Ellbogen Center for Teaching and Learning
1000 E. University, Dept. 3334
Coe Library 510
Laramie, WY 82071
Phone: (307)766-4847
Email: ellbogenctl@uwyo.edu
In 2021 the Ellbogen Center for Teaching & Learning turns 30! Throughout the year we will be honoring this occasion by sponsoring various events and programs that celebrate three decades of supporting teaching, learning, and student success.
Questions about ECTL programs? Contact us at: ellbogenctl@uwyo.edu
ECTL 30th Anniversary Student Essay Contest, “The Impact of a Good Teacher” - winners of the spring 2021 essay contest have been chosen and were recognized at our Fall Teaching & Learning Symposium. Go here to find out about the winners and to read excerpts from the submissions.
September 20 - 21, 2021
“30 Years of Building Community Around Teaching and Learning - Celebrating Resilience”
For 30 years, the Ellbogen Center for Teaching and Learning (ECTL) has been the hub for faculty development at the University of Wyoming. As we celebrate our 30th anniversary and consider our next 30 years, the ECTL sponsored a Teaching & Learning Symposium on September 20 and 21 with funding from an Ellbogen Foundation endowment. This symposium provided an opportunity for the teaching and learning community to come together and share best practices, celebrate accomplishments, and discuss new learning and teaching practices dedicated to enriching the student learning experience.
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What you think matters to us! Share your thoughts about the ECTL Teaching & Learning Symposium. We so appreciate all those who were able to join us for the ECTL Teaching & Learning Symposium! To be honest, we weren’t sure how it all would go, but we find ourselves re-energized and reinvigorated by our resilient teaching community dedicated to enriching the student learning experience. We are asking participants to take a few moments to complete a brief survey about their experience at the Symposium or after having viewed any of the recorded sessions. |
Your feedback is important to us and the work we do to support educational development. It will help inform us in planning future events that will meet your needs and interests.
Thank you in advance for helping us out.
Your colleagues at the Ellbogen Center for Teaching & Learning
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 SCHEDULE |
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Monday 9/20 |
8:30-9:00 |
Family Rm Wyoming Union 212 |
Check-in and Continental Breakfast |
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*In-person only |
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Monday 9/20 |
9:00-10:00 |
Family Rm Wyoming Union 212 |
What Keeps You Going? A Panel of Resilient Teachers |
A panel of award-winning teachers |
Come hear some of your peers share stories, advice, and practices for resilient teaching and learning. You will hear about what fuels their passion for teaching, lessons they have learned along the way, and tips for remaining resilient throughout the years. |
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Monday 9/20 |
10:15-11:15
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Family Rm Wyoming Union 212
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Difficult Discussions |
Fredrick Douglas Dixon (School of Culture Gender and Social Justice/Black Studies Center) and Lila Soto (School of Culture Gender and Social Justice/ American Studies) |
Black Lives Matter, COVID-19, vaccinations --- conversations can be fraught in our lives and our classrooms. Join two of your colleagues with expertise and experience holding space in classrooms for difficult conversations. |
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Monday 9/20 |
10:15-11:15
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Coe Library 123 |
Taking Care of You: Radical Self-care and Wellness |
Julio Brionez (University Counseling Center)
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Dr. Brionez will provide information and share scientific research on self-compassion (SC), suggest ways to integrate SC into your life, and lead attendees through an SC exercise for all physical ability levels. |
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Monday 9/20 |
11:30-1:30 11:30-12:00 Lunch 12:00-1:00 Keynote 1:00-1:30 (bring your book; books not for sale) |
Family Rm Wyoming Union 212 |
Keynote Luncheon: Creating Communities of Hope*
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Kevin Gannon, Author of Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto (Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning and Professor of History at Grand View University in Des Moines, Iowa) – see full bio below. |
It might seem foolish, perhaps impossible, to talk about a Pedagogy of Hope in our current context, shaped as it is by racism, violence, economic dislocation, political rancor, and—oh, by the way—a global pandemic. In higher education, we find ourselves in an environment of crisis, in teaching and learning spaces that are unfamiliar to many of us and significantly more difficult for all of us. This session WILL NOT talk about “silver linings” or “making the most of the new normal.” See full description below. |
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Monday 9/20 |
2:00-3:00 |
Family Rm Wyoming Union 212 |
Canvas Course Design with DesignPLUS |
Candace Ryder (College of Business) |
Learn how DesignPLUS from Cidi Labs helped several colleges on campus elevate the design of their Canvas courses. We'll demonstrate the DesignPLUS tools and show examples of how they make it easier to develop more engaging and accessible Canvas courses - all without requiring HTML or CSS skills! |
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Monday 9/20 |
2:00-3:00 |
Coe Library 511 |
Teaching with Information, Digital, and Data Literacies |
Samantha Peter & Kristina Clement (Libraries Education & Research Services) |
Are you wondering how you can better incorporate research into your course? This session covers how to incorporate information, digital, and/or data literacies into your research assignments. This session includes a hands-on activity. |
*In-person only
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Monday 9/20 |
3:15-4:15 |
Coe Library 511 |
How Well are Students Writing in UW Communication-Intensive Courses? Some findings and implications from a Spring 2021 Project |
Rick Fisher (English/Communication Across the Curriculum/LeaRN), Janissa M.A. Martinez (Creative Writing), and Sarah Lee (Family & Consumer Sciences/Human Development & Family Sciences)
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Join us in this interactive session to learn about results from a Spring 2021 assessment project that focused on evaluating students' effectiveness in writing for specific audiences and purposes. At this session, you'll also engage with other attendees to think about how these findings can help you improve writing assignments and other communication tasks in your course--no matter what discipline you're in or what level of students you work with! |
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Monday 9/20 |
4:30-6:00 4:30 Mingle and view SoTL poster presentations 5:00-5:30 Remarks and student essay winners 5:30-6:00 Mingle and view SoTL poster presentations |
Family Room-Wyoming Union 212 |
30th Anniversary Celebration Reception |
5:00-5:30 Jim Wangberg, founding director of the ECTL Mary Garland, Ellbogen Foundation UW President Ed Seidel Student Contest Winners-The Impact of a Good Teacher - Tina Nirk, graduate winner |
Enjoy wine and appetizers in celebration of our 30th Anniversary which includes:
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*In-person only |
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 SCHEDULE |
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Tuesday 9/21 |
9:00-9:50 |
Coe Library 510F |
What is the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (SoTL)? |
Heather Webb and Janel Seeley (Ellbogen Center for Teaching & Learning) |
Are you curious about ways to improve your teaching while also conducting scholarly research? Interested in starting a SoTL project? This workshop will provide a brief introduction to SoTL for faculty and graduate students interested in the inquiry into teaching practices to improve student learning and engage in the UW SoTL community. |
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Tuesday 9/21 |
9:00-9:50 |
Online |
Exceeding your Learning Outcomes with Non-classroom-bound Active Learning |
Rachel Watson (LAMP/Science Initiative) |
After participating in this session, you will be able to design active learning curriculum that will facilitate learning in environments in which the brain learns best. We will ponder learning outcome data that indicates that students can exceed expectations in online learning environments. Finally, we will achieve all of this while modeling active learning modalities in our session together. Bring your jungle tiger and your sense of adventure! |
NOTE: This session is not in the VidGrid folder. |
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Tuesday 9/21 |
10:00-11:45 |
Coe Library 511 |
Engagement via Escape Room Puzzles in the Classroom |
Vicky Mayfield (Mathematics, Eastern Wyoming College) |
Experience an escape room puzzle to inspire you to include them in your classroom and elsewhere. Be prepared to work together in groups as you problem solve your way to the solutions that unlock the prize. Benefits, tips, tricks, and pitfalls will be discussed. |
*In-person only |
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Tuesday 9/21 |
10:30-11:30 |
Coe Library 123 |
Pandemic Influences on College Students’ Lives and Academic Wellness: Considering UW and National Data |
April Heaney (LeaRN) |
This interactive session will highlight emerging research on the effects of the pandemic on college students’ academic and overall wellbeing, including specific examples among UW’s student population. Afterward, participants will also share some of their own insights and reflections on experiences with students in the past few semesters. |
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Tuesday 9/21 |
12:00-1:30 12:00-12:30 lunch 12:30-1:00 Certification Graduate Presentations 1:00-1:30 |
Coe Library 511 |
Certification in Teaching & Learning Luncheon* |
Certification Graduates: Tawfik Elshehabi Kimberly Frith Gordon Custer Jesse Alston Ramesh Sivanpillai
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Learn how you can earn certification(s) or badges in Teaching and Learning through the ECTL. Recent graduates of this program will present brief summaries of their experiences. |
*In-person only |
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Kevin Gannon is the Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning and Professor of History at Grand View University in Des Moines, Iowa. He is the author of Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto, published in April, 2020, as part of the Teaching and Learning in Higher Education series from West Virginia University Press. He is a regular contributor to the Chronicle of Higher Education, and his work has also appeared in outlets such as Vox, CNN, and The Washington Post. In 2016, he appeared in the Oscar-nominated documentary 13th, directed by Ava DuVernay. You can find Kevin online at his blog, thetattooedprof.com, and on Twitter: @TheTattooedProf. |
It might seem foolish, perhaps impossible, to talk about a Pedagogy of Hope in our current context, shaped as it is by racism, violence, economic dislocation, political rancor, and—oh, by the way—a global pandemic. In higher education, we find ourselves in an environment of crisis, in teaching and learning spaces that are unfamiliar to many of us and significantly more difficult for all of us. This session WILL NOT talk about “silver linings” or “making the most of the new normal.” In fact, one of the crucial elements of acting with hope is an honest acknowledgment that “normal times” were unsatisfactory and unsustainable. It will not be a “how to teach online” training. It will, however, offer some avenues to ground our pedagogy in an ethic of hope, as opposed to a program dictated by fear. In our current context, a Pedagogy of Hope that fosters complexity, connectedness, community, and compassion is vital.
In this session, we’ll look at reflective strategies to own our own pedagogical stances, and to ensure they align with the values we profess. We’ll examine what research shows us about students’ sense of belonging, and ways in which our course design and teaching practices can be inclusive and welcoming. Finally, focusing on the idea of presence, we’ll formulate strategies to welcome (and re-welcome) students into being fully present with our courses and one another. Our goal is to be better equipped to create teaching and learning spaces that embody Hope, and that foster meaningful learning and student success.
Ellbogen Center for Teaching and Learning
1000 E. University, Dept. 3334
Coe Library 510
Laramie, WY 82071
Phone: (307)766-4847
Email: ellbogenctl@uwyo.edu