This award winning, blended delivery course provides insight into an Indigenous world view, describes the impact of colonization and how it affects students attending the college today, and guides participants in the development of new teaching and learning methods.

 This winter, the TELTIN TTE WILNEW course will run from Friday, February 3 to Friday, March 30 with an Orientation on Friday, January 27th.  It provides opportunities for you to work online using Desire2Learn (D2L) as well as face to face (F2F) in discussion groups with an Aboriginal facilitator, Corrine Michel. You should expect to commit approximately 40 to 50 hours of time to complete the course (or about 5 hours per week). If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to contact Corrine at michel@camosun.bc.ca.

 Click here to register or copy and paste the following URL into your web browser: http://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g165b. You will be set you up in D2L prior to the orientation session so that you can begin accessing the D2L site. Face to face discussion sessions are scheduled as follows (all F2F sessions will be held at the Lansdowne campus):

 Orientation Session – Friday, January 27 – 11:30am to 1:30pm – Ewing 344

• Review of Unit 1 – Friday, February 3 – 11:30am to 1:30pm – Ewing 344
• Review of Unit 2 – Friday, February 24 – 11:30am to 1:30pm – Ewing 344
• Review of Unit 3 – Friday, March 16 – 11:30am to 1:30pm – WTCC 234
• Review of Unit 4 – Friday, March 30 – 11:30am to 1:30pm – WTCC 234

 Click here to see some testimonials from past participants talking about their TTW experience and how it has impacted their work (scroll to bottom of the page).

Learner-Centered Technology: Aligning Tools with Learning Goals

Date:                 Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Time:                11:00am – 12:30pm

Location:         LLC 156 (LTC Training Room), Lansdowne

Click the link below to register or copy & paste into your web browser:

http://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g1495

Learner-Centered Technology: Aligning Tools with Learning Goals will provide faculty with a roadmap for matching technological tools to course learning outcomes. This seminar is presented by Dr. Ike Shibley.  Ike is an associate professor of chemistry at Penn State Berks.  His research involves pedagogical approaches to improving science instruction at the college level. He has won both local and university-wide awards for his teaching including this year’s Eisenhower Award presented to a tenured Penn State faculty member who exhibits excellent teaching as well as mentoring other teachers.

In this online seminar, you will learn:

• How to match learning goals with technological products
• How to design course assignments that more effectively incorporate technology
• How technology can improve learner-centered instruction in each of the four major course formats: face-to-face learning, web-enhanced learning, blended learning, and online learning
• How to explain the major tenets of learner-centered education and relate each tenet to technology
• How to argue effectively about the way that technology can improve learning
• How to identify technology programs that can improve learning in a course

Magna Online Seminar – Finding the Right Technology to Support Learning Outcomes

Date:            Thursday, October 20, 2011

Time:            11:00am – 12:30pm

Location:     LACC 251J(Liz Ashton Campus Centre), Interurban

 Click the link below to register or copy & paste into your web browser:

http://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g1330

In Finding the Right Technology to Support Learning Outcomes, Ike Shibley, Ph.D will share his experience and expertise with technology and course design (e.g. general and organic chemistry and nutrition courses taken from traditional classroom environment to blended).

After the seminar, participants will be able to do the following:

• Distinguish learning activities best accomplished in class from those best accomplished online;
• Access technologies that will facilitate pedagogical goals;
• Recognize learner-centered course design features;
• Understand and articulate ways technology can contribute to learner-centered instruction;
• Compare online and face-to-face communication and delineate benefits of each;
• Identify which courses are good candidates for technology enhancements.

This seminar will benefit Camosun faculty who are being encouraged to move their classroom courses to blended or fully online environments. This seminar is an exemplary practice example for faculty to reflect upon when redesigning their courses.

Date:            Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Time:            10:00am – 10:30am

Location:     Multipurpose Room (151) Library & Learning Commons, Lansdowne

 Click the link below to register or copy & paste into your web browser:

http://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g1331

Maryellen Weimer, Ph.D will discuss the pros and cons of offering extra credit to enhance learning and not reinforce procrastination or other irresponsible behaviours. This seminar will give you new ways to think about your extra credit policies.

In particular, participants will:

• Review legitimate reasons why some faculty offer extra credit while others do not;
• Consider several creatively designed extra-credit options;
• Reevaluate assumptions about the purposes and value of extra credit;
• Explore how terminology (simply using the words “extra credit”) affects attitudes about optional assignments or mid-term changes to syllabi; and
• Learn strategies to improve the efficacy of current extra credit practices.

Date:            Thursday, November 10, 2011

Time:            12:00pm – 1:30pm

Location:     Learning & Teaching Centre Training Room (156) Library & Learning Commons, Lansdowne

 Click the link below to register or copy & paste into your web browser:

http://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g1332

Research has found that students who experience group work in their college classrooms retain more information, are more satisfied with their classes, and have increased persistence in college (Braxton, Milem, and Sullivan, 2000). In this webinar, Debra Runshe will share with participants the benefits and barriers to group work and effective strategies creating, facilitating, and assessing group work in the college classroom.

By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Articulate the benefits and barriers to group work;
• Explore the best uses of group work;
• Describe effective group facilitation strategies;
• Identify strategies for handling “slackers”;
• Develop assessment tools for group work.

Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction – Lunchtime Presentations

• Thursday, September 22: 12:30-1:30pm; LLC 151, Lansdowne or
• Friday, October 14: 12:30-1:30pm; LACC 354, Interurban

 Workplace-stress and the mental and physical health problems that result are estimated to cost “$20-billion a year in workplace losses”¹. So if you feel stressed, you’re not alone. Stress can wreak havoc on your decision-making capability, and in your relationships at home and work. In this Less Stress lunch-hour presentation you will learn the biology of stress, how it’s triggered, and how to relieve it with Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) skills and techniques that you can take home and into the classroom.  Medical research demonstrating the efficacy of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction will be included.

 Facilitator: Lynne Mustard   Lynne trained in facilitating Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), as pioneered by Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn, at the Centre for Mindfulness, University of Massachusetts Medical School. She has taught Mindfulness in the community for about 10 years, as well as Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction courses and workshops at UVIC, the Vancouver Island Cancer Centre, and Island Hearing. Lynne was an MBSR presenter at a National Conference for the Canadian Association of Psychosocial Oncology and is also an experienced Yoga instructor.

 1. Erin Anderssen, “Ottawa to fund creation of national mental-health strategy”, Globe and Mail;

    Thursday, June 16, 2011

 There is no cost to participate in these lunchtime sessions but please feel free to bring your lunch to the session and help us out by registering your interest here: Less Stress registration.  If you have difficulties with the link, cut and paste the following into your browser: http://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g1285.

Working in a fun, safe environment with colleagues from across the College, the ISW is a 4 day peer-based workshop designed to improve teaching practice.  Participants must commit to the full workshop schedule. 

 Email LTC@camosun.ca to register.  (Note:  limited to 5 participants).

Thursday & Friday, September 22&23: 4:00-8:00pm, LLC151, Lansdowne Campus  AND

Saturday & Sunday, September 24&25: 9:00am-3:00pm, LLC151, Lansdowne Campus

For further information on the ISW see the Faculty Development/ISW tab or click here.

If you’re looking for an opportunity to improve or renew your teaching skills then the 3½ day ISW (Instructional Skills Workshop) will be an excellent professional development opportunity for you.  Working in a fun, safe environment with colleagues from across the College, the ISW is a peer-based workshop designed to improve teaching practice. It also gives you credit towards PIDP 3220 (Delivery of Instruction), one of the courses of the Provincial Instructor Diploma Program.

Full details are under the Faculty Development tab, or click here.

The Retreat Experience of a Lifetime for Post-Secondary Faculty:

If you are interested in enhancing your teaching and in achieving more effective learning for your students, then this seminar is for you. Regardless of whether you teach full-time or part-time or if you are an experienced teacher or new to teaching: this seminar welcomes you. The West Coast Great Teachers Seminar is possible because of the financial support of the CCFA PD Fund and the fee is considered a pre-approved activity and covered by in-house funding. This means that a CCFA member’s short term PD allocation is not impacted.  Enrolment is limited to 24 registrants.

Dates:  10:00 am Monday, June 20^th to 2:00pm Thursday, June 23^rd, 2011

Location:  Honeymoon Bay Retreat Centre, Honeymoon Bay (near Lake Cowichan)

Cost:  $656 plus HST

Registration: Register on-line through CE   Please click here for instructions and payment procedures

Goals of the Seminar:

• To celebrate good teaching;
• To inspire faculty to venture beyond the limits of their own specializations and environments in search of transferable ideas and the universals of teaching;
• To discover realistic, creative approaches to teaching and learning;
• To promote introspection and self-appraisal by providing a supportive environment in which participants may seriously reflect on their attitudes, methods and behaviours as teachers;
• To stimulate the exchange of information and ideas by building an expanding network of communication among teachers in higher education; and
• To renew the commitment to student learning.

 Here is the link to the is the registration procedures  as well as the link for further details about the seminar. Further questions can be directed to Nancy Sly at nansly@camosun.bc.ca or LTC@camosun.bc.ca

This professional development opportunity explores ways of mitigating plagiarism and creating preventative strategies to avoid cheating in the classroom. This course is blended delivery (Desire2Learn and face to face) so it includes online content (multimedia and print) as well as group interaction. Enrollment deadline is Friday, May 6^th.  There is room for 20 participants and the course runs from May 9^th to June 13^th.

 While the majority of content is self-directed (approximately 12 hours of online content), there are 2 face-to-face(F2F) meetings to reflect on content and develop teaching strategies.

 F2F Sessions are:

• Monday, May 16
  10:00am – 12:00pm at Lansdowne (Library and Learning Commons Multipurpose Room 151)
• Monday, June 13
  10:00am – 12:00pm at Lansdowne (Library and Learning Commons Multipurpose Room 151)

 Register Online: click here to register.  If this link does not work, copy and paste this address http://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1gf38 into your web browser. 

 For further information on the course, please contact Dianne Biin (biind@camosun.bc.ca).

Tuesday, May 3, 2011
8:30am – 2:45pm
Fisher Building, Lansdowne

Walls Optional was our 5^th annual one day conference showcasing and promoting innovation in teaching, learning and technology at Camosun College.  Presented by Educational Support and Development with support from the CCFA PD Fund, it included sessions that cut across all disciplines and schools. We  recognised our successes, established connections, learned what others are doing, and marveled at the level of skill, dedication and creativity we have in our midst.

The day began with nationally renowned speaker, Tony Bates, followed by a series of 13 workshop sessions as we as opportunities to communicate and connect with other participants over lunch and at refreshment breaks.

To view the Keynote presentation and check out other resources, please go to:  http://disted.camosun.ca/wallsoptional/2011/

Date: Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Time: 1:30 – 3:30pm
Location: Ewing 346, Lansdowne

 This workshop will be of interest to anyone who wants to learn or refresh their skills about classroom assessment using an Appreciative Inquiry methodology. The workshop is being delivered as a result of a number of queries from faculty about how to encourage and support learning while being honest and direct about learning expectations. Asking the question “What has this student learned?” instead of “What did this student get wrong?” is the premise behind this workshop. Think of the difference between starting with 100 points and subtracting for every wrong answer and the idea of starting with a statement like “I appreciate that this student has undergone learning in my class and how can I ask about that learning so that I can translate the student’s learning into a mark or letter grade.”

The workshop will be facilitated by Nancy Randall, who recently retired from her position as the Director of the Teaching and Learning Centre at Vancouver Island University. Nancy is a certified Appreciative Inquiry Facilitator.    Click here to register. If this link does not work, copy and paste this address into your web browser: http://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1ge37 .