Each week from September to May we publish a blog written by and for the York teaching community.
Contact Geneviève Maheux-Pelletier - gmp@yorku.ca if you would like to provide a blog posting.
2018- 2019
Creating a Video Introduction for your Online Course
Creating a Video Introduction for your Online Course, Blog 109 by Anna Augusto Rodrigues, Monday, January 28, 2019
Multiform Grammar: From Illustrated Historiography to the Classroom, Blog 108 by Noa Yaari, Monday, January 21, 2019
January Journal Club, Blog 107 by Lisa Endersby, Educational Developer, Monday, January 14, 2019
In 2019, What Would You Like to See Happening More Often?, Blog 106 by Geneviève Maheux-Pelletier, Interim Director, Monday January 7th, 2019
Podcasting for Teaching and Research, Brittany Starkman, Graduate Student, Faculty of Education, Blog 105, Monday December 3rd
An Unsuccessful Attempt to Increase Student Study Time and Performance, Uros Petronivejic, LA&PS, Blog 104, Monday November 26th
Digital Humanities and Social Sciences for Experiential Learning, Samantha Cutrara, Curriculum Specialist, Blog 103, Monday November 19th
Creating Effective Videos with a Smart Phone, Anna Rodrigues, Teaching Commons, Blog 102, Monday November 12th
Perspectives from Indigenizing an Indigenous Course, Part 2, Sean Hillier, Faculty of Health, Blog 101 , Monday November 5th
Perspectives from Indigenizing an Indigenous Course, Part 1, Sean Hillier, Faculty of Health, Blog 100 , Monday October 29th
'But what are you looking for?': the Conundrum of Evaluating Students, Steve Gennaro, Blog 99, Monday October 22nd
Teaching with a Colleague...Triumph or Terror?, Mariela Giuliano, Psychology & Mandy Frake-Mistak, Teaching Commons, Blog 98, Monday October 15th
Meet the YU Experience Hub, Kathleen Winningham, YU Experience Hub & Lisa Endersby, Teaching Commons, Blog 97, Monday October 8th
The Five Minute Accessibility Makeover, Maureen Barnes, Student Accessibility Services Blog 96, Monday October 1st
A Meaningful Learning Experience, Jennifer Klein, Blog 95, Monday September 24th
Why do we still print the course syllabus? Sean Kheraj, LA&PS. Blog 94, Monday September 17th
After the first week Raymont Peart, Student Accessibility Services. Blog 93, Monday September 10th
Welcome back! Celia Popovic, Teaching Commons. Blog 92, Tuesday September 4th
2017-18
Blog 91 - Monday May 7th - Jerusha Lederman, Teaching Commons, Journal Club, April meeting
Blog 90 - Monday April 30th - Raymond Peart, ASD Coordinator, Putting Student Voices to Work
Blog 89 - Monday April 23rd - Alice Kim Teaching Commons, Journal Club, March meeting
Blog 88 - Monday March 26th - Barbara Kerr, Teaching Commons, Teaching with the Case Study Method
Blog 87 - Monday March 19th - Natasha May and Mandy Frake-Mistak, Teaching Commons, The top 6 things we learnt about Creative Commons (CC) Licensing
Blog 86 - Monday March 12th - Natasha May, Teaching Commons, What's in a Name?
Blog 85 - Monday March 5th - The York University Libraries’ Teaching, Learning, and Research Committee (TLRC), Information Literacy and Fake News
Blog 84 - Monday February 26th - Markus Reisenleitner, LA&PS, What's in a Name? Course design bootcamps and the need for a non-violent language of pedagogy.
Blog 83 - Monday February 12th - Raymond Peart, ASD Coordinator, Autism
Blog 82 - Monday February 5th - Barbara Kerr, Teaching Commons Journal Club, January meeting
Blog 81 - Monday January 29th - Mandy Frake-Mistak, Teaching Commons Journal Club, November meeting
Blog 80 - Monday January 22nd - Susan Murtha, Faculty of Health, Is anyone else worried about the number of students purchasing essays through third party?
Blog 79 - Monday January 15th - Lisa Endersby, Teaching Commons, The Lego Workshop
Blog 78 - Monday January 8th - Dawn Bazely, Faculty of Science, Blogging helps students and professors to write more clearly
Blog 77 - Monday December 11th - Justin Podur, Faculty of Environmental Studies, Problem Based Learning – The Maastricht MOOC
Blog 76 - Monday December 4th - Genevieve Maheux Pelletier, and Lisa Endersby, Teaching Commons, Debunking the Myth of Learning through Experience with the Subway Emergency Exercise
Blog 75 - Monday November 27th - Yelin Su, Teaching Commons, Journal Club October meeting
Blog 74 - Monday November 20th - Lisa Endersby and Celia Popovic, Teaching Commons, Lego, Serious play
Blog 73 - Monday November 13th - Lisa Endersby, Teaching Commons, Journal Club launch of year 2
Blog 72 - Monday November 6th - Alice Kim, Teaching Commons, Musings on preparing for a new course: the use of Twitter as a course tool
Blog 71 - Monday October 30th - Raymond Peart, ASD Coordinator, Breaking Boundaries I: 10 things post-secondary educators should know when working with students with autism
Blog 70 - Monday October 23rd - James Andrew Smith, Lassonde, Teaching Wheels
Blog 69 - Monday October 16th - Claudia Chaufan, Health, It's not about your teaching but about their learning: Increasing student engagement through the jigsaw classroom
Blog 68 - Monday October 9th - Peter Constantinou, LA&PS, Top Ten Lessons Learned Teaching a Fully On-line Course for the Very First Time
Blog 67 - Monday October 2nd - Eva Peisachovich, Faculty of Health, Simulated Person Methodology
Blog 66 - Monday September 25th - Genevieve Maheux Pelletier, Teaching Commons, The Subway Emergency Exercise as Reflective Teaching and Learning
Blog 65 - Monday September 18th - Raymond Peart, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Education, A Note about Autism
Blog 64 - Monday September 11th - Celia Popovic and Lisa Endersby, Teaching Commons, Teaching Commons Journal Club
Blog 63 - Monday September 4th - Andrea Davis, LA&PS , Teaching as Activism
2016 -17
Blog 62 - Monday May 1st - Lisa Endersby, Teaching Commons, Journal Club
Blog 61 - Monday April 24th - Celia Popovic, Teaching Commons, Ontario eTeaching and eLearning Community of Practice, live debate
Blog 60 - Monday April 17th - Claudia Chaufan, Associate Professor, School of Health Policy & Management and Samantha Sanghee Yoo, Student, Health Studies Program, What does it mean to be on the “frontlines of health”?
Blog 59 - Monday April 10th - Lisa Endersby, Teaching Commons, The Pedagogical Workout: Bootcamps as Innovative Teaching Practice
Blog 58 - Monday April 3rd - Celia Popovic, Teaching Commons, Teaching in Focus Conference
Blog 57 - Monday March 27th - Lisa Endersby, Teaching Commons, Evidence for Experience: Emerging Conversations in the Scholarship of Experiential Education
Blog 56 - Monday March 20th - Yelin Su, Teaching Commons, March 2017 Teaching Commons Journal Club – Community Based Research and student learning
Blog 55 - Monday March 13th - Elaine Coburn, Glendon, Social Inequality and Teaching in the Academy, part 5 (of 5)
Blog 54 - Monday March 6th - Dawn Bazely, Facuty of Science, I'm aiming to break my class out of the cycle of "memorizing & forgetting"
Blog 53 - Monday February 27th - Elaine Coburn, Glendon, Social Inequality and Teaching in the Academy, part 4 (of 5)
Blog 52 - Monday February 20th - Andrea Valente, Teaching Commons Tutor, Did you ever wonder what active learning could 'taste' like?
Blog 51 - Monday February 13th - Elaine Coburn, Glendon, Social Inequality and Teaching in the Academy, part 3 (of 5)
Blog 50 - Monday February 6th - Mandy Frake-Mistak, Teaching Commons, Instructional Skills Workshop Epilogue
Blog 49 - Monday January 30th - Elaine Coburn, Glendon, Social Inequality and Teaching in the Academy, part 2 (of 5)
Blog 48 - Monday January 23rd - Elaine Coburn, Glendon, Social Inequality and Teaching in the Academy, part 1 (of 5)
Blog 47 - Monday January 16th - Dawn Bazely, Faculty of Science, Figuring out the link between social media and what I do as a Biology Prof
Blog 46 - Monday January 9th - Mandy Frake-Mistak, Teaching Commons, Instructional Skills Workshop part 4
Blog 45 - Monday December 12th - Dawn Bazely, Faculty of Science, Everyone should try blogging
Blog 44 - Monday December 5 - Mandy Frake-Mistak, Teaching Commons, Instructional Skills Workshop part 3
Blog 43 - Monday November 28 - Lisa Endersby, Teaching Commons, November Journal Club: Teaching Reflection in Higher Education
Blog 42 - Monday November 21 - Raymond N. Peart, Autism Coordinator, Disability Services: Reflecting on a Critical Pedagogy for Social Interaction between Autists and Educators
Blog 41 - Monday November 14th - Andrea C. Valente, Teaching Commons, #DEL 16: Anxiety and Security
Blog 40 - Monday November 7th - Mandy Frake Mistak, Teaching Commons, Instructional Skills Workshop part 2
Blog 39 - Monday October 31st - Dawn Bazely, Science, Why I'm using Twitter
Blog 38 - Monday October 24th - Agnes Whitfield, LA&PS, Thinking about feedback in translation terms
Blog 37 - Monday October 17th - Gail Mitchell, Faculty of Health, Complexity thinking in education: Leveraging difference for learning
Blog 36 - Tuesday October 11th - Susan Murtha, LA&PS, Dealing with the distraction of students' personal devices
Blog 35 - Monday October 3rd - Mandy Frake Mistak, Teaching Commons, Instructional Skills Workshop part 1
Blog 34 - Monday September 26th - Susan Murtha, LA&PS, Dealing with the distraction of students' personal devices (computers, smartphones, etc.)
Blog 33 - Monday September 19th - Natasha May, Teaching Commons, The life of a faculty member nearing the first day of school
Blog 32 - Monday September12th - Dimitra Giannouplaki, International Student, Why teachers are not a thing of the past in the digital classroom
Blog 31 -Tuesday September 6th - Celia Popovic, Teaching Commons, Happy New Academic Year
2015 - 16
Blog 30 - Monday May 2nd - Natasha May, Teaching Commons, It's time for STAY!
Blog 29 - Monday April 25th - Stephanie Bell, Writing Centre, On teaching academic writing, Part II
Blog 28 - Monday April 18th - The sCoop on the Giving Feedback that Encourages a Growth Mindset, Teaching Commons
Blog 27 - Monday April 4th - Geoff Lawrence, Coordinator, ESL Open Learning Centre; Assistant Professor, ESL & Applied Linguistics, Introducing (and Deconstructing) York's ESL Open Learning Centre
Blog 26 - Monday March 21st - Jerusha Lederman, Teaching Commons, Open Education in Higher Learning
Blog 25 - Monday March 14th - William Woolrich, LAPS, Five lessons in online teaching
Blog 24 - Monday March 7th 2016 - Barbara Kerr, Teaching Commons, Why do you teach the way that you do?
Blog 23 - Monday February 29th 2016 - Celia Popovic, Teaching Commons, Three ways to make teaching more enjoyable for you and your students
Blog 22 - Monday February 22nd 2016 - Mandy Frake-Mistak, Teaching Commons, Vulnerability and Compassion in the Classroom
Blog 21 - Monday February 15th 2016 - Stephanie Bell, Writing Centre, On teaching academic writing
Blog 20 - Monday February 8th 2016 - Genevieve Maheux-Pelletier, Teaching Commons, The day vicarious readers met a vivacious teacher, or the pedagogy behind making them read
Blog 19 - Monday February 1st 2016 - Vivian Stamatopoulos, LA&PS, For the love of teaching: One TA's collaborative guide to success!
Blog 18 - Monday January 25th 2016 - Ron Sheese and Sophie Bury, Learning Commons, SPARK your teaching in 2016!
Blog 17 - Monday January 18th 2016 - Andrea Valente, Teaching Commons TA, What is your new year's Teaching Resolution?
Blog 16 - Monday January 11th 2016 - Quintin Peirce, LA&PS - Beasts of York a cautionary tale
Blog 15 - Monday January 4th 2016 - Paul Axelrod, Faculty of Education - Turning the lure of the laptop into a positive experience
Blog 14 - Monday December 14th 2015 - Justin Podur, Faculty of Environmental Studies - Instructional Skills Workshop
Blog 13 - Monday December 7th 2015 - Chris Lortie, Faculty of Science - A quick #openscience #STEM diversity idea for assigning readings in courses
Blog 12 - Monday November 30th 2015 - Franz Newland, Lassonde - Teaching Wheels my new training wheels
Blog 11 - Monday November 23rd 2015 - Maria-Palma Zito, LA&PS - What is the university experience?
Blog 10 - Monday November 16th 2015 - Yelin Su, Teaching Commons - Designing effective online discussions
Blog 9 - Monday November 9th 2015 - Natasha May, Teaching Commons - The Future of Academia
Blog 8 - Monday November 2nd 2015 - Tina Rapke and Marc Husband, Education - Why should you co-teach at York University? A candid snap shot from the trenches
Blog 7 - Monday October 26th 2015 - Jon Sufrin, LA&PS - Deep Learning vs. Surface Learning: A False Dichotomy?
Blog 6 - Monday October 19th 2015 - Alexandra Flynn, Osgoode Hall Law School - Simulating City Council
Blog 5 - Monday October 12th 2015 - Genevieve Maheux-Pelletier, Teaching Commons - Reflecting on Experiential Education
Blog 4 - Monday October 5th 2015 - Samantha Craig-Curnow, Chippewa of Rama First Nation, and Dr. Maggie Quirt, Department of Equity Studies - Teaching Indigenous Content
Blog 3 - Monday September 28th 2015 - Susan Murtha, Faculty of Health - Plan B for technology in the classroom
Blog 2 - Monday September 21st 2015 - Mary Waller, Schulich Business School - Seeing Behaviour
Blog 1 - Monday September 2015 - Celia Popovic, Teaching Commons - Launching the teaching and learning blog
