1) Virtual Lunch & Learn Webinar: PowerPoint as a Design Tool for Learning – March 11 | 12 p.m. – 1 p.m. 

Building on the Designing Presentations and Online Lessons with the Brain in Mind webinar delivered in Fall 2019 this session will provide practical tips for using PowerPoint to create more impactful information design. Whether you use PowerPoint to deliver presentations or as a basis for creating digital learning content for your courses, this session will share visual layout techniques for optimizing learning.

Workshop Learning Outcomes

• Briefly review of cognitive load and its relation to how people absorb information
• Explore information hierarchy and its role in conveying meaning
• Discuss key principles and elements of design
• Discuss effective ways to use text, images, and audio
• Consider best export formats to support specific teaching/learning purposes

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2) Virtual Lunch & Learn Webinar: Extend Your Teaching Superpowers with Video Tools – March 20 | 11 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Seifert (2019) suggests that recorded lectures provide flexibility that enhances student learning that leads to academic success. Utilizing videos, students are empowered to complete activities, review material, and address gaps in their learning. In this discussion, you will interact using tools that empower you to extend beyond a traditional classroom delivery. Online, face-to-face or a combination, we have a little something for everyone. Learn how educators are using screen casting tools for online office hours, snow-day classes, feedback and to extend learning beyond classroom instruction. Hear from a student their perspective of participating in a video enhanced learning environment.

Workshop Learning Outcomes

• Use online video tools to extend your teaching superpowers

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3) Virtual Lunch & Learn Webinar: Strategies to Boost Learner Engagement in the Synchronous Online Learning Environment – March 24 | 12 p.m. – 1 p.m.

Synchronous online classes require instructor and students to be present online at a specific day and time. One of the advantages of this modality is the increased students’ connection to their instructor and peers (Watts, 2016). However, often instructors integrate less effective strategies (e.g., lecturing, lack of structure) into their synchronous sessions, which decreases engagement with the course. To boost student engagement requires finding the approach of translating the best online and face-to-face strategies into the synchronous online environment. Strategies presented at this workshop offer the potential for creating supportive spaces that increase students’ cognitive engagement in the synchronous online settings.

Workshop Learning Outcomes

• Suggest appropriate synchronous online learning strategies for specific scenarios
• Create a list of instructional strategies to boost learner engagement in the synchronous online learning environment

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4) Virtual Lunch & Learn Webinar: Accessible Word Documents Made Simple – April 3 | 11 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Ontario is the first province in Canada to legislate a timeframe for the implementation and subsequent enforcement for accessibility compliance by 2025. Adhering to AODA means that college staff and faculty are responsible for keeping accessibility requirements at the forefront while creating and disseminating electronic information. Approximately 75% of the documents created by Ontario colleges are either created in MS Word or in MS PowerPoint. Fortunately, several applications in Microsoft suite have similar commands and options, thus if you know how to work with one of the applications within the Microsoft suite you can transfer that knowledge over to other applications as well. Learn how to create accessible word document in simple way.

Workshop Learning Outcomes

• Using built-in headings and styles to make documents easier to navigate
• Adding alt text to visuals and tables and creating accessible hyperlinks
• Saving files as accessible pdf documents
• Finding and using accessible word templates
• Using the accessibility checker to identify and fix potential accessibility issues

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Advising & Career Services at Humber College conducts an annual Advisor Training Conference. Each year, the Advisor Training Conference has a theme reflected in aspects of holistic approach to student advising. The attendees of this conference will be from Humber College, University of Guelph Humber and Humber Community Outreach and Workforce Development. 

This year our theme is “Advising Without Silos: Collaborating for Student Success”. The training conference will be taking place on May 27 at the North Campus and May 28 at the Lakeshore Campus. Please mark your calendars. 

On behalf of our Advisor Training Program Committee, we are excited to launch a new opportunity to our colleagues. This year we are encouraging staff and faculty who are interested to submit proposals to present. Sessions will be scheduled for approximately one hour. If you are interested in submitting a proposal please complete the Presentation Proposal Form.  

Deadline to submit a presentation proposal is March 18, 2020. Successful presentations will be contacted by end of March. We hope that you will submit a proposal and join us as we continue to advance the field of advising and student success at Humber. 

Presentation Proposal Form

Please join us for free pie (while supplies last) in the Math & Writing Centre at 1:59 p.m. on Friday, March 13 to celebrate Pi Day.

Since the actual Pi Day is on Saturday (3.14), we are setting up the event to run one day earlier.

This event will take place at the Dan Andreae Math & Writing Centre on the 3rd Floor of the LRC and at the Lakeshore Math & Writing Centre in F201.

All members of the Humber and Guelph-Humber community are welcome.

Be sure to join us for some pie and much measured merriment.

Join us on March 12 at the Barrett CTI for a Humber community event about sustainability, the future of work and the launch of Humber’s institutional learning outcomes.  

Agenda: View the complete agenda on the event website here.  

Register for engaging workshops that suit your interests and availability: 

• Disaster Relief: Packing Family Emergency Kits  
• Go for the Goals: Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Workshop 
• Learning by Leading™ at the Humber Arboretum: Experiential Learning for Students 
• Projects with International Partners from Humber’s Global Polytechnic Alliance (GPA) 
• Interact with the Humber Learning Outcomes: An Introduction to the Framework 

How to register: 

• Faculty and Staff: Register for this event here. RSVP soon, as spaces are limited. 
• Invite your students! Students can register here for student-focused workshops. 

Other event highlights include:   

• Networking breakfast with industry partners 
• Remarks by Chris Whitaker, Bob Barrett from the Barrett Family Foundation and President of IGNITE, Monica Khosla 
• Keynote address by Rahul Singh, Humber graduate and Founder & Executive Director of GlobalMedic 
• The launch of Humber’s learning outcomes framework  

To honour Humber’s commitment to sustainability, we will be serving environmentally conscious food options and will be making efforts to minimize our footprint. 

For those who can’t attend, the keynote address and the launch of Humber’s institutional learning outcomes will be livestreamed and recorded. 
 
If you have any questions, please contact lara.mcinnis@humber.ca or sarah.nieman@humber.ca. 

I look forward to moving towards a sustainable future with you and our students. 

 
Vera Beletzan 
Senior Dean, Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences and Innovative Learning 
Project Lead, HLO Project