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Design Thinking for Crucial Conversation Skills

I went to the office today after a couple of weeks away and being sick. I had so much fun the hour I got to clean up in the lab and talk to people! I also enjoyed working from the office with two screens. Tonight, I watched 30-minute sessions from the Elon Teaching and Learning […]
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The Impact of Ungrading and Learning About Learning

Today I felt better yet still feel weak and antibiotics are rough on the stomach. The kids had fun, and we did some gardening. Tonight’s Elon Teaching & Learning sessions were ones I watched live and want to revist. The first one was by Christopher Jones from Washburn University who tried ungrading in their course […]
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Book Study and Small Inclusive Teaching

The session I watched tonight from the summer Elon Teaching and Learning Conference was entitled “Exploring Course Content and Equity through Book Study.” Lisa Buchanan and Heidi Hollingsworth are professors in the School of Education. They presented with Josie Brothers and Liliana Kelson, Elon undergraduates. The session objectives focused on inviting participants to select books […]
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Gamification in a Pharmacology Course

Today was the second day of the DELTA Summer Shorts series, and Claire and I presented on Panopto. It was a lot of fun. I was able to watch two sessions, and now want to go back and review the recordings of the ones I missed. Tonight, we watched a session from the 2021 Lilly […]
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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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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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OER-enabled Pedagogy

Eric Werth and Katherine Williams from the University of Pikeville recorded a 2021 Lilly Conference online session entitled “Empowering Student Voice: Using Open Pedagogy to Motivate First-Year Students.” They are both in the Office of Professional Development. This topic is appropriate today because as part of the BIT SURE program, we discussed open pedagogy and […]
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Campus Clients and Networking

Dr. Melinda Adams from the University of the Incarnate Word recorded a session for the Lilly Conference online this past may entitled “Clients and Experiential Learning” that I watched tonight. Dr. Adams is a full professor and teaches a draping class for more than ten years. Over the years, Adams learned that students were not […]
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Two Different Flips

Jessica Peacock from Merrimack College and Kathryn Lewis from American International College presented on “Active Learning through the Flipped Classroom: Success, Failure, or Both” as part of the Lilly 2021 Conference online. The presenters defined flipped learning as students doing work prior to class in an individual space, focusing on understanding and remembering of the […]
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Public Science Writing

Tonight I watched a Lilly Conference online session from this past May entitled: “Who needs writing?”: Engaging STEM Majors in Public Science Writing” by Jennifer Osterhage and Katherine Rogers-Carpenter from the University of Kentucky. They described the writing course they developed and the biology program at the University of Kentucky, reaching 1,400 people. Their “Writing […]
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