December 2015 News
from CTE Math Faculty Liaison

Topics

• LEARN System Events and Topics in Winter 2016
• CTE Learning/Teaching Events in Winter 2016
• CTE Educational Technologies Workshop Series Feb 29-Mar 4 2016
• Recent CTE Blog postings
• Teaching Stories
• Call for presentations at Education 3.0
• Classroom Lecture Recording and Observation
• CTE LITE Grant Information
• LEARN, MapleTA, Clickers, ...
• 2015 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures: How to Survive in Space

LEARN System Events and Topics in Winter 2016

• CTE656: Getting Started in LEARN Tuesday, January 12, 2016, 1-3 PM.

• CTE550: LEARN for TAs Thursday, January 14, 2016, 2-4 PM.
  Please let your TAs know about this session.

• CTE727: Using LEARN's Rubric Feature, Tuesday, January 19, 2016, 10-11:30

• CTE686: LEARN Instructor User Group Thursday, April 14, 2016, Noon-1 PM.

• Class Photo list: click the Instructor Tools link on your course home page.

• Adding your TAs to LEARN:
  Choose TA Level 4 for editing access rights like an instructor account.
  Choose TA Level 1 for access rights like a student account.
  

• Impersonate your "test" student to view your course content and gradebook as a student sees it.

• Export LEARN grades in Quest format. This is handy even if you just want a copy of your class roster in the file format used by the Quest system for uploading final grades.

CTE Learning/Teaching Events in Winter 2016

• CTE759: Designing Teaching and Learning Research, Wednesday, January 13, 2016, 11:30-1:30 PM.

• CTE760: Enhancing Group Work, Sunday, January 17, 2016, 10:30-2:30 PM.

• CTE642: Course Design Fundamentals, Tuesday, February 2, 2016, 9:30-3:30 PM.

• CTE755: Open Educational Practices, Monday, February 8, 2016, 1-2:30 PM.

• CTE601: Instructional Skills Workshop Tuesday, February 16-19, 2016.
  This is a limited 24-hours workshop.

• CTE732: Course Design for Blended Learning Monday, February 29, 2016, 9:30-2:45 PM.

• CTE908: Documenting Your Teaching for Tenure and Promotion, Tuesday, March 29, 2016, 11:45-1:15 PM.

2015 Educational Technologies Workshop Series

Monday Feb 29 to Friday March 4, 2016. Event details here.

Topics:

          Monday              Tuesday                  Wednesday           Thursday           Friday
  9:30am  Course Design for   Using Technology to      Introduction to the Making Screencasts Enhancing Learning    
          Blended Learning    Facilitate Collaboration Flipped Classroom   with Camtasia      through Gamification
                                                                                                                     
  11:15am Course Design for   Using Turnitin as an     Introduction to the Making Screencasts Enhancing Learning
          Blended Learning    Educational Tool         Flipped Classroom   with Camtasia      with Assessment Tools
                                                                                                                    
  1:15pm  Course Design for   Addressing Student       Concept Mapping     Beyond Clickers    ePortfolios:
          Blended Learning    Resistance to Innovative Tools                                  Process and Product
                              Learning Strategies                                              

Recent CTE Blog postings

CTE's Blog hosts an interesting collection of posts about teaching:

• Graduate Student Teaching on Campus (with list of UW Grad student teaching awards)
• Keys for a TA to Succeed in the Classroom
• An invitation to be still
• Economic Repercussions of Illiteracy
• Gamification and game-based learning: What role does it have in the classroom?- The first year is critical
• High Failure Rates in Introductory Computer Science Courses: Assessing the Learning Edge Momentum Hypothesis

Teaching Stories

Visit the CTE Teaching Stories page to find a collection of profiles of UW teachers talking about teaching.

Call for presentations at Education 3.0

UW's Centre for Extented Learning is hosting

Target: Education 3.0 Possibilities at the Nexus of Pedagogy, Technology, and Access

the joint Canadian Association for University Continuing Education (CAUCE)   and Canadian Network for Innovation in Education (CNIE) conference taking place May 30 to June 2, 2016.

The conference site is open for presentation proposals until January 11, 2016.

Classroom Lecture Recording and Observation

Interested in seeing how you teach from a student's point-of-view?
Book a time for a video recording and observation of one of your lectures. The lecture recording and feedback is shared only with the lecturer. Email pkates@uwaterloo.ca for arrangements.

CTE LITE Grant Information

Learning Innovation and Teaching Enhancement (LITE) grants deadlines:

• Seed Grants: Two annually: February 1st and June 1st; up to $5000
• Full Grants: One annually: October 1st; up to $30,000

You can see previous projects and more details here: https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-for-teaching-excellence/teaching-awards-and-grants/grants/learning-innovation-and-teaching-enhancement-grants

LEARN, MapleTA, Clickers, ...

If you have any questions about using the course management system LEARN, the MapleTA assessment system, or want to try teaching with clickers in your classroom then please get in touch with me.

2015 Royal Institution Christmas Lectures

The 2015 CHRISTMAS LECTURES How to survive in space will be broadcast on BBC Four on 28, 29 and 30 December and posted online.

Paul Kates
Mathematics Faculty CTE Liaison
pkates@uwaterloo.ca, x37047
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