This workshop focuses on teaching strategies for teaching writing in instructors’ respective disciplines. Topics covered include assignment planning for integrating discipline-specific writing in courses and ways to make teaching writing efficient and relevant for students.

The Intelligent Agent tool in myCourselink/D2L can be used to send personalized automated email notifications to learners based on specific criteria or conditions determined by an instructor. Whether teaching online, hybrid, or in-person, instructors can use agents to facilitate timely and relevant communication at critical junctures to help boost engagement, keep learners on task, and gain insights into learner behaviour. 

In this session, participants will be presented with a variety of ways they might use Intelligent Agents for their teaching and learning contexts. Participants will then be instructed on how to set up an intelligent agent in myCourselink/D2L for their own classes.

Dates: January 16 - 27, 2023  (10 hrs over 2 weeks)

Description: Learning the basics of audio recording and editing can serve as the backbone for this technological shift. From understanding the fundamentals of “good” quality voice recording to the basics of audio editing, instructors can begin to create a wide variety of content. From instructional podcasts to audio marking responses or even adding voice content to presentations, the Audio for Education workshop will help you develop the basic skills to make a sound start.

Open-resource assessments support a learner-centered environment that reduces test taking anxiety and increases student satisfaction. This presentation will highlight the utility of open-book and open-web assessments as innovative learning tools in synchronous, hybrid and asynchronous course modalities as they allow students to personalize their learning experience in tandem with instructor-led activities. Results from student cohort performance in focal and co-requisite courses will be presented, as well as flexible strategies for mitigating grade inflation. These methodologies can be applied to nursing and non-nursing disciplines with equal success.

Ryan Carbone, Professor: Biochemistry & Pathophysiology, Cambrian College

Dr. Shannon Dowdall-Smith, RN, PhD, Cambrian College

Thursday, November 10, 12:00pm – 1:00pm EST

Registration link: https://ecampusontario.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__N97SuKIStio8s0clrKfag

This event is part of the TESS 2022 virtual conference. 

The Technology and Education Seminar and Showcase (TESS) Conference has been eCampusOntario’s annual flagship event since 2015. This year’s theme – The Hybrid Experience: Designing the Future of Learning – explores the evolution of an integrated digital and in-person education environment, the future of delivering vibrant learning experiences, and the steps we take today for a more effective and sustainable tomorrow.

In hybrid education, the elements of knowledge, agency, and responsibility are shared amongst staff and students, and educators must navigate messy, post-digital spaces of teaching and learning where nothing is entirely digital or non-digital. This is particularly pronounced in hybrid design, where remote and on campus students are brought together in intentionally extended spaces, both constraining and strengthening possibilities for design, communication, and practice.

Dr. Tim Fawns, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Education, University of Edinburgh

Wednesday, November 9, 12:00pm – 1:00pm EST

Registration link: https://ecampusontario.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_hOWLI3o8SuSf4aVJhbxNKA

This event is part of the TESS 2022 virtual conference. 

The Technology and Education Seminar and Showcase (TESS) Conference has been eCampusOntario’s annual flagship event since 2015. This year’s theme – The Hybrid Experience: Designing the Future of Learning – explores the evolution of an integrated digital and in-person education environment, the future of delivering vibrant learning experiences, and the steps we take today for a more effective and sustainable tomorrow.

How do we design an equitable future of learning? Advancing knowledge and skills for equity-informed activist multimedia design, this presentation will launch a newly developed training curriculum called “Activist Design in Educational Multimedia”. With the aim of sparking collaboration, this session will be a rallying call for a community of practice that is largely absent professional teaching and learning networks provincially and nationally: that of educational multimedia designers seeking justice as part of the learning experience.

Rebecca Sweetman, Associate Director - Educational Technologies | Arts and Science Online, Faculty of Arts and Science, Queen’s University

Yasmine Djerbal, Ph.D., Educational Developer - Anti-Racism and Inclusion | Centre for Teaching and Learning, Queen’s University

Monday, November 7, 12:00pm – 1:00pm EST

Registration Link: https://ecampusontario.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_EFRdzJWHRVit4aAAFOKC2g

This event is part of the TESS 2022 virtual conference. 

The Technology and Education Seminar and Showcase (TESS) Conference has been eCampusOntario’s annual flagship event since 2015. This year’s theme – The Hybrid Experience: Designing the Future of Learning – explores the evolution of an integrated digital and in-person education environment, the future of delivering vibrant learning experiences, and the steps we take today for a more effective and sustainable tomorrow.

The theme of Teaching and Learning Week 2022 is trauma-informed pedagogy. Rooted in the theory of trauma-informed practice, trauma-informed pedagogy reminds us that stress can impede a person’s ability to process information, make choices, and stay focussed. Ultimately, it’s more difficult to learn (and to teach) when your brain is already overwhelmed with survival. During this week, we will explore trauma-informed pedagogy, how it applies to teachers and students, and how to create safe classrooms for all. 

Teaching and Learning Week 2022 will also feature a “SoTL mini-conference” – an opportunity to showcase your own scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) for your colleagues. Share your research on teaching and learning and how you improve the experiences of students in your courses.

Schedule

The world’s largest social media platform could face a future of tighter regulations and more stringent rules. Facebook (now known as Meta) and its various social media platforms (including Instagram, WhatsApp, and the core Facebook product) host more than half of the world’s population. This scale provides the tech giant unprecedented corporate, social, and, most importantly, political power in the social networking space. Amid the amount of power and influence the app wields, it’s been the subject of accusations for failing to prevent the spread of misinformation and inflaming tensions worldwide. However, it is the role that the app has played in impacting politics around the globe that is sending shockwaves and concerns among various regulatory spheres.

 "On June 16, 2022, the federal government introduced Bill C-27, Digital Charter Implementation Act, 2022. If passed, the potential Digital Charter could greatly enhance the security of internet users across the country while streamlining the flow of information across our digital platforms".

Join David Bruno, cyber security expert, as he explains (in plain language) the policy behind Bill C-27 and shares insights from his latest White Paper “Public Policy to the ‘Meta’ Rescue!” and the Government’s attempt at restoring user rights from social media giants. 

This event is part of Cyber Security Awareness Month.  Visit our website for more information.

Register in advance for this meeting:
https://lakeheadu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcrdOuorT0qGNfXxeOQNEzBMvFd2AJp5mSx

If you have an interest in developing, and embedding media assets in your course this workshop will provide you with a wealth of options to choose from across your entire course!

As we go through this workshop we will assess the requirements for quality audio, video, and information graphic creations, and easy methods for creating impactful AVG’s for your course.

Oct 24th [via D2L] & Oct 25th 9:30-10:30 [via Zoom]