February 12, 2024 Mentimeter Reading Time: 3 minutes What is Mentimeter? An interactive presentation, polling and quizzing tool, with Mentimeter you can build engaging presentations right in your browser. Add questions, polls, quizzes,... Categories Gamification/Licensed Apps and Pilots/Teaching Materials/Tech For Teaching
February 6, 2024 Peer Feedback: Grading Tool versus Assessment Tool Reading Time: 3 minutes Peer feedback is a powerful classroom assessment tool that you can leverage to support students’ learning (Patchan et al, 2015; Yu & Schunn, 2023). Particularly... Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Assessing Learning/Assessment/Assessment Quick Guides/Collaboration/Creating Assessments/Improving Assessments/Student Focused Assessment
January 31, 2024 Effective Whiteboard Use Reading Time: < 1 minute When teaching in-person, the whiteboard can be an effective teaching tool in the classroom. It helps students visualize content and recall important terms, concepts, and... Categories Accessible Learning/Collaboration/In-person
October 26, 2023 Proctoring Technologies for Test & Exams Reading Time: 3 minutes Effective test and exam proctoring is an important part of the work that we do as faculty to ensure integrity and create supportive spaces for... Categories Assessing Learning/Assessment/Assessment Quick Guides/Teaching/Tech For Teaching
September 26, 2023 Gamification and Student Choice in Brick and Stone Mason Programs Reading Time: 4 minutes Lori Martin first taught at Conestoga in 2014. Since 2019 she has been teaching in Conestoga’s Trades and Apprenticeship, specifically in the Masonry Apprenticeship and... Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Faculty Stories/Gamification/Teaching
September 19, 2023 Teaching in Zoom Reading Time: 4 minutes At Conestoga, many faculty use Zoom to teach their courses. This post aims to support you in the initial stages of learning to use Zoom... Categories Online Synchronous/Teaching/Tech for New Faculty/Tech For Teaching/Zoom or Teams
September 18, 2023 Uses of AI Chatbots in Education Reading Time: 4 minutes In this post, we’ll explore the potential applications of chatbots in educational contexts and consider some examples in use in different contexts. Visit my previous... Categories AI and Teaching/Artificial Intelligence/Teaching/Tech For 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... Categories Active Learning and Engagement/Online Synchronous/Teaching/Zoom or Teams
April 20, 2023 Generative AI Applications and Tools Reading Time: 5 minutes The list of generative Artificial Intelligence (genAI) applications, tools and methods grows daily. This is a small selection of those more commonly accessed within each... Categories Artificial Intelligence/Tech For Teaching
April 20, 2023 Assessment Proctoring Tools Reading Time: 2 minutes Conestoga licenses several assessment proctoring apps or software. In assessments using online quizzes built within eConestoga, one or more of these tools may be used... Categories Assessment/Tech For Teaching
