The purpose of these Brown Bag talks is to increase awareness about the types of interesting, engaging, innovative, and (maybe even) effective teaching strategies, assignments, exercises, and projects that we use with our students. There is also free pizza!
All of the sessions are on Fridays from 12-1pm. Our upcoming sessions include speakers from all seven Science departments. Please note the schedule for the year below (and click on each date to add the event to your Google calendar). We will update the speakers, topics, and locations as they are scheduled. To access the entire Teaching and Learning Brown Bag calendar click here.
– September 13th (in Biological Sciences P 116)
Alex Brown: CTL Peer Consultation Program
Sarah Styler: Particulate matters: Exploring air quality in the third-year environmental chemistry classroom
– October 4th (South Academic Building (SAB) Room 331)
Greg Sivakoff: Astronomy & the media: An example module to engage senior undergraduate science students in writing.
Elena Nicoladis: Project management for psychology honours students
– November 1st (Biological Sciences Room M 141)
Erik Rosolowsky: Lab development
Maya Evenden: Development of BUGS 101 a new massive open online course on insect-human interactions
– December 6th (Biological Sciences Room M 141)
Terry Gannon: Multimark exams
Christie McDermott and Alex Brown: Research courses and a focus on student development
– January 17th (in Biological Sciences P 116)
John Waldron: Thinking in 3 dimensions: challenges and opportunities in Earth Science teaching
Vladimir Michaelis: Evolving the Undergraduate Research Experience: A look into 3rd and 4th year Chemistry Undergraduate Exposure
– February 7th (Biological Sciences Room B 121)
Eleni Stroulia: Teaching a Team- and Project-based Capstone course with Real-World Clients: Some Do’s and Dont’s
Mirko van der Baan: PollEverywhere – Interactive powerpoint presentations
– March 13th (V Wing Room 102)
Sadaf Ahmed: Teaching problem solving with games
Chris Frei: Using STACK: a computer aided assessment system within eClass
– April 17th (location, speakers, and topics TBA)
Peggy St. Jacques: Topic TBA
Vincent Bouchard: Topic TBA
If you would like to present on your own teaching strategies, please email jpassey@ualberta.ca.
Students: If you would like to receive a letter of attendance for the Teaching and Learning Brown Bags (for professional development records, or the FGSR Graduate Teaching and Learning program), we are happy to provide one upon request for anyone who signs in at the sessions. Please contact Jennifer at jpassey@ualberta.ca .
Looking forward to seeing you all there,
Jennifer Passey and Anna Rissanen