CONFERENCE PROGRAM 2016
TIME
SESSION
Pick up Registration Packages – Coffee and Light Refreshments
8:00-8:30
Plenary Session
Hagey Hall (HH) Don Craig Atrium
Welcome from Associate Vice-President, Academic, Mario Coniglio
8:30-8:45
8:45-10:00
10:0010:30
Introductions by Conference Chair Julie Timmermans, Centre for Teaching Excellence
HH 1101; Overflow rooms: HH 1104 and HH 1106
Presentation
PRESIDENTS’ COLLOQUIUM
Keynote Address by Michael Starbird, University of Texas at Austin
Workshop
HH 1101; Overflow rooms: HH 1104 and HH 1106
Panel
Thank you by Treasurer and member of FAUW Executive Committee, Lynne Taylor
Refreshment break sponsored by FAUW
Alternative Session
HH Don Craig Atrium
Session Numbers
Session
100s
10:3011:30
Session 101
HH 1102
Small stakes, big learning:
Building Writing Centre
practice into assignment
design
Clare Bermingham,
Nadine Fladd, and Mandy
Penney, Writing Centre
Session 102
HH 1104
Risk and resilience in an
introductory Women’s
Studies course
Trevor Holmes, CTE; Katrina
Ackerman, History; Jessica
Blackwell, Library; Brianna
Bennett, Science; Emily
Lorentz and Meghan Voll,
Arts; Tatianna Brierley,
Environment
Session 103
HH 1106
Fellows for failure: Teaching
Fellows’ reflections on
failure, challenge, and
change
10:3010:55
Kelly Anthony, School of
Public Health and Health
Systems; Shannon Dea,
Philosophy
Session 104
HH 1108
104a
Everything takes longer
than you expect: Challenges
designing, developing, and
deploying open educational
resources
Tonya Elliott, CEL
11:0011:25
104b
Accessible STEM: What
guidelines don’t tell us
about making online STEM
content accessible and what
we can do about it
Tonya Elliott, CEL
11:3011:40
Break
Session 105
HH 2104
105a
Third time’s the charm: Case
study challenges in a first year
Management Engineering
course
Session 106
HH 2107
106a CANCELLED
How to succeed in class,
while failing in the process:
Teaching failure as a risktaking tool in the classroom
Ken McKay, Management
Sciences; Samar Mohamed,
CTE; Lyndia Stacey, Dean of
Engineering Office
5 Minute Transition
Jennifer Vokoun, Humanities,
Walsh University
CANCELLED
105b
Ideas Clinic series of teamwork
workshops – Implementation
and evaluation of two firstyear workshops
106b
Persist, pivot, or punt:
Teaching students to learn
from setbacks through rapid
iteration
Samar Mohamed, CTE; Ada
Hurst, Management Sciences;
Erin Jobidon and Andrea Prier,
SSO; Chris Rennick,
Engineering Undergrad Office;
Jason Grove, Chemical
Engineering; Carol Hulls,
Mechanical and Mechatronics
Engineering; Rania AlHammoud, Civil and
Environmental Engineering
5 Minute Transition
David Goodwin and Jill
Tomasson Goodwin, Drama
and Speech Communication
Session
200s
11:4012:35
Session 201
HH 1102
Stories of teaching challenge
and failure
11:4012:05
Featuring stories by Steve
Furino, Mathematics; Judi
Jewinski, Renison University
College; Greta Kroeker,
History; Bob Sproule, School
of Accounting and Finance;
David Wang, Electrical and
Computer Engineering
Session 202
HH 1104
202a
Problem-solving group work
in an online Physics course
Felicia Pantazi, CEL; Joe
Sanderson, and Robbie
Henderson, Physics and
Astronomy
Session 203
HH 1106
203a
WatPD's Marker Training
course: An effective solution
for teaching teams of all sizes
Amy Fernandes and Victoria
Feth, WatPD
Session 204
HH 1108
204a
Gamifying the classroom: A
natural framework for risk
taking, making mistakes, and
continuous learning
Session 205
HH 2104
205a
What works the first time
doesn't always work the
second - and that's the beauty
of the Engineering Ideas Clinics
Hadi Hosseini, David R.
Cheriton School of Computer
Science and CTE; Maxwell
Hartt, School of Planning
Marc Aucoin, Chemical
Engineering; Eline Boghaert,
Engineering Undergrad Office
and Chemical Engineering;
Bryan Tripp, Systems Design
Engineering; Christine
Moresoli, Chemical
Engineering; Maud Gorbet,
Systems Design Engineering
Session moderator: Julie
Timmermans, CTE
Session 206
HH 2107
206a
Using interactive activities
and a case study to promote
deeper learning in Statistics
Diana Skrzydlo and NamHwui Kim, Statistics and
Actuarial Science
5 Minute Transition
12:1012:35
12:352:00
202b
Assessment challenges and
innovations in technologyaugmented instruction and
learning
203b
How environmental contextdependent memory affects
student performance during
an examination
Ashley Kelly, English
Language and Literature;
Brad Mehlenbacher, North
Carolina State University
Amenda Chow, Math, Trent
University
204b
What a Fiasco! Student
resistance to failure--even in
learning activities where
spectacular failure was the
main point
Vanessa Schweizer,
Knowledge Integration; Luke
Bayne
LUNCH
Federation Hall
2:002:45
“IGNITING OUR PRACTICE”
Greta Kroeker (Arts) and Troy Vasiga (Math)
Session moderated by Donna Ellis, Centre for Teaching Excellence
HH 1101; Overflow rooms: HH 1104 and HH 1106
2:452:50
Move to next session
205b
Much ado about 0.02%
Eline Boghaert, Engineering
Undergrad Office and
Chemical Engineering; Jason
Grove, Chemical Engineering
206b
Reflection and workintegrated learning: An
opportunity to learn from
failure
Judene Pretti, WatCACE;
Anne Marie Fannon, WatPD
Session
300s
2:503:50
Session 301
HH 1102
Hello my name is
Stephanie and I am [not]
an imposter: Dealing with
Impostor Syndrome in
academia
Stephanie Verkoeyen,
Environment and CTE
Session 302
HH 1104
Fail fast: Entrepreneurship as a
metaphor for learning
Colleen Sharen, Social
Sciences, Management and
Organizational Studies, Brescia
University College, Western
University
Session 303
HH 1106
A fail-safe sorting algorithm
for screening first and second
draft writing assignments
2:503:15
Michele Bristow, Systems
Design Engineering; Judi
Jewinski, Renison University
College; Graham Stonebridge,
Systems Design Engineering
Session 304
HH 1108
304a
Flipping an introductory
Physics classroom:
Challenges and lessons
learned in light of student
feedback
Firas Mansour, Physics and
Astronomy; Mary Power, CTE;
Felicia Pantazi, CEL; Samar
Mohamed, CTE; Jessica
Fallone, Physics and
Astronomy
Session 305
HH 2104
305a
Risks and regressions:
International development
and the Holy Grail
Julie Kate Seirlis, St. Paul’s
and School of Environment,
Enterprise and Development
Session 306
HH 2107
306a
Challenges in designing an
online continuing education
program for health
professionals
Feng Chang, Tejal Patel,
Rosemary Killeen, and Agnes
Kluz, School of Pharmacy;
Felicia Pantazi, CEL
5 Minute Transition
3:203:45
304b
Interactive flipped
classrooms: Successes and
challenges
Rania Al-Hammoud, Civil and
Environmental Engineering;
Samar Mohamed, CTE
305b
System failure
James Skidmore, Germanic
and Slavic Studies; Christina
Kraenzle, Department of
Languages, Literatures and
Linguistics, York University
306b
2nd year midpoint
assessment to identify
PharmD students for
remediation
Cynthia Richard, Alana Rigby,
and Andrea Edginton, School
of Pharmacy
5 Minute Transition
3:504:05
Session
400s
4:055:05
BREAK
Session 401
HH 1102
How can instructors
support student mental
health?
Kristin Brown, Public
Health and Health Systems
and CTE; Stephanie Lu,
Public Health and Heath
Systems; Michele
Anderson, AccessAbility
Services; Tom Ruttan,
Counselling Services
5:056:00
Session 402
HH 1104
Instructional Skills Workshop
(ISW) - A tool to support
learning from challenges and
failures
Bob Sproule, School of
Accounting and Finance;
Andrew Milne, Mechanical and
Mechatronics Engineering;
Monica Vesely, CTE; Gordon
Stubley, Mechanical and
Mechatronics Engineering; Judi
Jewinski, Renison University
College; George Freeman and
Allyson Giannikouris, Electrical
and Computer Engineering
Session 403
HH 1106
A prescription for success:
Creating a safe environment
for curricular innovation
4:054:30
Session 404
HH 1108
404a
Programming is failure
Stanislav Sokolenko, Chemical Engineering
Elaine Lillie, Jeff Nagge,
Cynthia Richard, and Nancy
Waite, School of Pharmacy
Session 405
HH 2104
405a
Conducting teaching and learning research at
UWaterloo: Tips and templates for navigating
the ethics approval process (Part 1)
Julie Joza and Sacha Geer, Office of Research
Ethics
5 Minute Transition
4:355:00
404b
Reinforcing the research cycle through
student consultations
Rachel Figueiredo and Sandra Keys, Library
405b
Conducting teaching and learning research at
UWaterloo: Tips and templates for navigating
the ethics approval process (Part 2): Question
and answer session
Julie Joza and Sacha Geer, Office of Research
Ethics
5 Minute Transition
Closing Remarks by Dean of Environment, Jean Andrey
Wine and Cheese Reception
HH Don Craig Atrium