Encouragement to Present and Publish

It struck me after looking at the applied research that the Department has been involved in, that I should declare that I am very supportive of having instructors submit papers and presentations to conferences or journals of various kinds.

If you have never done a presentation at a conference or written a paper to be submitted for publication, the process can seem a bit daunting and perhaps even impossible.  While it does take work, doing a conference presentation or a paper is a great learning experience.  When I think of all the things that are being done by instructors and staff, it seems to me that we have a large list of possible topics.  For example:

• methods of conducting real time online labs in any of the sciences
• item bank construction for on line delivery
• creating an in-class community of readers and writers as a starting point for literacy
• learner readiness and adult upgrading
• what accessibility means - a deconstruction (... a little of my personal interests there LOL)
• ...

If you think it would be helpful to have some kind of short session on how to do presentations and papers, let me know and I will work to pull something together to support people in taking the first step.

If you have published something or done a presentation at a conference, this blog is a great place to post that information.

Here's an odd little piece that I just got published http://thephilanthropist.ca/index.php/phil/article/view/948