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CCS Lunch & Learns

The CCS Lunch and Learn series offers faculty an opportunity to explore and discuss emerging educational technologies. Sessions aim to highlight and demystify innovative applications of digital technology and consider best practices for their application to enhance teaching and learning.

The Lunch & Learn sessions are intended to provide a collegial atmosphere for faculty to share and discuss technology solutions, explore ideas across multi-disciplines, identify critical learning and teaching support areas, and initiate future instructional project possibilities.

Series Archive

*Webcast available (bold)

• Blackboard 9 Introduction - Lunch and Learn
• Blackboard 9 Demo
• EDUCAUSE Virtual Seminar 2009
• Web Conference: Considering Mobile Learning for your Institution
• Tom Haffie, University of Western Ontario - Clicker Pedagogy
• How To Wiki
• Web 2.0: Sharing, Connecting, Collaborating
• Classroom Annotation
• CCS Supported Software Applications
• CCS Online Training Options
• Rhoda Weiss-Lambrou, Université de Montréal - Using Podcasts for Teaching and Learning

Blackboard 9 Introduction - Lunch and Learn
March 24, 2010

Blackboard 9 Demo
August 24, 2009

Ryerson University is currently using Blackboard learning and teaching portal version 7.3. This version will be going to operational support (support will not include an active maintenance schedule such as corrections, enhancements, Services Packs or other updates made generally available by Blackboard). Our CCS Blackboard specialists are currently evaluating Blackboard version 9 for future upgrade.

Blackboard representatives will be coming to Ryerson University to give us a demo on Blackboard 9.

EDUCAUSE Virtual Seminar
September 2009

"Flattening the Classroom: Building Collaborative Learning Environments"
2009 EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI) Online Fall Focus Session

We’ll explore an approach to learning that engages students in the active construction of collective knowledge, empowering them to build meaning together, and challenging them to examine issues from multiple perspectives. [More details at http://net.educause.edu/ELIX09]

Web Conference: Considering Mobile Learning for your Institution
September 2008

Mobile learning (m-learning) is receiving serious attention in the higher education community today, especially as access and mobile device capabilities improve. How much is hype and how much is real? Is it time to integrate m-learning into your institution’s offerings? Join us to review the current m-learning landscape and examine the decisions that need to be made when building and implementing m-learning from institutional, technical, and instructional perspectives. We will also identify resources you can use to get started. A Web Conference from Academic Impressions. Full agenda and presenter bio | Original Presentation | Additional Resources

Clicker Pedagogy - Tom Haffie, University of Western Ontario
March 28 2008 ~ View the Webcast: high | med | low bandwidth
Presentation slides

Tom Haffie is a 3M Teaching Award winner (1995), Lecturer in the Department of Biology at the University of Western Ontario, and Coordinator of Western’s Personal Response Support System project (PRESSWestern). In this presentation, Tom Haffie explores effective pedagogy and emerging educational technologies through a discussion and demonstration of his experiences using clickers in very large classes of novice science students at UWO. Following Tom Haffie’s presentation, there will be a Q & A session with Tom and a panel of Ryerson faculty who are using or have used clickers at Ryerson.  Whether experienced with clickers or new to the technology, this session will provide a valuable opportunity to learn about how to use clickers to engage your students.

How To Wiki
2008

Wiki's are web-based applications that allow users to create, edit and link web pages easily. The popularity of Wikipedia has led instructors and researchers to consider the implications of wiki technology for education. In this session we will explore how to effectively incorporate this highly collaborative writing tool into everyday teaching and research activities. Join the Learning Technology Liaisons in this discussion and hands-on how-to session on using Ryerson's JSPWiki.  Examples of wiki use for teaching and research will be discussed. 

Web 2.0: Sharing, Connecting, Collaborating
Feb 28, 2008

“Web 2.0 let’s us leverage the power of people, leverage the power of community, giving everyone a chance to participate” (Chad Hurley, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, YouTube). In this session we will explore how Web 2.0 accomplishes this by looking at how these new tools allow users to connect on the web by sharing, collaborating, and contributing their own content. Some of the more well known Web 2.0 applications will be demonstrated and discussed heir potential for teaching. Tools discussed will include:

• Flickr - for photos
• GoogleReader - for website tracking
• Del.icio.us - for bookmarking
• YouTube - for video

[Materials/resources from the Web 2.0 presentation]

Classroom Annotation
Feb 14, 2008

Do you like to write notes on the board during your lectures? Would you prefer to face your students when writing on the board? Would you like your notes to be projected large enough for students to see and saved when you're done? Do you need more space to write on during your lecture? In this session you will learn how Ryerson faculty are using annotation tools such as SmartBoard, Sympodium, the graphic tablet, and the tablet PC to address these challenges. You don’t want to miss this Lunch and Learn session to see demonstrations and participate in discussion with Ryerson faculty currently using these tools in their classrooms.

CCS Supported Software Applications
Feb 7, 2008

In this session you can learn about the full range of software applications available to faculty, staff and students at Ryerson. Come to this session to learn about the availability of a wide range of software applications such as the Adobe Suite, Microsoft Office 2007, and SPSS. Lab, specialized and campus-wide site licences will be discussed.

CCS Online Training Options
Jan 31, 2008

Web-based (Online, or e-Learning) training is an interactive and self-paced method of training that is delivered over the internet using a web browser.

CCS has been evaluating two extensive online training packages to assist faculty and staff with their online learning goals. Come to this session to learn about the following two web-based training offerings:

• Skillport - an online training package that covers a broad range of topics from business skills courses, IT courses and desktop application courses
• Lynda.com - offers a comprehensive and interactive training library covering a variety of desktop software applications such as Adobe Creative Suites, Microsoft Office products and many more.

Using Podcasts for Teaching and Learning: Lessons from the past and a look toward the future

Rhoda Weiss-Lambrou
Professor and Director of the Centre d'études et de formation en enseignement supérieur (CEFES) Université de Montréal
View the Webcast: high | med | low bandwidth

Synopsis:
The range and applications of technology tools to enhance teaching and learning has changed radically over the past decade. What's more, the number of emerging technologies and applications has exploded in higher education and as a result, differing perspectives on the added value of these instructional tools make it difficult for an institution to select which ones it will pilot and eventually centralize and support. One of the latest of these technologies, podcasts, is the subject of this presentation. Currently, there is a growing number of faculty who are developing and publishing audio and video course content by podcasting. This presentation will first address the basic characteristics, benefits and challenges of educational podcasts. An overview of the podagogical implications and the added value for student learning will follow. Examples of how American and Canadian universities are using podcasts will be presented, in particular the Université de Montréal's experience with iTunes U. A brief discussion of how faculty can face some of the present and future instructional technology challenges will conclude this presentation.

About the Speaker:
Rhoda Weiss-Lambrou is professor of occupational therapy at the School of Rehabilitation, Faculty of medicine, Université de Montréal. In November 1999, she set up the faculty support program entitled, Support for Using the Internet and Technology in Education (SUITE), and since June 2001, she is Director of the university's centre for faculty teaching and learning whose mission is to promote and support the scholarship of teaching and learning. Professor Weiss-Lambrou is associate editor of an online publication, the International Journal of Technology in Higher Education and recently, her leadership and collaboration with Apple Canada resulted in bringing iTunes U to the Université de Montréal.