Curriculum Re-Development Centre

Talking About Teaching October 26th, Teaching for Conceptual Thinking

admin — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 20:18:03 +0000

Concepts! Concepts! Concepts! They’re everywhere! Our textbooks are full of them. Lectures explain them. Tests measure how well students understand them. But what is a concept? How do we know our students are deeply learning a concept? How can we teach for conceptual understanding in a specific field or discipline? This CAETL session explores the challenges, issues and pleasures associated with teaching for conceptual understanding.

Please join us. The session promises to be informative, supportive and challenging.

October 26th,2012
L1170 A
2- 4 PM

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Refreshments will be served.
All members of the teaching community are welcome to attend.

This event will be live streamed from 2-4pm. You can watch it at the following link:

new.livestream.com/uleth

Join us for the Apple Learning Tour. Reshaping content. Engaging Students.

admin — Mon, 10 Sep 2012 16:16:24 +0000

CRDC and CAETL present the Apple Learning Tour 2012

Technology makes this a magical time to be a student. And a powerful time to be an educator. The Apple Learning Tour is an opportunity to experience how you can transform learning with innovative new tools for creating, curating, and deploying content.

Engage students. Explore apps, interactive books, and Multi-Touch textbooks.

8:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.

Discover amazing interactive iBooks. Immerse yourself in the world’s largest online catalog of free education content in iTunes U. And experience some of the thousands of education apps for iPad.

Learn how to create your own interactive Multi-Touch books with Mac and iBooks Author. Discover how a course is built with iTunes U Course Manager using interactive learning materials. Then see how it all comes together with an overview of ownership and deployment models for content.

Learn by doing. Create courses with iTunes U Course Manager.

3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.

In this hands-on session, you’ll learn how to build a course by exploring all the capabilities iTunes U Course Manager has to offer. Experience the ease of pulling together content such as audio, video, iBooks textbooks, and over 500,000 resources in iTunes U into an organized syllabus. Make available all the assignments, quizzes, and materials for your students or anyone who’s interested in the topic — whether in your class or anywhere in the world.

Apple Learning Tour 2012

Room B716
Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Join us for a session. Or for all of them.

Click here to Register.

March 9th, Talking About Teaching: Ideas to Jump-Start Your Course

admin — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:56:44 +0000

Talking About Teaching

Ideas to Jump-Start Your Course: New Ideas for a New Semester

Friday, March 9th, 2-4pm in L1168

Jump-start your fall courses. Our presenters will explore methods for capturing student attention on the first day of class, and also they will explore assignment models that break the traditional assignment constraints. Join us for some lively discussion and explore those teaching ideas that have been lurking in the background.

Facilitators for this event include:
Sheila McManus, Jason Laurendeau, Jochen Boshnick, Shelly Wismath & John Sheriff

Using the Smartboard GoWire

Tyler Heaton — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 23:12:53 +0000

Smartboards are an excellent tool for collaboration and presentation. However, one of the drawbacks for new users is not having the software needed to use the interactive whiteboard. SmartTech has created a solution. Called the GoWire, this USB cable attaches to a users computer and carries all of the software and drivers necessary to use the Smartboard on the fly. Below are the steps to get you going with the Smartboard in the 24 Hour Learning Centre:

1. Power on the Smartboard using the power button on the front panel. The projector needs to be set to VGA1 by pressing the Input button (to the right of the volume dial) until VGA1 is displayed on the bottom right of the screen.

2. Locate the GoWire USB and RGB cables on the rear right of the Smartboard and attach your Windows based laptop.

3. On your desktop, a dialog will open asking of you want to run Smart software. This is similar to when you insert a USB drive or DVD.

4. Start GoWire Meeting Pro to begin using the software and Smartboard.

5. Meeting Pro has a simple interface that allows you to use the touch features and tools on your desktop or a digital whiteboard. To switch between desktop display and the whiteboard space, press the Desktop or Whiteboard button at the top of the vertical toolbar.

6. The tools available are:
Cursor – allows you to use your finger as a mouse pointer and to select objects on the whiteboard.
Pen – use one of the pens in the tray or use your finger as a pen. You can select ink colour and line type.
Eraser – allows you to erase objects and lines.
Shapes – Draw various shapes such as squares, triangles, rectangles and lines.
Capture – allows you to capture entire pages or sections of a page or you desktop to use on the whiteboard space.
Clear All – Clears your current whiteboard page,

7. You can collapse the toolbar or move it to the other side of the screen using the Collapse and Move Toolbar buttons.

8. The software allows you to save your whiteboard sessions as image files or PDF.

9. When you are finished your session, close Meeting Pro and disconnect the GoWire and RGB cable. Shutdown the Smartbaord using the power button on the front panel.

We encourage you to practice with the Smartboard if you plan to use it in your teaching or class presentations. It is an excellent tool for planning and giving presentations using standard software or the web. If you are a Mac owner or you would like to use more advanced tools with the Smartboards, you can download Smart tools and a trial version of Smart Notebook, and the necessary drivers from the SmartTech website.

Nov. 18th, Talking About Teaching – Understanding your Copyright Options

admin — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:14:25 +0000

This session is intended to give you a better understanding of copyright matters in classroom and teaching contexts, including options for providing students with readings you have selected for a particular course. Since the University has not renewed its Access Copyright license, this session will describe our current copying environment and touch on ways in which it may change again when the outcome of the proposed amendment to the Copyright Act is known.

Facilitators for this event include:
Rumi Graham and Betsy Greenlees
Facilitators will present an overview of our current copying environment, and then work with the audience in small group discussions.

L1168
2-4PM
Friday, November 18th

All instructors and Graduate Students are welcome to attend.
Feel free to drop-in any time. Refreshments will be served.

Oct 21st Talking About Teaching – Exploring Learning Environments

admin — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:33:43 +0000

Learning environments can entail the physical classroom space, informal learning spaces as well as virtual learning spaces. At the next Talking About Teaching we would like to take some time to explore learning environments here at the UofL, and discuss what works, what doesn’t work, but most importantly how we can move forward to provide optimal teaching and learning environments.

L1168
2:00 – 4:00 PM
Friday, October 21st

Sept. 23rd, 2011 – CAETL presents Talking About Teaching – Supporting and Assessing Student Learning

admin — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 17:00:34 +0000

Friday, September 23rd, 2011
2:00 – 4:00 P.M.
Room L1168

Students often pursue post-secondary education to gain appropriate skills so they can eventually gain successful employment. Employers are asking more and more that students be able to adapt and succeed in changing work environments; think outside the box and have creative problem solving skills, as well as be knowledgeable in the specific discipline they pursue. It is critical that the UofL is developing these skills in students. This discussion will explore how we can ensure that these skills are developing within our institution and with our students, as well as how to identify successful student learning and support it. Speakers and attendees will be encouraged to explore issues such as assessment plans, assessment methods, self-assessment by students, grading and other issues related to how students are determined to be successful learners.

Facilitators for this event include:
Nola Aitken, Bonnie Lee, Mark Pijl Zieber, and Phil Jones

Facilitators will work with small discussion groups during this session. All attendees will have a chance to engage each facilitator in these groups.

Visit http://www.uleth.ca/caetll for more information about CAETL

Moodle is in the Classroom – Video Advertisement

todd.doucette — Wed, 18 May 2011 16:22:54 +0000

Moodle is on campus – Video Advertisement

todd.doucette — Tue, 10 May 2011 19:43:28 +0000

Moodle 2.0 Tutorials: Setting up a Quiz

craig.brouwer — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 22:24:43 +0000

Moodle has the ability to create robust quizzes that can be used to assess your students. Quizzes can be written in a lab during class time, as a scheduled test within the UofL testing centre, or as take home quiz. It becomes your preference as to where and how to test your students, but the quiz module within moodle can help facilitate your quiz, and can be modified to meet most of your testing preferences.

If you will be using the testing centre, your exam must be booked in by the CRDC before the exam date.

The instructions in this tutorial will cover how to add a quiz activity, and will cover all the attributes that can be modified within the quiz settings. If you have already created a quiz and are looking to add questions, please see the question bank resources and the question type resources.