Centennial Symposium
Banff, Alberta, Canada
November 11 to 13, 2010

Pre-Symposium Workshops
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
November 10, 2010

• Home
• Proposals
• Registration
• Workshops
• Program / Presentation Materials
• Keynotes
• Calgary & Banff
• Transportation
• Lodging
• Contact Us

Program and Presentation Materials

8:00	Registration & Breakfast
9:00	Plenary Session
9:30	Featured Workshops: Getting Started in Scholarship of Teaching and Learning; Systematic Scholarly Inquiry Using Blended Learning Technologies and New Media; Using Qualitative Methods of Data Collection and Analysis
12:00	Lunch
1:30	Featured Workshops: Institutional Leadership for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning; Systematic Scholarly Inquiry Using Blended Learning Technologies and New Media; Using Qualitative Methods of Data Collection and Analysis
4:00	Reception
5:30	Departure of Bus to Banff

4:00	Registration
5:00	Reception – Opening of the Centennial Commons
6:30	Symposium Opening Banquet
7:30	Keynote Address Pat Hutchings, Senior Associate with The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching “The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: Mapping the Journey”

7:00	Breakfast
8:00	Registration & Centennial Commons Open
9:00	Plenary Session
9:30	Concurrent Sessions, Band A Session 1 Inspiring Education: a Dialogue with Albertans: As a Bridge between Academia, Government and Community - Dian Mitrayani (Northern Illinois University) & Robert Don Peel (University of Hawaii @ Manoa) Session 2 Wondering Where the Students Are: Investigations Into Film Students' Interpretive Practices - Kelly Hewson (Mount Royal University) and Teaching and Consumption - Elizabeth Grauerholz (University of Central Florida) Session 3 Helping English Language Learners Achieve Accelerated Acculturation to the Academic Community - Elaine Khoo (University of Toronto - Scarborough) and Reading Value: Student Choice of Reading Strategies - Karen Manarin (Mount Royal University) Session 4 ‘Boyer Reconsidered': Fostering Students’ Scholarly Habits of Mind and Models of Practice - Charles Morrison (Wilfred Laurier University), (Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Sources Cited) Session 5 The Use and Value of an Online Archive - Stuart Berry (Athabasca University) and Teaching, Living, and Learning in an Age of Globalization: Student Narratives Provide a Way Forward - Richard Erlendson (Mount Royal University) Session 6 Student Perceptions on the Use of Collaborative Editing Tools in a Freshman Engineering Communications Course - Katrin Becker (Simon Fraser University) & Carol Jefferies (Mount Royal University) and Supporting and Managing Group Work in Engineering Courses With Shared Documents - Carol Jefferies (Mount Royal University) & Katrin Becker (Simon Fraser University) Session 7 Developing Ethical and Creative Graduates Through Service-Learning: “The Mount Royal Experience” - Victoria Calvert, Patti Derbyshire & Rafik Kurji - (Mount Royal University) and Experiential Education; Student Success, and Reputational Capital: Can the Real World Transform Undergraduate Education - David Finch & Patti Derbyshire (Mount Royal University)
10:30	Break
11:00	Concurrent Sessions, Band B Session 1 Critically Reading the Word and the World - Miriam Carey, Richard Gale, Karen Manarin & Melanie Rathburn (Mount Royal University) Session 2 Do Game Assignments Help Programming Students Learn More? - Katrin Becker (Simon Fraser University) & J.R. Parker (University of Calgary) and Contextualising Student Ambivalence About Collaborative Learning: Findings From a Study of Student Engagement in a Culturally Diverse Community College - Alison Thomas (Douglas College) Session 3 Building Capacity: Learning Along the Way Through an Online Collaborative Project - Jennifer Lock (University of Calgary) and Evaluation of a Collaborative Online Note-taking Project to Enhance Learning in Large Lecture Classes - Teresa Snow (Georgia Institute of Technology) Session 4 Science Outreach Activities at Mount Royal University; What Works, What Does Not and Lessons Learned - Katharine Boggs & Nathan Ackroyd (Mount Royal University) Session 5 Three Takes on Methodologies for Attending to Student Voices - Andrea Williams, Jane McNichol & Lee Wertzler (Mount Royal University) Session 6 Experiential Class-Based Outreach Activities and Feminist Teaching Practice - Glenda Bonifacio (University of Lethbridge) and Digital Tapestries: Weaving Stories - Mercedes Rowinsky (Wilfred Laurier University) Session 7 A Universal Approach to Teaching of the Period Table of the Elements - Matthias Bierenstiel (Cape Breton University) and Helping Students to Act Like Experts: Are There Opportunities for Collaboration? - Israel Dunmade & Qasim Syed (Mount Royal University)
12:00	Lunch
2:00	Concurrent Sessions, Band C Session 1 Student Services Interventions for Teaching and Learning: Findings From HEQCO-Sponsored Research in Ontario Colleges and Universities - Christine Arnold (University of Toronto) and Assessing Teaching and Learning: Findings from HEQCO- Sponsored Research in Ontario Colleges and Universities - Richard Wiggers (Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO) Session 2 Simulation Enhanced Learning and Clinical Competence: Phase I-III - Leslie Murray (Mohawk-McMaster Institute for Applied Health Sciences) and Developing Faculty to Teach Using Simulation in an Interdisciplinary Health Care Environment - Margaret Wilson (NorQuest College) Session 3 In the Valley of the Giants: Cultivating Intentionality and Integration - Miriam Carey (Mount Royal University) and Improving Student Performance by Addressing Student and Teacher Misconceptions about Learning - Stephen Chew (Samford University), (Part 2) Session 4 Fostering the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Through Educational Development - Derek Briton & Cindy Ives (Athabasca University) Session 5 Examination of the Learning Effectiveness of Using Feature Films in Teaching: Outcome Measures, Student Perceptions, or Both? - Monica Baehr (Mount Royal University) and Poetic Transcription: An Innovative Approach to Exploring Trust Within Universities - Candace Bloomquist & Kim West (University of Saskatchewan) Session 6 Unconventional Classrooms, Unconventional Methods: Conducting Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Research in Places You Don't Expect - Becky Willson & Margy MacMillan (Mount Royal University) and Student Learning Services (and Other Non-Curricular Areas) as a Site for Teaching and Learning Scholarship - Catharine Lindland (Mount Royal University) Session 7 Distance Teaching and Learning: Shared challenges, Opportunities, Parallels and Possibilities in Australian and Canadian Schools of Nursing - Penelope Barrett (Charles Sturt University) & Vince Salyers (Laurentian University) and Building on Strengths: Rural Instructor Preceptor Project (RIPP) - Emil Tarka & Nancy Walker (Red Deer College)
3:00	Break
3:30	Keynote Address Ron MacDonald, Institute for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Scholar and Journalism Professor in the Faculty of Communication Studies, Mount Royal University “What Can SoTL Do For a Post-Secondary School with a Reputation for Excellent Teaching?”
4:30	Scholars Program Reception
6:00	Dinner on your own

r>

7:00	Breakfast
8:00	Registration & Centennial Commons Open
9:00	Plenary Session
9:30	Concurrent Sessions, Band D Session 1 Performance Enhancement Training: Making Good Doctors Better - Eunice Friesen & Cheryl Kristjanson (University of Manitoba) and Evaluating Student and Faculty Satisfaction with a Pedagogical Framework - Vince Salyers & Lorraine Carter (Laurentian University) & Penelope Barrett (Charles Sturt University) Session 2 Moving to Their Own Beat: Exploring How Students Use Web 2.0 Technologies to Support Group Work, Outside of Class Time - Norm Vaughan, Todd Nickle, Jim Silovs & Jim Zimmer (Mount Royal University) Session 3 Lenses on Learning: A Compendium of Data Sources for SoTL Inquiries - Doug Hamilton (Royal Roads University) Session 4 Beyond the CASTL Walls: Collaborative Cultures of Teaching, Learning, and Scholarship - David Krause (Dominican University) and Everyday SOTL: Using Faculty Teams for Program Assessment & Beyond - Kathleen Perkins (Columbia College) Session 5 MERLO Pedagogy: Enhancing Conceptual Thinking with Meaning Equivalence Reusable Learning Objects - Masha Etkind (Ryerson University) & Uri Shafrir (University of Toronto) and Enhancing Conceptual Thinking with Interactive Concept Discovery (InCoD) - Uri Shafrir (University of Toronto) & Masha Etkind (Ryerson University) Session 6 Investigation of Geographic Literacy of Students in a First Year Introductory Geography Course - Sally Turner & Joseph Leydon (University of Toronto - Mississauga) and Computer-Moderated Peer Review vs. Instructor Grading in a Post-Secondary Communications Course - Hugh Read (Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT)) Session 7 Enhancing Assessment in Teacher Education Courses - Keith Roscoe (University of Lethbridge)
10:30	Break
11:00	Concurrent Sessions, Band E Session 1 Scholars in the School of Nursing at MRU Scholarship in Action - Maureen Mitchell, Darlene Dawson, Genevieve Currie & Barbara Astle (Mount Royal University) Session 2 Assistive Technology Training: Research into Contextualized Training by Academic Strategists - Flo Brokop & Ewa Wasniewski (NorQuest College) and Writing Strategies for Learners Who are Deaf - Flo Brokop (NorQuest College) Session 3 Role Plays and Communication Courses - Deb Bennett (Mount Royal University) and Teaching/Learning as Social Process Within the Organization of the Classroom: Influences on Student Engagement and Learning Outcomes - Anna Helewka & Miriam Tynski (Douglas College) Session 4 Is There a Scholarship of Teaching Sociology, Round 3 - Jeffrey Chin (LeMoyne College), Elizabeth Grauerholz (University of Central Florida) Session 5 Calculations and Expectations: Using the Think-Aloud Protocol to Reveal Student Understanding in a First-Year Engineering Course - Janice Miller-Young (Mount Royal University) and Facilitating Advocacy as a Professional Role in Student Nurses - Helena Myllykoski (Mount Royal University) Session 6 Transforming Undergraduate Education through the Use of Case Studies - Melanie Rathburn (Mount Royal University) & Karina Baum (Buckingham Browne & Nichols) and Student Success in Mathematics and Statistics Part I: Student Engagement - Lorraine Dame (University of Victoria), (Part 2) Session 7 The Centennial, Not just Another Pretty Online Reader - Aida Patient (Mount Royal University) and Applying Adaptive Mentorship© across the Disciplines: An Invitation to Collaborate - Edwin Ralph (University of Saskatchewan)
12:00	Lunch
2:00	Concurrent Sessions, Band F Session 1 The American Society for Microbiology's Biology Scholars Program: Catalyzing Undergraduate Biology Education Reform Through the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning - Alix Darden (University of Oklahoma) & Cindy Graham (University of Calgary) Session 2 Online Tools for Engagement and Evaluation in Core Accounting Courses - Wallace Lockhart (University of Regina) and Learner's Experiences of Asynchronous Online Contributions in a First-Year Partially Online Business Math Course - Laurie Craig Phipps (Kwantlen Polytechnic) Session 3 Learning about Teaching Pre-Service Science Teachers: Making Connection Between Theories and Science Teaching - Saiqu Azam (University of Calgary) and Characteristics of Deep and Surface Learning in Teacher Education Reflection Journals - Jodi Nickel (Mount Royal University) Session 4 The Three Facets of Student Engagement: A Preliminary Analysis of Survey Data - Catherine Berheide (Skidmore College) Session 5 Opening Dialogues Into the Complexity of Nursing Education - Joanna Szabo-Hart (Mount Royal University) and Narrative Pedagogy and Evaluation of Clinical Practice in Nursing Education: Fostering Clinical Competency Through Stories - Stephanie Zettel (Mount Royal University)
3:00	Break
3:30	Keynote Address Susan L. Elrod, Director of Project Kaleidoscope (PKAL) SoTL in STEM: How, Why and What?
4:30	Plenary Session
5:00	Adjourn – safe travels everyone

For more information please contact the Institute for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning at sotlinstitute@mtroyal.ca or 403.440.5503