Donna DesBiens

Just a draft, next time I'll try to eliminate glasses glare in the video!

Welcome to the Acknowledging Traditional Indigenous Lands MicroCourse! 

Our time this week will pass by quickly, so jump right in NOW. Here are some suggestions to help you get started: 

1. First, take a few minutes to read the MicroCourse Handbook and Course Overview for important information on the course structure, purpose, tools, and participation guidelines. 

2. Please also say hello in the Who's Here Forum, tell us where you're joining in from, and one fun fact that very few people know about you to help us start getting acquainted. 

3. Read through the Activity Packet to get a sense of the course flow over the week. The Packet describes our recommended steps for creating your personalized land acknowledgement and cultural introduction, along with links to curated resources that provide foundational 'how to' knowledge and examples of effective ways others are doing this in their own teaching and learning contexts. 

4. Begin working through the steps. Following the recommended schedule will help you keep moving along. 

5. Check out our own land acknowledgement and intro videos in the Sharing and Feedback forum. 

We are opening the course site on Saturday so you can get a head start on the activities if you like, and look forward to meeting you bright and early on Monday morning. Please feel free to use the Open Forum to post any questions or feedback you may have about the course materials.  If any urgent logistical or tech questions arise over the weekend, please contact Sylvia at scurrie@bc.campus.ca

Warm regards,

Dianne Biin & Donna DesBiens

Hi Leonne,

I'm so happy you were listening - thanks for your response. 

About my FlipGrid intro design, I'm satisfied that it's congruent with the nature of intercultural learning.  But we'll have to see how it pans out. My participants are faculty and I'm coming from a learning design perspective .... so the proof will be in this week's pudding of introductions. 

I can't post my video from the FlipGrid I made because it includes the participant videos too.  But I'll try to make another grid this week with just my own video to use for demo purposes ... if it turns out well :-)  

I look forward to seeing you online again too! 

Donna

Thanks for the feedback Leonne! There's not much I can do about the lighting in my office, but I can lose the glasses - esp. now that I've created a more informal FlipGrid intro activity. 

Because I was tardy in posting my video during this course, I'd like to share my final design for the layered approach with the group. 

Layer 1 - Facilitator Welcome

Welcome to the IFE Summer Session 2018! Over the next four weeks we'll explore foundational (and current) intercultural learning research and a variety of intercultural teaching competencies.  This course is designed to provide you with opportunities to apply theory to your classroom practice, share expertise with each other, and support one another to generate solutions to teaching challenges.  

To get started, I invite you to review the Course Overview and introduce yourself in the FlipGrid and/or Memorable Experience story forums in Week 1. 

This photo was taken by my five year old niece at her recent birthday party. I love how she sees me compared to my work mug shot. I was inspired to use this pic by a personalized instructor intro I really enjoyed in one of the [participant's] course Moodle sites . 

My facilitation goals for this session are to give you a worthwhile learning experience and to listen carefully to your ideas, successes, and challenges in helping students expand their intercultural and global understanding. I'm excited about getting started on July 3! 

Layer 2  - FlipGrid Personal Intros

The learning aim is to invite personal stories about successes, interests, and ideas that can help us build connections across a variety of life contexts vs. just recapping our work bios. In 3 minutes or less, please share a bit about... 
 
1. Something that's going especially well for you 
2. Leisure activities that refresh and energize you
3. Vacation plans you're looking forward to 
4. Unique or interesting things about your home country or community
5. What 'home' means to you

Layer 3 - Memorable Experiences 

Briefly describe one of your most memorable intercultural learning experiences, what made it so memorable, and your own learning take-away from this experience.  

Layer 4 - Introduction Activity Exemplars 

I will showcase 2 instructor exemplars in the course learning resources - one is a fun 'six degrees of separation' undergrad student intro activity to support team building, and the other is a more serious approach to engaging grad students in collaborative definition of learning community and self-assessment criteria for their 'contribution' grade. 

I chose to use this layered approach to address meta-learning aspects of the course and to show a variety of ways to approach introductions for different learning needs, aims, and contexts.  

I now feel I've made a proper contribution to this micro-course :-). To anyone who's still out there, thanks for listening!  

Hi again,

Here is my FlipGrid video for the personal intro activity.  Not quite perfect, I'm aiming to be more extemporaneous instead of reading my script ... but like someone else mentioned, when you were alive before the selfie gen, it takes practice to get comfortable with being on video.

It looks like FlipGrid has made some changes since last time I made one. To view my video you apparently will need a password ... so here's the password for this vid: 8Holistic8

Thanks for the nudge Leonne & the kind words Sylvia that encouraged me to get a prototype done, even if it is just as hot and muggy in Victoria today as it was yesterday :-)

Donna