Creating a Video Introduction for your Online Course Anna Augusto Rodrigues If you’ll be teaching an online course next semester, you may want to think about creating a video introduction for it. Having a video presence at the beginning of an online course not only is an effective way to introduce yourself to the class […]
Multiform Grammar: From Illustrated Historiography to the Classroom Noa Yaari In my dissertation titled “Multiform Arguments in the Historiography of Individualism in Pre-Modern Europe,” I introduced a new conceptual framework to analyze arguments that are composed of both words and images. This approach, which I term “multiform grammar,” is applicable to illustrated texts in any […]
January Journal Club Lisa Endersby, Educational Developer The Teaching Commons hosted the January 2019 meeting of the Journal Club this past Wednesday, January 9. Our discussion of Self-Disclosure Decisions of University Students with Learning Disabilities was an interesting exploration of how, why, and if students may choose to disclose whether they have a disability for the purpose […]
Carrying Forward with an Appreciative Mindset Geneviève Maheux-Pelletier, PhD, PMPInterim Director, Teaching Commons The arrival of 2019 is an opportunity to celebrate accomplishments and set new goals. Had it been just another year, I would have refrained from opening my post with a cliché, but this year, the end of 2018 coincided with the beginning […]
Podcasting for Teaching and Research Brittany Starkman, Graduate Student, Faculty of Education Producing a podcast can be a great way for you and your students to share concepts, ideas and research inside and outside of the classroom. Unlike a traditional radio broadcast, listeners are not tied to a certain time frame to tune in. A recorded […]
An Unsuccessful Attempt to Increase Student Study Time and Performance Uros Petronijevic, LA&PS *Note: This blog post is adapted from the Vox column “The disappointing impact of encouraging students to study more,” which is available here: https://voxeu.org/article/disappointing-impact-encouraging-students-study-more Over the last 50 years there has been a large decline in the amount of time college students spend […]
Digital Humanities and Social Sciences for Experiential Learning Samantha Cutrara, PhD – Curriculum Specialist, Office of the Vice Provost Academic It is one thing to know the value of experiential learning in your classroom, it is another to effectively incorporate it into your teaching repertoire. Experiential learning can be understood as activating your students’ learning by experiencing the […]
Creating Effective Videos with a Smartphone Anna Augusto Rodrigues, Teaching Commons Integrating videos into lessons has shown to be an effective way to teach and connect with students (Berk, 2009; Sterns & Hussey, 2014). Although a myriad of educational videos are available online, there may be times you will need to create an original piece […]
Part 2: Indigenizing an Indigenous course Sean Hillier, Faculty of Health The burden of decolonizing has generally fallen on the shoulders of Indigenous Peoples alone, which can no longer be the case. This has been a difficult journey for myself as an Indigenous person and academic. How can we allow non-Indigenous people to teach about […]
Perspectives from Indigenizing an Indigenous course Part 1: The Process of Indigenizing Sean Hillier, Faculty of Health The university has set out in recent years to make Experiential Education (EE) a priority across all faculties and programs; certainly, part of its recruiting efforts. With this focus on EE, I think it is a fantastic opportunity […]