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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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The EmTechMOOC

Tonight we (Amada and I) watched a Lilly 2021 session entitled “SUNY Exploring Emerging Technologies for Lifelong Learning and Success (#EmTechMOOC)” by Roberta (Robin) Sullivan from the University at Buffalo. Sullivan is an instructional strategist, and their colleague Cherie van Putten at Binghamton University is an instructional designer. Their goal was to inform all learners […]
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Replicate, Learn, and Publish Openly

This weekend I worked with an undergraduate student on a research proposal for undergraduate funding in the fall. I also talked to a colleague on Friday about the difficulties of publishing undergraduate (mostly summer) research and continuation with different students. Replication and continuation are always a challenge. That’s why I thought tonight’s Lilly Conference online […]
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Remote Learning Engagement Techniques

Tonight I watched a 2021 Lilly Conference online asynchronous session entitled “Engaging STEM Students in the Remote Learning Classroom” by our own Miriam Ferzli from NC State. Ferzli is a Professor of Teaching in my home department, Biological Sciences, and teaches a number of large introductory biology and research methods courses. Ferzli has a lot […]
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Creating Videos for Teaching

Today we had our first IPERT webinar. The topic was vaccine hesitancy and the BIT postdoctoral scholar team did a fantastic job. I was thinking about how useful it was to record the session for those who were unable to attend. This evening, I decided to watch a Lilly Conference 2021 session entitled “Why and […]
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ARS?! Time to poll the class!

A 2021 Lilly Conference online presentation entitled “The Benefits of Using an Audience Response System in Class” caught my attention tonight. Frank Spors from the Western University of Health Sciences spoke about the optometry program there. At Western U, they have a four-year doctoral optometry program with class size between 75-90 and lectures for all […]
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Beyond the Text… and Instructor/Student Resources!

Tonight, I watched a 2021 Lilly Conference Online asynchronous session by Dr. Silvia Bartolic from the University of British Columbia. The session was entitled “Promoting Digital and Visual Literacy Through Multimodal Projects” and began with the numerous reasons why instructors should use multimodal assessments. The challenge, as mentioned by Bartolic, is how to design multimodal […]
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Educational Technology for Digital Organization and Scholarship

I have been intrigued by note-taking in the classroom for almost a decade now. My first proposal for an educational study when I came to NC State was using Livescribe pens to capture student concept maps and share them to evaluate and compare to other digital tools such as Lucidchart. We have been using electronic […]
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Open and Closed!

I still can’t figure out Twitter… I have two accounts and end up using the @delftia one instead of my personal one. Chris Aldrich talked about “A Twitter of Our Own” as OERxDomains21 Day 2. Aldrich started by talking about why be on Twitter if there are “healthier” alternatives? I don’t use Twitter much because […]
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Intentional Open Learning Design

I have been using the word “intentional” a lot. I think I know what I mean when I use it. When I saw the title of an OERxDomains21 session entitled “Intentional Open Learning Design in Action” I was intrigued! Verena Roberts and Helen DeWaard presented and began with a statement honoring and celebrating those who […]
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