CENTRE FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE eddev.niagaracollege.ca
Winter Workshop Series
To register for any of these workshops, please email Sharon Everett severett@niagaracollege.ca and include
your name, program area, and title(s) of workshop(s) and date(s) you would like to attend.
All workshops are 50 minutes in length (unless noted otherwise); feel free to bring along your lunch or snacks!
WINTER 2016
JANUARY 2016
Date
Jan 21st
Jan 22nd
Jan 25th
Jan 27th
Start Time
Campus
8:30 a.m.
WC
NOTL
WC
NOTL
Date
TBA
TBA
Feb 24th
Feb 25th
Start Time
TBA
TBA
2:00 p.m.
TBA
TBA
NOTL
WC
Start Time
Campus
Teaching Portfolio Sandbox Session
Date
Mar 2nd
NOTL
Room
W213
Teaching Portfolio Sandbox Session
Writing a Teaching Philosophy Statement
Writing a Teaching Philosophy Statement
Videos as a Teaching Tool: Creating and Deploying Videos
Videos as a Teaching Tool: Creating and Deploying Videos
Mar 3rd
Mar 9th
Mar 10th
Mar 14th
Mar 17th
9:30 a.m.-12:30
p.m.
1:30 - 4:30 p.m.
WC
NOTL
WC
NOTL
WC
AH255
W212
SA208
W212
SA208
Blackboard: Tests
Blackboard: Tests
Delivering Effective Feedback
Delivering Effective Feedback
FEBRUARY 2016
Blackboard: Assignments & Rubrics
Blackboard: Assignments & Rubrics
Getting Feedback on Your Teaching
Getting Feedback on Your Teaching
MARCH 2016
2:30 p.m.
12:30 p.m.
1:30 p.m.
2:00 p.m.
10:00 a.m.
11:00 a.m.
11:00 a.m.
2:00 p.m.
Campus
Room
M110
E207
SA208
W212
Room
TBA
TBA
W212
SA208
2016 Winter Workshop Series - Descriptions
JANUARY 2016
Blackboard: Tests
Online testing provides instructors with opportunities to evaluate student learning outside of the classroom and can
simplify grading. In this hands-on workshop, you will become familiar with setting up and administering tests, quizzes,
and surveys through the Blackboard learning management system. Using test questions from your own classes, you will
have the opportunity to create a sample test with a range of question types. We will also discuss opportunities to
facilitate academic integrity through online tests and briefly explore advanced testing options including test pools and
Respondus.
Delivering Effective Feedback
In this workshop, we will explore guiding principles as well as common barriers to delivering effective feedback to
students. In addition to theory and discussion, we will also highlight practical tools that you can take away to try in your
own classroom.
FEBRUARY 2016
Blackboard: Assignments and Rubrics
Distributing and collecting assignments online can benefit instructors by streamlining assignment submission, facilitating
online grading, and using rubrics to grade student work. Participants in this hands-on workshop will explore options for
administering and grading assignments through the Blackboard learning management system and discuss how they can
be best applied in their own teaching. Working with an assignment and rubric from your own course, you will create an
individual or group assignment within Blackboard, develop a rubric, and explore a range of grading tools. We will also
discuss tools for ensuring academic integrity through online assignment submissions.
Getting Feedback on Your Teaching
In this session, we will review informal strategies for gathering student feedback on your teaching in various
instructional settings. We will focus on how to obtain and interpret feedback and then how to leverage that feedback to
maximize your personal teaching development.
MARCH 2016
Teaching Portfolio Sandbox Sessions
Are you in the process of developing a teaching portfolio? Do you have an existing portfolio that you would like to
update or revise? Do you need help finding the time to work on your portfolio? Join us for this informal opportunity to
work on the structure and/or content of your portfolio. Bring along digital copies of potential artifacts and materials
that you might like to include and receive valuable feedback from facilitators and peers. Throughout the session,
facilitators will highlight software and digital tools that can support your portfolio development (Note: participants in
this workshop are asked to bring a laptop to the session).
Writing a Teaching Philosophy Statement
The teaching philosophy statement is a central component of a teaching portfolio. This statement is a concise narrative
that describes your personal definitions of teaching and aligns these beliefs to the approaches that you employ in your
discipline to facilitate student learning. During this interactive workshop, you will develop the skeleton for a new
teaching philosophy statement or revise an existing statement.
Videos as a Teaching Tool: Creating and Deploying Videos
Whether used in online, hybrid, or face-to-face teaching, videos can play an important role in the classroom. From
connecting students with their instructor to offering always available review materials, videos are a boon to student
learning. In this hands-on workshop, you will discuss best practices in using videos in teaching and learning, use video
recording and editing tools to produce a simple introductory video to a class of their choosing, and learn how to share
videos with your students (Note: participants in this workshop are asked to bring a laptop to the session).
To register for any of these workshops, please email Sharon Everett severett@niagaracollege.ca and include
your name, program area and title(s) of workshop(s) and date(s) you would like to attend.