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Read Full Text: Fostering Fun: Engaging Students with Asynchronous Online Learning

Fostering Fun: Engaging Students with Asynchronous Online Learning

June 17th, 2020

June 17, 2020  Lisa K. Forbes, PhD Today, faculty are being asked to abruptly expand their teaching practices in ways many of us would never have imagined. For many, teaching online is something they’ve never done and for some, it’s something they never desired to do. I have some experience with digital pedagogy but for…

Read Full Text: Handing Students the Mic: Podcasting to Increase Engagement

Handing Students the Mic: Podcasting to Increase Engagement

June 11th, 2020

Mike Yakubovsky  Published in ASCD Express A recent LinkedIn study identified the top 10 skills employers are currently looking for in their interns and new hires (Hess, 2019). I looked through it all, and nowhere was there a reference to test-taking ability. What was at the top of the list were soft skills like collaboration, time management,…

Read Full Text: 12 Key Ideas: an Introduction to Teaching Online

12 Key Ideas: an Introduction to Teaching Online

June 7th, 2020

Dave Cormier and Ashlyne O’Neil Free E-book This book is meant to be a short course to help you prepare to move your teaching online. Do a chapter a day. Or just pick the ones you like.   Reframing the “problem” of teaching online The impact of information abundance on teaching and learning Complicated vs….

Read Full Text: Successfully Taking Offline Classes Online

Successfully Taking Offline Classes Online

May 26th, 2020

From a Special Issue of Educational Leadership titled A New Reality:  Getting Remote Learning Right Catlin R. Tucker       The keys are prioritizing community and designing student-centered lessons. Teachers who have taught exclusively offline in a traditional school setting may find the transition to teaching online daunting and foreign. As educators navigate this new…

Read Full Text: New Resource for Dzʿ Faculty:  Teaching with Moodle!

New Resource for Dzʿ Faculty: Teaching with Moodle!

May 26th, 2020

A new resource is available to faculty. It is an asynchronous, self-paced online course called “Teaching with Moodle”, which has been developed by Madeleine Bazerghi (Pedagogical Counsellor, OAD).  Moodle allows teachers to: • upload files such as narrated PowerPoints, videos, jpegs, word, excel, pdfs; • use the Chat and Forum features in order to communicate with students,…

Read Full Text: How to Be a Better Online Teacher – Advice Guide

How to Be a Better Online Teacher – Advice Guide

May 13th, 2020

From The Chronicle of Higher Education Whether you’ve taught online a lot or a little, chances are you didn’t enjoy it as much as teaching in person. Maybe you didn’t experience that fizz after a particularly invigorating face-to-face class. Indeed, according to a 2017 Educause survey, only 9 percent of academics prefer to teach “in a…

Read Full Text: Teaching Online Will Make You a Better Teacher in Any Setting

Teaching Online Will Make You a Better Teacher in Any Setting

May 13th, 2020

  From The Chronicle of Higher Education By Kevin Gannon When I first began teaching online courses, I did so with a fair amount of uncertainty and trepidation. Could I replicate in a digital environment what I believed was essential for an in-person course? What I learned, however, was that I didn’t need to replicate my face-to-face…

Read Full Text: Yann Brouillette and Carmen Leung in ProfWeb Podcast!

Yann Brouillette and Carmen Leung in ProfWeb Podcast!

April 29th, 2020

From Profweb, April 27, 2020 A number of technologies have facilitated the transition to alternative methods of teaching. In recent years, these tools have become more user-friendly and accessible to teachers, who are using them to support a blended or fully on-line approach within their teaching practice. Yann Brouillette and Carmen Leung are 2 such teachers from Dzʿ…

Read Full Text: A Reflection on the Sudden Transition: Ideas to Make Your Synchronous Online Classes More Fun

A Reflection on the Sudden Transition: Ideas to Make Your Synchronous Online Classes More Fun

April 29th, 2020

From:  Faculty Focus April 29, 2020 Article by:  Siva priya Santhanam, Ph.D. The transition to online teaching has been partially, if not completely, challenging for faculty teaching in colleges and universities. I am writing this article while reflecting on my own experiences since March 16, 2020, when our university made the decision to move to online teaching….

Read Full Text: Dzʿ Counselling Service for Students

Dzʿ Counselling Service for Students

April 27th, 2020

                  Message for Faculty who need to refer students for Personal Counselling:   All applications for distance counselling, as well as any student centered mental health related inquiries, can be sent to Dzʿ Personal Counselling: DzʿPersonalCounselling@dawsoncollege.qc.ca. The email is monitored  from 9:00-5:00 Mon-Friday and will be responded to within 24 hours of reception…

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