It is always great to see what good friends are doing and presenting at Lilly! Erin A. McKenney from North Carolina State University and Diana J. R. Lafferty from Northern Michigan University (NMU) presented a session entitled “Leveraging Remote Learning for Cross-Institutional Collaborative Scholarship” that highlights how they joined forces to teach together! Students were […]
Dr. Melinda Adams from the University of the Incarnate Word recorded a session for the Lilly Conference online this past may entitled “Clients and Experiential Learning” that I watched tonight. Dr. Adams is a full professor and teaches a draping class for more than ten years. Over the years, Adams learned that students were not […]
Jessica Peacock from Merrimack College and Kathryn Lewis from American International College presented on “Active Learning through the Flipped Classroom: Success, Failure, or Both” as part of the Lilly 2021 Conference online. The presenters defined flipped learning as students doing work prior to class in an individual space, focusing on understanding and remembering of the […]
Tonight I watched a Lilly Conference online session from this past May entitled: “Who needs writing?”: Engaging STEM Majors in Public Science Writing” by Jennifer Osterhage and Katherine Rogers-Carpenter from the University of Kentucky. They described the writing course they developed and the biology program at the University of Kentucky, reaching 1,400 people. Their “Writing […]
It was a rough, long day. I did have a chance to streak out eight Delftia acidovorans isolates we want to sequence! Tonight, I watched “Raising STEM Interest Among Underserved Youth Through Problem-based Learning” by Jaymee Nanasi Davis from the University of Hawaii Maui College and Nahid Nariman, the Director of Research, TIDES. This recorded […]
Tonight we (Amada and I) watched a Lilly 2021 session entitled “SUNY Exploring Emerging Technologies for Lifelong Learning and Success (#EmTechMOOC)” by Roberta (Robin) Sullivan from the University at Buffalo. Sullivan is an instructional strategist, and their colleague Cherie van Putten at Binghamton University is an instructional designer. Their goal was to inform all learners […]
This weekend I worked with an undergraduate student on a research proposal for undergraduate funding in the fall. I also talked to a colleague on Friday about the difficulties of publishing undergraduate (mostly summer) research and continuation with different students. Replication and continuation are always a challenge. That’s why I thought tonight’s Lilly Conference online […]
Happy Fourth of July! It was a nice day at home. While we won’t be watching the fireworks because one child is scared of them, we did request a “story” so… tonight we will be watching a session entitled “Using the Syllabus to Foster a Supportive Campus Environment”by Naomi Jeffery Petersen Central Washington University. Peterson […]
It was an interesting day: minivan got serviced and we had a couple of kid meltdowns. Finally, Amada has calmed down and we are watching Angela Forde from Michigan State University and Shari L Dann from SUNY present on “Fostering Sense Of Classroom Community Belonging In A Project-Based Course” as part of the 2021 Lilly […]
“Acting Out: Facilitating Cultural Humility through Client-Based Case Studies” was the title of a session by Yi-An Burleson and Laura Cruz from The Pennsylvania State University. This was another recorded session from the 2021 Lilly Conference online, and also this was not the first time I watch a session with Laura Cruz! Burleson is a […]