Good evening,

Here are your POD Network Conference updates for Sunday, November 17.

Conference Total

We had a total of 1,200 participants at this year’s conference!

Anchor Session with Sarah Cavanagh

Honeybees, Social Neuroscience, & Team Dynamics: Lessons for Building Community
Sunday, November 17, 8:30–10:00 am

A sense of community in the classroom contributes to effective learning. While traditional pedagogical literature speaks to methods of building community within the classroom, we can also look outside our intellectual silos to other academic disciplines studying effective collaborative groups. In this interactive session, we'll consider powerful research investigating team dynamics in simulated space missions, the social neuroscience of how the brain embeds our social others in our very sense of self, and even how honeybees make collective decisions together. Through interactive activities, we will work together to understand and apply these lessons to the work of the classroom.

Conference Evaluations

Thank you for attending the POD Network's 44th annual conference in Pittsburgh! We will be sending you an email to complete the conference evaluation in the next weeks. Your feedback is valuable in making the POD Network Conferences meaningful and successful.

Submitting and Finding Session Materials

See the POD 2019 Handouts Site for session materials that have already been submitted.

Please follow these steps to submit materials for your session—slides, notes, and other resources.

• Create a new email to [email protected]
• The subject line of the email should include the last names of all presenters and the title of your session (e.g., Smith, Jones, and Johnson: Teaching without learning is just talking)
• Remove all existing content from the body of the email. Please note, if you have an email signature, please remove it as well (N.B.: the message will be available on the web)
• Paste the abstract from your session into the body of the email
• Attach any files you want to share; e.g., slides, handouts, and worksheets
• Verify that your attachment was submitted successfully by searching for presenter(s) or title on the POD 2019 Handouts Site.

We appreciate all the work each of you did to make this conference such a wonderful experience—both professionally and personally. We have been honored to serve as your conference team this year, and we look forward to seeing you in Seattle in 2019.

Paul Gebb and Antonia Levy, Conference Co-Chairs

Claudia Cornejo Happel and German Vargas Ramos, Program Co-Chairs

Hoag Holmgren, POD Network Executive Director