Learning Remotely for Teaching Remotely: Webinars for Supporting Faculty Navigating Teaching Online By Lisa Endersby and Natasha May In higher education, it seems like the only constant is change. This has become especially true during the COVID-19 pandemic, where a rapid shift to remote learning has required us to relearn or reconsider how we teach […]
Experiences Are What Define us as Humans By Eva Peisachovich and Lora Appel Imagine putting on a virtual reality (VR) headset and being immersed in the daily life at a refugee camp located across the ocean or experiencing a moment in a life of patient diagnosed with stroke. This is one way the “CVRriculum Program,” […]
5 Pointers for Teaching Online or Remotely By Dr Steven Gennaro (sgennaro@yorku.ca) You have been asked to teach online. Maybe, you have taught online before? Maybe you have taken an online course? Or maybe this is your first time going digital. In all cases, here are some of the best lessons I’ve learned from 15 […]
Teaching with a ‘digital mindset’ Bryn Ludlow If you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. Toni Morrison (1931–2019) A lot has changed since I wrote the blog, “Using media to teach media”. On March 11th, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared […]
How to hold a conference online Celia Popovic, Faculty of Education – York University Erika Kustra, University of Windsor Just as many of us are working out how to move our face to face classes online, some of us are also involved in organizing academic conferences which may now have to take place virtually. Last […]
Considering Alternative Assessment By Mandy Frake-Mistak Click on this link to view an online tutorial about Planning to Assess (When everyone is stressed…) York University has suspended all remaining face-to-face classes and moved all courses and course related material to an online or alternative format to support the nation’s response to COVID-19. Further to this, as […]
Using Media to Teach Media By Bryn Ludlow While my grandma Isabella knit mittens in her living room, she watched live sports on a television in the left corner with the sound off, and radio on. As she listened to the announcer calling the plays, she watched the news or latest recorded soap opera on the […]
My Placement Experience with SCOTAY (Student Consultants on Teaching at York) By Zigeng Liang To be honest, when I first approached the Student Consultants on Teaching at York (SCOTAY) program in September, I considered it is an impossible task for me. When I was told that as a student consultant, I am expected to advise […]
Effecting a Framework of Engaged Teaching at York University: A Student's Perspective By Luca Montana Teaching has oftentimes been framed as a dialogical undertaking; whether a teacher serves as a presenter of knowledge to groups of learners, a recipient of novel understandings from those students, or an interlocutor in formal proceedings about the status of […]
Celebrating Experiential Education at York: An overview of the 2020 Experiential Education Symposium By Kathleen Winningham & Lisa Endersby Recently a group of talented and engaged students gathered to celebrate their experiential education achievements at the second annual Experiential Education (EE) Symposium. This multi-disciplinary event was held over two days in the Victor Phillip Dahdaleh […]