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30 Apr The Learning Hub: Issue 07

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In this week’s issue…

CIRTL’s Teaching Effectively Online

The Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning (CIRTL) Network has developed two workshop series, with short five to twelve minute videos, on teaching effectively online. The first four-part video series aimed at faculty members provides useful tips on promoting social presence online and supporting an inclusive online environment using various strategies. It also discusses ways of assessing students, how to facilitate synchronous communication, student engagement and teaching inclusively. The second, five-part, video series aims to assist staff in supporting temporary distance learning such as planning with instructors, reducing barriers, and what to do when technology breaks.

 

Office of Indigenization

Prioritize Student Relationships and Learning Follows

This past semester, seventy first-year Law Enforcement Diploma Studies students and International students completed a course titled SOCI-1100Reconciling Colonial Practice in Justice and Public Safety. This course was launched originally in Winter 2019 as part of the Justice & Public Safety Career Preparatory Certificate Program which is a partnership program between the Native Education College (NEC) and JIBC. It has since become core curriculum in the LESD program. SOCI-1100 classroom communities lead dialogue and learning vital to rebuild and strengthen the relationship that exists between justice and public safety professionals and Indigenous Peoples and communities. Students learn about decolonization and Indigenization strategies to apply in their law enforcement careers.

For more information on SOCI-1100, under the Centre for Liberal & Graduate Studies, click here.

Led by Instructor’s Aaron Johannes, Métis Nation and European ancestry, Corporal Angela Kermer from the RCMP, Haida, Stó:lō, and Skwxwú7mesh First Nations, and Heather Simpson, Stswecem’c Xgat’tem First Nation and European ancestry, the pivot to remote learning posed the need for the faculty to create a culturally relevant classroom environment grounded in Indigenous perspectives, online. Creating this space hinges on prioritizing relationships with students, promoting regular exchanges between students, and considering student needs from a holistic perspective, while emphasizing to the students that these are the priorities because they are the priority.  Teaching relationship building is done through example. Indigenous education perspectives endorse to lead with love and the learning will follow (Alberta Education, 2005).

For more information on SOCI-1100, click here. To read Our Words, Our Ways: Teaching First Nations, Métis and Inuit learners (Alberta Education, 2005), click here.

CTLI Virtual Drop-ins This Week

Come meet us in Collaborate! Bring your questions!

  • Thursday, May 7th, 2020 from 11am to 12pm

We’ll be running a drop-in session each week, on Thursdays, between 11am-12pm.

Register for your session here.

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Interesting Finds

 Online Workshops/Classes

CTLI Resources

BCcampus Upcoming Events

NEW! BCcampus has created a website for the B.C. post-secondary sector that addresses the increased need for mental health supports during COVID-19. The website, covid19.bccampus.ca, hosts relevant and accessible resources for students, staff, and faculty. Get help now!

  • LGBTQ2S+ Students in the Time of COVID – Resilience in the Face of Challenge: This webinar seeks to elicit the resilient voices of the LGBTQ2S+ student community as they navigate life, love, and learning in these unprecedented times.  Join us as we discuss evidence-informed suggestions for fostering resilience and explore the unique ways in which the LGBTQ2S+ student body is addressing the needs of their community.  Please note that participants can join anonymously.
    May 12, 2020 – 3pm to 4pm | Register Here
  • Facilitation Learning Online (FLO) – Synchronous (FREE): BCcampus would like to support faculty in their pivot to facilitating learning online. We are offering FLO-Synchronous for FREE in May 2020! This course will introduce you to best practice strategies to plan, facilitate and follow-up after facilitating synchronous online learning events.
    May 11, 2020 to May 31, 2020 – all day | Register Here
  • An Open Conversation with BC & Ontario Open Education Fellows: BCcampus is partnering with our friends at eCampus Ontario for an online conversation between two open education faculty fellows, Bill Ju, Associate Professor, University of Toronto and Chad Flinn, Electrical and Entrepreneurship Instructor at BCIT. They will be chatting about teaching in the age of COVID-19 and why open education is a great tool to enable the pivot to online.
    May 8, 2020 – 1pm | Register Here
  • Reducing Student Stress – Tips & Tricks for Students with Online Learning: In this webinar, we’ll discuss easy to implement ideas for how to make this transition more easeful and satisfying in this new learning environment. You’ll hear both practical tips and perspectives on how to make your time online learning less stressful and more productive.
    May 6, 2020 – 3pm to 4pm | Register Here
  • Reducing Student Stress – Learning How to Advocate for Yourself: This session will help students learn how to have difficult conversations when faced with stressful situations. We will look for experts that can provide students with tips on how to engage in difficult conversations when faced with challenges in life and learning amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
    May 5, 2020 – 3pm to 4pm | Register Here
  • Online Teaching & Learning Office Hours – Bring Your Questions! We invite any educators needing support in developing online courses to drop in with their challenges, and/or to hear others’ challenges and solutions. This is a participant-driven session.
    May 4, 2020 – 12pm to 1pm | Register Here

Click here for the list of BlueJeans recordings from #AskBCcampus

We’re still in the early days for pivoting learning online –
it’s best to practice simplicity, empathy, and compassion. #AskBCcampus
~ BCcampus

DROP-IN THIS WEEK

Thursday, May 7, 2020 – 11am to 12pm | Join session

TIPS & TRICKS

Looking to develop the hardware requirements necessary for future online courses? Use Blackboard Help’s Browser Support section as a guide and don’t forget: always use Browser Checker!

20-20-20 RULE

From The Canadian Association of Optometrists. Many of us spend a good deal of our time staring at screens from laptops, computers, smartphones, gaming systems and television. This can put a lot of strain on our eyes and cause eye fatigue. When using your screens give your eyes a break.

Every 20 minutes, take a 20-second break and focus your eyes on something at least 20 feet away.

MOVESAFE

Don’t forget to stretch in your home office! It’s important to still keep up with your daily movement routines. We do!

CONTACT US

Want some one-on-one help? Have something specific you need assistance with? Reach out to the CTLI team by emailing us at telt@jibc.ca.

OFFICE OF INDIGENIZATION

INDIGENOUS EDUCATION ONLINE

The LESD program is now offered through online delivery. SOCI-1100 Reconciling Colonial Practice in Justice and Public Safety blends together best practices in distance education with Indigenous education.

The Office of Indigenization team can assist areas across JIBC, with planning and pedagogy that is inclusive, culturally and disciplinary relevant, and values-based, supporting your students to develop the knowledge and tools and responsibility, to build relationships, care for community and create and protect culturally safe spaces in and out of the classroom.

CONTACT US

Email indigenization@jibc.ca for support in developing and delivering Indigenous education in your area.

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