Presentations & Talks

Blended is inseparable!

I am enjoying the Quality Matters (QM) webinars and information! The course design elements and helpful information is giving me many ideas for the BIT 295 course I am designing. Steven R. Crawford, Ed.D. presented a session earlier this month about the considerations for flipped and blended course design. Crawford had a wonderful slide with […]
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Mentors and What Really Matters

It was a fun and busy day. I really appreciate being able to reconnect with mentors and had a chance to talk to Dr. Barbi Honeycutt who taught me a lot while I was a teaching postdoctoral scholar here. I remember attending several workshops facilitated by Honeycutt, preparing a teaching philosophy, and even doing a […]
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“This is a time for self-reflection”

Last September, Dr. Bryan Dewsbury from the University of Rhode Island gave a talk entitled: “Lessons from a hot spring: Authentic transformation in the higher education classroom”as part of the SABER Diversity and Inclusion Efforts. I had watched this talk last year and wanted to revisit it because I remember how conversational, honest, and uplifting […]
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Scholar Activism and the Classroom

Tonight I watched the recording for the October 21, 2020 SABER Diversity and Inclusion series. Dr. Terrell Morton from the University of Missouri gave a talk entitled “But is it really “just” science? Engaging critical race theory to unpack racial oppression with implications for Black student science engagement. ” and describes himself as a male, black […]
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Building Communities with Kindness

I had a fun day reconnecting with former students who have now become colleagues and collaborators. How cool! Their energy, willingness to teach me new things about technical writing and videos, and kindness have always been evident despite communicating only every couple of months. Kindness! That’s why when I saw Dr. Mica Estrada’s SABER talk […]
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Diversifying the STEM Faculty

Tonight Amada and I watched a SABER spring 2021 talk entitled “Structural racism, institutional transformation, and diversifying the STEM faculty” by Dr. Kimberly Griffin from the University of Maryland. This presentation happened live on February 18th. Griffin started by talking about the small share of US college faculty that are nonwhite by presenting Pew Research […]
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How do students perceive their understanding of biology terms?

Dr. Lisa McDonnell is an Associate Teaching Professor at UC San Diego and was on the Online with LSE webinar series to discuss a recent publication about “Identifying Troublesome Jargon in Biology.” I like how Online with LSE is now having graduate students moderate the sessions! McDonnell began by highlighting how there is a lot […]
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Studying Faculty ‘Personas’

I watched the Online with LSE: “Using Personas as a Tool for Learner-Centered Professional Development” webinar tonight. Dr. Paula Lemons from the University of Georgia described their study with nineteen faculty from long-term learning communities at six institutions. These communities focused on evidence-based assessment practices. Lemons started this study in early 2014! The volunteer participants […]
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M-LoCUS?

I’ve been thinking about Dr. Jeff Maloy’s JMBE Live presentation a couple of weeks ago. I watched part of it live, then watched the recording a week ago, and returned to it today after sharing the link and talking about it this week. Maloy is teaching faculty at UCLA with extensive experience in education research. […]
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Videos for Online Courses

Steven Crawford, Director of the Maricopa Center for Learning and Innovation, presented earlier this month as part of the Quality Matters Research Online Conference. Crawford discussed uses of audio to provide information as announcements as well as feedback while being able to transmit some emotion. Interviews using audio can be done over the web or […]
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