Vol. 9 (2017): Learning in a Digital World

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Keynote: Kentaro Toyama, Ph.D.

Author of Geek heresy: Rescuing social change from the cult of technology

Sept. 22, 2017

DOI: https://doi.org/10.13021/itlcp.2017

Published: 2017-06-06

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Table 1: [Conversation] New to Teaching Online

Facilitator: Katrina Joseph
Table 2: [Conversation] Engaging Questions of Inclusion Post Charlottesville

Facilitator: Angie Hattery, Facilitator: Wendi Manuel Scott
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Table 3: [Conversation] Class Technology Policies: To Bring or Ban Devices?

Facilitator: Connie Harris
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Table 4: [Conversation] Course Redesign: Next Time Things Will Be Different

Facilitator: Terri Ann Guingab
Table 5: [Conversation] The 3 Hour Class: Keeping Students Engaged

Facilitator: Nathalia Peixoto
Table 6: [Conversation] Mentoring (Undergraduates and Graduate) Students in Research

Facilitator: Laurence Bray
Table 7: [Conversation] Class Discussions: Managing the Dominant and Invisible Students

Facilitator: Julie Owen
Table 8: [Conversation] Office Hours & Student Conferencing: Getting Students to Come and Making the Most of Time

Facilitator: Corrie Paeglow, Ashley Yuckenberg
Table 9: [Conversation] Problem-Based Learning: How to Incorporate into Class

Facilitator: Laura Poms
Table 10: [Potluck] Class Community: Ways to Build and Strengthen Student-Student and Student-Instructor Relationships

Facilitator: Larisa Olesova, Facilitator: Lulu Geza Keleman
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Table 11: [Potluck] Rubrics: To Increase Feedback and Decrease Time Grading

Facilitator: Veronica Garrison-Joyner, Facilitator: Lourdes Fernandez, Facilitator: Darlene Smucny
Table 12: [Potluck] 1st 5 Minutes of Class: Getting Students Engaged

Facilitator: Jennifer Suh, Jill Nelson
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Table 13: [Potluck] Groups: Forming & Managing

Facilitator: Mario Gliozzi
Table 14: [Potluck] Teaching Online: Tips & Strategies to Take It to the Next Level

Facilitator: Ala Showers, Graziella McCarron
Table 15: [Potluck] Creating Content Videos

Facilitator: Jim Mclean, Facilitator: Susan Campbell
Table 16: [Potluck] Assessment: Quick Activities to See If They Are Getting It

Facilitator: Mark Snyder, Jessica Rosenberg
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Table 17: [Potluck] Frontloading: Activities/Assignments to Help Students Come Prepared to Class

Facilitator: Mihai Boicu, Facilitator: Beverly Middle
Table 18: [Potluck] Social Media & Communicating w/Students Digitally

Facilitator: Rick Reo, Shawn Lee
Table 19: [Meet up] Adjunct & Term Faculty

Facilitator: Keith Renshaw
Table 20: [Meet up] New to Mason

Table Facilitator TBD
Table 21: [Meet up] Mason IMPACT Grant Applicants

Facilitator: Bethany Usher
Table 22: [Meet up] SoTL: Scholarship of Teaching & Learning

Facilitator: Erin Peters, Facilitator: Reid Schweibach
Table 23: [Meet Up] Global Discovery Grant Applicants

Facilitator: Whitney Morgan, Kristine Crassweller
Other Tables: [Open]-Make Your Own Topic or Designate a "Quiet Zone"

Table Facilitator = You!

9:00am-10:15am KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Geek Heresy: Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology

Kentaro Toyama
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10:30am-12:00pm Workshops

Creating a Caring Online Community: Improved Interactions, Feedback, and Engagement

Lisa Hasler Waters, Jered Borup
Teaching Evidence-Based Reasoning in Your Class with sInvestigator

Mihai Boicu, Gheorghe Tecuci, James Trefil, Nancy Holincheck, Dorin Marcu, Terrie Galanti
Getting Messy: Solving Writing Problems with Creative Play

Michelle LaFrance, J. Indigo Eriksen, Sarah Johnson, Thomas Polk, Robyn Russo
Librarian-Faculty Collaboration: Effective Strategies for Embedding Online and Face-To-Face Library Services

Anne Melville, Larisa Olesova, David Miller, Michael English, Theresa Calcagno
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- Handout (PDF)

10:30am-11:10am Mini-Workshops, Panels, & Roundtables

Interdisciplinarity, Multidisciplinary, and Transdisciplinarity: What It All Means and How the Frontiers of Knowledge Are Changing

Michael Summers, Harold Geller, Rebecca Ericson, Jim Trefil
Digital Storytelling: Communicating Academic Research Beyond the Academy

Kelly Schrum, Beth Dalbec, Matt Boyce, Sara Collini
Incorporating WebEx into Teaching and Advising

Christina Sanders, Crystal Clemons
Collaboration Online: The Application of Jigsaw Instructional Strategy

Ying-Ying Kuo, Regina Biggs
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Front-Loading Curriculum Design: An Integrated Approach to the Multilingual Classroom

Karyn Mallett, Anna Habib

11:20am-12:00pm Mini-Workshops, Panels, & Roundtables

Helping Students Navigate the Sea of Information in a Digital World

Jonathan Goldman, Constance A. Harris, T. Mills Kelly, Wendy Mann
How to Facilitate Student Conversation Through Discussion Protocols: Making It Meaningful and Active

Stephanie Dodman
Conquer Glossophobia: Help Students Overcome Their Fear of Public Speaking

Deborah Finkelstein
Avoid Death by PowerPoint, not PowerPoint: Transforming Lecture Slides & Briefings

John W. Warren
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Supporting English Language Learners Through Effective Feedback

Audrey Pettibon

1:00pm-2:30pm Workshops

Engaging Students to Create an Interactive Classroom Environment

Kim Eby
Open Educational Resources (OERs) Part 1: Collaborating and Developing OERs for Your Courses

Amy Lewis, Steven Harris-Scott, Colleen Sweet, Alexia Vikis, Sonia Balasch, Lisa Rabin
Strategies to Make Online Teaching Better Than Face-To-Face

Theresa Wills, Courtney Baker
Research Experience for Undergraduates: Assessing Ecosystem Health in the Tidal Potomac River

Dann Sklarew, Amy Fowler, Kim de Mutsert
Digital Collaboration and Learnersâ Cognitive Development: Whatâs the Link?

Graziella McCarron, Larisa Olesova
Student Engagement Across Distance Learning Models

Jodi Duke, Grace Francis, Sarah Nagro
Long-Term Learning Gains and Career Development in Smithsonian-Mason Semester Alumni

Sunmbal Abbasi, Anneke DeLuycker, Jim McNeil, Stephanie Lessard-Pilon
Increasing Student-Content Engagement in Online Courses

Alexandria Zylstra
Finding the "Ah-Ha" Moment: Making Thinking Visible in Inquiry-Based Digital Projects

Amy Swan, Nate Sleeter
Is It True? Helping Students Assess Information Credibility

Juliana Miner, Psyche Ready
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1:00pm-1:40pm Mini-Workshops, Panels, & Roundtables

Utilizing TedTalk Style Presentations to Engage Students

Katie Rosenbusch
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Re-envisioning the Annotated Bibliography Assignment

Marilyn Sharif
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- Handout (PDF)
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Mason Impact

Bethany Usher, Laurence Bray, Anthony Hoefer

1:50pm-2:30pm Mini-Workshops, Panels, & Roundtables

Get Kahoot!: The Pedagogical Utility of a Game-Based Learning Platform

Amy Bangerter
Using VoiceThread for Reflective Practice and Critical Dialogue

Elizabeth DuMulder, Jenice L. View, Stacia Stribling
Writing a Goal-Centered Syllabus

Rebecca Ericson
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- Handout (PDF)

2:45pm-4:15pm Workshops

Engaging Students Through Task-Based Language Instruction

Natalia Dudnik, Ellen Serafini, Carrie Bonilla, Xi Chen, Raluca Romaniuc, Helen Guglielmi
Open Educational Resources (OERs) Part 2: Collaborating and Developing OERs for Your Courses

John W. Warren, Sean Dunaway, Jessica Matthews, Joyce Johnston, Virginia Hoy, Catherine Saunders
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Improvisation in the Classroom

Deborah Finkelstein
Creating Inclusive Classrooms

Shelley Wong, Anne Marie Foerster Luu, Julie Owen, Esther Yook, Darlene Smucny, Graziella McCarron, Aoi Yamanaka, Sharrell Hassell-Goodman
Preparing Students for Effective Peer Review in Writing-Intensive Courses

Susan Lawrence, Courtney Massie

2:45pm-3:25pm Mini-Workshops, Panels, & Roundtables

Incorporating and Managing Independent Research Projects in the Class

Michael Summers, Jessica Rosenberg, Larry Paxton
Socrative: An Interactive Classroom App

Katherine Skipper
Snapchat and Culturally Responsive Teaching

Aseel Almubaddel, Daniah Aleissa

3:35pm-4:15pm Mini-Workshops, Panels, & Roundtables

Redesigning Your Curriculum: Using Faculty Learning Communities to Develop Online/Hybrid Mason Core Courses

Jessie Matthews, Brian Fitzpatrick, Billy Howell, Kerry Folan, Ying-Ying Kuo, Ben Brezner
Creativity in Seventeen Syllables - Haiku for Learning

Robin Ericson
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Applying Chickering's "Seven Learning Principles" in Our Mason Digital World

Steve Brown
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4:15pm-5:30pm POSTER SESSION (Group A- 4:15-4:45pm)

Writing in a Digital World

Thomas Polk
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Course (Re)Design Academy: Case Study of Flipping a Classroom to Create a Studio Course

Heather Anderson
Scholarly Productions at the Research Commons (SP@RC): Making Student Research SP@RC-le

Hannah McLaughlin
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Knowledge Visualization in a Musicology Seminar Using the Scalar Platform

Steven Gerber
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Food System Leadership Institute: A Curricular Approach to Transforming Virginia's Food System

Andrew Wingfield, Kate Christen
Teaching Technology Speed Dating: Finding Digital Tools to Use in Teaching

Katrina Joseph
Collaborative Learning to Realize United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals and Professional Roles

Dann Sklarew
Using Design Thinking to Approach International Student Transition Goals

Robert Graham, Darshana Rogers, Briannah Rivard
How to Redesign Your Course in "Realtime" Based on Student Feedback

Younsung Kim, Larisa Olesova
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Tips and Tricks for Increasing Student Engagement

Elizabeth Wood
Saving Skidgits: Using a Game to Model Protected Area Management

Jim McNeil
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DiSCover the Digital Scholarship Center (DiSC)

Wendy Mann, Debby Kermer, Joy Suh
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Mason Faculty Club: A Place to Have Teaching & Learning Conversations

Jerrod Moore
Leveraging the Student Success Collaborative to Promote Advising as Teaching

Jeannie Brown Leonard, Liz Bartles
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Mason Impact, OSCAR, and Undergraduate Education at Mason

Bethany Usher, Laurence Bray, Laura Poms, Anthony Hoefer
Academic Integrity at Mason: Best Practices and What to Avoid

LaShonda Anthony
- Poster (PDF)
When Does a Difficult Student Become Dangerous: Knowing Your Resources and Rights

Jennifer Hammat, Juliet Blank-Godlove
The SIMPLE Design Framework for Teaching Development Across STEM

Jill Nelson
Course (Re)Design Academy: Redesigning an Introductory Astronomy Course with Open Resources

Mario Gliozzi
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Design Your Mason Experience: Flipping the Classroom to Create a Career Exploration Environment for Undeclared and Undecided Students

Rachel Lindsey
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Finding Time to Reflect and Write: Faculty Write Ins & Retreats

Charlotte Gill
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An Interdisciplinary Approach to Teaching Environmental Science to Non-STEM Majors

N.J. Walker
The Doctor Is In: Questions About Blackboard

Jim McLean
The Doctor Is In: Questions About Conducting Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (SoTL) and Discipline-Based Education Research (DBER) Projects

Kelly Schrum, Reid Schewbach, Erin Peters-Burton
Student Experiences in Masonâs Active Learning Classrooms

Kimberly K. Eby, Shannon K. Jacobsen, Laura Lukes, Zhicheng Zhang, E. Shelley Reid, Amber Jensen
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The Doctor Is In: Challenging Teaching Scenarios

Shelley Reid
Using the Paleobiology Database to Explore the Fossil Record Without Fossils

Mark Uhen, Laura Lukes, Rowan Lockwood, Christian O. George, Callan Bentley, Peter J. Berquist, Katherin Ryker
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