Service Learning

Swabs and Microbes in the Second Grade Classroom

The JMBE Live session I watched tonight was entitled “Microscopic Communities: Interdisciplinary Exploration of Microbes in the Classroom” and presented by Dr. Jennifer Surtees and Dr. Sandra K. Small from the University of Buffalo. They are both part of the Genome, Environment and Microbiome (GEM) program that aims to integrate research, education, and engagement. GEM […]
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E-Service-Learning

Samiksha Raut and Sara Adkins-Jablonsky presented at JMBE Live, and I watched the recording tonight. The title of the session is “Impacts of a COVID-19 E-Service-Learning Module in a Non-Major Biology Course.” Raut is an Associate Professor at The University of Alabama at Birmingham and Adkins-Jablonsky is now a student is osteopathic medicine. Raut acknowledged […]
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Engagement and Barriers to Access to HIPs

Tonight I checked out several ASMCUE 2022 posters and came across the recording for the poster entitled “Are high-impact practices accessible for all? Exploring the factors impacting engagement in beneficial educational experiences for undergraduate STEM students with disabilities.” The presenter was Emma Goodwin from Sara Brownell’s group at Arizona State University. Goodwin spoke about increasing […]
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Microbial Ecology and Characterization

Tonight I watched “Digging in the Dirt: A Novel CURE in the Race Against Antibiotic Resistance” by Kathleen Boyle, Abigail Multerer, and Marion Toscano from Mount Mary University in Milwaukee, WI. Mount Mary is a Catholic women’s liberal arts university established in 1913. It is designated as an HSI: Hispanic-serving Institution. In 2021 they were […]
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Helping Everyone Dress for Success

Tonight I watched the Lilly Conference Online 2022 session “Dressing for Success: Implementing a Professional Clothes Closet to Reduce Barriers to Student Achievement in a Professional Environment” by Sarah Marie Berry (Winthrop University), Tammy Burnham (Winthrop University), and Mary Slade (Towson University). Their objectives for this recorded twenty-minute session were to discuss common barriers to […]
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PIVOT and Community Based Learning

“Tips for Developing and Maintaining CBL Partnerships in a Virtual Environment” was the session I watched by Jodie Parys from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. CBL is community-based learning, and the goals for this session were to learn strategies to modify face-to-face CBL partnerships into virtual and hybrid offerings and consider the needs of stakeholders. Parys […]
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Interprofessional Education

Day 2 of HITS 2022 is over! We had a lot of fun and have some exciting ideas! Tonight, I watched the Lilly Conference session entitled “Breaking the Silos: Integrating Simulated Learning Activities in Interprofessional Education” presented by Melissa Miner, Pamela Pologruto, Valerie Vanderhoff, and Jo Ann Jankoski, from Penn State University, Fayette – The […]
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Critical Digital Pedagogy and Open Sharing with a Project about Lynching

Tonight we continued with Open Ed 2021 sessions and watched the twenty-minute recorded session entitled “Teaching Hard Histories for Racial Healing: The Lynching in Virginia Curriculum Project.” A multi-disciplinary team from James Madison University presented their work: Mary Beth Concienne, Ashley Jaffee, Alia Stone, Gianluca De Fazio, Kristen Mlodynia, Nicole Wilson, Liz Thompson, and Elaine […]
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Open and the Common Good

Tonight we watched another Open Ed 2021 keynote by Dr. Kathleen Fitzpatrick, Director of Digital Humanities and Professor of English at Michigan State University and author of a new book entitled “Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University.” The session was entitled “Open Education: Infrastructure for Common Good.” Fitzpatrick started by talking about […]
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Transdisciplinary Education during the Pandemic

We are almost finished with the Elon Teaching and Learning 2021 Conference recordings! The sessions have been great and address a variety of issues and emerging trends. Tonight, we watched a session entitled “Maintaining Transdisciplinary Training in Developmental Screening in the Time of COVID-19” presented by Katrina Fulcher-Rood, Associate Professor in the Speech-Language Pathology Department, […]
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