Today was the second day of the DELTA Summer Shorts series, and Claire and I presented on Panopto. It was a lot of fun. I was able to watch two sessions, and now want to go back and review the recordings of the ones I missed. Tonight, we watched a session from the 2021 Lilly […]
Today was the last session of a three-day HHMI workshop on campus. It was great to see friends in person! To end the day, Amada and I watched a Lilly Conference online 2021 session entitled “Marshmallow Structure Negotiation Class Activity” by Michael Conklin from Angelo State University. I was really curious about the title and […]
Dr. Marilyn Moore from National University in California serves as a chair of a student success program. Moore presented at the 2021 Lilly Conference online a recorded presentation entitled: “Supporting and Promoting Student Success in Higher Education.” Moore asked: “what do you want your students to achieve in social-emotional competencies? Moore uses a CASEL system […]
Today was day one of the HHMI Inclusive Excellence workshop at NC State. It was fun to see people and interact (not over Zoom). I just finished reading one of the two articles assigned as homework and paused to watch a 2021 Lilly Conference Online recorded session by Maung Min, Laura Cruz, Jennifer Parker, Kelsey […]
Margaret C. Hoffman, Amy Kuntz, and Nicholas Smerker from The Pennsylvania State University presented on”Planting Seeds of Innovation: Using Immersive Tech to Teach Design Principles in Landscape Contracting” as a recorded session in the 2021 Lilly Conference Online. Smerker introduced the differences between augmented reality, virtual reality, mixed reality, and 360 video using a rubber […]
The Lilly Conference online session we watched tonight was entitled “Using Student-Generated Critical Thinking Questions As Class Preparation Assignments” by Steven Bowen from Allen College. Bowen teaches occupational therapy in a graduate program and is an assistant professor. Again, engagement came up early in this presentation! Bowen acknowledged that “student engagement in reading and classroom […]
I have been watching presentations, listening to podcasts, reading, and discussing with others and inevitable the word “engagement” enters the conversation or is on a slide. We all seem to be looking for ways to engage learners and kindle intrinsic motivation. Tonight Amada and I watched a recorded 2021 Lilly Conference online session entitled “Instructional […]
Vanessa Hull from the University of Florida presented at the 2021 Lilly Conference online on “Choose Your Own Adventure: A Choice-Making Model for Student Learning.” After describing their experience witnessing the recovery of a Chinese community after an earthquake in 2008, Hull revisited how they teach. Hull mentioned the “Centering a Pedagogy of Care” and […]
David Betancourt from Cerritos College gave a really engaging presentation at the Lilly Conference online in 2020. I was happy to see that Betancourt was the first speaker on the asynchronous list of recoded talks in the instructional strategies section. Betancourt provided an overview of the presentation in an energetic and conversational tone. He started […]
Gale Spear, Courtney Mlinar, and Jeff Johannigman from Austin Community College spoke about their teaching and learning academy in a Lilly 2021 recorded talk entitled “A Teaching and Learning Academy for Faculty by Faculty.” I did not know how large the Austin Community College system is with multiple campuses and thousands of students! The Teaching […]