This upcoming week the CTL will be hosting a variety of learning and engagement opportunities. Please register at the links below:
| Workshop | North Campus | Lakeshore Campus |
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TT: Essential Mobile Apps for Education Discover and and learn how to use some educational apps that can be part of your teaching toolbox and leverage your mobile devices’ capabilities. |
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Mon. Sep. 17, 2018, 1:30 p.m. to 4:10 p.m. |
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Amplify Student Learning with Active Learning Strategies Come familiarize yourself with active learning, a pedagogical approach to instruction that involves actively engaging students with the course material. |
Tue. Sep. 18, 2018, 11 a.m. to 12:30p.m. North: D236 |
Tue. Sep. 25, 2018, 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Lake: F103 |
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Assessment for Learning: Classroom Assessment Techniques Discover how the use of classroom assessment techniques can improve the learning process, increase student engagement, and encourage students to produce quality work. |
Tue. Sep. 18, 2018, 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. North: D236 |
Tue. Sep. 25, 2018, 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. Lake: F103 |
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TT: Quick and Easy Diagrams with Lucidchart Learn the basic functionality of Lucichart that will empower you to create your very own diagram designs in real time while collaborating with other users. |
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Tue. Sep. 18, 2018, 4:15 to 6 p.m. Lake: F103 |
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Tripping the Light Fantastic: Serious Games, and Playful Design in Learning Explore how to create a basic game system using blackboard and add game based learning as a strategy to connect students with team problem solving. |
Tue. Sep 25, 2018, 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. North: D236 |
Tue. Sep. 18, 2018, 11:40 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Lake: F103 |
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SoTL Lunch and Learn Series Eat, learn and be inspired by faculty SoTL (Scholarship of Teaching and Learning) research projects. |
Wed. Sep. 19, 2018, 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. North: D236 |
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| Writers' Collective | n/a |
Thurs. Sep. 20, 2018, 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. Lake: F103 |
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TT: Google Suite of Apps Explore the apps that are useful in an educational setting, inside and outside of the classroom. |
Fri. Sep. 21, 2018, 9:50 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. North: D225J |
Mon. Sep. 24, 2018, 9:50 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Lake:D112 |
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TT: Tame the Classroom Touchscreen Learn the best practices to plan, prepare, and present your materials to an audience using the Sharp classroom touchscreen situated in the HIVES classrooms and other Humber spaces. |
Fri. Sep. 21, 2018, 1:30 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. North: D236 |
Fri. Sep. 24, 2018, 1:30 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. Lake: F103 |
| Blackboard Workshops | North Campus | Lakeshore Campus |
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Bb: Building Quality Assessments Explore the various assessment options including randomization techniques, exploring pools versus tests, understanding the survey tool and adaptive release techniques in Blackboard. |
Mon. Sep. 17, 2018, 10:45 a.m. to 11:35 a.m. North: D225 Mon. Sep. 17, 2018, 6:05 to 6:55p.m. North: D225J |
Tue. Sep. 18, 2018, 11:40 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Lake: D112 |
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Bb: Facing Your Students - Video & Audio Content in Blackboard Get tips on how to efficiently edit your footage and how to upload your finished videos. Learn how videos can be used in your Blackboard site and how these videos can be used as podcasts for your students, clients and colleagues. |
Tue. Sep. 18, 2018, 2:25 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. North: D225J Tue. Sep. 18, 2018, 6:05 p.m. to 6:55 p.m. North: D225J |
Tue. Sep. 18, 2018, 3:20 p.m. to 4:10 p.m. Lake: D112 |
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Bb: Embedding Content in Blackboard Learn how to integrate video content, social media feeds, Google items, polling software or even more advanced tools such as Prezi or Jing. |
Wed. Sep. 19, 2018, 11:40 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. North: D225 Wed. Sep. 19, 2018, 6:05 p.m. to 6:55 p.m. |
Wed. Sep. 19 2018, 1:30 p.m. to 2:20 p.m. Lake: F103 |
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Bb: Online Strategies to Improve Academic Integrity SafeAssign, the Blackboard equivalent of TurnItIn, can be used to encourage students to identify how to properly attribute sources rather than paraphrase or plagiarize. |
Thurs. Sep. 20, 2018, 11:40 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. North: D225 Thurs. Sep. 20, 2018, 6:05 to 6:55p.m. North: D225J |
Thurs. Sep. 20, 2018, 11:40 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. |
TT: Enabling the Digital SFQ in Blackboard
Are you currently part of the Digital SFQ rollout? If so, enabling the SFQ tool in your Blackboard environment/course site is a critical step in encouraging your students to fill out the SFQ and increasing your student response rates. Enabling the tool is easy to do and combining tool availability with well-timed Blackboard announcements and reminders is an effective way of deploying the Digital SFQ. In addition to the scheduled workshop times below, faculty can drop in anytime during Studio hours to receive one-on-one support when it comes to enabling the Blackboard SFQ tool and any other Blackboard related support queries.
| Mon. Sep. 17, 2018 | 2 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. | North: D225J | Register |
| Tue. Sep. 18, 2018 | 11 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. | Lake: D112 | Register |
| Tue. Sep. 18, 2018 | 2 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. | Lake: D112 | Register |
| Thurs. Sep. 20, 2018 | 11 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. | North: D225J | Register |
| Thurs. Sep. 20, 2018 | 2 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. | North: D225J | Register |
| Thurs. Sep. 20, 2018 | 11 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. | Lake: D112 | Register |
| Thurs. Sep. 20, 2018 | 2 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. | Lake: D112 | Register |
