Lunch & Learn Resources: Best Practices
Lunch & Learn Series: Navigating the AV sea with Duncan McHugh
This session will be held on Friday, August 20 at noon. Duncan McHugh of LFS Learning Centre will be our presenter this week. For those coming back to campus to teach in-person this September, there are many considerations with regards to the audio-visual technology you’ll use. This lunch-and-learn will help demystify that tech, and inform […]
Aug 17, 2021
Lunch & Learn Series: Ensuring exams are effective tools for learning and assessment by Candice Rideout and Gregory Paradis
This session will be held on Friday, August 13, 2021 at noon. Candice Rideout (Associate Prof. of Teaching, LFS) and Gregory Paradis (Assistant Prof., Forest Resources Management, Forestry) will be our guest presenters this week. The recent period of remote teaching has posed many pedagogical challenges, including how (or if) we should administer midterms and […]
Aug 10, 2021
Lunch & Learn Series: LFS Canvas Template with Adrian Granchelli
This session will be held on Friday, July 23, 2021 at noon. The LFS Canvas Template aims to create a coherent student experience across the whole Faculty of Land and Food Systems. This week we will take a look at everything the LFS Canvas Template provides and what you may want to continue using when […]
Jul 21, 2021
Lunch & Learn Series: Online Surveys with Gabriel Smith
This session will be held on Friday, July 16, 2021 at noon. This week’s Lunch & Learn topic will be online surveys hosted by Gabriel Smith. We will discuss different use cases for online surveys, how to plan and design your survey, and avoiding survey fatigue. As usual, there will be plenty of time for […]
Jul 16, 2021
Lunch & Learn Series: Basic video editing with Camtasia by Duncan McHugh
This session will be held on Friday, July 9, 2021 at noon. Although Camtasia is billed as a screen recorder, it is also useful as a basic video editing program. Need to record a lecture or a presentation? Want to trim or remove a section from a Zoom video? Want to integrate simple graphics or […]
Jul 07, 2021
Lunch & Learn Series: Instructor perspectives on teaching a large online introductory science course during the COVID-19 pandemic with Sandra Brown and Maja Krzic
This session will be held on Friday, June 11, 2021 at noon. Sandra Brown and Maja Krzic will discuss their experience transitioning a large on-campus introductory soil science course into the online setting. This includes the consolidation of existing course material, developing a weekly structure which aligns content and assessment with learning outcomes, combining synchronous […]
Jun 10, 2021
Lunch & Learn Series: Cultivating Creativity in STEM Classrooms with Lindsay Cuff
This session will be held on Friday, May 28 at noon. Lindsay Cuff (LFS/Forestry Assistant Professor of Teaching) will be our guest presenter for this week. This session will focus on the importance of integrating and nurturing creativity in STEM courses. Participants will learn practical techniques to encourage creative thinking and engagement, both online and […]
May 25, 2021
Lunch & Learn Series: Productivity Tools by Sahil Sahibole
This session will be held on Friday, May 21 at noon. Sahil Sahibole of LFS Learning Centre will be our presenter this week. Productivity tools are tools that help you be more productive in your workplace by optimizing the processes around your tasks. There are many tools out there that can help you with your […]
May 21, 2021
Lunch & Learn Series: What to expect from Peer Review of Teaching – a discussion with the LFS PRT Committee
This session will be held on Friday, May 14 at noon. Our intended audience is the new(ish) faculty member, who has yet to go through Peer Review of Teaching (PRT) and wants to know what this is for and what to expect. Dan Weary and others from the PRT Committee will share their views on […]
May 11, 2021
Lunch & Learn Series: Engaging in Thoughtful Reflection on Student Evaluations of Teaching to Improve Course Design and Teaching Practice with Candice Rideout
This session will be held on Friday, May 7, at noon The feedback students provide on end-of-term Student Evaluations of Teaching (SEoT) surveys can be tremendously valuable – but reading (and interpreting) SEoT reports can be hard. In this session, we will briefly review some of the literature regarding SEoT surveys (including some potential sources […]
May 05, 2021