& Events

For Students

Mighty Pen IBPOC Writing Group
If you identify as Indigenous, Black, or a Person of Colour (IBPOC), the Mighty Pen is a space to develop your creative writing practice in genres such as poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, and drama. We will share writing prompts, readings, and resources by writers of colour.

The Work Room: Co-Working Community Space
Join us weekly for a supportive environment to help you get work done. We will practice setting an achievable goal for the session followed by independent work time.

June Reading Event with The Mighty Pen and the EW Reading Series
A Emerging Writers Reading Series and the Mighty Pen collaboration: A night of incredible readings with Elizabeth Mudenyo, Aline-Mwezi Niyonsenga, Miriam Richer, Trent Lewin, Cordelia Shan, Durga Kumarathasan, and Milah Malaj!

ELL Open Learning
A weekly drop-in session where students can share strategies for language learning and practice that can improve reading, vocabulary, writing, speaking and presentation skills.

Generative AI Co-Labs: Writing Artist & Curatorial Statements
In this workshop, we will explore the creative potential of text-based Generative AI applications such as ChatGPT to write artists and curatorial statements, and look at examples of how other creative writers have been using these applications, as well as discuss authorship and acknowledgements.

Graduate Writing Intensive: Proposals and First Drafts (for Graduate students)
Dedicate yourself to writing, consult with a WLC tutor, and join us for optional workshops on planning and organizational strategies, establishing scope, mean and cohesion, and effective citation practices.

Time Management Tuesday
Join us and learn how to confidently prioritize and juggle condensed coursework. This session will include interactive activities and group discussion.

Writing After Graduation
In this workshop, practice different types of writing for your professional lives beyond graduation, such as cover letters, grant proposals, and graduate school applications. Discuss how to tailor the style and tone of your writing to different audiences, as well as various resources available post-graduation.

Establishing Scope & Structure (for Graduate students)
Join this workshop to learn about strategies for establishing purpose, focus and context in your writing, research, and how to introduce cohesion and coherence to your work.

Graduate Writing Circle (for Graduate students)
In this writing group, dedicate time each week to your writing and research in a supportive environment. Here you will identify achievable writing goals for your thesis/MRP. Complete sections of your research project in addition to building academic community with peers and colleagues.

Editing & Revision: Pushing to a Final Draft (for Graduate students)
In this workshop, dedicate time to better understand the power of editing and revision. Learn and apply content with structural and line editing strategies. Differentiate and prioritize between higher and lower-order concerns. Employ strategies to create consistent focus and structure.

Developing Cohesion & Meaning (for Graduate students)
In this workshop, discover and practice strategies to create meaning in your writing, and to establish consistent focus.

For Faculty

ELL Inclusive Teaching Studios
This monthly drop-in is an opportunity to ask questions, and to workshop and iterate teaching strategies with OCAD U faculty, ELL Specialists, and other teaching and learning staff.

Incorporating TESOL Pedagogy in Studio Classes
This workshop looks at ways to design studio-based assignments and activities that support English Language Learners. Incorporating communicative design principles and other Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles.

Generative AI Faculty Community of Practice: Exploring Generative AI in Creative and Pedagogical Practices
Whether you’re an experienced GAI practitioner or just starting to explore, we invite you to join a Generative AI (GAI) Community of Practice, an opportunity for faculty and staff to share, experiment, research and further advance our critical AI literacy, as we continue to engage creatively, ethically and effectively with GAI.

Exploring Microsoft and Adobe Generative AI Tools
This session is an opportunity to learn about the licensed Generative AI (GAI) tools available to OCAD U faculty, students and staff. We will discuss general strategies for integrating GAI tools into your teaching and provide a live demo of licensed GAI tools, followed by an open forum for questions and sharing.

Generative AI: Teaching Strategies
This workshop will build on the recent roundtable about Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) to further provide the Art and Design faculty and instructors with information on the latest discussions in GAI and GAI- informed critical pedagogical strategies for talking about these tools with our students; addressing it in course design, integrating it into assignments to benefit marginalized students; responding to work that uses GAI tools, and cultivating critical AI literacy.

Generative AI and Studio Practice: A Roundtable
Building on the conversation begun during March’s Roundtable, this discussion continues to explore the evolving role of Generative AI in art and design education and its implications for the creative disciplines, student learning and our teaching and learning practices.

Classroom Power Relations and Anti-Racism: Assignment Design & Assessment
In this workshop, we will examine the impact that unexamined biases in assignment design and approaches to assessment can have on English Language Learners and other marginalized learner communities. We will consider strategies for developing and implementing anti-racist assignment design and assessment practices.

AI (Academic Integrity) Meets AI (Artificial Intelligence): Teaching in the Era of Generative AI: A Roundtable
Join us for a community roundtable conversation to explore how these apps work, share current pedagogical strategies and resources, and consider how our values and commitments as a community can guide our response to the presence of AI tools in our classrooms.

Classroom Power Relations and Anti-Racism: Faculty-Student Interactions
This workshop will explore power dynamics in the context of inclusive art and design pedagogy. Together we will explore strategies for developing and maintaining more equitable power relationships in hybrid, online, and in-person contexts.