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A Creative Assignment to Increase Climate Change Literacy

Dr. Megan Lupek, Director of the Environmental First Year Program at NC State University, gave a recorded presentation for the 2020 Lilly Conference online about a project I had heard about, but hadn’t learned about the details! Dr. Lupek collaborated with a friend and colleague Dr. Zakiya Leggett to create an assignment to engage students […]
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Carlos… speaks… slowly?

I finally did it. I watched our recorded presentation for the 2020 Lily Conference today. I recorded it in November in a single Zoom session with Deb and didn’t look back. I’ve been watching one or two recorded sessions each night and admiring the beautiful slides and thoughtful interactions presenters incorporated. I wondered: how long […]
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Active Teaching for Today’s Students

It has been an interesting week! Classes started, and I have enjoyed the energy that students bring. I observed a Zoom synchronous session, launched our online yeast course, participated in a virtual workshop, and attended a faculty and instructional design virtual break. At the same time, I’m working on scheduling and planning our summer programs […]
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Templates for Community of Inquiry in Real-Time Remote Learning

Drs. Carolyn Samuel, Angela Guadagno, and Mariela Tovar from the McGill University shared tips and templates for real-time remote learning at the 2020 Lilly Conference. The three work as educational developers at Teaching and Learning Services at McGill and developed strategies instructors could use to enhance engagement in Zoom sessions, including webinars. Their recording was […]
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Mind in the Gutter Today!

Today was the first day of classes. It is still surreal to start when teaching an online asynchronous course, and I am starting to enjoy the thought process of designing an engaging online introduction to the course. We tried several new things this semester on our Start Here module for the Yeast Metabolic Engineering course. […]
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Experiential Learning… Virtually

Dr. Laura Hunt Trull from James Madison University shared insights on teaching a grant writing course with significant experiential learning at the 2020 Lilly Conference. Hunt Trull began by introducing (for me, probably review for others familiar with experiential learning) National Society for Experiential Education (NSEE) Principles of Good Practice. There are eight principles: intention, […]
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Two Articles from the Pros to Prepare for the Spring Semester

Tomorrow we start our spring 2021 semester. I am fortunate to be able to teach an online version of the BIT 480/580 Yeast Metabolic Engineering course with my significant other, Claire Gordy. We have planned the course to be asynchronous to provide flexibility and options to students who could benefit from this alternative. Several undergraduates […]
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Text Sets for Courses… and Graduate Projects?

Drs. Greta Freeman and Brooke Hardin from USC Upstate presented at the 2020 Lilly Conference on Text Sets. Freeman and Hardin are both faculty in the School of Education with extensive experience as teachers and in literacy. I didn’t know about text sets, and as the name suggests, these are collections of texts on a […]
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Storytelling in the Classroom!

Dr. Corrie Whitmore, Professor of Health Sciences at the University of Alaska Anchorage presented at the 2020 Lilly Conference on the use of storytelling as a high impact educational practice. The welcoming native land acknowledgement was beautiful, honest, and thoughtful! Whitmore recommended two books supported by the Ford Foundation and available online: Stop Talking, Dialogues […]
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Annotating and Verbally Explaining Reading Assignments

Gregory Allar presented an asynchronous Lilly Conference session last year about annotating readings using Hypothes.is for deeper learning. Allar mentioned annotating creates “anchored context for conversation”. Allar went on to describe how they use Hypothes.is in several courses and a variety of assignments. Allar uses annotation for engagement and so that students interact with texts […]
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