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Events are shown in green, brown-bag lunch seminars are shown in black (BYO brown-bag lunch). LTAP refers to the Learning and Teaching Action Plan (www.uws.edu.au/ltap)

Preparing designers for the new economy, Monday 12-1pm, KW-I.1.05, Mr Mauricio Novoa

Communities of practice: Fact or fiction?, Monday 1-2pm, KW-I.1.05, Dr Maggie Clarke

Research candidate education, Tuesday 10-11am, KW-I.1.17, Professor Lesley Wilkes

The Indigenous musician: Telling life stories through music, Tuesday 12-1pm, KW-I.1.17, Dr Diana Blom

Emerging technologies: Enhancing your vUWS site, Tuesday 1-2pm, KW-I.1.17, Ms Lynnae Rankine

Teaching awards: Teaching excellence or just navel gazing?, Wednesday 12-1pm, KW-I.1.05, Dr Judith Thistleton-Martin

PASS: A peer supported pathway to student success, Thursday 12-1pm, KW-I.1.05, Ms Clare Power

Enhancing students' mathematical thinking skills, Thursday 1-2pm, KW-I.1.05, Ms Lyn Armstrong, Mr John Nicholls and Ms Maureen Morris

UWS lectures online, Thursday 2-3pm, KW-I.1.17,  TDU, ITD and Dr Tim Griffin

Why evidence-based approaches are needed, including peer review, Thursday 3-4pm, KW-I.1.17, Professor Beryl Hesketh

Descriptions

Preparing designers for the new economy
Monday 12-1pm, KW-I.1.05
Presenting the learnings of an LTAP project which aims: i. to establish whether we enable industrial design students to gain the skills and knowledge to engage with the global economy in the area of Industrial Design at a standard equal to or better than that achieved elsewhere in Australia and overseas; ii. to review and re-assess design education and its delivery; iii. to assess its relationship with industry, and iv. how it fits within current global changes of standards, process, methodology, working conditions, market. (An LTAP Project)
Mr Mauricio Novoa

Communities of practice: Fact or fiction?
Monday 1-2pm, KW-I.1.05
This paper will explore whether a school-university partnership developed a community of practice through engagement of a cycle of professional learning. Questions of transferability of the framework used to develop professional learning in this school-university context to other organisations will be examined.
Dr Maggie Clarke

Research candidate education
Tuesday 10-11am, KW-I.1.17
This presentation will provide an overview of education programs for candidates completing a Masters Honours or PhD. These programs include both online and attendance mode courses. The content and emphasis of these courses will be elaborated.
Professor Lesley Wilkes

The Indigenous musician: Telling life stories through music
Tuesday 12-1pm, KW-I.1.17
Indigenous musicians, like all musicians, are sharing life stories through music when they perform. However the stories of Indigenous Australian musicians, in particular Archie Roach and Kerrianne Cox, could be confronting for white Australian listeners. This presentation discusses a project aimed at introducing UWS music students (both post-graduate and under-graduate) to Indigenous Australian musicians who were invited to perform at UWS. The presentation will also show footage of a video documentary of the musicians who came to UWS. (An LTAP Project)
Dr Diana Blom

Emerging technologies: Enhancing your vUWS site
Tuesday 1-2pm, KW-I.1.17
This session will highlight three new collaborative technologies that can be easily added to your vUWS site - Scholar, Wiki and LAMS.
Ms Lynnae Rankine

Teaching awards: Teaching excellence or just navel gazing?
Wednesday 12-1pm, KW-I.1.05
Applying for teaching awards often elicits negative, rather than positive, comments. Such as, 'That's just not me', 'I'm not into self promotion' and 'I don't have time'. This presentation will focus on the journey of one award winner and examine the 'agony and ecstasy' of going through the application process. What does it involve? How difficult can it be? What happens if you don't win? What happens if you do? Will the process improve your teaching? If you have always wanted to apply for a teaching award but never had the courage to try, then this is the presentation for you!
Dr Judith Thistleton-Martin

PASS: A peer supported pathway to student success
Thursday 12-1pm, KW-I.1.05
A multi-modal, experiential introduction to PASS (Peer Assisted Study Sessions). PASS is a student-centred, collaborative learning program where students work together to address study strategies, as well as an understanding and consolidation of content. During this seminar, participants will be able to engage in aspects of the PASS program. (An LTAP project)
Ms Clare Power

Enhancing students' mathematical thinking skills
Thursday 1-2pm, KW-I.1.05
This seminar will discuss supporting students mathematically in units where mathematical thinking is required but not explicitly taught.
Ms Lyn Armstrong, Mr John Nicholls and Ms Maureen Morris

UWS lectures online
Thursday 2-3pm, KW-I.1.17
UWS Lectures Online is a lecture capture system designed to record the audio and the visual presentations within an equipped lecture theatre. This system is being installed in the main lecture theatres across all campuses. These recordings can then be placed onto a vUWS site for student access. The session will cover general information about using this technology in 2009, hints from those who have participated in the pilot sessions in 2008 and examples of good practice.
TDU, ITD and Dr Tim Griffin

Why evidence-based approaches are needed, including peer review
Thursday 3-4pm, KW-I.1.17
Drawing on research in cognition and learning, a case will be made for more than student evaluations in determining effective learning and teaching approaches that foster long term adaptive and transferable skills.
Professor Beryl Hesketh