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Nick Cherney

Assessing and Collecting Samples for PBLA

In this webinar, LearnIT2teach mentor Marjan Bateni provides tips and step-by-step demonstrations on how to collect artifacts for all four skills and add them to a learner’s portfolio on Avenue.

Marjan also shows how to assess different skills and assign a Benchmark for PBLA purposes.

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Nick Cherney

Introduction to Stage 3 Course Editing

In this webinar, LearnIT2teach mentor Chayan explained the Stage 3 course editing requirements using the resource modules, (i.e., File, Folder, URL, Page and Label).

This webinar will provided suggestions on how these items can enhance a blended or online course.

This session should help participants complete some of the Stage 3 assessment tasks, and it will foster flexibility and creativity in course editing.

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Nick Cherney

Collaboration Courses on Avenue.ca

In this Moodle webinar, LearnIT2teach mentors Vesna Radivojevic and Paul Carter showed Avenue teachers how to set up and use ‘Collaboration Courses’ with their colleagues. This demonstration explained:

– collaboration courses on Avenue (06:48)
– how to request a collaboration Course (14:26)
– how to enrol teachers in the course (14:56)
– how to use the course for communication and support (16:25)
– how to use

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Nick Cherney

Creating an introduction to blended learning course for LINC programs

his webinar was delivered by Maria Kenward, a LINC and EAL instructor who has taught in a variety of programs in private, public and post-secondary settings. Passionate about adult education and digital literacy, Maria was offered the unique opportunity to collaborate with blended instructors to create an introduction to blended learning course, or Transitions, for new and continuing LINC students entering blended classes for the

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Nick Cherney

Creating a SCORM Activity with Hot Potatoes

In this webinar, LearnIT2Teach developer, Sepideh Alavi demonstrates how two Hot Potatoes applications (JCloze and JQuiz) can be used to create several variations of cloze activities and multiple-choice items, and how teachers can embed reading passages, audio and video all on the same page with the questions.

She will then explain other unique features of these tools, and show how they can be superior to their

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Nick Cherney

LearnIT2teach Stage 2 A to Z

In this webinar by LearnIT2Teach developer and mentor, Marjan Bateni, she demonstrated how to get up and running with the Avenue courseware.

Marja also explained and demonstrated how to complete many of the Stage 2 assessment requirements, including how to:
– add a file/course outline
– add a URL
– add a teacher contact page
– add a Choice activity
– access and use the ePortfolio<br

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Nick Cherney

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

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Nick Cherney

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.

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Nick Cherney

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)

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Nick Cherney

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.

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Nick Cherney

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

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