Come learn about InStage and how it can help you enhance your public speaking skills!

InStage is a cloud-based experiential learning tool for individuals looking to enhance their public speaking skills. Whether you need to enhance your business pitching skills, prepare for an interview, or practice speaking skills for networking events, InStage can help strengthen those skills.

Users can choose from a library of simulations including job interviews, introducing themselves, presenting, and business pitches. At the end of each session, users are provided with a detailed progress report that explains the user's rate of speech, use of filler words, volume, and other individualized feedback to enhance the user's skills. 

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Join us for the opening of the Humber North Campus Medicine Garden with special guest Robin Wall Kimmerer. In conjunction with the announcement of the Indigenous Humber Learning Outcome Mindset, Robin will share her knowledge on traditional medicines to the Humber community and explore the four medicines that are now growing in the garden (tobacco, sage, sweetgrass and cedar).

“The land is the real teacher. All we need as students is mindfulness.”

This event will be held at the North Campus in E135 with light refreshments at 2:30 p.m. A virtual option will be available with a Microsoft Teams link sent the day of the event. 

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Data Driven is a one-day event featuring some of Canada’s most prolific investigative reporters, news developers and data advocates providing an in-depth look into the strategies they use to turn raw data into tomorrow’s headlines.

For our first in-person event in three years, we’ll be moving to the Center for Social Innovation’s Spadina location. We’ll be doing things a bit differently this year, with a selection of hands-on workshops in the morning, followed by a catered lunch. In the afternoon, our popular Data-Driven Show ‘n’ Tell will feature journalists discussing a data journalism topic of their choice. Humour and spontaneity are encouraged – and expected.

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In the morning, we have simultaneous sessions running and we kindly request that attendees choose only one workshop to participate in. However, the afternoon Show 'n' Tell is open to all participants.

Session 1: Workshop: How to archive and analyze social media with Bellingcat's Auto Archiver tool (10 a.m. - 12 p.m. EST)

Archiving and analyzing social media posts has long been one of the most painstaking tasks journalists can face in the newsroom. But it doesn’t have to be this way! In this intensive workshop, Bellingcat’s Tristan Lee will take you through the ins and outs of archiving specific content (single videos/social media posts), with Bellingcat’s Auto Archiver tool; ways of archiving larger-scale social media content (entire channel history, multiple channels, etc); as well as some analysis/visualization methods for making sense of larger-scale data.

(Limited space. Bring your own laptop.)

Session 2: Training: Google Journalists Studio (10 a.m. - 12 p.m. EST)

Have a whole whack of PDFs to parse through? Need to build an interactive data visualization on a deadline? Google Journalist Studio offers a selection of powerful tools to help journalists pursue data-driven stories. This year, Google’s Colleen Kimmett will lead a hands-on demonstration of two of these tools: Pinpoint and Flourish.

(Bring your own laptop.)

Session 3: Workshop: Use Google Sheets like a Globe and Mail Data Journalist (10 a.m. - 12:30 p.m EST)

In this hands-on workshop, Globe and Mail data journalists Mahima Singh and Yang Sun will show you how to recreate some of their favourite Globe data projects using Google Sheets. Beginners welcome, though some spreadsheet experience is recommended.

(Bring your own laptop.)

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Discover your unique creative problem-solving profile in this workshop. Explore the Basadur Simplexity Profile, developed by Dr. Min Basadur, to optimize your individual and collective problem-solving capabilities. Gain insights into why you work effectively with certain individuals and not others in a fun and engaging manner. Dive into the process that combines art and science to tackle challenges and opportunities in a fast-paced world that demands quick answers and solutions. Creative Problem Solving (CPS) is a collaborative approach where stakeholders deeply listen, diverge, and converge ideas to discern the best next steps.

Learning Outcomes:

• Understand your unique problem-solving profile
• Understand how to navigate working with team members who may have different views on creative problem solving
• Explore the problem-solving process
• Building on the Simplexity quadrants of CPS, understand the value of a structured approach to provide solutions
• Appreciate the required diverse perspectives that build more substantial outcomes
• Understand how a team moves to a recommendation and why, along with measurable outcomes and milestones.

Facilitators:

Raeshelle Morris-Griffith serves as the Innovation Program Manager at Humber College's Office of Research & Innovation. She possesses a Master's degree in Leadership from the University of Guelph, along with a double major honours Bachelor's degree in Management and Organizational Studies from the University of Western Ontario. Additionally, she is a certified project manager (PMP) and has received training in Creative Problem Solving, Values-Based Innovation using Values Perspectives, and Design Thinking. Raeshelle also holds a Black Belt in Innovation Strategy Management from Innovation 360, equipping her with the skills to effectively lead organizational design and transformation.

Camila Perez Pena B.Design, PMP, is the Strategic Innovation Manager for the Office of Research and Innovation at Humber College. Passionate about human relations and interactions, she truly believes that inclusiveness, co-creation, and empathy are the keys to nurturing an innovative and resilient culture in organizations and communities. Her work focuses on ethnographic research, Human-Centered Design and values-based leadership to drive change and transform ideas into sustainable high-impact initiatives and innovative projects. Camila is a Black Belt Innovation 360 Licensed Practitioner (IMBB™), a Values Perspective Coach, and an MBTI Licensed Practitioner who leads teams with an agile mindset to encourage continuous development, transparency, safety, respect, and collaboration.

Lunch will be provided. Registration deadline is Wednesday, June 14.

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