recognition. We will also offer SEI attendees the option to create and maintain collaborative “Community Notes” document for use during and after the event.

→ Activities During Synchronous Sessions

Instructors used several successful group activities during SEI 2023. Options include Zoom polling, Google Jamboard (a digital whiteboard for collaboration), Padlet, and Zoom Breakout Rooms. If there are other platforms you are interested in using during your session, please let the SEI Team know and we can discuss how best to support you.

Asynchronous

The instructor pre-records their presentation content via Zoom (or another video recording platform of their choice that they have access to, such as QuickTime or Panopto) and shares the video file or link to a cloud recording session with the SEI Implementation Team, which will then share the video with attendees on a password-protected website. Attendees will watch the content on their own time and can interact with each other and the instructor during a shorter live Zoom session. Asynchronous instruction works well for presentations that require complicated demonstrations of software and equipment or are lecture-based.

Note: In an effort to support the accessibility of our pre-recorded live sessions, we request that you use a platform that provides automatic captioning or an automatic transcription of the event. If you do not have institutional access to a platform that supports this, or if you aren’t sure if your platform supports this, please contact the SEI Team at seiworkshop.contact@gmail.com for assistance.

Combination

The instructor may choose to pre-record select elements of their presentation that require demonstration or that are lecture-based and allow students to watch on their own time, perhaps in conjunction with reviewing other readings or materials, before joining the instructor and other attendees for a live, synchronous component. Short pre-recorded content may be able to be streamed during the live session. Instructors may choose any combination of pre-recorded content and synchronous session so long as the total instructional hours are met. The synchronous components will be delivered live and recorded.

Pre-SEI Content for Attendees

Some instructors have found it productive to ask attendees to engage with readings or other content in advance of SEI. We encourage you to submit materials that you would like attendees to read or review in advance to help make the most of our virtual time together. SEI 2023 attendees reported that having access to instructor slide decks before or during the session helped greatly with their attention and engagement. If you are willing and available to provide the slides before the session, we will share those via the attendee portal. If not, that’s OK, we will be happy to post them for attendee review after the session.

Any content that you would like the students to read or review in advance should be sent to the SEI Team (seiworkshop.contact@gmail.com) by May 31, 2024, so that we may post these materials to the password-protected website for SEI participants.

Additionally, if you plan to prepare asynchronous recordings for attendees to watch before any synchronous module components or in lieu of synchronous module components, please submit the video recordings to SEI Team (seiworkshop.contact@gmail.com) by May 31 2024, so that we may post these materials to the SEI participants’ website.

(Note: the SEI Team will reach out to instructors in advance of the May 31 deadline to request any pre-SEI content you would like to share with attendees.)

Code of Conduct

SEI 2024 has a Code of Conduct for attendees, co-chairs, and instructors. The Code is adapted from the Digital Library Federation Code of Conduct, with reference to the Art Libraries Society of North America and Visual Resources Association Codes of Conduct, and is posted publicly on the SEI website.

Questions or concerns?

Please write to seiworkshop.content@gmail.com for immediate assistance. The contact for the SEI Curriculum Specialists and Faculty Liaisons are below:

Abby Houston
houstonl@berea.edu

Wen Nie Ng
wenng@vt.edu