Metacognition

Student Perceptions of Feedback on Writing in a Spanish Course

It was an interesting day! I had some technical issues… several fun meetings, and lots of coursework. Tonight, I watched another recorded session from the June 2021 Elon Teaching and Learning Conference. The session entitled “Students’ Perceptions of Effective Feedback” was presented by Pablo Celis-Castillo, Assistant Professor of Spanish, Elon University. Celis-Castillo mentioned that this […]
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Suggestions and Considerations for Relationship-Rich Teaching

Tonight I watched a session from the Elon Teaching and Learning Conference entitled “Teaching Re-Imagined: Reigniting Passion for Teaching and Learning by Implementing Relationship Based Teaching” presented by Ashley St. Martin, Course Instructor, Western Governors University and Muhsin Michael Orsini, Evaluation Scientist, Independent Consultant. They presented together and discussed the relationship based education research by […]
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Moving Forward and Humanizing Teaching

Tonight Amada and I watched another session from the Teaching and Learning Conference entitled “A Return to Humanity in Teaching” by Stephanie M. Foote, Associate Vice President, Teaching, Learning, and Evidence-Based Practices, John N. Gardner Institute for Excellence in Undergraduate Education and Stony Brook University. I have watched sessions by Foote at the Lilly Conference […]
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Community and Power-Sharing in Online Courses

This long weekend was full of gardening and playing outside… and cleaning! It was a lot of fun, though I am now exhausted. Tonight, we watched another session from the Elon Teaching and Learning Conference. The session was entitled “Continued connections: using community-and technology-rich education post-pandemic” with several presenters from Elon: Patti Burns, Senior Lecturer […]
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Distractions from Elon T&L Conference

After finishing the Lilly Online Conference recorded sessions from May 2021, I went back to the Elon Teaching and Learning Conference. The plenary of the conference was Dr. James Lang who I admire and follow. I missed the keynote and several other sessions of the Elon conference so I wanted to watch as many as […]
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Mindful UNCW

I did not feel well today. I did an only synchronous Zoom class and several meetings, and at the end of the day… crashed. I had to close my eyes for a while. Now I pulled up the Lilly Online Conference 2021 talk entitled “Mindful UNCW: A Campus-Wide Initiative Promoting the Practice of Mindfulness” by […]
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Emotions and Self-Care

Yesterday I also watched the last Lilly Online Conference recording from the Universal Design and & Design Equity section by Deanna House from the University of Nebraska Omaha. House used essay questions for a computer informations and systems management course and took full advantage of the video integration. Using the Canvas LMS and video capture, […]
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Return to Humanity in Teaching and UDL

I am starting the section of recorded sessions about Universal Design and Design Equity from the 2021 Lilly Conference Online. The first session is by Stephanie Foote from the John N. Gardner Institute for Excellence in Undergraduate Education. I have been able to watch Foote present on similar topics at previous Lilly Conferences. This session […]
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Connections, Concepts, Concrete Practice, and Conclusions from Experienced Educators

We spent the day at the beach! The weather was great, the kids were wild, and we did not lose any items! Success. I even did an RLOE talk from the minivan with a sleeping Aurelio! Yay! He woke up in time to say hi to attendees. Tonight, Amada requested her nightly story. We watched […]
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Online Plagiarism Detection and Online Discussion Boards

We spent an awesome day at the beach. The kids had a lot of fun… and so did the adults. Tonight, watched the first 2021 Lilly Conference online asynchronous session in the Teaching Online category. Ed Gehringer from North Carolina State University presented on “Online Exam Integrity: Alternatives to Remote Proctoring.” I had not heard […]
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