Presenter: Kelly Brennan, Instructional Designer, Teaching Commons

Date: March 28, 2022 10:00 - 11:30 am

Description: In this workshop, we will discuss some of the ways that we may use Google for our teaching and learning contexts. We will explore how we can use Google applications for teaching and how we might ask our students to use them for learning. By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

• Discuss the justification for a collaborative learning/teaching approach
• Re-introduce the “tried and true” applications of Google
• Demonstrate a variety of examples for use in-class, online, or via a hybrid/blended class model

Presenter: Jerri-Lynn Orr, Indigenous Curriculum Specialist, Teaching Commons

Date: March 24, 2022

Time: 1:00-2:00 pm

Description: This workshop will provide an opportunity for relationship building while hearing a short overview of the Indigenous Content Requirement at Lakehead University. A framework for interweaving Indigenous approaches into your curriculum, and how the Indigenous Curriculum Specialist can support you in your work will be shared. There will be a time for a circle discussion and questions.

Presenter:  Kelly Brennan, Instructional Designer, Teaching Commons

Dates: February 14, 2022 10:00 - 11:30 am

Description: This workshop is designed to discuss some of the challenges and possible solutions to facilitating group work in our classrooms. By the end of this session, participants should be able to:

• share strategies you’ve implemented when teaching with group work;
• consider effective strategies for implementing group work;
• discuss a variety of ways to facilitate group work and group dynamics in face to face, blended, and online modalities.

Presenter: Denise Baxter, Vice-Provost, Indigenous Initiatives

Date: February 23, 2022

Time: 1:00-2:00 pm

Description: This workshop will give faculty an opportunity to meet with the Vice Provost of Indigenous initiatives where she will provide an overview of the support and services that the Office of Indigenous Initiatives and Indigenous Student Services Centre has to offer faculty, staff and students.

Presenter: Dr. Rhonda Dubec, Coordinator of Instructional Development, Teaching Commons

Dates: February 9, 2022 10:00-11:30 am

Description: Providing options for how students reach a given learning objective “can develop self-determination, pride in accomplishment, and increase the degree to which they feel connected to their learning” (CAST’s UDL Guidelines, Checkpoint 7.1, “Optimize individual choice and autonomy”). In this session, we explore choice boards as one tool for allowing students choice and autonomy in assessment while, at the same time, ensuring that the rigor of the course content and instruction are not compromised.

Presenter: Kelly Brennan, Instructional Designer, Teaching Commons

Dates: January 31st, 10:00 - 11:30 am

Description: In this workshop, we will explore the benefits of using rubrics as a form of assessment feedback. Particularly, we will focus on building rubrics using the Rubrics tool in mycourselink/D2L. By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

• Determine what type of rubric(s) works best for their assessments;
• Consider how to build and use rubrics effectively;
• Develop a rubric in mycourselinkéD2L that may be used for one of their course assessments.

Presenters: Dr. Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux, Chair on Truth & Reconciliation

Date: January 27, 2022

Time: 1:00-2:00 pm

Description: Cynthia will unpack some of what we already know about and suggest some additional steps towards promising practices using the 7 Grandfather Teachings.

Presenter: Dr. Abhijit Rao, Academic Support Zone Coordinator, Student Success Centre

Dates: January 18, 10:00-11:30 am

Description: "Faculty Toolkit for Helping Students at Risk" -- This presentation will share the D2L toolkit created in collaboration with the Faculty of Business Administration. The toolkit contains a comprehensive set of resources, suggested steps, and set of communication resources that instructors could use to connect students at risk to supports across campus that would help them cope with their academic journey at Lakehead University.

Presenter: Kelly Brennan, Instructional Designer, Teaching Commons

Dates:  January 17, 10:00 - 11:30 am

Description:  Researchers Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe have explained how the backward design approach is to look at a course, module, or lesson with the end in view first.  This workshop will introduce faculty to the backward design approach. By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Identify the characteristics of the backward approach to course design
• Consider how learning outcomes can be used to design assessments
• Assess the types of multimedia and resources available to assist with student learning
• Determine the different teaching and planning strategies that might be used with a backward design approach

Discover how to turn assignments and hypothetical case studies into a real-world experience for your students, with the support from Riipen, North America's leading experiential learning platform.

Join Maryann Kleynendorst, Experiential Learning Navigator, Faculty of Business Administration, Kevin Brooks, Social Justice Studies Program (MA) Advisor, Graham Passmore, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, and Ayman Alahmar, Assistant Professor, Department of Software Engineering in an interactive and engaging panel discussion sharing their personal experiences using Riipen in their learning environments.  Participants will also receive background information on how Riipen: 

• Supports educators in easily creating valuable experiential learning projects (or Community and Industry Research & Projects - CIRPS - as defined by CEWIL's latest definitions of WIL) that satisfy your learning objectives. 

• Helps you easily connect with employers and has an LMS-integrated platform to help you easily manage these projects.

Following the session, Harris Green - our Academic Account Manager from Riipen - will be hosting a 1 hour (optional) office hour session on Zoom where participants will be able receive individualized support with designing their course posting.

To learn more about this session and register, visit: 

https://learn.riipen.com/webinar-lakehead-1/