EduLINC to Avenue Guided Tour

In this webinar, LearnIT2Teach developer and mentor, Paul Carter, takes EduLINC teachers on a tour of the Avenue.ca site.
This session covers Avenue Basics for EduLINC teachers who will be moving to Avenue.

Webinar topics:
Introduction (02:02)
Get an Avenue Account (06:11)
Migrate Courses (08:47)
Spot the Differences on the New Site (13:30)
Access Training Courses and Support Documents (30:16)
Enroll Students (38:25)
Access and Use the ePortfolio (47:17)
Q&A (55:21)

Introducing Avenue’s Updated Literacy Courseware

LearnIT2Teach developer, Catherine Porter, navigates Avenue’s new Literacy courseware, introducing the new activities and providing ideas for use with low level learners.

Catherine has worked with FL/CLB 1L/CLB 1 learners in the Moodle LMS for five years and connects her F2F experiences with authoring decisions.

Effective Avenue Course Design Part 2 of 2

This webinar by LearnIT2teach mentor and developer John Allan, introduces several ways to energize Avenue course pages through course design.

This session builds on last week’s webinar, Effective Course Design 1.

The following topics are demonstrated and discussed.
– Zero Topic
– Introductory/orientation video or animation
– Enhancing labels with interactive content (non assessed)
– Direct links to activities or resources with QR codes
– Random (glossary) block
– RSS feeds
– Level-Up Block
– Games, demo Snowman Game

Avenue Quiz Module Training: Part 3 of 3

This three-part webinar series demonstrates how to set up a Quiz in the Avenue courseware.

In part 3, LearnIT2Teach developer, Sepideh Alavi, continues demonstrating how to create questions that are most useful in a language learning context and how teachers can configure the settings of the Quiz module.

Avenue ePortfolio Demonstration with Q & A (Dec 2020)

In this webinar, Avenue/LearnIT2teach team member Jim Edgar provides an overview of available features on the Avenue ePortfolio, describes what enhancements users can expect in the near future, and gives an update on how artifacts can be collected from activities that were completed by students prior to November 22.

The demonstration includes:
– how to use the auto collection of artifacts (tagging and which activities to tag)
– the auto collection of teacher feedback
– how to view a learner’s ePortfolio and use the toolbar filters and sorting buttons
– how to upload to a learner’s ePortfolio
– how to download artifacts
– the ePortfolio from a learner’s perspective
– how to delete artifacts

The webinar concludes with a question and answer session.

Episode 32: Part 3 with Dr. Tony Bates

This is the third and last podcast interview with Dr. Tony Bates, a leading light for Canadian educators on questions of online and distance learning. In this episode,we are talking about how educators can make creative use of media. Tony describes the key ‘affordances for the main media types and what each does best.

Avenue Quiz Module Training: Part 1 of 3

This three-part webinar series demonstrates how to set up a Quiz in the Avenue courseware.

In part 1, LearnIT2Teach developer, Sepideh Alavi, demonstrates how to create questions that are mostly used in a language learning context.

Avenue Quiz Module Training: Part 2 of 3

This three-part webinar series demonstrates how to set up a Quiz in the Avenue courseware.

In part 2, LearnIT2Teach developer, Sepideh Alavi, continues demonstrating how to create questions that are most useful in a language learning context.

She then talks about how teachers can configure the settings of the Quiz module.

This tutorial continues into Part 3 of the series.

Effective Avenue Course Design Part 1 of 2

In this webinar, LearnIT2teach mentor, Chayan Mallick, gives tips and tricks to customize Avenue course page, so it makes the course page more user friendly and motivating.

The webinar includes suggestions on how these can enhance a blended or online course, and demonstrations of:
· Course Settings
· Show/ Hide—course/ topic/ activity
· Creating New Topic Area
· Add visual content (images) via labels
· HTML blocks (examples: weather channel, contact information, CBC news, grammar helper, etc.)
· Activity Completion
· Restrict access
· Badges

A Day in the Life of Teaching with Avenue

In this webinar recording, Robin Peace (CLB 2-4) and Chayan Mallick (CLB 7-8 described a typical day of teaching with Avenue.ca.

They shared sample daily schedules with tips and top Avenue.ca tools used.

This webinar was not about how to use certain functions in Avenue.ca nor about how to lesson plan for an online lesson.

Avenue Assignments 101: Grades and Feedback

In this video, LearnIT2teach developer and mentor, Margarita Berezyanskaya, looks at how to contribute student success and add value to their learning journey by providing constructive feedback.

The sessions explains how to grade an Avenue assignment using a rubric, how to annotate a student assignment submission and how to leave audio feedback.

Avenue Assignments 101: Set Up and Rubrics

This webinar by LeanIT2teach mentor, Margarita Berezyanskaya, explained how to set up productive and engaging speaking and writing assignments on Avenue, explore the world of pre-made rubrics, and learn how to create a rubric from scratch and tailor it to the needs of your class.

The session will also include tips for tagging assignments for Avenue’s ePortfolio artifact auto collection.