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EdTech 2019 Sessions
Session Title Stream Session Leader(s) Session Description Presentation Files
From Flat to Fab: Creating Interactive Textbooks with Pressbooks Content Management Lillian Hogendoorn, Emily Carlisle

In this workshop, participants will learn how to use Pressbooks, a wordpress-based textbook authoring tool available to all Ontario educators and students for free.

Adventures in SCORM Files Content Management Dr. Graeme Norval, Parnian Jadidian, Dr. Jeffrey Castrucci

We are using SCORM, to add active content, and then reduce lectures.

PDF icon Adventures in SCORM Files Presentation Outline
Design with Purpose: Pedgagogical Underpinnings that Strengthen New Spaces Carol Rolheiser, Prof. Susan McCahan

This presentation will provide an overview of the collaborative work underway between ACE, the Innovation Hub, and CTSI to better understand how instructors and instructional teams can be supported as they facilitate student learning in active learning classrooms.

PDF icon TIL CTSI Assessment Handout
Enhancing the Individual Learning Experience via Class-sourcing and Teamwork Content Management Prof. Elham Marzi

This session will discuss a TEAL teaching strategy and approach. The intention of this teaching strategy is threefold, firstly to aim to further incorporate use of student’s personal devices as well as the technological tools available in the class to deliver content, activities, and expand the classroom and student capabilities. Secondly, to provide an opportunity for students to contribute in non-traditional ways. Thirdly, to utilize technology to preserve student’s efforts to support learning outside of the classroom setting.

iPads in MY150 Teaching Team Management Sarah Mayes-Tang , Bernardo Galvao-Sousa

In 2018-19 we both used student iPads while teaching Calculus in MY150. We will briefly explain our motivation and how we used them, before opening the floor for questions and discussion."

PDF icon iPads in MY150.pdf
Mapping the TEAL Teaching Experience: Presenting User Research Findings Teaching Team Management Erin Hanlon

After conducting user research into the end-to-end experience of Engineering professors teaching in TEAL rooms, we will be presenting the experience map we created to capture this journey. 

Image icon TEAL Classrooms: Future State Map, Image icon TEAL Classrooms: Experience Map
MY Manual – A user’s guide to UofT’s Jumbotron Activity Management Scott Ramsay, Shai Cohen

Myhal 150 is a daunting room to enter on the first day of classes. It is far more frightening for the teacher. How do you use a room whose screens (at a total of about 750 sq. ft.) are larger than the average Toronto rental condo (724 sq. ft., according to the Financial Post)?

PDF icon MY Manual - PDF.pdf
One Size Fits All?: Designing for and Adapting to New Spaces Activity Management Lydia Wilkinson, Jennifer Farmer

This year, the three panelists (collectively) taught courses in ten of the new Myhal TEAL spaces. Focusing on their experiences in the third and fourth floor classrooms, they will discuss how they planned and adapted lessons to overcome challenges and take advantage of opportunities provided by these new environments.

PDF icon One Size Fits All?
Our experience running tutorial in Myhal TEAL rooms Teaching Team Management Jason Bazylak, Peter Weiss

We taught our large (~800) first year engineering design course in the Active Learning classroom Myhal 150. The year was filled with amazing satisfaction, unexpected pains and what were we thinking moments. We are here to share.

Quercus Road Map 2019-2020 Content Management Avi Hyman

We have moved into Phase II of the University's Academic Toolbox Renewal process - How Do We Add New Tools to the Toolbox? This session will highlight aspects of this phase, and future phases, and engage participants in a conversation about the future of the toolbox.

Responsiveness in the Classroom: “Backchanneling” and other methods of incorporating real-time student feedback into your teaching Activity Management

Many of us already make adjustments to class activities in real time based on student response, whether it’s by watching faces/body language to get a sense of what they’re understanding, using clickers, or using some of the free “backchanneling” apps available to get students actively involved in

PDF icon Backchanneling Workshop
Rise of the Smart Classroom- is there a rise in the learning curve as well? Teaching Team Management Prof. Bill Ju

As a member of the teaching stream I have been interested in how to teach in smart classrooms that support active learning. Here is my story...

Small Teaching: Leveraging Technology for Inclusive Engagement in Courses Content Management Elaine Khoo

By using Small Teaching strategies involving regular assessment features in Quercus and the newly available VEA tool integrated into Quercus, low English proficiency students become empowered to keep up with weekly course readings, and voluntarily self-train to improve their language skills. When students can use VEA to accelerate their language development with course content, they are able to participate actively in class.

PDF icon Adding_VEA_to_your_Course.pdf
Teaching with Snagit: Lecture Capture and Beyond Content Management Anna Limanni

TechSmith Snagit is U of T’s new institutional screencasting tool for video and audio recording. Often used for lecture capture, this tool has many other applications. In this hands-on workshop, participants will:

  • learn about different ways to use screencasting in teaching, 
  • and use Snagit to record and share their own screencasts. 
PDF icon Snagit Workshop
Transforming the Instructional Landscape Activity Management Julia Smeed, Steven Bailey

With quality teaching as one of the University’s core missions, instructional space plays a crucial role in fulfilling this aim. As a steward of these important facilities, Academic + Campus Events (ACE) is committed to developing accessible, innovative, and effective purpose-built classrooms that support the needs of all stakeholders.

PDF icon Transforming the Instructional Landscape - Keynote Slides.pdf, PDF icon TIL CTSI Assessment Handout (May 2019).pdf
What's the big TEAL?! Activity Management Mark Pellegrino

Your invited to explore technologies utilized in the Technology Enhanced Active Learning (TEAL) classrooms. Come learn about the wired and wireless presentation capabilities with advanced audio/video routing and screen sharing.