December 2022 Posts

Blueprints cover a table. Three people stand around the table, mostly out of shot. One has one hand on a computer keyboard and holds a phone with their other hand. One holds a pen poised over a blueprint. The third person holds a hand palm up as if gesturing. An overlay reads "Reflection & Authentic Learning: 60-Second SoTL."
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…

Two women sit at a desk. One has a laptop open with her hand hovering over the trackpad. Both have cups and saucers in front of them. An overlay reads, "Talking Through Feedback."
December 22, 2022

Dialogic Feed-Forward

by Jessie L. Moore

60-Second SoTL – Episode 16 This week’s episode features an open-access article from Teaching & Learning Inquiry and examines the long-term feedback literacy outcomes of supplementing written feedback with a student-instructor meeting to discuss student-led action plans for improvement: Hill, Jennifer,…

8 lightbulbs glow against a wall. Each lightbulb's cord winds together to a central hub. A quote reads "We left the seminar with emotionally rich connections to our participants, as well as a newfound confidence in our roles as supportive student scholars."
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…

A hand holds a marker putting the finishing touches on an arrow pointing right. Above the arrow is the phrase "future-oriented feedback."
December 15, 2022

Future-Oriented Feedback

by Jessie L. Moore

60-Second SoTL – Episode 15 Featuring an open-access article from the Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, this episode explores how feedback type, feedback orientation, and goal orientation inform feedback effectiveness for student learning: Paulson Gjerde, Kathy, Deborah Skinner, and…

A group of people stand in front of a house with a grass roof. One person is pointing to something ahead of the group but out of frame. An overlay reads, "Mentoring Undergraduate Research in Global Contexts."
December 8, 2022

Mentoring Undergraduate Research in Global Contexts

by Jessie L. Moore

60-Second SoTL – Episode 14 This week’s episode features an article from the Journal on Excellence in College Teaching and explores how faculty and staff support learning and development when they mentor undergraduate research in global contexts: Cruz, Laura, Maureen Vandermaas-Peeler, Amy L….