Student Faculty Interaction
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Finishing First Year
My first year here at U of T is wrapping up. It was in many ways everything that I expected yet far from it. The academic challenges were there, the […]
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The Many Benefits of Cultures of Feedback within the Classroom
Have you ever noticed that the word feedback often gets a bad rap? Common nomenclature suggests that it is something that we should fear. We hear expressions like, “face the […]
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Working with CTSI: from Work Study to Videographer
By Wes Adams, Videographer, CTSI It’s been almost a year now since I started working at CTSI. I began this position a little under a year ago as work-study student […]
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Grand Opening: CTSI, Robarts Library Reference Services and new student study areas
It started with a need for new student spaces. After conducting focus groups, surveys and consultations with students, we knew U of T students wanted study spaces with natural light, […]
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My Life is Average (Part 3): How Did I Choose?
by Tian-Yuan Zhao (Music & Electrical and Computer Engineering) This year, CTSI has worked with students to explore their perspective on learning at UofT. This blog post is the third […]
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Learning through Current Events: Huge, Immediate and Complicated
In many courses, finding opportunities to incorporate current events into teaching can be a way to engage students by enriching traditional material through application of concepts and approaches to current […]
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“My Life is Average”: A Student’s Perspective
“My Life is Average” by Tian-Yuan Zhao (Music & Electrical and Computer Engineering) This year, CTSI has worked with students to explore their perspective on learning at UofT. This blog […]
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Office Hours and Talking to Professors
In conjunction with Student Life, CTSI has been working on a series of videos for students visiting instructors during office hours. On the Student Life side, these videos are a […]
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NMC Horizon Report
by Ryan Green, Educational Technology Liaison, CTSI The NMC Horizon Report: 2012 Higher Education Edition came out a few weeks ago, and I thought it would be a good idea […]
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Focus on Faculty: Field Trips
New Toronto condominiums, old New York City tenements and Robarts Library’s recycling bay: these are three things that seem like uncommon places for students to explore, but for Shauna Brail’s […]