Two Vanier Students Receive Lieutenant Governor’S Youth Medals

Volume M25, Issue No. 20, May 31, 2021

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Two Vanier Students Receive Lieutenant Governor’s Youth Medals

Maïa Fukuyama-Kaplan Marios Michas

Congratulations to two Vanier students, Maïa Fukuyama-Kaplan (Social Science - Psychology Major) and Marios Michas (Honours Social Science - Law & Society Major), who each won a Lieutenant Governor’s Youth Medal for community volunteering and school spirit.

In addition to their volunteer commitments both at Vanier and within their own communities, Maïa and Marios have created a YouTube Series called VSuccess to help motivate and inspire their peers and the Vanier community. Click here to access the VSuccess playlist

Ourania Zafiri, Tutoring and Academic Success Centre

Academic Voices is Back

We are proud to announce the return of Vanier’s in-house pedagogical magazine, which is moving online! Keep your eye out for announcements about the website’s launch in June.

Recommendations for TASC Peer Tutors for Fall 2021

If you encountered any Vanier students this semester who are returning and who you think could make ideal peer tutors, please forward their names to Joshua Berman (English tutors) or Ashley Rankin (Math/Science tutors). Thank you very much for your help. For more information: https://www.vaniercollege.qc.ca/learning-commons/recommend-tutor/

Joshua Berman & Ashley Rankin, TASC

ARCH TECH FINAL ZOOM SESSION, CLASS OF 2021

The Architectural Technology faculty held one final (emotional!) Zoom session with the Class of 2021. Teachers prepared a surprise farewell video with photos from past events, while also poking fun at the online semester. We wish our grads all the best! Pictured is the Class of 2021 with teachers Bob Dupuis, Michael Lancione and Lisa Yachnin, taken during the final exam period.

Michael Lancione

Vanier at the 2021 Saltise Conference

Under the theme of Moving Forward Together: Opportunities and Challenges for Pedagogical Innovation - Aller de l’avant ensemble : opportunités et défis pour l’innovation pédagogique, the 2021 Saltise Conference will welcome contributions from several Vanier teachers and professionals. Here is a brief overview of their presentations.

A three-step approach to pre-class reading and writing. Virtual poster presentation, June 2, 3:45

Vanier Physics teacher Stephen Cohen will describe how he uses pre-reading and reflective writing as essential tools in a teacher's arsenal when trying to optimize a flipped classroom approach. He will detail the finely tuned reflective writing process that has become integrated into all of his physics courses. Stephen has built a small library of reading materials and run reflective writing assignments that consist of three parts: summarize, elaborate, ask. Subsequent classes address common questions students have posed in their writings.

Developing 21st C Skills with Online Curation and Social Annotation, June 3, 2:15 pm

Vanier’s Patti Kingsmill, Kelly Macdonald, Kevin Lenton, Heather Roffey, Toby Moneit, and Aurora Flewwellyng-Skup, with Phoebe Jackson (John Abbott College) will introduce online curation (OC) and social annotation (SA) two strategies that help develop 21st century skills. OC involves collecting, selecting, organizing, annotating and publishing content online. SA entails commenting on discourses in a collaborative online environment. Both help develop critical thinking, research, communication, and collaboration, and both support peer- teaching. After introducing these strategies, teachers will share experiences integrating them into the classroom as well as resources designed to support that integration.

Biological Engineering of Yeast Cells as a Pedagogical Tool

Vanier Biology’s Christopher Gregg will describe how a team of student researchers from Vanier College participated in a project to engineer the yeast, Saccharomyces Cerevisiae, to express a gene involved in the production of an opioid like molecule called noscapine. Students developed many coveted skills in the field of synthetic biology and had the opportunity to apply skills and knowledge they learned throughout their education. This talk will look at the data obtained from this research and discuss how research projects like this can be used to teach competencies in the CEGEP Science Program.

A DIY Light board to Create engaging Educational Videos

Vanier’s Stefan Bracher, Christopher Gregg, Lissiene Neiva, And Edward Awad will describe their experience producing videos using a light board built at Vanier using a Saltise Mini-Grant of 1300 dollars. A survey of the students revealed that the majority found the produced videos useful. However, they equally liked videos where the teacher is standing in front of a traditional whiteboard or performs some demonstrations. More details on the project and the links to the videos can be found here: https://www.saltise.ca/innovations/mini-grants/a-diy-lightboard/

ENGAGING THE LEARNER Active student engagement - Developing Campus Green Space: An interdisciplinary, inter-collegial, virtually supported project

Vanier’s DAVID HOIDA and GABRIEL FLACKS (Champlain College) will describe an interdisciplinary, hands-on collaboration between Vanier and Champlain students that built an awareness of key elements critical for successful environmental sustainability. Champlain College students in a Humanities class explored various aspects of sustainability that could impact upon their campus. Vanier Botany students developed expertise on various green sustainability practices, which could be used when considering greenspace expansion on a college campus. Both groups of students communicated throughout the semester to realize sustainable college campus proposals for Vanier and Champlain. In addition, Vanier Biology students supported these proposals through a series of ecology labs that created soils analysis reports based on samples from both colleges. The Biology students integrated with the two other student groups by participating in the virtual exchanges and providing key information needed for successful sustainability proposals

Active Rubrics round table session R08, on June 3rd.

Tim Campbell from Special Care Counselling will talk about Active Rubrics. Providing rubrics is a well-known best practice for assessment; however, it is too often a static document. Tim will share experiences of using active rubrics and video rubrics in the classroom and online environments for students to self- and peer-edit their written work.

Marguerite Corriveau, Communications and Corporate Affairs

VConnect Peer Mentors Needed!

VConnect is a peer-mentoring program that aims to offer a supportive non-judgemental space for new students to build connections within the Vanier Community, seek guidance and advice regarding their college success.

If you know of any students that are returning in the Fall 2021 semester who would be great mentors, please encourage them to apply.

Application form: https://forms.office.com/r/S1dLmiwrhN Ourania Zafiri, TASC https://www.vaniercollege.qc.ca/mentoring/mentors/vconnect/

BLENDED LEARNING PRACTICE SESSIONS

In these hands-on sessions, you will learn how to use the Meeting Owl Pro to teach students who are online and in-person simultaneously. All practice sessions will take place on campus.

Click here to see the Meeting Owl Pro in action at Vanier College.

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PSI’s Weekly Update

Table of Contents New ...... Engagement, Assessment and Support in Digital Teaching ...... Development and Support Opportunities ...... Articles about Teaching ...... Upcoming Workshops, Webinars and Virtual Conferences ...... Performa News ......

New – Best Practices and Favorite Mistakes Festival – Thank you to our Teachers

The Teacher Community of Support would like to thank Heather Roffey, Toby Moneit, Joey Stafford, and Francine Cytrynbaum who shared with us their best practices and favourite mistakes.

If you were unable to join us on May 25th, but would like to be part of our new community of Support, Teacher Supporting Teachers on MS Teams, just send an email to [email protected] and we will add you to our team.

New – Call for presenters for our LIA Showcase in August

In supporting teachers as they prepare for incorporating Learning Integration Assessments (LIA) into their courses for the fall semester, PSI is preparing to host a showcase of a variety of LIA examples from different disciplines and programs. If you have created LIAs for your courses and are interested in sharing your assessment with other teachers, we’d love to have you take part in the LIA Showcase during Ped Day in August. Please write to us at [email protected] to let us know your interest in participating.

New – August Ped Day

SAVE THE DATE

Engagement, Assessment, and Support in Digital Teaching

The following Profweb articles may be of special interest to teachers looking for ways to engage students in online learning. To access an article, click on its title.

At-home Biology Labs in Times of Pandemic By Neerusha Gokool Baurhoo, Biology teacher and Pedagogical Counsellor at Vanier

Congratulations to Vanier’s own Neerusha Gokool Baurhoo for her recent publication in Profweb! This real-life story presents her ingenious at-home laboratories designed to engage students at a distance. Find out how Neerusha created lab kits for her students to be able to conduct virtual labs in small groups they normally would have done on campus, at home, thereby maintaining the hands-on and engaging nature of lab experiments.

Influencing the Progress of an Authentic Task Simulation in Distance Learning by Eric Tremblay, Teacher, Campus Notre-Dame-de-Foy Putting students in contact with their future work environment is, for them, as formative as it is motivating. In a course that Eric Tremblay teaches in the Paramedic Care Program, he had the exceptional collaboration of 4 paramedics who agreed to do a pre-hospital emergency care simulation during which the students were periodically questioned, in real time, about the nature and dosage of the medication to be administered... All this, while respecting the social distancing measures that the fall 2020 session required.

Creating a Sense of Proximity with Your Students, even at a Distance: Supporting Students Continually by Julien Martineau, Teacher, Marianopolis College Social annotation has become the strategy to use for productive academic reading. Mastering the functionalities of digital tools and platforms in order to accomplish specific tasks is already a challenge in itself, for both students and teachers. There is another level of difficulty: how do you combine these platforms and their functionalities in order to create an interesting, motivating and effective learning dynamic? Julien Martineau explains how he used the Gather platform to connect with his students.

Tips and Tricks for Teams (New Features)

Microsoft has created a video with of the top 25 tips and tricks for Microsoft Teams. There are some interesting new features available, including some new, easier ways to share a PPT, the focus feature that allows users to hide participants videos during a presentation, immersive reader features in Teams messages, and much more. You can view the video here.

Development and Support Opportunities (DSOs)

Do you have a DSO this year? We want to know about all the wonderful things you did!

Final Reports for DSOs from the 2020-2021 academic year are due before 5pm on June 9th. Once you complete the report and obtain the necessary electronic signatures, you should email it as a PDF to Cynthia Cicci ([email protected]).

You can find the form to be completed here: https://www.vaniercollege.qc.ca/psi/development-and-support-opportunities/

Articles about teaching

This week’s articles Kachani, S., Irvin, A. & Ross, C. (2021, May 24). What College Students Wish Professors Knew About Inclusive Online Teaching. EdSurge. https://www.edsurge.com/news/2021-05-24-what-college-students-wish-professors-knew-about-inclusive- online-teaching

Klein, A. (2021, May 18). Teachers: Here Are Tips for Using Your New ‘Geeky’ Skills to Improve Classroom Management. Education Week. https://www.edweek.org/technology/teachers-here-are-tips-for-using-your-new-geeky-skills-to- improve-classroom-management/2021/05

Sejdic, A. (2021, May 21). How Do We Know the Needs of the Students? Faculty Focus. https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/effective-teaching-strategies/how-do-we-know-the-needs-of-the- students/

Last week’s articles Davis, A. (2021, May 14). Four Ideas to Spark Active Learning in an Online Classroom. Faculty Focus. https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/online-education/online-course-delivery-and-instruction/four-ideas-to-spark- active-learning-in-an-online-classroom/

Dede, M. and Sochacki, J. (2021, May 19). Scaffolding as a RoadMap: Guiding and Supporting Student Learning. Faculty Focus. https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/course-design-ideas/scaffolding-as-a-roadmap-guiding-and- supporting-student-learning/

Gonzales, J. (2021, May 16). No More Easy Button: A Suggested Approach to Post-Pandemic Teaching. Cult of Pedagogy. https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/easy-button/?fbclid=IwAR0qtUcJ-PH9r_zXDzdZCuqJJZUlbFyEfY- NEc33LTwvam6GNjuER8L_jhY

Nworiek J. (2021, May 19). Beyond COVID-19: What’s Next for Online Teaching and Learning in Higher Education? Educause Review. https://er.educause.edu/articles/2021/5/beyond-covid-19-whats-next-for-online-teaching-and-learning-in- higher-education

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Upcoming Workshops, Webinars and Virtual Conferences

Workshop with Usha James To support Vanier teachers in preparing Learning Integration Assessments (LIAs) for the fall semester, PSI is offering a workshop session with Usha James, our inspiring keynote speaker from January’s Ped Day. This session will be offered on June 7th, from 1pm to 3pm. If you are interested in attending, please reserve your spot by sending an email to [email protected]. Usha James

AQPC Annual Conference

Le grand rendez-vous du réseau collégial revient pour sa 40e édition, les 10 et 11 juin 2021, dans une formule 100% virtuelle. Les apprentissages et les échanges n’en seront pas moins riches et féconds puisque votre Association est plus que jamais déterminée à faire rayonner la pédagogie collégiale et tous ceux et celles qui la font vivre et la portent au quotidien.

Le thème à l’honneur cette année : le développement durable. Que nous pensions aux préoccupations liées à l’avenir de la planète ou à celui de notre société, le développement durable nous amène à adopter une nouvelle posture d’éducation. L’écologisation des institutions d’enseignement et des programmes d’études s’inscrit ainsi dans un mouvement international pour faire de l’école un levier de sensibilisation et de transformation dans une perspective de durabilité. Comment notre enseignement et notre pédagogie favorisent-ils une prise de conscience des enjeux du développement durable chez la future génération? Comment favoriser l’inclusion, l’égalité et l’engagement? Comment la technologie et les découvertes scientifiques influenceront-elles nos façons de travailler et d’apprendre tout en concevant les choses autrement? Voilà le genre de questions et de réflexions qui animeront l’édition 2021 du colloque et qui permettront de se projeter dans un avenir respectueux et soucieux des générations futures.

Cette année, afin d’échanger et de tisser des liens autrement, la plateforme d’événements virtuels InEvent a été retenue pour le colloque en raison de sa facilité d’utilisation et de l’interactivité qu’elle permet. Click here for registration information.

I Annotate 2021 (All-virtual Conference)

The free conference takes place Monday, June 21 through Friday June 25th from 12pm-4pm. After a 2020 hiatus due to COVID, this will be the eighth annual gathering of educators, scholars, researchers, publishers, journalists, fact-checkers, and technologists engaged with open annotation practices and tools.

The shift to remote education during the pandemic dramatically accelerated social annotation among teachers and students around the world. The program will include a special focus on how annotation has become a powerful practice to help students succeed by making reading active, visible, and social in both face-to-face and online learning. In keeping with this year's theme — reading together — our touchstone across all sessions will be how more and more people are coming together through social annotation to share ideas, ask questions, and make connections.

Saltise Conference

REGISTRATION NOW OPEN! Moving Forward Together: Opportunities and Challenges for Pedagogical Innovation Aller de l’avant ensemble : opportunités et défis pour l’innovation pédagogique

Pre-Conference Workshops*, June 2, 9h30 - 12h00 TITLE: A Solution to the Teamwork Challenge: CATME, A Research-Based Tool for Forming and Helping Groups Work Effectively, Lead Facilitators: Matthew Ohland, CATME Project Director, Purdue University, Kelly Miller, Harvard University

TITLE: Learning from Error: Design Virtual Case Studies and Branching Scenarios Using Open Labyrinth, Lead Facilitator: David Topps, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary

Post-Conference Workshop*, June 4, 13h30 - 16h00 (English and French)

TITLE: Structuring the new Science program to better prepare our students for university – encouraging them to think more like scientists via more authentic lab experiences, Lead Facilitators: faculty consortium from Cégep Andre-Laurendeau, John Abbott College, Vanier College & Dawson College All Workshops are FREE How to Register:

1. Go to Schedule, and click on the Workshop of your choice to open the description.

2. To register for a workshop, click “Sign up and add to My Schedule”, under "Sign up Status".

Pre-conference Registration Conference Registration

*Note: Register early. Workshops are open to a limited number (30-60). Registration closes when full or by May 31st, 2021. For assistance, please contact [email protected]

Discipline-Specific Exchange Sessions at Saltise Take part in the second edition of Design, Engage and Assess in your Discipline taking place during the Saltise conference on Thursday, June 3rd from 3:45 – 5:00pm. Join teachers from your discipline to exchange teaching ideas and best practices to apply in the fall semester. Thank you to the Vanier teachers who will be facilitating some of the sessions.

Symposium description: In Quebec, inclusive pedagogical practices rely notably on the framework provided by the Universal Design for Learning (UDL). Created in the 1990s, UDL is a student-centred and living model constantly evolving with scientific findings and society’s changing realities. Far from being the only tool solicited in universal pedagogy, UDL has nevertheless played an important role in the province’s attempt to offer equal learning opportunities to everyone. Today, in 2021, where does Quebec stand in terms of higher education inclusive pedagogy? What are the research and practices blind spots? What are the obstacles and preconceptions holding us back from adopting more inclusive teaching methods? Conversely, which

innovative practices have brought us closer to this goal? What further actions do we still need to take to be more universal in our pedagogical approaches? These are all questions underlining the spirit of this symposium.

Performa News - PERFORMA RESEARCH AND INNOVATION GRANT

Congratulations to Neerusha Gokool-Baurhoo winner of the Subvention de recherche et d'innovation Performa - Concours 2021!

Neerusha’s project - Stronger Together: Creating an intercollegiate community-of-practice (CoP) on blended-learning in a competency-based educational system – will focus on designing and implementing evidenced-based (techno)pedagogical approaches in blended-learning classrooms in Fall 2021. The CoP, which brings together teachers from various colleges, will meet regularly to discuss strategies and work through issues they experience with the blended-learning approach. The CoP will share their experience and knowledge through workshops and a webpage, which will showcase articles and videos on multiple facets of the blended-learning approach. The effectiveness of the CoP will be assessed by interviewing and surveying teachers.

If you are interested in joining the CoP for blended learning approach and/or be involved in the research process, contact [email protected]

For more information about any Performa program, or to register for a credited course, please contact your local Performa representative, Julia Hall, at [email protected].

Antoinette Cocciolo, on behalf of the Pedagogical Support and Innovation Team “Nourishing pedagogy through collaboration and innovation”