Building on the information and examples from Universal Design I, this session outlines ways to integrate Universal Design for Learning (UDL) more fully into one’s course design and delivery. It also presents further practical suggestions for concrete ways you can make your teaching, the students’ learning, and your course as a whole more “universal.” 

In this workshop, participants will explore the Video Assignments tool in D2L/mycourselink and consider the variety of ways this tool can be used in their classrooms. We will discuss effective teaching strategies for using video assignments in specific teaching and learning contexts.

Please register through Libcal

Zoom link will be emailed the day before the workshop

Workshop will be recorded

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.

Please register through Libcal

Zoom link will be sent out the day of the workshop

Workshop will be recorded

Presenters: Dr. Julie Rosenthal, Assistant Professor, School of Outdoor Recreation, Parks and Tourism

Eryn Barker, Lead Customer Success Specialist, Hypothesis

Thursday, November 4th, 1:30 - 2:30 pm

Description: Social annotation allows students and instructors to highlight and comment on assigned readings in an interactive way.  Students engage more with their readings as they contribute their reactions to the text and react to one another's comments on the assigned readings.  In this workshop, instructors will be introduced to a social annotation tool called Hypothes.is, which is available this year through our mycourselink/D2L platform at Lakehead University.  The presenters will provide an overview of the Hypothes.is platform and share a case study of its successful use in a 4th-year undergraduate course at Lakehead University.

Please register through Libcal

Zoomlink will be sent out on the day of the workshop

Workshop will be recorded

Presenters: Dr. Jessica Jurgutis

Assistant Professor, Department of Gender & Women’s Studies & Indigenous Learning

Date: October 29, 2021, 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Description: What are land acknowledgements and what do they mean? In this workshop, Dr. Jurgutis will journey beside us as we learn what they are and why we use them today.

Please register through Libcal

Zoom link will be sent out the day of the workshop

Workshop will be recorded

Presenter: eCampusOntario

Dates: September 14, 15, and 16 

Description:To assist Ontario Educators preparing for new and varied approaches to teaching in Fall 2021, eCampusOntario is offering an Extending Into Fall 1-hour Workshop series September 14, 15, and 16, from 1:00 - 2:00 pm. Online Workshop facilitators bring specialized expertise in areas that will be helpful as you adapt your teaching practices for Fall 2021. This is your chance to come together with the community, meet colleagues, collaborate, share new ideas and learn from each other.

To learn more about these workshops and to register, visit 

https://extend.ecampusontario.ca/community-of-practice/

CommuniTeach Sessions (Faculty sharing and discussion) 

Facilitator: Kelly Brennan, Teaching Commons

Date: on-going: September 23rd at 1p-2:30p, October 21st 1-230, November 18 1-2:30, December 16 1-2:30

Description here: These sessions are intended to be an informal discussion amongst faculty and an opportunity to explore and identify a variety of topics related to teaching. Questions will be prepared to facilitate, encourage, and support the conversation, but our goal is to create an environment where faculty can share their stories and experiences with one another and so that we may learn from each other, continue to grow, and support each other in our pedagogical practice.

Topic Themes:

September - Creating Community

Register Here: https://libcal.lakeheadu.ca/event/3631782

October - Assessments

Register Here:https://libcal.lakeheadu.ca/event/3631779

November - Engagement

Register Here:https://libcal.lakeheadu.ca/event/3631780

December - Mid or end of semester reflection

Register Here:https://libcal.lakeheadu.ca/event/3631781

Bring Experiential Learning to Your Students with Riipen - 1:00 pm (weekly on Tuesdays)

Learn how Riipen can help educators easily launch and manage industry-focused experiential learning in the classroom.

In this information session you will learn:

• How curriculum-embedded WIL improves student outcomes

• What a quality co-learning experience with an industry partner can look like in your classroom

• How to easily convert your syllabus into a Riipen Course Page

• Why student engagement increases when using Riipen

• How Riipen's course management tools make project based learning easy

Sessions run weekly at 1:00 pm.  Visit the session information page for full details and to access the registration link. 

More details on the Lakehead/RBC/Riipen partnership can be found here.

Skills gaps exist in part because instructors often rely on indirect evidence from paper-based assessments to gauge a student's comprehension level. Choosing or describing the right answer isn't the same as putting knowledge into action. In order to close these gaps, students need skill-building opportunities and timely feedback to help them improve. To this point, resource constraints have made it difficult for organizations to scale skill practice and evaluation using traditional methods. Video Assignments (available in mycourselink) enable experiential learning and soft skill development at scale. When students demonstrate skills and knowledge on video, instructors get an authentic representation of what they can do. Join us for a workshop to see how you can put your student's knowledge into action with Video Assignments.  

This workshop will take a deeper dive into some of the tools introduced in the essentials workshop and introduce course tools that promote collaboration, aid in grading and feedback, and monitor student progress.  Topics will include: 

• creating Groups

• associating groups with the Assignment and Discussion tools

• creating Rubrics

• grading students with Rubrics

• checking User Progress to see how students are progressing through and interacting with your online course