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Hello EDNA Colleagues,

If you are interested in attending the EDNA Spring Meeting, online or in-person, on Friday, April 11th with SAIT in Calgary, registration is now open:

Registration for EDNA Spring Meeting

Registration closes on March 31st. 

News is coming from the SAIT hosting team in the next week about the Spring Meeting theme and logistics. 

Thank you,

Cosette

From May 6 – 8, SAIT will be hosting the Reimagining Learning: Transforming Teaching Together showcase, which is a conference-style event focused on highlighting innovation, best-practices and distinction in teaching, learning, research and scholarly activity.

This year’s event will spotlight the excellent work in teaching and learning happening at SAIT. The focus of our showcase is community, connection and faculty engagement.

Proposal applications are now open! We are thrilled to be a part of this initiative, and we hope to hear from you. The proposal deadline is March 31.

Did you know? Lunch with EDNA is a series of free presentations by EDNA members from post-secondary institutions across the province. Video recordings of past sessions are available on our Events page, as are registration links to attend future Lunches.

Thank you to Andrea Wetmore (NAIT), Flora Mahdavi (Bow Valley College), and Mabyn Grinde (Lakeland College) who prepared and led fantastic presentations this past Fall!

From the desk of Cosette:

Dear Colleagues,

Thank you to those of you who attended the EDNA Fall Meeting this past Friday. I wish to recognize Annemarieke Hoekstra from the EDNA Steering Committee for her leadership in facilitating our meeting. Change and transition were the common themes across our institutions which, to me, underscores the need to share ideas, experiences, and strategies across our Ed Developer network. Let’s help each other!

Thank you to Christopher for working with me on the Setting Boundaries as an Educational Developer: Your Well-Being Matters workshop following the EDNA Fall Meeting. I hope you enjoyed the opportunity to mingle with our Council of Ontario Educational Developers (COED) and reflect on your own needs as Educational Developers. 

I am grateful for your kind messages and feedback on the Setting Boundaries session. As a parting thought after reading the feedback, I’ve learned to set boundaries by inches. While some may find that big sweeping changes or declarations feel right, I’ve practiced tiny moments of boundary setting (for example, one politely declined request per day or choosing to negotiate a deadline) and found that these tiny boundary experiments are improving my health and wellbeing.

I wish you well in your own experiments. Christopher and I are rooting for you!

Hope to see you at Lunch with EDNA and the EDNA Spring Meeting at SAIT in Calgary (more news to follow).

Cosette, EDNA Chair

Hello Fellow EDNA Members,

It is my pleasure to share then registration link and agenda for the EDNA Spring Meeting on April 19th hosted by the Centre of Teaching, Learning and Scholarship at Red Deer Polytechnic. 

Online registration closes on Tuesday, April 16th at 4:30 to allow time to add you to the activities/technologies.

In-person (on-site in Red Deer) registration closes on Wednesday April 3rd at 4:30 to allow time to order food for the day. 

For more information about the agenda and to register go to: 

Spring EDNA 2024 Meeting Registration: https://forms.office.com/r/2c2ipxGGY2

Details about parking, coffee, etc are forthcoming closer to the day. We hope you’ll join us at the EDNA Spring Meeting.

Warm Regards,

Cosette
EDNA Chair

Information about Lunch with EDNA for the winter months is now available on the Events page. There is also a “Register” button under each poster and description.

January 17: Teaching strategies for learning in/across a variety of physical learning spaces
February 21: Meaningful feedback for learning
March 20: The power of storytelling for teaching and learning

All Lunches with EDNA are on Wednesdays on Zoom at 12:05 p.m. to 12:50 p.m.

Also on the Events page, scroll down to access video recordings of previous lunches.

Hello EDNA Colleagues,

At our Fall meeting on November 3rd, 2023, we discussed having the various public-facing instructor focused resources from our respective institutions linked on one page of the EDNA website Shared Resources page as a kind of repository of resource development in Educational Development in Alberta.

That way, when you are preparing or designing teaching development resources at your institution, you can efficiently review, harness, or adapt the work done by EDNA Members on the same topic. 

For example, at the U of A CTL, their Support for Teaching page that is organized by various stages of the course design and delivery process. If you scroll down a bit, there is also an entry point to a Teaching in the Context of AI resource site. These links could serve as a starting point for exploring resources on course design or AI, for instance. 

If you would like to share the link(s) to your public-facing instructor focused resources at your institution for this purpose, follow the instructions on the Shared Resources page to fill out the Google form. 

If you have questions, please contact Andrea Wetmore directly (awetmore@nait.ca) on the EDNA WebTeam. Andrea will notify you when this page on the EDNA Website is ready. 

Thank you for your time,

Cosette Lemelin

Chair, Educational Developer Network of Alberta (EDNA)

Hello EDNA Members,

Many thanks to Flora and the Bow Valley College team for hosting the EDNA Fall Meeting last Friday, November 3rd. We had 51 participants (15 in person and 36 online) and many interesting conversations. 

Resources from the meeting can now be found on the EDNA Website: Meetings section. I am grateful to the EDNA Web Team for their work on the EDNA Website. I encourage you to check it out! 

The EDNA Spring Meeting will be hosted by Red Deer Polytechnic in late April. Details to come. If you have an idea for a theme or topic for the Spring Meeting, please contact Charlene Jones at Charlene.Jones@rdpolytech.ca

Thank you for your time,

Cosette

Registration is open for the EDNA Fall meeting on November 3, 2023 at Bow Valley College in Calgary. You can attend in-person or remotely. To register and for more information, visit the Meetings page of the EDNA website. See you then!