September 8, 2020

Creating Class Guidelines with Students

Reading Time: 4 minutesYou and your students are engaged in a collaborative journey toward the goal of successful learning. This teaching tip suggests ways to create guidelines together with your students in order to create an inviting atmosphere that supports learning for everyone in the class. 

Categories Effective Teaching/Hybrid/In-Person/Inclusive Teaching/Online Synchronous/Teaching for Learning

September 8, 2020

Teaching With Pop-Up Visuals

Reading Time: 5 minutesDavid Sitler is a Faculty member in the School of Engineering. This teaching story describes Dave’s use of visuals in his teaching, and shares visuals from his teaching materials that highlight course concepts.

Categories Accessible Teaching/Effective Teaching/Faculty Stories/Online Synchronous/Reflective Practice

September 8, 2020

Ways to Use Visuals in Teaching

Reading Time: 4 minutesA Teaching Tip that describes and gives examples of different ways to use visuals in remote teaching

Categories Accessible Teaching/Effective Teaching/In-Person/Online Synchronous/Teaching for Learning

September 3, 2020

Visual Thinking Activities

Reading Time: 4 minutesA selection of visual thinking activities with examples

Categories Effective Teaching/Teaching for Learning

August 26, 2020

Open Educational Resources

Reading Time: 2 minutesFind out about OER available through Library Services.

Categories Accessible Teaching/Effective Teaching/Faculty Services/Inclusive EdTech Use/Library Services/Online Asynchronous/Online Synchronous/Teaching with EdTech/Tech-Enhanced Teaching

August 26, 2020

Teach Me Tech Services for Students

Reading Time: 2 minutesTeach Me Tech offers assistance and workshops for faculty and students.

Categories Accessible Teaching/Effective Teaching/Library Services/Tech-Enhanced Teaching

August 26, 2020

Course Readings

Reading Time: 2 minutesHow to find and link library resources to your course shell.

Categories Accessible Teaching/Effective Teaching/Faculty Services/Library Services/Online Asynchronous/Online Synchronous

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 17, 2020

Concept and Mind Mapping

Reading Time: 5 minutesWhat is it? Concept and mind mapping are graphical ways to represent knowledge, concepts and ideas. The maps are hierarchical in nature that expands on a core concept or question one idea or item at a time. Each idea or item can be a word, phrase, image, link or resource that helps define different aspects of that core concept. Common...

Categories Effective Teaching/Teaching for Learning/Teaching with EdTech/Tech-Enhanced Teaching

August 7, 2020

Ideas for Empowering Online Learners

Reading Time: 3 minutesPuneet Sharma, Professor of Mathematics in the School of Business at Conestoga College, shares examples and ideas on practices for promoting effective remote teaching and learning. His work can also be found on his blog.

Categories Effective Teaching/Faculty Stories/Online Asynchronous/Online Synchronous/Reflective Practice/Teaching for Learning

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

July 10, 2020

Reflective Tool for Teacher Development

Reading Time: 2 minutesBy Mike Wong, PhD Developing as a teacher takes time and effort. According to Lyon’s Model on Teacher Efficacy and Competence, progression through the five stages of teacher development (novice, advanced beginner, competent performer, proficient, expert) requires a combination of experiences and, importantly, ongoing reflection. As teachers advance through these stages, they develop an increasing awareness of their teaching philosophy...

Categories Effective Teaching/Reflective Practice

July 8, 2020

Team Builders for Group Work

Reading Time: 6 minutesA summary of remote team building activities to promote effective communication, understanding of diverse team member competencies, and bonds of trust in student groups.

Categories Effective Teaching/Student Engagement & Communication

June 26, 2020

Team Contracts for Healthy Group Work

Reading Time: 4 minutesA guest post by Professor Rachel Schultz, Interdisciplinary Studies, on the benefits of using team contracts. Sample team contract provided.

Categories Assessment Implementation/Effective Teaching/Faculty Stories/Quality Assessment/Student Engagement & Communication

June 26, 2020

Building Future Teamwork Success in Group Dynamics Course

Reading Time: 5 minutesGuest post by Professor Rachel Schultz, Interdisciplinary Studies, on the Group Dynamics course as a foundation for other programs at Conestoga College.

Categories Effective Teaching/Faculty Stories