Lilly Conference

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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Ungrading through Specifications Grading?

I was reading the Ungrading book today and have been looking into Digital Pedagogy Lab resources. Tonight, I watched a presentation entitled “Specifications Grading: Ungrading :: Outcomes: Heart” by Dr. Jennifer McCrickerd from Drake University as part of the 2021 Lilly Conference online. McCrickerd has a Ph.D. in philosophy and specialized in ethics. McCrickerd described […]
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Action-Oriented Reflection

I started watching yesterday asynchronous sessions from the 2021 Lily Conference online. The second session I watched was by Stephanie Garrone-Shufran from Merrimack College and entitled “Using Reflection to Promote Social Justice in Coursework and Beyond.” Garrone-Shufran started by describing the importance of training teaching to better support English learners (ELs). Garrone-Shufran course is “focused […]
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Bundled Course Grading… with Tokens

I have been thinking about how to plan for an online section of our molecular biology semester-long course. Sandy Diec and Merlyn Joseph from Texas A&M College of Pharmacy are coordinators for a skills course in the pharmacy program. They have about sixty students in two lab sections that meet for 1.5 hours a week. […]
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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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Interactive Presentations and Social Presence

I have heard several talks that mention the importance of relational teaching. I was happy to see that Rachel Hammond from Cornerstone University presented on “Developing Social Presence: Teaching Relationally and Creating Community in the Hybrid/Bimodal Classroom.” I watched another presentation by Hammond last year and enjoyed the emphasis on relationship-rich education regardless of modality. Using […]
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The NC State SoTL Institute

I spent the day in the office for a change. I had so much fun interacting with people and finding things in the lab. While I was in several Zoom meetings, I was still in the office and able to see students and our team during breaks. I can’t wait to work with Delftia and […]
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A Randomized Controlled Trial of the Adaptive Equity-Oriented Pedagogy

Andrew Estrada Phuong from the University of California, Berkeley was a speaker at the Lilly Conference Online 2021 and presented on the “Adaptive Equity-Oriented Pedagogy: A Framework for Increasing Student Engagement and Success in Your Classrooms.”Estrada Phuong used the Adaptive Equity-Oriented Pedagogy (AEO) to evaluate teaching strategies and challenges. I had not heard about AEO […]
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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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Rethinking Education

Day 4 of the Lilly Conference was Wednesday, May 26th. I am watching the recordings a couple of weeks after the live session. I do like the format with four Wednesday sessions. Todd Zakrajsek from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and ITLC started each week with “Game Changing Teaching Tips” and this last […]
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