In this workshop we will highlight the importance of self-care for educators and the efficacy of their teaching practice. We will focus on how our thoughts, particularly our attributions and interpretations of events, impact our wellbeing. Attendees will be guided through reflections about their own thinking habits, and we will identify evidence-based thinking strategies and techniques that attendees can integrate into their daily routine and teaching practice.

Resources:

• More examples of thinking traps from Anxiety Canada

• Thought Record Sheet

Equity guarantees that everyone, regardless of their identity, has the chance to grow, contribute and develop in a classroom. Fostering diversity aids us in navigating our global understanding of each other.

This workshop will examine ways of making connections with people of different culture, language and socioeconomic backgrounds within a virtual learning environment.

Learn effective communication and engagement techniques for a more inclusive and empathetic community in your classroom.

Resources:

• Creating an Inclusive Virtual Space Adobe Spark page

As social media platforms have grown into the cultural monoliths they are today, creators have been leveraging their strengths to educate people in new and interesting ways. By looking at the ways educators and content creators engage their audience and encourage learning we can find unique pedagogical insights that will help us craft more engaging and effective content for courses both in the classroom and online.

Come join us as we explore strategies for allowing your students to SHOW you what they can DO. In this interactive workshop, we will take a look at ways to assess and evaluate students’ skill & competency development through Performance-Based tasks, which allow your students to show off their skills. We will also address the pros and cons of performance-based assessments in virtual environments and consider ways to seamlessly integrate these tools into your online course.

Resources:

• Worksheet for the ABCs of CBA's in a Virtual World

• The ABCs of CBA's in a Virtual World presentation slides

Are you looking for a better way to organize and use your course materials? Save time for you and your students with a curated list of resources that you can re-use and even export as Word, Excel or PDF file. Bring your current reading list and we will get you started!

Resources:

• Leganto Overview for Faculty at Seneca

How do we recognize the signs of stress and distress in Seneca's students? How do we support student well-being through compassion, humanness and connection? During a time of change, loss and disconnection how do we lean into teaching through a lens of compassion?

Resources:

• More Feet on the Ground

With Ontario’s commitment to be a fully accessible province by 2025 through the implementation of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA), knowing how to create accessible learning materials is crucial! Creating and providing accessible materials is about inclusion, equity, and social responsibility. This session will review the WCAG accessibility guidelines and AODA requirements applicable to creating digital content. You will learn the fundamentals of creating accessible materials and walk away with strategies and a toolbox full of apps and resources to help with making your content accessible. Please note: This session focuses on text and image content and will not be covering video content.

Resources:

• Sim Daltonism - the color blindness simulator

• TPGi's Color Contrast Checker

• WebAIM (web accessibility in mind)

Is it time for you to focus on your development? Joe Crangle, Manager of Leadership and Employee Development will answer your questions about the funding programs available to faculty.

Learn about the new and improved Tuition Assistance program for full-time and partial-load faculty. How do to apply for, and receive tuition assistance for your ongoing studies is explained. Learn about the details of the program and the funds available.

Also, if you are considering taking a professional development leave, Joe will explain the details of that program, timing and, what you need to include in your PD Leave application.

We’ll also explore some of LED’s programming and resources dedicated to Well-being (Compassion Fatigue, Mindfulness) and Career (Preparing for the Interview, Your Individual Development Plan).

Everyone has a story to tell. With the availability of technology today, it's easier than ever - and arguably even more important - for students and faculty to be able to tell those stories in the modalities of their choosing, be it the written word, audio, video, or static images and share those stories beyond the classroom. Join former educator Jim Babbage to learn about some of the unique - and dare we say, "fun" ways in which students can craft their stories in the digital age.

Resources:

• Adobe Creative Cloud at Seneca

• Adobe Spark information

• Adobe Spark webinar recording

• Digital Storytelling - a Personal Curation from Jim Babbage

Digital media fluency builds towards a critical reflexivity that allows learners to construct and wield tools of participation and creation within their academic, social and professional communities. By providing learners with the tools needed to engage as media creators (instead of only consumers), digital media can act as a powerful tool for the amplification of voice, as a means to personalize content and an opportunity to embed one’s own personal and cultural artifacts within their work.

Join us as we explore some of the learning principles propelling digital assignments and our recommended path to defining, developing and deploying digital assignments with Sandbox packages. Learn with us as we showcase the various facets of support we provide to educators creating digital assignments and to their learners tasked with completing them.

Resources:

• Define, Design, & Deploy website

• Sandbox Packages