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Tag Archives: SoTL
Faculty Retreat
Twenty-five faculty from multiple PSU campuses attended a faculty retreat at Wyndridge Farm on September 6, 2019. Funds from The Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence, Teaching & Learning with Technology, and Penn State York contributed to the very successful day. … Continue reading
SAMR Model – Extending Technology Integration & a Caveat
I heard about the SAMR Model of technology integration at a recent meeting, and since that time, I’ve been looking into the work of Dr. Ruben R. Puentedura, the creator of SAMR. There are some really good aspects to the … Continue reading
PADE Conference
The 40th annual PA Developmental Educators Conference (PADE) was held on April 1-2 at the Radisson Hotel in Camp Hill, PA. PADE’s members are “committed to the principle of equal educational opportunity for all persons who have the potential and … Continue reading
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One Thing Leads to Another: Mindfulness Interest Continues
Attended the PA Developmental Educators conference in June with Joan Smeltzer and Cora Dzubak and had the great good fortune to speak with Deb Daiek, the current president of the national organization, NADE, about mindfulness as a holistic approach to … Continue reading
Resilience and Math Project
Penn State York Math Lecturer Joan Smeltzer and I are working on a project with her students in Math 21, College Algebra, looking at the impact of direct instruction of resilience strategies on math scores. Read more about the project … Continue reading
Advanced Course in College Teaching
Faculty from Penn State York joined me and facilitators from the Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence, Drs. Chas Brua and Mary Ann Tobin, for a multi-session action research sequence of workshops in Spring 2017. Faculty identified pedagogical issues in their … Continue reading
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ELLI Senior Benchmark Project gets Underway!
We’ve been using the Effective Lifelong Learning Inventory (ELLI) with students for many campus learning projects since 2013, and we’ve gotten some interesting and useful insights as a result. The most current (and perhaps final) project in the series is … Continue reading
Planned ELLI Senior Benchmarking Project + Resilience
ELLI, the Effective Lifelong Learning Inventory, is a measure of students’ lifelong learning attributes: resilience, changing & learning, creativity, strategic awareness, learning relationships, critical curiosity, and meaning making. I’ve been working on this campus project with my students and other … Continue reading
Mindful Awareness for Educators and Designers
Had the chance recently to do a session with my fellow instructional designers to share some of the mindfulness and social-emotional learning practices from UC Berkeley. It was wonderful doing the practices together with people and getting the chance to … Continue reading
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Finishing up a Year of Mindfulness with Faculty
Below is a posting I wrote for a weekly writing site called Slice of Life I am posting it here, too, as it is a nice wrap-up to the year’s activities with mindfulness. From my Slice of Life reflections Starting … Continue reading
Branching Surveys in Qualtrics
This was easier to do than figuring out quotas, you just create blocks of questions (Add Block option at the end of each existing block) – Intro questions, condition 1, condition 2, etc, and after branch questions. Go to Survey … Continue reading
Wrapping up SoTL Projects for a Bit…
Canvas is coming as our new course management system which means I will be busy for the next year or so helping to get people’s ANGEL content migrated and converted and then the faculty trained on how to use Canvas … Continue reading
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Transformational Conversations to Resume 2/3/16
The Transformational Conversations series that began in the fall will resume on 2/3 with a really interesting line-up of events and experiences for faculty! A detailed explanation of the group’s raison d’etre can be summarized by a quote from Parker … Continue reading
Lifelong Learning (ELLI) Project Updates
This fall, I had multiple lifelong learning projects underway on campus: Benchmarking – 189 first-year students in Math 021, ENGL 15, PSU 008, and LL ED 005 took ELLI (Effective Lifelong Learning Inventory) in August to provide benchmark data for … Continue reading
Fall Projects Update
The semester got off to a bang with several major projects underway!!! Thanks to the many faculty partners who made all of these projects possible! Please let me know if I inadvertently left your name out – Apologies and I … Continue reading
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Incorporating SEL and Lifelong Learning in the Reading Course
I’ve incorporated lifelong learning practices for 3 years into my college reading course and each time, we’ve seen statistically significant changes in lifelong learning dimensions (ELLI) for our students (Shaffer, Eshbach, & Santiago-Blay, 2015) – now after attending the social-emotional … Continue reading
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Grantseeking from A-Z
I was lucky enough to be able to attend a 4-day Grantseeking from A-Z workshop at PSU Harrisburg May 11-14th which included 2 excellent days of overviews from PSH faculty and staff from the Office of Research & Outreach followed … Continue reading
Getting Ready: Social & Emotional Learning (SEL) at Berkeley
Just gathering some background before going to the Greater Good Science Center’s Summer Institute on Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) for Educators June 26-July 1, 2015. Feeling lucky!
Flipping Update
Amber Seidel (assistant professor of human development and family studies at Penn State York) and Joe Seidel (part-time instructor of physics and engineering at Penn State Harrisburg and Elizabethtown College) completed the flipped classroom cohort on our campus last summer. … Continue reading
Possible New IR Project: Stats Guidebook for SoTL Projects
As I work to finish up the Institutional Research Certificate, I’m trying to think of a valuable project that I could complete as an independent study. This is the project I’m asking to do: Develop a faculty guidebook with common … Continue reading
Fast Friends Project
This semester, I’ve been working with several faculty members in a small project to understand how well our students (at a commuter campus) are adjusting to life in college. Dr. Isaac Catt (CAS 100), Sheri Yoder (ESL 15), Ann Fetterman … Continue reading
Doing Mixed-Methods Research? Try Dedoose
Dedoose is for mixed-methods researchers (qual and quant) – recommended by my prof in HiED 830 Designing IR Studies – Check out the intro video – it looks quite powerful! http://www.dedoose.com/resources?TabNum=2#
Infographic of Current Projects
I can’t say I would recommend this infographic tool by venngage – in order to actually get your graphic, you have to purchase a premium account for 9.95 as an auto-recurring payment…. ooooh no! I’ll keep looking – stay tuned… … Continue reading
Classroom Observations Germinate New Ideas!
Last week, I had the opportunity to observe two faculty members who were kind enough to invite me into their classes to look at some new approaches they were trying out and to give them informal feedback: Dr. Fulgentius Lugemwa … Continue reading
ELLI Updates
A big shout out to Vicky, Keira, and Zoe from the UK at VitalPartnerships!! I’ve been talking with faculty at Cornell, Cal State Fullerton, and other institutions in the US about how we used ELLI last year and it has … Continue reading
