Food Justice Toolkit Launched!
Congratulations Anna-Liisa Aunio and the Food Justice Team!
Documentary Film Debut: Living Campus – with Chris Adam!
Watch live on June 17th at 11am: https://www.facebook.com/prepatresmarias https://youtu.be/GI7aIszSl0Q
Asynchronous Video: A Powerful Way to Teach, Present, and Communicate with Students
From Faculty Focus – June 14, 2021 Excerpt: We know that students used audio-visual media even before the COVID-19 move to online teaching. The number of viewers and subscribers to YouTube channels that host video tutorials by instructors provides strong evidence of students’ preference for this video content. For example, Professor Allen Sens from the…
Thank You Dawson Community!
Thank you to everyone who collaborated with the Faculty Hub pedagogical counsellors this semester to provide over 50 online professional development workshops. We have enjoyed working with you, despite the virtual mode! Best wishes to all for a wonderful summer and a well-deserved break!
CICan Webinar June 9: Where Indigenous Education and Sustainability Intersect
Wednesday, June 9, 2021 at 12:00 pm EST in English Implementing the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Canada means establishing a road map for lasting reconciliation, and education is often at the centre. For colleges and institutes, that means finding a balance between culturally relevant and accessible programming for Indigenous populations and…
Anne-Laure Teichet Published in Profweb – HyFlex Teaching
This week Profweb published two texts written by Anne-Laure Teichet (Faculty, French). Anne-Laure’s real-life stories describe her first-hand teaching experience in a HyFlex classroom. Here are the links to her texts: “Le rôle de l’assistant dans la classe comodale” and its translation in English : “The Role of Assistant in The HyFlex Classroom“ “La classe…
Upcoming Conferences: CRISPESH, SALTISE, AQPC
Check out these upcoming conferences… which will all be held virtually. CRISPESH – 10 years of inclusive pedagogy in Quebec’s colleges and universities, JUNE 1-3 SALTISE – Moving Forward Together: Opportunities and Challenges for Pedagogical Innovation, JUNE 2-4 AQPC – 40 ans de pédagogie: Pour des changements durables en éducation, JUNE 10-11
Dawson Moodle Day – May 28, 2021
May 28th, 2021 (Friday) – Online through Zoom Agenda Welcome speech: 9:00 – 9:10 Presentations: 9:10 – 11:40 Closing Speech: 11:40 – 11:45 Presentation Schedule How Moodle Can Be Used to Handle a National Exam for 21,000 Students By François Lizotte, Technopedagogical Project Manager (Collecto – Montreal) 9:10 – 9:40 9:40 – 9:45: The question-answer period New…
More Than a Diverse Reading List: Challenging an Antiblack Pedagogy with Dr. Philip Howard (McGill) – May 12!
More Than a Diverse Reading List: Challenging an Antiblack Pedagogy Dr. Philip Howard, Department of Integrated Studies in Education, McGill University When we think about challenging antiblack pedagogies, it is easy to limit our thinking to a quest for toolkits of ready-to-implement strategies. Such an approach does not take seriously the ways in which antiblackness…
Podcast: Overcoming Student Distaste for Collaborative Group Work Online
How can you help students overcome their distaste for collaborative group work online (and also thereby change your view of such work)? Wendy Trevor discusses how the timing of the assignment, the structure, instructor presence, feedback, and a grading rubric which privileges individual contributions, and signals the importance of engaging with others’ views, can help…
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