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July 9, 2024

Informed Student Participation in Class Recordings

Reading Time: 3 minutesThis teaching tip offers suggestions for helping students understand the way a course may use and distribute recordings.  It explains the recording features of Teams and provides suggestions for supporting students in choosing their level of participation in recordings created by either service.  Consider Consent and Privacy  Conestoga’s privacy team has provided information on privacy and consent for synchronous classrooms. Begin with this...
Categories Inclusive EdTech Use/Teaching with Teams/Tech-Enhanced Teaching
May 8, 2023

Open Educational Resources (OER): OER Support at Conestoga

Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat is OER? Open Educational Resources (OER) are one aspect of Open Educational Practices (OEP) underpinned by pedagogies like constructivism, critical digital pedagogy, and social justice (Cronin, 2019; DeRosa & Jhangiani, 2018; Lambert, 2018). Through the lens of OEP, OER are developed by centering the needs of marginalized students and aims to create resources for the classroom that are accessible,...
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January 12, 2023

Active Reading Strategies for Digital Readers

Reading Time: 10 minutesLearners will score lower in a comprehension test of a digital text compared to a paper text. Why might this be? Often, digital readers do not transfer effective reading habits from paper-based reading to digital reading. Learners may read more shallowly on digital media, and do not effectively practice summarizing, note-taking and mental processing skills that they are more accustomed...
Categories EdTech for Active Learning/Inclusive EdTech Use/Tech-Enhanced Teaching
January 10, 2023

Starting Teaching with Texidium

Reading Time: 4 minuteseTexts are digital textbooks provided by publishers, and are an integral component of many courses and programs at Conestoga. These digital textbooks are provided to students through eConestoga, and can be read and studied through the Texidium app. Often, educators are the most influential factors in learners’ success with digital texts, and your use of the text will inform and...
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May 20, 2021

Icebreakers for Your Online Synchronous Classroom

Reading Time: 4 minutesIn the era of synchronous online learning, it is important to create a community of learning. Using icebreakers can foster communities, promote positive teacher and student relationships, and lay the groundwork for classroom interaction (Serembus & Kemery, 2020). Studies in pedagogy encourage teachers to use icebreakers in their classes. The following icebreakers are quick and easy to run both in...
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May 5, 2021

Read & Write Gold

Reading Time: 2 minutesRead&Write is a literacy toolbar that helps students enhance their reading, writing, studying, and research skills. Commonly presumed as a type of assistive tech, Read & Write is unique in that it is available to all students at Conestoga. This app can support a variety of learning, studying, and research habits. By using Read&Write, students can proactively develop their literacy...
Categories Accessible Teaching/Effective Teaching/Inclusive EdTech Use/Tech-Enhanced Teaching
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
September 7, 2019

Live Caption a PowerPoint Presentation

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIf your teaching entails portions of PowerPoint presentation, you can use live captions to provide a more accessible experience for learners. The narration will only work as long as you’re showing PowerPoint presentations, but adding in Q&A slides and using the Remote Presentation Template will help make presentation portions more accessible to many learners.
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June 24, 2019

Cognitive and Metacognitive Reading Strategies

Reading Time: 6 minutesResearch indicates that learners are more likely to use meta cognitive strategies when reading online (Azmuddin, Nor, and Hamat, 2017). Cognitive strategies, like rereading difficult sections, adjusting reading speed, or making predictions, are controlled by meta cognitive strategies, such as setting a purpose for reading, previewing the text, and making predictions.
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