Month: August 2021

Connections, Concepts, Concrete Practice, and Conclusions from Experienced Educators

We spent the day at the beach! The weather was great, the kids were wild, and we did not lose any items! Success. I even did an RLOE talk from the minivan with a sleeping Aurelio! Yay! He woke up in time to say hi to attendees. Tonight, Amada requested her nightly story. We watched […]
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Online Plagiarism Detection and Online Discussion Boards

We spent an awesome day at the beach. The kids had a lot of fun… and so did the adults. Tonight, watched the first 2021 Lilly Conference online asynchronous session in the Teaching Online category. Ed Gehringer from North Carolina State University presented on “Online Exam Integrity: Alternatives to Remote Proctoring.” I had not heard […]
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Bias and Econ OERs

We are at the beach for a short vacation! After a long day of morning meetings, afternoon travel, and evening chaos, I sat down and watched Sal Meyers and Pascasie Redhage from Simpson College present at the 2021 Lilly Conference online on “Videos for Teaching Undergraduates about Stereotypes and Bias.” Pascasie is a student working […]
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Motivation and OER Adoption

Katherine Williams, Rachel Messer, and Eric Werth from the University of Pikeville presented at the 2021 Lilly Conference online on “Faculty Motivation and Concern During a Campus-wide Free Textbook Initiative.” Their objectives included identifying areas of faculty concern from transitions to free materials and what faculty found motivating and demotivating. They defined Open Educational Resources […]
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Exemplars

After a long day of lots of playing and some bacteria, I sat down and played the last recorded session of the Instructional Strategies asynchronous group of the 2021 Lilly Conference Online. The session “Best Practices for Use of Exemplars for Assignment Completion” was presented by Jennifer Summers from the University of St. Augustine for […]
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Gamification in a Pharmacology Course

Today was the second day of the DELTA Summer Shorts series, and Claire and I presented on Panopto. It was a lot of fun. I was able to watch two sessions, and now want to go back and review the recordings of the ones I missed. Tonight, we watched a session from the 2021 Lilly […]
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Marshmallows and Teamwork

Today was the last session of a three-day HHMI workshop on campus. It was great to see friends in person! To end the day, Amada and I watched a Lilly Conference online 2021 session entitled “Marshmallow Structure Negotiation Class Activity” by Michael Conklin from Angelo State University. I was really curious about the title and […]
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Tips for Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) and Edutainment Podcasts

Dr. Marilyn Moore from National University in California serves as a chair of a student success program. Moore presented at the 2021 Lilly Conference online a recorded presentation entitled: “Supporting and Promoting Student Success in Higher Education.” Moore asked: “what do you want your students to achieve in social-emotional competencies? Moore uses a CASEL system […]
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A Case Study for Multiple Courses

Today was day one of the HHMI Inclusive Excellence workshop at NC State. It was fun to see people and interact (not over Zoom). I just finished reading one of the two articles assigned as homework and paused to watch a 2021 Lilly Conference Online recorded session by Maung Min, Laura Cruz, Jennifer Parker, Kelsey […]
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Take Students on Thinklink Tours?

Margaret C. Hoffman, Amy Kuntz, and Nicholas Smerker from The Pennsylvania State University  presented on”Planting Seeds of Innovation: Using Immersive Tech to Teach Design Principles in Landscape Contracting” as a recorded session in the 2021 Lilly Conference Online. Smerker introduced the differences between augmented reality, virtual reality, mixed reality, and 360 video using a rubber […]
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