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Dalhousie Conference on University Teaching and Learning
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Program

 

All sessions will be held in the Kenneth C. Rowe Management Building

TUESDAY | WEDNESDAY | THURSDAY

Tuesday, May 1, 2012
6:00 - 8:00 PM Opening Reception at the Dalhousie Art Gallery
6:00 - 7:00 PM Reception for Conference Registrants
7:00 - 8:00 PM Performance
Dalhousie Art Gallery

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Wednesday, May 2, 2012
8:30-9:00 AM Continental Breakfast & Registration
Rowe Building
9:00-9:15 AM Welcome
Honourary Chair, Simon Gadbois
Rowe Building
9:15-10:30 AM Keynote Speaker
Robert Kelly, University of Calgary
Educating for Creativity
Potter Auditorium, Room 1028
10:30-11:00 Networking Break Rowe Building
Concurrent Sessions 1
11:00-11:50 AM Diane Dunlop, Nova Scotia Agricultural College
An innovative, interprofessional, extracurricular initiative
Presentation
Room 1007
Anne Marie Dalton, Saint Mary's University
Creative Mentorship in the Classroom: A Qualitative Research Project
Presentation
Room 1009
Alison Hughes, University of New Brunswick Saint John
Fostering Creativity in the Cross-cultural Classroom
Workshop
Room 1011
Iris Black, Dalhousie University
Practicality, creativity and progress in the modern language classroom
Presentation
Room 1014
David Morgan, St. Francis Xavier University
Homebrew as a Reagent in the Undergraduate Biochemistry Laboratory: Towards a Re-imagination of the Teaching Laboratory as a Research Space.
Presentation
Room 1016
Rosemary Polegato, Mount Allison University
Assessing Creative Thinking: An Invitation to Explore F(l)ights of Fancy
Workshop
Room 1020
12:00-1:15 PM Lunch University Club
Concurrent Sessions 2
1:30-2:20 PM John J. Guiney Yallop, Becca Curran,
William Dobson, R. Scott Hiebert,
Whitney Hughes, Avra Laarakker, and Chera Smith,
Acadia University
Artful Journeys
Interactive presentation
Room 1007
Shane Theunissen, Saint Mary's University
The teachers must become learners and learners must become teachers
Interactive presentation
Room 1009
Stefani Woods and David Wilson, Saint Mary’s University
Shakespeare for the Millennials: Using apps in the class?
Presentation
Room 1011
David Sable, Saint Mary's University
Mindfulness and Creativity
Interactive Presentation
Room 1014
Eileen Herteis, Mount Allison University
“That Old Time Rock and Roll”: The Risky Business of Teaching Innovation
Workshop
Room 1016
2:20-2:30 PM Room Change
Concurrent Sessions 3
2:30-3:20 PM Deborah Day, Acadia University
Recreating Writing to Rethink What We Know
Presentation
Room 1007
Anne Marie Ryan, Dalhousie University
Rethinking courses as isolated entities: an integrated approach to enrich student learning
Presentation
Room 1009
Chris Van den Broeck, St. Thomas University
TED talks for the EAP (English for Academic Purposes) classroom: Pedagogical considerations, applications and possibilities
Presentation
Room 1011
Kathi Thompson, Saint Mary's University
Intercultural Dialogue: The Impact of Intercultural Classrooms on Teaching and Learning
Presentation
Room 1014
Binod Sundararajan, Lorn Sheehan, and Sarah Gilbert, Dalhousie University
Using Technologies in the Classroom
Presentation
Room 1016
Deborah Kiceniuk, Paolo Matteucci, Gaia Aish,
and Janice Allen, Dalhousie University
The Change One Thing Challenge - Creating Opportunities for Teachers to Share Their Student Engagement Activities at Dalhousie University
Presentation
Room 1020
3:20-3:30 PM Room Change
Concurrent Sessions 4
3:30-4:20 PM Leslie Shumka and Toni Roberts, Mount Allison University
The Online Plagiarism Quiz: A Creative Solution for Managing a Persistent Problem
Room 1007
Marina Pluzhenskaya
Fostering creativity in teaching and learning through play: Interdisciplinary approach.
Presentation
Room 1009
Clive Baldwin and Carolyn Hill, St. Thomas University
Using autoethnography in social work education
Presentation
Room 1011
Andrew Hare, Saint Mary's University
Visualizing a “Wild” Function
Presentation
Room 1014
Howard Donohoe, Saint Mary’s University
Creative Learning by Teams in a Final Examination
Interactive presentation
Room 1016
4:30 Reception honouring the recipient of the 2012 Alumni Association Award of Excellence in Teaching Rowe Atrium

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Thursday, May 3, 2012
8:30-9:00 AM Registration & Refreshments
Rowe Atrium
9:00-9:15 AM Welcome Rowe Atrium
Opening Plenary Panel
9:15-10:30 AM “Sheer Plod makes Plow Down Sillion Shine“:
Some Creative Moments, and How We Got There

Shannon Murray and
Allyson Trainor,
University of Prince Edward Island 

Angie Thompson,
Laken Pitts, and
Kassandra Thompson,
St. Francis Xavier University

Zach Levy, and
Clif Johnston,
Dalhousie University  
Potter Auditorium Room 1028
10:30-11:00 AM Refreshment Break & Room Change
Rowe Atrium
Concurrent Sessions 5
11:00-11:50 AM Suzanne Sheffield and Anne Marie Ryan, Dalhousie University
Realizing our Creativity as Teachers Through Open Conversation
Workshop
Room 1007
Shelagh Crooks, Saint Mary's University
Creativity in the Critical Thinking Classroom
Presentation
Room 1009
Andrew Wilson and Lelsie Shumka, Mount Allison University
The Ethics of Mystery: Fostering in Students an Ethical Awareness in Other Worlds
Presentation
Room 1011
Kirk McDermid, Montclair State University
Can we use technology to accommodate creativity?  Using Semantic Mediawiki to foster differentiated, diverse, decentralized and collaborative learning
Workshop
Room 1014
Zachary Levy and Cam McDonald, Dalhousie University
Vineyard Education Systems: Educational Simulations
Panel
Room 1016
12:00-1:15 PM Lunch and "Between Breaths" Display Rowe Atrium
Concurrent Sessions 6
1:30-2:20 PM Rohini Bannerjee, Saint Mary's University
Savouring the French Immersion Café
Presentation
Room 1007
Eileen Herteis, Mount Allison University
What Is A Course? When creativity, content, and the calendar collide.
Workshop
Room 1009
Judy Buchanan, Shelley Doucet, Tricia Cole, and Carolyn McCoy, University of New Brunswick Saint John
Code Blue: Your Patient is in Jeopardy! An innovative, interprofessional, extracurricular initiative
Presentation
Room 1014
Toni Roberts and Elizabeth Wells, Mount Allison University
Cornucopia of Creativity
Presentation
Room 1016
Closing Plenary Panel
2:30-3:20 PM Imagining the Future of Assessment and Applied Learning Potter Auditorium Room 1028

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