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January 11 – 15 will be a week of fantastic opportunities for faculty development!  Sessions will be roughly 1 hour and 15 minutes each.  Check back later for additional session descriptions, dates and times.

Sessions Include:

Ignatian Pedagogy and Terminology

Sarah Signorino, Director of Mission & Identity

Learn a deeper understanding of our Jesuit values. Learn about the Ignatian Pedagogical Paradigm and how you can incorporate it into your classes. Learn about the Mission & Identity resource page, a digital toolkit for historical and contemporary happenings in the Ignatian network.

Student Writing: A Conversation about Fundamentals

Dr. Graham Stowe, Assistant Professor of English and Director, Canisius College Writing Center

In this workshop we will discuss the basics of teaching writing, including effective assignment development, variations on grading, and in general strategies for writing-to-learn. If your students don’t do much writing in your courses, here’s an opportunity to consider how student writing can meet your learning goals. If you have students write a lot, here’s a chance to revisit fundamentals to make the process better for students, and for you.

Teaching LGBTQIA+ Inclusivity

Fatima Johnson-Rodriguez, Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion, Emma Switzer, ’21, Dr. Richard Reitsma, Chair and Associate Professor, Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Dr. Joshua Russell, Director, Anthrozoology Program

Inclusion must be a central principle within Ignatian pedagogy.  At Canisius, we are committed to supporting our LGBTQIA+ students, and in our courses, create spaces for exploring topics and themes of vital importance to justice in communities local and global.  In this session, we discuss ways to build LGBTQIA+ inclusion into the core elements of our courses.

Developing a Course Orientation

Dr. Jennifer Lodi-Smith, assistant vice president, Academic Affairs

Develop a dynamic 10-minute orientation for your Fall 2020 course! This companion to the course syllabus can help students get a clear picture of your course policies, routines, assignments and objectives.

Compassionate, Labor-Based Grading

Join in a conversation of how you can be innovative and inclusive in your grading with compassionate, labor-based grade.  Participants will specifically discuss Sandie Friedman’s Article “Compassionate Grading in the Era of COVID,” and Asao Inoue’s 2019 chair’s address at CCCC.

 

Work Smarter in Course Management

Dr. Malini Suchak, Associate Professor in Animal Behavior and Conservation

Confusion over deadlines, where to find things, and instructions causes frustration for both students and faculty and can result in a lot of extra time on email trying to sort things out. This session will go over some tips and tricks for organizing your courses on D2L so they are clear, efficient, and easy to use for both faculty and students.

Stay Golden, Griffins: Academic Supports for Student Success

Dr. Mark Harrington,Assistant Vice President for Student Success, HESAA Program Director, Assistant Professor of Graduate Education & Leadership

Jennifer Herrmann, Associate Dean of Student Success

Tracy Callaghan, Associate Director of Academic Achievement

Lindy Feider, Assistant Director of Academic Achievement

Monika McFoy, Assistant Director of Support Services

Join us for a brief overview of the Griff Center for Student Success. The team will discuss the various services and supports available to assist students in their academic pursuits. Additionally, the team will discuss the newly formed student success teams, the process of submitting academic and behavioral concerns, and the cura personalis team.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Teaching and Learning with Bouwhuis Library

Lisa Sullivan, Librarian, Andrew Bouhwuis Library

Come and join our fantastic librarian as she guides you through navigating the library resources and site, requesting resources, library instruction options as well as how to receive research assistance for you and your students.

 

Student Accessibility Services 101

Sierra Bonerb, Associate Director, and Angela Bufalino, Support Services Coordinator, Canisius College Student Accessibility Services

This session will provide insight for faculty regarding Student Accessibility Services and the data on students with disabilities at Canisius. It will include information on getting students connected to the office, the intake process, faculty notifications, and providing reasonable accommodations. It will also offer an opportunity to answer questions related to working with students with disabilities and current best practices.

 

Learn to Engage: Discussion Posts and Online Activities

Yvonne Widenor, Visiting Assistant Professor and Art History Program Director; Fine Arts Department. director, ArtsCanisius

This session will offer tips on ways to keep students actively involved in course content and building class community. Examples include ice-breakers, creative projects, and reactions to course material and are taken from art history courses but can be applied to many other disciplines.

 

 

 

Teaching with Video

Dr. Jonathan O’Brien, Associate Professor of Biology

Learn to record video for your multi-modal courses! Video can be a great way to asynchronously deliver course content to students, that they can watch on their own time outside of scheduled classtimes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Collaborate with Career Development

Eileen Abbatoy, Senior Associate Director, Sheila Pettigrew, Senior Assistant Director, and Rachel Emmons, Coordinator, Career Development

Meet the Career Development team and discover how we collaborate with faculty to support students’ career readiness through classroom presentations, individualized assignments and more. Learn about the tools, resources and employer partnerships available to our students and alumni for career success.

 

Surveys and Flipgrids and Asynchronous, Oh My!

Dr. Jonathan Lawrence, Associate Professor of Religious Studies

In this workshop, we focus on strategies for student engagement in a largely asynchronous semester.  Even in classes featuring some face-to-face interaction, most of the class activities can be completely asynchronous to provide flexibility.  Dr. Lawrence will discuss how he set up his courses, modifications he made during the term, experiences with “ungrading” methods, and student feedback.

 

 

 

Attractive, Interactive Courses Online

Dr. Marya Grande, Professor of Special/Childhood Education

Discover options for remote, interactive, and collaborative resources that promote student-student exchange.  These can easily be integrated into your D2L course space, but offer creative and engaging alternatives to traditional text discussions.  Additionally, we’ll explore tips for making your D2L course easier for students to navigate.

 

 

 

 

 

 

D2L Tools for Online Quizzes & Exams

Tyler Kron-Piatek, Instructional Technologist, Center for Online Learning & Innovation

Learn to use the Quizzes tool in D2L to build online exams and quizzes. You can build online tests that replace traditional face-to-face exams. Or you can create small worksheet-style “checkup” exercises that help your students get the most from weekly reading or video content. In this workshop, we’ll explore how to build, operate, and grade assessments using the Quizzes tool.

Basic Editing for Instructional Videos

In this workshop, we’ll learn some basic video editing techniques that can greatly improve instructional video in our courses, without a lot of additional effort.  We’ll work in Screencast-O-Matic and DaVinci Resolve, which represent a low-end/high-end mix, but our main focus will be tips, tricks, and workflow which strikes an efficient balance between good video production quality, and quick process.

Collaborative Critical Reading

In the past two decades scholars have experimented with “social annotation,” or the ability for readers to highlight and comment on the same web-based text.  Systems like Perusall and Hypothes.is make it easy for classes to discuss PDF-based texts, websites, and even videos.  Those who teach with them now report that this stimulates critical reading and student-student interaction at the site of the text.  In this session, we’ll run through the basics of Hypothes.is and Perusall, so participants can choose which (or both) they’d like to try in Spring 2021 courses.