Presentations & Talks

Tips for Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) and Edutainment Podcasts

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 […]
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A Case Study for Multiple Courses

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 […]
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Take Students on Thinklink Tours?

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 […]
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Student-generated Questions and Online Discussions

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 […]
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Instructor Strategies for Engagement

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 […]
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Self-determination and Activity Choices

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 […]
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Videos and Surveys for Professional Development

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 […]
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Supporting Engaged Teacher Scholars

As part of the 2021 Lilly Conference online asynchronous sessions, Dayna Henry from James Madison University presented on “A Case Study of SoTL Leaders as Catalysts Toward Institutionalizing SoTL Cultural Change.” Along with Ashley Taylor Jaffee, they described SoTL as: “evidence-based, teaching and learning scholarly activities which include systematic inquiry into what works and does […]
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Collaborative Research and Reciprocal Altruism

Tonight, Amada and I watched Sayonita Ghosh Hajra from California State University, Sacramento and Abeer Hasan from Humboldt State University  present a recorded Lilly Conference online 2021 presentation entitled “Managing REU in between Two Institutions During a Pandemic.” This summer we have been hosting a virtual REU. It has been busy and really cool. I want […]
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Virtual Writing Communities

Laura Cruz from The Pennsylvania State University, Ted Murcray from California Baptist University, and Marina Smitherman from Dalton State College presented at the Lilly Conference Online 2021 a recorded session entitled “Writing about Teaching (Together): Implementing Virtual Writing Communities under COVID-19.” I have now watched several sessions by Cruz and enjoyed all they do for […]
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