Week Thirteen, Fall 2019

Engaging Teaching

Teaching tips & more!

Cross The Road

Kristin Ritchey from Ball State University, in this article, tells you not to be a chicken about crossing the road with your students. Why is she provoking us like this? What does she mean? Go read the article to find out how you can help build the scaffolding that students use to climb the ivory tower of learning. There are a lot of analogies going on here, but it all works out in the end.

Learning Technology

Using the technology without it using us.

Grades

Of course you have your grade book in order. We all do. Of course. But if you know someone who could use some help making sure it’s built properly, using the feedback tools, or linking grade book items to quizzes & drop boxes, tell them to have a look here. Or contact us at LDSTeam@flemingcollege.ca for help. Also, make sure to check the Inner Workings section below for important info for how to help your grades grow up and move out of D2L.

Trickle Down

Stuff to tell your students!

Avoidance Development

Learning to avoid things is a fun skill to develop and the library would love to help students avoid one thing in particular: plagiarism. This week, there are a couple of offerings of the Avoiding Plagiarism Information Literacy Workshop. Shoot this link to your students so they know when it is and where to sign up.

Inner Workings

Helping you navigate the inner workings of the college

Grades Again!

As hinted above in the Learning Technology section, your final grades are not official until they are moved out of D2L and into Evolve. This is because the Records department are the ones who keep the official records, not us! We are just looking after the grades as they grow. A grade incubator, if you will. In order to help you get your final, adult grades to move out, you will receive some instructions via email, probably tagged “high Importance” and entitled “FINAL GRADES” from the Records department soon.

Keeping it Professional

Professional Learning Opportunities

Listen To These Failures

Last week a few Fleming representatives attended eCampusOntario’s #TESS2019 conference. Day two began with a panel of four Ontario educators discussing their experiences experimenting with technology in their teaching. It took a lot of courage for those panel members to go up in front of 200 of their peers and tell us all how it took a lot of failure in these efforts to get to the point where they are now, but it was lovely to hear and connect to their stories. If you’d like the chance to hear what they had to say, it’s all recorded here! We also heartily recommend listening to the keynote “The Anthropologist in the Machine”, by Dr. Donna Lanclos.