Information Literacy

Brainstorming and The Thesis Table

Arna Shines from Tougaloo College recorded a session for the 2021 Lilly Conference online entitled: “The Thesis Is In the Table” that intrigued me. Shines teaches first-year students and “has the privilege of teaching the essay” and wanted to focus on the thesis. Shines believes “the thesis must be one sentence, the last sentence of […]
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Connecting Classes and Developing Intercultural Competency Skills

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 […]
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Public Science Writing

Tonight I watched a Lilly Conference online session from this past May entitled: “Who needs writing?”: Engaging STEM Majors in Public Science Writing” by Jennifer Osterhage and Katherine Rogers-Carpenter from the University of Kentucky. They described the writing course they developed and the biology program at the University of Kentucky, reaching 1,400 people. Their “Writing […]
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Cultural Humility in Nursing Education

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 […]
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Feedback for all; improvement for some?

Wasana Karunarathne from The University of Melbourne presented (from across the world!) at the 2021 Lilly Conference online in May. The topic they presented was “Developing Generic Skills and Feedback Literacy Through Assessment.” Karunarathne talked about using “assessment for learning” using formative feedback and motivate learners to improve. Karunarathne wanted students to experience hands-on learning […]
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Customizing CATs

Dr. Diane Chapman from North Carolina State University presented at the 2021 Lilly Conference online on “Customizing Classroom Assessment Techniques for Online Teaching and Learning.” Classroom assessment techniques (CATs), Chapman stated, are “in-class activities designed to give you and your students useful feedback on the teaching-learning process as it is happening.” They are simple and […]
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Beyond the Text… and Instructor/Student Resources!

Tonight, I watched a 2021 Lilly Conference Online asynchronous session by Dr. Silvia Bartolic from the University of British Columbia. The session was entitled “Promoting Digital and Visual Literacy Through Multimodal Projects” and began with the numerous reasons why instructors should use multimodal assessments. The challenge, as mentioned by Bartolic, is how to design multimodal […]
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Educational Technology for Digital Organization and Scholarship

I have been intrigued by note-taking in the classroom for almost a decade now. My first proposal for an educational study when I came to NC State was using Livescribe pens to capture student concept maps and share them to evaluate and compare to other digital tools such as Lucidchart. We have been using electronic […]
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Preparing Students for Learning

Terry Doyle is a Professor Emeritus from Ferris State University and co-author with Todd Zakrajsek of The New Science of Learning, and Brendan Doyle is VP Learner Centered Teaching Consultants. They both presented at Lilly Conference online in May on “Preparing the Brain For Learning” and shared information they think we should be sharing with […]
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A Fair and Equitable Community of Learners

Kathleen F. Gabriel wrote a book we read as part of an OFD Reading Circle several years ago: Teaching Unprepared Students. Gabriel presented at the 2021 Lilly Conference Online on “Embracing Student Diversity in the Midst of Our Society’s Strife.” Gabriel began by speaking about the hate crimes and marginalization that our society has endured, […]
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