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STLHE 2016 SAPES

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Jill McSweeney

Jill Marie McSweeney is an Educational Developer in the Centre for Learning and Teaching at Dalhousie University. She began her career as a Graduate Teaching Associate at Dalhousie University, and is currently completing her PhD.

17:00 EDT

Student Welcome Physics & Astronomy Building 148

17:30 EDT

Opening Reception (Sponsored by eXplorance) and Registration Atrium, Physics & Astronomy Building

07:30 EDT

Registration North Campus Building (NCB 101)

08:30 EDT

Plenary I: QUESTions Instead of Answers: A Process-based Curriculum for the Twenty-first Century (Sponsored by University Affairs) North Campus Building (NCB 101)David Helfand

10:40 EDT

Nutrition Break (sponsored by Turning Technologies Canada) Mustang Lounge (UCC)

11:15 EDT

CON01.09a - Professional Learning Communities in Higher Education: Empowering frameworks for faculty development, educational innovation, and institutional change UCC 63Julie Mooney CON01.01a - Space the Final Frontier? UCC 37Veronika Mogyorody TAGSA Special Interest Group - Building TAGSA: Looking Back, Moving Forward UCC 67

12:15 EDT

TAGSA Special Interest Group Lunch UCC 67

13:30 EDT

CON02.06 - Educational Developers Leading and Empowering the SoTL UCC 59Nicola Simmons • Lynn Taylor CON02.07 - Pedagogical Training and the Future of the PhD Program UCC 60Bridgette Brown • Ajay Parasram • Morgan Rooney

14:20 EDT

Nutrition Break (sponsored by Turning Technologies Canada) Mustang Lounge (UCC)

14:45 EDT

CON03.13 - Graduate Students as Educational Leaders: Transforming Departmental Teaching Cultures through the Lead TA Program UCC 315 (Council Chambers)Melanie-Anne Atkins • Aisha Haque • Melissa Jacquart • Ken Meadows

15:45 EDT

CON04.19 - Laughing Matters: Humour as a Teaching and Learning Value for Empowerment Mustang Lounge (UCC)Patrick Maher • Jacqueline Murray • Rosemary Polegato • Cameron Tsujita • Maureen Volk • Jonathan White • Philippe Caignon • Carol B. Duncan • Donna Marie Eansor • Pippa Lock CON04.10 - Developing Students’ Creative Thinking Skills in the Context of Course Content UCC 65Bharat Maheshwari • Zbigniew Pasek • Paul Rousseau CON04.08 - Dodging the disciplinary divide: Blending people, concepts and learning UCC 61Tamara Kelly • Lauren Wallar

16:45 EDT

POSTER.22 - Development in Teaching Practice as a Sociocultural Learning Process Atrium, Physics & Astronomy BuildingAnnique Boelryk POSTER.62 - Graduate student learning: An empowering (side-) effect of a teaching inquiry grants program. Atrium, Physics & Astronomy BuildingLaura D'Amico • Cheryl Amundsen • Odilia Dys-Steenbergen • Angela McLean • Irina Presnyakova

08:45 EDT

Plenary II - Empowering Students as Partners in Teaching and Learning (Sponsored by Presenters Podium) North Campus Building (NCB 101)Leslie Ortquist-Ahrens

09:50 EDT

Nutrition Break (sponsored by Turning Technologies Canada) Mustang Lounge (UCC)

10:30 EDT

CON05.02 - Not Your Grandfather’s Racism: Challenging Microaggressions in the Classroom UCC 54ANadine LeGros • Deena Mandell • WLU Student Presenters TAGSA Special Interest Group Annual General Meeting UCC 315 (Council Chambers) CON05.01 - Supporting your Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Writing UCC 37Ken Meadows • Janice Miller-Young • Carol Roderick

11:30 EDT

CON06.13 - Ethical Principles in Teaching for Contingent Instructors UCC 315 (Council Chambers)Erin Aspenlieder • Marie Vander Kloet CON06.03 - The Design and Implementation of Game-Based Learning Systems in Higher Education and Health Professions Education UCC 54BRob Bajko • Raquel Meyer • David Chandross • Deborah Fels • Lori Schindel Martin • Jennifer Reguindin CON06.10 - Decreasing Social Distance in Online Courses and Large Classes Weldon Library 258Jane Holbrook • Christine Zaza

13:45 EDT

PK07.14d - The Kaleidoscope of Student-Centered Learning. Ever Changing Weldon Library 258Katherine Roselius • Elisabeth Pitts • Barb Stuart PK07.14a - The [Not So] Hidden Language of Power and Exclusion Weldon Library 258Cathy Benedict PK07.01a - Enhanced Graduate Learning through the Asynchronous & Synchronous Communication Cycle UCC 37Mark Deschaine • Ray Francis PK07.01b - Designing for Change UCC 37Bridgette Atkins • Jaymie Koroluk • Matthew Stranach PK07.01e - Graduate Students Advancing Literature on Graduate Students: Reflections on Co-Editing a Special Issue on Graduate TA Preparation for the Canadian Journal of Higher Education UCC 37Lianne Fisher • Aisha Haque • Betsy Keating • Lorraine Godden • Shaya Golparian • Cynthia Korpan • Annie Riel • Christina Skorobohacz • Kim West PK07.01f - Empowering Graduate Student Writing and Writers UCC 37Michelle McGinn • Snezana Ratkovic

14:45 EDT

Nutrition Break (sponsored by Turning Technologies Canada) Mustang Lounge (UCC)

15:00 EDT

CON08.03b - Undergraduate course gamification: Forging beyond multimedia and social media contexts into health sciences curriculum UCC 54BRob Bajko • Raquel Meyer • Deborah Fels • Karen LeGrow • Lori Schindel Martin • Jennifer Reguindin • Sheraz Siddiqui CON08.06b - Investigating the effects of physical spaces on learning perception of first-year university students UCC 59Erica Bulloch • Jennifer Spencer • Shannon Rushe CON08.16c - Empowering learners and effecting change through partnership: The ‘Students as Partners’ Summer Institute Weldon Library 121 (Teaching Support Centre)Christine Black • Mick Healey • Elizabeth Marquis CON08.07b - Teaching to learn, learning to teach: a pedagogical course for undergraduates UCC 60Alicia McKenzie CON08.12a - Beyond words: Comics in the classroom UCC 146Bree Akesson • Olufunke Oba CON08.16b - Supporting International Graduate Students’ and Post-Doctoral Fellows’ Development as Teachers Weldon Library 121 (Teaching Support Centre)Sue Fostaty Young

16:10 EDT

CON09.12 - Educational leadership in post-secondary education: what is it and how do we develop it? UCC 146Natasha Kenny CON09.10 - I am here: Ensuring presence in an online learning environment UCC 65Melissa Brasgold CON09.14 - Balancing Tensions in TA Training: The Value of “Standardized Customization” in Graduate Student Teaching Training Programs Weldon Library 258Megan Burnett • Sandy Carpenter • David Chan • Alli Diskin • Michal Kasprzak • Robin Sutherland-Harris CON09.01 - Welcome to my classroom: Empowering Learners by Creating Human Connection UCC 37Billy Strean, Ph.D.

07:30 EDT

Registration Mustang Lounge (UCC)

09:00 EDT

CON10.04 - Game On! Engaging Students Using Game Based Strategies Across Disciplines UCC 56Katie Reck • Kristina Rouech CON10.09 - Empowering Graduate Student Research: Reflections on Collaborative Learning Module Development and Learner Motivation UCC 63Melanie-Anne Atkins • Colleen Burgess • Cory Laverty • Christena McKillop • Melanie Mills • Elan Paulson • Caroline Whippey CON10.14 - Developing the Graduate Teaching Associate Weldon Library 258Susan Joudrey • Jill McSweeney • Suzanne Le-May Sheffield

10:00 EDT

CON11.03 - Mindfulness in the Virtual Classroom: Tools and Techniques UCC 54BApryl Gill • Jennifer Martin CON11.11 - Engaging Students in Critical Thinking and Class Discussions UCC 67Laura Reave CON11.01 - Empowering TAs: Creating an Effective Peer-based Teaching Assistants' Training Program UCC 37Megan Burnett • Sandy Carpenter • David Chan • Alli Diskin • Michal Kasprzak • Robin Sutherland-Harris CON11.16 - Empowered to write: Exploring graduate student writing groups Weldon Library 121 (Teaching Support Centre)Jacqueline Beres • Karen Julien

10:50 EDT

Nutrition Break (sponsored by Turning Technologies Canada) Mustang Lounge (UCC)

11:15 EDT

Plenary III - Introduction of the 2016 3M National Student Fellows UCC McKellar Room

12:15 EDT

Closing Remarks and STLHE 2017 Conference Team Presentation UCC McKellar Room