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November 11, 2020

Helping Students Connect the Dots

Reading Time: 3 minutesBy Paula Barrett, Professor and Coordinator of the Bachelor of Public Relations  Paula Barrett is a professor and program coordinator in the Bachelor of Public Relations degree program at Conestoga College. Paula has been with the college full-time for 16 years and helped build and launch both the BPR as well as the PR diploma. She received the college’s Employee...
Categories Effective Teaching/Faculty Stories/Online Synchronous/Reflective Practice/Teaching for Learning
August 18, 2020

I’m an Empowered Educator!

Reading Time: 2 minutesThis Faculty Story is a guest post written by Diana Degan, BAA, ABC, CAAP, Professor, Public Relations & Marketing and an Ontario Extend Empowered Educator. View the original post on her professional blog. I did it! I worked my way through all six of the Ontario Extend modules and was rewarded with the status of an Empowered Educator. Whoo hoo! That...
Categories Educational Development Opportunities/Effective Teaching/Faculty Stories/Reflective Practice
August 6, 2020

Reflections on Earning the eCampusOntario Technologist Badge

Reading Time: 3 minutesAs part of development activities this summer, Conestoga faculty were invited to participate in several opportunities to complete the Technologist module of the Ontario Extend program. This Faculty Story was written by Baljeet Bilkhu (School of Applied Computer Science and IT). I’ve been teaching at Conestoga for over the past four years – mostly in the areas of Software Quality and...
Categories Educational Development Opportunities/Effective Teaching/Faculty Stories/Reflective Practice
February 14, 2020

Necesito OER

Reading Time: 3 minutesThis post was written by Dr. Rita Palacios, faculty at Conestoga College about experiences in writing and creating Open Education Resources (OER) for courses. In Search of OER for Language Teaching As a language teacher, I’ve always had to work with language textbooks, which tend to be expensive and a bit rigid in their overall approach to language. Most language...
Categories Effective Teaching/Faculty Stories/Inclusive EdTech Use/Teaching for Learning/Teaching with EdTech/Tech-Enhanced Teaching
December 19, 2019

Tech-ing Outside My Comfort Zone

Reading Time: 3 minutesThis Teaching Story was written by Claire Palvetzian (Business). This is a follow up to Kim Carter’s original post “How I Experimented with FlipGrid, it Blew Up, and the Learning was Beautiful.” This past fall I was assigned a course called Communications in Health Care. I have taught this course before, however, now, one of the major assignments had been...
Categories Effective Teaching/Faculty Stories/Tech-Enhanced Teaching
November 13, 2019

How the FAST Program Supports International Students

Reading Time: 4 minutesA professor is often the first person international students meet when they arrive in Canada. To support them in the next step of their professional careers, programs need to create a classroom community that is professional and comfortable, get to know students by showing interest in their backgrounds, and integrate their experiences in other countries into their Conestoga experience. These...
Categories Effective Teaching/Faculty Stories/Inclusive Teaching
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