In this newsletter:

• Deadline for Purchasing BEd Banquet Tickets Approaching!
• New Issue of McGill Journal of Education
• Presidential Recognition Awards — Call for Nominations!
• Workshop on How to Video Conference with Your Students
• Call for Nominations — Hessian Merit Awards
• We’re Outta Here!
• Hurrahs!!!

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DEADLINE FOR PURCHASING BEd BANQUET TICKETS APPROACHING!

The Education Society invites everyone to the 2019 Education End of Year Banquet!

This year’s event takes place Thursday, 09-May-2019, at 6:00pm at the Rodd Charlottetown (75 Kent Street, Charlottetown).  The evening will consist of a buffet meal with your choice of beef or chicken along with salads, breads, vegetables, dessert, tea & coffee. If you have any dietary restrictions please let them know when you purchase your ticket so accommodations can be made. There will also be a cash bar available.

Tickets are $40 and can be purchased through etransfer to the Education Society at upeiedsociety@gmail.com or by contacting cohort representatives.  The deadline to purchase tickets (nonrefundable) is Friday, 08-Feb-2019.

The evening will consist of a buffet meal with your choice of beef or chicken along with salads, breads, vegetables, dessert, tea & coffee. If you have any dietary restrictions please let us know when you purchase your ticket so we can make accommodations. There will also be a cash bar available.

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NEW ISSUE OF MCGILL JOURNAL OF EDUCATION

The McGill Journal of Education has recently released a special issue on Indigenous Education.   Please review their website to review articles and items of interest.

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PRESIDENTIAL RECOGNITION AWARDS — CALL FOR NOMINATIONS! 

The Presidential Recognition Awards of Merit have been created to acknowledge the efforts and achievements of faculty, librarians, clinical veterinary professionals, clinical nursing instructors, and staff of the University.

Up to 10 Presidential Awards of Merit will be awarded in 2019. These awards will be presented during a Celebration of Colleagues to be held on Tuesday, 30-Apr-2019 from 10:30am-12:00pm in McMillan Hall, W.A. Murphy Student Centre.

Susan Connolly, Associate Vice-President, Human Resources & Legal, will lead the process and chair the committee to select award recipients.

Nominations for both faculty and staff awards close on Friday, 29-Mar-2019. 

For further details on the awards and the nomination process, please visit: http://www.upei.ca/president/presidential-recognition-awards-merit 

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WORKSHOP ON HOW TO VIDEO CONFERENCE WITH YOUR STUDENTS

BlackBoard Collaborate is web conferencing software that allows instructors to do many things to engage with their students. Use BlackBoard Collaborate to record your teaching for days when your face-to-face class has been cancelled. Share your PowerPoint or use the interactive whiteboard, BlackBoard Collaborate allows you to set up a complete virtual classroom. It’s simple, easy and reliable. Offered by the E-Learning Office, you can take this workshop on  12-Mar-2019  from 10:30 to 11:30 am in Room 265, Robertson Library.  Click here to register.

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CALL FOR NOMINATIONS — HESSIAN MERIT AWARDS

The UPEIFA’s Hessian Merit Award for Excellence in Teaching Committee is currently calling for nominations for these awards:

Hessian Merit Award for Excellence in Teaching by Sessional & Full Time Faculty 2019

Deadline for electronic Nominations submission: Noon Friday, 15-Feb-2019

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WE’RE OUTTA HERE!

• 30 minutes
• 7 locks
• 1 precious manuscript

On 30-Jan-2019, our administration team joined forces with colleagues from around campus to participate in a Robertson Library Escape Room called Museum Marauders. We’re not sure we’d be posting the picture if the result were different, but with 5 seconds to spare, the team successfully saved the manuscript from destruction.

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HURRAHS!!!

Congratulations to Dr. Sean Wiebe on a new book co-authored with Dr. Pauline Sameshima and Dr. Patricia Maarhuis.  The new book, Parallaxic Praxis: Multimodal Interdisciplinary Pedagogical Research Design, is published by Vernon Press.

Congratulations also to Dr. Wiebe on being awarded a MacLauchlan Award for Wrinting for Faculty/Staff at the award ceremony held 25-Jan-2019.  Congratulations, Sean!

Congratulations to PhD Student, Tim McRoberts, who defended his disseration titled “Applying an Experiential Learning Cycle to Inform a Deeper Understanding of Teaching and Learning in a Changing Canadian Community College” on 25-Jan-2019.