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January 26th, 2021
Best wishes for a great start to the semester!
Thank you faculty for attending the first-ever Intercollegiate Ped Week and the Dawson January Ped Days events.听 A big thank you goes out to all the presenters!
- New Faculty Orientation took place on January 22 with 10 teachers. Welcome new faculty members!
- Webinar: Access to Higher Education for First Peoples Students
Thursday, February 4, at 1:30 pm. 听More Info Here
- DALC Meeting: ENRAGEment tools
Friday, February 5 at 2:30 pm.听 Come听and share your frustrations (bring a glass of wine, moonshine etc.) and find solutions to your technical problems!听 Join this meeting through the Faculty Hub website.
- Click Read More to go to the Faculty Hub
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December 15th, 2020
Mark your Calendars!
From听Jan. 7-26, a variety of pedagogical development webinars will be offered to faculty. Visit the Faculty Hub website in January for a complete list of events.
Intercollegiate Ped Days
Organized in collaboration with other English colleges: Jan. 7-15
Faculty Hub Pedagogical Webinars
Featuring a variety of presenters from the Dawson community: Jan. 18-26
Over at the Faculty Hub
December 1st, 2020
Dec. 2:听Quizzes, Assignments and Assessment in Moodle: Drop-in at 10 a.m.
Dec. 3:听National Building Reconciliation Forum - Preparatory Webinars Begin
Dec. 4:听Quizzes, Assignments and Assessment in Moodle: Drop-in at 10 a.m.
Dawson Active Learning Community (DALC) - Virtual Wine and Cheese at 2:30 pm
Dec. 15:听ECQ Info-Session:听 Tips for a Successful Entente Canada-Quebec Grant Application at 10 a.m.听Learn more about ECQ Funding here
Recommended article:听
Join events through the Faculty Hub website. Click Read More to go there.
Peace Centre update
November 19th, 2020
Diana Rice, Coordinator of the 星空传媒视频 Peace Centre, is back on duty after 11 months of maternity leave.
鈥淚 am excited to get back to work, dream big and continue to collaborate across the College with faculty, staff, professionals and management,鈥� Diana said. 鈥淚 will begin to plan online Peace Centre activities for the Winter Semester. As always, I welcome the whole community to contact me with your ideas or requests for support.鈥�
Dean of Academic Development Catherine LeBel has also assigned Diana a supporting role as a pedagogical counsellor to faculty involved in certificates.
鈥淲e are happy to have Diana back and grateful for the service of Ildik贸 Glaser-Hille,鈥� said Catherine. 鈥淚ldik贸 鈥� did a great job as the interim programming coordinator of Dawson鈥檚 Peace Centre. She followed through on Diana鈥檚 plans and also made her own unique contribution to the mandate of the Peace Centre. It was a smooth and fruitful collaboration.鈥�
November 19th, 2020
DALC Meeting Friday November 20 from 2:30-4 Join your peers in exploring the updated and revitalized SALTISE website. As we begin to think about returning to the classroom and face-to-face teaching, the SALTISE website has new resources to offer teachers and the best way to explore those is to do it with other faculty…
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November 3rd, 2020
Virtual Workshops from the Intercollegiate Decolonization Network (IDN)
Session 1: Friday November 6 from 10:00 am-12:00 pm
Haudenosaunee ways - Learning from the custodians of this territory
Kanien'keh谩:ka values and vision, tradition and innovation, ongoing struggles and paths forward
Session 2: Wednesday November 25 from 10:00 am-12:00 pm
Walking with care: Respectful living on Kanien'keh谩:ka territory
What does it mean to be a guest on these lands? What are the responsibilities of guests? How can guests enact that responsibility? How can teachers teach this awareness and responsibility to students of diverse backgrounds?
Contact Julia Lijer贸n for session Zoom links.
Dawson Active Learning Community (DALC) Webinar - November 6, 2:30 - 4:00 pm
Thriving in the future: Teaching in a post-pandemic world
What strategies can we take from our pandemic-forced online teaching experience into a post-pandemic teaching world? How can we make face-to-face learning better by using some of the lessons, technologies and techniques we are currently using? Join us for a rich exchange of ideas about how we might use this experience to make teaching better in the near future.
Join this webinar through the Faculty Hub.
Crispesh Webinar - November 4, 2020 from 12:00 - 1:00 pm
Ped Days 2020
Recordings of the opening and closing keynote presentations are now available here. Documents and recordings of all other presentations can be found (sign in to MS365 required).
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November 3rd, 2020
Have you subscribed to CL脡O鈥檚 newsletter? It is an excellent source of information to find out all about CL脡O鈥檚 cultural and pedagogical services.
For the Fall 2020 semester, our new activities include:
- A conversation and film workshops
- Coaching for the OQLF exam
- A brand new French language learning podcast, The CL脡O Podcast, and wherever you listen to podcasts.
You can book your spot for any of these activities . For the workshops, book your spot with the resources entitled "Short Film Club" and "Conversation Workshop - Roleplay".
The schedule and themes for the conversation and film workshops are .
For the OQLF coaching, .
Have a safe semester!
The CL脡O team:
Anne-Marie Turcotte
Florence T茅treault
Catherine C么t茅
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October 20th, 2020
Intelligent authoring systems can produce essays that rival that of college students.
Check out this AI produced article from The Guardian that was part of a Ped Day presentation last week by the Dawson AI Community of Practice:
- Webinars Continue Next Week听
See the schedule and join through the Faculty Hub website听
October 20th, 2020
Dean of Academic Initiatives Ray Bourgeois Retires This past summer, Dean of Academic Initiatives Ray Bourgeois retired. The Director General Richard Filion tasked Ray with managing the DawsonAI initiative as the early-stage work of the steering group developed. Ray guided DawsonAI to author its three-year plan, to launch the initiative with immediate impact across the…
October 20th, 2020
About 325 teachers, professionals and managers attended the first-ever online Ped Days event last week. Usha James of The Critical Thinking Consortium returned to Ped Days for the opening keynote Oct. 13 and Michelle Miller, author of听Minds Online: Teaching Effectively with Technology gave the closing keynote address Oct. 16. Many firsts at this year鈥檚 Ped…
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