Presenter: Dr. Abhijit Rao, Academic Support Zone Coordinator, Student Success Centre

Dates: January 18, 10:00-11:30 am

Description: "Faculty Toolkit for Helping Students at Risk" -- This presentation will share the D2L toolkit created in collaboration with the Faculty of Business Administration. The toolkit contains a comprehensive set of resources, suggested steps, and set of communication resources that instructors could use to connect students at risk to supports across campus that would help them cope with their academic journey at Lakehead University.

Presenter: Kelly Brennan, Instructional Designer, Teaching Commons

Dates:  January 17, 10:00 - 11:30 am

Description:  Researchers Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe have explained how the backward design approach is to look at a course, module, or lesson with the end in view first.  This workshop will introduce faculty to the backward design approach. By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

• Identify the characteristics of the backward approach to course design
• Consider how learning outcomes can be used to design assessments
• Assess the types of multimedia and resources available to assist with student learning
• Determine the different teaching and planning strategies that might be used with a backward design approach

Discover how to turn assignments and hypothetical case studies into a real-world experience for your students, with the support from Riipen, North America's leading experiential learning platform.

Join Maryann Kleynendorst, Experiential Learning Navigator, Faculty of Business Administration, Kevin Brooks, Social Justice Studies Program (MA) Advisor, Graham Passmore, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, and Ayman Alahmar, Assistant Professor, Department of Software Engineering in an interactive and engaging panel discussion sharing their personal experiences using Riipen in their learning environments.  Participants will also receive background information on how Riipen: 

• Supports educators in easily creating valuable experiential learning projects (or Community and Industry Research & Projects - CIRPS - as defined by CEWIL's latest definitions of WIL) that satisfy your learning objectives. 

• Helps you easily connect with employers and has an LMS-integrated platform to help you easily manage these projects.

Following the session, Harris Green - our Academic Account Manager from Riipen - will be hosting a 1 hour (optional) office hour session on Zoom where participants will be able receive individualized support with designing their course posting.

To learn more about this session and register, visit: 

https://learn.riipen.com/webinar-lakehead-1/

Building on the information and examples from Universal Design I, this session outlines ways to integrate Universal Design for Learning (UDL) more fully into one’s course design and delivery. It also presents further practical suggestions for concrete ways you can make your teaching, the students’ learning, and your course as a whole more “universal.” 

In this workshop, participants will explore the Video Assignments tool in D2L/mycourselink and consider the variety of ways this tool can be used in their classrooms. We will discuss effective teaching strategies for using video assignments in specific teaching and learning contexts.

Please register through Libcal

Zoom link will be emailed the day before the workshop

Workshop will be recorded

This workshop will provide an opportunity for relationship building while hearing a short overview of the Indigenous Content Requirement at Lakehead University. A framework for interweaving Indigenous approaches into your curriculum, and how the Indigenous Curriculum Specialist can support you in your work will be shared. There will be a time for a circle discussion and questions.

Please register through Libcal

Zoom link will be sent out the day of the workshop

Workshop will be recorded

Presenters: Dr. Julie Rosenthal, Assistant Professor, School of Outdoor Recreation, Parks and Tourism

Eryn Barker, Lead Customer Success Specialist, Hypothesis

Thursday, November 4th, 1:30 - 2:30 pm

Description: Social annotation allows students and instructors to highlight and comment on assigned readings in an interactive way.  Students engage more with their readings as they contribute their reactions to the text and react to one another's comments on the assigned readings.  In this workshop, instructors will be introduced to a social annotation tool called Hypothes.is, which is available this year through our mycourselink/D2L platform at Lakehead University.  The presenters will provide an overview of the Hypothes.is platform and share a case study of its successful use in a 4th-year undergraduate course at Lakehead University.

Please register through Libcal

Zoomlink will be sent out on the day of the workshop

Workshop will be recorded

Presenters: Dr. Jessica Jurgutis

Assistant Professor, Department of Gender & Women’s Studies & Indigenous Learning

Date: October 29, 2021, 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm

Description: What are land acknowledgements and what do they mean? In this workshop, Dr. Jurgutis will journey beside us as we learn what they are and why we use them today.

Please register through Libcal

Zoom link will be sent out the day of the workshop

Workshop will be recorded

Presenter: eCampusOntario

Dates: September 14, 15, and 16 

Description:To assist Ontario Educators preparing for new and varied approaches to teaching in Fall 2021, eCampusOntario is offering an Extending Into Fall 1-hour Workshop series September 14, 15, and 16, from 1:00 - 2:00 pm. Online Workshop facilitators bring specialized expertise in areas that will be helpful as you adapt your teaching practices for Fall 2021. This is your chance to come together with the community, meet colleagues, collaborate, share new ideas and learn from each other.

To learn more about these workshops and to register, visit 

https://extend.ecampusontario.ca/community-of-practice/

CommuniTeach Sessions (Faculty sharing and discussion) 

Facilitator: Kelly Brennan, Teaching Commons

Date: on-going: September 23rd at 1p-2:30p, October 21st 1-230, November 18 1-2:30, December 16 1-2:30

Description here: These sessions are intended to be an informal discussion amongst faculty and an opportunity to explore and identify a variety of topics related to teaching. Questions will be prepared to facilitate, encourage, and support the conversation, but our goal is to create an environment where faculty can share their stories and experiences with one another and so that we may learn from each other, continue to grow, and support each other in our pedagogical practice.

Topic Themes:

September - Creating Community

Register Here: https://libcal.lakeheadu.ca/event/3631782

October - Assessments

Register Here:https://libcal.lakeheadu.ca/event/3631779

November - Engagement

Register Here:https://libcal.lakeheadu.ca/event/3631780

December - Mid or end of semester reflection

Register Here:https://libcal.lakeheadu.ca/event/3631781