Accessibility and UDL

Fifty QM Course Reviews

Paula McDougald from Virtual Arkansas and Dr. Brandie Benton (Virtual Arkansas) presented a QM session I watched tonight entitled “My Circus and My Monkeys: Sharing What We’ve Learned Through Simultaneous QM Reviews.” Virtual Arkansas is funded through the Department of Education to provide supplemental instruction in the state. They have 130 teachers and students from […]
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Supporting Teachers to Create Better Learning Experiences Online

Tonight I watched the QM recording for the session entitled “Student Connection and Rapport in the Virtual Environment,” presented by Lisa Pizzuto, Program Specialist/Coordinator at Fulton County Schools. Pizzuto has been teaching online for seventeen years! Pizzuto’s objective was to share ideas for how we can personalize a generic course and develop connections with students. […]
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Quantifying Talk-Turns and Graphing Group Dynamics

The Online with LSE Webinar series recording I watched tonight was one I missed. It was from three years ago and entitled “Applying Graph Theory to Examine the Dynamics of Student Discussions in Small-Group Learning” with Dr. Stanley Lo. The session began with a diagram of the inputs and outputs affecting group work. The study […]
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Fourteen Recommendations and Several Great Questions about Creating More Inclusive Environments

“Creating More Inclusive Environment for LGBTQ+ Bio” is the title of the Online with LSE Webinar recording I watched tonight. It is from almost two years ago. Sara Brownell was the speaker and presented work from a SABER Special Interest Group (SIG) that worked on recommendations. Brownell shared recommendations that language matters (I paraphrase and […]
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Challenges for Undergraduates with Disabilities with Online Courses

After watching Dr. Logan Gin moderating an Online with LSE Webinar session, I was reminded about the session he did and rewatched it tonight. The title of the session was “COVID-19 and STEM Undergraduates with Disabilities: Challenges Resulting from the Transition to Online Course Delivery” and it happened a little over a hear ago, around […]
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A Study on Self-Advocacy of Undergraduates with ADHD and/or Specific Learning Disabilities in STEM

Dr. Logan Gin was the moderator of the Online with LSE Webinar with Dr. Mariel Pfeifer on “Inside and Out: Factors that Support and Hinder the Self-Advocacy of Undergraduates with ADHD and/or Specific Learning Disabilities in STEM.”I remember watching this recording earlier but wanted to revisit it as I am going over recordings from this […]
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Perceptions of Faculty Culturally Diverse Mentor Training

Dr. Damani White-Lewis is a postdoctoral scholar and presented at the Online with LSE Webinar series. Along with coauthors Ana Romero, Justin Gutzwa, and Sylvia Hurtado, they presented on their article “Moving the Science Forward: Faculty Perceptions of Culturally Diverse Mentor Training Benefits.” The problem White-Lewis stated was the need for STEM faculty to become […]
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A Course on Feedback, Mentoring, and Science Communication

Dr. Diedra Wrighting presented at the Online with LSE webinar series on “Teaching Undergrads to Communicate Science, Cultivate Mentoring Relationships, and Navigate Science Culture.” Wrighting is Executive Director of the ADVANCE Office of Faculty Development at Northeastern University in Boston. They emphasized the importance of mentoring and obtained funding to create a two-credit course in […]
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Perceptions of Evolution by Community College Students

I start 2023 by returning to the ASCB YouTube playlist! The Online with LSE CBE Webinar Series is a lot of fun, and I missed several sessions. Tonight I watched the session entitled “Understanding and Perceptions of Evolution by Students in Community College and Other Institutions” presented by Elizabeth Barnes, an Assistant Professor at Middle […]
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Interpreting and Communicating in Undergraduate Research Experiences

To end the year, I watched the JMBE Live session with Laura E. Ott entitled “Supporting Deaf Students in Undergraduate Research Experiences.” This session was recorded over a year ago.Ott was at UMBE when she started this work and now has been at UNC for several years. She began by sharing the statistics on Deaf […]
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