Community of Practice

Approachability, Adaptability, and Vulnerability

Tonight, we watched the last session of the Elon Teaching and Learning Conference 2021. The session was “Building Community in the Class and Beyond: Strategies and Self-Reflection”  presented by Jennifer Ibrahim, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Temple University College of Public Health with contributing authors: Anne Frankel, PhD, Associate Professor, College of Public Health, Temple University; […]
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Mindful UNCW

I did not feel well today. I did an only synchronous Zoom class and several meetings, and at the end of the day… crashed. I had to close my eyes for a while. Now I pulled up the Lilly Online Conference 2021 talk entitled “Mindful UNCW: A Campus-Wide Initiative Promoting the Practice of Mindfulness” by […]
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Supporting Engaged Teacher Scholars

As part of the 2021 Lilly Conference online asynchronous sessions, Dayna Henry from James Madison University presented on “A Case Study of SoTL Leaders as Catalysts Toward Institutionalizing SoTL Cultural Change.” Along with Ashley Taylor Jaffee, they described SoTL as: “evidence-based, teaching and learning scholarly activities which include systematic inquiry into what works and does […]
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Collaborative Research and Reciprocal Altruism

Tonight, Amada and I watched Sayonita Ghosh Hajra from California State University, Sacramento and Abeer Hasan from Humboldt State University  present a recorded Lilly Conference online 2021 presentation entitled “Managing REU in between Two Institutions During a Pandemic.” This summer we have been hosting a virtual REU. It has been busy and really cool. I want […]
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Virtual Writing Communities

Laura Cruz from The Pennsylvania State University, Ted Murcray from California Baptist University, and Marina Smitherman from Dalton State College presented at the Lilly Conference Online 2021 a recorded session entitled “Writing about Teaching (Together): Implementing Virtual Writing Communities under COVID-19.” I have now watched several sessions by Cruz and enjoyed all they do for […]
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Student-Faculty Partnerships

As part of the 2021 Lilly Conference online, Molly Robinson from Lewis & Clark College presented a recorded session entitled “Improving Pedagogy through Faculty-Student Collaboration.” Robinson helps run a program through their Teaching Excellence Program. The idea of faculty-student partnership was inspired by a similar project at Bryn Mawr college. The partnerships contribute to inclusive […]
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Cox and the FLCs

​Milton D. Cox from Miami University gave a talk about”Creating and Sustaining Face-to-Face and Virtual FLCs” at the 2021 Lilly Conference Online. Cox defined communities of practices as “groups of people who share a concern, a set of problems, or a passion about a topic, and who deepen their knowledge and expertise in this area […]
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Crowdsourcing Ideas for Community Building and Growth

Kathryn Smith and Todd Zakrajsek from ITLC did a session on “Classroom Community Building Strategies: Onsite and Online” on May 5th. Smith showed some cool community building cards that serve as a good reminder to do things. Zakrajsek did mention that the cards are not necessary to create communities. They started with three questions: What […]
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Open Communities and Publications During the Pandemic

Another great session from day 1 of OERxDomains21 was entitled “Open Reading with Your Eyes Shut: Demystifying Foo-Foo the Snoo” presented by Mark Brown. The title was referring to Dr. Seuss, and Brown introduced the challenge of having so many open access journals and filtering resources for reliability! The National Institute for Digital Learning publishes […]
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How do students perceive their understanding of biology terms?

Dr. Lisa McDonnell is an Associate Teaching Professor at UC San Diego and was on the Online with LSE webinar series to discuss a recent publication about “Identifying Troublesome Jargon in Biology.” I like how Online with LSE is now having graduate students moderate the sessions! McDonnell began by highlighting how there is a lot […]
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