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Social Justice and Spanish

Amanda Petersen from the University of California San Diego presented at the 2020 Lilly Conference on “Through the Social Justice Lens: Cases from Language and Literatures” with colleagues. Petersen talked about the use of social justice language pedagogy in introductory courses. I did not think about this. Petersen defined social justice language pedagogy as: Social […]
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Keeping Track of References and Synthesizing Notes with Software

Jimmy Fleming from PowerNotes presented at the 2020 Lilly Conference about the use of this software for writing support. I had not heard about PowerNotes before, and use Hypothes.is in several courses for article annotation. PowerNotes is different: users can highlight text, tag/classify it, and summarize it in a PowerNotes project. It also records references […]
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Network Analysis and Classroom Management

Dr. Eric Hogan from Georgia Southern University presented on one-mode networks and classroom management at the 2020 Lilly Conference online. Hogan is faculty in the Education Department and teaches on learning, motivation, and assessment. I didn’t know about one-mode networks and, while I have seen a couple network analysis studies in education, I had not […]
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Text Sets for Courses… and Graduate Projects?

Drs. Greta Freeman and Brooke Hardin from USC Upstate presented at the 2020 Lilly Conference on Text Sets. Freeman and Hardin are both faculty in the School of Education with extensive experience as teachers and in literacy. I didn’t know about text sets, and as the name suggests, these are collections of texts on a […]
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Annotating and Verbally Explaining Reading Assignments

Gregory Allar presented an asynchronous Lilly Conference session last year about annotating readings using Hypothes.is for deeper learning. Allar mentioned annotating creates “anchored context for conversation”. Allar went on to describe how they use Hypothes.is in several courses and a variety of assignments. Allar uses annotation for engagement and so that students interact with texts […]
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