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Unit 2 Activities

This Week’s Live Web Conferences

LIVE Zoom event: Team Coaching

Q and A with your Team Coach. Learn about RRU’s team coaching in an interactive Q & A session.

Join this session from the Moodle page. Click on Zoom Participant Link under the heading Learning Community.

LIVE Zoom Event: Ask a Librarian 

LIVE Zoom event: Closing Session 

Join us in Zoom to hear what’s next as you get ready for your first course. Meet with program faculty and staff, and review your program from start to finish. Learn more about the cohort rep role. Provide us with your feedback on your Connections experience.

Join this session from the Moodle page. Click on Zoom Participant Link under the heading Learning Community.

NOTES:

The Zoom links in Moodle should take you directly into the Zoom meeting. If you are having issues, please email program staff.

All Zoom sessions are recorded. In the MACAL and DipCAL programs, it is the student’s responsibility to listen to the recording in a timely manner if for some reason you are unable to attend the synchronous session.

Activity 6 | Ethics and graduate research

As part of your graduate work in MACAL/GDCAL, you may be conducting formal or informal research in which you engage people through interviews, or focus groups, or other methods. Those of you continuing on to complete the MA degree and selecting to take the Thesis track will continue doing research for your thesis. Those selecting the Portfolio with Internship track will engage in a project-based internship involving research in the context of an organization to support and inform work they are doing. Those selecting the Portfolio without internship may create opportunities to do research as part of a community based project. Regardless, understanding the ethics of research is a core competency in graduate work and in climate action and is a requirement of the program.

As a way of introducing you to ethics, this activity asks that you complete the Tri-Council (federal academic research funding agencies) CORE training on research ethics – TCPS2. The training consists of 8 modules that can be done all at once or over time. In total, the training takes approximately 2- 3 hours. You will need to register using your Royal Roads email and listing Royal Roads University as your institution when you create your CORE account so that a certificate of completion is produced. This certificate should be saved and uploaded to the Dropbox in Moodle.

Activity 7 | Building your Community – Parts 1, 2 and 3

What makes a community?

Building a constructive learning community is an essential foundation for success in the MACAL program. You are now familiar with the RRU Student Rights and Responsibilities and other policies and procedures that are in place to support your learning environment.  Within this framework norms and expectations, which applies to the entire Royal Roads community, your cohort has an opportunity to build strong foundations for an optimal learning environment.

If you have not yet had the opportunity to use Padlet, take a moment now to Google it or YouTube it to find some useful “how to” tutorials. Note: Padlet works better in Firefox or Chrome. You don’t need to log in or create an account to do this activity.

Please do each activity in order. Post your answers to each of the questions below by the date and time listed in the Schedule for Activity 6, Parts 1, 2 and 3.

Part 1: Answer these prompts on the Padlet as scheduled

Part 1 – Padlet

  1. When you consider your engagement in the MACAL program, which personal values do you hold and how will these values guide your behaviour and your actions in this learning community?
  2. What are your expectations of yourself and of others in this learning community?

Part 2: Answer these prompts on the Padlet as scheduled

Part 2 – Padlet

  1. How will your cohort recognize, support and optimize the diverse values, perspectives and worldviews that collectively form this learning community?
  2. How will your cohort create, build and sustain an optimal learning environment?

Part 3: Answer these prompts in the Moodle Wiki as scheduled

Part 3: Commitments to My Community Wiki 

  1. What excites you about being part of this learning community?
  2. What actions will you personally take to support and sustain a healthy learning community and a constructive learning environment?

Activity 8 | Academic Reading & Writing

Reading and writing at the graduate level requires critical thinking and some strategies about how you apply that critical thinking to other people’s work (reading) and to your own work in papers, blogs, and presentations.

Part 1. Review this video which provides some thoughts and tips on how to approach reading and writing through a critical thinking lens.

Part 2. When you have watched the video, please return to the Moodle Resources page to review the following additional resources (links to each of these can be found on the page):

  • the Library website and the Writing Centre webpage
  • the How to Write a Graduate-level Essay webpage, and the Writing Centre Web Tour video
  • the Copyright Office webpage, the Academic Integrity & Research Ethics pdf, and the Citation Managers webpage
  • the RRU Learning, Teaching and Research Model (LTRM) pdf, the Cohort Learning Model video, the Life Changing Experiences video, and the Relevance in the Workplace video

Activity 9 | Confidentiality Form, Model Release Form, and Photo for Student ID Card

Part 1 – Required Forms: Please read both the Confidentiality Form and the Model Release Form (click links to view and download), then upload both forms (PDFs) in Moodle. Be sure to click ADD SUBMISSION and then SAVE CHANGES.

Part 2 – Student ID Card: All students registered in degree, diploma and certificate programs at Royal Roads University are entitled to a Student ID card, and are expected to have a photo in the Student Database. Log on and upload a photo to your MyAdmin account according to the specifications below:

  • The photo should be current (within the last 6 months) and passport style, but smiling is encouraged.
  • The photo must be in colour, and taken against a solid-white-coloured wall.
  • Your face should take up approximately 65% to 75% of the image.
  • The photo must show a full front view of the face and top of the shoulders, centred and squared to the camera.
  • Photos must be clear, sharp and in focus.
  • Save it using one of these two file extensions: .jpg or .jpeg.
  • The file size should be between 12KB and 28KB.
  • Next step:
    • Send an email to GuestServices@RoyalRoads.ca with a scanned copy of government-issued photo ID (for example, your driver’s license). Please include your name, student number, and current mailing address in the email. As long as the photo you have uploaded is appropriate, University Reception will then process an RRU Student ID card for you and mail it to you.

Complete Week 2 Resources Checklist (Quiz)

Please complete the Quiz – Review Week 2 to indicate that you have reviewed the resources listed above in Part 1 and 2.

That’s it, you’re all done! Make plans to attend the closing session listed at the top of this page, and we will see you in the next course!