ABSTRACTS - Virtual Sessions

NOTE: Virtual Sessions are approximately 15-25 minutes long (largely depending on how much time the presenter allows for Q&A).

Click the ZOOM LINK in each session to join that session.

Virtual Sessions may also be attended in-person in Room 213 of Butler-Carlton Hall on the Missouri S&T campus.

1-101 // Avoid Burnout, Gain Rejuvenation

STANDARD SESSION (45 minutes)

Presenter: Drew Crismon - Ladue School District and University of Missouri 

Audience: 

Time and Location: 12:15 - 1:00 p.m.; Room 101

This year has been more exhausting than any other year for educators. We've been asked to do much more than ever before and it's burning people out. Even our best teachers are considering different options. I certainly was. But it doesn't have to be this way and I'll teach you how to take tangible steps for sustainable improvement in overall health, relationships, and productivity.

1-213-1 // Using Canvas LMS in Online Teaching

VIRTUAL SESSION (15-20 minutes)

Presenter: Dr. Dushanthi Herath - Assistant Professor of Mathematics; Maryville University

Audience: Higher Education; K-12 Education

Time and Location: 12:15 - 1:00 p.m.; Room 213

A key to successful teaching and learning is student engagement. This session will introduce and demonstrate a few Canvas features that can be utilized in an online mathematics course to have students actively engage and participate in the course.

1-213-2 // Using Drawing Tablets with Zoom: Giving In-the-Moment Visual Feedback Online

VIRTUAL SESSION (15-20 minutes)

Presenter: Dr. Sarah Hercula - Assistant Professor of English & Technical Communication; Missouri S&T

Audience: Higher Education

Time and Location: 12:15 - 1:00 p.m.; Room 213

In this session, the presenter will discuss students’ use of drawing tablets as a tool enabling instructors to provide instantaneous feedback on students’ visual drawings during online synchronous instruction through Zoom. The presenter will describe her design of an online synchronous English grammar course with a focus on form-function tree diagramming: an analytical tool for grammatical analysis that involves students’ creation of hand-drawn visual diagrams. Sharing strategies for effective instruction in this setting and showing examples from her course, the presenter will explain how the technology works and suggest ways that this course setup might be adapted for use in other disciplines.

2-115 // Debunking Neuromyths and Embracing Research-Based Teaching Strategies

STANDARD SESSION (45 minutes)

Presenter: Dr. Lauren Hays - Assistant Professor of Instructional Technology; University of Central Missouri

Audience: Higher Education; K-12 Education

Time and Location: 1:15 - 2:00 p.m., Room 115

In this presentation, the presenter will share common neuromyths such as learning styles that instructors often use when designing instruction. Once those are shared, the presenter will spend the majority of the session discussing research-based teaching strategies such as interleaving, the spacing effect, and retrieval practice that educators can use instead.

2-120 // Equipment for Creating Educational Media

STANDARD SESSION (45 minutes)

Presenter: Dr. Jeff Thomas - Teaching Professor of Civil, Architectural, & Environmental Engineering; Missouri S&T

Audience: Higher Education; K-12 Education

Time and Location: 1:15 - 2:00 p.m.; Room 120

Having published class websites for 20 years and a textbook for 10 years, I would like to share my approach to creating media. I will show my classroom and office setups for recording lectures, my studios for imaging small (e.g. sand), medium (e.g. hand tools), and large (e.g. wheelbarrow) props, and portable camera and audio equipment. I will also show my extensive collection of toys, structural-modeling kits, and real-life items for teaching engineering mechanics and structural engineering.

2-213-2 // Making More Inclusive Instruction with UDL

VIRTUAL SESSION (15-20 minutes)

Presenter: Breanne Kirsch - University Librarian; Briar Cliff University

Audience: Higher Education

Time and Location: 1:15 - 2:00 p.m.; Room 213

This session will introduce the universal design for learning (UDL) framework and how it can be implemented in both traditional, face-to-face courses and online courses. UDL techniques will be described with examples that demonstrate how to make instruction more inclusive.

2-213-1 // Scaffolding A Capstone Project Online

VIRTUAL SESSION (15-20 minutes)

Presenter: Dr. Cassandra Gail Loggins - Assistant Professor of Nursing; Southeast Missouri State University

Audience: Higher Education

Time and Location: 1:15 - 2:00 p.m.; Room 213

Can you motivate students to work on a capstone assignment week by week thereby preventing the last-minute submission of a weak assignment? Absolutely, you can motivate by innovating your online course design so that every reading assignment, quiz, activity, field experience, and discussion forum builds up the final assignment using a scaffolding design. This is a win-win strategy for faculty and students.

3-213-2 // Humanizing online grading: the surprising power of A/V feedback

VIRTUAL SESSION (15-20 minutes)

Presenter: Gretchen Haskell - Instructional Designer; University of Missouri

Audience: Higher Education

Time and Location: 2:15 - 3:00 p.m.; Room 213

As passionate as we all may be about what we teach, our passion surrounding grading can leave something to be desired. It should be noted, there’s a difference between "grading" and "giving feedback". “Grading” is an impersonal process of assigning numbers to learners' work. "Giving feedback" is a symbiotic interaction between learner and instructor. Research has credited A/V feedback with decreased feelings of isolation, increased motivation, student retention, content retention, and perception of instructor caring. Consideration of student accessibility needs will be addressed, as well as a walk-through of this process in Canvas.

3-213-1 // Levelling the terminology field: Having students co-create meaning using Hypothes.is

VIRTUAL SESSION (15-20 minutes)

Presenter: Dr. Fatemeh Mardi - Instructional Designer; University of Missouri

Audience: Higher Education; K-12 Education

Time and Location: 2:15 - 3:00 p.m.; Room 213

Often students get stuck understanding basic discipline-specific terminology that instructors assume they should know. Students can be provided a platform to unpack the meaning of phrases and sentences throughout their learning process. Hypothes.Is is a social annotation tool currently integrated into Canvas at UM campuses.