by Gregory Feary | Feb 18, 2022 | Faculty
The Canisius campus community is invited to participate in an event with Pope Francis and university students from the Americas on Thursday, February 24, from 1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. in the Campus Ministry Conference Room (OM 219). The event will take place on Zoom.
Building Bridges North-South: A Synodal Encounter between Pope Francis and University Students
The Hank Center of Loyola University Chicago is honored to co-host with the Vatican a historic visit with Pope Francis and his conversation with university students from across the Americas. All topics are inspired by the renewing Spirit who conveys our synodal project– from communion, participation, and mission to questions of migration, accompaniment, and living in authentic encounter with one another and with God.
If you can’t join us from OM 219, you can sign up to join in from your own location at https://www.luc.edu/ccih/.
Submitted by: Deacon Greg Feary, Campus Minister
by Tyler Kron-Piatek | Feb 18, 2022 | Faculty
Collaborative annotation tools allow you and your students to discuss a text, website, video, or other media through shared marginalia. It’s a form of asynchronous discussion, but instead of taking place within a message board tool (such as D2L Discussions), the conversation happens in comments attached directly on a digital document, web page, or video timeline track. Better still, each discussion thread – a starting comment and subsequent replies – is keyed to a highlighted word or passage, or a specific time on the video timeline.
This has obvious value for online courses, but face-to-face courses can benefit as well: students can begin a discussion in marginalia, getting the benefits of text-based threaded or asynchronous discussions in Hypothes.is. Then, the conversation can continue in the classroom, where students experience the benefits of face-to-face interaction.
In COLI, we recommend that professors try Hypothes.is before firmly deciding to use D2L discussions. Since so many online class discussions focus on texts, Hypothes.is provides an added benefit of bringing the conversation to the text itself! In D2L, we have access to two toolsets: Perusall, and Hypothesis. While the former can handle student annotations on videos, we recommend that professors try Hypothes.is first, since it is simpler to use.
Here’s our video showing students how Hypothes.is works. You can quickly see from it why this is a great discussion mode where the class conversation should happen around a text, such as a .pdf file or website.
This semester we are running virtual workshops where you can learn how to set up Hypothes.is in your D2L course space, and get tips for efficiently managing Hypothes.is conversations. If you’d like to try to deploy it yourself, that’s easy: we have a handy step-by-step guide here. Additionally, Hypothes.is has a great website with plenty of tips on how to use it effectively in coursework.
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Submitted by: Tyler Kron-Piatek, academic technologist, COLI
by Tyler Kron-Piatek | Feb 18, 2022 | Faculty
Hypothes.is, a great option for collaborative annotation exercises on the web, offers workshops for faculty using, or possibly interested in trying their toolset. In COLI we don’t usually recommend vendor workshops; vendors tend to emphasize features instead of real, practical tips for teaching real students. Hypothes.is, though, is different, since their product was really designed by and for professors.
Here’s their list for upcoming workshops:
Activating annotation with Hypothesis in D2L (30 minutes)
This is a great introductory workshop if you’re new to adding Hypothesis as an external tool to your readings in D2L.
Using multimedia & tags in annotations (30 minutes)
This workshop walks you through how to increase engagement by adding multimedia and tags in annotations.
Using Hypothesis with small groups (30 minutes)
This workshop focuses on the options for using Hypothesis in small groups, and it covers how social annotation can be used to create a more collaborative learning environment.
Show-and-tell participatory workshop (30 minutes)
This workshop will help instructors who have already been using Hypothesis more fully leverage all of its features. Come to this session with one or more examples of an effective and meaningful annotation assignment that your students completed. Think of this as a professional learning community session for brainstorming and sharing.
Creative ways to use social annotation in your courses (30 minutes)
This workshop covers a variety of discussion protocols and active-learning strategies that can help make social annotation even more fun and engaging for you and your students.
They will make recordings available, too.
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Submitted by: Tyler Kron-Piatek, academic technologist, COLI
by Connie Pileri | Feb 16, 2022 | Faculty
The 15th annual Ignatian Scholarship Day (ISD) is Wednesday, April 20 from 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
This event is an opportunity for every student to submit accomplished work from the current or previous semester for an exhibit, presentation or performance in a conference environment.
Students can apply for ISD 2022 using the online application located in myCanisius. The types of presentations students can choose from are poster displays, oral papers, digital presentations, two-or-three dimensional art and artistic performances.
Applications will be accepted Monday, February 21 through Friday, March 18 at 5:00 p.m.
Faculty members are asked to review and endorse applications by Wednesday, March 23.
To apply for Ignatian Scholarship Day, please visit the Ignatian Scholarship Day page on the academic affairs community page. For more information, contact the Office of Event Services at Ext. 2180.
Click here to add this event to your calendar.
Submitted by: Connie M. Pileri, assistant dean for student affairs/director, Office of Event Services
by reitsmar | Feb 16, 2022 | Faculty
The Canisius College Department of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures kicks off its spring 2022 Borders & Migrations series on Monday, February 28 with Rakesh Satyal, executive editor at HarperOne, a division of HarperCollins. The event begins at 12:00 p.m. in the Andrew L. Bouwhuis Library. It is being offered in a hybrid format and is free and open to the public.
All in-person attendees are required to wear a face covering that covers their mouth and nose.
The event will be broadcast on Zoom,
here.
In addition to his role as executive editor at HarperOne, Satyal is an American novelist best known for his Lambda Literary Award-winning debut novel Blue Boy, which won the 2009 Prose/Poetry Award from the Association of Asian American Studies. He is also the author of No One Can Pronounce My Name, which was long-listed for the Dublin Literary Award. Satyal was a recipient of a 2010 Fellowship in Fiction from the New York Foundation for the Arts.
This first event in the Borders and Migration Series is focused on the Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) initiative and is being held in conjunction with LGTBQIA+ Speakers Series.
Below is a list of upcoming events in the Borders and Migration Series. More information on these events will follow in the coming weeks.
- Dr. Secil Ertorer on COVID & AAPI Discrimination Andrew L. Bouwhuis Library March 16 12:00p.m.
- Film Screening (online) of “Island of the Hungry Ghosts”
- Conversation with Poh Lin Lee, therapist featured in the film April 4 12:00 p.m.
- Diaspora on the Front Lines: Art Installation on Filipino Health Care Workers and Covid. 3 Cubes will be up: 1 in library and two in science hall.
- The exhibition “Diaspora on the Front Lines” by Rosem Morton was originally commissioned and produced by the Friends of The Philippines Society USA Inc. and Photoville, for the Photoville Festival in Brooklyn Bridge Park, NYC”
- Artist Talk with Rosem Morton April 21 6.30 pm Science Hall Commons
Submitted by: Richard D. Reitsma, PhD, associate professor and chair, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures & Cultures
