Agenda

Teaching in Focus (TiF) Inaugural Conference

 
Date: May 23rd 2013
Location: Level 0 in TEL building, Keele Campus

8:30 - 9:15

Registration

9:15 - 10:00

Opening session keynote 1
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Former President Lorna Marsden
Lorna Marsden served as President and Vice-Chancellor of York University from 1997-2007 and remains as professor and President emerita.
Lorna Marsden Full Biography

10:05 - 10:45

2 x20 minute or 1 x 40 minute sessions in 4 parallel rooms
 
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(20) Internationalizing the Classroom: Two models of on-line intercultural learning
(20) Laptops in the Classroom: Problems and Solutions[/tab]
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(40) Creating Vignettes: Script Writing for Meaningful Simulation[/tab]
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(40) Valuing the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning[/tab]
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(40) Developing students’ academic literacies through course learning environments[/tab]
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10:45 - 11:00

Refreshment break and poster display

11:00 - 12:30

(90 minutes) 1 x 40 minute sessions followed by 2 x 20 mins each time (5 mins ease time)
 
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(40) Using clickers in large first year classrooms
(20) Blended Learning: Experiences from the field
(20) E-Learning and Digital Literacies: my personal foray into a MOOC and learning about expressing knowledge in a digital world[/tab]
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(40) Help! It is just a matter of time until they find out I don't know what I am talking about!: Teaching to Reduce and Prevent Impostor Feelings
(20) Give a Student a Fish, or Teach a Student to Fish?
(20) Bringing Critical Analysis into the Lecture Classroom[/tab]
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(40) Research on Best Practices: How can it inform our Teaching and Learning?
(20) Teaching Law to non-Lawyers
(20) Being TACTful in our Teaching[/tab]
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(40) Embedding Information Literacy in the Classroom
(20) Breaking Barriers – A Seamless Approach to Developing Academic Literacies
(20) Teaching Critical Reading skills to students[/tab]
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12:30 - 1:45

Lunch provided and poster display

1:45 - 2:30

Keynote 2
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Megan Boler
Megan M. Boler is Professor at the Ontario Institute of Studies in Education/University of Toronto; and Associate Faculty of Knowledge Media Design Institute.
‘Pedagogies of Discomfort' (full biography and abstract)’

2:35 - 3:25

2 x 20 minute sessions in 4 parallel rooms
 
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(20) Connecting the nodes: digital mind mapping as a learning tool
(20) From the expected to the unexpected: What I loved (and didn't love) about teaching an online course[/tab]
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(20) Engaging students through arts-based mediums: A complexity pedagogical approach
(20) Educating First Years[/tab]
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(20) Using material objects in the classroom
(20) Three Strategies to Encourage Participation[/tab]
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(20) Out of the Classroom into Community: the Innisfil Community Assessment Project
(20) Eating Your Own Lunch: Experiential Education and Literary Study[/tab]
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3:25 - 3:35

Refreshment break and poster display

3:35 - 4:15

2 x 20 minute or 1 x 40 minute sessions in 4 parallel rooms
 
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(20) York's Virtual Learning Commons -SPARK
(20) MOOC SHMOOC, Quality Media Learning Objects[/tab]
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(20) Pedagogy, Visualized: Transforming the Foundation Classroom Lecture for Moodle
(20) Improving memory for course material: Lessons from cognitive psychology[/tab]
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(40) From 2001 to the present -- A Learning Odyssey : Key Insights from Research into Learning in Higher Education[/tab]
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(20) Developing Experiential Education in the Faculty of Health: What does Experiential Education Deliver?
(20) Oh, that’s what it means! Integrating course objectives in experiential exercise design[/tab]
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4:15 - 4:45

Closing impressions – Sue Vail, Associate Vice-President, Teaching and Learning

Posters

Sarah Shujah - Hackers in the Library: The 1st Annual Steacie Library Dungeon Hackfest

Ron Owston, Dennis York, and Jena Finkel - Blended Learning at York University: Student Perceptions of Academic Innovation Fund Supported Courses

Mandy Frake-Mistak - Being TACTful in our Teaching

Ellen Sims - UK Professional Development framework - a model for Canada?