Diversity

Prosocial Utility and Textbooks

Karen Hales facilitated a virtual journal club session as part of the LSE webinar series last October that caught my attention: “Promoting Science Interest with Prosocial Utility.” Jeanette Zambrano, a doctoral student in Urban Education Policy with a concentration in Educational Psychology at University of Southern California introduced goal-congruity theory. Zambrano talked about dropout in […]
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Labor-based Contract Grading for Equity

Today I attended a talk that was rescheduled after an unfortunate Zoom bombing incident…  Asao B. Inoue discussed what labor-based grading contracts is. Inoue described labor-based grading contracts as: a set of social agreements with students in a course identifies how to determine the final course grade uses labor as the only measure for grades carefully articulated in a […]
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Deconstructing a Study to Build Science Identity

One of the March LSE webinars was “Exploring the Anatomy of a Research Study” with several authors and moderated by Dr. Cynthia Brame. The discussion with the authors Drs. Rebecca Price, Clark Coffman, Danielle Jensen-Ryan, and Jennifer Jo Thompson was based on their article: Becoming a “Science Person”: Faculty Recognition and the Development of Cultural […]
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Digital Accessibility Tips and NC Virtual

Tonight I watched another Quality Matters (QM) webinar presented by Chris Smith and entitled “Walking in Someone Else’s Shoes: The True Impact of Digital Accessibility” that was recorded last year. Chris Smith is an instructional designer with NC Virtual. I am trying to learn as much as I can and practice accessibility in the course […]
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The Student Perspective for Quality Online Course Design

Candice McPherson, Paula McDougald, and Kirsten Wilson from VirtualArkansas.org presented in October a Quality Matters (QM) session that I have been meaning to watch: “30 Going on 13: Thinking Like a Student for Course Design.” Wilson started by explaining how they wanted to incorporate student voice in the course design process and improve the learner […]
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Modeling Learning

I receive the ACUE newsletter and often find interesting articles or links to talks. The email this week included a session entitled “Success for Every Student Through Effective Teaching” that is part of ACUE’s panel discussion from the California Community College Association for Occupational Education (CCCAOE) Conference. I watched it tonight after getting my first dose […]
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Lessons from Designing Culturally Affirming Online Learning Communities

The Quality Matters (QM) YouTube channel has recent video recordings from webinars and panels. One I found tonight had several members from North Carolina Central University (NCCU)! The panel included: Racheal Brooks, Zakaria Jouaibi, Laurell Malone, Gail Hollowell & Larrisha McGill-Youngblood. I am so glad I clicked on this recording to learn about the fantastic […]
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Inclusive Online Course Design

I watched another session today from the Quality Matters (QM) webinar series. Working on the BIT 295 course syllabus, map, and action form made me realize how much I like clear guidelines and want to learn from the experience of people who have been developing and implementing courses online for a long time! The session […]
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Mentors and What Really Matters

It was a fun and busy day. I really appreciate being able to reconnect with mentors and had a chance to talk to Dr. Barbi Honeycutt who taught me a lot while I was a teaching postdoctoral scholar here. I remember attending several workshops facilitated by Honeycutt, preparing a teaching philosophy, and even doing a […]
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Actionable steps!

As part of the 2020 SABER Diversity and Inclusion Efforts seminar series, Starlette Sharp from Penn State University and Dr. John Matsui from UC Berkeley presented last September on “Actionable steps toward equity in STEM.” Both Dr. Matsui and Sharp started with land acknowledgements for the lands and people on which their campuses now exist. […]
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