Lilly Conference

Tips for Creating Inclusive Online Environments

Drs. Carrol Warner and Michelle Bartlett from North Carolina State University presented a recorded session about “Creating and Maintaining an Inclusive Online Learning Environment” for the 2020 Lilly Conference. The two presenters have extensive experience and showed several tools and approaches. I appreciate hearing their rationale for certain activities. They mentioned five areas for creating […]
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Low-Bandwidth Considerations

Dr. Michelle Bartlett from North Carolina State University shared several considerations for online course design for teaching and learning for students with low-bandwidth access at the 2020 Lilly Conference. Bartlett has extensive experience teaching online. Do students in the courses we teach have internet access or device limitations? Bartlett started the presentation by reminding us […]
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Padlet and Flipgrid Uses in Different Disciplines

Drs. Maria Ortiz and Annette Redmon from the University of Cincinnati presented how they use Padlet and Flipgrid in their courses. Their 2020 recorded Lilly Conference session provided near examples of uses in different disciplines. Redmon uses Vengage and Padlet to have students create and share infographics. The free version of Vengage allows users to […]
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Nearpod and Clickers

Laura Cruz, Daniel Mallinson, and colleagues from Pennsylvania State University presented a session at the 2020 Lilly Conference on their analysis of the use of Nearpod engagement tool. Cruz, an instructional designer and educational researcher, briefly summarized educational research on student response systems and engagement. Cruz asked: “do clickers work?” adding that it depends on […]
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Student Engagement on Virtual Boards

Martha Brown and Dr. Kim Bush from North Carolina State University recorded a session for the 2020 Lilly Conference Online. I watched it tonight and learned a different way of using Padlet.com in courses, valuing student privacy and anxiety concerns, and engagement research. Bush began by defining student motivation by quoting Barkley 2010 as “student […]
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Mobile Devices and Fluid Learning

Christina Moore from Oakland University is a faculty instructional designer and engaging presenter. Moore recorded a session for the 2020 Lilly Conference entitled: “Now Is the Time to Embrace Mobile Learning” and writing a June 2020 article for EduCause on the topic. I loved the slide design and interactivity of the session: slides were simple […]
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Keeping Track of References and Synthesizing Notes with Software

Jimmy Fleming from PowerNotes presented at the 2020 Lilly Conference about the use of this software for writing support. I had not heard about PowerNotes before, and use Hypothes.is in several courses for article annotation. PowerNotes is different: users can highlight text, tag/classify it, and summarize it in a PowerNotes project. It also records references […]
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Detailed Peer Evaluations in Team-based Learning

Dr. Marie Allsopp from Purdue University presented at the 2020 Lilly Conference online a recorded session that explained team-based learning (TBL) and peer evaluation in TBL. I’ve heard several presentations about TBL and yet still don’t have a good grasp of the logistics. The video Dr. Allsopp prayed from UT Austin described team selection and […]
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