Writing

Partnerships to Encourage Applications

I attended the final (masters) presentation for one of the first summer undergraduate researchers I worked with today! I am very proud of them and all they have done while working full time. Tonight, we watched the ALT 2021 session entitled “Working and writing in the presence of a peer in an online space: facilitating […]

August 16, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Case Studies, Constructivism, Course Design, Discussions, Instructor Behaviors, Lilly Conference, Online Learning, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Wellbeing, Why

Take-aways From Teaching Research and Writing Asynchronously

Scott Mehall and Jeremy Jeffery from Bloomsburg University presented at the Lilly Conference online 2021 about “Teaching Research to Future Business Educators Online.” The program they teach in is business education: M.Ed in Business Education. There are three tracks in the program, and the BUSED 521 course on Business Research has the goals of applying […]

July 25, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Community of Practice, Discussions, Instructor Behaviors, Learning Communities, Lilly Conference, Online Learning, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Teaching techniques, Wellbeing, Why

Virtual Writing Communities

Laura Cruz from The Pennsylvania State University, Ted Murcray from California Baptist University, and Marina Smitherman from Dalton State College presented at the Lilly Conference Online 2021 a recorded session entitled “Writing about Teaching (Together): Implementing Virtual Writing Communities under COVID-19.” I have now watched several sessions by Cruz and enjoyed all they do for […]

July 12, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Constructivism, Information Literacy, Lilly Conference, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Wellbeing

Brainstorming and The Thesis Table

Arna Shines from Tougaloo College recorded a session for the 2021 Lilly Conference online entitled: “The Thesis Is In the Table” that intrigued me. Shines teaches first-year students and “has the privilege of teaching the essay” and wanted to focus on the thesis. Shines believes “the thesis must be one sentence, the last sentence of […]

July 8, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Articles, Constructivism, Information Literacy, Instructor Behaviors, Lilly Conference, Metacognition, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Teaching techniques, Why

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 […]

June 10, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, annotation, Constructivism, Delftia, Guest Speakers, Information Literacy, Lilly Conference, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Publishing, Reflections, Softwares, Teaching techniques, Undergraduate Research, Website, Why

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 […]

May 5, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Guest Speakers, Online Learning, Open Pedagogy, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Reflections, Student groups, Website, Why

Laura Gibbs: “The Queen of Asynchrony”

Dr. Laura Gibbs was the keynote speaker for OERxDomains21 Day 1. Gibbs displayed a series of slides of student blogs and randomized (the 200+ slides) and began telling a story! Gibbs also talked about students telling stories with GoogleSites and mashups. Students tell stories outside of the learning management system (LMS)! Gibbs talked about “how […]

April 6, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
Academic Development, Constructivism, Diversity, Instructor Behaviors, Metacognition, Pedagogy, Presentations & Talks, Why

Labor-based Contract Grading for Equity

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 […]

January 29, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
annotation, Delftia, Information Literacy, Lilly Conference, Online Learning, Reflections, Undergraduate Research

Keeping Track of References and Synthesizing Notes with Software

Jimmy Fleming from PowerNotes presented at the 2020 Lilly Conference about the use of this software for writing support. I had not heard about PowerNotes before, and use Hypothes.is in several courses for article annotation. PowerNotes is different: users can highlight text, tag/classify it, and summarize it in a PowerNotes project. It also records references […]

January 1, 2021
By Carlos C. Goller
DBER and SoTL, Lilly Conference, Pedagogy, Publishing, Reflections

SoTL and DBER Research Dissemination

This being I listened to Emily Faulconer’s asynchronous workshop about Getting Published. Faulconer is from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University and gave a fun and motivational presentation on the writing and submission process. I was intrigued by the information presented about title choices and downloads and citations. While titles with semicolons may have more downloads, apparently […]

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