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DECEMBER 1, 1989

FACULTY DEVELOPMENT

B y REID

Fall 89 Grants Announced

At a recent meeting of the Faculty Development
Committee, grants were made to eleven of our colleagues to
attend conferences, speak at conferences or work on special
research projects. Here are the names of the recipients and the
activities they are undertaking:

Conferences:

Don Basham, of the Outdoor Recreation/Tourism Programme,
to attend the “Managing Festivals and Special Events” seminar,
Oct. 20-23, 1989.

Jim Bizzocchi, of the Media Resources Programme and
Distance Education Project, to attend the annual conference of
the Canadian Association for Distance Education.

Louise Cantin Orr-Ewing, of the French department, to attend
a conference on Comprehension Based Language Teaching, in
Ottawa, May 13-17, 1989.

Val Cochran, of the Office Administration Programme, to
attend a conference of the American Association for Paralegal
Education, in St. Louis, Missouri, October 10-14, 1989.

Marlene Fry of the English as a Second Language Department,
to speak about International ESL at the TESL Canada 89
conference.

Janet Mees, of the Career Choices/Job Entry Programme,to
attend a conference on learning disabilities in St. John’s
Newfoundland, October 19-21, 1989.

Sandra Moe, of the Psychology Department, to attend and
present a paper at the UBC Conference on Gender and the
Construction of Knowledge.

Lois Rennie, of the Early Childhood Education Programme, to
attend the National Association for the Education of Young
Children conference, Atlanta, Georgia, November 2-5, 1989.

Dennis Wright, of the Achievement Resource Centre, to attend
and present a paper at the annual conference of the International
Reading Association.

RESEARCH GRANTS:

Wayne Eastcott, of the Studio Art Programme, for his project,
“Industrial Materials for the Artist: Enamel on Aluminium.”
Wayne will be working to finalize research concerning the use
of enamel on aluminium as an image-making process and will
produce a number of exhibition pieces demonstrating the
aesthetic characteristics of these materials, their archival
properties, aspects of comparison with traditional materials and
the technical procedures of their manufacture.

Keith Wade and Malcolm Fitz-Earle, of the Biology

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Department, for the continuation of their joint study: Organic
and Technological Evolution—A Study in Parallelism. The
first stage of this work was presented to a college-wide PD
seminar on November 9, 1989 in a highly interesting illustrated
lecture. Keith and Malcolm are exploring parallels between
organic evolution and the development of aircraft with a view
to a larger examination of the highly suggestive relationships
among biological, technological and cultural, linguistic
evolution. Colleagues from a variety of disciplines at the
seminar quickly saw applications of Keith’s and Malcolm’s
work in their own studies.

A “Journal Project” grant was made to the Counselling
Department to purchase a special run of the Journal of

Counselling Psychology to support a journal study within the
department.

NISOD Master Teacher Award/NISOD Conference:

Once again it is time for the college to nominate a
colleague whose innovative teaching, curriculum design, use of
educational technology or special programme is worthy of
note. The recipient of this award will attend the NISOD
International Conference on Teaching Excellence, May 20-23,
1990 in Austin, Texas. (Expenses are paid by the college.)
Last year’s nominee was Gerry Waugh, who, at the November
9 college-wide PD meeting, spoke enthusiastically about the
conference and presented a brief synopsis of her presentation.

If you would like to be considered for this award, or if you
wish to nominate a colleague, please submit to Reid Gilbert a
description of the activity for which you wish to be recognized.
There is a form for this purpose which will assist you in
writing an abstract and providing other information required by
NISOD; your submission must be on this form. The form can
be obtained from support staff in Humanities (or call Reid,
local 2414). Receipt of the award means that you will present
your project to a break-out session of the conference;
presentations are expected to be from 2 to 4 hours in length.
Your submission should clearly outline the teaching strategy or
innovation on which you propose to report in enough detail for
the Faculty Development Committee to judge its merits. If you
are nominating another, please ask permission first and please
work with the nominee to ensure that your proposal is correct
and sufficiently detailed for proper adjudication.

NISOD lists suitable categories of innovation, including:

Effective Instructional Strategies/Techniques
Critical Issues for Professional Development
Increasing motivation. . . in basic skills programmes
Technology in the classroom

Instructional television

Teaching the use of high-level cognitive skills
Writing across the curriculum

Improving student retention