April 20, 2020

Podcasts

Reading Time: < 1 minuteJoin Teaching & Learning Consultant Joel Beaupré as he hosts guests from Conestoga and beyond who share their recommendations, reflections, stories, and questions related to current trends and issues in the world of Canadian college education. Episode One: Adapting Assessments for Remote Delivery Episode Two: Nancy Nelson on Active & Inclusive Learning in a Remote Environment Episode Three: Dr. Cory...

Categories Teaching with EdTech/Tech-Enhanced Teaching

April 17, 2020

Group Work in Fully Online Learning

Reading Time: 4 minutesThis Teaching Tip provides a summary of selected research literature that offers suggestions for supporting learners and reducing conflict in group-based learning within remote courses.

Categories Effective Teaching/Online Asynchronous/Online Synchronous/Student Engagement & Communication/Teaching with EdTech/Tech-Enhanced Teaching

March 28, 2020

Managing Communication in Online Synchronous Classes

Reading Time: 4 minutesTeaching tips that respond to common scenarios that can arise in the remote synchronous classroom, including chat talk, interruptions, oversharing, silence, and unwelcome participants.

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

March 27, 2020

Creating a Positive Learning Environment in Zoom

Reading Time: 3 minutesTips for creating a positive learning environment in Zoom through understanding privacy and confidentiality, enabling live captions, and more.

Categories Teaching with Teams/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

January 15, 2020

Games for Teaching Academic Integrity

Reading Time: 4 minutesThis post describes teaching academic integrity using games, and lists a selection of available games that can be adapted for your in-person, hybrid, or asynchronous course. Games for Learning The term serious games refers to games that aim to inform and educate within or outside the classroom (Susi, Johannesson, & Backlund, 2007). Gamification and games-based learning can provide a fun, low-stakes, and cooperative approach towards course content (Khan, Dyer, Bjelobaba, et...

Categories EdTech for Active Learning/Effective Teaching/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

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.

Categories Inclusive EdTech Use/Teaching with EdTech/Tech-Enhanced Teaching

September 4, 2019

Editing Videos

Reading Time: 3 minutesEditing a video can add polish and professionalism to your clips, but it takes additional time. Determine whether you’d like to spend time editing your clips.

Categories Teaching with EdTech/Tech-Enhanced Teaching

September 2, 2019

Recording or Narrating a PowerPoint

Reading Time: 2 minutesSometimes the most efficient way to create a video is to narrate an existing PowerPoint. This tip will coach you through the process. Start by setting up your PowerPoint. Have a glass of water nearby, you’re going to be talking a lot. Then follow these steps: Select the Slideshow tab. Choose Record Slideshow. Record from the beginning or from a...

Categories Online Synchronous/Teaching with EdTech/Tech-Enhanced Teaching

August 4, 2019

Upload, Caption, and Share Videos

Reading Time: 2 minutesWhat do you do with videos once you have them?
Learn to upload your videos to either Microsoft Stream or a YouTube channel to share it with students and colleagues.

Categories Teaching with EdTech/Tech-Enhanced Teaching

July 15, 2019

Faronics Insight

Reading Time: 5 minutesAKA the “Owl software,” Faronics Insight lets you present on all screens and offer support in pre-configured labs. This guide aims to help you use this software in the Conestoga teaching context.

Categories Teaching with EdTech/Tech-Enhanced Teaching

July 15, 2019

Tour eConestoga

Reading Time: < 1 minuteMany students are brand new to eConestoga, especially in their first semester. International students usually have limited experience in using a Learning Management Systems (LMS), and domestic students may be more accustomed to using other versions of one. Show students how to navigate your eConestoga course.  Below, Laura demonstrates how. Encourage students to download and install the D2L Brightspace Pulse...

Categories Teaching with EdTech/Tech-Enhanced Teaching

July 15, 2019

Presenting in Labs

Reading Time: < 1 minuteTeaching in a lab is a unique experience. Many programs are technical and offer hands on experience working with software and apps, and time is spent developing solutions for real world problems.

Categories Teaching with EdTech/Tech-Enhanced Teaching

July 8, 2019

Live Demonstration

Reading Time: 3 minutesDemonstration, kinaesthetic activity and modelling of behaviours are proven to deeply tie learning to memory. When embedded in teaching approaches, tools like interactive projectors (sometimes also called SMARTboards) greatly improve motivation, attention and behaviour

Categories Teaching with EdTech/Tech-Enhanced Teaching