Lessons From Your Colleagues Webinar Series
This webinar series began in response to our rather sudden move to online/remote teaching. The goal of the webinars is to share what has worked (and likely also a bit of what has not worked) with your peers from across FASE and the University. As everyone adapts to online teaching, these sessions serve as places to start ideating, share thoughts and concerns, confirm guidelines, select technological tools, and to kickstart your "design for online" process. They are not intended to be stand alone sessions and often are just the start of the conversation - we'd love to keep talking, so please contact us via fase.edtech@utoronto.ca or schedule a 1-1 consultation.
We currently do not have any upcoming sessions schedule, but you can review the accordion items below to watch recordings of our previous sessions.
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Facilitated by Prof. Jonathan Herman
| August 12, 2020 | MathMatize is a new online math-learning platform co-developed by Prof. Jonathan Herman. Prof. Herman developed the MathMatize platform in hopes of helping professors easily create quizzes and polls with existing or original questions, and helping students enhance their learning with continuous practice and review. In his webinar on August 12th, Prof. Herman introduced us to the three main features of MathMatize: Live Polling, Online Quizzes, and Gamified Learning Resources.
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Session led by Clare Heymans | August 26, 2020 | Claire talks about the experience of rapidly developing a Quercus course hub for FASE's first year incoming class, focusing on enhancing skills in math, physics, and chemistry. She also shares specific tools and strategies that were used during UTEA to foster and encourage community, especially with students participating in an online learning experience for the first time. Examples include:
- "Parking Lot" to keep sessions on track and to give students an opportunity to ask questions anonymously.
- Games/Ice-Breakers that can be played with small or large groups on Bb Collaborate (and many other platforms)
- New ideas (from the UTEA Academic Mentors, as in your students) for "bringing the fun" to online learning.
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- Watch the Recording
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Prof. Sanjeev Chandra | August 20, 2020 | Preparing on-line lectures gives us an opportunity to reconsider how we teach courses. On-line video lectures can be a very effective method of conveying information to students, in an asynchronous format that they can replay as many times as they need to understand the material presented. Synchronous lecture times can then be used for a flipped classroom devoted to discussion, solving problems and other activities that reinforce concepts presented in on-line videos. This is a change that should persist beyond our return to in-class teaching and lead to better use of classroom time. We will discuss how to prepare on-line video lectures using PowerPoint for a second-year Thermodynamics course. These use animations and embedded videos to bring concepts to life and are combined with a recorded voice-over.
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Prof. Elham Marzi | August 19, 2020 | This session will discuss the effectiveness of an in course-based Study-Buddy system to resolve three common challenges presented by online classes; 1. deterioration of community; 2. illicit sharing of coursework and assignments, and 3. accountability and participation in active and experiential learning exercises.
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Prof. Marianne Touchie | July 30 | This session will begin by describing the process used for the creation of over 100 videos, which were initially envisioned to support a flipped classroom in an undergraduate building science course. Our current COVID-driven transition to online delivery presents a unique opportunity to use these video resources in a completely reimagined course framework with new modes of engagement and assessment. There will be opportunities to discuss your own ideas for course reimagination, so come prepared to share!
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Related Content
- How to submit handwritten assessments using online tools by Prof. Parsch (Video Link)
- How can I submit handwritten (or paper based) work? (EdTech Support Guide)
- Review tips for creating effective instructional videos (EdTech Guide featuring principle shared by Prof. Parsch)
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- Visit Prof. Ramsay's YouTube Channel and Website
- MY Manual: A User's Guide to UofT's Jumbotron (EdTech Workshop 2019 Presentation)
- PCV Camera Arm Holder (Crystal Liu, one of Prof. Ramsay's students)
- Capture and Recording Equipment Set up (Examples from your colleagues EdTech Write Up)
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Facilitated by Prof. Jennifer Drake | February 03, 2021 | Facilitated by: Prof. Jennifer Drake | The move to online delivery meant that the curriculum for CIV550 Water Resources Engineering needed to undergo substantial restructuring. Throughout the course, a Group Floodplain Mapping project served as a teaching tool that linked Lecture materials all term. Students were introduced to numerous GIS webtools, R (a statistical package), OTTHYMO (a hydrologic modelling program) and HEC-RAS (a hydraulic modelling project) through asynchronous modules and applied these analysis tools to evaluate flood risks to an Ontario community. This presentation will discuss the advantages and challenges encountered executing such an ambitious group project and teaching software remotely.