December 19, 2019

“Teaching at Conestoga” workshop – Monday, Dec. 16, 2019

Reading Time: < 1 minute On Monday, Dec. 16, “Teaching at Conestoga,” one of six mandatory workshops for Conestoga faculty, was facilitated by Teaching and Learning Consultant Lisa Trimble.

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December 19, 2019

Tech-ing Outside My Comfort Zone

Reading Time: 3 minutes This 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...

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November 29, 2019

Marking Made Eas(ier)

Reading Time: 4 minutes Below is a post that I did as part of eCampus Ontario’s 9x9x25 challenge in the Fall of 2018.   Since then, Conestoga has started a...

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November 27, 2019

How I Experimented With FlipGrid, it blew up and the Learning was Beautiful

Reading Time: 3 minutes This story was written by Kim Carter (Business) @Kcarte02. Have you ever tried ed-tech in your classroom and it just blew up? By “blew up”...

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November 27, 2019

Managing Group Work

Reading Time: 2 minutes Group work can be valuable for learning, and challenging to manage and support. These suggestions aim to provide clear ideas of how to best manage...

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November 26, 2019

Cornell Notes

Reading Time: < 1 minute Cornell note taking is a note taking strategy that prompts active reflection and summarizing of content. It’s a great way to mentor learners on effective...

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November 18, 2019

Finding Videos

Reading Time: 4 minutes Video is an engaging and relevant way to draw learners in, diversify instruction and model skills. Finding and curating accessible, captioned videos is becoming easier...

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November 13, 2019

How the FAST Program Supports International Students

Reading Time: 4 minutes A professor is often the first person international students meet when they arrive in Canada. To support them in the next step of their professional...

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October 15, 2019

Competitive and Gamified Quizzes

Reading Time: 6 minutes Educators across the globe use game-based quizzes to add a bit of competition and engagement to review, quizzes and retrieval practice activities. But what does the research say about these types of activities for learning? How can we best leverage them to improve student outcomes?

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October 4, 2019

Screen Recording

Reading Time: < 1 minute Often, people like to make videos showing how to do something on a device or laptop. Most devices make it easy to do short screen recordings, in a variety of ways.

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