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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

The Heart of a Teacher

with Jeff Hittenberger

| February 10, 2022 | TwitterFacebookLinkedInEmail

Jeff Hittenberger helps Bonni culminate her 400th episode by talking about the heart of a teacher on episode 400 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

I am on fire for how much more we can collectively learn and wrestle with together.

I had some assumptions coming into teaching
-Bonni Stachowiak

I never knew how much my textbooks cost.
-Bonni Stachowiak

I care about other people and that I like to make meaningful progress towards a goal, I try to celebrate those parts of me.
-Bonni Stachowiak

I think we are all just continually trying to figure stuff out. Nobody really has it all together.
-Bonni Stachowiak

An episode has aired every single week since June of 2014. That is a kind of discipline I feel grateful for.
-Bonni Stachowiak

I am on fire for how much more we can collectively learn and wrestle with together.
-Bonni Stachowiak

Resources

  • Coaching for Leaders (Dave Stachowiak’s podcast)
  • Episode 230 with Peter Kaufman – Teaching with Compassion
  • Rachel Held Evans
  • Podcast page where you can browse by category
  • Episode 208 – The 208 Backstory (more on Bonni’s journey into teaching)
  • Katie Linder

Satire from McSweeney’s

| February 3, 2022 | TwitterFacebookLinkedInEmail

Bonni Stachowiak shares some satire from McSweeney’s Internet Tendency on episode 399 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

I hope that brought you a little bit of laugher in what I do know is a difficult time for so many.

I hope that brought you a little bit of laugher in what I do know is a difficult time for so many.
-Bonni Stachowiak

Resources Mentioned

  • How We Will Separate You From Any Lingering Hope and Other Important Topics of Today’s Faculty Meeting, by Julie Cadman-Kim: Shared with permission by McSweeney’s and the author Julie Cadman-Kim
  • McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Daily Humor Almost Every Day Since 1998
  • Prof Michelle Ryan’s tweet re: tl;dr papers website
  • Intramolecular interactions play key role in stabilization of pHLIP at acidic conditions, by Nicolas Frazee and Blake Mertz
  • “Scientists do experiments which are hard to do in real life, but easy to do in a computer. They use a computer program to make the experiment happen inside the computer. Scientists use this process to understand how things work. They use this process to understand how biology works, and how things that we use work.” – the tl/dr version

Pedagogy of the Depressed

with Christopher Schaberg

| January 27, 2022 | TwitterFacebookLinkedInEmail

Christopher Schaberg talks about his book, Pedagogy of the Depressed, on episode 398 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Just talking to students once or twice a week is so important.

Just talking to students once or twice a week is so important.
-Christopher Schaberg

Resources

  • Satsuma mandarins
  • Pedagogy of the Depressed
  • @ass_deans on Twitter
  • Robin DeRosa’s website
  • The attention economy, by Jenny O’Dell
  • The Book of Delights, by Ross Gay
  • The Hundreds, by Lauren Berlant and Kathleen Stewart

Teaching Machines

with Audrey Watters

| January 20, 2022 | TwitterFacebookLinkedInEmail

Audrey Watters shares about her book, Teaching Machines, on episode 397 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

If we have a better understanding of the history of educational technology, there is hope.

When people try to erase history, they do that to foreclose hope.
-Audrey Watters

If we have a better understanding of the history of educational technology, there is hope.
-Audrey Watters

I do not think that the future is already written.
-Audrey Watters

Resources

  • Teaching Machines, by Audrey Waters
  • B. F. Skinner
  • The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade, by Audrey Watters
  • Edward Thorndike
  • Sal Khan
  • Behaviorism
  • The Teacher Wars, by Dana Goldstein
  • Photo of a Teaching Machine from TMI

Contingency and Pedagogy

with Amy Lynch-Biniek

| January 13, 2022 | TwitterFacebookLinkedInEmail

Amy Lynch-Biniek discusses the ways in which contingency can impact pedagogy on episode 396 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Begin advocacy by listening.

To be a teacher in the 21st century, you also have to be a bit of an activist.
-Amy Lynch-Biniek

As teachers we have to find ways to advocate for ourselves, for our students, for our campuses, and for our classrooms.
-Amy Lynch-Biniek

We have to remind ourselves to speak with, not for, others.
-Amy Lynch-Biniek

Begin advocacy by listening.
-Amy Lynch-Biniek

Resources

Sandra (Sandi) M. Leonard

Paula Patch on Twitter

Alex Venet was on Episode 372, talking about Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education

Episode 272: Inclusified Teaching Evaluation with Viji Sathy and Kelly Hogan

Episode 89: The Research on Course Evaluations with Betsy Barre

Twitter Thread: Contingent faculty

Indianapolis Resolution

Conference on College Composition

Ungrading: An FAQ, by Jesse Stommel

Jesse Stommel

PlayForge’s Wooden Dice Spinner for RPGs

The End of Burnout

with Jonathan Malesic

| January 6, 2022 | TwitterFacebookLinkedInEmail

Jonathan Malesic shares about his book, The End of Burnout, on episode 395 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

The data seems to suggest that around half of workers are somewhere on the burnout spectrum.

The data seems to suggest that around half of workers are somewhere on the burnout spectrum.
-Jonathan Malesic

In our culture we put a lot of expectations on work to fufill us.
-Jonathan Malesic

We need to see work as the support to whatever is at the center of our lives.
-Jonathan Malesic

Resources

  • The End of Burnout: Why Work Drains Us and How to Build Better Lives, by Jonathan Malesic
  • Are We All Really Burning Out: Academic Burnout is Real – But Difficult to Diagnose, by Jonathan Malesic for The Chronicle of Higher Education
  • Christina Maslach
  • O.C. Berkley Faculty Page: Christina Maslach
  • How to Measure Burnout Accurately and Ethically, by Christina Maslach and Michael P. Leiter
  • Paraphrasing Alain de Botton: Writing a book is like telling a joke and then waiting two years to find out if anyone thought it was funny
  • The Parking Lot movie
  • Miya Tokumitsu’s book: Do What You Love: And Other Lies About Success and Happiness
  • Ruha Benjamin
  • Kate Bowler
  • Fake Buddha Quotes
  • “You don’t have to like it. That’s why it’s called work” George Malesic 1933-2018

What Inclusive Instructors Do

with Tracie Addy

| December 30, 2021 | TwitterFacebookLinkedInEmail

Tracie Addy talks about what inclusive instructors do on episode 394 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Inclusive teaching is being responsive to the diversity of our class and designing learning environments that include all of our students.

Inclusive teaching is being responsive to the diversity of our class and designing learning environments that include all of our students.
-Tracie Addy

Inclusive teaching allows students to be engaged in an equitable learning environment and feel a sense of belonging.
-Tracie Addy

We can think about our students in terms of the different strengths they bring to the classroom.
-Tracie Addy

I had a lot of experiences as a black female that had a profound impact on me.
-Tracie Addy

Resources

  • BOOK: What Inclusive Instructors Do
  • VIDEO: Tracie Addy on Getting to Know Your Students
  • BLOG: What Inclusive Instructors Do: Q&A With Tracie Addy
  • RESOURCE: Tracie Addy’s Who’s In Class? Form
  • ARTICLE: A Tool to Advance Inclusive Teaching Efforts: The “Who’s in Class?” Form, by Tracie Marcella Addy, Khadijah A. Mitchell, Derek Dube
  • INFO: Tara J. Yosso on Wikipedia

Aligning Our Values Through Accessibility

with Ann Gagne

| December 23, 2021 | TwitterFacebookLinkedInEmail

Ann Gagnè talks about how to align our values through accessibility on episode 393 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Alt text allows you to put a description of what you are tweeting in terms of the image, gif, or infographics.

Alt text allows you to put a description of what you are tweeting in terms of the image, gif, or infographics.
-Ann Gagné

On a foundational level alt text is there to help increase information to the most amount of people as possible.
-Ann Gagné

Resources

  • The Tale of the Starfish
  • Connor Scott Gardner’s Twitter thread
  • Alt Text info from Digital Accessibility at Harvard
  • WebAIM’s Alternative Text article
  • How to add Alt Text on Twitter from University of Illinois
  • AltText Reader on Twitter
  • Nel Noddings
  • Caring: A Relational Approach to Ethics and Moral Education, by Nel Noddings

Identity, Belonging, and Hispanic/Latin American Culture

with Norlan Hernandez

| December 16, 2021 | TwitterFacebookLinkedInEmail

Norlan Hernández shares about identity, belonging, and Latin American culture on episode 392 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Are we being intentional in thinking about how we are nurturing their sense of identity and belonging?

Are we being intentional in thinking about how we are nurturing their sense of identity and belonging?
-Norlan Hernández

Resources

  • Hispanic/Latino Identity: A Philosophical Perspective, by Jose J. E. Gracia
  • A Conversation with Latinos on Race, from The New York Times
  • Latino, Hispanic, Latinx, Chicano: The History Behind the Terms, by Tara Simón
  • Kimberly N. Russell, PhD – Beast profiles, as written about in:
  • The Spark of Learning, by Sarah Rose Cavanagh

Learning That Matters

with Caralyn Zehnder, Cynthia Alby, JuliA Metzker & Karynne Kleine

| December 9, 2021 | TwitterFacebookLinkedInEmail

Caralyn Zehnder, Cynthia Alby, JuliA Metzker, Karynne Kleine talk about their book, Learning That Matters, on episode 391 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

I ask myself, what matters to me and why? And am I living that in my teaching?

I ask myself, what matters to me and why? And am I living that in my teaching?
-JuliA Metzker

Resources Mentioned

  • Learning That Matters website
  • Cynthia’s letter to students re: upsides to flipping
  • Learning That Matters Resources
  • John Dewey
  • Hidden Brain: Work 2.0 – The Obstacles You Don’t See

Music and Academic Growth

with joshuah whittinghill

| December 2, 2021 | TwitterFacebookLinkedInEmail

joshuah whittinghill discusses his research on the relationships with music, academic, social, and emotional learning on episode 385 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

It doesn’t seem like a lot of our courses in higher education have a lot of social or emotional curriculum built in to help students on their journey as they are growing.

I just jumped in. And it saved my life.
-joshuah whittinghill

It doesn’t seem like a lot of our courses in higher education have a lot of social or emotional curriculum built in to help students on their journey as they are growing.
-joshuah whittinghill

Students aren’t the only people. We also have colleagues.
-joshuah whittinghill

Let’s meet students where they’re at.
-joshuah whittinghill

Resources Mentioned

  • Chico State University
  • Rick Rolling
  • George Michael Freedom
  • Lowfi music on YouTube
  • Jackie (Jacquelyn) Macias’ 3 Artifacts (Thank you, Jackie, for letting us hear this part of your story)
  • Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL)
  • Podcast: First Generation – One of Many

Feeling Grateful for Podcasts

| November 24, 2021 | TwitterFacebookLinkedInEmail

Bonni Stachowiak shares her gratitude for past podcast conversations on episode 389 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

I am feeling even more grateful for this community of people who care about teaching and learning.

I’m feeling grateful for podcasts.
-Bonni Stachowiak

I am feeling even more grateful for this community of people who care about teaching and learning.
-Bonni Stachowiak

Resources Mentioned

  • 2021 Podcast Favorites
  • 21 Top Teaching in Higher Ed Podcast Episodes
  • EdSurge’s Bootstraps podcast series
  • Bootstraps – Episode 4: The Tyranny of Letter Grades
  • How to Use Podcasts in Teaching with Barbi Honeycutt
  • How to Use a Course Workload Estimator, with Betsy Barre
  • Small Teaching Reprised, with James Lang
  • On Improving Our Teaching, with Dan Levy
  • Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education, with Alex Shevrin Venet
  • The Role of Faculty in Student Mental Health, with Sarah Lipson and Laura Horne
  • Equity-Enhancing Data Tools, with Viji Sathy and Kelly Hogan

Fostering a Sense of Belonging

with KaSondra Toney & Angel Herring

| November 18, 2021 | TwitterFacebookLinkedInEmail

Angel Herring and KaSondra Toney discuss how to foster a sense of belonging on episode 388 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

I see everyone as a contributor in the education process. As a student, you have as much of a say as I do as your instructor.

I see everyone as a contributor in the education process. As a student, you have as much of a say as I do as your instructor.
-Angel Herring

Once I started focusing on my education more, I realized that my opportunities were endless.
-KaSondra Toney

Resources

  • Video excerpt of Dr. Herring
  • Profile of KaSondra Toney: 2020 Bishop Award Recipient to Graduate from USM After 20-Year Journey
  • USM’s First Generation Faculty/Staff Network

Translating Intentions into Action

with Dave Stachowiak

| November 11, 2021 | TwitterFacebookLinkedInEmail

Dave and Bonni Stachowiak talks about translating intention into action on episode 387 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Quotes from the episode

Pick one thing, try it, and see what happens.

Be mindful about what things you are trying to hold in your brain.
-Dave Stachowiak

Pick one thing, try it, and see what happens.
-Dave Stachowiak

Resources

  • The Productive Online and Offline Professor: A Practical Guide, by Bonni Stachowiak
  • Aikido
  • Zettelkasten – note-taking method
  • Extending the Mind – Finite Eyes
  • James M. Lang
  • Drafts App
  • The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right: Gawande, Atul*
  • Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity, by David Allen*
  • The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks than Others Do in 12 Months by, Brian Moran*
  • Positive Work-Life Spillover episode with Andrew (Andy) Stenhouse
  • Episode: The Productive Online and Offline Professor
  • GTD in 15 minutes – A Pragmatic Guide to Getting Things Done
  • Dealing with academic email, by Robert Talbert
  • Use checklists to teach more effectively and efficiently
  • The power of checklists
  • Checklist for class planning efficiency
  • For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood… and the Rest of Y’all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education, by Christopher Emdin*
  • MacSparky: “Don’t be good at email.”

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