Lilly Conference

Peer Feedback using Kritik

We have been talking about peer review for a while now. I use several assignments that have a peer review step. It is good practice for students to learn how to review the work of others and provide constructive feedback. Delivery of honest and useful feedback is a skills. I have used software to automatically […]
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Technology to Amplify Voices and Create Community

We just finished a fun 3-day HITS workshop! It is tough doing it virtually yet breakout rooms and engaged participants helped! Our challenge was having interdisciplinary groups of educators and researchers form and plan the design and implementation of a case study. Building community is critical, and helping participants form groups and define topics and […]
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Student Perspectives

Christine Harrington from New Jersey City University presented at the Lilly Conference 2021 on “Keeping Us Engaged: Student Stories (and Evidence) on What Works!” Today I heard several moving student stories as part of a webinar with Jesse Stommel. This webinar started with a talk by Stommel about designing courses and education with care in […]
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Bias, Implicit Bias, and Teaching

​​Spencer Benson from the University of Maryland, College Park spoke at the 2021 Lilly Conference online in May about checking our implicit and unconscious biases. The talk is entitled “Fostering Inclusive Learning Spaces: Managing Inclusive Teaching and Implicit Bias” and presented using Adobe Spark! I thought that was really neat and haven’t seen anyone do […]
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Preparing for the Next Pivot

Drs. Marnie Vanden Noven, Michael Hudson & Mary Clark from Belmont University talked about the struggle students are facing and the difficulties of coming back to campus in the fall as part of the Lilly 2021 conference. I know this topic has been on my mind as I worry about teaching in the fall. Their […]
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Grading Systems, Technology, and Equity

Todd Zakrajsek from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and ITLC presented on May 19th on “Game Changing Teaching Tips: Best Free Ed Tech Tools to Engage Students” as part of the Lilly Conference online 2021. Zakrajsek gave the audience a task and put them in break out rooms with access to a Padlet. […]
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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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Changing Your Thinking with Online Discussions

Online discussion forums can be engaging and fun! I never thought I would say that… at least before last year! I had taught a bioethics course for several years and once in a while we would use a discussion board. It was quite dull. Then, with the pandemic and redesigning courses… and lots of help […]
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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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We all have a contribution to make!

Stephen Brookfield spoke at the 2021 Lilly Conference Online on “Becoming a White Antiracist.” I was excited to see Brookfield’s name as a plenary speaker; I also realized he just published a book and put the presentation slides on an open access homepage. Brookfield talked about how everything on his page is open access with […]
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