Past offerings
Friday, November 25, 2022
1:30 PM
Switching from Collaborate Ultra to Teams
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Friday, November 25, 2022, 01:30 PM – 02:00 PM
Location:
Online, Anywhere
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
With the university transitioning away from Blackboard Collaborate Ultra to Microsoft Teams as our institutional virtual classroom, it is important to be aware of the similarities and differences between the two platforms. This workshop will highlight equivalent features across the platforms to help prepare instructors for synchronous teaching in this system. This is meant as a high level overview to get people thinking about what changes may be needed, and what enhancements are possible via the Teams platform. For a more detailed demonstration of the platform, participants may want to attend the Using Teams as your virtual classroom workshop.
2:30 PM
Using Teams as your virtual classroom
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Friday, November 25, 2022, 02:30 PM – 03:30 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
Do you need to record or stream a class? Do you need to meet with students online (as a group or privately)? The Teams platform can handle this and more. This session will review the features of Teams most useful for facilitating a class, conducting a presentation, or meeting with students. It will also highlight how you can activate a team associated with your course site and the options you have to meet with the students in your class.
Friday, December 2, 2022
Switching from Collaborate Ultra to Teams
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Friday, December 02, 2022, 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
With the university transitioning away from Blackboard Collaborate Ultra to Microsoft Teams as our institutional virtual classroom, it is important to be aware of the similarities and differences between the two platforms. This workshop will highlight equivalent features across the platforms to help prepare instructors for synchronous teaching in this system. This is meant as a high level overview to get people thinking about what changes may be needed, and what enhancements are possible via the Teams platform. For a more detailed demonstration of the platform, participants may want to attend the Using Teams as your virtual classroom workshop.
Monday, December 5, 2022
Using Teams as your virtual classroom
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Monday, December 05, 2022, 01:00 PM – 02:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
Do you need to record or stream a class? Do you need to meet with students online (as a group or privately)? The Teams platform can handle this and more. This session will review the features of Teams most useful for facilitating a class, conducting a presentation, or meeting with students. It will also highlight how you can activate a team associated with your course site and the options you have to meet with the students in your class.
Tuesday, December 6, 2022
Creating free interactive content with H5P
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Tuesday, December 06, 2022, 01:30 PM – 02:30 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
This workshop will introduce you to the H5P tool, which all Ontario educators can use for free. Whether you want to explore those resources that have already been created and openly shared, or create your own, H5P has incredible potential. With H5P you can add quizzes, pop ups, and other interactions to videos, create interactive presentations, provide fillable and downloadable forms, allow audio input, create scenarios where the result depends on the choices you make, create virtual 360 degree tours, and much more.
In this workshop, participants will see how to create an account, find existing resources, and how to create some common popular interaction types. Additionally, they will be shown how to find examples and tutorials for any additional content types they may want to explore.
Thursday, December 8, 2022
EquatIO: A free digital math tool for UWindsor
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Thursday, December 08, 2022, 02:30 PM – 03:15 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
The premium version of EquatIO is free for everyone at UWindsor and is an ideal tool for anyone looking for digital math tools. You can take a picture of written math and convert it to digital, editable equations, or if you prefer, just handwrite in the app itself and it will convert it to digital. The screenshot function will take any math on the web and make it accessible and editable. You can even speak your equations aloud and have them created. Of course, there is also a more traditional equation editor (LaTeX is supported, too) with a prediction feature to finish your equations, chemical symbols, and more. Some additional free features include a scientific calculator, an interactive periodic table, an interactive molecular viewer, a graph creator/editor, and an online space to work with interactive shapes.
Friday, December 9, 2022
5 tips to make your Brightspace site more accessible
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Friday, December 09, 2022, 03:00 PM – 03:30 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick,
Lorie Stolarchuk
This short workshop sprint will introduce and demonstrate some key tools and tips for how you can improve the accessibility of your Brightspace course site. The topics will include:
- Content editor
- Accommodations e.g., extra time, or different submit date
- Accessibility checkers
- Captions
- Panorama (available January 2023)
Monday, December 12, 2022
Introduction to YuJa Workshop
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Monday, December 12, 2022, 01:30 PM – 03:30 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Lorie Stolarchuk
The YuJa Enterprise Video Platform is a powerful, robust set of online tools to complement and enhance the campus’ ability to store, stream, create, edit, and embed videos into online systems such as Blackboard course sites or websites. This session will offer an introduction to using YuJa for your teaching and learning. Topics for the workshop include:
- Accessing YuJa
- Uploading and organizing content
- Installing the YuJa Software Capture application
- Creating and editing recordings
- Distributing content, and
- Accessibility and other features included.
Tuesday, December 13, 2022
Access for all: Tips and tools for your Brightspace course
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Tuesday, December 13, 2022, 01:30 PM – 03:30 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick,
Lorie Stolarchuk
This session will explore digital accessibility and some customizations, including pronoun modifications, available within your Brightspace course site. We will cover the built-in features within Brightspace that can be used to enhance or check accessibility. We will also review Panorama, the accessibility audit tool that will be available in Brightspace upon request effective January 2023. This tool assists users by providing alternative formats of a document including .mp3, .txt, voice-to-text, EPUB, braille, high contrast and others. Further, instructors will also be able to view accessibility audit reports on documents they have uploaded to their site. Instructions on how to access Panorama will be given during the workshop.
Monday, December 19, 2022
Using Teams as your virtual classroom
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Monday, December 19, 2022, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
Do you need to record or stream a class? Do you need to meet with students online (as a group or privately)? The Teams platform can handle this and more. This session will review the features of Teams most useful for facilitating a class, conducting a presentation, or meeting with students. It will also highlight how you can activate a team associated with your course site and the options you have to meet with the students in your class.
Tuesday, December 20, 2022
Orientation to flexible delivery classrooms
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Tuesday, December 20, 2022, 12:00 PM – 01:30 PM
Location:
Toldo Room 204
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
Have you heard about the flexible delivery classrooms we have on campus? These rooms are ideal for instructors who wish to engage with students in person and online at the same time. The equipment enables you to seamlessly change between feeds such as your personal device, document camera, podium, and in-room camera, all while sending these feeds to the projector and online students.
This session will be held onsite in one of these classrooms. We will be trying to model what you can do in this space with a flexible class design (both physically and virtually). You will be able to experience the live class and the online class (through the virtual chat). Please bring an electronic device with you to fully participate. Part of the class will be discussing flexible design principles and conditions at UWindsor and the other part will be a hands-on opportunity to test out the equipment.
Wednesday, December 21, 2022
5 tips to make your Brightspace site more accessible
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Wednesday, December 21, 2022, 02:30 PM – 03:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick,
Lorie Stolarchuk
This short workshop sprint will introduce and demonstrate some key tools and tips for how you can improve the accessibility of your Brightspace course site. The topics will include:
- Content editor
- Accommodations e.g., extra time, or different submit date
- Accessibility checkers
- Captions
- Panorama (available January 2023)
Tuesday, January 3, 2023
Orientation to flexible delivery classrooms
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Tuesday, January 03, 2023, 01:00 PM – 02:30 PM
Location:
Toldo Room 204
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
Have you heard about the flexible delivery classrooms we have on campus? These rooms are ideal for instructors who wish to engage with students in person and online at the same time. The equipment enables you to seamlessly change between feeds such as your personal device, document camera, podium, and in-room camera, all while sending these feeds to the projector and online students.
This session will be held onsite in one of these classrooms. We will be trying to model what you can do in this space with a flexible class design (both physically and virtually). You will be able to experience the live class and the online class (through the virtual chat). Please bring an electronic device with you to fully participate. Part of the class will be discussing flexible design principles and conditions at UWindsor and the other part will be a hands-on opportunity to test out the equipment.
Wednesday, January 4, 2023
1:00 PM
Using Teams as your virtual classroom
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Wednesday, January 04, 2023, 01:00 PM – 02:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
Do you need to record or stream a class? Do you need to meet with students online (as a group or privately)? The Teams platform can handle this and more. This session will review the features of Teams most useful for facilitating a class, conducting a presentation, or meeting with students. It will also highlight how you can activate a team associated with your course site and the options you have to meet with the students in your class.
3:00 PM
5 tips to make your Brightspace site more accessible
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Wednesday, January 04, 2023, 03:00 PM – 03:30 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick,
Lorie Stolarchuk
This short workshop sprint will introduce and demonstrate some key tools and tips for how you can improve the accessibility of your Brightspace course site. The topics will include:
- Content editor
- Accommodations e.g., extra time, or different submit date
- Accessibility checkers
- Captions
- Panorama (available January 2023)
Thursday, January 5, 2023
12:00 PM
Switching from Collaborate Ultra to Teams
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Thursday, January 05, 2023, 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
With the university transitioning away from Blackboard Collaborate Ultra to Microsoft Teams as our institutional virtual classroom, it is important to be aware of the similarities and differences between the two platforms. This workshop will highlight equivalent features across the platforms to help prepare instructors for synchronous teaching in this system. This is meant as a high level overview to get people thinking about what changes may be needed, and what enhancements are possible via the Teams platform. For a more detailed demonstration of the platform, participants may want to attend the Using Teams as your virtual classroom workshop.
2:00 PM
Creating free interactive content with H5P
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Thursday, January 05, 2023, 02:00 PM – 03:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
This workshop will introduce you to the H5P tool, which all Ontario educators can use for free. Whether you want to explore those resources that have already been created and openly shared, or create your own, H5P has incredible potential. With H5P you can add quizzes, pop ups, and other interactions to videos, create interactive presentations, provide fillable and downloadable forms, allow audio input, create scenarios where the result depends on the choices you make, create virtual 360 degree tours, and much more.
In this workshop, participants will see how to create an account, find existing resources, and how to create some common popular interaction types. Additionally, they will be shown how to find examples and tutorials for any additional content types they may want to explore.
Friday, January 6, 2023
Access for all: Tips and tools for your Brightspace course
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Friday, January 06, 2023, 01:00 PM – 03:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick,
Lorie Stolarchuk
This session will explore digital accessibility and some customizations, including pronoun modifications, available within your Brightspace course site. We will cover the built-in features within Brightspace that can be used to enhance or check accessibility. We will also review Panorama, the accessibility audit tool that will be available in Brightspace upon request effective January 2023. This tool assists users by providing alternative formats of a document including .mp3, .txt, voice-to-text, EPUB, braille, high contrast and others. Further, instructors will also be able to view accessibility audit reports on documents they have uploaded to their site. Instructions on how to access Panorama will be given during the workshop.
Monday, January 9, 2023
10:00 AM
Using Teams as your virtual classroom
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Monday, January 09, 2023, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
Do you need to record or stream a class? Do you need to meet with students online (as a group or privately)? The Teams platform can handle this and more. This session will review the features of Teams most useful for facilitating a class, conducting a presentation, or meeting with students. It will also highlight how you can activate a team associated with your course site and the options you have to meet with the students in your class.
12:00 PM
EquatIO: A free digital math tool for UWindsor
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Monday, January 09, 2023, 12:00 PM – 12:45 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
The premium version of EquatIO is free for everyone at UWindsor and is an ideal tool for anyone looking for digital math tools. You can take a picture of written math and convert it to digital, editable equations, or if you prefer, just handwrite in the app itself and it will convert it to digital. The screenshot function will take any math on the web and make it accessible and editable. You can even speak your equations aloud and have them created. Of course, there is also a more traditional equation editor (LaTeX is supported, too) with a prediction feature to finish your equations, chemical symbols, and more. Some additional free features include a scientific calculator, an interactive periodic table, an interactive molecular viewer, a graph creator/editor, and an online space to work with interactive shapes.
Wednesday, January 11, 2023
2:00 PM
Switching from Collaborate Ultra to Teams
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Wednesday, January 11, 2023, 02:00 PM – 02:30 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
With the university transitioning away from Blackboard Collaborate Ultra to Microsoft Teams as our institutional virtual classroom, it is important to be aware of the similarities and differences between the two platforms. This workshop will highlight equivalent features across the platforms to help prepare instructors for synchronous teaching in this system. This is meant as a high level overview to get people thinking about what changes may be needed, and what enhancements are possible via the Teams platform. For a more detailed demonstration of the platform, participants may want to attend the Using Teams as your virtual classroom workshop.
3:00 PM
Read&Write - Free Literacy and Writing Support at UWindsor
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Wednesday, January 11, 2023, 03:00 PM – 04:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Anthony Gomez,
Mark Lubrick
Did you know that all UWindsor students, faculty, and staff now have free access to a powerful literacy support application?
Read&Write is a suite of software tools designed to assist in the areas of research, studying, and of course, reading and writing.
Whether used in conjunction with Google Chrome or as a standalone application, Read&Write can convert your spoken notes or assignments into text, as well as read your text and .PDFs out loud.
This application is also helpful with Blackboard exams, online journal articles, as well as e-mails and typed assignments.
Friday, January 13, 2023
Introduction to YuJa’s Panorama Tool for Digital Accessibility (Available within Brightspace)
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Friday, January 13, 2023, 01:00 PM – 02:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mai Mohamed,
Lorie Stolarchuk
Instructors will now have an option in the W2023 semester to opt into the Panorama Digital Accessibility tool on a course-by-course basis. Once enabled, this tool scans several document formats uploaded to a course site for many common inaccessible properties and offers solutions on how to fix them. Further, Panorama can provide several alternative formats for end-users to engage with the document, such as PDF, an Immersive Reader, text, EPUB, Braille, Audio and more! The tool generates a report for instructors for the site, which displays files processed by type, alternative formats downloaded, and Issues noticed within the site’s documents.
In this one-hour session, topics explored include:
In this one-hour session, topics explored include:
- Accessibility reports (locating, understanding, and noticing how to improve files)
- Alternative formats (review of format types and understanding those differences)
- Course reporting (accessing content summary and locating the summary of issues)
- How to request and enable Panorama in your course site
Tuesday, January 17, 2023
5 tips to make your Brightspace site more accessible
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Tuesday, January 17, 2023, 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick,
Lorie Stolarchuk
This short workshop sprint will introduce and demonstrate some key tools and tips for how you can improve the accessibility of your Brightspace course site. The topics will include:
- Content editor
- Accommodations e.g., extra time, or different submit date
- Accessibility checkers
- Captions
- Panorama (available January 2023)
Wednesday, January 18, 2023
Introduction to YuJa Workshop
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Wednesday, January 18, 2023, 01:30 PM – 03:30 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Lorie Stolarchuk
The YuJa Enterprise Video Platform is a powerful, robust set of online tools to complement and enhance the campus’ ability to store, stream, create, edit, and embed videos into online systems such as Blackboard course sites or websites. This session will offer an introduction to using YuJa for your teaching and learning. Topics for the workshop include:
- Accessing YuJa
- Uploading and organizing content
- Installing the YuJa Software Capture application
- Creating and editing recordings
- Distributing content, and
- Accessibility and other features included.
Monday, February 6, 2023
Access for all: Tips and tools for your Brightspace course
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Monday, February 06, 2023, 01:00 PM – 03:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick,
Lorie Stolarchuk
This session will explore digital accessibility and some customizations, including pronoun modifications, available within your Brightspace course site. We will cover the built-in features within Brightspace that can be used to enhance or check accessibility. We will also review Panorama, the accessibility audit tool that will be available in Brightspace upon request effective January 2023. This tool assists users by providing alternative formats of a document including .mp3, .txt, voice-to-text, EPUB, braille, high contrast and others. Further, instructors will also be able to view accessibility audit reports on documents they have uploaded to their site. Instructions on how to access Panorama will be given during the workshop.
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
1:00 PM
Switching from Collaborate Ultra to Teams
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Tuesday, February 07, 2023, 01:00 PM – 01:30 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
With the university transitioning away from Blackboard Collaborate Ultra to Microsoft Teams as our institutional virtual classroom, it is important to be aware of the similarities and differences between the two platforms. This workshop will highlight equivalent features across the platforms to help prepare instructors for synchronous teaching in this system. This is meant as a high level overview to get people thinking about what changes may be needed, and what enhancements are possible via the Teams platform. For a more detailed demonstration of the platform, participants may want to attend the Using Teams as your virtual classroom workshop.
2:00 PM
Read&Write - Free Literacy and Writing Support at UWindsor
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Tuesday, February 07, 2023, 02:00 PM – 03:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Anthony Gomez,
Mark Lubrick
Did you know that all UWindsor students, faculty, and staff now have free access to a powerful literacy support application?
Read&Write is a suite of software tools designed to assist in the areas of research, studying, and of course, reading and writing.
Whether used in conjunction with Google Chrome or as a standalone application, Read&Write can convert your spoken notes or assignments into text, as well as read your text and .PDFs out loud.
This application is also helpful with Blackboard exams, online journal articles, as well as e-mails and typed assignments.
Wednesday, February 8, 2023
1:00 PM
Creating free interactive content with H5P
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Wednesday, February 08, 2023, 01:00 PM – 02:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
This workshop will introduce you to the H5P tool, which all Ontario educators can use for free. Whether you want to explore those resources that have already been created and openly shared, or create your own, H5P has incredible potential. With H5P you can add quizzes, pop ups, and other interactions to videos, create interactive presentations, provide fillable and downloadable forms, allow audio input, create scenarios where the result depends on the choices you make, create virtual 360 degree tours, and much more.
In this workshop, participants will see how to create an account, find existing resources, and how to create some common popular interaction types. Additionally, they will be shown how to find examples and tutorials for any additional content types they may want to explore.
3:00 PM
Using Teams as your virtual classroom
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Wednesday, February 08, 2023, 03:00 PM – 04:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
Do you need to record or stream a class? Do you need to meet with students online (as a group or privately)? The Teams platform can handle this and more. This session will review the features of Teams most useful for facilitating a class, conducting a presentation, or meeting with students. It will also highlight how you can activate a team associated with your course site and the options you have to meet with the students in your class.
Thursday, February 9, 2023
EquatIO: A free digital math tool for UWindsor
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Thursday, February 09, 2023, 03:00 PM – 03:45 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
The premium version of EquatIO is free for everyone at UWindsor and is an ideal tool for anyone looking for digital math tools. You can take a picture of written math and convert it to digital, editable equations, or if you prefer, just handwrite in the app itself and it will convert it to digital. The screenshot function will take any math on the web and make it accessible and editable. You can even speak your equations aloud and have them created. Of course, there is also a more traditional equation editor (LaTeX is supported, too) with a prediction feature to finish your equations, chemical symbols, and more. Some additional free features include a scientific calculator, an interactive periodic table, an interactive molecular viewer, a graph creator/editor, and an online space to work with interactive shapes.
Monday, February 13, 2023
Introduction to YuJa’s Panorama Tool for Digital Accessibility (Available within Brightspace)
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Monday, February 13, 2023, 03:00 PM – 04:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mai Mohamed,
Lorie Stolarchuk
Instructors will now have an option in the W2023 semester to opt into the Panorama Digital Accessibility tool on a course-by-course basis. Once enabled, this tool scans several document formats uploaded to a course site for many common inaccessible properties and offers solutions on how to fix them. Further, Panorama can provide several alternative formats for end-users to engage with the document, such as PDF, an Immersive Reader, text, EPUB, Braille, Audio and more! The tool generates a report for instructors for the site, which displays files processed by type, alternative formats downloaded, and Issues noticed within the site’s documents.
In this one-hour session, topics explored include:
In this one-hour session, topics explored include:
- Accessibility reports (locating, understanding, and noticing how to improve files)
- Alternative formats (review of format types and understanding those differences)
- Course reporting (accessing content summary and locating the summary of issues)
- How to request and enable Panorama in your course site
Wednesday, March 8, 2023
Creating free interactive content with H5P
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Wednesday, March 08, 2023, 03:00 PM – 04:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
This workshop will introduce you to the H5P tool, which all Ontario educators can use for free. Whether you want to explore those resources that have already been created and openly shared, or create your own, H5P has incredible potential. With H5P you can add quizzes, pop ups, and other interactions to videos, create interactive presentations, provide fillable and downloadable forms, allow audio input, create scenarios where the result depends on the choices you make, create virtual 360 degree tours, and much more.
In this workshop, participants will see how to create an account, find existing resources, and how to create some common popular interaction types. Additionally, they will be shown how to find examples and tutorials for any additional content types they may want to explore.
Thursday, March 9, 2023
Read&Write - Free Literacy and Writing Support at UWindsor
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Thursday, March 09, 2023, 03:00 PM – 04:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Anthony Gomez,
Mark Lubrick
Did you know that all UWindsor students, faculty, and staff now have free access to a powerful literacy support application?
Read&Write is a suite of software tools designed to assist in the areas of research, studying, and of course, reading and writing.
Whether used in conjunction with Google Chrome or as a standalone application, Read&Write can convert your spoken notes or assignments into text, as well as read your text and .PDFs out loud.
This application is also helpful with Blackboard exams, online journal articles, as well as e-mails and typed assignments.
Thursday, March 16, 2023
Introduction to YuJa Workshop
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Thursday, March 16, 2023, 01:30 PM – 03:30 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Lorie Stolarchuk
The YuJa Enterprise Video Platform is a powerful, robust set of online tools to complement and enhance the campus’ ability to store, stream, create, edit, and embed videos into online systems such as Blackboard course sites or websites. This session will offer an introduction to using YuJa for your teaching and learning. Topics for the workshop include:
- Accessing YuJa
- Uploading and organizing content
- Installing the YuJa Software Capture application
- Creating and editing recordings
- Distributing content, and
- Accessibility and other features included.
Tuesday, March 28, 2023
Switching from Collaborate Ultra to Teams
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Tuesday, March 28, 2023, 03:00 PM – 03:30 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
With the university transitioning away from Blackboard Collaborate Ultra to Microsoft Teams as our institutional virtual classroom, it is important to be aware of the similarities and differences between the two platforms. This workshop will highlight equivalent features across the platforms to help prepare instructors for synchronous teaching in this system. This is meant as a high level overview to get people thinking about what changes may be needed, and what enhancements are possible via the Teams platform. For a more detailed demonstration of the platform, participants may want to attend the Using Teams as your virtual classroom workshop.
Wednesday, March 29, 2023
EquatIO: A free digital math tool for UWindsor
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Wednesday, March 29, 2023, 01:00 PM – 01:45 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
The premium version of EquatIO is free for everyone at UWindsor and is an ideal tool for anyone looking for digital math tools. You can take a picture of written math and convert it to digital, editable equations, or if you prefer, just handwrite in the app itself and it will convert it to digital. The screenshot function will take any math on the web and make it accessible and editable. You can even speak your equations aloud and have them created. Of course, there is also a more traditional equation editor (LaTeX is supported, too) with a prediction feature to finish your equations, chemical symbols, and more. Some additional free features include a scientific calculator, an interactive periodic table, an interactive molecular viewer, a graph creator/editor, and an online space to work with interactive shapes.
Thursday, March 30, 2023
5 tips to make your Brightspace site more accessible
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Thursday, March 30, 2023, 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick,
Lorie Stolarchuk
This short workshop sprint will introduce and demonstrate some key tools and tips for how you can improve the accessibility of your Brightspace course site. The topics will include:
- Content editor
- Accommodations e.g., extra time, or different submit date
- Accessibility checkers
- Captions
- Panorama (available January 2023)
Thursday, April 6, 2023
Introduction to YuJa Workshop
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Thursday, April 06, 2023, 01:00 PM – 03:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Lorie Stolarchuk
The YuJa Enterprise Video Platform is a powerful, robust set of online tools to complement and enhance the campus’ ability to store, stream, create, edit, and embed videos into online systems such as Blackboard course sites or websites. This session will offer an introduction to using YuJa for your teaching and learning. Topics for the workshop include:
- Accessing YuJa
- Uploading and organizing content
- Installing the YuJa Software Capture application
- Creating and editing recordings
- Distributing content, and
- Accessibility and other features included.
Tuesday, April 11, 2023
EquatIO: A free digital math tool for UWindsor
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Tuesday, April 11, 2023, 12:00 PM – 12:45 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
The premium version of EquatIO is free for everyone at UWindsor and is an ideal tool for anyone looking for digital math tools. You can take a picture of written math and convert it to digital, editable equations, or if you prefer, just handwrite in the app itself and it will convert it to digital. The screenshot function will take any math on the web and make it accessible and editable. You can even speak your equations aloud and have them created. Of course, there is also a more traditional equation editor (LaTeX is supported, too) with a prediction feature to finish your equations, chemical symbols, and more. Some additional free features include a scientific calculator, an interactive periodic table, an interactive molecular viewer, a graph creator/editor, and an online space to work with interactive shapes.
Thursday, April 13, 2023
Access for all: Tips and tools for your Brightspace course
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Thursday, April 13, 2023, 01:00 PM – 03:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick,
Lorie Stolarchuk
This session will explore digital accessibility and some customizations, including pronoun modifications, available within your Brightspace course site. We will cover the built-in features within Brightspace that can be used to enhance or check accessibility. We will also review Panorama, the accessibility audit tool that will be available in Brightspace upon request effective January 2023. This tool assists users by providing alternative formats of a document including .mp3, .txt, voice-to-text, EPUB, braille, high contrast and others. Further, instructors will also be able to view accessibility audit reports on documents they have uploaded to their site. Instructions on how to access Panorama will be given during the workshop.
Friday, April 14, 2023
2:00 PM
Creating free interactive content with H5P
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Friday, April 14, 2023, 02:00 PM – 03:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
This workshop will introduce you to the H5P tool, which all Ontario educators can use for free. Whether you want to explore those resources that have already been created and openly shared, or create your own, H5P has incredible potential. With H5P you can add quizzes, pop ups, and other interactions to videos, create interactive presentations, provide fillable and downloadable forms, allow audio input, create scenarios where the result depends on the choices you make, create virtual 360 degree tours, and much more.
In this workshop, participants will see how to create an account, find existing resources, and how to create some common popular interaction types. Additionally, they will be shown how to find examples and tutorials for any additional content types they may want to explore.
3:30 PM
Using Teams as your virtual classroom
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Friday, April 14, 2023, 03:30 PM – 04:30 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
Do you need to record or stream a class? Do you need to meet with students online (as a group or privately)? The Teams platform can handle this and more. This session will review the features of Teams most useful for facilitating a class, conducting a presentation, or meeting with students. It will also highlight how you can activate a team associated with your course site and the options you have to meet with the students in your class.
Monday, May 8, 2023
10:00 AM
Using Teams as your virtual classroom
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Monday, May 08, 2023, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
Do you need to record or stream a class? Do you need to meet with students online (as a group or privately)? The Teams platform can handle this and more. This session will review the features of Teams most useful for facilitating a class, conducting a presentation, or meeting with students. It will also highlight how you can activate a team associated with your course site and the options you have to meet with the students in your class.
12:00 PM
Creating free interactive content with H5P
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Monday, May 08, 2023, 12:00 PM – 02:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
This workshop will introduce you to the H5P tool, which all Ontario educators can use for free. Whether you want to explore those resources that have already been created and openly shared, or create your own, H5P has incredible potential. With H5P you can add quizzes, pop ups, and other interactions to videos, create interactive presentations, provide fillable and downloadable forms, allow audio input, create scenarios where the result depends on the choices you make, create virtual 360 degree tours, and much more.
In this workshop, participants will see how to create an account, find existing resources, and how to create some common popular interaction types. Additionally, they will be shown how to find examples and tutorials for any additional content types they may want to explore.
3:00 PM
Orientation to flexible delivery classrooms
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Monday, May 08, 2023, 03:00 PM – 04:30 PM
Location:
Toldo Room 204
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
Have you heard about the flexible delivery classrooms we have on campus? These rooms are ideal for instructors who wish to engage with students in person and online at the same time. The equipment enables you to seamlessly change between feeds such as your personal device, document camera, podium, and in-room camera, all while sending these feeds to the projector and online students.
This session will be held onsite in one of these classrooms. We will be trying to model what you can do in this space with a flexible class design (both physically and virtually). You will be able to experience the live class and the online class (through the virtual chat). Please bring an electronic device with you to fully participate. Part of the class will be discussing flexible design principles and conditions at UWindsor and the other part will be a hands-on opportunity to test out the equipment.
Tuesday, May 9, 2023
12:00 PM
Read&Write - Free Literacy and Writing Support at UWindsor
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Tuesday, May 09, 2023, 12:00 PM – 01:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Anthony Gomez,
Mark Lubrick
Did you know that all UWindsor students, faculty, and staff now have free access to a powerful literacy support application?
Read&Write is a suite of software tools designed to assist in the areas of research, studying, and of course, reading and writing.
Whether used in conjunction with Google Chrome or as a standalone application, Read&Write can convert your spoken notes or assignments into text, as well as read your text and .PDFs out loud.
This application is also helpful with Blackboard exams, online journal articles, as well as e-mails and typed assignments.
3:00 PM
5 tips to make your Brightspace site more accessible
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Tuesday, May 09, 2023, 03:00 PM – 03:30 PM
Location:
Online (Blackboard Collaborate)
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick,
Lorie Stolarchuk
This short workshop sprint will introduce and demonstrate some key tools and tips for how you can improve the accessibility of your Brightspace course site. The topics will include:
- Content editor
- Accommodations e.g., extra time, or different submit date
- Accessibility checkers
- Captions
- Panorama (available January 2023)
Wednesday, May 10, 2023
EquatIO: A free digital math tool for UWindsor
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Wednesday, May 10, 2023, 03:30 PM – 04:15 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
The premium version of EquatIO is free for everyone at UWindsor and is an ideal tool for anyone looking for digital math tools. You can take a picture of written math and convert it to digital, editable equations, or if you prefer, just handwrite in the app itself and it will convert it to digital. The screenshot function will take any math on the web and make it accessible and editable. You can even speak your equations aloud and have them created. Of course, there is also a more traditional equation editor (LaTeX is supported, too) with a prediction feature to finish your equations, chemical symbols, and more. Some additional free features include a scientific calculator, an interactive periodic table, an interactive molecular viewer, a graph creator/editor, and an online space to work with interactive shapes.
Monday, May 29, 2023
Access for all: Tips and tools for your Brightspace course
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Monday, May 29, 2023, 11:00 AM – 01:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick,
Lorie Stolarchuk
This session will explore digital accessibility and some customizations, including pronoun modifications, available within your Brightspace course site. We will cover the built-in features within Brightspace that can be used to enhance or check accessibility. We will also review Panorama, the accessibility audit tool that will be available in Brightspace upon request effective January 2023. This tool assists users by providing alternative formats of a document including .mp3, .txt, voice-to-text, EPUB, braille, high contrast and others. Further, instructors will also be able to view accessibility audit reports on documents they have uploaded to their site. Instructions on how to access Panorama will be given during the workshop.
Tuesday, June 20, 2023
Using Teams as your virtual classroom
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Tuesday, June 20, 2023, 12:00 PM – 01:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
Do you need to record or stream a class? Do you need to meet with students online (as a group or privately)? The Teams platform can handle this and more. This session will review the features of Teams most useful for facilitating a class, conducting a presentation, or meeting with students. It will also highlight how you can activate a team associated with your course site and the options you have to meet with the students in your class.
Thursday, June 22, 2023
Creating free interactive content with H5P
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Thursday, June 22, 2023, 12:00 PM – 01:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
This workshop will introduce you to the H5P tool, which all Ontario educators can use for free. Whether you want to explore those resources that have already been created and openly shared, or create your own, H5P has incredible potential. With H5P you can add quizzes, pop ups, and other interactions to videos, create interactive presentations, provide fillable and downloadable forms, allow audio input, create scenarios where the result depends on the choices you make, create virtual 360 degree tours, and much more.
In this workshop, participants will see how to create an account, find existing resources, and how to create some common popular interaction types. Additionally, they will be shown how to find examples and tutorials for any additional content types they may want to explore.
Tuesday, July 4, 2023
EquatIO: A free digital math tool for UWindsor
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Tuesday, July 04, 2023, 01:00 PM – 01:45 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
The premium version of EquatIO is free for everyone at UWindsor and is an ideal tool for anyone looking for digital math tools. You can take a picture of written math and convert it to digital, editable equations, or if you prefer, just handwrite in the app itself and it will convert it to digital. The screenshot function will take any math on the web and make it accessible and editable. You can even speak your equations aloud and have them created. Of course, there is also a more traditional equation editor (LaTeX is supported, too) with a prediction feature to finish your equations, chemical symbols, and more. Some additional free features include a scientific calculator, an interactive periodic table, an interactive molecular viewer, a graph creator/editor, and an online space to work with interactive shapes.
Wednesday, July 5, 2023
Creating free interactive content with H5P
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Wednesday, July 05, 2023, 03:00 PM – 04:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
This workshop will introduce you to the H5P tool, which all Ontario educators can use for free. Whether you want to explore those resources that have already been created and openly shared, or create your own, H5P has incredible potential. With H5P you can add quizzes, pop ups, and other interactions to videos, create interactive presentations, provide fillable and downloadable forms, allow audio input, create scenarios where the result depends on the choices you make, create virtual 360 degree tours, and much more.
In this workshop, participants will see how to create an account, find existing resources, and how to create some common popular interaction types. Additionally, they will be shown how to find examples and tutorials for any additional content types they may want to explore.
Thursday, July 6, 2023
Using Teams as your virtual classroom
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Thursday, July 06, 2023, 03:00 PM – 04:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
Do you need to record or stream a class? Do you need to meet with students online (as a group or privately)? The Teams platform can handle this and more. This session will review the features of Teams most useful for facilitating a class, conducting a presentation, or meeting with students. It will also highlight how you can activate a team associated with your course site and the options you have to meet with the students in your class.
Monday, July 31, 2023
Getting Started with Pressbooks
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Monday, July 31, 2023, 01:00 PM – 02:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Ashlyne O'Neil
This workshop will provide an introduction to the power and versatility of Pressbooks as an open-publishing authoring tool, and equip you with the tools you need to get started. Pressbooks is a free, user-friendly, and provincially supported system that allows you to create and adapt various forms of content (e.g., online books, learning modules, embedded videos, H5P interactions, etc.) for your courses, workshops, and more.
We will review the following topics: 1) getting your free account; 2) starting a book; 3) behind-the-scenes admin stuff for creators; 4) accessibility considerations; 5) import and export files; and 6) formatting.
Tuesday, August 8, 2023
Introduction to YuJa
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Tuesday, August 08, 2023, 01:30 PM – 03:30 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Lorie Stolarchuk
The YuJa Enterprise Video Platform is a powerful, robust set of online tools to complement and enhance the campus’ ability to store, stream, create, edit, and embed videos into online systems such as Blackboard course sites or websites. This session will offer an introduction to using YuJa for your teaching and learning. Topics for the workshop include:
- Accessing YuJa
- Uploading and organizing content
- Installing the YuJa Software Capture application
- Creating and editing recordings
- Distributing content, and
- Accessibility and other features included.
Wednesday, August 30, 2023
5 tips to make your Brightspace site more accessible
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Wednesday, August 30, 2023, 03:00 PM – 03:30 PM
Location:
Online, Zoom
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick,
Lorie Stolarchuk
This short workshop sprint will introduce and demonstrate some key tools and tips for how you can improve the accessibility of your Brightspace course site. The topics will include:
- Content editor
- Accommodations e.g., extra time, or different submit date
- Accessibility checkers
- Captions
- Panorama (available January 2023)
Friday, September 1, 2023
10:00 AM
Orientation to flexible delivery classrooms
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Friday, September 01, 2023, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Location:
Toldo Room 204
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
Have you heard about the flexible delivery classrooms we have on campus? These rooms are ideal for instructors who wish to engage with students in person and online at the same time. The equipment enables you to seamlessly change between feeds such as your personal device, document camera, podium, and in-room camera, all while sending these feeds to the projector and online students.
This session will be held onsite in one of these classrooms. We will be trying to model what you can do in this space with a flexible class design (both physically and virtually). You will be able to experience the live class and the online class (through the virtual chat). Please bring an electronic device with you to fully participate. Part of the class will be discussing flexible design principles and conditions at UWindsor and the other part will be a hands-on opportunity to test out the equipment.
12:00 PM
Using Teams as your virtual classroom
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Friday, September 01, 2023, 12:00 PM – 01:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
Do you need to record or stream a class? Do you need to meet with students online (as a group or privately)? The Teams platform can handle this and more. This session will review the features of Teams most useful for facilitating a class, conducting a presentation, or meeting with students. It will also highlight how you can activate a team associated with your course site and the options you have to meet with the students in your class.
2:00 PM
Creating free interactive content with H5P
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Friday, September 01, 2023, 02:00 PM – 03:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
This workshop will introduce you to the H5P tool, which all Ontario educators can use for free. Whether you want to explore those resources that have already been created and openly shared, or create your own, H5P has incredible potential. With H5P you can add quizzes, pop ups, and other interactions to videos, create interactive presentations, provide fillable and downloadable forms, allow audio input, create scenarios where the result depends on the choices you make, create virtual 360 degree tours, and much more.
In this workshop, participants will see how to create an account, find existing resources, and how to create some common popular interaction types. Additionally, they will be shown how to find examples and tutorials for any additional content types they may want to explore.
Tuesday, September 5, 2023
Access for all: Tips and tools for your Brightspace course
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Tuesday, September 05, 2023, 01:00 PM – 03:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick,
Lorie Stolarchuk
This session will explore digital accessibility and some customizations, including pronoun modifications, available within your Brightspace course site. We will cover the built-in features within Brightspace that can be used to enhance or check accessibility. We will also review Panorama, the accessibility audit tool that will be available in Brightspace upon request effective January 2023. This tool assists users by providing alternative formats of a document including .mp3, .txt, voice-to-text, EPUB, braille, high contrast and others. Further, instructors will also be able to view accessibility audit reports on documents they have uploaded to their site. Instructions on how to access Panorama will be given during the workshop.
Wednesday, September 6, 2023
Using Teams as your virtual classroom
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Wednesday, September 06, 2023, 02:00 PM – 03:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
Do you need to record or stream a class? Do you need to meet with students online (as a group or privately)? The Teams platform can handle this and more. This session will review the features of Teams most useful for facilitating a class, conducting a presentation, or meeting with students. It will also highlight how you can activate a team associated with your course site and the options you have to meet with the students in your class.
Thursday, September 7, 2023
12:00 PM
EquatIO: A free digital math tool for UWindsor
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Thursday, September 07, 2023, 12:00 PM – 12:45 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
The premium version of EquatIO is free for everyone at UWindsor and is an ideal tool for anyone looking for digital math tools. You can take a picture of written math and convert it to digital, editable equations, or if you prefer, just handwrite in the app itself and it will convert it to digital. The screenshot function will take any math on the web and make it accessible and editable. You can even speak your equations aloud and have them created. Of course, there is also a more traditional equation editor (LaTeX is supported, too) with a prediction feature to finish your equations, chemical symbols, and more. Some additional free features include a scientific calculator, an interactive periodic table, an interactive molecular viewer, a graph creator/editor, and an online space to work with interactive shapes.
3:00 PM
Read&Write - Free Literacy and Writing Support at UWindsor
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Thursday, September 07, 2023, 03:00 PM – 04:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Anthony Gomez,
Mark Lubrick
Did you know that all UWindsor students, faculty, and staff now have free access to a powerful literacy support application?
Read&Write is a suite of software tools designed to assist in the areas of research, studying, and of course, reading and writing.
Whether used in conjunction with Google Chrome or as a standalone application, Read&Write can convert your spoken notes or assignments into text, as well as read your text and .PDFs out loud.
This application is also helpful with Blackboard exams, online journal articles, as well as e-mails and typed assignments.
Friday, September 8, 2023
10:30 AM
Creating free interactive content with H5P
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Friday, September 08, 2023, 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
This workshop will introduce you to the H5P tool, which all Ontario educators can use for free. Whether you want to explore those resources that have already been created and openly shared, or create your own, H5P has incredible potential. With H5P you can add quizzes, pop ups, and other interactions to videos, create interactive presentations, provide fillable and downloadable forms, allow audio input, create scenarios where the result depends on the choices you make, create virtual 360 degree tours, and much more.
In this workshop, participants will see how to create an account, find existing resources, and how to create some common popular interaction types. Additionally, they will be shown how to find examples and tutorials for any additional content types they may want to explore.
1:30 PM
5 tips to make your Brightspace site more accessible
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Friday, September 08, 2023, 01:30 PM – 02:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick,
Lorie Stolarchuk
This short workshop sprint will introduce and demonstrate some key tools and tips for how you can improve the accessibility of your Brightspace course site. The topics will include:
- Content editor
- Accommodations e.g., extra time, or different submit date
- Accessibility checkers
- Captions
- Panorama (available January 2023)
Monday, September 11, 2023
Using Teams as your virtual classroom
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Monday, September 11, 2023, 01:00 PM – 02:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
Do you need to record or stream a class? Do you need to meet with students online (as a group or privately)? The Teams platform can handle this and more. This session will review the features of Teams most useful for facilitating a class, conducting a presentation, or meeting with students. It will also highlight how you can activate a team associated with your course site and the options you have to meet with the students in your class.
Friday, September 22, 2023
Getting Started with Pressbooks
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Friday, September 22, 2023, 01:00 PM – 02:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Ashlyne O'Neil
This workshop will provide an introduction to the power and versatility of Pressbooks as an open-publishing authoring tool, and equip you with the tools you need to get started. Pressbooks is a free, user-friendly, and provincially supported system that allows you to create and adapt various forms of content (e.g., online books, learning modules, embedded videos, H5P interactions, etc.) for your courses, workshops, and more.
We will review the following topics: 1) getting your free account; 2) starting a book; 3) behind-the-scenes admin stuff for creators; 4) accessibility considerations; 5) import and export files; and 6) formatting.
Tuesday, October 10, 2023
Read&Write - Free Literacy and Writing Support at UWindsor
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Tuesday, October 10, 2023, 12:00 PM – 01:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Anthony Gomez,
Mark Lubrick
Did you know that all UWindsor students, faculty, and staff now have free access to a powerful literacy support application?
Read&Write is a suite of software tools designed to assist in the areas of research, studying, and of course, reading and writing.
Whether used in conjunction with Google Chrome or as a standalone application, Read&Write can convert your spoken notes or assignments into text, as well as read your text and .PDFs out loud.
This application is also helpful with Blackboard exams, online journal articles, as well as e-mails and typed assignments.
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
Creating free interactive content with H5P
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Wednesday, October 11, 2023, 01:00 PM – 02:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
This workshop will introduce you to the H5P tool, which all Ontario educators can use for free. Whether you want to explore those resources that have already been created and openly shared, or create your own, H5P has incredible potential. With H5P you can add quizzes, pop ups, and other interactions to videos, create interactive presentations, provide fillable and downloadable forms, allow audio input, create scenarios where the result depends on the choices you make, create virtual 360 degree tours, and much more.
In this workshop, participants will see how to create an account, find existing resources, and how to create some common popular interaction types. Additionally, they will be shown how to find examples and tutorials for any additional content types they may want to explore.
Thursday, October 12, 2023
Using Teams as your virtual classroom
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Thursday, October 12, 2023, 12:00 PM – 01:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
Do you need to record or stream a class? Do you need to meet with students online (as a group or privately)? The Teams platform can handle this and more. This session will review the features of Teams most useful for facilitating a class, conducting a presentation, or meeting with students. It will also highlight how you can activate a team associated with your course site and the options you have to meet with the students in your class.
Monday, October 16, 2023
EquatIO: A free digital math tool for UWindsor
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Monday, October 16, 2023, 11:00 AM – 11:45 AM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
The premium version of EquatIO is free for everyone at UWindsor and is an ideal tool for anyone looking for digital math tools. You can take a picture of written math and convert it to digital, editable equations, or if you prefer, just handwrite in the app itself and it will convert it to digital. The screenshot function will take any math on the web and make it accessible and editable. You can even speak your equations aloud and have them created. Of course, there is also a more traditional equation editor (LaTeX is supported, too) with a prediction feature to finish your equations, chemical symbols, and more. Some additional free features include a scientific calculator, an interactive periodic table, an interactive molecular viewer, a graph creator/editor, and an online space to work with interactive shapes.
Monday, November 13, 2023
Access for all: Tips and tools for your Brightspace course
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Monday, November 13, 2023, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick,
Lorie Stolarchuk
This session will explore digital accessibility and some customizations, including pronoun modifications, available within your Brightspace course site. We will cover the built-in features within Brightspace that can be used to enhance or check accessibility. We will also review Panorama, the accessibility audit tool that will be available in Brightspace upon request effective January 2023. This tool assists users by providing alternative formats of a document including .mp3, .txt, voice-to-text, EPUB, braille, high contrast and others. Further, instructors will also be able to view accessibility audit reports on documents they have uploaded to their site. Instructions on how to access Panorama will be given during the workshop.
Tuesday, December 5, 2023
Introduction to YuJa
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Tuesday, December 05, 2023, 01:30 PM – 03:30 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Lorie Stolarchuk
The YuJa Enterprise Video Platform is a powerful, robust set of online tools to complement and enhance the campus’ ability to store, stream, create, edit, and embed videos into online systems such as Blackboard course sites or websites. This session will offer an introduction to using YuJa for your teaching and learning. Topics for the workshop include:
- Accessing YuJa
- Uploading and organizing content
- Installing the YuJa Software Capture application
- Creating and editing recordings
- Distributing content, and
- Accessibility and other features included.
Friday, December 8, 2023
Advanced Options in YuJa
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Friday, December 08, 2023, 01:30 PM – 03:30 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
For instructors or their assistants who have used YuJa to create, distribute and/or edit their videos already, or those who have taken the Introduction to YuJa workshop. Join us to find out how to unleash some of the powerful elements of the YuJa Video Enterprise System. You will need to have at least one video prepared in your YuJa account for this workshop.
Topics include:
Topics include:
- Quizzes – Identifying and creating different types of YuJa quizzes, and question types, exploring settings, and accessing /understanding the Audit Logs
- Usage and Analytics – identifying Video and YuJa Course analytics and accessing the YuJa Gradebook for quiz management
- Content Distribution – Exploring how to embed the quiz into Brightspace and troubleshooting
Wednesday, December 13, 2023
EquatIO: A free digital math tool for UWindsor
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Wednesday, December 13, 2023, 03:00 PM – 03:45 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
The premium version of EquatIO is free for everyone at UWindsor and is an ideal tool for anyone looking for digital math tools. You can take a picture of written math and convert it to digital, editable equations, or if you prefer, just handwrite in the app itself and it will convert it to digital. The screenshot function will take any math on the web and make it accessible and editable. You can even speak your equations aloud and have them created. Of course, there is also a more traditional equation editor (LaTeX is supported, too) with a prediction feature to finish your equations, chemical symbols, and more. Some additional free features include a scientific calculator, an interactive periodic table, an interactive molecular viewer, a graph creator/editor, and an online space to work with interactive shapes.
Tuesday, December 19, 2023
12:00 PM
Creating free interactive content with H5P
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Tuesday, December 19, 2023, 12:00 PM – 01:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
This workshop will introduce you to the H5P tool, which all Ontario educators can use for free. Whether you want to explore those resources that have already been created and openly shared, or create your own, H5P has incredible potential. With H5P you can add quizzes, pop ups, and other interactions to videos, create interactive presentations, provide fillable and downloadable forms, allow audio input, create scenarios where the result depends on the choices you make, create virtual 360 degree tours, and much more.
In this workshop, participants will see how to create an account, find existing resources, and how to create some common popular interaction types. Additionally, they will be shown how to find examples and tutorials for any additional content types they may want to explore.
1:00 PM
Getting Started with Pressbooks
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Tuesday, December 19, 2023, 01:00 PM – 02:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Ashlyne O'Neil
This workshop will provide an introduction to the power and versatility of Pressbooks as an open-publishing authoring tool, and equip you with the tools you need to get started. Pressbooks is a free, user-friendly, and provincially supported system that allows you to create and adapt various forms of content (e.g., online books, learning modules, embedded videos, H5P interactions, etc.) for your courses, workshops, and more.
We will review the following topics: 1) getting your free account; 2) starting a book; 3) behind-the-scenes admin stuff for creators; 4) accessibility considerations; 5) import and export files; and 6) formatting.
Friday, January 5, 2024
Orientation to flexible delivery classrooms
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Friday, January 05, 2024, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Location:
Toldo Room 204
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
Have you heard about the flexible delivery classrooms we have on campus? These rooms are ideal for instructors who wish to engage with students in person and online at the same time. The equipment enables you to seamlessly change between feeds such as your personal device, document camera, podium, and in-room camera, all while sending these feeds to the projector and online students.
This session will be held onsite in one of these classrooms. We will be trying to model what you can do in this space with a flexible class design (both physically and virtually). You will be able to experience the live class and the online class (through the virtual chat). Please bring an electronic device with you to fully participate. Part of the class will be discussing flexible design principles and conditions at UWindsor and the other part will be a hands-on opportunity to test out the equipment.
Monday, January 8, 2024
Using Teams as your virtual classroom
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Monday, January 08, 2024, 12:00 PM – 01:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
Do you need to record or stream a class? Do you need to meet with students online (as a group or privately)? The Teams platform can handle this and more. This session will review the features of Teams most useful for facilitating a class, conducting a presentation, or meeting with students. It will also highlight how you can activate a team associated with your course site and the options you have to meet with the students in your class.
Tuesday, January 9, 2024
EquatIO: A free digital math tool for UWindsor
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Tuesday, January 09, 2024, 01:00 PM – 01:45 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
The premium version of EquatIO is free for everyone at UWindsor and is an ideal tool for anyone looking for digital math tools. You can take a picture of written math and convert it to digital, editable equations, or if you prefer, just handwrite in the app itself and it will convert it to digital. The screenshot function will take any math on the web and make it accessible and editable. You can even speak your equations aloud and have them created. Of course, there is also a more traditional equation editor (LaTeX is supported, too) with a prediction feature to finish your equations, chemical symbols, and more. Some additional free features include a scientific calculator, an interactive periodic table, an interactive molecular viewer, a graph creator/editor, and an online space to work with interactive shapes.
Wednesday, January 10, 2024
5 tips to make your Brightspace site more accessible
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Wednesday, January 10, 2024, 02:00 PM – 02:30 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick,
Lorie Stolarchuk
This short workshop sprint will introduce and demonstrate some key tools and tips for how you can improve the accessibility of your Brightspace course site. The topics will include:
- Content editor
- Accommodations e.g., extra time, or different submit date
- Accessibility checkers
- Captions
- Panorama (available January 2023)
Thursday, January 11, 2024
A practical guide to creating PowerPoint videos
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Thursday, January 11, 2024, 02:00 PM – 02:45 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
Perhaps unsurprisingly, PowerPoint can be an ideal tool to record your PowerPoint presentation, as you can record slide by slide, edit each slide, and even replace the recorded section for individual slides. This short workshop will focus on the basics of creating a video. We will look at what is important for planning your video and review practical tips/suggestions. There will also be a demonstration of how you could use PowerPoint to create multiple videos types, including recording anything on your screen.
Friday, January 12, 2024
Access for all: Tips and tools for your Brightspace course
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Friday, January 12, 2024, 02:00 PM – 04:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick,
Lorie Stolarchuk
This session will explore digital accessibility and some customizations, including pronoun modifications, available within your Brightspace course site. We will cover the built-in features within Brightspace that can be used to enhance or check accessibility. We will also review Panorama, the accessibility audit tool that will be available in Brightspace upon request effective January 2023. This tool assists users by providing alternative formats of a document including .mp3, .txt, voice-to-text, EPUB, braille, high contrast and others. Further, instructors will also be able to view accessibility audit reports on documents they have uploaded to their site. Instructions on how to access Panorama will be given during the workshop.
Monday, January 15, 2024
Read&Write - Free Literacy and Writing Support at UWindsor
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Monday, January 15, 2024, 12:00 PM – 01:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Anthony Gomez,
Mark Lubrick
Did you know that all UWindsor students, faculty, and staff now have free access to a powerful literacy support application?
Read&Write is a suite of software tools designed to assist in the areas of research, studying, and of course, reading and writing.
Whether used in conjunction with Google Chrome or as a standalone application, Read&Write can convert your spoken notes or assignments into text, as well as read your text and .PDFs out loud.
This application is also helpful with Blackboard exams, online journal articles, as well as e-mails and typed assignments.
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Introduction to YuJa
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Wednesday, January 17, 2024, 01:30 PM – 03:30 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Lorie Stolarchuk
The YuJa Enterprise Video Platform is a powerful, robust set of online tools to complement and enhance the campus’ ability to store, stream, create, edit, and embed videos into online systems such as Blackboard course sites or websites. This session will offer an introduction to using YuJa for your teaching and learning. Topics for the workshop include:
- Accessing YuJa
- Uploading and organizing content
- Installing the YuJa Software Capture application
- Creating and editing recordings
- Distributing content, and
- Accessibility and other features included.
Thursday, January 25, 2024
Advanced Options in YuJa
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Thursday, January 25, 2024, 01:30 PM – 03:30 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Lorie Stolarchuk
For instructors or their assistants who have used YuJa to create, distribute and/or edit their videos already, or those who have taken the Introduction to YuJa workshop. Join us to find out how to unleash some of the powerful elements of the YuJa Video Enterprise System. You will need to have at least one video prepared in your YuJa account for this workshop.
Topics include:
Topics include:
- Quizzes – Identifying and creating different types of YuJa quizzes, and question types, exploring settings, and accessing /understanding the Audit Logs
- Usage and Analytics – identifying Video and YuJa Course analytics and accessing the YuJa Gradebook for quiz management
- Content Distribution – Exploring how to embed the quiz into Brightspace and troubleshooting
Thursday, February 1, 2024
H5P Working Group
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Thursday, February 01, 2024, 02:00 PM – 03:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick,
Ashlyne O'Neil
This informal group will meet once a month to explore the H5P tool, and to build H5P interactions together. Supported by OOL team members, meetings will generally start with a brief demonstration of an H5P interaction type and how to create it, followed by time to work on H5P interactions, share our work, and provide constructive feedback with OOL team members there to assist. Offered both in-person and online, participants may choose how to participate, and may join only the meetings they are available for. Teams meeting invites will be sent prior to the day of the meeting, and once you have signed up for one event, you will be added to future Teams invites unless you ask to be removed. Come out and see what we can build together and feel free to bring a friend.
Monday, February 5, 2024
A practical guide to creating PowerPoint videos
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Monday, February 05, 2024, 11:00 AM – 11:45 AM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
Perhaps unsurprisingly, PowerPoint can be an ideal tool to record your PowerPoint presentation, as you can record slide by slide, edit each slide, and even replace the recorded section for individual slides. This short workshop will focus on the basics of creating a video. We will look at what is important for planning your video and review practical tips/suggestions. There will also be a demonstration of how you could use PowerPoint to create multiple videos types, including recording anything on your screen.
Tuesday, February 6, 2024
EquatIO: A free digital math tool for UWindsor
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Tuesday, February 06, 2024, 12:00 PM – 12:45 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
The premium version of EquatIO is free for everyone at UWindsor and is an ideal tool for anyone looking for digital math tools. You can take a picture of written math and convert it to digital, editable equations, or if you prefer, just handwrite in the app itself and it will convert it to digital. The screenshot function will take any math on the web and make it accessible and editable. You can even speak your equations aloud and have them created. Of course, there is also a more traditional equation editor (LaTeX is supported, too) with a prediction feature to finish your equations, chemical symbols, and more. Some additional free features include a scientific calculator, an interactive periodic table, an interactive molecular viewer, a graph creator/editor, and an online space to work with interactive shapes.
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
Using Teams as your virtual classroom
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Wednesday, February 07, 2024, 02:00 PM – 03:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
Do you need to record or stream a class? Do you need to meet with students online (as a group or privately)? The Teams platform can handle this and more. This session will review the features of Teams most useful for facilitating a class, conducting a presentation, or meeting with students. It will also highlight how you can activate a team associated with your course site and the options you have to meet with the students in your class.
Monday, February 12, 2024
Creating free interactive content with H5P
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Monday, February 12, 2024, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
This workshop will introduce you to the H5P tool, which all Ontario educators can use for free. Whether you want to explore those resources that have already been created and openly shared, or create your own, H5P has incredible potential. With H5P you can add quizzes, pop ups, and other interactions to videos, create interactive presentations, provide fillable and downloadable forms, allow audio input, create scenarios where the result depends on the choices you make, create virtual 360 degree tours, and much more.
In this workshop, participants will see how to create an account, find existing resources, and how to create some common popular interaction types. Additionally, they will be shown how to find examples and tutorials for any additional content types they may want to explore.
Wednesday, February 14, 2024
2:00 PM
Access for all: Tips and tools for your Brightspace course
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Wednesday, February 14, 2024, 02:00 PM – 04:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick,
Lorie Stolarchuk
This session will explore digital accessibility and some customizations, including pronoun modifications, available within your Brightspace course site. We will cover the built-in features within Brightspace that can be used to enhance or check accessibility. We will also review Panorama, the accessibility audit tool that will be available in Brightspace upon request effective January 2023. This tool assists users by providing alternative formats of a document including .mp3, .txt, voice-to-text, EPUB, braille, high contrast and others. Further, instructors will also be able to view accessibility audit reports on documents they have uploaded to their site. Instructions on how to access Panorama will be given during the workshop.
3:30 PM
Getting Started with Pressbooks
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Wednesday, February 14, 2024, 03:30 PM – 04:30 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Ashlyne O'Neil
This workshop will provide an introduction to the power and versatility of Pressbooks as an open-publishing authoring tool, and equip you with the tools you need to get started. Pressbooks is a free, user-friendly, and provincially supported system that allows you to create and adapt various forms of content (e.g., online books, learning modules, embedded videos, H5P interactions, etc.) for your courses, workshops, and more.
We will review the following topics: 1) getting your free account; 2) starting a book; 3) behind-the-scenes admin stuff for creators; 4) accessibility considerations; 5) import and export files; and 6) formatting.
Thursday, February 29, 2024
2:00 PM
H5P Working Group
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Thursday, February 29, 2024, 02:00 PM – 03:30 PM
Location:
CEI 1232
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick,
Ashlyne O'Neil
This informal group will meet once a month to explore the H5P tool, and to build H5P interactions together. Supported by OOL team members, meetings will generally start with a brief demonstration of an H5P interaction type and how to create it, followed by time to work on H5P interactions, share our work, and provide constructive feedback with OOL team members there to assist. Offered both in-person and online, participants may choose how to participate, and may join only the meetings they are available for. Teams meeting invites will be sent prior to the day of the meeting, and once you have signed up for one event, you will be added to future Teams invites unless you ask to be removed. Come out and see what we can build together and feel free to bring a friend.
4:00 PM
Getting Started with Pressbooks
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Thursday, February 29, 2024, 04:00 PM – 05:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Ashlyne O'Neil
This workshop will provide an introduction to the power and versatility of Pressbooks as an open-publishing authoring tool, and equip you with the tools you need to get started. Pressbooks is a free, user-friendly, and provincially supported system that allows you to create and adapt various forms of content (e.g., online books, learning modules, embedded videos, H5P interactions, etc.) for your courses, workshops, and more.
We will review the following topics: 1) getting your free account; 2) starting a book; 3) behind-the-scenes admin stuff for creators; 4) accessibility considerations; 5) import and export files; and 6) formatting.
Monday, March 11, 2024
1:00 PM
Inclusive Slide Design
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Monday, March 11, 2024, 01:00 PM – 02:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Ashlyne O'Neil
This workshop will explore principles of and approaches for designing inclusive and accessible presentation slides. We will discuss some of the common slide design programs (e.g., PowerPoint, Google Slides, Canva, and Mentimeter), their accessibility functions, and considerations for slides for live presentations vs. slides for distribution. Whether you are teaching a course, facilitating a workshop, or preparing for your next conference presentation, this session will help you develop slides to engage all learners and attendees.
2:00 PM
EquatIO: A free digital math tool for UWindsor
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Monday, March 11, 2024, 02:00 PM – 02:45 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
The premium version of EquatIO is free for everyone at UWindsor and is an ideal tool for anyone looking for digital math tools. You can take a picture of written math and convert it to digital, editable equations, or if you prefer, just handwrite in the app itself and it will convert it to digital. The screenshot function will take any math on the web and make it accessible and editable. You can even speak your equations aloud and have them created. Of course, there is also a more traditional equation editor (LaTeX is supported, too) with a prediction feature to finish your equations, chemical symbols, and more. Some additional free features include a scientific calculator, an interactive periodic table, an interactive molecular viewer, a graph creator/editor, and an online space to work with interactive shapes.
Tuesday, March 12, 2024
12:00 PM
Using Teams as your virtual classroom
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Tuesday, March 12, 2024, 12:00 PM – 01:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
Do you need to record or stream a class? Do you need to meet with students online (as a group or privately)? The Teams platform can handle this and more. This session will review the features of Teams most useful for facilitating a class, conducting a presentation, or meeting with students. It will also highlight how you can activate a team associated with your course site and the options you have to meet with the students in your class.
3:00 PM
5 tips to make your Brightspace site more accessible
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Tuesday, March 12, 2024, 03:00 PM – 03:30 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick,
Lorie Stolarchuk
This short workshop sprint will introduce and demonstrate some key tools and tips for how you can improve the accessibility of your Brightspace course site. The topics will include:
- Content editor
- Accommodations e.g., extra time, or different submit date
- Accessibility checkers
- Captions
- Panorama (available January 2023)
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
1:30 PM
Introduction to YuJa
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Wednesday, March 13, 2024, 01:30 PM – 03:30 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Lorie Stolarchuk
The YuJa Enterprise Video Platform is a powerful, robust set of online tools to complement and enhance the campus’ ability to store, stream, create, edit, and embed videos into online systems such as Blackboard course sites or websites. This session will offer an introduction to using YuJa for your teaching and learning. Topics for the workshop include:
- Accessing YuJa
- Uploading and organizing content
- Installing the YuJa Software Capture application
- Creating and editing recordings
- Distributing content, and
- Accessibility and other features included.
3:30 PM
A practical guide to creating PowerPoint videos
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Wednesday, March 13, 2024, 03:30 PM – 04:15 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
Perhaps unsurprisingly, PowerPoint can be an ideal tool to record your PowerPoint presentation, as you can record slide by slide, edit each slide, and even replace the recorded section for individual slides. This short workshop will focus on the basics of creating a video. We will look at what is important for planning your video and review practical tips/suggestions. There will also be a demonstration of how you could use PowerPoint to create multiple videos types, including recording anything on your screen.
Friday, March 15, 2024
10:00 AM
Read&Write - Free Literacy and Writing Support at UWindsor
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Friday, March 15, 2024, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Anthony Gomez,
Mark Lubrick
Did you know that all UWindsor students, faculty, and staff now have free access to a powerful literacy support application?
Read&Write is a suite of software tools designed to assist in the areas of research, studying, and of course, reading and writing.
Whether used in conjunction with Google Chrome or as a standalone application, Read&Write can convert your spoken notes or assignments into text, as well as read your text and .PDFs out loud.
This application is also helpful with Blackboard exams, online journal articles, as well as e-mails and typed assignments.
2:00 PM
Creating free interactive content with H5P
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Friday, March 15, 2024, 02:00 PM – 03:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
This workshop will introduce you to the H5P tool, which all Ontario educators can use for free. Whether you want to explore those resources that have already been created and openly shared, or create your own, H5P has incredible potential. With H5P you can add quizzes, pop ups, and other interactions to videos, create interactive presentations, provide fillable and downloadable forms, allow audio input, create scenarios where the result depends on the choices you make, create virtual 360 degree tours, and much more.
In this workshop, participants will see how to create an account, find existing resources, and how to create some common popular interaction types. Additionally, they will be shown how to find examples and tutorials for any additional content types they may want to explore.
Thursday, April 4, 2024
H5P working group
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Thursday, April 04, 2024, 02:00 PM – 03:30 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick,
Ashlyne O'Neil
This informal group will meet once a month to explore the H5P tool, and to build H5P interactions together. Supported by OOL team members, meetings will generally start with a brief demonstration of an H5P interaction type and how to create it, followed by time to work on H5P interactions, share our work, and provide constructive feedback with OOL team members there to assist. Offered both in-person and online, participants may choose how to participate, and may join only the meetings they are available for. Teams meeting invites will be sent prior to the day of the meeting, and once you have signed up for one event, you will be added to future Teams invites unless you ask to be removed. Come out and see what we can build together and feel free to bring a friend.
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Creating free interactive content with H5P
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Tuesday, April 09, 2024, 12:00 PM – 01:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
This workshop will introduce you to the H5P tool, which all Ontario educators can use for free. Whether you want to explore those resources that have already been created and openly shared, or create your own, H5P has incredible potential. With H5P you can add quizzes, pop ups, and other interactions to videos, create interactive presentations, provide fillable and downloadable forms, allow audio input, create scenarios where the result depends on the choices you make, create virtual 360 degree tours, and much more.
In this workshop, participants will see how to create an account, find existing resources, and how to create some common popular interaction types. Additionally, they will be shown how to find examples and tutorials for any additional content types they may want to explore.
Friday, April 12, 2024
5 tips to make your Brightspace site more accessible
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Friday, April 12, 2024, 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick,
Lorie Stolarchuk
This short workshop sprint will introduce and demonstrate some key tools and tips for how you can improve the accessibility of your Brightspace course site. The topics will include:
- Content editor
- Accommodations e.g., extra time, or different submit date
- Accessibility checkers
- Captions
- Panorama (available January 2023)
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Orientation to flexible delivery classrooms
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Tuesday, April 23, 2024, 03:00 PM – 04:30 PM
Location:
Toldo 104
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
Have you heard about the flexible delivery classrooms we have on campus? These rooms are ideal for instructors who wish to engage with students in person and online at the same time. The equipment enables you to seamlessly change between feeds such as your personal device, document camera, podium, and in-room camera, all while sending these feeds to the projector and online students.
This session will be held onsite in one of these classrooms. We will be trying to model what you can do in this space with a flexible class design (both physically and virtually). You will be able to experience the live class and the online class (through the virtual chat). Please bring an electronic device with you to fully participate. Part of the class will be discussing flexible design principles and conditions at UWindsor and the other part will be a hands-on opportunity to test out the equipment.
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Inclusive Slide Design
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Thursday, April 25, 2024, 02:00 PM – 03:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Ashlyne O'Neil
This workshop will explore principles of and approaches for designing inclusive and accessible presentation slides. We will discuss some of the common slide design programs (e.g., PowerPoint, Google Slides, Canva, and Mentimeter), their accessibility functions, and considerations for slides for live presentations vs. slides for distribution. Whether you are teaching a course, facilitating a workshop, or preparing for your next conference presentation, this session will help you develop slides to engage all learners and attendees.
Monday, May 6, 2024
Using Teams as your virtual classroom
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Monday, May 06, 2024, 03:30 PM – 04:30 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
Do you need to record or stream a class? Do you need to meet with students online (as a group or privately)? The Teams platform can handle this and more. This session will review the features of Teams most useful for facilitating a class, conducting a presentation, or meeting with students. It will also highlight how you can activate a team associated with your course site and the options you have to meet with the students in your class.
Tuesday, May 7, 2024
9:00 AM
EquatIO: A free digital math tool for UWindsor
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Tuesday, May 07, 2024, 09:00 AM – 09:45 AM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
The premium version of EquatIO is free for everyone at UWindsor and is an ideal tool for anyone looking for digital math tools. You can take a picture of written math and convert it to digital, editable equations, or if you prefer, just handwrite in the app itself and it will convert it to digital. The screenshot function will take any math on the web and make it accessible and editable. You can even speak your equations aloud and have them created. Of course, there is also a more traditional equation editor (LaTeX is supported, too) with a prediction feature to finish your equations, chemical symbols, and more. Some additional free features include a scientific calculator, an interactive periodic table, an interactive molecular viewer, a graph creator/editor, and an online space to work with interactive shapes.
12:00 PM
Orientation to flexible delivery classrooms
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Tuesday, May 07, 2024, 12:00 PM – 01:30 PM
Location:
Toldo Room 204
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
Have you heard about the flexible delivery classrooms we have on campus? These rooms are ideal for instructors who wish to engage with students in person and online at the same time. The equipment enables you to seamlessly change between feeds such as your personal device, document camera, podium, and in-room camera, all while sending these feeds to the projector and online students.
This session will be held onsite in one of these classrooms. We will be trying to model what you can do in this space with a flexible class design (both physically and virtually). You will be able to experience the live class and the online class (through the virtual chat). Please bring an electronic device with you to fully participate. Part of the class will be discussing flexible design principles and conditions at UWindsor and the other part will be a hands-on opportunity to test out the equipment.
Wednesday, May 8, 2024
A practical guide to creating PowerPoint videos
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Wednesday, May 08, 2024, 02:00 PM – 02:45 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
Perhaps unsurprisingly, PowerPoint can be an ideal tool to record your PowerPoint presentation, as you can record slide by slide, edit each slide, and even replace the recorded section for individual slides. This short workshop will focus on the basics of creating a video. We will look at what is important for planning your video and review practical tips/suggestions. There will also be a demonstration of how you could use PowerPoint to create multiple videos types, including recording anything on your screen.
Thursday, May 9, 2024
Read&Write - Free Literacy and Writing Support at UWindsor
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Thursday, May 09, 2024, 03:30 PM – 04:30 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Anthony Gomez,
Mark Lubrick
Did you know that all UWindsor students, faculty, and staff now have free access to a powerful literacy support application?
Read&Write is a suite of software tools designed to assist in the areas of research, studying, and of course, reading and writing.
Whether used in conjunction with Google Chrome or as a standalone application, Read&Write can convert your spoken notes or assignments into text, as well as read your text and .PDFs out loud.
This application is also helpful with Blackboard exams, online journal articles, as well as e-mails and typed assignments.
Friday, May 10, 2024
Creating free interactive content with H5P
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Friday, May 10, 2024, 02:30 PM – 03:30 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
This workshop will introduce you to the H5P tool, which all Ontario educators can use for free. Whether you want to explore those resources that have already been created and openly shared, or create your own, H5P has incredible potential. With H5P you can add quizzes, pop ups, and other interactions to videos, create interactive presentations, provide fillable and downloadable forms, allow audio input, create scenarios where the result depends on the choices you make, create virtual 360 degree tours, and much more.
In this workshop, participants will see how to create an account, find existing resources, and how to create some common popular interaction types. Additionally, they will be shown how to find examples and tutorials for any additional content types they may want to explore.
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Introduction to YuJa
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Wednesday, May 15, 2024, 01:30 PM – 03:30 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Lorie Stolarchuk
The YuJa Enterprise Video Platform is a powerful, robust set of online tools to complement and enhance the campus’ ability to store, stream, create, edit, and embed videos into online systems such as Brightspace course sites or websites. This session will offer an introduction to using YuJa for your teaching and learning. Topics for the workshop include:
- Accessing YuJa
- Uploading and organizing content
- Installing the YuJa Software Capture application
- Creating and editing recordings
- Distributing content, and
- Accessibility and other features included.
Thursday, May 16, 2024
Getting Started with Pressbooks
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Thursday, May 16, 2024, 01:00 PM – 02:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Ashlyne O'Neil
This workshop will provide an introduction to the power and versatility of Pressbooks as an open-publishing authoring tool, and equip you with the tools you need to get started. Pressbooks is a free, user-friendly, and provincially supported system that allows you to create and adapt various forms of content (e.g., online books, learning modules, embedded videos, H5P interactions, etc.) for your courses, workshops, and more. We will review the following topics: 1) getting your free account; 2) starting a book; 3) behind-the-scenes admin stuff for creators; 4) accessibility considerations; 5) import and export files; and 6) formatting.
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
Introduction to YuJa
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Wednesday, June 05, 2024, 01:30 PM – 03:30 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Lorie Stolarchuk
The YuJa Enterprise Video Platform is a powerful, robust set of online tools to complement and enhance the campus’ ability to store, stream, create, edit, and embed videos into online systems such as Brightspace course sites or websites. This session will offer an introduction to using YuJa for your teaching and learning. Topics for the workshop include:
- Accessing YuJa
- Uploading and organizing content
- Installing the YuJa Software Capture application
- Creating and editing recordings
- Distributing content, and
- Accessibility and other features included.
Thursday, June 20, 2024
Inclusive Slide Design
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Thursday, June 20, 2024, 01:00 PM – 02:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Ashlyne O'Neil
This workshop will explore principles of and approaches for designing inclusive and accessible presentation slides. We will discuss some of the common slide design programs (e.g., PowerPoint, Google Slides, Canva, and Mentimeter), their accessibility functions, and considerations for slides for live presentations vs. slides for distribution. Whether you are teaching a course, facilitating a workshop, or preparing for your next conference presentation, this session will help you develop slides to engage all learners and attendees.
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
Getting Started with Pressbooks
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Tuesday, June 25, 2024, 02:00 PM – 03:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Ashlyne O'Neil
This workshop will provide an introduction to the power and versatility of Pressbooks as an open-publishing authoring tool, and equip you with the tools you need to get started. Pressbooks is a free, user-friendly, and provincially supported system that allows you to create and adapt various forms of content (e.g., online books, learning modules, embedded videos, H5P interactions, etc.) for your courses, workshops, and more.
We will review the following topics: 1) getting your free account; 2) starting a book; 3) behind-the-scenes admin stuff for creators; 4) accessibility considerations; 5) import and export files; and 6) formatting.
We will review the following topics: 1) getting your free account; 2) starting a book; 3) behind-the-scenes admin stuff for creators; 4) accessibility considerations; 5) import and export files; and 6) formatting.
Monday, July 8, 2024
Creating free interactive content with H5P
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Monday, July 08, 2024, 12:00 PM – 01:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
This workshop will introduce you to the H5P tool, which all Ontario educators can use for free. Whether you want to explore those resources that have already been created and openly shared, or create your own, H5P has incredible potential. With H5P you can add quizzes, pop ups, and other interactions to videos, create interactive presentations, provide fillable and downloadable forms, allow audio input, create scenarios where the result depends on the choices you make, create virtual 360 degree tours, and much more.
In this workshop, participants will see how to create an account, find existing resources, and how to create some common popular interaction types. Additionally, they will be shown how to find examples and tutorials for any additional content types they may want to explore.
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
EquatIO: A free digital math tool for UWindsor
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Wednesday, July 10, 2024, 03:00 PM – 03:45 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
The premium version of EquatIO is free for everyone at UWindsor and is an ideal tool for anyone looking for digital math tools. You can take a picture of written math and convert it to digital, editable equations, or if you prefer, just handwrite in the app itself and it will convert it to digital. The screenshot function will take any math on the web and make it accessible and editable. You can even speak your equations aloud and have them created. Of course, there is also a more traditional equation editor (LaTeX is supported, too) with a prediction feature to finish your equations, chemical symbols, and more. Some additional free features include a scientific calculator, an interactive periodic table, an interactive molecular viewer, a graph creator/editor, and an online space to work with interactive shapes.
Thursday, July 11, 2024
Using Teams as your virtual classroom
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Thursday, July 11, 2024, 01:00 PM – 02:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
Do you need to record or stream a class? Do you need to meet with students online (as a group or privately)? The Teams platform can handle this and more. This session will review the features of Teams most useful for facilitating a class, conducting a presentation, or meeting with students. It will also highlight how you can activate a team associated with your course site and the options you have to meet with the students in your class.
Friday, July 12, 2024
Read&Write - Free Literacy and Writing Support at UWindsor
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Friday, July 12, 2024, 02:00 PM – 03:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Anthony Gomez,
Mark Lubrick
Did you know that all UWindsor students, faculty, and staff now have free access to a powerful literacy support application?
Read&Write is a suite of software tools designed to assist in the areas of research, studying, and of course, reading and writing.
Whether used in conjunction with Google Chrome or as a standalone application, Read&Write can convert your spoken notes or assignments into text, as well as read your text and .PDFs out loud.
This application is also helpful with Blackboard exams, online journal articles, as well as e-mails and typed assignments.
Thursday, July 25, 2024
Recording, editing, and storing your videos with YuJa- Watch and click along
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Thursday, July 25, 2024, 02:00 PM – 03:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
Whether you need to record your screen, multiple screens, your webcam, or all of these at once, this workshop will teach you how. We will also review how to edit these videos including cutting any unwanted parts, overlaying other material (images, text, etc.) on top of your video, or even splitting/combining videos. The other key focus of this workshop is how you can share your videos with others by embedding them in Brightspace, other sites, or controlling who can access direct links. We will also look at how YuJa can automatically caption your videos and how you can edit the captions.
This session type is fast paced where I will demonstrate how to do things without a break for you to try them.
Monday, July 29, 2024
Adding gradable quizzes to your videos- Watch and click along
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Monday, July 29, 2024, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
Did you know you can add quizzes on top of your videos for students to complete? These can even be gradable with the grades sent to your Brightspace course. There are a mix of question types including auto-graded ones and short answer questions you would grade yourself. You can also create a quiz that grades people based on the amount of the video they have watched. In this workshop we will teach you how to create these quizzes, embed them in Brightspace or otherwise distribute them, and access the grades.
This session type is fast paced where I will demonstrate how to do things without a break for you to try them.
Thursday, August 15, 2024
Recording, editing, and storing your videos with YuJa- Watch and then try yourself
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Thursday, August 15, 2024, 02:00 PM – 04:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
Whether you need to record your screen, multiple screens, your webcam, or all of these at once, this workshop will teach you how. We will also review how to edit these videos including cutting any unwanted parts, overlaying other material (images, text, etc.) on top of your video, or even splitting/combining videos. The other key focus of this workshop is how you can share your videos with others by embedding them in Brightspace, other sites, or controlling who can access direct links. We will also look at how YuJa can automatically caption your videos and how you can edit the captions.
This session type is meant to be slower paced. I will show you how to do things and then there will be opportunities for you to try yourself while I can help.
Monday, August 19, 2024
Adding gradable quizzes to your videos- Watch and then try yourself
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Monday, August 19, 2024, 11:00 AM – 01:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
Did you know you can add quizzes on top of your videos for students to complete? These can even be gradable with the grades sent to your Brightspace course. There are a mix of question types including auto-graded ones and short answer questions you would grade yourself. You can also create a quiz that grades people based on the amount of the video they have watched. In this workshop we will teach you how to create these quizzes, embed them in Brightspace or otherwise distribute them, and access the grades.
This session type is meant to be slower paced. I will show you how to do things and then there will be opportunities for you to try yourself while I can help.
Tuesday, September 3, 2024
12:00 PM
Orientation to flexible delivery classrooms
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Tuesday, September 03, 2024, 12:00 PM – 01:30 PM
Location:
Toldo Room 204
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
Have you heard about the flexible delivery classrooms we have on campus? These rooms are ideal for instructors who wish to engage with students in person and online at the same time. The equipment enables you to seamlessly change between feeds such as your personal device, document camera, podium, and in-room camera, all while sending these feeds to the projector and online students.
This session will be held onsite in one of these classrooms. We will be trying to model what you can do in this space with a flexible class design (both physically and virtually). You will be able to experience the live class and the online class (through the virtual chat). Please bring an electronic device with you to fully participate. Part of the class will be discussing flexible design principles and conditions at UWindsor and the other part will be a hands-on opportunity to test out the equipment.
3:00 PM
Using Teams as your virtual classroom
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Tuesday, September 03, 2024, 03:00 PM – 04:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
Do you need to record or stream a class? Do you need to meet with students online (as a group or privately)? The Teams platform can handle this and more. This session will review the features of Teams most useful for facilitating a class, conducting a presentation, or meeting with students. It will also highlight how you can activate a team associated with your course site and the options you have to meet with the students in your class.
Thursday, September 5, 2024
A practical guide to creating PowerPoint videos
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Thursday, September 05, 2024, 12:00 PM – 12:45 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
Perhaps unsurprisingly, PowerPoint can be an ideal tool to record your PowerPoint presentation, as you can record slide by slide, edit each slide, and even replace the recorded section for individual slides. This short workshop will focus on the basics of creating a video. We will look at what is important for planning your video and review practical tips/suggestions. There will also be a demonstration of how you could use PowerPoint to create multiple videos types, including recording anything on your screen.
Friday, September 6, 2024
Recording, editing, and storing your videos with YuJa- Watch and then try yourself
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Friday, September 06, 2024, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
Whether you need to record your screen, multiple screens, your webcam, or all of these at once, this workshop will teach you how. We will also review how to edit these videos including cutting any unwanted parts, overlaying other material (images, text, etc.) on top of your video, or even splitting/combining videos. The other key focus of this workshop is how you can share your videos with others by embedding them in Brightspace, other sites, or controlling who can access direct links. We will also look at how YuJa can automatically caption your videos and how you can edit the captions.
This session type is meant to be slower paced. I will show you how to do things and then there will be opportunities for you to try yourself while I can help.
Monday, September 9, 2024
Adding gradable quizzes to your videos- Watch and then try yourself
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Monday, September 09, 2024, 11:00 AM – 01:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
Did you know you can add quizzes on top of your videos for students to complete? These can even be gradable with the grades sent to your Brightspace course. There are a mix of question types including auto-graded ones and short answer questions you would grade yourself. You can also create a quiz that grades people based on the amount of the video they have watched. In this workshop we will teach you how to create these quizzes, embed them in Brightspace or otherwise distribute them, and access the grades.
This session type is meant to be slower paced. I will show you how to do things and then there will be opportunities for you to try yourself while I can help.
Wednesday, September 11, 2024
Recording, editing, and storing your videos with YuJa- Watch and click along
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Wednesday, September 11, 2024, 02:00 PM – 03:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
Whether you need to record your screen, multiple screens, your webcam, or all of these at once, this workshop will teach you how. We will also review how to edit these videos including cutting any unwanted parts, overlaying other material (images, text, etc.) on top of your video, or even splitting/combining videos. The other key focus of this workshop is how you can share your videos with others by embedding them in Brightspace, other sites, or controlling who can access direct links. We will also look at how YuJa can automatically caption your videos and how you can edit the captions.
This session type is fast paced where I will demonstrate how to do things without a break for you to try them.
Thursday, September 12, 2024
12:00 PM
Ensuring Accessibility in Brightspace
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Thursday, September 12, 2024, 12:00 PM – 01:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Anna Galka,
Mark Lubrick
Create an equitable learning environment and support the diverse needs of your students by ensuring your course materials are accessible by all students.
In this workshop you will learn how to use Brightspace's built-in accessibility features and other tools that are designed to help make your Brightspace course site accessible.
This workshop is offered in collaboration with the Centre for Teaching and Learning
2:00 PM
Adding gradable quizzes to your videos- Watch and click along
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Thursday, September 12, 2024, 02:00 PM – 03:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
Did you know you can add quizzes on top of your videos for students to complete? These can even be gradable with the grades sent to your Brightspace course. There are a mix of question types including auto-graded ones and short answer questions you would grade yourself. You can also create a quiz that grades people based on the amount of the video they have watched. In this workshop we will teach you how to create these quizzes, embed them in Brightspace or otherwise distribute them, and access the grades.
This session type is fast paced where I will demonstrate how to do things without a break for you to try them.
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
H5P working group
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Wednesday, October 02, 2024, 02:00 PM – 03:00 PM
Location:
CEI 1232
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick,
Ashlyne O'Neil
This informal group will meet to explore the H5P tool, and to build H5P interactions together. Supported by OOL team members, meetings will generally start with a brief demonstration of an H5P interaction type and how to create it, followed by time to work on H5P interactions, share our work, and provide constructive feedback with OOL team members there to assist. Offered both in-person and online, participants may choose how to participate, and may join only the meetings they are available for. Teams meeting invites will be sent prior to the day of the meeting, and once you have signed up for one event, you will be added to future Teams invites unless you ask to be removed. Come out and see what we can build together and feel free to bring a friend.
Thursday, October 10, 2024
Recording, editing, and storing your videos with YuJa- Watch and click along
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Thursday, October 10, 2024, 03:00 PM – 04:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
Whether you need to record your screen, multiple screens, your webcam, or all of these at once, this workshop will teach you how. We will also review how to edit these videos including cutting any unwanted parts, overlaying other material (images, text, etc.) on top of your video, or even splitting/combining videos. The other key focus of this workshop is how you can share your videos with others by embedding them in Brightspace, other sites, or controlling who can access direct links. We will also look at how YuJa can automatically caption your videos and how you can edit the captions.
This session type is fast paced where I will demonstrate how to do things without a break for you to try them.
Friday, October 11, 2024
Adding gradable quizzes to your videos- Watch and click along
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Friday, October 11, 2024, 10:00 AM – 10:45 AM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
Did you know you can add quizzes on top of your videos for students to complete? These can even be gradable with the grades sent to your Brightspace course. There are a mix of question types including auto-graded ones and short answer questions you would grade yourself. You can also create a quiz that grades people based on the amount of the video they have watched. In this workshop we will teach you how to create these quizzes, embed them in Brightspace or otherwise distribute them, and access the grades.
This session type is fast paced where I will demonstrate how to do things without a break for you to try them.
Friday, October 18, 2024
Recording, editing, and storing your videos with YuJa- Watch and then try yourself
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Friday, October 18, 2024, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
Whether you need to record your screen, multiple screens, your webcam, or all of these at once, this workshop will teach you how. We will also review how to edit these videos including cutting any unwanted parts, overlaying other material (images, text, etc.) on top of your video, or even splitting/combining videos. The other key focus of this workshop is how you can share your videos with others by embedding them in Brightspace, other sites, or controlling who can access direct links. We will also look at how YuJa can automatically caption your videos and how you can edit the captions.
This session type is meant to be slower paced. I will show you how to do things and then there will be opportunities for you to try yourself while I can help.
Monday, October 21, 2024
Creating free interactive content with H5P
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Monday, October 21, 2024, 12:00 PM – 01:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
This workshop will introduce you to the H5P tool, which all Ontario educators can use for free. Whether you want to explore those resources that have already been created and openly shared, or create your own, H5P has incredible potential. With H5P you can add quizzes, pop ups, and other interactions to videos, create interactive presentations, provide fillable and downloadable forms, allow audio input, create scenarios where the result depends on the choices you make, create virtual 360 degree tours, and much more.
In this workshop, participants will see how to create an account, find existing resources, and how to create some common popular interaction types. Additionally, they will be shown how to find examples and tutorials for any additional content types they may want to explore.
Tuesday, October 22, 2024
Adding gradable quizzes to your videos- Watch and then try yourself
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Tuesday, October 22, 2024, 01:00 PM – 02:30 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
Did you know you can add quizzes on top of your videos for students to complete? These can even be gradable with the grades sent to your Brightspace course. There are a mix of question types including auto-graded ones and short answer questions you would grade yourself. You can also create a quiz that grades people based on the amount of the video they have watched. In this workshop we will teach you how to create these quizzes, embed them in Brightspace or otherwise distribute them, and access the grades.
This session type is meant to be slower paced. I will show you how to do things and then there will be opportunities for you to try yourself while I can help.
Wednesday, October 23, 2024
A practical guide to creating PowerPoint videos
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Wednesday, October 23, 2024, 01:30 PM – 02:15 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
Perhaps unsurprisingly, PowerPoint can be an ideal tool to record your PowerPoint presentation, as you can record slide by slide, edit each slide, and even replace the recorded section for individual slides. This short workshop will focus on the basics of creating a video. We will look at what is important for planning your video and review practical tips/suggestions. There will also be a demonstration of how you could use PowerPoint to create multiple videos types, including recording anything on your screen.
Thursday, October 24, 2024
Using Teams as your virtual classroom
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Thursday, October 24, 2024, 12:00 PM – 01:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
Do you need to record or stream a class? Do you need to meet with students online (as a group or privately)? The Teams platform can handle this and more. This session will review the features of Teams most useful for facilitating a class, conducting a presentation, or meeting with students. It will also highlight how you can activate a team associated with your course site and the options you have to meet with the students in your class.
Thursday, November 14, 2024
1:00 PM
Introduction to the Panorama Digital Accessibility Tool for Instructors
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Thursday, November 14, 2024, 01:00 PM – 01:45 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
Panorama is a tool that assists instructors and students with creating a more accessible learning environment within Brightspace. Panorama will review files for instructors, provide reports, and assist with fixing common accessibility issues. Students will have access to alternate formats that might support their needs better. Panorama even allows users to customize how their Brightspace page will look for them.,
This workshop will show participants how to use the various features of Panorama to enhance accessibility as they navigate Brightspace sites. This session is aimed at instructors and will explore features not available to students. Students should consider signing up for the student focused version.
This workshop will show participants how to use the various features of Panorama to enhance accessibility as they navigate Brightspace sites. This session is aimed at instructors and will explore features not available to students. Students should consider signing up for the student focused version.
3:00 PM
How students can use the Panorama Digital Accessibility Tool
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Thursday, November 14, 2024, 03:00 PM – 03:15 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
Panorama is a tool that can help meet the accessibility needs of students within Brightspace. Panorama can be used to create alternate formats of documents available on course sites, including audio podcasts, braille versions, EPUB, and even language translations. Panorama also has an accessibility widget that allows users to customize how Brightspace looks for them, allowing you to change font size/colour, colour contrast, and much more.
This workshop will demonstrate how students can use the features of Panorama to improve accessibility within their Brightspace sites. This session is aimed at students and will not demonstrate features only available to instructors. Instructors should consider signing up for the instructor focused version.
Tuesday, November 26, 2024
How students can use the Panorama Digital Accessibility Tool
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Tuesday, November 26, 2024, 09:00 AM – 09:15 AM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
Panorama is a tool that can help meet the accessibility needs of students within Brightspace. Panorama can be used to create alternate formats of documents available on course sites, including audio podcasts, braille versions, EPUB, and even language translations. Panorama also has an accessibility widget that allows users to customize how Brightspace looks for them, allowing you to change font size/colour, colour contrast, and much more.
This workshop will demonstrate how students can use the features of Panorama to improve accessibility within their Brightspace sites. This session is aimed at students and will not demonstrate features only available to instructors. Instructors should consider signing up for the instructor focused version.
Friday, November 29, 2024
Introduction to the Panorama Digital Accessibility Tool for Instructors
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Friday, November 29, 2024, 10:00 AM – 10:45 AM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
Panorama is a tool that assists instructors and students with creating a more accessible learning environment within Brightspace. Panorama will review files for instructors, provide reports, and assist with fixing common accessibility issues. Students will have access to alternate formats that might support their needs better. Panorama even allows users to customize how their Brightspace page will look for them.,
This workshop will show participants how to use the various features of Panorama to enhance accessibility as they navigate Brightspace sites. This session is aimed at instructors and will explore features not available to students. Students should consider signing up for the student focused version.
This workshop will show participants how to use the various features of Panorama to enhance accessibility as they navigate Brightspace sites. This session is aimed at instructors and will explore features not available to students. Students should consider signing up for the student focused version.
Wednesday, December 4, 2024
Recording, editing, and storing your videos with YuJa- Watch and then try yourself
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Wednesday, December 04, 2024, 02:00 PM – 04:00 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
Whether you need to record your screen, multiple screens, your webcam, or all of these at once, this workshop will teach you how. We will also review how to edit these videos including cutting any unwanted parts, overlaying other material (images, text, etc.) on top of your video, or even splitting/combining videos. The other key focus of this workshop is how you can share your videos with others by embedding them in Brightspace, other sites, or controlling who can access direct links. We will also look at how YuJa can automatically caption your videos and how you can edit the captions.
This session type is meant to be slower paced. I will show you how to do things and then there will be opportunities for you to try yourself while I can help.
Monday, December 9, 2024
12:30 PM
Ensuring Accessibility in Brightspace
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Monday, December 09, 2024, 12:30 PM – 01:30 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Anna Galka,
Mark Lubrick
Create an equitable learning environment and support the diverse needs of your students by ensuring your course materials are accessible by all students.
In this workshop you will learn how to use Brightspace's built-in accessibility features and other tools that are designed to help make your Brightspace course site accessible.
This workshop is offered in collaboration with the Centre for Teaching and Learning
3:00 PM
A practical guide to creating PowerPoint videos
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Monday, December 09, 2024, 03:00 PM – 03:45 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
Perhaps unsurprisingly, PowerPoint can be an ideal tool to record your PowerPoint presentation, as you can record slide by slide, edit each slide, and even replace the recorded section for individual slides. This short workshop will focus on the basics of creating a video. We will look at what is important for planning your video and review practical tips/suggestions. There will also be a demonstration of how you could use PowerPoint to create multiple videos types, including recording anything on your screen.
Tuesday, December 10, 2024
Adding gradable quizzes to your videos- Watch and then try yourself
Registration for this event is now closed.
Schedule:
Tuesday, December 10, 2024, 12:00 PM – 01:30 PM
Location:
Online, Microsoft Teams
Instructors:
Mark Lubrick
Did you know you can add quizzes on top of your videos for students to complete? These can even be gradable with the grades sent to your Brightspace course. There are a mix of question types including auto-graded ones and short answer questions you would grade yourself. You can also create a quiz that grades people based on the amount of the video they have watched. In this workshop we will teach you how to create these quizzes, embed them in Brightspace or otherwise distribute them, and access the grades.
This session type is meant to be slower paced. I will show you how to do things and then there will be opportunities for you to try yourself while I can help.