Learning Innovation: The Teaching & Learning Podcast

E09: International Student Miniseries #2 – Community, Coops, and Culture Shock with Nancy Barajas

Tune in, hit play, and get inspired by Nancy’s international journey, including the first time she saw snow! Donna and Nancy discuss how relationships, community, and work-integrated learning can support international students.

 

The link to Taiye Selasi’s TED Talk “Don’t Ask Where I’m From, Ask Where I am a Local”

E08: International Student Miniseries #1 - Intercultural Communication with Chiye Kinjo

Both students and instructors can tune in, hit play, and get inspired with Chiye Kinjo, the Coordinator of International Student Services at Lethbridge College. Donna talks with Chiye about her decade teaching in Japan and her current role supporting international students at the College.

The recipe website mentioned is https://cookpad.com/. Chiye also recommends The Gaijin Cookbook: Japanese Recipes from a Chef, Father, Eater, and Lifelong Outsider by Ivan Orkin

E07: Coming Together in a Collective Way, Lethbridge College’s Forthcoming Niitsitapi Strategy

Tune in, hit play, and get inspired as Shanda Webber, Manager of Indigenous Services at Lethbridge College, talks with Donna about Lethbridge College’s Niitsitapi Strategy that will launch on March 18, 2021. The conversation will travel through several important topics and themes related to the strategy, its origins and development. Topics such as Indigenous education and pedagogy, and the term Indigenization, as well as community building, engagement, mutual understanding, mutual appreciation, and Indigenous perspectives on innovation.    

 

Centre for Teaching, Learning and Innovation (CTLI):   

Learning Innovation | Centre for Teaching, Learning and Innovation | Lethbridge College  

  

Lethbridge College Indigenous Services: 

Indigenous Services | BE READY (lethbridgecollege.ca) 

 

Colleges and Institutes Canada (CICan):   

Colleges and Institutes Canada | Collèges et instituts Canada (collegesinstitutes.ca) 

 

Lethbridge Friendship Society: 

Lethbridge Friendship Society – "Meet me at the Friendship" 

 

Kainai Ecosystem Protection Association (KEPA):  

Naapi Katoyiss Seeds and Restoration KEPA (naapisgardenkepa.com) 

 

Coldest Night of the Year Lethbridge:  

Coldest Night of the Year 2021 - Lethbridge (cnoy.org) 

E06: Love Your Job and Never Work a Day in your Life—What Does a Digital Learning Specialist Do?

Tune in, hit play, and get inspired as Tyler Wall, Digital Learning Specialist, talks with Donna about innovation and his approach to problem solving and helping Lethbridge College instructors find digital solutions to particular problems.  

 

Centre for Teaching, Learning and Innovation (CTLI):  

Learning Innovation | Centre for Teaching, Learning and Innovation | Lethbridge College 

 

CTLI Toolkits:  

Teaching & Learning Toolkit – Learning Innovation | Centre for Teaching, Learning and Innovation | Lethbridge College 

 

Digital Terraforming Project:  

Digital Terraforming – Learning Innovation | Centre for Teaching, Learning and Innovation | Lethbridge College 

 

Using Digital Whiteboards:  

Digital Whiteboards – Learning Innovation | Centre for Teaching, Learning and Innovation | Lethbridge College 

 

Host: Donna McLaughlin   

Guest: Tyler Wall  

Producer: Mike Smith  

Sound Technician: Ryan Robinson   

Production Team: Darel Bennedbaek, Kelsey Janzen, Joel Godri, Jude Bialik, & Tyler Wall  

E05: Gamifying Grammar with Murray Bartley and Kirsten Fantazir

Tune in, hit play, and get inspired to leave your comfort zone with these two passionate educators. Murray was a cop for a hundred years and Kirsten researches intrinsic motivation. Together, they completed a promising study on the effects of gamification and motivation in adult learners. Kirsten is always happy to collaborate and her email is kirsten.fantazir@lethbridgecollege.ca

Go here for the SoTL article discussed in the episode: https://mrujs.mtroyal.ca/index.php/is/article/view/520

The DOI for Kirsten's thesis, also on gamification is 10.13140/RG.2.2.10791.98722

E04: Dr Amy Hodgson-Bright: Rethinking English, Innovative Projects, and HyFlex Learning

Tune in, hit play, and get inspired as Dr Amy Hodgson-Bright talks with Donna about her path to Lethbridge College, her passion for literature and innovative teaching, HyFlex, and bustin’ moves on the weekend! 

E03: Jaclyn Doherty - Leadership, Culture, and Innovation

Tune in, hit play, and get inspired as the Dean of the Centre for Teaching, Learning, and Innovation, Jaclyn Doherty, tells Donna about how leadership, culture, and systems affect innovation and creativity.

E02: Allen Ledyit, Passionate teaching, becoming a superhero, and…bagpipes!

Tune in, hit play, and get inspired as Donna (host) talks with Allen Ledyit (Instructor, Child and Youth Care, Lethbridge College) about passionate teaching and learning, supporting people through personal crises, building community, and…bagpipes!

Links:  

https://lethbridgecollege.ca/departments/centre-for-teaching-learning-and-innovation 

 

http://www.learninginnovation.ca  

E01: Erin Howard, Associate Dean, Centre for Teaching, Learning and Innovation (CTLI), Lethbridge College

Tune in, hit play, and get inspired as Donna (Host) and Erin (Associate Dean of Lethbridge College’s CTLI) discuss everything from flexible learning and student micro-credentials to competitive dog dancing. 

Links:  

https://lethbridgecollege.ca/departments/centre-for-teaching-learning-and-innovation 

http://www.learninginnovation.ca