Week Eight, Fall 2019

Learning Community – Voice & Choice

This article from Faculty Focus gives some suggestions for creating a mutually respectful community of learners. Spoiler alert: It’s not easy! But working toward accountability all around will more than likely lead to a comfortable, supportive, and inclusive environment. That sounds like something worth heading toward.

Live Captioning

One way to increase accessibility and be a UDL hero is to live caption your presentations and lectures. Offering the option to read what’s being said live can increase student access to the content that you are trying to explain. But is the technology ready yet? You have a chance to see it in action at Tuesday’s Fall Teaching & Learning Day. Terry will try out the live captioning tool on Google Slides during the keynote. Let’s see if it works!

A Bad Week for Trickle Down ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This is not a great week for the idea behind Trickle Down. You won’t even see your students, so how are you supposed to tell them about this stuff? If you do happen to run into one of your students, tell them there are a whole whack of drop-in sports happening during the break week on the events calendar! Do the sports!

A Great Week For Inner Workings ツ

Tuesday’s Fall Teaching & Learning Day will offer up a few different sessions that expressly describe some of the Fleming College inner workings. The day includes an Academic Plan Update, Next Steps for Quality Assurance, How Faculty Can Get Involved in Applied Research, the Revised Faculty Development Process, the Strategic Mandate Agreement, and more! We hope you signed up and we can’t wait to see you there!

Fall Teaching & Learning Follow Up

Well we’ve already mentioned Tuesday’s Fall Teaching & Learning Day twice in this Hub, so it’d be silly to say it again. So let’s just mention that week eight also has a Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday with which we could talk about some of the ideas that come up on Tuesday, and make some plans. Want to chat? Let us know! Contact details are ↓.