Thursday 22 February, 2024
Don’t miss the meet and greet gathering and plenary session! Join us for the meet and greet gathering and plenary session on Thursday, February 22nd taking place at Concordia’s John Molson Building, 9th floor. Take the opportunity to network with attendees and presenters.
Concordia University's Associate Vice-President of IITS and Chief Information Officer, Philippe Delisle and Concordia’s University Librarian, Amy Buckland, will kick off the first day of the Digital Skill-Share Days event on February 22nd with the plenary session. Join us to learn more about the Digital Skill-Share Days event and how you can benefit from this collaborative learning environment, and what this exchange of ideas can bring to your daily work activities.
This session is an invitation for collective insight into the interplay between humans and technology. Dive into how people, culture, and technology collectively shape our experiences and drive our community. Engage in an exploration of how we can apply a system's thinking approach to enrich our work at Concordia.
The Sustainability Volunteering Program aims to connect students with all available volunteer opportunities on campus that contribute towards environmental, social, and economic sustainability. There are many initiatives in our campus sustainability ecosystem, offered by clubs, student organizations, university offices, and academic departments. Although we prioritize use of the SVP to students, community members and staff are welcome to join.This training will teach faculty and sta...
This session will provide quick tricks for batch data cleaning in Excel and an overview of formulas and functionalities that provide a big impact on data visualization and manipulation minimal efforts. Time will also be provided at the end for discussion and interactive problem solving to attendees' current Excel challenges.
UNITY has launched more than two years ago. Now is a great time to refresh some of your skills around time management. Concordia Employees and Managers are welcome to join this session, where we will review the UNITY My Time (WorkForce Software) solution and share some tips and tricks around managing one's timesheet and time off requests.
During this hands-on session, participants will learn how to preserve online content using Webrecorder, a free and open-source web archiving tool. The session will cover benefits of preserving web content, such as avoiding link rot and ensuring ongoing access to ephemeral or at-risk websites and webpages; give examples of use cases for web archiving; and give participants an opportunity to practice preserving web content on their own.
Did you know that you have access to think-cell, a PowerPoint add-on, for free as a Concordia staff member? think-cell helps you create stunning charts in minutes, boosts your slide layout and automates your regular reports. This presentation will cover the benefits of think-cell, how you can download it for free as a Concordia staff member, the process undertaken to obtain the free license and how it is being used at the Institute for Co-operative Education.
Online learning has grown in popularity, with increases in demand, registration, and attendance. As a result, the processes and best practices that inform online learning and course development have evolved accordingly. In response to the growing demand, Quality Standards were implemented to ensure that increases in the quantity of courses would not diminish their quality, but, rather, enhance it. The Quality Standards were developed by eConcordia in collaboration with the Center for Teaching...
Open textbooks can be fun, interactive, and foster accessible and multimodal learning. In this session, we will offer a soft-launch of our Guide to Pressbooks at Concordia University. Beyond looking at highlights from innovative uses of Pressbooks, we will explore interactive features, accessibility, and multimedia features of Pressbooks. Participants will get the chance to test out Pressbooks for themselves.
We’re drowning in apps, notifications, news and comments: how do you recognize authentic content shared on your social media feeds versus what is fabricated? It’s not always easy!This session will discuss some of the technology that is used to create misleading content like deepfakes, but also simply clickbait or tricks to take over your attention. We’ll suggest some ways of recognizing and thinking critically about digital content. We will conclude with an open discussion about how di...
Welcoming new employees to Concordia and having an effective onboarding were two key priorities that were met when we went live with our NEW onboarding module 2.0 at the launch of Unity in November 2021. The module has not only changed the way we onboard and welcome new employees but it has greatly changed the way personal information is collected for some of the non academic new hires, ensuring confidentiality as well as a streamlined mechanism for this population. It also allows...
In the context of increasingly affordable (but not universal) access to digital equipment and technologies, virtual and hybrid events have become more prevalent.Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, virtual and hybrid events have become not only commonplace but are the dominant mode of event delivery at higher education institutions.The benefits of virtual and hybrid events are numerous. They increase the accessibility of an event by eliminating the need for participants to ...
A short demonstration of how to use etherpad as disposable collaborative documents to facilitate ideation and collaborative learning.
This session aims to provide a case study with practical examples of how Teams has been successfully implemented in one unit at Concordia University. Tools used for both project and people management will be highlighted.
This session is designed for instructors who already have experience with Moodle and are looking for new ways of incorporating various Moodle activities into their teaching practice. You will see creative examples of using common Moodle tools such as Assignment, Page, Choice, Forum, Glossary, etc. You will also get an overview of how to set up these activities to make your teaching more effective and engaging.
As digital technology continues to impact everyday life, it is important to build an individual awareness of the risks that the digital age pose to the social and environmental systems that support human and planetary health. This session will explain the concept of Digital Sustainability - including understanding the negative impacts of digitalization, and exploring how digital tools can accelerate sustainable development and address challenges like climate change. The session will provide a...
The Concordia Library launched its Library Hub on SharePoint Online in December 2021. It is a central location for Library information that is relevant to all staff and it links to other SharePoint sites for individual units within the Library. It features a Project Index, Facilities Issue Tracker, News and Events sections, and tens of thousands of documents filed according to Concordia's Records Classification and Retention Plan. This digital skill share session will cover the story of how w...
Characters create warmth, familiarity, human connection, inclusivity, diversity, and engagement in courses. This presentation will show a case study of a course in higher education that used characters, an intern and a mentor, to introduce topics, ask questions, and drive the course forward!
The presentation will showcase the use of some applications on your iPad that allow teaching to be more effective and interactive. Also, how to grade students' work in ways that save time while making the process more humanistic but effective and "ecofriendly".