The Common Core Curriculum (CCC) Committee will soon launch the 2015 Call for Course Proposals for the CCC. I will be hosting a Chat-n-Snack Session “Curious about Teaching a Common Core Course?” on September 17, 2015, to talk to interested teachers, informally, about the development of course proposals as well as the teaching of CCC courses.
Chat-n-Snack Session
“Curious about Teaching a Common Core Course?”
Date: September 17, 2015 (Thursday)
Time: 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Venue: Common Core Lounge, Room 150, 1/F, Main Building
All interested teachers are welcome to join.
All best,
Gray
Gray Kochhar-Lindgren, PhD
Professor and Director: The Common Core
(A) The central learning management system Moodle lets teachers create online learning content to support teaching and learning.
In 2015-16, all Moodle courses created based on SIS data will include the following new features on the homepage of a Moodle course:
1. A Forum for discussion among the students and teachers/teaching assistants.
2. A shortcut for “Adding common functions” for teachers to easily add common activities to a Moodle course. The common activities are “Assignment”, “Turnitin Assignment”, “Forum” and “File”.
3. Four themes are now available on Moodle and teachers can change the look and feel of a Moodle course under the course settings page.
(B) The Lecture Capture Service Panopto supports teachers to do audio/video recording synchronized with PowerPoint slides and PC/Mac desktop display. Students can view the recordings through Moodle courses and search inside the recordings.
A new module Panopto Unison allows teachers to upload their existing video files to the Panopto system for further editing. The lecture theatres upgraded after 2011 are equipped with PC and AV facilities which support recording of lectures readily.
Note:
(1) KB110 = Room 110, Knowles Building
CPD-G.03= Room G.03, Central Podium (CPD), Centennial Campus
CPD-3.21 = Room 3.21, Central Podium (CPD), Centennial Campus
(2) If you have taken a Moodle hands-on workshop offered by the ITS, we recommend you follow up with an eLearning Pedagogical Support Unit (EPSU)/Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL) and a Faculty of Education/Centre for Information Technology in Education (CITE) seminar. These seminars focus on teaching approaches and good and innovative teaching practices, complement the Moodle workshops offered by the ITS.