The Dreamery Sessions

Penn State TLT

Coming to you from Penn State, co-hosts Ray Schmitt and Zach Lonsinger have conversations with faculty and students who are transforming the way teaching and learning happen. These stories will weave through larger themes of digital fluency, innovation, creativity, and emerging technology.

  1. 05/24/2021

    S02E4 - Grit personified

    To overcome difficulties brought on by the pandemic, it's taken copious amounts of grit by people from all walks of life. In the Season Two finale, Ray Schmitt, Zach Lonsinger, and Renea Nichols discuss how they've seen grit brought to life by fellow Penn Staters. Episode transcript

    19 min

  2. 05/24/2021

    S02E3 - Inequalities in higher education

    As a first-generation college student, Renea Nichols came to know how differing backgrounds shaped how she and her peers navigated the higher ed world. Now, as an assistant teaching professor in Penn State's Bellisario College of Communications, Nichols puts that experience to use to help give her students an equitable experience. With the pandemic providing even deeper context around students' inequalities, Nichols joins co-hosts Ray Schmitt and Zach Lonsinger to talk about how she combats it, how to advocate for deeper change, and more. Please Note: As Penn State prepares for more in-person instruction during the summer and fall 2021 semesters, changes have been made to the technology loaner program that's mentioned in this episode. Please visit the University's Keep Teaching and Keep Learning websites for more details. One Penn State 2025 Episode transcript

    16 min

  3. 05/24/2021

    S02E2 - Student Engagement

    When the pandemic shut down in-person instruction at Penn State, assistant teaching professor Renea Nichols traveled to Arizona to live with family. From there she continued to teach her Bellisario College of Communications students, and worked hard to keep them engaged with the course materials. In this episode, Nichols talks with co-hosts Ray Schmitt and Zach Lonsinger about how her idea of student engagement has evolved, what student engagement could look like in a post-pandemic world, and more. The Gorilla Glue story Episode transcript

    15 min

  4. 05/24/2021

    S02E1 - Get to know Renea Nichols

    Welcome to Season Two of The Dreamery Sessions! Join Ray Schmitt and Zach Lonsinger in getting to know this season's guest co-host Renea Nichols. An assistant teaching professor in the Bellisario College of Communications, Nichols has a strong track record of innovative and creative teaching methods. Their conversation touches on Nichols' teaching background, how she used technology to help virtually welcome a cohort of first-year students, and more. Penn State's LEAP program How Nichols created a virtual office and classroom Explore Bitmojis Episode transcript

    15 min

  5. 02/16/2021

    S02E0 - The Bridge Episode

    We're back! This episode features a conversation with Jennifer Sparrow, associate vice president for Teaching and Learning with Technology and deputy chief information officer at Penn State. She shares her approach to leading the organization through COVID, lessons learned from the pandemic, and more. Also, Ray and Zach set the table for The Dreamery Session's full Season Two coming later this spring, highlighted by the announcement of a special guest co-host who will be a part of each episode. Show Notes: Tech Tutors and Tech TAs Learn more about our new guest co-host Episode transcript

    25 min

  6. 12/11/2019

    S01E7 - The Moral Moments story

    How does an idea grow into something greater? What's needed to take an instructor's inspiration for improving students' communication skills and turn it into a course that has the potential to impact tens of thousands of students at Penn State? Susan Russell, associate professor in the Penn State School of Theatre and former Penn State Laureate, and Cyrstal Ramsay, manager of faculty programs with Teaching and Learning with Technology at Penn State, joined The Dreamery Sessions to discuss the Moral Moments project and how the Penn State community made its growth possible. Show Notes: The Moral Moments project Episode transcription

    31 min

  7. 11/15/2019

    S01E6 - Student innovation

    How do you stand out among over 40,000 students at Penn State's University Park campus or among the nearly 100,000 combined Penn State students when you add the Commonwealth Campuses and World Campus? Let us introduce you to Carly Siegel and Khaled Khalil, two undergraduates at University Park who are taking advantage of available resources to make an impact on their education and their peers' education. Show Notes: Penn State's active and experimental learning spaces Lion Launchpad SLO Episode transcript

    32 min

  8. 10/22/2019

    S01E5 - Digital Fluency at Penn State Greater Allegheny

    Penn State Greater Allegheny is advancing digital fluency by undertaking a project to provide free access for its students and faculty to iPads. The project has been in existence for a little over a year and it took a great deal of collaboration among administration, faculty, and staff to bring it to life. In this episode we talk to Dr. Jacqueline Edmondson, chancellor and chief academic officer at Greater Allegheny about the strategy and implementation of the digital fluency project along with Larry Dupak and Lori Hepner, two faculty members making use of the iPads in their coursework. Show Notes Penn State Greater Allegheny Adobe Creative Cloud at Penn State Træna Municipality in Norway iNaturalist MC Escher and tessellation Episode transcription

    33 min
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Coming to you from Penn State, co-hosts Ray Schmitt and Zach Lonsinger have conversations with faculty and students who are transforming the way teaching and learning happen. These stories will weave through larger themes of digital fluency, innovation, creativity, and emerging technology.

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  • Creator
    Penn State TLT
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2021
  • Episodes
    13
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Penn State TLT
  • Show Website
    The Dreamery Sessions