The Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning offers a diverse range of learning opportunities related to teaching, learning, and educational leadership.
Looking for something specific? See the full list of what CETL offers.
Upcoming Events
- TELTIN TTE WILNEW - Summer 2018
- Jul 4 • 9:00 am • Lansdowne WT 234
- TELTIN TTE WILNEW - Summer 2018
- Jul 5 • 9:00 am • Interurban CBA 113
- TELTIN TTE WILNEW - Summer 2018
- Jul 18 • 9:00 am • Lansdowne WT 234
- TELTIN TTE WILNEW - Summer 2018
- Jul 19 • 9:00 am • Interurban CBA 113
BC-wide events
Looking for additional learning opportunities? The BCcampus calendar lists events offered around the province.
Need more information?
If you don’t see what you are looking for or would like to arrange an individual consultation, please contact:
- Curriculum: Patti Odynski at odynskip@camosun.ca
- eLearning: DESupport@camosun.ca
- Faculty Development: Jacquie Conway at conway@camosun.ca
Events A-Z
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| Animal Ethics on Campus | Community of Practice | The implications and ethics of the humane treatment of animals. Explore everything from teaching compassion, supporting vegan students, links to racism, the science of sentience, and sustainability. | Events Calendar |
| Applied Learning in Action | Workshop | Learn about the eight principles of Applied Learning and explore the new online faculty guide. Using these resources, we’ll work in small groups to develop an action plan for implementation in your fall courses. Snacks provided. | Thu, May 24, 9:30-11:30am |
| Appreciative Inquiry | Community of Practice | This community of practice is for anyone who is interested in appreciative inquiry, strengths based endeavours, and positive change. | Events Calendar |
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| Best Practices Around Integrating Media into D2L | Workshop | This hands-on workshop covers the technical consideration of integrating multimedia into a D2L course. Time will be set aside for you to integrate and test your multimedia components in D2L. Basic familiarity with D2L is recommended for participants interested in this workshop. | Wed, Jun 6, 10am-noon |
| Book Launch! | Special Event | We are excited to celebrate with Joan McArthur-Blair and Jeanie Cockell as they launch their latest book, Building Resilience with Appreciative Inquiry: A leadership journey through hope, despair, and forgiveness. Camosun has been a leader in embracing appreciative inquiry, with a long, mutually supportive relationship with these two amazing women. Most recently we have collaborated to develop an Appreciative Inquiry Community of Practice. Come join in the celebration! Hear them read from their book, and connect with other AI enthusiasts from the larger community. No need to register. | Tue, Jun 5, 5:30-7:30pm |
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| Camtasia: Creating Multimedia Magic | Workshop | Are you interested in creating engaging media pieces for your courses? Not sure where to begin? Join Bob Preston for this hands-on workshop on one of the premiere media creation tools, Camtasia. | Tue, May 29, 2-4pm |
| Chair Share | Community of Practice | Join other Chairs from across the college to discuss whatever is on your mind. This Community of Practice is strength-based and solution-focused, and will create a safe environment for you to talk about what matters. | Events Calendar |
| Chairs Institute | Retreat | The Chairs Institute is based on the premise that leaders best learn how to be leaders from each other. Creativity in leadership is enhanced by mixing leaders from diverse fields, experience levels and interests. | Jun 12-14, 2018 |
| Conditional Release + Intelligent Agents | Workshop | This workshop will provide participants with an overview of how conditional release and intelligent agents can support the development of personalized learning paths for students within your course. | Tue, Jun 12, 10am-noon |
| Creating Community in the Online Classroom | Workshop | What does it mean to create an online community for your students? What considerations do you need to keep in mind when developing online activities to support that online community? This blended workshop will give you the opportunity to engage in online community building, and to work with your peers face-to-face to develop strategies for integrating online community-building activities into your course. | Wed, May 23, 11:30am-1:30pm |
| Creative Applications in eLearning | Workshop | This workshop will showcase some creative ways to deliver content, engage learners and put a twist on some of the common teaching tools in D2L. | Thu, Jun 14, 10am-noon |
| Creativity in Education | Community of Practice | Addresses the design, application and evaluation of our creative teaching approaches, lessons and materials in a supportive peer environment. | Events Calendar |
| Customizing Course Homepages and Navigation Bars | Workshop | This workshop will focus on setting up (or refining) your course homepage, widgets, navigation and themes. We’ll also show you some best practices surrounding course maintenance and how to manage release dates associated with your course from one central location in D2L (saving you time!). | Tue, May 8, 10am-noon |
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| D2L Quizzes – How, Why, and the Daylight Experience | Workshop | This hands-on workshop will cover creating, managing, and grading quizzes and the question library in the new version of D2L, Daylight Experience. Basic familiarity with D2L is recommended for participants interested in this workshop. | Fri, Jun 1, 10am-noon |
| Delivery of Instruction (PIDP 3220) | Course | This course provides participants with the opportunity to prepare, deliver and debrief three short (10 min.) mini-lessons with the rest of the class. Participants are encouraged to select one lesson from each of the three domains of learning (cognitive, affective, psychomotor). They are expected to use a variety of techniques while they present content and processes in a clear, enthusiastic and interactive manner. They will provide useful feedback to other course participants. The instructor will critique each lesson as well. Participants will then reflect critically on each lesson they taught and prepare a written reflective report describing their progress and learning during the course. | |
| Digital Pedagogy | Community of Practice | For faculty and other members of the Camosun community interested in using online tools to enhance their face-to-face teaching, to teach blended courses, or to teach fully online. | Events Calendar |
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| Type | Description | Date | |
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| eLearning Drop-In Sessions | Drop-in | Weekly drop-in sessions are provided to allow faculty the opportunity to ask questions, learn new skills and work on building their D2L courses. |
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| Exploring Different Ways to Use Rubrics | Workshop | Come learn from a faculty panel on how you can streamline your assessment strategy, communicate expectations and feedback for your learners while also building in quality assurance measures and cutting down on manual marking. Various examples, lessons learned and planning tips will be shared. Participants will have the opportunity to build or refine a rubric. | Tue, May 29, 10am-noon |
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| Fair dealing, Open Education Resources, and finding materials to use in your D2L course site | Workshop | It’s not easy navigating the world of online copyright when creating your D2L course sites. This workshop will give you some practice tips around how to add images, video, articles, etc. to your D2L site within the limits of fair dealing, OER, and copyright. | Thu, May 24, 2-4pm |
| Finance 101 for Chairs | Workshop | Chris Jones, Director of Financial Planning & Accountability, discusses the development and monitoring of your program budgets. |
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| Indigenous Education Circle | Community of Practice | Explore current issues related to Indigenous education, perhaps through discussing articles, documentaries, or a situation that arose recently in your classroom or department. | Events Calendar |
| Integral Education | Community of Practice | An Integral worldview holistically incorporates internal, external, individual, collective, developmental, evolutionary and spiritual dimensions of knowing, being and doing. Join the conversation as together we work to catalyse positive change at Camosun. | Events Calendar |
| Introduction to Camosun’s Learning App | Workshop | Come learn more about Camosun's new Learning App, the brainchild of Marty Donatelli. | Fri, May 25, 12-1pm |
| Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW) | Workshop | The 3½ day Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW) is an excellent professional development opportunity for Camosun faculty. Working in a fun, safe environment with colleagues from across the college, the ISW is a peer-based workshop designed to improve teaching practice. | |
| Interdisciplinary Education | Community of Practice | If you get excited about innovating new approaches to education, and want to draw on a diversity of perspectives, then join us for stimulating conversation with an action oriented focus. | Events Calendar |
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| Leading Effective Teams: A Coach Approach | Community of Practice | An opportunity for those who have taken the Leading Effective Teams workshop to continue to support each other and practice the coaching skills they learned. | Events Calendar |
| Liberating Learning: Activities for Participatory Learning in class and online | Workshop | In this one-day workshop, you will experience the most-popular and easy-to-adopt structures used in teaching and learning contexts, and consider how you might use them in your own teaching practice. | TBD |
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| Making Your D2L Course Accessible: 7 Things You Can ALWAYS Do! | Workshop | Do you know if the digital course materials you're providing for your students are accessible? Would every student in your class be able to access required readings or videos or audio content? In this workshop we will cover 7 key things you can - and should! - always do to support equitable access to your course materials. And even better - these are transferable skills; you may want to invite your students to adopt them when completing their course assignments, too! | Thu, May 24, 10am-noon |
| Mental Health Training | Workshop | To support employee (and student) success and strengthen our individual resources, Camosun is committed to providing employees with mental health literacy education and the appropriate tools and training to bolster confidence for effective mental health support for our students, and for each other. | Review the resources for faculty & staff |
| Mindfulness in Education | Community of Practice | Engage in dialogue about contemplative pedagogy, and how mindfulness can be applied in the context of education with students and with colleagues. | Events Calendar |
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| Type | Description | Date | |
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| NISOD | Conference | With more than 300 sessions in a variety of focus areas and formats presented by your colleagues from across the nation and internationally, you’ll walk away with dozens of ideas you can implement immediately. | May 26-29, 2018 |
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| Parenting | Community of Practice | A gathering of college employees who are also parents seeking to find a work-family life balance. | Events Calendar |
| Provincial Instructor Diploma Program | Students in the Provincial Instructor Diploma Program build knowledge and skills to design, develop, manage and evaluate the instruction of adults in post-secondary education, business, industry and non-traditional adult learning environments. | Continuous intake |
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| Quality Assurance for Online and Blended Courses | Workshop | This workshop will guide participants through a practical quality assurance rubric used to evaluate blended and online courses. Upon completion of the workshop, participants will be able to think about their courses through 7 key lenses related to instructional design, communication and collaboration, learner support, accessibility, web design, assessment and evaluation. We’ll also touch on the importance of soliciting learner feedback through formative and summative online evaluations. | Thu, May 31, 10am-noon |
| Quizzes & Leveraging Course Analytics in D2L | Workshop | This workshop will begin with an overview of how to create, customize and grade quizzes. Participants will also learn how to take advantage of the D2L’s robust analytics to enhance the learner experience and identify redesign opportunities. | Tue, May 22, 1:30-3:30pm |
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| Type | Description | Date | |
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| Setting up Your Gradebook | Workshop | This hands-on workshop will focus on setting up your D2L Gradebook from start to finish. Please bring your course outline (or a breakdown of your assessment items) to the workshop if you wish to build your own Gradebook. | Tue, May 22, 10am-noon |
| Situating Yourself to Indigenize Curriculum | Workshop | In this interactive and exploratory workshop series, you will join an interdisciplinary group of faculty who also share the desire to incorporate Indigenous scholarship, teaching methods and learning strategies into curriculum. The learning experience includes teaching and learning circles, medicine wheel teachings and concept mapping, framed in indigenous pedagogy. | May 8-Jun 12, 2018 |
| South Island Partnership Instructors | Community of Practice | Connect regularly with your peers, share ideas, support each other, and learn some strategies specific to your unique role as an instructor in the South Island Partnership Dual Credit program. | TBD |
| STLHE | Conference | The Annual Conference of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE). | Jun 19-22, 2018 |
| Supporting Student Success | Workshop | Build bridges between what you expect students to do independently and what they can do only with your help. Learn how to scaffold the learning environment with tips for effective reading, breaking down assignments, and organizational skills. Develop an understanding of the “zone of proximal development” and the brain science behind effective learning. You will have an opportunity to experience and practice practical strategies to use with your students. | Tue, May 22, 1-3pm |
| Sustainability in Education | Community of Practice | Meet regularly with others who are passionate about working towards a more sustainable world. This supportive community is a place to share ideas, and get energized into action. | Events Calendar |
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| Type | Description | Date | |
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| Taking a Closer Look at Communication & Collaboration in D2L | Workshop | Take a closer look at how instructors can use communication tools to connect with students and support collaborative learning experiences. | Tue, Jun 5, 10am-noon |
| Teaching & Learning Strategies | Community of Practice | Come and share ideas and inspire each other around effective classroom strategies, assessment, marking, rubrics, engaged learning, supporting students with different learning needs, and any other topics that arise through collegial conversation. | Events Calendar |
| Teaching Professor | Conference | Teachers with a passion for excellence have been flocking to The Teaching Professor Conference since 2003. There’s simply no better place to explore and celebrate the art and science of teaching. | Jun 1-3, 2018 |
Teaching Triangles at Camosun | Workshop | The brand new Teaching Triangles program will run in Winter 2018 – we’ll kick it off with a one-hour workshop devoted to peer observation principles and best practice. | TBD |
| TELŦIN TŦE WILNEW – Understanding Indigenous Peoples | Workshop | TELŦIN TŦE WILNEW (TTW) is an award winning, blended delivery course which provides insight into an Indigenous world view; describes the impact of colonization and how it affects students attending the college today; and guides participants in the development of new teaching and learning methods. | |
| Top 10 Online Learning Skills Strategies for Your Students | Workshop | Are you looking for strategies to support your students who are learning using digital resources? Whether you are using D2L to support your face-to-face teaching, teaching blended, or completely online, we have some tips and resources for you! | Thu, Jun 7, 10-11:30am |
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| Type | Description | Date | |
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| West Coast Great Teachers Seminar | Retreat | Learn about and reflect on the teaching challenges faced by educators in post-secondary institutions in this four-day, intensive seminar. | May 2019 |
| Who are you in conflict? | Workshop | We are all familiar with difficult communication and yet rarely stop to wonder—how do I react in the face of conflict? What triggers my response and what might I do differently when conflict is in motion? If you are a Supervisor, Chair, Program Leader or someone aspiring to understand and manage conflict more skillfully, this workshop is for you. | Tue, June 19, 8:30am-4:30pm |
| WordPress for Teaching and Learning using Camosun’s WordPress | Workshop | WordPress is a blogging and website creation tool now available at Camosun College. In this workshop you will learn the basics of how to set up a WordPress site on Camosun’s WordPress instance. Prior to attending the session, you will be set up with a WordPress account so you have a place to work during the session! | Thu, May 31, 10am-noon |
| Working with Student Teams | Community of Practice | An ongoing conversation about how we can effectively support our students to develop the critical team skills they will need in the workplace. | TBD |
