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Sitting in on Judith Logan's excellent #THE500 presentation

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#UofT #MADLab Demo Scene Today (Friday): Apps for students by students: http://mobile.utoronto.ca/archive... #Toronto #Mobile

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#MADLab Demo Scene: 2 mobile apps developed by #UofT students to improve student life. Feb 22 http://mobile.utoronto.ca/archive... Pls RT #Toronto

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#chevyCIAS @HotWheelsCanada Love the convertible camaro

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TY for the RT @netwoman - Promoting #women’s rights in a cyber-world - March 8. http://testsoft.ati.utoronto.ca/wordpre... #IWD #Toronto #UofT

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Ooo, the dystopia display sounds cool - will definitely check it out - thanks BKS! @bksutherland @Fisher_Library #UofT #Toronto

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Great #UofT event: Promoting #women’s rights in a cyber-world - March 8. http://testsoft.ati.utoronto.ca/wordpre... - pls RT widely. #IWD #Toronto

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Other factors for TA success: ongoing training, peer/buddy system, 'marking parties' (pizza supplied), consistent curricula #tnl2012

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Large classes with large TA teams need to work as a team; meet as a team; TA focus groups; common team materials (handbooks' etc.) #tnl2012

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Some large classes use large TA teams to filter email contact between students and instructors ... #tnl2012

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Attending a talk on large class teaching with members of the #UofT #Anthropology 100 teaching team #tnl2012

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Participant: "our role is to help 'complete' the student, but do we teach/help them wonder?" #tnl2012

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Interesting discussion about "liberal education" - Q: despite rhetoric is the large U inherently structured against Lib Ed #tnl2012

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Someone asks: technology seems geared to making instructors more 'present' but are there ways to make the students more present? #tnl2012

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Reid: replicating f2f online (video lectures + discussion boards) is not innovative (maybe worse); we need new ways #tnl2012

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Reid: Real learning happens in the one-on-ones, even 30 seconds at the end of a class. #tnl2012 #UofT

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Reid: I will be very sad if teaching doesn't scale and gets to a point where I can't interact with students #tnl2012 #UofT

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RT @kimmackinnon: #tnl2012 need for better ways to assess learning outcomes in all courses, not just online. Do they really learn more f2f?

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Ivan Silver: communities of practice for teaching excites me - the growth of attention to #PSE teaching. #tnl2012 #UofT

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Jim Wallace: interacting with graduates after they graduate is one of the bonuses of teaching; seeing success is exciting #tnl2012 #UofT

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Karen Reid: healthy, friendly rivalries between instructors can lead to better teaching #tnl2012 #UofT

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Now listening to #UofT President's Teaching Award winners talk about what they love about teaching #tnl2012

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#PSE good @ "supply side" education, not so much @ "demand side" - recognize what our grads will do (Prof W. Mitchell, Rotman) #tnl2012

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Scalable personalization of instruction, team size, cost + admin overhead are challenges of an interdisciplinary course #tnl2012 #UofT

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Key factors for interdisciplinary course success: get students to do some of the teaching & engage external partners #tnl2012 #UofT

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Interdisciplinary course uses a matrix team approach - project teams are ID but students also teach in disciplinary teams #tnl2012 #UofT

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Profs from engineering, business and public health talking about joint course on facing global challenges #tnl2012 #UofT

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4 those remote following #tnl2012 we are on a coffee break & then concurrent sessions (I'm attending 1 on interdisciplinary teaching)

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A quick shoutout to colleagues from UOttawa, Ryerson, GuelphU , etc following #tnl2012 today - looking forward to your thoughts

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Point taken MT @monicabatac: Passionate teachers = most important factor for their learning #tnl2012 #UofT

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