Cassandra Volpe Horii
@cvhorii.bsky.social
I lead a center for teaching & learning + work on the education part of #HigherEd. Co-author: What Teaching Looks Like: Higher Education through Photographs https://bit.ly/WTTL2022. Posts = my opinions only. #EdDev #STEMed #FirstGen https://linktr.ee/cvh
Making some things about AI lately - a library of examples of assignments, course policies, in-class activities, etc., and a synthesis of emerging practices: ctl.stanford.edu/aimes/aimes-...
AIMES Library of Examples
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September 12, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Making some things about AI lately - a library of examples of assignments, course policies, in-class activities, etc., and a synthesis of emerging practices: ctl.stanford.edu/aimes/aimes-...
I'm catching up on the work of a truly gifted writer with whom I've lost touch in recent years. This essay is still deeply, sadly relevant now. "On Being a Parent Amid this Latest Anti-trans Violence" by Eric LeMay. ericlemay.org/On-Being-A-P...
August 10, 2025 at 3:51 PM
I'm catching up on the work of a truly gifted writer with whom I've lost touch in recent years. This essay is still deeply, sadly relevant now. "On Being a Parent Amid this Latest Anti-trans Violence" by Eric LeMay. ericlemay.org/On-Being-A-P...
This worked for me! I have been looking for this fix. Thanks @lizneeley.bsky.social.
A while ago, we started a #FixItFriday tradition. We keep a running list - large & small, digital & analog, anything broken or annoying - and work on it together.
Today's 30-second fix: to remove AI "preview" from search results, here's the setting for Chrome users: www.reddit.com/r/techsuppor...
Today's 30-second fix: to remove AI "preview" from search results, here's the setting for Chrome users: www.reddit.com/r/techsuppor...
July 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM
This worked for me! I have been looking for this fix. Thanks @lizneeley.bsky.social.
After a wonderful intro to #linocut with @thewonderstruck.bsky.social earlier this year, I’ve been enjoying this form of making. Postcard press from openpressproject.com.
June 5, 2025 at 11:41 PM
After a wonderful intro to #linocut with @thewonderstruck.bsky.social earlier this year, I’ve been enjoying this form of making. Postcard press from openpressproject.com.
Helpful ideas for classes, meetings, and other settings with people
March 18, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Helpful ideas for classes, meetings, and other settings with people
At least this and also this one www.acenet.edu/Policy-Advoc...
February 11, 2025 at 3:26 AM
At least this and also this one www.acenet.edu/Policy-Advoc...
Here's a new and important consensus study from @nationalacademies.org: Transforming Undergraduate STEM Education: Supporting Equitable and Effective Teaching. #STEMEd #Undergrad #HigherEd #Postsecondary #Teaching #Learning nap.nationalacademies.org/resource/282...
Transforming Undergraduate STEM Education: Supporting Equitable and Effective Teaching
Transforming Undergraduate STEM Education: Supporting Equitable and Effective Teaching
nap.nationalacademies.org
January 24, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Here's a new and important consensus study from @nationalacademies.org: Transforming Undergraduate STEM Education: Supporting Equitable and Effective Teaching. #STEMEd #Undergrad #HigherEd #Postsecondary #Teaching #Learning nap.nationalacademies.org/resource/282...
In “A Model for Driving Institutional Change through Equity-Minded Inquiry Teams” at #POD24 w/ Amit Savkar, Milagros Castillo-Montoya, Jillian Ives: faculty in cross-functional teams away a focus on “what’s going on with our practices” not just “what’s going on with our students” 👏 #STEMEd
November 11, 2024 at 9:18 PM
Tues lunch at #POD24, Equity-Based Teaching Collective Lunch Meet-up! Authors shared: this will be a chance to dive into new resource, transformlearning.everylearnereverywhere.org/equity-teach... & discuss actions + ideas.
After getting a box lunch, go to Jackson Park A! 12:00-2:00pm, 12 Nov 2024
After getting a box lunch, go to Jackson Park A! 12:00-2:00pm, 12 Nov 2024
Equity-Based Teaching in Higher Education - Digitally Enabled Teaching & Learning
The Levers that Institutions Can Use for Scaling Improvement Summary In this report, we describe what we mean by equity-based teaching (EBT)–an approach that can support the academic success of Black,...
transformlearning.everylearnereverywhere.org
November 11, 2024 at 9:08 PM
Tues lunch at #POD24, Equity-Based Teaching Collective Lunch Meet-up! Authors shared: this will be a chance to dive into new resource, transformlearning.everylearnereverywhere.org/equity-teach... & discuss actions + ideas.
After getting a box lunch, go to Jackson Park A! 12:00-2:00pm, 12 Nov 2024
After getting a box lunch, go to Jackson Park A! 12:00-2:00pm, 12 Nov 2024
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To all conference attendees everywhere, please never decline a mic. The loudness of a voice is not the only thing that makes it intelligible and so some of us cannot hear you regardless of how well you project.
This is my 11th year of tweeting this plea at various conference
#POD24
This is my 11th year of tweeting this plea at various conference
#POD24
November 11, 2024 at 3:36 PM
To all conference attendees everywhere, please never decline a mic. The loudness of a voice is not the only thing that makes it intelligible and so some of us cannot hear you regardless of how well you project.
This is my 11th year of tweeting this plea at various conference
#POD24
This is my 11th year of tweeting this plea at various conference
#POD24
New Substack from @janerosenzweig.bsky.social - The Important Work - seeking writers & readers on teaching writing in the presence of generative AI. #POD24 folks & others take note!
#genAI #HigherEd #EdDev #Writing#Pedagogy
#genAI #HigherEd #EdDev #Writing#Pedagogy
November 11, 2024 at 3:23 PM
New Substack from @janerosenzweig.bsky.social - The Important Work - seeking writers & readers on teaching writing in the presence of generative AI. #POD24 folks & others take note!
#genAI #HigherEd #EdDev #Writing#Pedagogy
#genAI #HigherEd #EdDev #Writing#Pedagogy
Ten Free Ebooks for Getting Free. Thank you, @haymarketbooks.bsky.social. www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-te...
Ten Free Ebooks for Getting Free
“What keeps us going, ultimately, is our love for each other, and our refusal to bow our heads, to accept the verdict, however all-powerful it seems. It’s what ordinary people have to do. You have to ...
www.haymarketbooks.org
November 11, 2024 at 12:33 PM
Ten Free Ebooks for Getting Free. Thank you, @haymarketbooks.bsky.social. www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-te...
Finally watched #InsideOut2 on the plane to #POD24. Love! Pitch for Inside Out 3 — Menopause! New characters include Hot Flash, Brain Fog, Unapologetically Present, Zero F****, Self Care, and What Is My Body Doing Now. Who’s got a Pixar connection?
November 9, 2024 at 3:09 PM
Finally watched #InsideOut2 on the plane to #POD24. Love! Pitch for Inside Out 3 — Menopause! New characters include Hot Flash, Brain Fog, Unapologetically Present, Zero F****, Self Care, and What Is My Body Doing Now. Who’s got a Pixar connection?
Reposted by Cassandra Volpe Horii
I think I made this feed to pick up all posts tagged with #POD24 from the last seven day: bsky.app/profile/did:....
I used Skyfeed, which is what @lindsaymasland.bsky.social used last year.
I used Skyfeed, which is what @lindsaymasland.bsky.social used last year.
November 5, 2024 at 1:27 PM
I think I made this feed to pick up all posts tagged with #POD24 from the last seven day: bsky.app/profile/did:....
I used Skyfeed, which is what @lindsaymasland.bsky.social used last year.
I used Skyfeed, which is what @lindsaymasland.bsky.social used last year.
New to the field of educational development, working in a center for teaching & learning (including as a "center of one" person!)? This workshop at the upcoming POD Network conference is for you! podnetwork.org/product/pod2...
#HigherEducation
#EducationalDevelopment
#ProfessionalDevelopment
#HigherEducation
#EducationalDevelopment
#ProfessionalDevelopment
POD24 W1: Getting Started: Workshop for New Educational Developers
<h6>A POD NETWORK PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SESSION</h6>
<h5>Sunday, November 10, 2024; 9:00 am to 5:00 pm</h5>
This interactive workshop orients new educational developers to the field. Participants ...
podnetwork.org
October 18, 2024 at 3:46 PM
New to the field of educational development, working in a center for teaching & learning (including as a "center of one" person!)? This workshop at the upcoming POD Network conference is for you! podnetwork.org/product/pod2...
#HigherEducation
#EducationalDevelopment
#ProfessionalDevelopment
#HigherEducation
#EducationalDevelopment
#ProfessionalDevelopment
News about the #StanfordUniversity Course Design Institute! ctl.stanford.edu/news/course-... Many places have these & I'm excited about the 2025 book by Jordan Troisi, @michael-palmer.bsky.social, Mary Wright, Lori Hostetler, & Carol Hurney: Developing High-Impact Course Design Institutes
Stanford instructors explore teaching excellence at the Course Design Institute
Forty Stanford instructors focused on enhancing the student learning experience at the annual Course Design Institute facilitated by CTL
ctl.stanford.edu
October 18, 2024 at 3:44 PM
News about the #StanfordUniversity Course Design Institute! ctl.stanford.edu/news/course-... Many places have these & I'm excited about the 2025 book by Jordan Troisi, @michael-palmer.bsky.social, Mary Wright, Lori Hostetler, & Carol Hurney: Developing High-Impact Course Design Institutes
Course design institute this week (quarter system so we have a later start). What’s your favorite example of expert forgetting? Here’s one: #FoldInTheCheese #HigherEd #teaching
youtube.com/shorts/MWnGm...
youtube.com/shorts/MWnGm...
Step 1: Fold it in. | Schitt's Creek
YouTube video by Prime Video
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September 6, 2024 at 1:02 PM
Course design institute this week (quarter system so we have a later start). What’s your favorite example of expert forgetting? Here’s one: #FoldInTheCheese #HigherEd #teaching
youtube.com/shorts/MWnGm...
youtube.com/shorts/MWnGm...
Yay & thanks @sarosecav.bsky.social for such a wonderful starter pack of amazing colleagues! I am out of practice yet hopeful re: meaningful online community.
So, what's up, friends in higher ed? This photo I took at SFMOMA a few weeks ago comes to mind re: fall 2024.
So, what's up, friends in higher ed? This photo I took at SFMOMA a few weeks ago comes to mind re: fall 2024.
September 3, 2024 at 3:53 PM
Yay & thanks @sarosecav.bsky.social for such a wonderful starter pack of amazing colleagues! I am out of practice yet hopeful re: meaningful online community.
So, what's up, friends in higher ed? This photo I took at SFMOMA a few weeks ago comes to mind re: fall 2024.
So, what's up, friends in higher ed? This photo I took at SFMOMA a few weeks ago comes to mind re: fall 2024.
A genius writer and friend, Anjali Mitter Duva, is launching a new publishing co, Galiot Press, focusing on bold books by new and overlooked authors + transparency, respect, equity, and sustainability! It would help immensely if you sign up for project news at www.kickstarter.com/projects/gal...
Coming soon: Galiot Press
A women-led press publishing bold, astonishing books from new and overlooked voices.
www.kickstarter.com
March 25, 2024 at 5:39 PM
A genius writer and friend, Anjali Mitter Duva, is launching a new publishing co, Galiot Press, focusing on bold books by new and overlooked authors + transparency, respect, equity, and sustainability! It would help immensely if you sign up for project news at www.kickstarter.com/projects/gal...
You are welcome to join the conversation today! Caring Institutions, Successful Students: A Focus on Indigenous Students with the Roundtable on Systemic Change in Undergraduate STEM Education. 2:00 - 4:00 PM EDT via Zoom. #STEM #HigherEd
www.nationalacademies.org/event/42162_...
www.nationalacademies.org/event/42162_...
www.nationalacademies.org
March 18, 2024 at 5:03 PM
You are welcome to join the conversation today! Caring Institutions, Successful Students: A Focus on Indigenous Students with the Roundtable on Systemic Change in Undergraduate STEM Education. 2:00 - 4:00 PM EDT via Zoom. #STEM #HigherEd
www.nationalacademies.org/event/42162_...
www.nationalacademies.org/event/42162_...
Honored that our book is reviewed alongside @cathyndavidson.bsky.social & @katopodis.bsky.social's! "Despite (or because of) their differences, What Teaching Looks Like and The New College Classroom are complementary contributions to the literature on college teaching today.” doi.org/10.1080/0009...
November 29, 2023 at 5:07 PM
Honored that our book is reviewed alongside @cathyndavidson.bsky.social & @katopodis.bsky.social's! "Despite (or because of) their differences, What Teaching Looks Like and The New College Classroom are complementary contributions to the literature on college teaching today.” doi.org/10.1080/0009...
Opportunity to help shape a potentially major new endeavor of the POD Network coming up at 3:30! #POD23 guidebook.com/g/#/guides/p...
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November 18, 2023 at 8:08 PM
Opportunity to help shape a potentially major new endeavor of the POD Network coming up at 3:30! #POD23 guidebook.com/g/#/guides/p...
Light-up Night is Tonight in Pittsburgh - #POD23 folks check it out downtownpittsburghholidays.com/highmark-lig...
Pittsburgh's Light Up Night - Saturday, November 18, 2023 — Downtown Pittsburgh for the Holidays
Highmark Light Up Night returns for its 62nd anniversary celebration on
Saturday, November 18, 2023, for the official kick-off to the holiday
season in Pittsburgh.
downtownpittsburghholidays.com
November 18, 2023 at 7:34 PM
Light-up Night is Tonight in Pittsburgh - #POD23 folks check it out downtownpittsburghholidays.com/highmark-lig...
At #POD23 and ready to get started! Emily Miller & I are facilitating an interactive session, Supporting the Higher Education Instructional Workforce: A Call to Collaborate, on Friday 11/17, based on work with a National Academies Roundtable & this article: doi.org/10.1080/0009... lnkd.in/gFZTzrxM
November 16, 2023 at 1:05 PM
At #POD23 and ready to get started! Emily Miller & I are facilitating an interactive session, Supporting the Higher Education Instructional Workforce: A Call to Collaborate, on Friday 11/17, based on work with a National Academies Roundtable & this article: doi.org/10.1080/0009... lnkd.in/gFZTzrxM