Five online Sakai resources for instructors.
1. Tips for building your best Sakai site
2. Make your Lessons beautiful
3. Turn PowerPoint recordings into videos
4. Share your video in Lessons
5. Record lectures with your computer with Echo360
Questions? Contact CPI at edtech@brocku.ca.
How to create group channels in MS Teams
We recommend this YouTube video on how to use the new breakout rooms in MS Teams.
Questions? Contact edtech@brocku.ca
eCampusOntario Expressions of Interest (EOI) are now open for the Government of Ontario’s $50 million Virtual Learning Strategy (VLS). Faculty interested in creating or adopting an OER, designing an open source course, designing simulations, serious games or XR experiences are invited to contact cpi@brocku.ca. For more information about this VLS initiative visit https://vls.ecampusontario.ca/eois.
Deadline for internal submissions to CPI at cpi@brocku.ca is Thursday January 28.
Learn more about open educational resources available to you through eCampus Ontario at https://openlibrary.ecampusontario.ca/.
Brock University Faculty Teaching Awards
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS IS NOW OPEN
Recognize and celebrate the outstanding contributions of faculty and instructors to teaching and learning at Brock University. There are 3 awards annually. Application guidelines and eligibility criteria can be found on the CPI website.
Deadline for submissions is November 8, 2020.
1. Don Ursino Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Large Classes
2. Clarke Thomson Award for Excellence in Sessional Teaching
3. Award for Excellence in Teaching for Early Career Faculty
Nomination packages can be submitted electronically to the Centre for Pedagogical Innovation at eddev@brocku.ca in PDF format. Awards will be conferred in early December 2020.
Faculty Instructional Support Assistants (ISAs) have developed workshops and resources to support the work of TAs. Visit the CPI website (TA Workshops) for details. All Brock University teaching assistants, marker graders, lab demonstrator, tutorial leaders, course co-ordinators and seminar leaders are welcome to participate.
Engagement, interaction, and participation – How to get it and how to keep it! (Async) Oct 17 – Oct 25
Let’s Take a Break: Mindfulness and Wellness for TAs (Async) Oct 17 – Oct 25
Navigating Difficult Conversations with Adult Learners about Grades (Sync) Oct 17 10:30 am – 11:50 am
Culturally Responsive Teaching in an Online Environment (Sync) Oct 31 10:30 am – 11:50 am
Encouraging Participation and Facilitating Engagement in an Online Humanities Course (Async) Oct 13 – Oct 30
Marking and grading assignments in SAKAI for Math and Science TAs (Async) Oct 26 – Oct 31
Using MS Teams to Support Teaching and Learning in Math and Science (Sync) Oct 22 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
eCollaboration: Online Student Engagement (Async) Oct 23 – Oct 30
Listening to Support Teaching and Learning (Async) Oct 26 – Nov 2
Formative Assessment – Promoting Mastery Oriented Thinking (Async) Oct 19 – Oct 30
All Brock University teaching assistants, marker graders, lab demonstrators and tutorial leaders are invited to participate in the TA workshop series. Registration is now open for the October TA workshops.
Types of Workshops:
Synchronous workshops (sync) take place on Teams. Registration now open. Asynchronous workshops (async) take place on the joinable TA Program Sakai site. Asynchronous workshops provide two weeks for participants to complete the required work.
Saturday October 3, 9:00 am-10:30 am
Instructional Strategies 101 (sync)
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) for Teaching Assistants (async) Oct 3-Oct 16
Saturday October 17, 9:00 am-10:30 am
Growth Mindset for Teaching Assistants’ Success (sync)
Questioning Strategies to Support Learning (async) Oct 17-30
Saturday October 31, 9:00 am-10:30 am
“NO CAPES!” Pedagogy as a Foundation for Instructional Design (aync)
Using Feedback to Support Teaching and Learning (async) Oct 31-Nov 13
Completion of each workshop earns a credit towards the TA Certificate Programs. For additional information, please contact eddev@brocku.ca.
TA Discussion Drop-In Tuesdays 1:00 pm-2:00 pm and Fridays 11:30 am-12:30 pm
For information on how to access the meeting please email eddev@brocku.ca.
Online Teaching Showcase – Wednesday October 28 – 10:00 am – 11:00 am
Join the Centre for Pedagocial Innovation (CPI) in a discussion featuring instructors sharing their successes, challenges, and advice about teaching online. Online registration is now open.
If interested in presenting your teaching experiences, email Giulia at gforsythe@brocku.ca.
Crowdmark is a tool that has been integrated into Sakai to add a digital workflow to hand-written assignments.
Instructors can create Crowdmark courses based on their active Sakai courses, then create assignments that require scientific, mathematical or musical notation in the response, or provide an artifact to be labelled. Students can respond with a picture or scan of their response. Instructors and the rest of their marking team can grade and provide feedback on submitted work all within the Crowdmark web experience.
All Brock University faculty, sessional instructors and teaching staff are invited to join the Centre for Pedagogical Innovation for a virtual workshop on Crowdmark on Wednesday October 21, 9:00 am – 10:00 am.
Additional Resources:
Register for October 21 Workshop
Learn more about Crowdmark
Workshop Recording
Considering your options for online exams this year?
The Centre for Pedagogical Innovation is hosting one-hour sessions to help instructors consider their options for delivering their online exams. Focus will be on tools like Sakai’s Tests and Quizzes, Crowdmark and options for take home exams. Register for a Getting Ready for Online Exams session.
Wednesday October 14 10:00-11:00 am & Monday October 19 1:00-2:00 pm
BEING AN ONLINE TA is a TA DAYS WORKSHOP, open to ALL Brock University TAs, marker-graders, tutorial leaders, lab demonstrators, and course coordinators.
This workshop is synchronous and requires registration to receive the Microsoft Teams invitation to participate in the online workshop.
BEING AN ONLINE TA
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17
10:00 am -11:30 am
Workshops are applicable to all disciplines.
We will explore different online tools to facilitate student learning online in smaller groups. Many of our students have a vaandriety of online learning experiences; during this session, you will have the opportunity to experience learning online as a student and then practice online facilitation using active learning principles.
FACILITATORS: Giulia Forsythe and Natalie Currie-Patterson, Centre for Pedagogical Innovation
Participation in this session will earn 1 TA credit towards the completion of the Certificate in Online Teaching & Learning in Higher Education.
If you have questions please contact eddev@brocku.ca