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Len Charbonneau, who is hard of hearing, teaches sign language in the Faculty of Continuing Education. With the help of eLC-NH and Media Production, Len has recorded hundreds of small video clips, each demonstrating a particular sign. He makes the clips available in his MySeneca courses for his students’ review and practice.

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He is a native user of American Sign Language (ASL) as he comes from a Deaf family. He worked for many years as a sign language interpreter until his progressive hearing loss forced him to give up that career.

He is currently in the M. Ed program being offered by Central Michigan University and is also taking the TESL program here at Seneca College.

Margot Wassenaar-Faber and Tom Mclerie teach in the School of Biological Sciences and Applied Chemistry at the Seneca at York campus. Margot and Tom are passionate about safety. With the assistance of the eLC - S@Y, they developed a WHMIS module to help their first year students better understand laboratory health and safety.

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David Finlay teaches in the Faculty of Technology and is developing a number of learning objects to help students in introductory electronics.

He won the first ETC LEARNING OBJECT AWARD for the faculty member  within the Ontario College system who developed a Learning Object that met criteria including quality of content, effectiveness as a teaching and learning tool, ease of use, reusability and range of applicability in other educational contexts.

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Glenn Groulx has been using the Internet for teaching since 1996. He came to Seneca in 2004 from a web hosting company, where he learned about web design, site administration, and troubleshooting technical and administrative issues. At Seneca, he has been teaching in Adult Education and Adult Literacy, while running a small adult learning centre.

Glenn’s award winning presentation reflects his teaching philosophy:

It is really important to start by thinking about how to effectively and compassionately teach the individual learner, and to use tools that support these goals, rather than to compel learners to first master technical skills in order to learn something.

Glenn received his B. Ed., in Adult Education from Brock University.

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Susan Katz is the Coordinator for English and Communications in the Faculty of Continuing Education and Training.  Susan also teaches online PSY181: Learning ,Thinking and Problem Solving, which she developed with the help of eLC.

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When award winning professor, Dr. Selia Karsten, needed to make videotaped interviews of her graduates available to her current students, she called on eLC to help.

The Subject
CAP506, "Career Launching and Portfolio Development" premiered at Seneca in the fall of 2004. It is a hybrid course for marketing students attending class one hour a week. These students dream of great jobs and need help getting them. In this course, they build portfolios and eportfolios. They collaborate to effectively research and to profile Seneca marketing graduates now out in the field.

ELC @ Newnham
One of the challenges of CAP506 is to introduce students to graduates of the Marketing program and to the process of interviewing the grads in order to create profiles that will inspire reality-based job search. The eLC @ Newnham helped with the solution. With eLC's assistance, video taped interviews and 35mm photos were edited and digitized into short (10 min.) video profiles of two graduates that were saved to CD for showing in the classroom/lab.

Dr. Selia Karsten, winner of the OETC Impact Award (2003) for outstanding contributions to teaching and learning with technology, and the International College Teaching and Learning Award (2000) for innovative excellence in teaching, learning and technology, teaches at Seneca and OISE/UT.
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Sharon McCleave is a Professor of Human Biology at King Campus. With the help of eLC, Sharon has been developing a fully online Introduction to Human Anatomy and Physiology course (IHP101), as part of Seneca's International Health Services Program.

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The course has been created using Learning Units in Blackboard, together with graphics and interactivities developed by eLC. Most of the content has been inserted in Blackboard using the WYSIWYG text box editor, making it easy for Sharon to edit the material as needed. The sample unit shows how the course materials would look and function in the Blackboard environment.

The IHP program is unique in North America and has traditionally had participants from around the world. It offers a multidisciplinary approach to health care and the development of the knowledge base and skills required to work in areas of the world disadvantaged by undeveloped or depleted health care resources. The program focuses on the individual's role as a health teacher, primary care worker and trainer for village health workers. For more information, go to: http://ilearn.senecac.on.ca/aahs/health/IHP/introduction.html

Tracey McCutcheon teaches in the Nursing program in the Faculty of Applied Arts and Health Sciences at King Campus. One of the courses Tracey teaches is NRS 205, Mathematics for Medication Administration. Mathematics can be a challenging topic for many students, and it is a critical component for nursing: one error in calculating a dosage or concentration of medication can have serious consequences on a patient. To help students improve their math skills related to medication administration, Tracey, the eLC at King Campus, and Media Production designed an activity that simulated a hospital setting with various patient cases for students to work through.  Each case requires students to read a patient chart, and perform calculations related to that case. Tracey says her students have really benefited from using the activity.

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Ian Tipson and Jennifer Parker teach in the Faculty of Information Arts and Technology at the Seneca at York campus. Ian and Jennifer (with the assistance of the eLC - S@Y) have been developing a series of interactive learning objects to help students grasp the fundamentals of computer programming.

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