Check out this recorded presentation from the E-Learning Community of Practice
Synchronous or Asynchronous: Why? is the Question
Upcoming Workshop
Gamifying the Online & In-person Classrooms: Having fun while learning. Come hear about the use of games in the classroom!
All are welcome to this DALC meeting: March 5 from 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm. Join this workshop from the Faculty Hub website.
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Leveraging Bloom’s Taxonomy to Elevate Discussion Boards in Online Courses
CRISPESH and UDL@Dawson invite researchers, faculty members, students, pedagogical counsellors, administrators and other higher education stakeholders to submit a proposal for their next symposium.
This symposium will be held online from June 1 to 3, 2021 and will be an opportunity to look back at 10 years of inclusive pedagogy in Quebec’s higher educational system, while advancing the ongoing reflections to help the province foster increasingly inclusive pedagogical approaches.
People interested in submitting a proposal are invited to complete the online submission form available on the event’s website by April 14, 2021. Submissions are accepted in both English and French.
For more details on the symposium and the submission process, please visit the event’s website.
One additional teaching portfolio, that of Dan Pomerantz, was recently published on the DawsonAI website. Dan, who teaches in the department of Computer Science, was part of the second cohort of fellows of the AI-Themed Teaching Community of Practice. He is inviting all faculty members to explore and make use of the teaching materials he has developed during his Fellowship.
Dan’s portfolio notably includes four PowerPoint slide decks that could be interesting to those looking for engaging teaching materials about the ethical implications of Big Data, surveillance technologies, text-generating systems, and facial recognition technologies. Link: https://www.dawsoncollege.qc.ca/ai/portfolios/daniel-pomerantz/
Part of this portfolio will constitute the basis of a talk entitled “The Hazards of Using Big Data,” which Dan will deliver via Zoom April 14 at 2:30 PM. The entire Dawson community is invited to attend (no RSVP needed)!
Zoom link: https://dawsoncollege.zoom.us/j/93695558993
For more details, please email Carl Saucier-Bouffard at cbouffard@dawsoncollege.qc.ca.
Teaching Quants Online
Support for faculty who teach quantitative skills - Charles-Albert Ramsey and Martin Namour have created an MS Stream channel of video tutorials: Teaching Quants Online (login to MS365 required).
Upcoming Workshops
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Dear Faculty, In September 2015, Canada and all United Nations Member States adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development (the 2030 Agenda), a shared blueprint for partnership, peace and prosperity for all people and the planet, now and into the future. As part of this Canadian initiative, the Dawson Sustainability Office is working on including the 17…
Starting Feb. 15, Meditation Monday's 12:30 p.m.-1 p.m. with Daniel Goldsmith. This will run throughout the semester. We will also post a pre-filmed meditation video for folks who cannot make the live session: Meditation Monday’s with Daniel Goldsmith – Peace Centre
Feb. 15: Sticky Settler Colonialism with Nisha Toomey, 9 a.m. - 11 a.m. open to staff, faculty & students
March 18: Is the Sun Setting on Western Epistemologies? 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. open to Staff & Faculty
March 25: Session II Curating and Contextualizing Contentious Classroom Materials and Challenging Conversations, with David Austin and Shana Haines, moderated by Sabrina Jafralie. 2 p.m.-3:30 p.m. - Open to Staff & Faculty
The Resistance & Resilience art exhibition is still up and teachers can request virtual tours from Rhonda Meier.
Five inspiring Dawson students and alumni will discuss their views and actions on the Climate Crisis at the Environmental Seminar at Dawson (virtually) on Feb. 18 at 10 a.m.
The 2019 climate march was featured in an episode of David Suzuki's The Nature of Things entitled "Rebellion". The mobilization of the College was spearheaded by the Green Earth Club. Students will discuss their involvement in the march as youth activists and present their current projects.
Presentations will be followed by a Q & A. This panel is being moderated by Brian Mader and introduced by Anna-Liisa Aunio. Please watch the episode Rebellion, which is available free on CBC Gem here:
https://gem.cbc.ca/media/the-nature-of-things/season-60/episode-1/38e815a-01356eb43e5
E-mail bpoirier@dawsoncollege.qc.ca to book your class for the panel.
Since Social Science Week is not taking place this year, Nancy Rebelo (Faculty, History) worked on a project to provide additional resources for our virtual classroom reality. She invited researchers, mostly from Montreal, to film lectures on a variety of topics.
Six videos are currently available on the Dawson Library website that are only accessible to people who have a Dawson network password. There are plans to add more in the coming weeks.
The guest speaker series includes a lecture by a Harvard professor about Roma youth and a very topical lecture about misinformation, COVID-19 and social media by a McGill graduate student.
Each video is 20-30 minutes. Intended to be used by Dawson teachers, they would be especially useful to teachers of methods courses.
A brief description is provided about the topic and the presenter when one clicks on a video from the library page.
Click Read More to see the bank of videos and to get links to watch them.
When the pandemic first struck last March, curator and Warren G. Flowers Art Gallery administrator Rhonda Meier, began thinking of what could be done if life stayed completely online for the next six or more months. With online projects being the obvious solution, she leapt to program Thirza Cuthand, a Plains Cree/Scots artist whose work first intrigued her in Vancouver in 2003. At Indian Acts, a conference on indigenous performance art, a very young Cuthand presented a video candidly discussing her struggle with depression.
Click Read More for the news story and more information.
At Ped Days on Jan. 20, the tables were turned as students taught teachers for the first time at the annual professional development event for teachers.
Four final-year CRLT students shared Sustainable Happiness with teachers in the hopes of making students and teachers in virtual classrooms more connected, engaged and happy.
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