As a valued Humber College employee, you now have privileged access to preferred insurance rates from TD Insurance Meloche Monnex on car, home, condo, and renter’s coverage.
These rates are available to all Humber employees and retirees.
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The Teaching in a Digital World Certificate program is designed to meet the needs of a diverse group of learners with varying degrees of teaching experience in the online and/or hybrid environment. While teaching in an online environment shares many characteristics with face-to-face teaching, it is a fundamentally different educational experience for instructors and students.
The certificate is comprised of three sequential individual courses that are designed to develop essential online teaching competencies. Participants engage as a learner, facilitator, and beginner over the three courses.
Course are only offered online. Refer to the attachment for course dates.
To register for the Winter 2019 semester or if you have any questions, please contact Falisha Rowe, Administrative Coordinator, at falisha.rowe@humber.ca.
Looking for a unique gift for the beer lover in your life this holiday season? Sign them up for HRT's Brewing Small Batch Beers CE workshop!
This two-session course is an all grain one-gallon full brew day, starting from raw ingredients all the way to packaged beer. Session one includes the actual brew day, which is 4 to 5 hours in length. Students will be provided with a Brooklyn Brewshop kit with a choice of three different beer styles. The brew day will go through the process of mashing, lautering, boiling, cooling, sanitation and yeast pitching.
The wort is left to ferment for two weeks as the yeast transforms the wort into beer. When the beer is fully fermented students will return for session two to package the beer into bottles to take home to enjoy!
Two sessions:
Cost: $299
To purchase your tickets, please visit humberbeer.eventbrite.ca. For more information, please contact savio.colaco@humber.ca.
The Culturally Inclusive Educator Certificate (CIEC) program is designed for people teaching, training, facilitating or advising in the publlic or private sector. The certificate is comprised of five courses to help strengthen and enhance participants' intercultural knowledge, communication, curriculum development and differentiated teaching skills when teaching and supporting international higher education students. Upon completion of the certificate, participants will have devleoped a framework of actions they can integrate into their own practices.
Each course is offered online for the Winter 2019 semester.
Registration opens November 20: humber.ca/continuingeducation/programs/culturally-inclusive-educator.html
| When | Saturday, November 10 at 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. |
| Location | All floors in the Learning Resource Commons (LRC) building will be closed |
Students and employees will not be allowed entry to the LRC building during this power service interruption.
Alternate study spaces are available at:
Enter and access these labs through D building, on the north side, by Tim Hortons.
Humber is joining more than 100 countries to celebrate International Education Week (IEW) from November 13-16, 2018.
International education has significant benefits to our campus community and Canadian social, economic, and cultural well-being. Activities, programs and events, from a variety of campus partners throughout the week, will highlight and raise awareness of the opportunities and benefits of international education.
Each day will focus on one of the four strategic pillars from the new Internationalization Strategy (2018-2023).
| Tuesday, November 13 | “Bringing the World to Humber” |
| Wednesday, November 14 | “Internationalization at Home” |
| Thursday, November 15 | “Taking Humber to the World” |
| Friday, November 16 | “Globalization of Humber’s Polytechnic Identity” |
This year's events include:
Tuesday November 13
Wednesday November 14
Thursday November 15
Friday November 16
Technology is evolving at Humber, and Information Technology Services has launched Office 365 and OneDrive to our systems. If you are new to OneDrive/Office 365, or already utilizing them, consider attending one of the workshops offered below to discover how OneDrive/Office 365 will enhance the way you work.
OneDrive
Learn about a new way of storing your data securely, whether you are on campus, working from home, travelling abroad, or even while on your phone! This course will review the basics of OneDrive, how to manage your files, as well as how to easily share your files for collaboration.
Office 365
Office 365 is the new approach of accessing all the Microsoft products you already know. It uses web-based services, also known as ‘the cloud’ and is accessible on a variety of platforms. This course will give an overview of the new features you will definitely want to use.
Facilitator: Stephanie Maggs, Information Technology Services
Please click on the session date below to register, or email Michelle or Maureen at learninghrs@humber.ca to secure your spot.
Lakeshore Campus
Room A237: 1 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
North Campus
Room L132: 9 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Thank you!
Full-time Humber faculty, Marcin Kedzior, is launching the latest issue of his journal Scapegoat: Architecture, Landscape, and Political Economy at the Architectural Ecologies Lab at the CCA in San Francisco on November 14, and at the Center for Environmental Design at Berkeley, sponsored by the Berkeley Center for New Media, on November 19. There will also be a launch in November at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MoCCA) in Toronto.
In 2018, along with Ja Architecture Studio Inc (Toronto); and Patkau Architects (Vancouver), the journal was shortlisted to curate the Canadian pavilion at the premier architecture exhibition in the world, the Venice Architecture Biennale.
The journal is available at the Humber library and here.
Join us on campus for a Mood Walk to benefit your mental health. Free drop-in, organized walks on campus for students, staff and faculty.
Mood Walks for Campus is an initiative that encourages physical activity as a way to improve both physical and mental health. This free, flexible and fun opportunity is open to all students, staff and faculty at the University of Guelph-Humber and Humber College. An increasing body of evidence suggests that one of the best ways to improve well-being is by simply spending more time outdoors. Spending time in nature has been shown to reduce stress, improve concentration, and bolster creative problem-solving.
North Campus Mood Walks program features three regular weekly walks:
Plus, additional walks planned by various groups on campus:
Stay tuned for more opportunities to join Mood Walks! New website with full Mood Walks schedule coming soon.
Our flags will be lowered on Sunday, November 11 for Remembrance Day.
