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Spring 2024 DEI Workshop

by | Apr 17, 2024 | Staff

The Office of Diversity and Inclusion, in partnership with the Institute for Autism Research, the departments of Psychology and Student Accessibility Services, will host a DEI workshop titled, Neurodiversity-affirming Reflections and Approaches to Supporting Student Mental Health, on Wednesday, April 24, from 2:30 – 4:00 p.m. in Regis Room, Richard E. Winter ’42 Student Center. The workshop will be presented by Meng-Chuan Lai, MD, PhD, associate professor and co-chair, Advisory Council for Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Indigeneity and Accessibility in Clinical Care in the Department of Psychiatry, and Graduate Faculty at the Institute of Medical Science and Department of Psychology, University of Toronto.

This session will center the voices of neurodiverse students along with research findings to increase awareness of neurodiversity and its implications in post-secondary educational contexts, with a focus on how educational institutions can develop initiatives to support student mental health considering neurodiversity.

Register for the workshop by clicking here

Click here to add this event to your digital calendar.

Submitted by: Amy Beiter, curriculum and student support project associate, Academic Affairs

Thank You for Supporting Giving Day!

by | Apr 17, 2024 | Staff

Together, we did it!

Thanks to the incredible support of our alumni, faculty, staff, parents, students and friends, Canisius Giving Day 2024 was a huge success!

A total of 1,814 gifts were made contributing $717,529 in support of the dozens of initiatives submitted by our campus partners!

It is truly incredible to see members of the Canisius community from far and wide coming together and investing in the areas and initiatives that make a Canisius education special. Most of all, Giving Day showcases the power of thousands of Griffins coming together as ONE Canisius!

Submitted by: Jessica Mitrovits, assistant director, Canisius Fund, Office of Advancement

Earth Day Clean Up Event

by | Apr 17, 2024 | Staff

Join the Sustainability Committee and the New Buffalo Institute for a meaningful Masten District cleanup event!

If you prefer not to participate in trash pickup, there will be engaging campus beautification projects available. We’ll convene in the Student Center lobby, where light refreshments provided by Chartwells will be served before we begin. After the cleanup, don’t miss the community fair upstairs in the Student Center. Looking forward to seeing you there!

Submitted by: Genevieve, USA Sustainability Chair

Online Faculty Development Courses

by | Apr 17, 2024 | Staff

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The OFDC (Online Faculty Development Course) offered by COLI is for full-time and part-time faculty, whether new to D2L, or experienced with technology for teaching. This five-week mini-course prepares instructors to teach online and hybrid courses. The OFDC provides many practical tips for teaching online but more importantly, helps faculty explore new pedagogies for active learning, social presence, and community in courses on the internet.

Additionally, the updated OFDC offers insights on what Regular and Substantive Interactions (RSI) are and how to incorporate RSI into your courses. It also includes information on Panopto, Canisius’s new video content management system, how it works, and how to best fit Panopto into your courses.

The OFDC can help professors craft engaging, interactive online experiences for students, either for all-online courses, or hybrid courses that feature limited use of the classroom.

Over the summer, we will be offering two courses:

OFDC A: Monday, May 20th-Friday, June 21st

OFDC B: Monday, July 8th-Friday, August 8th

To RSVP, please check out the Faculty Development Opportunities Wiki Page.

Stay tuned to the COLI Blog and the Dome for more sessions!

Submitted by: Tyler Kron-Piatek, Instructional Designer, COLI

ScreenPal Phase Out

by | Apr 17, 2024 | Staff

Due to cost and reliability concerns, the Center for Online Learning and Innovation is not renewing ScreenPal at the end of the 2023-2024 academic year. The last day faculty or staff can use ScreenPal is May 14th, 2024.

In the last decade ScreenPal, or previously Screencast-O-Matic, has been a great toolset to help faculty easily record and edit screencast videos. However, since we acquired Screencast-O-Matic, a variety of new video tools have appeared that are more capable and reliable, and are better integrated into our daily web platforms, such as D2L. Plus, ScreenPal has been problematic for users in the past two years due to an awkward licensing procedure. Over the last year, usage of our license has declined. It simply no longer is the best option for Canisius faculty who record screencast videos.

Faculty can record videos using a variety of options:

  • Panopto is built into D2L, and provides a web-based recorder and simple editor for making cuts. We find this is the most efficient solution for most faculty and staff, and it can even be available to students in classes.
  • Mac users have QuickTime and iMovie.
  • PC users can try Clipchamp, a Microsoft Product.
  • OBS and Adobe Premiere Pro are advanced options for recording and editing, respectively.

Additional tips, tutorials, and information can be found on the Web-Based Video for Teaching Wiki page.

Submitted by: Tyler Kron-Piatek, Instructional Designer, COLI