Teaching

June 26, 2023

Active Learning on Zoom: Whiteboards

Reading Time: 2 minutes Most of us are familiar with using whiteboards in classrooms to explain a topic, highlight key ideas, or to allow students to contribute collaboratively; much...

Active Learning and Engagement/Online Synchronous/Teaching/Zoom or Teams

June 21, 2023

Observing Behaviours and Developing Solutions in a Collaborative Environment

Reading Time: 5 minutes Amy Huskins has been a full-time professor in the Early Childhood Education program since 2015, and is currently the program coordinator for first-year students. She...

Active Learning and Engagement/Faculty Stories/Teaching

June 21, 2023

Conventions for Writing and Saying Numbers

Reading Time: < 1 minute Your students from India may be making mental adjustments for the first while when listening to or reading the higher numbers. This chart compares number notation conventions.

Teaching/Teaching International Students

June 20, 2023

The First Two Weeks: Basic Classroom Expectations

Reading Time: 9 minutes At its best a classroom is a dynamic setting where teacher and learners support each other on the journey toward a common learning goal in...

Build Community/Lesson and Course Planning

June 6, 2023

What is Community-Engaged Writing?

Reading Time: 4 minutes Learn about community-engaged writing, its benefits for students and faculty, College support, and other resources.

Faculty Stories/Teaching

June 1, 2023

Faculty Ideas for Talking with Students About Grammarly

Reading Time: 6 minutes Ideas for talking about Grammarly with students and using Grammarly with written assignments

AI and Assessment/AI and Learning/AI and Teaching/Assessing Learning/Reflective Practice/Teaching

May 19, 2023

The Value of Active Listening and Discussing Industry Practices

Reading Time: 3 minutes Jan Vilaca has taught part-time in Conestoga’s School of Business since 2018. She worked as an executive assistant in post-secondary education, yet retired from her...

Active Learning and Engagement/Faculty Stories/Teaching

May 8, 2023

Open Educational Resources (OER): OER Support at Conestoga

Reading Time: 3 minutes What is OER? Open Educational Resources (OER) are one aspect of Open Educational Practices (OEP) underpinned by pedagogies like constructivism, critical digital pedagogy, and social...

Teaching

April 25, 2023

TPACK for Teaching

Reading Time: 2 minutes Learn about the TPACK model of teacher knowledge.

Teaching/Theory and Practice

April 17, 2023

Student Authors and AI Writing Tools

Reading Time: 4 minutes Review ideas for encouraging students to see where and how their voice matters in course-related writing in the age of AI writing tools.

AI and Assessment/AI and Teaching/Assessing Learning/Teaching

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