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Events Schedule by Month:
June
Create Interactive And Engaging Content With ThingLink
Facilitator(s): Vishal Pathareddy & Rachel Boorsma
ThingLink is a powerful tool that uses easy technology to make education more engaging. It does this by allowing teachers to turn any image, video, or 360-degree VR shot into a learning experience.
Learning Outcomes
When: June 6th @ 1:00pm
Duration: 60 minutes
Where: Microsoft Teams
Turnitin: Interpretation of the Similarity and AI Reports
Facilitator(s): Turnitin
The training session for trainers and faculty will cover:
Learning Outcomes
- How to define plagiarism and the difference between plagiarism and text similarity.
- Interpreting the Similarity Report and the AI Writing report.
- Understanding how to harness key Turnitin settings in your Canvas environment.
- Best practices and additional resources.
When: June 11th @ 1:00pm
Duration: 60 minutes
Where: Register in advance for this session via Zoom:
Getting Started with Akindi for Administering and Grading Assessments
Facilitator(s): Shannon Bowerman & Andrew Connery
Are you concerned about academic integrity when it comes to computer-assisted assessments? Are you looking for different ways to administer in-class testing? Are you a regular user of the Scantron service? Join us for this introductory session covering the set up and use of Akindi for the first time.
Akindi is an online assessment platform designed to streamline the process of grading multiple-choice exams and assessments. We've integrated Akindi with MyCanvas, providing you a simple way to create, administer, and grade assessments using optical mark recognition- similar to Scantron, but without the reliance on special sheets or dedicated scanners.
Those who have shifted from Scantron to Akindi are impressed by the system in general and appreciate their new-found control over the process and timelines of managing their assessments. In addition, the system provides rich and easy-to-interpret analytics on your questions and student responses, and allows you to adjust the results for problematic questions or user errors before uploading the grades to the course gradebook with a single click.
Learning Outcomes:
When: June 17th @ 1:00pm
Duration: 60 minutes
Where: Microsoft Teams and A211 (Stoney Creek)
Classroom Behaviour: Strategies for creating a respectful and professional learning environment
Facilitator(s): Kelley Hoyt
Join us for a quick jolt of Faculty Learning And Sharing (FLASH)!
Professional behaviour can be a learning curve for some students. Join us to explore what we can and should expect of our students in our classrooms (e.g., attendance and punctuality, etc.) and how to communicate, support, and uphold the respectful, positive and professional behaviours that we value at Mohawk College.
Learning Outcomes:
When: June 18th @ 12:00pm
Duration: 60 minutes
Where: Online
Teaching & Learning in the Age of AI - All 4 Sessions
Facilitator(s): Shannon Bowerman, Katherine Shirton, Catharine Ozols, Dawn Danko, Alison Dunn
Artificial Intelligence is reshaping the landscape of higher education, presenting both challenges and opportunities for faculty. With students already using Generative AI (GAI) tools like ChatGPT for their assignments, note taking, organization and more, it can be difficult for faculty to keep pace with these changes.
What's more, GAI tools are increasingly being used in a variety of industries, making it just as important to prepare students for GAI use in their future workplaces. These readily-available tools are also transforming faculty work, both in and out of the classroom. Faculty need to know how to leverage these tools to support positive student outcomes and future-ready graduates.
This workshop series has four synchronous interactive sessions:
- Session 1: The Good: The Endless Possibilities
- Session 2: The Bad: Facing AI Challenges
- Session 3: The Ugly: The Dark Side of AI
- Session 4: The Future: Reimagining Teaching and Learning
Participants are expected to completed the series in order, with each workshop acting as a pre-requisite for the following workshop in the series.
Please ensure your camera is on for the session.
Learning Outcomes
When: June 21st @ 9:00am
Duration: 6 hours
Where: EA312 Fennell
Educating in a State of Flux: Trauma-Informed Teaching & Learning
Facilitator(s): Kelley Hoyt
Content Warning: This is a session that deals with subjects that may be traumatic to some.
Students enrich our classrooms with their perspectives, knowledge, and skills. Their experiences can vary vastly and can include lived experience with harsh realities. Many international and domestic students that are studying in Canada are trying to function and produce academic work despite traumatic life experiences. Having empathy, humility, and awareness for this reality is an important part of understanding our unique learners. Join this session to explore trauma-informed teaching and learning.
Learning Outcomes:
When: June 24th @ 10:00am
Duration: 90 minutes
Where: Online
Engaging Learners with Mentimeter
Facilitator(s): A. Connery and Rachel Boorsma
Mentimeter is an online presentation tool that will help spark interest and engagement and even bring some fun into your course deliveries. Principally designed as a polling tool, your presentations can be instructor-led, for synchronous polling and quizzing, or participant-led, for asynchronous activities. Slides can include content, polling questions, and even competition-based quiz questions.
A great tool to help review content or make collective decisions, you can also enable timed questions and a leader board to promote competition and increase the engagement. Your Menti can be prepared in advance, or in real-time during class.
If you're looking to enhance your in-class deliveries with easy-to-build interactive experiences, Mentimeter is our platform of choice. In this introductory session, you'll acquire your Mentimeter account and build your first interactive presentation.
Learning Outcomes
When: June 25th @ 2:00pm
Duration: 60 minutes
Where: Microsoft Teams and A211 Stoney Creek
Deep Dive into Kaltura Media Management and Production Tools
Facilitator(s): A. Connery
This session is intended for seasoned Kaltura/My Media users and those who wish to upgrade and polish their Kaltura skills. It is focused on techniques and functions that help you improve the quality of your custom media productions.
This is a deep dive into the full suite of Kaltura tools, and the features available for production, enhancement, and publication. Presented in this session are workflows for video and caption editing (online and off-line), customizing thumbnail images, downloading media, adding chapters, adding interactivity with buttons and hotspots, external website jumps, delivering graded and non-graded video questions, sharing media with other instructors, and other advanced functions.
Participants will see the versatility of the video platform and several strategies that can be employed to enhance media and increase audience engagement.
Learning Outcomes
When: June 28th @ 10:00am
Duration: 90 minutes
Where: Microsoft Teams
July
Course Re/Design Series
Facilitator(s): Shannon Bowerman, Amy Cook, Bernadette Summers, Judith Orogun, Katherine Shirton, Shantal Woolsey, Alison Dunn
The Course Re/Design Series is a professional development opportunity for faculty who are redeveloping aspects of an existing course or designing a new course. In this workshop series, participants will apply tools to evaluate current course design or new course ideas. Participants will incorporate strategies for pedagogical wellness, student engagement, authentic assessment generative AI mitigation, effective MyCanvas practices, and more into their course design.
The Course Re/Design Series consists of four synchronous interactive virtual sessions:
- Session 1: Course Design Foundations
- Session 2: Aligned Authentic Assessments
- Session 3: Engaging and Effective Lessons
- Session 4: MyCanvas Course Design
In addition to the sessions, participants are encouraged to complete independent course reflection work, goal setting and planning for the redesign of their course(s). Each session has approximately 30 minutes of pre-work planned. Pre-work and other learning resources will be provided following registration.
Please ensure your camera is on for the session.
Learning Outcomes:
When: July 8th, 9th, 10th, & 11th @ 10:00am (mornings) OR @ 1:00pm (afternoons)
Duration: 7 hours, 20 minutes total (approximately 2 hours each day)
Where: Online
Tips & Tricks for Content Organization in MyCanvas
Facilitator(s): Bernadette Summers
Subject(s)
Let's explore changes that can be implemented to your course content organization to improve learner experiences. This workshop will focus on leveraging the learning management system to enhance module organization and improve learner interaction and navigation of course materials.
The following topics will be covered:
Learning Outcomes:
When: July 15th @ 10:00am
Duration: 60 minutes
Where: Microsoft Teams
Teaching & Learning in the Age of AI - Session 1: The Good
Facilitator(s): Gaytish Pathareddy Appanah, Katherine Shirton, Jephinah Pandhoo, Dawn Danko, Alison Dunn
Artificial Intelligence is reshaping the landscape of higher education, presenting both challenges and opportunities for faculty. With students already using Generative AI (GAI) tools like ChatGPT for their assignments, note taking, organization and more, it can be difficult for faculty to keep pace with these changes.
What's more, GAI tools are increasingly being used in a variety of industries, making it just as important to prepare students for GAI use in their future workplaces. These readily-available tools are also transforming faculty work, both in and out of the classroom. Faculty need to know how to leverage these tools to support positive student outcomes and future-ready graduates.
This workshop series has four online synchronous interactive sessions:
- Session 1: The Good: The Endless Possibilities
- Session 2: The Bad: Facing AI Challenges
- Session 3: The Ugly: The Dark Side of AI
- Session 4: The Future: Reimagining Teaching and Learning
Participants are expected to completed the series in order, with each workshop acting as a pre-requisite for the following workshop in the series.
Please ensure your camera is on for the session.
Learning Outcomes
When: July 15th @ 10:00am
Duration: 120 minutes
Where: Online
Building Community with Interactive Digital Content
Facilitator(s): Jessica Vargas
This workshop discusses ways to engage with interactive digital content using tools like H5P and ThingLink. Participants will explore how to craft interactive content that enhances learner engagement and fosters a sense of community.
Learning Outcomes:
When: July 16th @ 10:00am
Duration: 60 minutes
Where: Microsoft Teams
Teaching & Learning in the Age of AI - Session 2: The Bad
Facilitator(s): Gaytish Pathareddy Appanah, Katherine Shirton, Jephinah Pandhoo, Dawn Danko, Alison Dunn
Artificial Intelligence is reshaping the landscape of higher education, presenting both challenges and opportunities for faculty. With students already using Generative AI (GAI) tools like ChatGPT for their assignments, note taking, organization and more, it can be difficult for faculty to keep pace with these changes.
What's more, GAI tools are increasingly being used in a variety of industries, making it just as important to prepare students for GAI use in their future workplaces. These readily-available tools are also transforming faculty work, both in and out of the classroom. Faculty need to know how to leverage these tools to support positive student outcomes and future-ready graduates.
This workshop series has four online synchronous interactive sessions:
- Session 1: The Good: The Endless Possibilities
- Session 2: The Bad: Facing AI Challenges
- Session 3: The Ugly: The Dark Side of AI
- Session 4: The Future: Reimagining Teaching and Learning
Participants are expected to completed the series in order, with each workshop acting as a pre-requisite for the following workshop in the series.
Please ensure your camera is on for the session.
Learning Outcomes
When: July 16th @ 10:00am
Duration: 120 minutes
Where: Online
Examples of H5P
Facilitator(s): Bernadette Summers
Subject(s)
This workshop will showcase examples of how faculty can implement the educational technology tool of H5P in courses. The facilitator will share examples of what has worked well and what pain points may exist.
Learning Outcomes:
When: July 16th @ 1:00pm
Duration: 60 minutes
Where: Microsoft Teams
Creating and Managing New Quizzes
Facilitator(s): A. Connery
This session presents a comprehensive look at the development of quizzes in the New Quizzes format and showcases the rich question types available only in New Quizzes. It is intended for anyone who needs a better understanding of the New Quizzes interface, and how to create, deliver, and grade quizzes in the New Quizzes format. A process for migrating Question Banks and their questions will be briefly discussed and demonstrated.
Participants will build new questions using newly available question types, like image hot-spot and ordering, and store them in quizzes and in Item Banks. Quizzes will be created drawing on these questions and configured with the new settings, tested, and graded in SpeedGrader. As time allows, the new Moderate and Item Analysis functions will also be discussed and demonstrated.
Learning Outcomes
When: July 17th @ 9:30am
Duration: 90 minutes
Where: Microsoft Teams
Teaching & Learning in the Age of AI - Session 3: The Ugly
Facilitator(s): Gaytish Pathareddy Appanah, Katherine Shirton, Jephinah Pandhoo, Dawn Danko, Alison Dunn
Artificial Intelligence is reshaping the landscape of higher education, presenting both challenges and opportunities for faculty. With students already using Generative AI (GAI) tools like ChatGPT for their assignments, note taking, organization and more, it can be difficult for faculty to keep pace with these changes.
What's more, GAI tools are increasingly being used in a variety of industries, making it just as important to prepare students for GAI use in their future workplaces. These readily-available tools are also transforming faculty work, both in and out of the classroom. Faculty need to know how to leverage these tools to support positive student outcomes and future-ready graduates.
This workshop series has four online synchronous interactive sessions:
- Session 1: The Good: The Endless Possibilities
- Session 2: The Bad: Facing AI Challenges
- Session 3: The Ugly: The Dark Side of AI
- Session 4: The Future: Reimagining Teaching and Learning
Participants are expected to completed the series in order, with each workshop acting as a pre-requisite for the following workshop in the series.
Please ensure your camera is on for the session.
Learning Outcomes
When: July 17th @ 10:00am
Duration: 120 minutes
Where: Online
Engaging Learners with Mentimeter
Facilitator(s): A. Connery and Rachel Boorsma
Mentimeter is an online presentation tool that will help spark interest and engagement and even bring some fun into your course deliveries. Principally designed as a polling tool, your presentations can be instructor-led, for synchronous polling and quizzing, or participant-led, for asynchronous activities. Slides can include content, polling questions, and even competition-based quiz questions.
A great tool to help review content or make collective decisions, you can also enable timed questions and a leader board to promote competition and increase the engagement. Your Menti can be prepared in advance, or in real-time during class.
If you're looking to enhance your in-class deliveries with easy-to-build interactive experiences, Mentimeter is our platform of choice. In this introductory session, you'll acquire your Mentimeter account and build your first interactive presentation.
Learning Outcomes
When: July 17th @ 2:00pm
Duration: 60 minutes
Where: Microsoft Teams and A211 Stoney Creek
Deep Dive into Kaltura Media Management and Production Tools
Facilitator(s): A. Connery
This session is intended for seasoned Kaltura/My Media users and those who wish to upgrade and polish their Kaltura skills. It is focused on techniques and functions that help you improve the quality of your custom media productions.
This is a deep dive into the full suite of Kaltura tools, and the features available for production, enhancement, and publication. Presented in this session are workflows for video and caption editing (online and off-line), customizing thumbnail images, downloading media, adding chapters, adding interactivity with buttons and hotspots, external website jumps, delivering graded and non-graded video questions, sharing media with other instructors, and other advanced functions.
Participants will see the versatility of the video platform and several strategies that can be employed to enhance media and increase audience engagement.
Learning Outcomes
When: July 18th @ 10:00am
Duration: 90 minutes
Where: Microsoft Teams and A211 Stoney Creek
Teaching & Learning in the Age of AI - Session 4: The Future
Facilitator(s): Gaytish Pathareddy Appanah, Katherine Shirton, Jephinah Pandhoo, Dawn Danko, Alison Dunn
Artificial Intelligence is reshaping the landscape of higher education, presenting both challenges and opportunities for faculty. With students already using Generative AI (GAI) tools like ChatGPT for their assignments, note taking, organization and more, it can be difficult for faculty to keep pace with these changes.
What's more, GAI tools are increasingly being used in a variety of industries, making it just as important to prepare students for GAI use in their future workplaces. These readily-available tools are also transforming faculty work, both in and out of the classroom. Faculty need to know how to leverage these tools to support positive student outcomes and future-ready graduates.
This workshop series has four online synchronous interactive sessions:
- Session 1: The Good: The Endless Possibilities
- Session 2: The Bad: Facing AI Challenges
- Session 3: The Ugly: The Dark Side of AI
- Session 4: The Future: Reimagining Teaching and Learning
Participants are expected to completed the series in order, with each workshop acting as a pre-requisite for the following workshop in the series.
Please ensure your camera is on for the session.
Learning Outcomes
When: July 18th @ 10:00am
Duration: 120 minutes
Where: Online
Deep Dive into New Quizzes- Migrations from Classic Quizzes, Issues, and Workarounds
Facilitator(s): A. Connery
This session is an appropriate successor to the Creating and Managing New Quizzes workshop, and is appropriate for anyone who is currently using New Quizzes but needs a better understanding of any system issues and workarounds. The process of Question Bank migration, and the issues of Item Bank management and sharing will also be presented.
As you know, our ability to create, edit, and deliver quizzes in the familiar Classic Quizzes engine within MyCanvas is soon ending, with all quizzing activity migrating to New Quizzes in the future.
This session is a thorough examination of the New Quizzes engine in MyCanvas, and focusses on the differences between it and the familiar Classic engine. The New Quizzes engine is a work in progress, and the issues that we’re currently experiencing will be examined. Strengths and limitations will be discussed, and workarounds will be presented. This session should answer most of your questions about the new platform, and the migration of your quizzing activity from Classic to New.
Learning Outcomes:
When: May 30th @ 2:00pm
Duration: 90 minutes
Where: Microsoft Teams or A211 Stoney Creek
Getting Started with Akindi for Administering and Grading Assessments
Facilitator(s): Shannon Bowerman & Andrew Connery
Are you concerned about academic integrity when it comes to computer-assisted assessments? Are you looking for different ways to administer in-class testing? Are you a regular user of the Scantron service? Join us for this introductory session covering the set up and use of Akindi for the first time.
Akindi is an online assessment platform designed to streamline the process of grading multiple-choice exams and assessments. We've integrated Akindi with MyCanvas, providing you a simple way to create, administer, and grade assessments using optical mark recognition- similar to Scantron, but without the reliance on special sheets or dedicated scanners.
Those who have shifted from Scantron to Akindi are impressed by the system in general and appreciate their new-found control over the process and timelines of managing their assessments. In addition, the system provides rich and easy-to-interpret analytics on your questions and student responses, and allows you to adjust the results for problematic questions or user errors before uploading the grades to the course gradebook with a single click.
Learning Outcomes:
When: July 22nd @ 2:00pm
Duration: 60 minutes
Where: Microsoft Teams
Digital Citizenship in Higher Education
Facilitator(s): Jephinah Pandhoo & Bernadette Summers
Subject(s):
Have you ever heard of the term Digital Citizenship? Digital Citizenship can be defined as the norms of appropriate and responsible behaviour online. Join us in this workshop to explore what it means to be a digital citizen.
Learning Outcomes:
When: July 30th @ 2:00pm
Duration: 60 minutes
Where: Microsoft Teams
August
Promoting Pedagogical Wellness
Facilitator(s): Catharine Ozols
Begin your journey toward Pedagogical Wellness during our 50-minute workshop where we focus on integrating evidenced-based strategies into the teaching environment to support faculty and student health and wellbeing. Explore course design strategies that positively impact both student and instructor wellness without increasing the workload, stress, or anxiety of either.
Join us as we create space for continuing dialogue about faculty challenges, supportive practices, and ways we can collectively strive for a healthier academic environment.
Please ensure your camera is on for the session.
Learning Outcomes:
When: August 6th @ 12:00pm
Duration: 50 minutes
Where: Online
Getting Started with Shotcut and Non-linear Editing
Facilitator(s): Andrew Connery
The ability to edit, and in doing so, improve the videos that you record is an important final step before publishing. The built-in editor in the Kaltura suite is serviceable enough for simple jobs, allowing you to remove unwanted sections, but provides few other features to enhance your work. Eventually, many of you who create original videos recognize the limitations of the Kaltura editor, and look for a more powerful tool to better compile, shape, improve and polish your recordings.
Introducing Shotcut - a free, open source, cross-platform video editor for Windows, Mac and Linux. It includes many of the same capabilities as advanced non-linear editors like Adobe Premiere and Apple's Final Cut, and is relatively easy to use.
This session will introduce you to Shotcut, illustrate some of the principles of non-linear editing, and demonstrate a few simple editing functions. During the session, a complex video will be created by compiling several new and existing clips and other assets, and adding various enhancements.
Learning Outcomes:
When: August 7th @ 2:00pm
Duration: 90 minutes
Where: Microsoft Teams
Engaging Learners with Mentimeter
Facilitator(s): A. Connery and Rachel Boorsma
Mentimeter is an online presentation tool that will help spark interest and engagement and even bring some fun into your course deliveries. Principally designed as a polling tool, your presentations can be instructor-led, for synchronous polling and quizzing, or participant-led, for asynchronous activities. Slides can include content, polling questions, and even competition-based quiz questions.
A great tool to help review content or make collective decisions, you can also enable timed questions and a leader board to promote competition and increase the engagement. Your Menti can be prepared in advance, or in real-time during class.
If you're looking to enhance your in-class deliveries with easy-to-build interactive experiences, Mentimeter is our platform of choice. In this introductory session, you'll acquire your Mentimeter account and build your first interactive presentation.
Learning Outcomes
When: August 14th @ 2:00pm
Duration: 60 minutes
Where: Microsoft Teams
Tips & Tricks for Content Organization in MyCanvas
Facilitator(s): Bernadette Summers
Subject(s)
Let's explore changes that can be implemented to your course content organization to improve learner experiences. This workshop will focus on leveraging the learning management system to enhance module organization and improve learner interaction and navigation of course materials.
The following topics will be covered:
Learning Outcomes:
When: August 28th @ 10:00am
Duration: 60 minutes
Where: Microsoft Teams
Showcase: Examples of H5P
Facilitator(s): Bernadette Summers
Subject(s)
This workshop will showcase examples of how faculty can implement the educational technology tool of H5P in courses. The facilitator will share examples of what has worked well and what pain points may exist.
Learning Outcomes
When: August 28th @ 2:00pm
Duration: 60 minutes
Where: Microsoft Teams
Getting Started with Akindi for Administering and Grading Assessments
Facilitator(s): Shannon Bowerman & Andrew Connery
Are you concerned about academic integrity when it comes to computer-assisted assessments? Are you looking for different ways to administer in-class testing? Are you a regular user of the Scantron service? Join us for this introductory session covering the set up and use of Akindi for the first time.
Akindi is an online assessment platform designed to streamline the process of grading multiple-choice exams and assessments. We've integrated Akindi with MyCanvas, providing you a simple way to create, administer, and grade assessments using optical mark recognition- similar to Scantron, but without the reliance on special sheets or dedicated scanners.
Those who have shifted from Scantron to Akindi are impressed by the system in general and appreciate their new-found control over the process and timelines of managing their assessments. In addition, the system provides rich and easy-to-interpret analytics on your questions and student responses, and allows you to adjust the results for problematic questions or user errors before uploading the grades to the course gradebook with a single click.
Learning Outcomes:
When: August 29th @ 2:00pm
Duration: 60 minutes
Where: Microsoft Teams
How to Implement Design Thinking Strategies with Students
Facilitator(s): Bernadette Summers
Subject(s)
Implement principles and practices of Design Thinking with students. Explore how to encourage students to utilize design thinking in assignments and how to implement design thinking as a brainstorming tool.
Learning Outcomes:
When: August 29th @ 2:00pm
Duration: 60 minutes
Where: Microsoft Teams
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