Category: General
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Save the Date: Celebrating with Stories
People have an affinity for stories—we learn through stories and we teach with stories! On May 12th and 13th, CIEL is hosting a celebration for VIU teaching faculty where we will explore the diverse contexts for storytelling and storylearning. We have set aside two days where we will gather to hear stories of learning transformation,…
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Video Quizzes for Formative Assessment
Have you ever caught yourself thinking “Quizzes are so boring! And if they are boring for me, what about my students? If so, video quizzes may be what you’re looking for! They can help you vary the basic question format, target higher level learning and reinforce your formative assessment options.
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The Share Drive (Episode 18): Pedagogy Impassioned by a Pandemic (Anna Atkinson, English Department)
Anna Atkinson has always been passionate about English. But she traces her relatively newfound passion for pedagogy to the onset of the pandemic. In this podcast, I sit down with Anna to talk about her transition to online teaching, the TSN-turning point of her scholarly plunge into all things pedagogy, paying particular attention to team-based…
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Creating, Editing, and Adding Captions using Camtasia & VIUTube
For video content, the Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning strongly recommends adding captions to your videos or making a transcript available. Doing so will make your content more assessible to your students. What Are Captions? Captions (also know as Closed Captions or Subtitles) are text that appears on the screen that allow the…
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What’s New in VIULearn?
There are some new tools available this semester in VIULearn. The Quick Eval tool now has a homepage widget to help instructors streamline their evaluation across multiple assignments, quizzes, or graded discussions in a single course. The Awards tool offers opportunities to gamify your course and build in recognition of students’ achievements unrelated to the…
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Using Introductory Videos in Your Courses
We all want our classes to be comfortable spaces where students can learn. One way to create a welcoming classroom and make a great first impression is to create an introductory video. This helps set the tone for the course and can help students be more at ease at the beginning of the semester.
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VIUTube Is Moving in Summer 2022
The current VIUTube service is ending in the summer of 2022 and we will be transferring it to a new provider. Details about the new VIUTube will be available in the spring of 2022, but for now there are a few things everyone can do to make the transition as smooth as possible.
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The Share Drive (Episode 19): What Went Well and Why I Feel a Little Guilty (Martin L. Martens, Management and Law)
In a time when many of us were seeking strategies to pivot our face to face classes to online delivery, Martin L. Martens (Chair, Management and Law) was feeling a little bit guilty. It turns out that his face to face teaching style translated almost seamlessly into the online world. Using a teaching style focused…
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5 Ways You Can Help Students Navigate Your Course in VIULearn
In 2020, Stephanie Boychuk and the Academic and Career Preparation department conducted a survey of their students to learn more about how course navigation and structure can be used to support student success in online and blended courses. In this blog post, Stephanie summarizes five “quick wins” anyone can use to help students navigate course…
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VIU Learning Technology Orientations for Students – View anytime!
We are running live webinars to introduce students to the learning technologies available at VIU while protecting the health and safety of everyone involved. Not to worry – we recorded the orientation for you! You can watch it whenever is convenient & as many times as you’d like. Do you still have questions? What does…
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The Share Drive (Episode 16): “We in Horticulture are often very adaptable” (Christine Quist, Instructor)
According to Christine Quist (instructor, Horticulture department), horticulturalists are naturally adaptable, moving and shifting constantly with seasons and conditions. In this podcast, Christine describes her and her students’ adaptability, outlining the way in which her greenhouse skills class took to growing poinsettias at home as well as in the greenhouse. Partnering with industry to provide…
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The Share Drive Episode 14: Mackenzie Sillem and her commitment to Intercultural Studies at VIU
Many listeners will know Mackenzie from her long-term and broad-reaching efforts to support Intercultural learning across VIU, most recently with the development and teaching of Intercultural Studies 100: Exploring and Developing Intercultural Competence. In this podcast, we sit down with Mackenzie to discuss intercultural learning from a variety of perspectives, as well as the value…