EdTech Insights and Reviews
Lessons learned from TESS 2024
ETO member, Maggie, shares her experience of attending the TESS 2024 Conference (November 5 and 6, 2024). She summarizes memorable conference sessions and key takeaways from the event.
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Thoughtfully Crafting a Blended Course (Card Activity)
In this activity, you’ll consider the differences between onsite, blended, and online learning, visualize your course’s existing modalities, explore what modalities are – and aren’t – working, and experiment with different modalities to see what makes sense for your specific teaching context. This can feel overwhelming; re-design is a time and energy consuming prospect. We all know how many tools there are out there and no one has idle minutes.
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Stuff we learned during the 2024 conference season
We each pulled out memorable moments from the Teaching and Learning Symposium (TLS), the IT@UofT conference, Adobe World Conference, and the Crowdmark Community Conference to share.
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Stuff we learned at Collision
When Inga saw that Collision was offering discounted 2-for-1 tickets for Women in Tech, the ETO team jumped on the chance to attend a world-famous conference (you can, read about the conferences we attended last year too).
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PodCamp 2023: Key Takeaways from the “Unconference”
On February 25 to 26, the 15th annual PodCamp Toronto returned to Toronto Metropolitan University. The free event invites people with knowledge and an interest in podcasting to meet at the Ted Rogers School of Media at TMU.
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UDLHE Digicon 2022 Presentation: Implicit Design, Explicit Function
This blog post reviews the session: Implicit Design, Explicit Function: Educational Developers on UDL Implementation Strategy Continuum.
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ETO Summer School
Summer is a time for reflection and learning at the ETO. Here is what our team is reading, taking on, and learning as we get ready to support you with your courses and projects in Fall 2022.
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Lessons learned from presenting at an online conference
ETO member, Inga, shares her experience of presenting at her first online U of T conference. She details how she prepared, what she did during the presentation, and connected with participants post-session.
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Stuff we learned from UofT Conferences
We each pulled out memorable moments from the conferences to share.
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EdTech Tips for Teaching Continuity
As we return to in-person learning, you might consider implementing some ideas now to reduce the stress of any absences.
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The ETO Holiday Gift Guide
It is a common refrain (isn’t it?) – what will delight the EdTech-er in my life? Here are some of the fun things that have helped the ETO Team get through the COVID months. You might even find something here that sparks your imagination and makes your teaching (and meeting) a touch easier.
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Lessons Learned from the Pandemic
Prof. Micah Stickel and Prof. Susan McCahan have been sharing Lessons Learned from the Pandemic in presentations (PDF file attached, below). What have we learned after a full semester online? Well, it has a lot to do with Goldilocks…
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