This webinar will explore strategies and questions around navigating challenging moments that can emerge in the classroom. Often referred to as H-O-T moments (heated, offensive or tense), these can range from controversial topics to disruptive behaviours. This session is designed to help instructors feel more prepared when these arise in classroom, and will cover: 1. How to notice tension, conflict, and charged discussions 2. Examples of H-O-T moments 3. Understanding the impact of these moments on students and learning Strategies to address these moments

This workshop is open to all. Graduate students: please register through GradProSkills. Everyone else can register on this page. Would you like to be able to keep a permanent copy of something that's online? Whether it's your thesis project website, source material for your research, or your favourite cat video, online content is at high risk of disappearing. This workshop will show you how to preserve web content using free and open-source tools. This is an introductory-level workshop and no prior knowledge or technical skills are needed. Learning Objectives: You will have the opportunity to learn how to - capture different types of web content using free and open-source tools - replay and share your web archive - identify potential ethical issues in making your web archive available

Plagiarism at the undergraduate level is a serious academic offense! The university and your professors do not take it lightly even if you plagiarize inadvertently.

Math Beyond the Numbers: An EDI Panel Discussion aims to showcase the significance of equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) in STEM fields, with a particular focus on mathematics and statistics. Join this free event featuring performances, important discussions, art, and door prizes!

The entrepreneurial skill of interviews – both formal and informal – is key to many aspects of both start-up and professional life. By learning how to ask questions and truly listen for answers, you will learn how to extract powerful insights that can propel your ideas forward and bring them to life.

This workshop offers an open and interactive space for student participants to explore what it means to foster a culture of inclusivity in a variety of educational settings and more broadly, within our communities.

This short workshop will help you to balance and prioritize your time and get organized for the midterm mania! 

Concordia is committed to the inclusion and participation of students with disabilities.

For grad students only. This workshop aims to ensure that participants do not miss out on the little-known research tools and tricks which can be indispensable for effective graduate level research at Concordia in all subject areas. We will cover essentials such as: 1. Pinpointing the best spots on the library web site for graduate students 2. Discovering services, resources and perks reserved for grad students only 3. Knowing when and how to seek in-depth assistance from Concordia subject specialists 4. Using specialized and subject-specific resources 5. Optimizing access to Concordia resources from on and off campus 6. Efficiently accessing material within and beyond Concordia Participant questions and input will be invited throughout the session. Learning objectives By the end of the workshop, participants will be able to: 1. Fully grasp the breadth and depth of resources and services available for graduate research at Concordia 2. Understand when and how to access material outside of Concordia 3. Understand how to make use of Concordia Library privileges from on and off campus

You will work on many different projects throughout your studies and career, and it is important to learn project management basics to get organized and work as a team.

Ground and centre yourself through a lunchtime mindfulness practice.

Learn how to create an impactful résumé and compelling cover letter in this comprehensive workshop and find out how to strategically showcase your skills, achievements, and experience to stand out.

So you want to model things in 3D, but you’re unfamiliar with how to do it or the software you’re using doesn’t give you the fine control you need? Come to our workshop. For this session, we are going to focus on building practical structures for lab environments. OpenSCAD is free, open-source software for detailed, programmatically defined, primitive based rendering software. If that sounds complicated, you will be pleasantly surprised at how easy and intuitive the software is once you get started. No programming experience required (although it doesn't hurt). Computer and software are provided, but to walk away even better prepared, feel free to bring your own laptop and have OpenSCAD installed on your computer before the session. This workshop is open to all.

This presentation will provide staff and faculty with an understanding of visible and invisible disabilities on campus. The common symptoms and characteristics associated with the most prevalent mental health conditions will also be reviewed, as well as how these conditions appear in classrooms, offices, meeting rooms, and on campus. Strategies for barrier reduction will be addressed.

Discussing the role of generative AI in the university classroom

Faculty members can learn how to design a new real-world project-based student experience for an upcoming course.

Have a hard time understanding and remembering your readings? This workshop will teach you how to select the most important information in a reading and look at ways to effectively review and apply what you’ve learned. We will be reviewing strategies for both hardcopy and digital textbooks.

We will cover features such as pivot tables, building and maintaining budgets, advanced formulas, and data management techniques.  You’ll be given a template to practice using pivot tables, a budget, and managing data while following along with the facilitator. Sophia is excited to answer all your questions!

In this hands-on workshop, you will have the opportunity to practice masterful communication through prepared speeches and presentations, improvisational speaking, and storytelling in a fun and supportive environment.

Set yourself up for career success!

This session will introduce some practical strategies for making grading more consistent and transparent. The session will also present what effective feedback looks like and discuss common questions like: How many As should I give? How much time should I spend grading each assignment? How much feedback should I give to each student?...and more.

This workshop offers university faculty an opportunity to explore and familiarize themselves with the latest features in Moodle 4.1. Participants will learn about the tools and features that Moodle 4.1 offers, aiming to enhance their teaching and streamline administrative tasks. Through this interactive session, faculty members will learn how to leverage the new features to create engaging courses, facilitate student collaboration, personalize learning experiences, and efficiently manage their courses. By the end of the workshop, participants will be prepared to begin utilizing the advanced capabilities of Moodle 4.1.

This is the registration form for the Anti-Racism Workshop Series, a two-part training program. The first session is theory based and designed to encourage reflection upon contemporary concepts and issues around race as well as racism history. We also pay particular attention to the manifestations and maintenance of racism in the workplace. The second part involves an applied approach, designed to promote, and implement anti-racism best practices through scenarios.

Would you like to train your brain to pay attention more effectively? Then this is the workshop for you. Learn how to become aware of your attention.

For graduate students only. OpenRefine is a powerful, free tool that simplifies working with messy data. During this workshop, attendees will learn how OpenRefine can be used to clean and normalize data sets, reorder columns, filter data, and transform data sets into different file types.

Stretch your creative problem-solving muscles in our newly launched design challenge, a low-stakes, high impact workshop. This 3 hour event centers on a challenge that impacts students’ daily lives and how to use design thinking to generate solutions and shape our future.  

Getting enough restful sleep is one of the best ways to improve your learning and your grades.

The theoretical foundations of statistical science distinguish the subject from the many fields of research in which statistical thinking is a key intellectual component. In this talk I will emphasize the ongoing importance and relevance of theoretical advances and theoretical thinking through some illustrative examples from the scientific literature. Friday, October 13, 2023 at 3pm in LB 646 Followed by a reception in LB 921-04 SGW Campus, Concordia University

Each month, we will engage with an article on student (dis)engagement in higher education and adaptive strategies. All Concordia teaching staff (including teaching assistants) and other staff by special request — regardless of whether you had time to read the full article. We’ll start with small group discussions each session and then collectively develop a practical knowledge base. Subtopics may include whole-person education, relational learning, flexible pedagogy, or student participation.

This is the registration form for the Anti-Racism Workshop Series, a two-part training program. The first session is theory based and designed to encourage reflection upon contemporary concepts and issues around race as well as racism history. We also pay particular attention to the manifestations and maintenance of racism in the workplace. The second part involves an applied approach, designed to promote, and implement anti-racism best practices through scenarios.

In this interactive workshop, you’ll learn the basics so you can take your next steps with greater knowledge and tools.  

Join our 4-part workshop to look at spiritual roots of North American environmentalism, and take time to reflect on our care for the planet.

Discover new ways to improve student study skills and learner engagement. In this book club, we will read and discuss Saundra Yancy McGuire’s highly acclaimed book, Teaching Students How to Learn: Strategies you can incorporate into any course to improve student metacognition, study skills and motivation. Faculty will receive a physical copy of the book and should plan their time to read two short, selected chapters each month.

A Raspberry Pi is a very small and inexpensive computer, but what can you do with it? There are so many possibilities; we are going to start by building a device for your cat (or dog, or goldfish) to send you selfies. Ideally, this will inspire you to put this tiny, inexpensive computer to work in both practical and fun ways. This is a fun workshop for getting starting with a Raspberry Pi. No pet ownership is actually required, we will connect a motion detector and a camera to a Raspberry Pi computer and use a short Python script. No electronics or programming knowledge required, all are welcome.

This session offers an open and interactive space for student-facing professionals to explore what it means to foster a culture of inclusivity in a variety of educational settings and service delivery contexts. Join us as we explore ways to build equity into our daily work and practice.

Ground and centre yourself through a lunchtime mindfulness practice.

By attending this workshop, you will benefit from strengthening your understanding related to Concordia’s expectations for academic integrity and original work.

This workshop will help you tell your story and build an effective elevator pitch that captures the listener's attention and leaves them curious to know more about you and your idea.

A quick and simple introduction to the Linux operating system. This workshop is for beginners with little to no experience working with this free and open-source OS. Learning Objectives In this hands on session participants will get an overview of different Linux distros (versions), install a Linux system on their existing system (using a VM) and learn the basics of working with the linux operating system (file structure, command line).

Through interactive examples and hands-on Python exercises, we'll demystify some basic coding concepts and unveil its real-world applications.

Exciting things are happening at Loyola!

Ground and centre yourself through a lunchtime mindfulness practice.

This workshop begins with a quick look at how popular AI tools like ChatGPT work. After that, you will have the chance to experiment with AI tools and explore prompt-writing strategies.

The purpose of this interest group is to support faculty in applying or improving their application of contemplative practices in their classroom to promote well-being and a compassionate classroom, to further course goals, and to support learning. We will be meeting regularly for discussion, exploration and guided practice to get first-hand experience with different practices; experimenting to receive peer feedback; inviting members to lead thematic sessions; and potentially co-creating resources to support our practices.

Do you feel the term isn’t going as well as it should? This workshop can give you ideas on how to change your current strategies and get you back on track.

University can be a key place for 2SLGBTQ+ young people to learn knowledge and skills for healthy romantic relationships.

Classrooms reflect the world in which we live and represent the diversity within. By implementing inclusive teaching practices, instructors can create learning environments in which all students feel like they belong, can learn at high levels, and reach their true potential. To support instructors in creating inclusive learning environments, this presentation will introduce several inclusive teaching practices that can be immediately used to benefit all students.

his workshop will introduce you to the narrative technique of “show, don’t tell” through a series of visual representation activities that are easy to apply to your every day and that can make your ideas for school or work more tangible.

The John Molson School of Business Case Publications initiative is hosting an Ivey-led two-day case teaching workshop for faculty (and select graduate students pending space) on Monday, October 23 and Tuesday, October 24.

In this presentation, Dr. Michael Yellow Bird describes how he enacted a decolonial contemplative/mindfulness mentorship with a young white settler woman that has included Indigenous perspectives on colonization and decolonization, Indigenous ways of knowing and being, how Indigenous scholars have navigated racism and oppression in the academy, and how contemplative practices can be used to disrupt settler power and logic in the academy. In this talk, he will share what inspires his contemplative life, the practices that are meaningful to him, how his contemplative life has enabled his work in higher education, and has sustained his resolve to confront racism, marginalization, the misuse of power, and other forms of colonization.

Join our 4-part workshop to look at spiritual roots of North American environmentalism, and take time to reflect on our care for the planet.

In Part 1, you will practice informal daily public speaking skills that you can apply immediately in-person, on-camera and even on phone calls.

As presenters and workshop facilitators we are all mindful of the importance of engaging participants and creating experiences that are welcoming and accessible. This presentation will look at the importance of designing accessible and inclusive presentations, as well as offer tips and best practices in accessibility and inclusion. Barriers experienced by participants with hearing, vision, and mobility impairments, as well as medical and mental health conditions will be addressed.

Learn how to get, collaborate on, and share research or creative works with Creative Commons (CC) licences. Researchers frequently use these licences to enable open scholarship or open science processes. Whether you need images for a presentation, are seeking information for your own work, or want to mix sounds into new music, Creative Commons licences enable you to access and share with people around the world. In this workshop you will find out what the Creative Commons is and how to use CC licences. We will practice working with CC content and look at the ramifications of applying different licences to our own work. We will also explore some useful tools for finding CC-licensed work.

In this 1-hour Q+A workshop, we'll talk about the fundamentals around debt, and leave space for you to ask about anything (debt related) that's on your mind.

Ground and centre yourself through a lunchtime mindfulness practice.

During this reading circle we will discuss Adam Gaudry and Danielle Lorenz’s article: “Indigenization as Inclusion, Reconciliation, and Decolonization: Navigating the Different Visions for Indigenizing the Canadian Academy.” (2018) Summary: “Following the release of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s (TRC’s) Calls to Action, Canadian universities and colleges have felt pressured to indigenize their institutions. What “indigenization” has looked like, however, has varied significantly. Based on the input from an anonymous online survey of 25 Indigenous academics and their allies, we assert that indigenization is a three-part spectrum. On one end is Indigenous inclusion, in the middle reconciliation indigenization, and on the other end decolonial indigenization. We conclude that despite using reconciliatory language, post-secondary institutions in Canada focus predominantly on Indigenous inclusion. We offer two suggestions of policy and praxis—treaty-based decolonial indigenization and resurgence-based decolonial indigenization—to demonstrate a way toward more just Canadian academy.”

This workshop introduces the basics of Open Educational Resources (OER) such as renewable assignments and open textbooks and their place in the open ecosystem. You will learn to search for and discover OER relevant to your courses and disciplines. In an open document, we will collaboratively search OER repositories for materials that can be added to Concordia’s OER By Discipline Resource Guide, which you might find useful to your studies. Through collaborative small group discussions and guided practice, you can contribute a tangible benefit for yourself and your fellow students, and leave equipped to advocate more effectively for OER in your classrooms. This is a 60-minute workshop, with the option to stay and chat for an extra 30 minutes. Learning Objectives: Understand the basics of OER Search OER repositories for OER suited to your courses Co-adapt Concordia’s OER By Discipline Resource Guide Speaker: Rachel Harris Bio: Rachel Harris is a librarian, researcher, and educator. As the Scholarly Publishing Librarian at Concordia University, Dr. Harris envisions a future for education and scholarship that is increasingly more accessible and equitable. She is currently leading the Library’s Open Educational Resource service and is collaborating on ORCID, Spectrum, open access, and copyright projects. 

Thriving and Learning in Action is a program like no other--it brings mental health, wellbeing, equity, and learning strategies together in a unique intervention that will leave you feeling more hopeful, more resilient, and more successful.

This workshop introduces the basics of Open Educational Resources (OER) such as renewable assignments and open textbooks and their place in the open ecosystem.

In this workshop, you will live through the uncomfortable experience of jumping into prototyping – an iterative process that takes ideas and makes them tangible for testing - without having all the information.

This is the registration form for the Anti-Racism Workshop Series, a two-part training program. The first session is theory based and designed to encourage reflection upon contemporary concepts and issues around race as well as racism history. We also pay particular attention to the manifestations and maintenance of racism in the workplace. The second part involves an applied approach, designed to promote, and implement anti-racism best practices through scenarios.

Career Counseling and Educational Transitions is a new unit in the Student Success Centre designed to support students as they explore career options and transition to new life stages, whether starting university or moving into life after graduation.

Taking an interactive approach, this workshop will introduce you to the fundamentals of equity concepts, including accessibility, inclusivity, and ableism.

Ground and centre yourself through a lunchtime mindfulness practice.

Do you feel the term isn’t going as well as it should? This workshop can give you ideas on how to change your current strategies and get you back on track.

What are some actions, practices, standards, and adjustments that we can make around campus to help mitigate climate change?