Planning Your Lessons with the Course Builder Content

In this webinar, content developer Margaret Stasiak provided insights into the newly introduced Avenue Course Builder, which provides a robust collection of units and modules with ready-made e-activities, assessments and instructor support materials. Margaret examined how a course and lessons can be planned for different modalities (remote, blended and in person), using the content of e-units and e-modules in the Course Builder and how to make the most of them. She also provided practical suggestions and tips for selecting and using ready-made e-activities, customizing course content, and streamlining the planning process.

Language for Post secondary Education

The presenters, Marijke Geurts and Dori Tarjan, looked at two new modules under the theme ‘Attending Post-Secondary Education:

CLB 5-6: Communicating about Choices for College
CLB 7-8: Deciding on a College Program

This presenters provided an overview of the skills and real-world tasks covered in these modules. Practical suggestions for using these modules in blended delivery were also provided.

Speed Up Your Avenue Courses

Since the Spring of 2023, instructors have reported that they experience long intervals between actions while editing their Avenue courses. A few known causes of this include too many topics, too much content, and overloaded question banks. This webinar by AVenue mentor and developer, John Allan, demonstrated a few techniques to reduce a course’s resources to ensure that it will streamline your Avenue editing experience in the future.

Webinaire d’introduction à Avenue.ca

Ce webinaire permet d’apprendre l’essentiel pour commencer l’enseignement en ligne ou hybride sur Avenue.ca. Les fonctionnalités suivantes sont présentées: Le portail Avenue, se connecter à son cours, inscrire des étudiants, accéder aux e-portfolio, modifier les détails des comptes des étudiants, consulter le registre de classe et les différents rapports d’évaluation et d’achèvement, activer le mode édition, gérer les paramètres du cours et contacter le soutien technique. Le nouveau constructeur de cours, permettant aux enseignants d’ajouter des unités prêtes à l’emploi à leur cours et/ou de déposer une demande pour obtenir un nouveau cours, est également présenté en détail.

Tutela and Avenue – An interview with Diane Ramanathan

Moderated by Paul Carter, a mentor and resource developer for the Avenue – LearnIT2teach Project, this podcast is an interview with Diane Ramanathan, the Tutela Community Coordinator for Tutela.ca. The session focused on what LINC teachers and Avenue users can find on Tutela, how the resources are organized and classified, what the Collections are, and […]

Embedding on Avenue

This webinar, by Avenue mentor and developer Paul Carter, demonstrated the steps to embed external resources on Avenue in blocks and a variety of activity/resource types.
Participants could follow along as Paul showed how to embed YouTube videos, Google Forms and Maps, Flip videos, Padlets, Weather Widgets, Twitter Feeds, and more!
Ideas were shared on how to use these resources in online teaching and tips were provided for embedding external websites.

Cyber Awareness Training Part 2 – Privacy: Fragile Handle with Care

Presented by Avenue-LearnIT2teach mentor/developer Margarita Berezyanskaya, this webinar discusses digital privacy.
Every time we go online, we leave digital footprints, both anonymous and personally identifiable, that become part of big data used by companies, governments and cyber criminals to know who we are, what we do and what defines us.
In this session, participants will learn how to protect their privacy, minimize impacts of digital surveillance and manage their online presence.

Cyber Awareness Training Part 2 – Don’t Feed the Phish

Presented by Avenue-LearnIT2teach mentor/developer Margarita Berezyanskaya, this webinar introduced participants to phishing.
Phishing remains one of the most effective avenues leading cyber criminals to your data.
With the help of breached data, artificial intelligence tools, spoofing techniques and open-source intelligence, they evolved and became harder to detect.
In this interactive session, participants learned about different types of phishing (such as spear phishing, whaling, vishing, smishing), commonly used social engineering strategies and indicators of a phishing attempt.
The NLOC project, developed for the Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC) Program, will introduce innovative and unprecedented online courseware on avenue.ca. This is a five-year project funded by IRCC for CLB-3, CLB-4 and CLB-5 learners. This curriculum incorporates digital literacy and specialized content, such as Indigenous perspectives, Francophone communities, inclusivity and cultural awareness. This accessible courseware fills a language learning gap for self-directed, asynchronous learning, offering “off the shelf” comprehensive e-units that learners can do anytime, anywhere. Also designed to be flexible, this courseware can be used as a blended model in face-to-face and virtual classrooms, providing a ready-made curriculum for instructors to supplement as they see fit. This courseware includes the principles and best practices for a PBLA-aligned curriculum, incorporating real-world tasks, prior knowledge and experience, skill-building activities, skill-using and assessment tasks and reflection. Content is organized under themes for the 21st century, and the activities are designed to take the learner on a journey that builds skills and strategies needed for integration in work, education and community.

Avenue.ca-Onyxon.ca Merger – Why and what’s in it for the Avenue community?

This presentation for the Avenue community by Jim Edgar of New Language Solutions gives an update on the merger of avenue.ca and onyxon.ca.
The presenter explains why this is a “win-win” endeavour and how it benefits Avenue users.
These benefits include new portal features and access to more eUnits and modules aligned with the Canadian Language Benchmarks and Portfolio-Based Language Assessment (PBLA).
The merger will also include access to new Occupation-specific language training courses for Avenue programs.

ChatGPT Your Assistant?

In this webinar, John Allan, Avenue-LearnIT2teach mentor and senior developer, introduced ChatGPT applications and innovative methods to efficiently create language learning materials. Participants learned ChatGPT basics and its potential for language teaching and learning.
John explained how to use practical prompts, and he provided tricks and tips to create various activities.
Participants also learned how ChatGPT can help produce targeted vocabulary activities, including realistic dialogues, role-plays and more.

Cyber Awareness Training Part 1 – Working from the Comfort of Anywhere…Securely

Presented by Avenue-LearnIT2teach mentor/developer Margarita Berezyanskaya, this webinar introduced participants to core concepts of cyber hygiene to secure their home and on-the-go offices: managing passwords and authentication, data breach checks, using public Wi-Fi, hardening home network and protecting mobile devices.

Demystifying Stage 3 of LearnIT2teach on Avenue Webinar

The presenters, Paul Carter and Vesna Radivojevic, break down the LearnIT2teach Stage 3 training into manageable chunks to help participants come up with strategies that will work for them. Several Stage 3 tasks are demonstrated.

Participants should have completed Pre-Stage 1, Stage 1, Pre-Stage 2, and Stage 2 of LearnIT2teach prior to the session. They can follow along on another tab, a second computer or device and they have the opportunity to complete one or more of their training tasks during the session or using the recording.
The NLOC project, developed for the Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada (LINC) Program, will introduce innovative and unprecedented online courseware on avenue.ca. This is a five-year project funded by IRCC for CLB-3, CLB-4 and CLB-5 learners. This curriculum incorporates digital literacy and specialized content, such as Indigenous perspectives, Francophone communities, inclusivity and cultural awareness. This accessible courseware fills a language learning gap for self-directed, asynchronous learning, offering “off the shelf” comprehensive e-units that learners can do anytime, anywhere. Also designed to be flexible, this courseware can be used as a blended model in face-to-face and virtual classrooms, providing a ready-made curriculum for instructors to supplement as they see fit. This courseware includes the principles and best practices for a PBLA-aligned curriculum, incorporating real-world tasks, prior knowledge and experience, skill-building activities, skill-using and assessment tasks and reflection. Content is organized under themes for the 21st century, and the activities are designed to take the learner on a journey that builds skills and strategies needed for integration in work, education and community.