Teaching Fair
On Monday, March 12 at 3:00pm, you are invited to attend a Teaching Fair in the TELUS Centre Atrium at the University of Alberta. The Teaching Fair is a centrepiece event of the Festival of Teaching and will feature presentations illustrating innovative and diverse approaches to engaging students in learning and discovery. Immediately following the Fair, you are invited to attend the FoT Spots from 4:00 to 5:00 pm.
Teaching Fair Presentations
(as mapped out in TELUS Atrium)
Click here to read abstracts from the 35 presentions which will be featured at the Teaching Fair!
1. Surgery 101 Podcast
Shannon Erichsen (Surgery), Jonathan White, Surgery 101 Team
2. Undergraduates and information literacy: a new look through their eyes
Anne Carr-Wiggin (Libraries), Lisa Given, Heidi Julien, Kathleen De Long, Susan Barker, Darel Henderson, Anna Opryshko
3. Visualizing Health Humanities with Design Students
Bonnie Sadler Takach (Art and Design)
4. Teaching and learning democracy: tools for deepening engagement, collaboration, and leadership
David Kahane, Vargo Distinguished Teaching Chair (Political Science), Fiona Cavanagh (Project Manager, Centre for Public Involvement)
5. STuaRt, the web-based, interactive ‘virtual bioreactor’
Julia Foght (Biological Sciences), Abigail Adebusuyi (Biological Sciences), Dominic Sauvageau (Chemical & Materials Engineering), Joel Kravets (AICT), Mike Chow (AICT)
6. Integration of Health Informatics in Baccalaureate Nursing Education
Manal Kleib (Nursing)
7. Flipping the Higher Ed Classroom
Alec Hamilton (Educational Psychology), Amie Gondziola, Ewa Wasniewsai
8. Beyond Instruction: Building Collaborative Communities for Critical Inquiry
John Simpson (Philosophy), Rob Wilson, Jason Taylor, Felicia Nordlund
9. Peer Feedback in Pharmacy Simulations: A mechanism to explore multiple perspectives
Darren Pasay (Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences), Lisa Guirguis
10. Virtu-O-Chem: Enhancement of Student Learning and Safety in Organic Chemistry with a Virtual Organic Chemistry Laboratory
Hayley Wan (Chemistry), Dennis Hall, Nada Djokic, Chunyan Zhang
11. Learning by Doing: Discovery and Change in Project Management Teaching
Igor Osipov (School of Business)
12. Language Teaching, Learning and Students in Action
Karla Del Carpio (Modern Languages and Cultural Studies)
13. The FUTURA (FUndamenTal Undergraduate (big science) Research in Alberta) Project
James Pinfold (Physics), Askel Hallin, Roger Moore, Ian Mann
14. “Outbreak: Safety First”—A Trans-Reality Game
Lucio Gutierrez (Computing Science), Ioanis Nikolaidis, Eleni Stroulia, Sarah Forgie
15. Designing an Interprofessional Peer Teaching Laboratory Involving Pharmacy and Physiotherapy Students
Cheryl Sadowski (Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences), Allyson Jones, Johnson Li, Darren Pasay
16. Virtual Student Orientation—Enhancing the First Year Experience
Patricia Boechler (Educational Psychology), Erik deJong, Eleni Stroulia, Matthew Delaney, Mike Carbonaro, Robin Everall
17. The Teaching Support Initiative (TSI): Cultivating an Environment of Professional Enrichment and High-quality Teaching and Learning
Florence Myrick (Nursing), Barbara Dussault
18. I got your feedback … but what do you mean by ‘scholarship’?
Cary Brown (Occupational Therapy)
19. MLSCI 200 Transition to Clinical Practice—Getting the Medical Laboratory Science students into the “real world” earlier
Lisa Purdy (Laboratory Medicine and Pathology)
20. Supporting Student Learning in a Large Multi-Section Class through a Team Instructional Approach
Cheryl Poth (Educational Psychology), Maureen Mills, Tim Coates, Ekaterina Chudnovskaya, Ulemu Luhanga, Shannon Stafiej, Man-Wai Chu, Maria-Clara Bustos Gomez, Paolina Seitz, Wei Tang
21. An International Field Experience in Kenya: An Unfinished Symphony
Lucille Mandin (CSJ), Alyre Morin
22. Enhancing troubleshooting skills in Medical Laboratory Science
Amanda Van Spronsen (Laboratory Medicine and Pathology)
23. Classroom Heterogeneity: Student Demographics and University Teaching
Alison Yacyshyn (School of Business), Cheryl Cable (Dentistry)
24. The “Salon” as a venue for graduate student engagement and active learning
Maria Mayan (Community University Partnership, Extension), Maxi Miciak, Christine Daum
25. Developing a reading intervention program: From theory to practice
George Georgiou (Educational Psychology), Mariam Abougoush, Jessica Hamilton, Victoria Bagnall, Danielle Thaberge, Amy Graham-Violenus
26. The URI is In: Engaging students through Undergraduate Research
Connie Varnhagen (Undergraduate Research Initiative), Alexis Lockwood (Director of Experiential Learning)
27. WellnessRx—Development of an Interprofessional Educational Initiative for Nutrition and Physical Activity
Leah Gramlich (Gastroenterology, Medicine), Karena Apps Eccles, Lana Bistritz, Normand Boule, Sue Buhler, Catherine Dyer, Katharina Kovacs Burns, Linda McCargar, Karin Olson, Heather Kanuka
28. Using Skype in the language classroom
Sandra Gaviria-Buck (Modern Languages and Cultural Studies)
29. Using Wikipedia as a platform for developing “knowledge translation” skills
Paula Marentette (Psychology, Augustana Campus), Juliet Brown, Anastasia Evarts, Erika Heiberg, Alanna Lindsay, Alison Owens, Nadia Rebkowich, Lianne Theelen
30. Evaluation of Augustana MScPT Project: A Distributed Learning Model for Physical Therapy Education
Jason Daniels (Evaluation and Research Services, Extension), Dorothy Pinto, Bernadette Martin, Robert Haennel, Ric Johnson
31. Creating the terms of engagement: Thinking, talking, and sharing
Azizah Sculley (Nursing)
32. Sustainability and Service Learning in Business School
Leo Wong (Marketing, Business Economics and Law)
33. Teaching Spanish-English Translation Through Student Community Engagement
Ann De León (Modern Languages and Cultural Studies), Emily Fung, Nancy Pinto, Karissa VanderLeek
34. Using enhanced podcasts in a hybrid histology course
Roberta Martindale (Laboratory Medicine and Pathology)
35. The Three S’s of Place-Based Learning: Subject, Self and Society
Karsten Mündel (Augustana Campus), Doris Audet