~ C T E N E W S L E T T R ~
April 2021
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As we pass the one-year anniversary since transitioning to remote teaching and learning, we, in the CTE, want to recognize all the work that faculty have done to support students by creating exceptional learning experiences, all while balancing working and living in a pandemic. The CTE team stepped back and asked ourselves ‘how can we help?’ We realized that what is mostly needed right now is tailored one-on-one and departmental support. You will see fewer workshops in April, May, and June, but please know we are here and available to help when you need us. We are also looking forward to creating a space of healing and hope together during our Teaching & Learning Symposium in May.
Laura MacKay
Director, Centre for Teaching Excellence
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Teaching an Online or Mixed Mode Course this Fall?
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CTE Online Course Development Support & Resources
For faculty who are considering building a fully online course this Fall, the CTE has developed a supported course design process with templates and individualized support based on evidence-based promising practices for effective online learning. Contact us at cte@capilanou.ca and we'd be happy to set up a meeting to review the resources available to you. Templates and planning resources are also available for blended course design.
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Blended Learning and Course Design Workshop
This workshop is designed to help you prepare your blended (online/face-to-face) course for Fall 2021 by examining the principles of blended learning and constructive alignment. The workshop will feature both asynchronous and synchronous activities. We will be reaching out to those who have identified blended learning as a course modality for Fall 2021.
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2021 Capilano Teaching & Learning Symposium Land and Decolonized Placed-based Learning
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To apply the principles of decolonizing and indigenizing education,
we must first experience them.
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Decolonizing and indigenizing principles have been woven throughout the development and delivery of this year’s symposium, which goes beyond providing decolonized and indigenized content to including your learning experience as faculty and our approach to facilitating the virtual symposium.
The symposium offers you an opportunity to make meaning in your own teaching practice – an opportunity to ask yourself, how do I apply these ways of teaching and learning to my pedagogy?
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2021 Capilano Teaching & Learning Symposium
Keynote Speaker: Glen Coulthard
Tuesday, May 4 9:00 am
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We are excited to confirm Glen Coulthard as the Keynote for our Symposium on Land and Decolonized Place-based Learning. Glen Coulthard is Yellowknives Dene and is a co-founder of Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning, a decolonial, Indigenous land-based post-secondary program operating on his traditional territories in Denendeh (Northwest Territories). He is an associate professor at UBC in the First Nations and Indigenous Studies Program and the Department of Political Science. His book Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition has won several awards including the CB Macpherson Award for Best Book in Political Theory.
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Recommended Podcast: Asynchronous Course Design
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support each other, construct meaning by sustained reflections and discourse, and where instructors help students realize meaningful outcomes. Lots of specific assessment examples for your asynchronous online course.
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What's New in MS Teams/Zoom?
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Sharing content in Teams – several new features to make sharing content more seamless:
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Sound - Sharing computer sound lets you play a video or audio clip as part of a presentation.
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Presenter view for PPT – see your Notes, upcoming slides, etc. and keep an eye on the Chat, Participants on the same screen.
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Share control – if a student team is presenting, encourage them to use the Share Control button to move seamlessly through their slides.
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Quick Zoom Call - Want to call a colleague right away in zoom without having to go through the process of scheduling a meeting and sending a link? From the desktop application, click the “+” icon to invite someone by email to chat with you, create a channel or join a public channel.
- Scheduling zoom meetings is even easier using CapU’s Outlook Calendar or in your Zoom desktop application.
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Search function - Now you can search for a term across all zoom chats in one simple place
Update to Version 5.6.0. - Most changes in this upgrade are for webinars and phone use, but there are also some fixes and security enhancements. Click here and your computer will do the rest!
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Library Corner: Curated Suggestions from the CapU Library
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Check out these library picks on course design and on land-based education:
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Course (Re)Design Workshop - May 18 to 20, 2021
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Is there a course you’d like to design, or re-design, that’s been sitting on the back burner? This 3-day workshop is an intensive, hands-on experience, where you will work in a supportive atmosphere, both individually and collaboratively, to create a new course or redesign an existing one that you teach or are planning to teach.
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Teaching & Learning Workshops
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Save the dates! 2021 Teaching & Learning Symposium: Land and Decolonized Place-based Learning, May 4-7 (registration opening soon!)
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External Conferences/Events
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CENTRE FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE
CONNECT| INNOVATE | INSPIRE
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The Centre for Teaching Excellence (CTE) fosters excellence, innovation, and collaboration in teaching and learning by supporting faculty and staff through programming, mentoring, professional development opportunities, and research on effective teaching.
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