News & Events

 

2023 Academic Integrity Awareness Week (Oct 16-20)

Which Campus? Thunder Bay or Orillia 

MONDAY OCTOBER 16
  • Event: Summarizing, Paraphrasing & Patchwriting Workshop
  • Location: Academic Support Zone (LI 2004)
  • Time: 3pm - 4pm
  • Description: Swing by the Zone as we dive into a useful discussion about the uses and abuses of summarization, paraphrasing, and patchwriting techniques in academic writing.
  • Register Here

 

  • Event: Patchwriting and MLA, APA, and Chicago Style Manual Workshop
  • Location: Academic Support Zone (LI 2004)
  • Time: 4:00pm - 4:30pm
  • Description: "To patchwrite or not to patchwrite, that is the question!" Join us as we learn more about what MLA, APA, and Chicago Style Manuals have to say (or not say) about patchwriting. 
  • Register Here

TUESDAY OCTOBER 17

  • Event: Pressure Points Plinko
  • Location: Agora 
  • Time: 11am - 2pm
  • Description: Stop by the Agora to try your hand at Pressure Points Plinko; a light-hearted game designed to help foster real conversations about the challenges and pressures students face on a daily basis, and the sharing of effective strategies for avoiding common pitfalls.

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 18

  • Event: Spot the Bot Paint Project
  • Location: Library Courtyard
  • Time: 11am - 2pm
  • Description: Visit the Library Courtyard anytime between 11:00am-2:00pm on Wednesday October 18th to create an abstract art masterpiece while also testing your AI (artificial intelligence) knowledge. All you have to do is try your hand at a few skill testing questions and you’ll get water blasters full of colourful paint to design your very own authentic, non-AI generated Jackson Pollock-like art piece. Even more, we will be asking folks to donate their art work to be used in a community art exhibition, which will be curated and on display for passers-by to admire in the Agora. 

THURSDAY OCTOBER 19

  • Event: Pressure Points Plinko
  • Location: Agora
  • Time: 11am - 2pm
  • Description: Stop by the Agora to try your hand at Pressure Points Plinko; a light-hearted game designed to help foster real conversations about the challenges and pressures students face on a daily basis, and the sharing of effective strategies for avoiding common pitfalls.

FRIDAY OCTOBER 20

  • Event: Pressure Points Plinko
  • Location: Agora
  • Time: 11am - 2pm
  • Description: Stop by the Agora to try your hand at Pressure Points Plinko; a light-hearted game designed to help foster real conversations about the challenges and pressures students face on a daily basis, and the sharing of effective strategies for avoiding common pitfalls.

Orillia Campus

TUESDAY OCTOBER 17

  • Event: Pressure Points Plinko & Spot the Bot
  • Location: Simcoe Hall (ORIL)
  • Time: 11am - 1pm
  • Description: Stop by Simcoe Hall to play one of our academic integrity-related games; Pressure Points Plinko and/or Spot the Bot. Pressure Points Plinko is a light-hearted game designed to help foster real conversations about the challenges and pressures students face on a daily basis, and the sharing of effective strategies for avoiding common pitfalls. Spot the Bot is a game that gets you interacting with generative AI outputs, comparing them to human created content, and helps highlight the strengths and weaknesses of tools like ChatGPT. 

THURSDSY OCTOBER 19

  • Event: Pressure Points Plinko & Spot the Bot
  • Location: Heritage Place (ORIL)
  • Time: 11am - 1pm
  • Description: Stop by Heritage Place to play one of our academic integrity-related games; Pressure Points Plinko and/or Spot the Bot. Pressure Points Plinko is a light-hearted game designed to help foster real conversations about the challenges and pressures students face on a daily basis, and the sharing of effective strategies for avoiding common pitfalls. Spot the Bot is a game that gets you interacting with generative AI outputs, comparing them to human created content, and helps highlight the strengths and weaknesses of tools like ChatGPT.