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Concordia Education Department Student Symposium: 'Learning Landscapes:
Education in Action'  Feb 5th & 6th (Friday & Saturday)
http://doe.concordia.ca/symposium/index.htm

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Please accept this as your personal invitation to attend the  7th Annual
Student Symposium. Please forward this to your colleagues, fellow
students, graduated alumni and anyone else who you think may be interested
in the topics to be presented over the two-day event!

The Organizing Committee is pleased to announce the following list of
presenters and activites for the 1999 Student Symposium. Please note,
exact times for presentations will be available soon --   please refer to
the website, check FirstClass or call 848-2012.  See you at the
Symposium!  


Friday, Feb 5th 1999
*****************************  Special Event Pre-Symposium Event Presented
by the CSLP   ***********************
10:00 - 12:00 The Centre for the Study of Learning and Performance is
pleased to invite students to an informal meeting with Dr. Walter Kintsch
(see bio at end of this message). He is a professor of  Psychology, the
Director of the Institute of Cognitive Science at the University of
Colorado. [LB571-5]

***********************    Student Presentations
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  Session 1 Friday Feb 5th

'Speedy Web Graphics for Beginners' [12:00- 12:30]
  David Strong & Alain Cote

'Integration = Professors + Computers + Instructional Design'
 [12:45 - 1:15]
I. Tracy Chao & Carolyn Duvar

'New Techniques to Improve Science Literacy' [1:30 - 2:00]
Steven Rosenstein

'The Head Training Cost Analysis Model' [2:00 - 2:30]
Fanny Korman, Yael Nisan, Jennifer Desroches

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2:30 - 5:00	*****   Dr. Walter Kintsch, 'Language Understanding:
Psychological Theory and Educational Technology'  [H-420] See Bio at end
of this message.

5:00- 6:00   	Reception at  Centre for the Study for Learning and
Performance (CSLP)

***********************   Student Symposium Keynote Address *************

6:00 - 6:30 	Coffee and Donuts in the FRC

6:30 - 7:30	Keynote Address, Elaine Greenburg (M.A Educational
Technology '89), Canadian Space Agency 
		[LB 553-2]
		To be followed by a  Wine and Cheese in room  LB 571-5

Elaine Greenberg is a training contractor at the Canadian Space Agency
(CSA). Since 1991, she has been involved in the analysis, design and
development of robotics training for astronauts and mission controllers,
and has represented CSA at international training meetings.  She received
a Master of Arts degree in Educational Technology from Concordia
University in 1989, and has focused much of her work around the effective
use of media and the customization of training to meet learner needs.


*******   Student Symposium Presentations  Sat 6th********

12:00 - 1:00 	Coffee and Donuts in the FRC
***************

Mini -Technarium: [12:30 - 1:00]   

Daniel Sequin & Brian Seltmann, 'Parent, Child and Teacher Communication
Website' 

Sylwia Bielec, Christine Truesdale, Lauren Aslin 'QESN.Connection: Website
for Teacher Professsional Development'

If you have something to Demo - please contact the organizers....



PRESENTATIONS::::::::::::::::::::: SATURDAY FEB 6th


Katherine Child, 'Exploring and Celebrating My Personal Values as an Adult
Educator: Facilitating Self-Directed Learning Through Teaching
Goal-Setting Skills'  [1:15 - 1:45]

Christina Dehler, 'The effects of group membership and task experience on
computer-mediated groups' [1:15 - 1:45]

Daniel Heon, 'Health Institution Based Internship: The Project's scope,
definition and process'  [2:00 - 2:30]

Claude Martel, 'Interactivity: How should we interact with computerized
instructional systems'  [2:00 - 2:30]

Brian Seltman, "Virtual Company"  [2:45- 3:15] 

Kevin Chin, 'How Does Educational Captioning Work'  [2:45 - 3:15]

[Break 3: 15 - 3:30]


Amanda Benjamin, 'The Workers' Educational Association: A Study in Social
Change and Resistance in Canadian Working Class Culture'  [3:30 - 4:00]


Eva Bures & Michelle Miller, 'A Comparison Between Student-led and
Instructor-led Online Discussions in Distance Education' [3:30 - 4:00]

Sylwia Bielec, Jeanette Caron, Christine Truesdale, 'Three times a lady:
The design and development of a learning environment for professional
development: A triad of theses' [4:15 - 4:45]
 
Makoto Nakamura, 'Functional Literacy from a Cross-cultural Perspective: A
Comparative Study of Japan and  Canada' [4:15 - 4:45]

'Human Rights and Education: What are our responsibilities as future
educators?'   [5:00 - 5:30] (Roundtable)
Mariam Kakkar & Jeanette Caron

Cindy Katz, Elana Glazer,Caroline Taran,Yael Nisan, Jennifer Desroches,
'The Air Canada Project' [5:00 - 5:30]


Canadian Evaluation Case Study Competition Presentations and Voting by
Peer Review  {5:30 -5:45}   ***

Symposium Raffle   /   Symposium Wrap Up!		5:45		


Post-Symposium Party    @   McKibbons!  6pm   Then on to Toucans (2nd
floor at McKibbons for Irish dancing... ! )
________

Elaine Greenberg, Canadian Space Agency Symposium Keynote   Friday, 5th
6:30 pm   [LB 553-2, Concordia University]

Elaine Greenberg is a training contractor at the Canadian Space Agency
(CSA). Since 1991, she has been involved in the analysis, design and
development of robotics training for astronauts and mission controllers,
and has represented CSA at international training meetings.  Her previous
employment experience includes the planning of helicopter maintenance
training at Canadian Marconi Company and the coordination of human
resources training at the National Capital Commission in Ottawa.

She received a Master of Arts degree in Educational Technology from
Concordia University in 1989, and has focused much of her work around the
effective use of media and the customization of training to meet learner
needs. In association with the University of Calgary, she developed and
presented a multimedia program at the G7 ministers' conference in Brussels
in March 1995. She has also written articles regarding CSA's approach to
training, which have been published by the Canadian Aeronautics and Space
Institute (CASI), the International Astronautical Federation (IAF), and
the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Canadian
Review.



Dr. Walter Kintsch (Special Lecture sponsored by the Department of
Education & CSLP)

Dr. Kintsch has a long and distinguished career as amongst the foremost
researchers in the field of pyschology concerned with learning and memory.
Dr. Kintsch's presentation will explore ways that people with variying
degrees of prior knowledge can interact with textual material to form a
coherent understanding. Dr. Kintsch and his colleagues have been actively
working on a method of analyzing texts referred to as Latent Semantic
Analysis (LSA). A purpose of LSA is to move us closer to developing a
means of matching texts with different types of readers. In practical
terms, making texts more suitable to learners results in more meaningful
learning and, therefore greater transfer and usefulness of the information
acquired.


**      ************ Case Study Competition, Saturday, Feb 6th ********
9:00 am - 2:00  Participants in the Canadian Evaluation Society Case Study
Competition start work on their case profiles at 9:00 am Saturday morning.
They have five hours to review & analyze a case profile then submit a
report to the Ottawa branch of the Canadian Evaluation Society.  [Nb:
Registration is now closed.] This is the first year that Concordia will be
represented. Two teams have been formed  for the preliminary round. The
teams will present their reports Saturday afternoon as one of the last
presentations of the Symposium to an audience of peers. The audience will
be asked to vote on the best evaluation report. 
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