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Susan Briscoe, Michelle Smith & Orenda Boucher-Curotte

What is the First Peoples Initiative? What does it do? How is it organized? Who can participate?
Meet those involved: Journeys coordinator Michelle Smith, Centre coordinator Orenda Boucher-Curotte, community members of Indigenous Education Council, Indigenous students, and more.
Stay with us to experience the Kairos Blanket Exercise, following this session.

Melanie Doyle, Susan Finch & Ivan Freud

What kind of college do you want to be part of? What is your contribution to our collective community? As educators, we have great power, and thus the opportunity to inspire students beyond their curriculum to affect beneficial change in the world. As Uncle Ben reminded a young Peter Parker: “With great power comes great responsibility.” Our courses are part of the Peace Certificate.

Lysanne Audy, Chantale Giguère, Ryan Moon, Anne-Laure Teichet & Julie Wong

Participants will discuss in small groups different aspects of online teaching: useful software like PowerPoint Mix or Microsoft 360 in a flipped classroom; how to teach a synchronous partly online course by videoconferencing; philosophical and sociological reflection around teaching online to our cegep students; implementation of our E-Learning Community of practice : objectives, format and resources.

Hélène Nadeau, Maria Dikeakos & Sylvia d'Appolonia

We are building a group at Dawson under the multidisciplinary theme of Brain Imaging. In summer 2015 and 2016, Dawson students worked collaboratively to learn background information on brain imaging and experienced real research at Dawson and in university labs. We will describe the internship and discuss the ways you can get involved.

Marc Belanger (Vanier College)

How does WeBWork work? An online homework system that has been adapted and used with success in the Quantitative Methods course at Vanier College, we'll look at the WeBWork system, and give a brief summary of a research project examining how it affected student learning.

Susan Briscoe, Orenda Boucher-Curotte & Michelle Smith

The Kairos Blanket Exercise is a simple but powerful interactive demonstration of colonialism in action. This moving experiential learning activity can be an important step towards Reconciliation, and brings insight into the historic and contemporary relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Canada . No prior knowledge or special skills are required. Teachers can then use this activity as a classroom exercise.

Alice Havel, Laura King & Mary Jorgensen

62 Dawson College teachers nominated by students for their excellent use of computer technology were interviewed by the Adaptech Research Network regarding the technology they used to teach and communicate with students. Lets examine the perspectives presented by teachers for teachers.

Evelyne Marcil & Catherine Fichten

Universal design suggests that PowerPoint presentations should be developed, from the beginning, to be accessible to everyone. With these simple guidelines, reflecting the principles of universal design, we will discuss how you can ensure that nobody will miss anything from your presentations ever again – unless they are not paying attention, of course!

Kim Simard

This presentation and discussion will give an overview of the process taken to engage students, faculty and staff in an awareness campaign about sexual violence called "It Happens Here". A collaboration between Inspire Solutions (Pat Romano) and Women's/Gender Studies we're part of an ongoing effort to use storytelling tools to break silences regarding important world issues in our community.

Dr. Alan Sears (Ped Day 2016 Keynote Speaker, University of New Brunswick)

In this interactive workshop, Alan will illustrate the use of constructivist practices, in particular, situated learning and anchored instruction, for teaching about democratic concepts and ideas (focusing on concepts related to human rights and diversity).  We’ll consider contested and fluid notions of democracy and how to convey to our learners to be aware of how these notions have been defined and manifested across time and contexts.

Sameer Bhatnagar

Starting with the basics: We'll set up a course;
build a learning sequence of four different problem types; look at advanced features; and fine-tune course details (discussion forums, content experiments, cohorts, graphs etc.). Join us!

Yann Lamontagne & Sylvain Muise

GitHub is an online platform that allows for multiple
users to collaborate simultaneously on a single project. In this session we will provide an overview of how it can be used by CEGEP teachers to create course material, textbooks, outlines etc.
Participants will be taught how to open a GitHub
account and the basic commands required to begin a simple collaborative project.

Saskia Van Kampen, Nicole Collins & Catherine Black (Ontario College of Art and Design)

In art and design education, writing is a site where tensions between studio making, art and design practice and the disciplinarity of art and design fields intersect. In this interactive session, we explore how studio education can productively destabilize conceptions of writing as traditional academic discourse and how “learning to write” in the field can become a creative act of “making” the discourse.

Adamo Petosa & Elizabeth Charles

This workshop will feature Visual Classrooms and SMART amp, two interactive digital learning tools that enable users to share, analyze, peer-review and collaboratively discuss content using personal computing devices. Participants will 1) learn how other college instructors have used these learning environments and 2) build their own activities with these tools.

Rafael Scapin

The workshop will review Google Tools and Office 365, showing several tools and how they can be integrated into teaching. It's a hands-on activity. No previous knowledge of either platforms is required.

Leanne Letourneau (Quebec Lesbian Network)

Raising awareness on LGBT intimate partner violence and the geriatric populations. We'll talk about health professionals, our highly heteronormative society and the populations affected in both of these categories, and how we teach about these issues.

Joel Trudeau, Andrew Katz & Jennifer Smith

SPACE coordinators will lead breakout discussions with the aim of introducing and exploring opportunities for faculty and students to connect with SPACE both within and outside of the classroom. Lets discuss ways to encourage student discussion and showcase student work through venues such as the web magazine, the annual exhibition, presentations and more.

Laure Galipeau, Catherine Soleil & Effie Konstantinopoulos

Let us benefit from the community power that is UDL@Dawson! The goal of this community is to make teaching practices explicit, to help faculty work collaboratively in democratic and reflective ways and to establish sustained professional development based on a spirit of inquiry. (Bilingual Session)

Magdalena Mlek & Yvonne Kiely

Think back to your first semester as a new teacher. Was it exciting? Stressful? Did you have a mentor?
Many new faculty members feel alone and unsupported. Do you think your department could benefit from having a peer mentorship program for your new faculty?
We would like to offer our expertise.
Join us for this presentation and see how we did it!

Avery Rueb (Vanier College)

Que ce soit le jeu de balle des Mayas ou le jeu international d'échecs, l'homme se sert depuis toujours des jeux pour enseigner, communiquer et évoluer. Avery révélera l’histoire des jeux vidéo et leur transformation dans le domaine des jeux sérieux pour la salle de classe. De plus, les participants auront l'ocassion de jouer aux meilleurs jeux éducatifs sur le marché actuel. (Bilingual Session)

Melanie Matthews

All materials will be provided. Get ready to get hands-on!

Patricia Campbell & Maja Frydrychowicz

An introduction to desktop and command line in Linux. Researchers who need to manipulate data are turning more to open source tools. Get a feel for Linux and the ways it can help you do research, process data or access open source research tools. Learning Linux and the command line will empower you to do more with any operating system.

Orenda Boucher-Curotte

Dawson's First Peoples' Centre coordinator Orenda Boucher-Curotte will explain how to apply the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action in the post-secondary classroom. Topics covered will include recognizing the colonial aspects of education, bringing in culturally relevant resources and experts, avoiding cultural appropriation, the problem of defining Indigenous identity, the effect of micro-aggressions on student learning, and more.

Sharing Strategies and Building Alliances - What does an increased demand and service delivery mean to teachers, and how can we work together to responding to the varied needs of a diverse student population. Lets talk literacy software, classroom engagement and more.

Precicom

Find out the latest, imaginative ways fraudsters use to steal your information and compromise your devices. Learn how to better protect yourself, and how by doing so you are helping protect your colleagues.
Faculty participants have a chance to WIN ONE OF TWO IPAD MINIS.

Eliza Wood

What are the benefits and capabilities of turnitin.com? Beyond simple plagiarism detection software, Turnitin improves the quality and quantity of instructor comments, reduces time spent grading, and streamlines plagiarism detection. This workshop includes instructions on how to use this software and is open to all teachers, regardless of their level of comfort with technology.

Tim Miller

Design Thinking refers to the way designers go about designing and solving problems. The approach can be applied to non-design problems such as organizational change, solving societal problems or launching a new venture. It is a form of solution-based or solution-focused and emphatic thinking, starting with a goal (a better future situation) instead of solving a specific problem.

Chris Bourne, Catherine Brathwaite, Julie Johnson & Elizabeth Kirkland

Participants will be part of one of the most successful classroom simulation activities of recent years: Reacting to the Past. Participants will take on key roles in a simulation of the French Revolution and discuss how historical simulations can be applied to a variety of academic disciplines.

Elizabeth Charles & Adamo Petosa

This workshop addresses questions instructors have regarding implementing innovative pedagogies in the era of active learning (AL). Colleagues who have successfully tailored their pedagogical workflows to incorporate AL strategies will discuss challenges to both “cover” content and engage students. These productive patterns will be situated within AL research and a new pedagogical tool that supports AL design will be presented.

Chris Whittaker

This will be a hands-on workshop intended for beginner SMART Board users who will “get up” and use the technology. We’ll go from the basics of turning it on, creating and manipulating objects, using writing and object tools, to creating lesson plans. Let’s explore best practices for the use of the board to maximize student learning!

Yann Lamontagne

Two examples of collaborative projects (course outlines and a linear algebra textbook) will be presented and participants will be given the opportunity to make modifications to the projects using GitHub and LaTeX.

Chris Georgieff & Elisabeth Roy

This session is geared towards those who currently make updates to the Dawson College website using WordPress or would like to. A few basic "best practices" will be covered, as well as more advanced concepts like menu management and styling. Seasoned web editors are also welcome; we will show some new and advanced options and features.