The Hub’s second annual Resource Retreat was another success! Shout-out to our TFEE student Grace McGillivray for designing this year’s calendars. An additional thank you goes to our TEACH Committee faculty for sharing all the resources in this year’s calendar!
Below, you’ll find the complete H5P Calendar and a list of all resources shared. Be sure to swing by the Hub to pick up some stickers. ❄️
The Resource Retreat calendar was available in two formats: a digital version on the Hub website and a printed version in the Hub space, packed with custom-made stickers to match.
- TextGenEd is an open-access, peer-reviewed collection from the WAC Clearinghouse featuring 34 adaptable assignments for teaching with text-generation technologies. It includes a short instructor introduction on how generative tools work and the ethical, rhetorical, and pedagogical issues they raise. Assignments span AI literacy, ethics, creativity, and professional writing, and are all licensed CC-BY-NC for easy non-commercial reuse. This resource is a great starting point for faculty looking to thoughtfully integrate generative AI into writing-intensive or multidisciplinary courses.
- Learning for Justice is an open access site from the Southern Poverty Law Center with a wide range of educator resources including lessons, articles, frameworks, and professional learning materials focused on identity, diversity, justice, and civic engagement. The content is primarily American, but most of it adapts very well to a Canadian classroom, especially for topics related to anti racism, colonialism, and equity focused teaching. It is a helpful place to explore if you are looking for practical, justice oriented materials to incorporate into your courses.
- Readability Formulas is a free site that lets you quickly check the reading level of any text using a variety of well known readability tools. It is helpful for faculty who want to see whether assignment instructions, online modules, or course readings are written at an accessible level for students. You can paste in your text and get an immediate sense of clarity, complexity, and where small revisions might support student comprehension.
- Keynote: Deborah Hughes Hallett – How Will Mathematics Be Learned in the Age of AI? As generative AI develops, how will education change? How should it change? How will the Class of 2040 learn? History illuminates the impact of prior innovations on mathematics curriculum and pedagogy. What does this suggest about the future? In this talk, we will see how calculators, computers, and computer algebras have altered the way mathematics is taught and the way students learn. We are now faced by the most significant innovation of them all: generative AI. How will AI change the way mathematics is used professionally? The challenge for all of us is to envisage how AI can help students learn mathematics and statistics. Will AI change what students need to know? Will AI change what students can achieve? Will AI change how students learn?
- Microsoft Planner is a team task-management app in Microsoft 365 for organizing work, assigning tasks, sharing files, and tracking progress using boards, lists, or schedules.
- “Teach-Me Presentations” I teach English, and students are from different programs (e.g., electrical and welding). I’ve been loving “Teach-Me Presentations,” where students must apply the theory of presenting and teaching to different learning styles, and teach me about something from their field. For instance, I was taught how to coil a MIG welder from a welding student. This assessment could be adapted for other courses. It has been wonderful!
- CrowdPurr – a learning engagement platform that’s especially great for trivia. We often use it in Business when hosting secondary school students. There’s a basic (free) membership that allows you to create limited experiences. I do this sometimes to pre-test student knowledge. I’m happy to show you how it looks before my membership expires on Dec 6 (in case you’re unfamiliar).
- Illuminate – an ed simulation game that highlights the interconnected elements leading to climate change and its impact on three Canadian regions: coastal, rural, and urban.
- Building Trust and Transparency in the Classroom – Cynthia Booth Article
- Moodle Icon Creator – A HTML based builder for creating custom icons for your Moodle shell. Use the built in accessibility checker to ensure AODA compliance! Copy your new icons into Moodle with ease!
Online Calendar
Calendar in Hub
