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Happy fall y’all! Two Pills Podcast is back from summer break and better than ever!

Resources: 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5339583/ 

https://ep.bmj.com/content/105/4/236 

Can you incre…

Two Pills Tip: Video Assignments!

Having students create short, video content for online learning can increase STEM self‐efficacy (Campbell et al., 2020), and thus, making student content part of the…

Two Pills Tip: Positives of Pandemic Teaching and Learning!

Resources: 

https://news.cengage.com/higher-education/survey-about-half-of-faculty-are-more-positive-about-online-learning-today-than-pre-pa…

Interview with Gina Thomas!

Gina brings more than 35 years of healthcare expertise to Nobis Rehabilitation Partners, LLC. Gina has held a number of clinical and leadership roles in non-profit acute ca…

How are you preparing for the semester? 

Welcome to 2021! I hope you all had a great holiday! I ended up contracting Covid, so I have not been recording recently. Thankfully, my symptoms were mild an…

Conquer your presentations with Canva! 

Resources: 

• https://www.canva.com/learn/10-ways-to-take-your-lessons-to-the-next-level-with-canva/ 
• https://practicaledtech.com/2020/01/07/ten-things-you-can-do-w…

Resources: 

https://teacheveryday.com/escape-room-in-the-classroom/ 

https://www.edtechteam.com/blog/2017/08/break-out-of-classroom/ 

https://sites.google.com/site/digitalbreakouttemplate/home 

Escape r…

Can we make teaching online more fun? Let’s talk about  Post-its!  

We are all working on a transition to online teaching (or maybe you have already been teaching online)! How do you inspire students…

Diversity in Patient Cases!

https://www.mededpublish.org/manuscripts/2705 

https://www.aacp.org/article/diverse-universe 

https://libguides.massgeneral.org/c.php?g=650990&p=4565317 

Summer has arrived a…

https://courseworks2.columbia.edu/courses/92710/pages/zoom-features-breakout-rooms 

http://blogs.oregonstate.edu/inspire/2020/04/17/facilitating-active-learning-with-zoom/ 

https://athelp.sfsu.edu/hc/e…

Online teaching…am I doing this right? 

Resources: 

https://www.insidehighered.com/digital-learning/article/2017/11/15/peer-advice-instructors-teaching-online-first-time 

https://hub.jhu.edu/2020/03/12…

https://www.edsurge.com/news/2018-02-12-five-ways-to-make-peer-feedback-effective-in-your-classroom

https://www.wwu.edu/teachinghandbook/evaluation_of_learning/peer_review.shtml 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.n…

Turns out, students enjoy throwing things. Especially at the instructor. 

One way to engage students is to *physically* engage them.  I have done this with small groups of 10-12 up to 50+.  

One easy…

New year, new active learning strategies! 

New year, new active learning! If you are reviewing your material to teach for spring semester, jazz it up! This is the time!   

Resources: 

https://cft.vand…