Nancy Chick, Peter Felten, and Katarina Mårtensson share about The SoTL Guide: (Re)Orienting the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning on episode 616 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

We see SOTL as simply inquiry into teaching and learning for the purposes of improving teaching and learning in context and then contributing to what we know about teaching and learning in support of the broader aims of higher education.
-Nancy Chick

What I usually say when I speak to colleagues and academics who are sort of starting a SOTL journey is to start small, small steps, and whatever is a low threshold.
-Katarina Mårtensson

I can’t go through this book and say who wrote this sentence or this section or whose idea this part was, because it really is a product of the three of us.
-Peter Felten

• The SoTL Guide: (Re)Orienting the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, by Nancy L. Chick, Peter Felten, and Katarina Mårtensson
• Human Synergistics
• Dan Bernstein, Nancy Chick, Pat Hutchings, and Gary Poole Share Strategies for “Going Public” with SoTL
• Book Resources (Including a Reading Guide)
• I Lost My Job, by Robin DeRosa
• Harold Jarche’s PKM Posts
• A Systematic Literature Review of Students as Partners in Higher Education
• Drawing Digital: The Complete Guide for Learning to Draw & Paint on Your iPad, by Lisa Bardot
• The Illustrator’s Guide to Procreate: How to Make Digital Art on Your iPad, by Ruth Burrows
• The Correspondent: A Novel, by Virginia Evans
• The Academic Imperfectionist
• Making, Keeping, and Losing Friends: How Campuses Shape College Students’ Networks, by Janice M. McCabe
• Poll Everywhere

Matthew Mahavongtrakul and Bonni Stachowiak have a conversation about being kind to our future selves on episode 615 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Not everything that comes your way is an emergency. Not everything that comes your way has to demand your immediate attention.
-Matthew Mahavongtrakul

Once you are comfortable with your system and you’re iterating, it actually starts to become second nature, not only to professional life, but to personal life as well.
-Matthew Mahavongtrakul

An exercise that I did with my supervisor once was to actually go through each of these tasks and to see what I thought was high priority, was it actually high priority for the job that I was in?
-Matthew Mahavongtrakul

• Karen Costa’s LinkedIn Post About the Ink & Volt Planning Dashboard
• Notsu
• Eisenhower Matrix
• Episode 407: Unpacking Resilience and Grief with Chinasa Elue, Laura Howard, and Este Jordan (they share about each of their “pandemic dirty words” on this episode)
• Goblin Tools – Magic ToDo
• Ink and Volt Dashboard Deskpad
• Gettin’ Air: The Open Education Network with Robin DeRosa and David Ernst, by Terry Greene
• Asana

Bonni Stachowiak shares how to keep your Personal Knowledge Mastery (PKM) real simple with RSS on episode 614 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Rather than get that overwhelmed feeling of how hard it’s going to be to keep up, I don’t have to, and neither do you. Enter RSS, Real Simple Syndication.
-Bonni Stachowiak

It’s pretty spectacular how, if somebody knows about RSS, and they’ve subscribed to a blog or a website, how you can find people that you have a lot in common with, and get going with your curiosity.
-Bonni Stachowiak

It’s amazing what happens when, before we start trying to lecture or share information, we ask people to predict something. Even if they end up predicting incorrectly, there still is that connection where we’ve piqued their curiosity.
-Bonni Stachowiak

• Why Isn’t RSS More Popular By Now, by Bonni Stachowiak
• Real Simple Syndication, by Harold Jarche
• Inoreader
• Unread App
• The Indispensable Digital Research Tool I can Say, Without Lying, Saves Time, by Alan Levine (aka CogDog)
• RSS in Plain English, by Common Craft
• MiniRoll
• This Cozy Reading Life with Katie Linder
• The Transformers: Imagining the Future of the Teaching of Writing
• NASA Image of the Day
• McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
• Poll Everywhere

Marc Watkins shares about cultivating skepticism and curiosity in an age of AI on Episode 613 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

I do think online education is going to be the focal point for this next year, and how it can survive with an agentic AI. My feeling is, we need to be offering students more embodied experiences and disembodied spaces.
-Marc Watkins

Every technology has its affordances and the things that are negative about it too; your cell phone, the computer, the fact we’re talking about this right now on the systems that we are using, cloud computing, that all has a cost.
-Marc Watkins

For an incoming freshman student in college to take 4 or 5 classes and have 4 or 5 very different AI policies, 4 or 5 very different understandings of what AI is, it is incredibly confusing.
-Marc Watkins

• Sesame Street: One of These Things (Is Not Like the Others)
• What We Give Up When We Let AI Decide: Automation Is Easy. Judgment Is Not, by Marc Watkins
• Working with AI is more Mindset than Skill, by Marc Watkins
• Civics of Technology’s Privacy Week Resources
• The Opposite of Cheating
• The Transformers: Imagining the Future of the Teaching of Writing, by Anna Mills, Jon Ippolito, Maha Bali, Jeremy Douglass, Mark C. Marino, Annette Vee, Marc Watkins

Lynn Meade uncovers how to make learning visible with portfolios on episode 612 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast

An ePortfolio is basically a curated collection of student work. It includes reflection, and it’s usually across the college experience.
-Lynn Meade

Anytime I teach portfolios, it’s really big that we talk about audience and purpose. Who is your audience and what is your purpose?
-Lynn Meade

There’s something particularly lovely about seeing student or faculty members’ written comments about my work. Both the critiques and those comments that build me up, and how very powerful they are, and how much they mean to me.
-Lynn Meade

It’s not about the tech. The most important thing is, am I writing? Am I able to think about myself? Am I able to reflect about myself?
-Lynn Meade

• Building a Professional Portfolio (OER Book) by Lynn Meade
• University of Arkansas Student Portfolios (portfolio.uark.edu)
• Award-Winning ePortfolios Highlight Student Talent and Career Readiness
• Fulbright College Team Outlines ePortfolio Initiative
• Multiple New U of A ePortfolio Resources Available for Students and Faculty
• Beyond a Resume, Part One: ePortfolios in Higher Ed (podcast)
• Beyond a Resume, Part Two: ePortfolios in Higher Ed (podcast)
• ePortfolios Overview (AAC&U ePortfolios Topic Page)
• Poll Everywhere
• Reese W. is Here to Boost My Writing Career, by John Warner
• The Feeling Good Handbook by David Burns
• Nancy Duarte on LinkedIn
• Video on Box Breathing

Danny Mann shares about fostering peace, joy, and community in teaching and leading on episode 611 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

Great teaching, and I think great life, is this adaptive, responsive thing, pulling out the bugs or getting things back in balance.
-Danny Mann

Peace and joy are really interrelated, and I gravitated a lot towards these, as I spent time studying and practicing mindfulness practices.
-Danny Mann

If you discover your why, you could basically feel much more energized and joyful about what you do, if you align your life with that.
-Danny Mann

Giving students space to speak and share ups and downs. So the ironic leading by listening.
-Danny Mann

• University of California Irvine’s Division of Teaching Excellence & Innovation
• Find Your Why, by Simon Sinek
• How to Debug Your Life, by JA Westenberg
• Happiness: Essential Mindfulness Practices, by Thich Nhat Hanh
• Pedagogical Wellness | UCI Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation
• The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom, by Don Miguel Ruiz
• How to Debug Your Life, by JA Westenberg
• Happiness: Essential Mindfulness Practices, by Thich Nhat Hanh

Mike Cross shares about his experiments (big and small) in teaching and learning on episode 610 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

The reason I did it is because I just wanted to better understand what my students were going through.
-Mike Cross

I love that, that idea of tiny experiments. I think that that is absolutely critical because we’re all so busy.
-Mike Cross

Anytime you can put yourself in someone else’s shoes, it makes you a better person, right? Whether that’s a better teacher, a better spouse, a better friend, a better citizen, anything.
-Mike Cross

• Episode 106: Undercover Professor with Mike Cross
• Snow College
• Coaching for Leaders Episode 747: How to Get Out of a Rut, with Anne-Laure Le Cunff
• What Baby George and Handstands Taught Me About Learning, created by Mike Wesch
• Francesca and the Genie of Science, by Mike Cross
• Living with Grief: A Poem for Those Who Are Grieving, by Christy Albright
• The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie, by Alan Bradley
• The Midnight

Theresa Duong on episode 609 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast.

“All we’re really trying to do is create these conditions that can help our students flourish and thrive within our classrooms while maintaining the rigor of our work.”
– Theresa Duong

“I felt like I could thrive in my PhD program because I had these people who kept pushing me to go and kept pushing me to take care of myself.”
– Theresa Duong

“Pedagogy, the formal definition in my mind, is this art and science of teaching and learning.”
– Theresa Duong

“To me, wellness is really about thriving and flourishing in the work that you’re doing.”
– Theresa Duong

• Pedagogical Wellness | UCI Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation
• Pedagogical Wellness: A New Direction in Educational Development by Theresa Huong (Theresa) Duong, Andrea Aebersold, + Matthew Mahavongtrakul
• Okanagan Charter
• UCI Health Promoting University
• Pedagogical Wellness Day
• Artmakers Club with Lisa Bardow
• Calm Strips
• Forest App