Category Archives: Faculty

03.26.24

Monday Morning Mentor

This week’s Monday Morning Mentor subject is, “How Can I Create Authentic Engagement Through Feedback Dialogue?” From the presentation link, you can view the featured 20-Minute Mentor and access the transcript, handouts and supplemental material. These materials are only available for the week of the presentation. NOTE: You will need to entire the following password in order to view this week’s program: authentic47.

Presentation date, Monday, March 25, and on-demand for one week.

Access to the programs in the Monday Morning Mentor series is restricted to members of the subscribing institution. Any unauthorized use or access, including sharing access with faculty and staff not affiliated with the subscribing institution, is prohibited.

03.25.24

One More Day to Help Raise $500 to Pie ALL of the Participating Professors!

Several faculty members have signed on to take whipped cream pies to the face on April 1. Funds raised will benefit the activities of the Honors Program Student Club.

LLCC Student Life will accept votes (donations) in its office through the end of the day today. It’s $2 per ticket or $5 for 5 (cash/check only).

Participating faculty are: Chris McDonald, Ted Babin, Beth Wiediger, Karen Sisk, Gillian Bauer, Tim McKenzie, Corrine Hinton, Thom Whalen, Jason Waddell, Matthew Griffin, Bill Harmon, David Cox, Tony Rothering, Brent Todd, Janelle Murphy, Sonja Spencer, Chris Tople, Carmen Allen, Christina Negley and Scott Searcy.

And, of course, Kalith Smith already provided a preview.

03.22.24

LLTLC Call for Proposals and Registration

On May 20-21, the conference formerly known as FSI (or the Faculty Summer Institute) will be held, with a new name: the Lincoln Legacy Teaching and Learning Community. The LLTLC Steering Committee invites you to submit a proposal to address any important issues and concerns in contemporary education, especially related to these three themes:

  • Generative AI That Supports Student Learning
  • Online Learning’s New Challenges
  • What’s So Funny About Playful, Reflective, Slow Learning

For more information, please review the Call for Proposals.

LLTLC registration is also now open.

03.21.24

Friday’s AIeL Workshop: Beyond Diversity: A Guided Discussion

For those who have viewed the webinar, “Beyond Diversity: How to Build a Truly Antiracist Organization,” join local leaders from the Springfield Coalition on Dismantling Racism for a deeper dive into the topics explored in this Crossroads webinar. The workshop will include a discussion on how faculty and staff at LLCC might implement anti-racist principles and practices into their daily work and advocate for institutional transformation. This workshop is co-sponsored by the LLCC Workforce Equity Initiative. Faculty participants will receive 3 points toward their Training and Innovation professional development total for successful completion of this workshop.

Friday, March 22 from 1-4 p.m. in the Robert H. Stephens Room.

Register for Beyond Diversity: A Guided Discussion. 

 

03.20.24

HONORS PROGRAM STUDENT CLUB FUNDRAISER: PIE A PROFESSOR

If you want to pie a colleague, now is the opportunity! Several faculty members have signed on to take whipped cream pies to the face on April 1. Funds raised will benefit the activities of the Honors Program Student Club.

Any time this week, bring money to the LLCC Student Life office (lower level Menard Hall) and you can direct it to the professor of your choosing (or multiple!). It’s $2 per ticket or $5 for 5 (cash/check only). If $500 if raised this week, every participating professor will be pied on April 1. If that amount isn’t raised, the professor who raised the most in each department will be pied.

Participating faculty are: Chris McDonald, Ted Babin, Beth Wiediger, Karen Sisk, Gillian Bauer, Tim McKenzie, Corrine Hinton, Thom Whalen, Jason Waddell, Matthew Griffin, Bill Harmon, David Cox, Tony Rothering, Brent Todd, Janelle Murphy, Sonja Spencer, Chris Tople, Carmen Allen, Christina Negley and Scott Searcy.

And, of course, Kalith Smith already provided a preview.

03.04.24

Monday Morning Mentor: How to use AI to assess student understanding?

The March 4 Monday Morning Mentor topic is “How Can I Use Generative AI to Assess Student Understanding?”

From this link, you can view the featured 20-Minute Mentor, as well as access the transcript, handouts, and supplemental material. These materials will not be available to be viewed until Monday when the presentation becomes available. You will need to enter the following password in order to view next week’s program: generative81. The presentation is available on-demand for one week.

Access to the programs in the Monday Morning Mentor series is restricted to members of the subscribing institution. Any unauthorized use or access, including sharing access with faculty and staff not affiliated with the subscribing institution, is prohibited.

02.23.24

MIIIE looking for International Curriculum Presenters for March 22 Conference

Midwest Institute for International and Intercultural Education (MIIIE) is offering a spring virtual conference on global curriculum. Colleagues who have developed international curriculum, especially modules, are encouraged to present at MIIIE’s virtual conference on Friday, March 22, 2024. You can register for the conference and propose a presentation through the conference link above.

02.20.24

Monday Morning Mentor tackles using AI to create teaching materials

This week’s Monday Morning Mentor topic is How Can I Use AI to Create Multimedia Teaching Materials?

Presentation date: Feb. 19, 2024, and on-demand for one week. From this link, you can view the featured 20-Minute Mentor and access the transcript, handouts, and supplemental material. These materials are only available for the week of the presentation. NOTE: You will need to enter the following password in order to view this week’s program: multimedia52.

Access to the programs in the Monday Morning Mentor series is restricted to members of the subscribing institution. Any unauthorized use or access, including sharing access with faculty and staff not affiliated with the subscribing institution, is prohibited.

02.14.24

Today’s AIeL Workshop: Be Our OER Valentine

Open Educational Resources: Promoting student success through collaboration adn innovation. Remix Me, Share the Love, Free and Open, Remix, Reuse, Repurpose, Educate Me, You Complete my OER.Join us today from 3:30-4:30 p.m. in Menard 2202, for our workshop: “Open Educational Resources: Promoting Student Success Through Collaboration and Innovation” with,

  • Dr. Erin Shanle, assistant professor, biology
  • Jan Dowell, adjunct instructor, biology
  • Leslie Ross, librarian and associate professor

Open educational resources are free and openly shared resources, including textbooks, that can be customized for specific courses in most disciplines. For the past year, LLCC has participated in a SCOERs (Support for the Creation of Open Educational Resources) grant through FIPSE (the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education) at the U.S. Department of Education. The purpose of this grant is to develop, improve and expand OERs throughout the state, increasing student success through increased awareness and adoption of OERs. In this workshop, LLCC faculty who are part of this grant project will discuss the creation and implementation of an OER for a course on human nutrition, including a discussion of the successes achieved and challenges encountered. Participants will leave with a better understanding of how one might create an OER, the benefits of doing so and tips on how to overcome difficulties in the OER creation process.

Faculty participants will receive one point toward their Training and Innovation professional development total for successful completion of this workshop. Please register for this event.