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Saving Time with a References Manager

with Dana Wanzer

| June 30, 2022 | TwitterFacebookLinkedInEmail

Dana Wanzer on saving time with Zotero on episode 420 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Most of us do not need to be doing more at this time.

Most of us do not need to be doing more at this time.
-Dana Wanzer

It doesn’t have to be something that just helps you, it can also help others.
-Dana Wanzer

Resources

  • Zotero
  • Zotero Connector
  • Proxy server
  • RStudio
  • ZotFile
  • UC Irvine Anteaters
  • Apparently, Bonni was wrong in the episode and anteaters do indeed make the ZOT sound when attacking their prey
  • scite Zotero plugin
  • Mobile apps
  • Robert Talbert
  • Robert Talbert on Teaching in Higher Ed episodes
  • Learn Zotero course

Disrupting the Syllabus

with Julia Charles-Linen

| June 23, 2022 | TwitterFacebookLinkedInEmail

Julia Charles talks about disrupting the syllabus on episode 419 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

I view the syllabus as a tool for engagement.

Disrupting suggests that there is something that necessitates change over time.
-Julia Charles

I am disrupting an ideology, a way of thinking, about this document.
-Julia Charles

I view the syllabus as a tool for engagement.
-Julia Charles

When the syllabus is a document that you can be excited about, students become more creative in the class.
-Julia Charles

I’ve learned to ask for help and reach outside of myself.
-Julia Charles

Resources

  • That Middle World: Race, Performance, and the Politics of Passing – by Julia S. Charles
  • The Loving Luggage Project
  • Beloit College
  • What is it we are trying to disrupt?
  • Julia’s tweet with her syllabus
  • The Source Magazine
  • XXL Magazine
  • Help celebrate Julia’s 40th birthday by “getting 40 new suitcases for youth currently in or aging out of foster care – any amount helps”

The Self and Syllabus

with Christopher Richmann

| June 16, 2022 | TwitterFacebookLinkedInEmail

Christopher Richmann talks about the self and syllabus project on episode 418 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Not all knowledge can be assessed or expressed in the same way.

There is growing interest in the issue of the self that we bring into the classroom.
-Christopher Richmann

We are embedded selves and we bring ourselves and all of the artifacts that go along with our teaching into the classroom and into the task of teaching.
-Christopher Richmann

Am I coming across on my syllabus? Do students meet me in my syllabus?
-Christopher Richmann

Not all knowledge can be assessed or expressed in the same way.
-Christopher Richmann

Resources

  • The Self and Syllabus
  • Richmann, Christopher; Kurinec, Courtney; and Millsap, Matthew (2020) “Syllabus Language, Teaching Style, and Instructor Self-Perception: Toward Congruence,” International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Vol. 14: No. 2, Article 4.
  • Joshua Been, Assistant Librarian and Director of Data and Digital Scholarship
  • Grasha-Riechmann Teaching-Styles Inventory
  • Death to the Syllabus! Mano Singham
  • Dunning-Kruger effect
  • The Promising Syllabus, by James Lang for The Chronicle of Higher Education
  • Ken Bain
  • Jessamyn Neuhaus
  • Professors Talk Pedagogy Podcast

Liberated Learners

with Terry Greene

| June 9, 2022 | TwitterFacebookLinkedInEmail

Terry Greene talks about the liberated learners project on episode 417 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

You can learn with style.

You can learn with style.
-Terry Greene

If you can advocate for yourself and others, then you can collaborate, network, and build connections.
-Terry Greene

There are a lot of steps a person can take towards being someone who works well with others.
-Terry Greene

This is for learners, by learners. It is co-designed with students.
-Terry Greene

Working with others can be scary, but it is so rewarding in the end.
-Terry Greene

Resources

  • Liberated Learners: How to Learn with Style
  • Video: What The Heck is The Liberated Learner?
  • Liberated Learners: Acknowledgements
  • Terry’s blog post about the Liberated Learners Beats to Study to
  • H5P
  • Pressbooks
  • Liberated Learners: Take Out Menu
  •  Seneca College’s Independent Music Production
  •  Seneca College’s Independent Songwriting & Performance

How to Engage on Social Media

with VaNessa Thompson

| June 2, 2022 | TwitterFacebookLinkedInEmail

VaNessa Thompson shares how to engage on social media on episode 416 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Online spaces are not going away.

Online spaces are not going away.

-VaNessa Thompson

Resources Mentioned

  • Episode 312 with David White: Digital Visitors and Residents
  • VaNessa on TikTok
  • TikTok: Talking in TikTok language in real life
  • The Good and the Bad: 4 Students Share How Social Media Has Impacted Their Mental Health
  • TikTok: Wikipedia is a great place to start
  • CapCut
  • Notion

How to Say Goodbye

with Warren Doody

| May 26, 2022 | TwitterFacebookLinkedInEmail

How to Say Goodbye, with Warren Doody.

Quotes from the episode

Saying goodbye and letting go through some type of ritual is important.

Saying goodbye and letting go through some type of ritual is important.
-Warren Doody

Resources Mentioned

  • Warren Doody’s website
  • Sylvia Kane on Episode 241 on Inclusive Pedagogy
  • The Importance of Saying Goodbye to Your Students in Times of Uncertainty, Faculty Focus
  • Episode 301 with Andy Stenhouse: Positive work-life spillover
  • Angels in Disguise

Promoting Student Well-Being in Learning Environments

with Shaina Rowell

| May 19, 2022 | TwitterFacebookLinkedInEmail

Shaina Rowell on episode 414 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

We can all help to create an environment where students can flourish, where their well-being and learning is important.

We can all help to create an environment where students can flourish, where their well-being and learning is important.
-Shaina Rowell

Growth mindset helps students think about how to grow in a healthy and effective way.
-Shaina Rowell

Celebrating little successes are really important.
-Shaina Rowell

Resources Mentioned

  • Promoting Student Well-Being in Learning Environments
  • Social Connection
  • Compassion and Stress Reduction
  • Belonging and Growth Mindset
  • Gratitude and Purpose
  • Supporting Students in Distress
  • Sandra “Sandie” Morgan
  • How Humans Learn, by Josh Eyler

How Mattering Matters

with Heidi Weston & Peter Felten

| May 12, 2022 | TwitterFacebookLinkedInEmail

Heidi Weston and Peter Felten discuss how mattering matters on episode 413 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Mattering is not about if you fit in or not, it is about being valued.

Belonging is tied to a lot of things that we value and that students value.
-Peter Felten

Mattering is not about if you fit or not, it is about being valued.
-Peter Felten

Different students trust faculty differently than others.
-Peter Felten

Resources Mentioned

  • Asher, S. R., & Weeks, M. S. (2013). Loneliness and belongingness in the college years
  • Cole, D., Newman, C. B., & Hypolite, L. I. (2020). Sense of belonging and mattering among two cohorts of first-year students participating in a comprehensive college transition program
  • Cook-Sather, Alison; Allard, Samantha; Marcovici, Elena; and Reynolds, Bill (2021) Fostering Agentic Engagement: Working toward Empowerment and Equity through Pedagogical Partnership
  • Elliott, Gregory, Suzanne Kao, and Ann-Marie Grant. Mattering: Empirical validation of a social-psychological concept
  • Flett, G., Khan, A., & Su, C. (2019). Mattering and psychological well-being in college and university students: Review and recommendations for campus-based initiatives
  • Gravett, K., & Ajjawi, R. (2021). Belonging as situated practice. Studies in Higher Education
  • Meehan, C., & Howells, K. (2019). In search of the feeling of ‘belonging’in higher education: undergraduate students transition into higher education
  • Reeve, J. (2013). How students create motivationally supportive learning environments for themselves: The concept of agentic engagement
  • Reeve, J., & Shin, S. H. (2020). How teachers can support students’ agentic engagement
  • Reeve, J., & Tseng, C. M. (2011). Agency as a fourth aspect of students’ engagement during learning activities
  • Schlossberg, N. K. (1989). Marginality and mattering: Key issues in building community
  • Strayhorn, T.L. (2012). Exploring the Impact of Facebook and Myspace Use on First-Year Students' Sense of Belonging and Persistence Decisions
  • Erin Whitteck (taking improv classes)

Teaching and Learning with Refugees

with Céline Cantat, Ian M. Cook & Prem Kumar Rajaram

| May 5, 2022 | TwitterFacebookLinkedInEmail

Céline Cantat, Ian M. Cook, and Prem Kumar Rajaram discuss opening up the university: Teaching and Learning with Refugees on episode 412 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast

Quotes from the episode

Think about the ways in which language is used socially and politically as a means of exclusion and marginalization.

Think about the ways in which language is used socially and politically as a means of exclusion and marginalization.
-Prem Kumar Rajaram

Resources Mentioned

  • Opening Up the University: Teaching and Learning with Refugees
  • Central European University’s Open Learning Initiative (OLIve)

Copyright for the Rest of Us

with Thomas Tobin

| April 28, 2022 | TwitterFacebookLinkedInEmail

Thomas Tobin shares about copyright for the rest of us on episode 411 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

[As a layperson, I can tell you that] the law is the last resort. The law only applies when there is no other permission or license in place. -Thomas Tobin

Just because you are an academic and you made a copy doesn’t mean it is for an academic purpose.
-Thomas Tobin

We hear more about what you can’t do, rather than what you can [when making copies of materials].
-Thomas Tobin

[As a layperson, I can tell you that] the law is the last resort. The law only applies when there is no other permission or license in place.
-Thomas Tobin

Resources Mentioned

  • Evaluating Online Teaching: Implementing Best Practices (2015)
  • The Copyright Ninja (2017)
  • Reach Everyone, Teach Everyone: Universal Design for Learning in Higher Education (2018)
  • Going Alt-Ac: A Guide to Alternative Academic Careers (2020)
  • UDL for FET Practitioners: Guidance for Implementing Universal Design for Learning in Irish Further Education and Training (2021)
  • Plagiarism is Not a Crime, by Brian L. Frye
  • Brian L. Frye on Plagiarism Norms
  • MSCHF’s next project won’t wait for Mickey Mouse to enter the public domain | The Verge
  • Creative Commons
  • Cable Green
  • Freestyle Komics

Rethinking Critical Thinking

with Mays Imad

| April 21, 2022 | TwitterFacebookLinkedInEmail

Mays Imad shares how she (and others) is rethinking cricital thinking on episode 410 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Thinking has an affective component.

It was so important for me to make my own decisions and come to my own conclusions.
-Mays Imad

Thinking has an affective component.
-Mays Imad

Our rational thinking can be hijacked when we are under the influence of fear.
-Mays Imad

Resources Mentioned

  • What would Socrates think? by Mays Imad 
  • Intellectual Empathy: Critical Thinking for Social Justice by Maureen Linker
  • Rumi quote: “You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.”
  • Susannah McGowan
  • Sam Wineburg

We’re Not Ok

with Antija Allen & Justin Stewart

| April 14, 2022 | TwitterFacebookLinkedInEmail

Antija Allen and Justin Stewart talk about their book, We’re Not Ok: Black Faculty Experiences and Higher Education Strategies, on episode 409 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Your voice is important. Your individuality is important. Your presence is important.

Your voice is important. Your individuality is important. Your presence is important.
-Justin Stewart

We’re not ok but we’re not always comfortable telling people we’re not ok.
-Antija Allen

I don’t want my students to be shocked that I am black and that I am teaching them.
-Antija Allen

A lot of people don’t know what we are going through as black faculty because we are so resilient.
-Antija Allen

Resources Mentioned

We're Not Ok: Black Faculty Experiences and Higher Education Strategies, Editors: Antija M. Allen & Justin T. Stewart

Unraveling Faculty Burnout

with Rebecca Pope-Ruark

| April 7, 2022 | TwitterFacebookLinkedInEmail

Rebecca Pope-Ruark talks about her book, Unraveling Faculty Burnout, on episode 408 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Higher ed will take as much as you give it.

There is a lot of shame attached to a diagnosis of burnout.
-Rebecca Pope-Ruark

Burnout is not something we talk about in higher education.
-Rebecca Pope-Ruark

We all know someone who is burned out but we don’t necessarily know that they are because it is not talked about.
-Rebecca Pope-Ruark

There is a stigma of talking about burnout.
-Rebecca Pope-Ruark

Going through burnout doesn’t mean you are bad academic.
-Rebecca Pope-Ruark

Perfection is a comparison disease.
-Rebecca Pope-Ruark

We will never be perfect. There is no such thing as perfect.
-Rebecca Pope-Ruark

Higher ed will take as much as you give it.
-Rebecca Pope-Ruark

Resources

  • Unraveling Faculty Burnout: Pathways to Reckoning and Renewal, by Rebecca Pope-Ruark
  • Agile Faculty: Practical Strategies for Managing Research, Service, and Teaching, by Rebecca Pope-Ruark
  • Beating Pandemic Burnout, by Rebecca Pope-Ruark
  • World Health Organization’s definition of burnout
  • Episode 219 with Rebecca Pope-Ruark on Agile Faculty

Unpacking Resilience & Grief

with Chinasa Elue, Laura Howard & Este Jordan

| March 31, 2022 | TwitterFacebookLinkedInEmail

Chinasa Elue, Laura Howard, & Este Jordan on unpacking resilience and grief on episode 397 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

It is really easy to be mission focused; but if you’re not focused on the people driving your mission, you are going to fail.

People are grieving and hurting.
-Chinasa Elue

Resilience is an incongruent term to describe our lived experiences right now.
-Chinasa Elue

Language is power.
-Laura Howard

We have the opportunity now to really reimagine what higher education can look like if we center it on those that work with us and those that we serve.
-Chinasa Elue

Educational developers are caregivers.
-Este Jordan

The types of grief we experience depend on the different dimensions of our identity.
-Chinasa Elue

People want to know that they are seen, valued, and heard.
-Chinasa Elue

We have to become more comfortable with talking about grief in our workplaces.
-Chinasa Elue

It is really easy to be mission focused; but if you’re not focused on the people driving your mission, you are going to fail.
-Chinasa Elue

Resources

  • Unpacking Resilience & Grief Workbook
  • What Are We Talking About When We Talk About ‘Care’ by Dr. Hannah McGregor
  • Hannah McGregor’s website
  • Kinnesaw State University Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning

How to create flexibility for students and ourselves

with Kevin Kelly

| March 24, 2022 | TwitterFacebookLinkedInEmail

Kevin Kelly shares about how to create flexibility for students and ourselves on episode 406 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

The importance of the prompt is to make sure that students who are learning in different modalities can adopt the right strategies in order to be successful in reaching the outcomes.

People are used to using tags as a way to filter information.
-Kevin Kelly

Creating a checklist in advance creates a lower cognitive load for you as an instructor to remember all of these different tasks.
-Kevin Kelly

We can give prompts where students can be successful learners no matter what modality they are in.
-Kevin Kelly

The importance of the prompt is to make sure that students who are learning in different modalities can adopt the right strategies in order to be successful in reaching the outcomes.
-Kevin Kelly

Resources

  • How to turn a Zoom chat into a useful summary
  • AAEEBL Meetup: How can students generate evidence of their learning in a remote world?
  • Flexible Course Run of Show Template
  • Startup & shutdown checklists
  • CSU Flexible Course Delivery
  • EDUCAUSE: 7 Things You Should Know About Google Jockeying
  • Kitchen Confidential, by Anthony Bordain: Preparation, practice, planning
  • Chat jockeys (volunteer in-person students who monitor the Zoom chat while you lecture)
  • LaGuardia Community College Student Technology Mentor Program
  • Google Docs
  • Lewis Carroll
  • Maya Angelou quarter
  • Hypothesis
  • Classroom Salon
  • eMargin
  • tiny.cc

Open Education as a Way of Being

with Alan Levine

| March 17, 2022 | TwitterFacebookLinkedInEmail

Alan Levine and Bonni Stachowiak start a conversation about open education as a way of being on episode 405 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

For me, openness has always been an attitude and a way of being.

You have to find and develop your personality.
-Alan Levine

I like to model being imperfect.
-Alan Levine

For me, openness has always been an attitude and a way of being.
-Alan Levine

Resources Mentioned

  • Zencastr
  • Zoom
  • MIT – Open Courseware Initiative
  • How to explain open educational resources to students, in terms of the value of college? – Loïc Plé
  • Why does he do it and please never stop. – Terry Greene
  • “How do you guide people into the most appropriate level/literacy for the moment, and get them started? – Joe Murphy
  • What the SPLOT is that?
  • Jon Udell
  • Hamburger Menu on NetNarratives website
  • Alan Levine’s shower interface photos on Flickr
  • Remi Kalir
  • Annotated 13 Ways of Looking at a Sticky Note
  • Jeffrey W. McClurken
  • Mike Caulfield’s SIFT Check Starter Course
  • Bonni’s YouTube playlist: SIFT (Four Moves)
  • Episode 399: Satire from McSweeney’s
  • Julie Cadman-Kim replies to a question about if her fantastic article is available in audio form
  • CogDog’s Pinboard.in digital bookmarks
  • Gold Medal Ribbon ice cream
  • Alan’s treat for Bonni on Twitter posted at 2:08 pm on Feb 18, 2022
  • OEG Voices Podcast

Annotation is

with Remi Kalir

| March 10, 2022 | TwitterFacebookLinkedInEmail

Remi Kalir discusses his #Annotate22 project and the impact of annotation in the world on episode 404 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Annotation is all around us.

Annotation is all around us.
-Remi Kalir

Annotation is an everyday literacy practice and you are an annotator.
-Remi Kalir

Annotation provides information.
-Remi Kalir

This is an act of public pedagogy.
-Remi Kalir

Resources

  • Annotation, by Remi Kalir & Antero Garcia
  • Crowdsourcing Ungrading, by David Buck – produced by the #UNgrading Virtual Book Club
  • On Grading, Efficiency, and Contingency – Chapter by Mary Klann in Crowdsourcing Ungrading
  • Remi’s blog post: #Annotation is (#Annotate22 January)
  • Remi’s blog post: #Annotation on (#Annotate22 February)
  • Annotation is a grade with criticism. An instructor grading Jacques Derrida.
  • Annotation is a dedication, a date, a flower. “I give this June day to Ms. Gordon Bottomley the inside of this book. Michael Field June 5, 1908” MD was a pseudonym for authors Gathering Bradley & nice Edith Cooper
  • Annotation is a threat and criminal. Note by Jacob Chansley written at desk of Vice President Mike Pence in the U.S. Senate chamber on January 6, 2021
  • Annotation on the Woolworth’s lunch counter. February 1, 1960, Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, David Richmond & Jibreel Khazan – The Greensboro Four – began sit-in protests
  • The #marginalsyllabus
  • Debbie Reese
  • Analyzing Race and Gender Bias Amid All the News That’s Fit to Print, by Sandra Stevenson (about Alexandra Bell’s redactions to New York Times headlines)
  • The “Radical Edits” of Alexandra Bell, by Doreen St. Félix
  • PubPub platform
  • The Emancipation Proclamation: Annotated
  • The Declaration of Independence: Annotated

Demystifying Online Group Projects

with Rebecca Hogue

| March 3, 2022 | TwitterFacebookLinkedInEmail

Rebecca Hogue talks about Demystifying Online Group Projects on episode 403 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Assume good intentions.

Get rid of the competition and become a team player.
-Rebecca Hogue

Assume good intentions.
-Rebecca Hogue

Resources

  • Preparing Online Teams for Success, by Rebecca Hogue
  • Treehouse Village Ecohousing
  • Consolidated Recommendations on Teaching in Higher Ed
  • Demystifying Instructional Design
  • Miro
  • Trello
  • Google Docs
  • Google Slides
  • Camtasia
  • Microsoft Sway
  • Google Sites
  • Zoom

Playful Learning and Virtual Escape Rooms

with Rachelle O'BrienNicola Whitton

| February 24, 2022 | TwitterFacebookLinkedInEmail

Rachelle O’Brien and Nicola Whitton talk about playful learning and virtual escape rooms on episode 402 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Be open to putting yourself in a position to try something that can potentially fail.

Be open to putting yourself in a position to try something that can potentially fail.
-Rachelle O’Brien

Have an idea that you can explain in a sentence. If it goes beyond that, it is probably too complex.
-Rachelle O’Brien

Resources

  • PlayThinkLearn
  • Eduscapes
  • Episode 397 with Audrey Watters: Teaching Machines
  • Episode 72 with Robert Bjork: How to Use Cognitive Psychology to Enhance Learning
  • What is a Game, by Bernard Suit
  • Education Burrito – unwrapping the ‘fun in games’
  • O’Brien, R, E., & Farrow, S (2020). Escaping the inactive classroom: Escape Rooms for teaching technology. Journal for Social Media in Higher Education.
  • O’Brien, R, E. (2020). The Great Escape – Escape Rooms for Learning and Teaching. Durham University.
  • O’Brien, R, E. (2021). Finding creativity and taming the online activity beast. AdvanceHE.
  • Using games in Teaching
  • My journey to the end of the course (DEIDGBL)

The Problem with Grades

with Josh Eyler

| February 17, 2022 | TwitterFacebookLinkedInEmail

Josh Eyler discusses the problem with grades on episode 401 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

The more we focus on grades, the less we focus on learning.

The more we focus on grades, the less we focus on learning.
-Josh Eyler

The grades are not the end of the story. They are not even the bulk of your story. They are a chapter of your story.
-Josh Eyler

Resources

  • Episode 65 with Josh Eyler: Teaching Lessons from Pixar
  • Episode 231 with Josh Eyler: How Humans Learn
  • How Humans Learn, by Josh Eyler
  • The New Education, by Cathy Davidson
  • David Buck on Twitter
  • Ungrading, an Introduction, by Jesse Stommel
  • Evergreen State College Evaluation

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