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 […]
Gale Spear, Courtney Mlinar, and Jeff Johannigman from Austin Community College spoke about their teaching and learning academy in a Lilly 2021 recorded talk entitled “A Teaching and Learning Academy for Faculty by Faculty.” I did not know how large the Austin Community College system is with multiple campuses and thousands of students! The Teaching […]
Ann Martinelli and Roxanna Senyshyn from The Pennsylvania State University presented on “Learning to Support and Sustain Cultural (and linguistic) Diversity: Perspectives of Preservice Teachers.” They teach at the Abington College, a component of Penn State University and they are a “minority majority student community” located outside of Philadelphia. The elementary education program includes the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
The asynchronous Lilly 2021 presentation I watched tonight was by Joan Humphrey from Penn State Beyond and entitled “Competence: Cultivating Cultural Humility in Nursing Education.” Humphrey starting by reviewing demographic data from nursing education and challenges that are systemic in nature. Wicked problems were defined by Humphrey as complex issues that could be social or […]
The last blended learning designs asynchronous session from the May 2021 Lilly Conference online is entitled “International Graduate Students’ Sense of Campus Community and Belonging” was presented by Angel S. Forde from Michigan State University, a graduate student. Forde looks at how students navigate a sense of belonging as international students using the Sense of […]