Dr. Diane Chapman from North Carolina State University presented at the 2021 Lilly Conference online on “Customizing Classroom Assessment Techniques for Online Teaching and Learning.” Classroom assessment techniques (CATs), Chapman stated, are “in-class activities designed to give you and your students useful feedback on the teaching-learning process as it is happening.” They are simple and […]
Natalia Yevgenyevna Collings, Central Michigan University presented on “Effective feedback: Building a community of learners” as part of the Lilly Conference online 2021. Collings is in the Department of Teacher Education and Professional Development and mentioned teaching undergraduates and graduate students. Collings spoke about teaching for fifteen years and being very interested in feedback, mentioning […]
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 […]
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 […]
We have been talking about peer review for a while now. I use several assignments that have a peer review step. It is good practice for students to learn how to review the work of others and provide constructive feedback. Delivery of honest and useful feedback is a skills. I have used software to automatically […]
Todd Zakrajsek from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and ITLC presented on May 19th on “Game Changing Teaching Tips: Best Free Ed Tech Tools to Engage Students” as part of the Lilly Conference online 2021. Zakrajsek gave the audience a task and put them in break out rooms with access to a Padlet. […]
Today I attended a talk that was rescheduled after an unfortunate Zoom bombing incident… Asao B. Inoue discussed what labor-based grading contracts is. Inoue described labor-based grading contracts as: a set of social agreements with students in a course identifies how to determine the final course grade uses labor as the only measure for grades carefully articulated in a […]
Another Quality Matters (QM) webinar entitled “Improving Course Design Quality Through Online Graduate Student Evaluations” caught my attention. Drs. Amy M. Grincewicz and Cathy DuBois from Kent State University have years of experience in instructional design and online course programs. The goals of the session were to discuss quality assurances in an online degree program, […]
Today I was able to watch a couple more SABER presentations that I had missed. Dr. Colin Harrison from Georgia Tech and Dr. Kimberly Tanner from San Francisco State presented a session entitled “Language matters: Considering racial microaggressions in science” last October 8, 2020. Harrison was a postdoc with Tanner and began the presentation by […]
Drs. Ashley Whitehead and Mina Min from Appalachian State University presented at the 2020 Lilly Conference online on “Videocase Analysis For Preservice Teachers’ Growth As Culturally Responsive Teachers.” They introduced a video case analysis assignment for their preservice learning teachers course. The session goals focused on how to use video case analysis to support preservice […]