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CENTRE FOR TEACHING EXCELLENCE
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- N E W S L E T T E R -
October 2019
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The Centre for Teaching Excellence and our team is committed to continuous improvement and open and shared learning. A
s we keep learning and growing with you,
we are excited to share a number of 'firsts'. We have our first faculty-led blogging site called
ConnectED
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and we have our first new faculty reconnect, reflect and recharge event. We are also excited to share updates and opportunities for collaboration from our Teaching Innovation Fund recipients.
Laura MacKay, Director CTE
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ConnectED Faculty Blogging Series
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Our new
ConnectED site is a place for faculty to connect and share ideas about educational topics, learning innovations, educational technology uses, student successes, and much more!
Read our first post by Alison Bledsoe, Instructor, Early Childhood Care & Education,
Learning through Place: How a place-based assignment made learning come alive and contributed to social change.
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Thank you to those of you who have contributed or shown interest already. The call for submissions remains open. We are looking for 250-words blog post-style stories of something new, inspiring, or different you're doing in your teaching. Contact us to participate and to learn more.
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Blogs as Open Scholarship
Blogging is a way to share creative ideas, teach in the open, enhance learning, and expand digital scholarship. Your audience might be faculty, students, researchers, or the public.
With Capilano's
Wordpress Multi-site, all employees and students can create their own blog or portfolio.
Links
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Teaching Innovation Fund Updates
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Our Teaching Innovation Fund recipients are looking for input and feedback from faculty to help shape their projects.
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Augmented Reality App
Carol Aitken
(IDEA School of Design) is seeking faculty interested in providing curricular content for an augmented reality app pilot project. The apps will deliver small teaching modules – e.g. how-to’s, mini-lessons, abouts, or sequential information on any topic – easily accessed on any phone. We can include text, 2-D graphics, video, animation, and possibly a couple of other bells and whistles. Carol is working with IDEA students to build a few sample apps, and would be very happy to give you a demo and provide you with a sample, so you can see the potential.
Email Carol
to learn more.
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Anti-Racism Digital Accelerator
Ki Wigh
t is interested in instructors' ideas and curiosities about anti-racism education topics. She will use instructor feedback to guide the design of the ADA Anti-Racism Digital Accelerator project. Please see short survey
here
Join Ki for a conversation in the Centre for Teaching Excellence (Fir 402) on the following dates or email feedback to
kwight@capilanou.ca
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Thursday, October 31 - 1:30-2:30 pm
Tuesday, November 19 - 9-10 am
Thursday, November 21 - 10-11 am
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Reconnect! Reflect! Recharge!
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CTE invites faculty who started teaching at Capilano in 2018 or 2019.
Thursday, November 7, 2019 11:30 am – 12:50 pm FR402
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This event promises you opportunities to:
- Reconnect & connect with teachers from other disciplines
- Reflect on teaching at Capilano
- Recharge following midterms
You will enjoy:
- Light lunch
- Interactive learning activities
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Our Sparkshops are Off to a Great Start!
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Six departments and more than 70 faculty members have experienced a Sparkshop so far. Sparkshops are on demand mobile mini-workshops that take place during department meetings, faculty meetings or other teaching related gatherings. Current topics include active learning strategies, rubrics, formative assessment, virtual coaching hours, online quizzing, and powerful questions.
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-What participants are saying:
"Wow" "I loved this approach. Please keep it happening!" "These are like 'sound bites' for best practices..." "great use of time"
-One thing I found interesting or inspiring:
"Exchanging ideas with fellow participants", "The push to go deeper and the immediate application" "Taking time to talk about the concept", "The workshop was simple but created powerful moments through active learning techniques"
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Want to create your own Teaching Portfolio? Join us for the remaining two sessions of our four-part series on developing your Teaching Portfolio. This an excellent way to document evidence of your teaching and to showcase your teaching and learning accomplishments.
All session will be held on Tuesdays in Fir 402A from 1:00 - 2:20 p.m. on the following dates:
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Session 3: How to Use Wordpress
Session 4: Showcasing and Sharing Your Teaching Portfolio
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Congratulations to
Jennifer Fane,
PhD candidate, on the publication of her book with Yarrow Andre,
The Sociology of Early Childhood: Young Children’s Lives and Worlds.
Join Capilano faculty and Carnegie Learning Centre as they celebrate the launch of their new book:
Listen to our Voices: Stories from the Learning Centre 1983-2018 .
Chapters include “Learning Together at Carnegie”, “The Downtown Eastside Community” and “Indigenous Stories”. Come and help us honour the writers and hear some of the stories and poems. 35 years of writing, 74 authors, one big celebration!
Thursday November 7, 1:00 p.m. Carnegie Learning Centre, 401 Main Street, Vancouver
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1:00 - 2:30 pm
Meetings: Last Thursday of the month
Oct.31, Nov.28, Jan.30, Feb.27, Mar.26
December 16, 17 and 18, 2019
8:30 am - 4:30 pm MA101
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Upcoming Teaching & Learning Events
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Metropolitan Hotel Vancouver, 645 Howe St, Vancouver BC
November 7 - 8, 2019
$595.00
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Riverfront Banquet Centre, Flint, Michigan
November 7 - 9, 2019
Call for Proposals is open until Sept 30.
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Online
November 18 - 22, 2019
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5 weeks, Online
Starts on November 28 , 2019 –
November 29, 2019
$250.00
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If you are in the midst of marking, implementing well-designed rubrics can save you time, clarify your course expectations, guide your learners, and help them assess their progress. Key elements of a rubric typically include well defined criteria for the expected product or outcome, a rating scale with values and descriptors with examples for each criteria and level of performance.
Contact the
CTE for more information
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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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