Beyond Canvas: Open Pedagogies, Open Content, Open Practice
Wednesday, August 11 | 1pm – 2pm
This workshop looks at how Open Education can enhance student learning. As educators, some of our values are centered on sharing of knowledge – UBC encourages open scholarship for teaching, learning, and research.
This event will focus on ways to embed open scholarship into your own practice, whether it is the creation of open resources, implementation of existing ones, or creating open assignments where students contribute to global understanding of their topic.
Facilitators: Helen DeWaard, Ian Linkletter
Course Design: Beyond Text and Lecture Using Multimedia to Engage Learners
Thursday, July 29 | 1pm – 2:30pm
During this session you will explore strategies and tools to design online and blended courses that go beyond text and lecture-based content, learning activities and assessments. We will look at some samples which model alignment with UDL frameworks, founded in learning science and are proven ways to engage learners. In addition to showcasing samples, a several tools will be demo’ed and there will be a hands on component where you can try out some of the tools such as Padlet and H5P.
Facilitators: Parm Gill, Shur Lim
Beyond Canvas: Peer Review
Wednesday, July 28 | 1pm – 2pm
Looking for new ways to integrate peer review into your online course assessment practices? Join us and learn about why peer review and peer feedback can impact student learning in online courses.
We’ll examine three phases of the peer review process:
Create – student submissions
Review – peer feedback
Reflect – review and reflect on given feedback
This session covered the design principles for peer reviewed assignments, as well as an orientation to navigating, building, and grading assessments with peer review tools.
Facilitators: Helen DeWaard, Shur Lim, Tasnim Al-Obaidi
Beyond Canvas: Collaborative Spaces
Tuesday, July 20 | 1pm – 2pm
This interactive workshop explores two collaborative spaces (Etherpad and Padlet). Participants will learn and interact with some of the features and explore possibilities for incorporating these tools into their own teaching and learning environments.
Facilitators: Tara Rogic, Simone Hausknecht
Beyond Canvas: Alternative Assessment
Tuesday, July 13 | 1pm – 2pm
A look at some of the assessment practices that can be used in the online environment as alternatives to traditional assessment strategies.
Facilitators: Meghan McMillen
Beyond Canvas: Make it with Media
Wednesday, June 30 | 11:00AM – 12:00PM
This was a make and take session, studio style. Bring your course syllabus or media making experiences. Be prepared to share your media making and course design ideas and questions.
When considering the course design, it’s often difficult to figure out what technologies are the best fit for student learning or how to incorporate them into the course. This session will give you time to explore technologies as you think critically about integrating new media making technologies, such as the ones listed on CTLT technologies page. Let’s peek over the Canvas walls, or even consider building a gate to step through, figuratively speaking.
Facilitators: Helen DeWaard, Ka-Yee Chu
Antiracism and Education
Tuesday, June 29 | 1:00PM-2:00PM
This ETS Viewpoints panel discussion was a response to the call to action shared by Santa J. Ono to “work to model a different kind of community — one where we embrace difference and work to build each other up while enacting values of dignity, mutual respect and justice” and is an effort to open wider conversations about racism, while encouraging people to educate themselves on anti-racism work. It is not enough to acknowledge that racism exists and that antiracism strategies are necessary but as educators and citizens we must act. This session is grounded on the three pillars [Inclusivity, Accessibility, and Indigeneity] that are foundational to ETS and PDCE, and are reflective of the values embedded into the University strategic plans.
Panelists: Dr. Bathseba Opini, Assistant Professor, EDST | Andratesha Fritzgerald, EdS, Director of Teaching, Learning, and Innovation for the East Cleveland (OH) City School Districts
Canvas: Communication with Students
Thursday, June 24 | 11:00AM – 12:00PM
In this workshop, participants have explored different tools and ways to communicate with students online. Whether sending an email, writing an announcement, using discussion forums, or having a Zoom session each one creates a unique opportunity to build a relationship and offer students a way to express themselves. This session gave participants a chance to consider these multiple approaches and what each can contribute to student engagement.
Facilitators: Shur Lim, Simone Hausknecht
Canvas: Evaluation and SpeedGrader
Wednesday, June 2 | 11:00AM – 12:00PM
Learn how to grade and give feedback in Canvas. This one-hour workshop is interactive and requires pre-registration so we can prepare your activities. It is intended for instructors currently teaching using Canvas.
Using a time-saving tool called SpeedGrader, you can give students enhanced feedback using document annotation, media comments, and rubrics. This workshop will give you hands-on experience in using it to the benefit of you and your students.
Facilitators: Faeyza Mufti, Jasleena Raina
Course Development Consultation
Tuesday, May 25 | 1:00PM-2:00PM
Wednesday, May 26 | 1:00PM-2:00PM
Thursday, May 27 | 1:00PM-2:00PM
A drop-in studio to get hands-on support in building your course in Canvas.
Come with your course syllabus or just a few ideas on how you plan to teach your online course, and we can work through the rest together.
Facilitators: Faeyza Mufti, Simone Hausknecht