self-care

3D Care

“The Trifecta of Three Dimensional Care” was the title of the session by Carrol Warren, Michelle Bartlett, and Angie Smith from NC State University. The focus was on self-care for online education to better support students. The objectives were to determine the importance of self-care, identify strategies to care for colleagues and to develop a […]
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Emotions and Self-Care

Yesterday I also watched the last Lilly Online Conference recording from the Universal Design and & Design Equity section by Deanna House from the University of Nebraska Omaha. House used essay questions for a computer informations and systems management course and took full advantage of the video integration. Using the Canvas LMS and video capture, […]
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Open Textbooks and Care

Melissa Jakubec and John Belshaw presented on “The Case of the Accidental Open Textbook” as part of day 2 of the OERxDomains21 conference. I was intrigued by the title yesterday. How can I make an accidental open textbook? Belshaw teaches indigenous history and talked about the balance of a “settler” teaching indigenous histories and not […]
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Taking Care of Ourselves and Listening to Student Voices

As part of Domains21, Lee Skallerup Bessette and Susannah McGowan presented on Taking Care and affective or emotional labor. Skallerup Bessette described the history of the term “emotional labor” and explained how even in academia there is a need to manage emotions. McGowan talked about how they looked into emotional labor as part of faculty […]
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Building Communities with Kindness

I had a fun day reconnecting with former students who have now become colleagues and collaborators. How cool! Their energy, willingness to teach me new things about technical writing and videos, and kindness have always been evident despite communicating only every couple of months. Kindness! That’s why when I saw Dr. Mica Estrada’s SABER talk […]
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Burnout, Compassion, and Self Care

This evening I watched another 2020 Lilly Conference session by Dr. Susan Egbert and Sean Camp from Utah State University. Again, the duo was engaging and presents so well together. The session was entitled: “Caring for Self While Serving Students: Trauma Stewardship for Educators” and had very useful information, beautiful slides, and an important message. […]
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Self-care Tips

Drs. Angela Smith and Kim Allen from North Carolina State University presented at the 2020 Lilly Conference on tips for self-care during the pandemic. They presented some of the challenges which distance students face including increased depression, anxiety, lack of attention due to prolonged screen time, hard to concentrate on learning, loneliness, lack of interaction […]
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