Engaged Learning Posts

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July 25, 2023

A Personal Reflection on What Makes Mentoring Great

by Sabrina Thurman

I grew up on a mountainside in rural Appalachia and spent nearly every day of my childhood playing outside. Being from a low-income family and surrounded by the natural world, I entertained myself by exploring plants, animals, soil, water, and…

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March 20, 2023

Gamifying Multimedia Writing

by Matt Wittstein

Limed: Teaching with a Twist – Episode 7 Dr. Travis Maynard found a game called “Silicon Valley Startups” at a Goodwill store and turned it into the basis for introducing his professional writing and rhetoric students to the skills and…

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December 29, 2022

Reflection and Authentic Learning

by Jessie L. Moore

60-Second SoTL – Episode 17 This week’s episode features an open-access article from Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in the South and examines what reflection on authentic tasks can illuminate about student learning: Bester, Johannes, and Erica Pretorius. 2022. “Linking Reflective…

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December 20, 2022

Through the Eyes of a Student: Integration in Practice

by Ellery Ewell, Sophie Miller, and Christina Wyatt

Last year, we, as CEL Student Scholars, had the pleasure of attending the 2021 meeting of the (Re)Examining Conditions for Meaningful Learning Research Seminar, in which we dealt with imposter syndrome, budding relationships with participants, and developing our own body…

Two light-skinned young people are shown from behind as they sit at a table at the back of a classroom. They look behind themselves, to something beyond the visible image. In front of them, toward the front of the classroom, many other young people of varying gender and skin tone sit at rows of tables and face the front of the classroom. A medium-skinned woman stands at the front of the classroom, gesturing out toward the rows of young people. Behind her is a projected image that is not discernable from this distance. The same image is projected in multiple locations on every wall of the classroom.
December 19, 2022

PowerPointers: Making the Most of Slide Decks

by Matt Wittstein and Dhvani Toprani

Limed: Teaching with a Twist – Episode 4 Dr. Sarah Morrison-Smith is a new faculty member at Hamilton College, where the institutional culture leans away from PowerPoint in the classroom. Our panel of Jill McSweeney, Scott Spurlock, and Christina Wyatt…

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October 17, 2022

Rethinking Student Engagement, Post-COVID

by Matt Wittstein

Limed: Teaching with a Twist – Episode 2 Dr. Chris Trimby from the University of Delaware wants to rethink how to engage his physiology students as we emerge from COVID. Panelists Derek Bruff, Ellery Ewell, and Jen Uno discuss how…