Intercom is published regularly and serves to inform Vanier staff and teachers of notices and special events. It is posted on the Vanier College Website and distributed electronically. Submissions should be sent to intercom@vaniercollege.qc.ca. Submissions should be in WORD, and sent as an attachment. No formatting or bullets. Photos are welcome. Deadline: 4:00 p.m. on the Wednesday preceding the week of publication.

Social Science Festival Thanks

Our annual Social Science Festival wrapped up last week. It was a week

of varied and highly interesting and stimulating presentations (all

delivered fully online/virtually, a first of its kind for the Vanier

community)!

The primary takeaway from the talks was that community (the

festival’s theme) could potentially serve as a solidarity building tool;

an instrument that can better equip us to face crises effectively and

mitigate and/or reverse course on the discord, division and self-

centredness that recent social phenomena seems to have contributed

to (phenomena such as the Covid19 pandemic; environmental crises;

the rise of populism; crises and concerns of social justice and equity

faced by women, the destitute, visible minority and Indigenous

groups).

All talks were recorded and can now be viewed on VTV’s YouTube page at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLm3yY45tybOx6i7PktEiqPdlOnXvsTd_U. A special thanks to the all the people who helped make the event possible: Kelly MacDonald; Melissa Paradis; Angelo Philippas; Alena Perout; Patti Kingsmill; Bruce Norton; Meiji Estrada; David Scharing-Riendeau; David

Abraham; Sydney Ong; Azhar Saïdoo; Rebecca Acone; Jennifer Joseph; Carlos Joseph Avila; David Scott; Jacky Vallee; Marlene Grossman;

Alyson Jones and the Vanier College Indigenous Studies Certificate Program; Giovanna Arcuri; Marguerite Corriveau; Janelle Villanueva, Nora

Soukiassian, Ivanka Hillel and Zsofia Orszagh.

Ara Karaboghossian, Political Science

Volume M25, Issue No. 11, November 2, 2020

Cookie Exchange

Invitation to a Virtual Book Launch

We invite you to join us for the virtual launch of Beyond Homophobia: Centring LGBTQ Experiences in the Anglophone Caribbean edited by

Vanier College teacher Erin C. MacLeod and University of the West Indies Senior Lecturer Moji Anderson on Wednesday, November 11, 2020,

at 1:00 p.m.

We invite you to join us via the UWI Press YouTube channel. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjFc6inyKsc. Please submit

questions to be asked during the launch to beyondhomophobia@gmail.com

Please purchase your copy of the book at a special launch discount. Terms and conditions are below:

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· 30% discount

We look forward to your attendance.

Erin C. MacLeod, English Department

PEER TEACHING COURSE: CALL FOR APPLICANTS The Peer Teaching course is a special B-Block English course (603-HS course) open to students in all programs and offered every winter semester. Every fall, I recruit students with strong English language skills who are interested in learning how to teach and help other students. This course is a good opportunity for exceptional students to gain valuable peer tutoring experience while also obtaining a grade for the B-Block English course. Please encourage motivated and interested students in your classes to apply for my course by Friday, November 27, 2020. The students who apply must already have taken two English courses and passed them with a grade of 75% or over. Furthermore, they must be students who have not yet completed a B-Block English course. Please ask students to contact me through MIO or email (photopos@vaniercollege.qc.ca) for the application form. Applicants will be interviewed in early December and selected according to their level of excellence, commitment, and responsibility. Selected students will then be pre-registered into my course in January. Thank you in advance for your help.

Spiridoula Photopoulos, English Department

English Exit Exam Information Sessions TASC is offering English Exit Exam Information Sessions for any students writing the EEE on December 19th. The session will give information about the exam: what it looks like, what students will be asked to do, how it is assessed and suggestions on how to write it. We will also discuss tips on what to do to pass the English Exit Exam. All of these sessions are the same; students only need to attend one. Once they register for a session, they will be sent a Zoom invitation for it. EEE Information Session Schedule A20

Tuesday, November 24th, 9am-10am

Wednesday, November 25th, 12:30pm – 1:30pm

Thursday, November 26th, 6pm-7pm

Wednesday, December 2nd, 12:30pm-1:30pm

Wednesday, December 9th, 12:30pm-1:30pm Students can register for one of the sessions by visiting https://www.vaniercollege.qc.ca/learning-commons/english-exit-exam/

Kim Muncey, TASC and the Writing Centre

Writing Centre Drop-In Assistance The Writing Centre teachers are now offering drop-in assistance!

These drop-in times are for quick questions or for sessions of 15 – 30 minutes in Teams. Students can a question or begin a private

conversation with the teacher scheduled.

Tuesdays 4:00pm – 6:00pm

Wednesdays 10:00am – 12:00pm

12:30pm – 2:00pm

Thursdays 11:00am – 1:30pm To access the drop-in assistance, or for more information on all the other services, students can visit: https://www.vaniercollege.qc.ca/learning-commons/writing-centre/

Kim Muncey, TASC and the Writing Centre

Call for Applications: Meg Sircom Memorial Scholarship

Please encourage students who like to write fiction, poetry, personal essays or other creative work, and who have good grades in English, to

apply for the Meg Sircom Memorial Scholarship.

Meg Sircom was an English teacher at our college from 2001-2011. She was a fiction writer, and valued both academic and creative writing.

Deadline for applications: Jan. 25, 2021

Scholarship amount: $500

Special 10th Anniversary Mini-scholarship: $150: For the portfolio including the best single work on the topic of HOPE

Requirements:

The applicant must be a student at Vanier College during the A20-H21 academic year.

The student has received final grades of 80%+ in at least two English classes (101, 102, 103, HS-)

The student will submit a portfolio of 5-15 double-spaced pages of creative literary work (poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction,

graphic storytelling, or other)

For information on applying, students should contact

their English teachers, or

Dana Bath (through MIO)

For more information and examples of winning works, please consult the celebratory booklet from last year at

https://www.vaniercollege.qc.ca/english/files/2020/08/MSMS-Celebration-2020.pdf

Dana Bath, English Department

It’s not that much of a challenge!

I would like to invite you to participate in the Faculty and Staff for Students Toonie

Challenge, supporting students in need. Our Vanier Family shows its commitment to our students on a

daily basis by upholding our mission. In fact, many of us go above and beyond, and give back in a number

of meaningful ways.

You must remember the challenges we all faced during our school years… from finding our classes to

finding out where we belonged, and where we were going. Add to that the uncertainty for some of paying

for books, food, lodging, and transportation – and you can see where this challenge comes in. True, not

every student needs financial assistance – but we’re making sure to help those who come to Jim Atkinson,

Vanier's Socio-Economic Officer.

This is a toonie challenge, and our goal is 100% participation by faculty and staff. To make it easy for you, we have a few simple ways for you

to participate. If you’re at the College, you can drop your toonie off with Janelle Villanueva in F226. If you want to donate via payroll deduction,

then click here. And, if you want to donate using a credit card, then simply click here. You have the option to make a one-time donation, or

you can opt for monthly payments.

All funds help Students In Need. The causes include such things as Student Support (book loan program, financial aid, emergency loans),

Academic Support, International Education, Scholarships and Bursaries, and Student-athlete support.

Thank you for participating!

Atie Waxman, Communications and Corporate Affairs

Women of Science Week 2020

Once again this year Vanier is celebrating Women of Science, from Tuesday November 10 to Friday, November 13. All event will take place virtually of course this year. The following are some of the speakers who are confirmed. Find more details on the website.

Zoom Links to come…

Tuesday, November 10, 2020 Fran Beauvais on Tuesday, Nov. 10th@10AM Kanien'keha:ka Woman of Healing

Dr. Caroline-Emmanuelle Morisset on Tuesday, Nov. 10th@2:30PM--time and day still need confirmation

Planetary Scientist working for Canadian Space Agency

Wednesday, November 11, 2020

Sabrina Berger on Wednesday, Nov. 11th@11AM McGill Physics PhD Candidate, Using Radio Waves to Study the Universe Radio waves, like the ones used to transmit the sound to your car radio, are extremely powerful tools to study the universe. Fast radio bursts are highly energetic radio signals that last a very short time and are currently of mysterious origin. They are an example of a phenomenon that astrophysicists are studying to learn more about the universe.

Dr. Kiyoko Gotanda on Wednesday, Nov. 11th@11AM University of Sherbrooke Human influences on adaptation (and how my human self has adapted) The Galápagos Islands are renowned for their unique, endemic biodiversity which inspired Charles Darwin to develop his theory of evolution by natural selection. In particular, Darwin’s finches are an iconic example of adaptive radiation due to natural selection, where ~18 species have evolved from a single, common ancestor. Adaptive radiations can occur when exploitation of new ecological niches can lead to speciation, that is, the formation of entirely new species. Each species of Darwin’s finches is able to specialize on niche specific food items as well innovate in order to take advantage of new food sources, for example, by utilizing tools. Humans can pose major threats to such adaptive radiations by changing selection pressures on Darwin’s finches, and thus, influence their adaptation and evolution. On the Galápagos Islands, humans have direct and indirect effects on the adaptation of Darwin’s finches. My research focuses on three human influences: introduced predators, novel foods, and urbanization, and how these iconic finches are adapting to the presence of humans on the islands.

Panel Discussion on Wednesday, Nov. 11th@12:30PM What Women’s Leadership in STEM Looks Like in 2020 Dr. Angela Kross, Department of Geography, Planning and Environment at Concordia University I am currently a fulltime-faculty in Geospatial Technologies at the Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University, Canada. I hold an Agronomic Engineering degree from the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil; and worked within the domain of Organic Agriculture in Brazil before pursuing my MSc. Degree in Geographic Information Science / Remote Sensing at the Wageningen University and Research Centre, Wageningen, Netherlands. I hold a Ph.D in Physical Geography / Remote Sensing from McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

Prior to joining Concordia in August 2015, I was a post-doctoral researcher at the Earth Observation research branch of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. In my research, I use GIS and Remote Sensing in combination with ground measurements and models to answer questions related to ecosystem processes, vegetation development and land use change in response to anthropogenic and natural events, such as agriculture practices, mining activities and climate change. In my recent research, I have used a combination of optical, thermal and radar data to classify crop types, estimate crop biomass and estimate peatland carbon exchange and phenology. I currently teach GIS and Remote Sensing courses at Concordia University, and I am in charge of the Summer GIS training program. Plant phenology and global climate change: a remote sensing approach Plant phenology, the timing of recurring plant life events (e.g. leaf unfolding, flowering), is closely related to plant nutrition conservation and competitive strategies, and is influenced by meteorological, topographic and soil variations. Understanding plant phenology is critically important, as it is a key indicator of environmental change (varying with photoperiod, temperature and water availability). I will talk about the remote sensing methods applied to phenology monitoring, the advantages, and challenges and show some examples from my research related to this topic.

Thursday, November 12, 2020

Houda Shafique on Thursday, Nov. 12@ 2PM

Engineering Student at McGill, Overcoming a Limiting Narrative In her talk, Houda Shafique, a current bioengineering (BEng) undergraduate student at McGill University and the Co-President of Promoting Opportunities for Women in Engineering (POWE), will discuss the role we can all play in overcoming a limiting narrative around women in STEM fields. Through an anecdotal approach, she will share her thoughts and advice regarding the importance of marginalized identities and diversity in male-dominated fields.

Friday, November 13, 2020 Kailey Karahkwinehtha Nicholas on Friday, Nov. 13th@10AM Introduction to Two Eyed Seeing

For millennia before the earliest roots of Western science were documented, the Indigenous peoples of this land were practicing architecture, ecology, engineering, astronomy, agriculture, and a variety of other fields well before the influence of colonization.

Kailey Karahkwinehtha Nicholas, a Vanier Alumna of the Environmental & Wildlife Management program and current Biology student at Bishops University she is an advocate for two eyed seeing and bridging the gap between these two knowledge systems. As a member of the Kanien’kéhaka nation and a lover of science, this guiding principle has helped her gain a deeper understand of the processes of the natural world by looking through both lenses of perspective.

Dr. Renata Ferreira on Friday, Nov. 13th@1PM

I am a biologist trained in comparative psychology and biological anthropology and I am currently a professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. My research focuses on personality, behavioral plasticity, and resilience to stress of capuchin monkeys living in human altered habitats (zoos, rescue centers, reintroduced animals and animals living in Atlantic forest fragments). For the last 8 years, I am part of the Environmental Ministry council for conflict resolution and management of endangered primate species in northeast Brazil.

Back into wild: ex situ rehabilitation and in situ survivorship of reintroduced capuchin monkeys Due to the loss of natural forest and wildlife traffic, 60% of primate species are listed as vulnerable or endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. Concurrently an increasing number of primates are kept under human care in zoos, research labs, or rescue centers. Conservation physiology is an area of research that aims to identify the behavioral and physiological characteristics that allow individuals to persist in human-altered environments. In this talk, I will present my research on stress coping strategies and rehabilitation of capuchin monkeys (Sapajus spp). I will present data on personality, hormones, and clinical profile of animals in zoos and rescue centers, and

also on survivorship of capuchin monkeys reintroduced back into wild. These data are used to help decision-making on the design of enclosures, rehabilitation protocols, and the translocation of individuals between areas.

Stephanie Felkai, Department of Biology

Referral Form: Early Alert Support

The Early Alert Support referral form is available online for teachers to refer at-risk students to a Student Success Advisor. Teachers are encouraged to fill out the referral form as soon as it becomes noticeable that a student is likely to fail and requires support beyond help understanding course content.

I will contact referred students and invite them to meet with me via Teams, telephone or in person if the student’s schedule requires them to be on campus. Depending on a student’s situation, I will either work with them directly, or refer them to the relevant resource(s), and follow up to help ensure the student receives the necessary support.

Please do not hesitate to contact me should you want further information: cloughc@vaniercollege.qc.ca

Referral form: Early Alert Support: http://bit.ly/early-alert-referral

Cari Clough, Student Success Advisor, Tutoring and Academic Success Centre, E-308

VTV TODAY

VTV Today is a Youtube series that informs Vanier students about future events at the college, and any important information or deadlines they should know about. The series airs every 2 weeks, is filmed on VTV’s green screen, and features a student reporting the news to their fellow classmates. If you have any events or information you would like to disseminate in the next few VTV Today episodes please send it to arcurig@vaniercollege.qc.ca by the following deadlines below, in order to allow time for the scriptwriting, filming and editing of the videos. Here are the dates that the upcoming episodes will cover:

NOV 16-27 (deadline to submit: Nov 4) Giovanna Arcuri, Vanier Communications

Montreal Re-adaptation Centre Hello everyone, I would just like to give a small reminder to all out there, that you have the opportunity to have any confidential papers that you may have sitting around, whether personal or work related (old exams, essays, etc...) shredded on site at Vanier by your coworkers who work for the Montreal Re-adaptation Centre. We are located in B118, across from the print shop, if you wish to drop them off; or we could also come up to your locale to do a pickup if it is a large quantity. Our extension is 7536, just ask for Kerry (Specialized Educator)

Kerry Hall , Specialized Educator, West Montreal Re-adaptation Centre

Discourse: Racism and Justice

When planning for the Symposium on the Holocaust and Genocide began in June 2020 for the upcoming symposium the week of November 9th. It quickly became obvious that we needed to include the subject of race in this year’s symposium. As such, a committee was struck including Alan Wong, Marya Grant, Susan Bissonnette, Dany Brown, Jennifer Joseph, and Olivia Morin. A Discourse: Racism and Justice, will be taking place on November 6th and it will be held virtually. Registration will be mandatory and once registration is complete, we will send you the link to attend. This link for registration will be complete in the next week or so and we will get that information out to the community as soon as we are able. You can register at: https://www.vaniercollege.qc.ca/holocaust-genocide-symposium/discourse-racism-justice / This event will also be recorded and will be available to Vanier’s community. The Speakers include: Wes Hall: The Founder of Kingsdale Advisors and The Globe & Mail has called him one of the nation’s “most influential powerbrokers” and Canadian Business magazine named him one of the “most powerful businesspeople” in 2016. Wes is Founder and Chairman of The Canadian Council of Business Leaders Against Anti-Black Systemic Racism and the BlackNorth Initiative, committed to the removal of anti-Black systemic barriers negatively affecting the lives of Black Canadians. Title: The Black Experience in Canada Time- 9:30

Michael Mostyn: Michael Mostyn is the Chief Executive Officer of B’nai Brith Canada and oversees the breadth of B'nai Brith's programming and advocacy initiatives. He serves as a senior spokesperson for the community and regularly speaks out on behalf of Canadian Jewry and those whose human rights are under threat globally. Michael is a barrister and solicitor in good standing with the Law Society of Upper Canada. B’nai Brith and The Black Chamber of Commerce recently signed a MOU to join forces and fight together on issues of race and antisemitism. Title: The History and Future of Jewish and Black Relations Time- 10:00 Wes Hall and Michael Mostyn will have a combined question period. Peter Flegel: Peter Flegel is the Director of the Government of Canada's Anti-Racism Secretariat, a cornerstone of Building a Foundation for Change: Canada's Anti-Racism Strategy 2019-2022. In addition to coordinating federal action and driving the overall strategy, he and his team are responsible for working with federal departments and agencies to identify and coordinate initiatives, identify gaps, and consider the impacts of new and existing policies, services and programs on communities and Indigenous Peoples. Peter has a distinguished career as a social entrepreneur, fundraiser, columnist, community organizer and musician, with extensive Canadian and international experience working in multilingual and multicultural settings. He has a history of leadership in the government, NGO and philanthropic sectors, in areas including diversity and employment, human rights, Anti-Black racism, Indigenous issues, homophobia and transphobia, Islamophobia, antisemitism, youth, culture and multiculturalism. Title: Remembering the Holocaust: A Key to Eradicating Racism Time: 11:00 *We will be partnering with the English Department for this lecture. Ric Bienstock: Ric is a Vanier graduate and an award-winning documentarian as she has produced and directed investigative social issue documentaries like Sex Slaves, an investigation into the trafficking of women from former Soviet Bloc Countries into the global sex trade and Ebola: Inside an Outbreak which took viewers to ground zero of the Ebola outbreak in Zaire. She has garnered dozens of awards for her films including a U.S. Emmy for Outstanding Investigative Journalism and two Edward R. Murrow Awards. Her latest film is called Enslaved and is a six-part documentary series that sheds new light on 400 years of human trafficking from Africa to the New World, led by Hollywood icon and human rights activist Samuel L. Jackson. Using new diving technology – such as advanced 3D mapping and ground-penetrating radar – to locate and examine sunken slave ships on three continents, the series reveals an entirely new perspective on the history of the transatlantic slave trade. Time 11:45 Marie-Claude Landry: Marie-Claude Landry, Ad. E., has been the Chief Commissioner of the Canadian Human Rights Commission since March 2015. As Chief Commissioner of the Canadian Human Rights Commission, Ms. Landry has undertaken several major initiatives, notably the reorganization and simplification of the human rights complaints process to break down barriers to access to justice for people in vulnerable circumstances. Ms. Landry meets regularly with many organizations and stakeholders across Canada to hear and understand their concerns. She has taken upon herself and is committed to amplifying the voices that may otherwise go unheard. To raise awareness of the enormous socio-economic impacts of systemic racism and discrimination, Ms. Landry continues to participate in various events an engage with racialized communities. Time: 12:30 Stephen De Four-Wyre: Stephen De Four-Wyre, B.Mus. (McGill) 2010; B.C.L., LL.B. (McGill) 2014; M.A. (McGill) 2017, was admitted to the Law Society of Ontario in 2016 and the Barreau du Québec (c.l.a.) in 2017. He joined Goldberg Berger in September 2017. His law practice is focused on immigration-related matters. In addition to practicing law, Me De Four-Wyre has a parallel career as a university lecturer. Since January 2018, he has taught courses in employment/labour law and business law at Concordia University. More recently, in January 2020, he began teaching employment/labour law at McGill University. Time: 1:15 Title: Race and The Canadian Immigration System

May Chiu: May is a family attorney, single parent, anti-racism activist (against South African apartheid, Chinese head tax campaign, campaign against Bill 21, for rights of migrants, etc.) , and for the past two years, member of Extinction Rebellion fighting for climate justice. Title: Anti-Asian Racism in times of Covid: Towards Building a Movement of Resistance Time: 2:00 Nakuset: Nakuset, the Executive Director of the Native Women's Shelter of Montréal, is Cree from Lac la Ronge, Saskatchewan. She has three beautiful boys, Kistin, Mahkisis and Mahihkan. She was adopted by a Jewish family in Montreal and draws on her adoptee experience in her advocacy work for Indigenous children in care. Nakuset created, produced and hosted the television series Indigenous Power, she was voted “Woman of the Year 2014” by the Montreal Council of Women, and she is the Indigenous columnist for MaTV’s CityLife. Nakuset was featured in Real Talk on Race, the award winning CBC series. In 2017, she was selected by the CKX City Series as a speaker/shift disturber due to the work she does to shift the status quo for urban Aboriginal women. In November 2017, she was a speaker for TEDx Montreal Women. In 2018, she testified for 3 days at the Viens Commission, a public inquiry into the discrimination of Indigenous people of Quebec. She testified in June, 2018 at the MMIW Inquiry in Calgary. In February 2019, she presented at WE Day. She was recently featured in the “End of 2010’s interview for Global” to discuss the past decade work with the urban Indigenous community. She is honoured to spearheaded and run the Cabot Square project since its inception and to co-found Resilience Montreal. She is dedicated to improving the lives of urban aboriginals. Time: 2:45 Title: The Resilience of Urban Indigenous People Fo Niemi: Mr. Niemi is the co-founder and, executive director of the Center for Research-Action on Race Relations (CRARR), which is a small non-profit civil rights organization based in Montreal. He is a graduate in social work from McGill University and also studied political sciences at Concordia University, with specialization in judicial activism and the civil rights movement in the US and Canada. Topic: Racial Profiling Time: 3:30 Vanier Student BIPOC Panel: Fatoumata Baldé - Being a Black Muslim woman, Fatoumata Binta Balde has learned from a young age that she would navigate in spaces differently. She identifies as an Afro feminist and has come to realize the many ways her blackness intersects with her gender and her religion. Initiating change in our institutions and communities are things she is determined to do as it is often a matter of survival. Angélique Chu - A self-described ambiguously Asian person. Angélique is a second-generation immigrant and eldest child of two Vietnam War refugees. They are no stranger to racism, xenophobia, and colonialism. They are their ancestors’ wildest dreams. Issa Ammari - Issa is a Vanier alumnus who graduated in 2016. He is in Law at the University of Montreal and President of the Law Student Association (the second ethnic person to ever hold this position). Kat Louis - Kat Charles (she/they) is a queer Haitian writer, playwright, performer, therapist in training and community activist based in Tio'tia:ke (Montreal). She is currently pursuing a Master’s in creative arts therapy at Concordia. They have also recently co-founded the Black Healing Fund in Montreal to make mental health services more accessible for black Montrealers. Mariem Mohamed Vall – A young Canadian girl from mixed African and Arabic backgrounds who grew up rejected by her communities because she was “too dark” or “too light”. Time: 4:15 * Thank you to Allan Wong for putting the student panel together and Maggie Kathwaroon for coaching our student panelists to be ready for November 6th. *** We will be partnering with the English Department for this lecture. For more details see: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bVu1POBKvlwWDfvO5LEn1E1gqPIY9qZ7/view

Marlene Grossman, Psychology Department

28th Annual Symposium on the Holocaust and Genocide

The symposium will be taking place November 9th-13th and will be held virtually. Registration will be mandatory. Please register at https://www.vaniercollege.qc.ca/holocaust-genocide-symposium/annual-vanier-college-symposium-holocaust-genocide/. There are many thanks to getting this symposium off the ground due to continued technological and logistic challenges. I would like to thank (not in any particular order): Bruce Norton, Jennifer Joseph, Alena Perout, Nora Soukiassian, Ivanka Hillel, Ali Zoghi, Zsofia Orszagh, Giovanna Arcuri, Marguerite Corriveau, Patti Kingsmill, and Ara Karaboghossian. The symposium’s speakers include:

Monday, November 9th Kyle Matthews: Kyle Matthews is the Executive Director of the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) at Concordia University. His work focuses on human rights, international security, the Responsibility to Protect, global threats, and social media and technology, and global cities. He works closely with the Canadian All-Party Parliamentary Group for the Prevention of Genocide and has advised Members of Parliament on issues related to international peace and security. He previously worked for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, where he was posted to the Southern Caucasus (Tbilisi), the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Kinshasa) and Switzerland (Geneva). Prior to that he worked for CARE Canada in Albania and later at its headquarters in Ottawa, where he managed various humanitarian response initiatives and peace-building projects in Afghanistan, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East. Title: Social media, Online Hate and Incitement to Violence Time: 10:00 Eva Kuper (Holocaust survivor): Eva was born after the start of WWII in Warsaw, Poland. She survived the war by a series of miraculous events involving luck, coincidence, but mainly as a result of the courage and humanity of several individuals, both family and virtual strangers. She immigrated to Canada with her family in 1949 where she grew up in Montreal, “practically Canadian” with the Holocaust history always there in the background. Eva has spent her professional life in the field of education and educational administration having taught students age 3 to Concordia University and having administered several educational centres and schools. As a retiree since 2005, Eva has served on the Boards of several organizations: among them Auberge Shalom pour Femmes for 13 years and currently for the past 7 years is a member of the Board of Directors of the Montreal Holocaust Museum where she also offers her story in testimony in to hundreds of groups of students and adults. Title: Hidden Children, Unknown Heroes Time: 1:00

Tuesday, November 10th Moses Gashirabake: Moses holds two law degrees from McGill University and an honours degree in Political Science from Concordia University. As a result of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi of Rwanda, Moses grew up outside his country of birth as a stateless refugee. He works in the legal profession and currently sits as a board member of the Foundation Genocide Education, the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights and is Chair of the Rwandan Canadian Healing Centre. Topic: Rwandan Genocide against the Tutsi Time: 10:00 Gina Wilson: Gina Wilson is Algonquin and began her career in her First Nation community of Kitigan-Zibi as Executive Director of Health and Social Services. She joined the Federal Government in 1996 and held several senior executive positions at several departments including the Privy Council Office, Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada and Employment and Social Development Canada. Gina is the recipient of the 2020 Indspire Award for her leadership and her life-long work on Indigenous issues and supporting Indigenous employees. She is the current Deputy Minister of Diversity, Inclusion and Youth at Canadian Heritage. Topic: Reconciliation Time: 1:00

Wednesday, November 11th Dr. Raphael Cohen-Almagor: Raphael Cohen-Almagor, DPhil Oxford University; Professor and Chair in Politics, University of Hull. He has founded several organizations, including Israel’s “Second Generation to the Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance” Organization; The University of Haifa Center for Democratic Studies; The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute Medical Ethics Think-tank, and The University of Hull Middle East Study Group. Raphael taught at a number of universities in the United Kingdom, Israel and the United States, including Oxford, Jerusalem, Haifa, UCLA, Johns Hopkins, and Nirma (India). In 2007-2008, he was Senior Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and in 2019 Distinguished Visiting Professor, Faculty of Laws, University College London. Raphael is the author of more than 250 publications including the books The Boundaries of Liberty and Tolerance (1994), Speech, Media and Ethics (2001), The Scope of Tolerance (2006), Confronting the Internet's Dark Side (2015) and Just, Reasonable Multiculturalism (forthcoming). Title: Freedom of Expression vs. Social Responsibility: Holocaust Denial in Canada Time: 10:00 Tommy Schnurmacher: Award-winning broadcaster Tommy Schnurmacher was the host of a highly rated daily three-hour radio talk show on CJAD in Montreal for more than twenty years. He is the author of a post-Holocaust memoir Make-up Tips from Auschwitz. How Vanity Saved My Mother’s Life. Title: Memories of Mom and Mayhem Time: 1:00

Thursday, November 12th Dr. Matthias Becker: Dr. Matthias J. Becker is a postdoc researcher at the Center for Research on Antisemitism (ZfA) at the Technical University in Berlin. Furthermore, he is affiliated to CENTRIC, Sheffield Hallam University and to the Vidal Sassoon Center at Hebrew University, Jerusalem. His research lies within the disciplines of (pragma)linguistics, research on prejudice, and internet studies and focuses on the construction of implicit hate speech. Dr. Becker will lead an international research project on antisemitism on mainstream news websites and social media platforms in Germany, France, and in the UK. In this 3-year pilot project, antisemitic hate speech and imagery will be analyzed based on a mixed methods approach, also integrating AI technology. Title: Understanding Online Antisemitism: Towards a New Linguistic Approach Time: 10:00 Dr. Barbara Perry: Barbara Perry is a Professor in the Faculty of Social Science and Humanities at Ontario Tech University, and the Director of the Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism. She has written extensively on hate crime. She is currently working in the areas of anti-Muslim violence, antisemitic hate crime, the community impacts of hate crime, and right-wing extremism in Canada. She is regularly called upon by policy makers, practitioners, and local, national and international media as an expert on hate crime and right-wing extremism. Topic: Hate crimes in Canada Time: 1:00 Allan Whitehorn: Alan Whitehorn is an emeritus professor of political science at the Royal Military College of Canada. He received his BA (York) in Political Science/History and his MA and PhD (Carleton) in political science. In the mid-seventies, he served as the research director on the David Lewis memoirs. From 1978 to 2011 he was a professor of political science at RMC. In the mid-1990s, he was the first holder of the JS Woodsworth Chair in Humanities at Simon Fraser University. As an academic, he writes on the topics of genocide, human rights, political parties and elections. As a poet, he explores the issue of genocide and its impact on Armenian-Canadian identity. His books include: The Armenian Genocide: Resisting the Inertia of Indifference (Blue Heron, Kingston, 2001) (coauthor); Ancestral Voices: Identity, Ethnic Roots and A Genocide Remembered (Hybrid, Winnipeg, 2007); Just Poems: Reflections on the Armenian Genocide (Hybrid, Winnipeg, 2009); Return to Armenia/Veradardz depi Hayastan (Lusakn, Yerevan, 2012); and The Armenian Genocide: The Essential Reference Guide (ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, 2015) (editor). Remembering the Causes and Consequences of the Armenian Genocide and Confronting Denial Time: 3:00

Friday, November 13th Heidi Berger: Heidi Berger is the founder and president of The Foundation for Genocide Education. She is also an award-winning film producer and professor of communications at Concordia University in Montreal, and the child of Holocaust survivors. She has been interviewed extensively by local and national media for her comments on how education can prevent hate and violence. The mission of the foundation is to ensure that genocide is taught to every high school student in Canada and the United States. The foundation is currently collaborating with the Quebec Ministry of Education, which is producing a universal guide on genocide to be made accessible in every high school in the province in 2021. Title: Never Again: Honouring my mother's legacy Time: 10:00 Ben Bicher (Holocaust survivor): Ben was a Jewish child hidden in a Catholic orphanage in Belgium during the Holocaust. He survived from the age of three through six in hiding. Miraculously, his immediate family survived as well. They immigrated to Montreal shortly after the war. Topic: Surviving the Holocaust in a Catholic Orphanage Time: 1:00

Marlene Grossman, Psychology Department

PSI News

Come Join us for Coffee

Do you miss the days when you could walk the hallways of Vanier and talk to your colleagues, as you grabbed a cup of coffee? Then come join us! You may want to chat about the US election, your classes, or anything at all. Maybe you just need a virtual hug . No sign-up needed. Just click here or drop by the General Channel in the Coffee & Questions Team.

Sessions this week: Tuesday November 3rd, 10am to 11:30am

Thursday November 5th, 11:30am to 1:00pm

Final Assessments

Although final assessments are still weeks away, we know that the current situation may be forcing teachers to think of ‘Plan B’. The PSI team recognizes that each course, discipline, or program has its own format for administering testing and assessments. We also acknowledge that adapting your final assessments may present challenges that are unique to your context and therefore will require support that is specifically targeted to your needs. If there are challenges that your teachers are facing in regard to online assessments, your PSI team would like to be able to offer resources, support, and guidance that is tailored to your context. Additionally, if teachers in your department are experiencing success with online assessments and would be open to sharing their strategies with others, please let us know so that we might facilitate opportunities for sharing. As always, do not hesitate to reach out to the PSI Team at psisupport@vanier.college or contact your Pedagogical Counsellor directly. Your PSI Team is here to support you.

Creating Interactive Online Activities with H5P in Moodle

If you are a Moodle user, you might be interested to know that Moodle includes H5P, a plugin that allows users to develop interactive activities that can be graded.

For instance, you can create an interactive video (whether a regular video or 360) with embedded questions of different types (True or False, multiple choice, etc.), labels, text, images, drag-and-drop exercises, and links. H5P also allows you to create the following types of exercises:

Accordions (vertically stacked, expandable items)

Quizzes

Charts

Collages

Interactive slides

Dialog cards

Drag-and-drop, fill-in-the-blank, and find the hotspot exercises

Mark the words

Memory games

Timelines

Virtual tours (360)

Mot mystère

Interactive books

For details on how to add an H5P activity to your Moodle course, click here.

Important Note about Student Access to Assignment Feedback in Teams Assignments:

There appears to be a default setting in Teams that allows students to see their grades (and those of others) in the Files section of a Team. Please click here to see how to control what students see, and prevent the sharing of feedback from a quiz until you are ready to return the assignment.

Dealing with Issues in Forms

Timing Issues

Some teachers have reported that students have seemingly completed a quiz in Forms in seconds or have reported that they were prevented from completing their quiz as though time was up, when it was not. Please note that these issues may arise if students do not have the correct time zone on their device or if, for whatever reason, the time zone does not appear to be correct in Teams (usually an issue with their device, since time zones are automatically set

correctly in Vanier’s O365). Ask students to check whether the time stamp on messages sent in Teams or chat is correct. If it is not, that may be the culprit. Students will have to reach out to ITSS.

Posting Quiz Scores If your quiz has an end-date, students may tell you that they cannot view the posted scores. This seems to be a glitch in Microsoft. End dates must be must be removed before students can see posted scores. PSI has created this brief video tutorial demonstrating how to review quizzes in Forms, provide feedback, and post scores.

Equipment Loans

The College has ordered equipment to support teachers with online and hybrid learning. Soon we will have iPads ready to be borrowed, as well as Logitech webcams. Please check the equipment list to learn which ones are available. Currently, Wacoms, Hue document cameras, Snowball microphones, and four smart phones are available to borrow, along with some Sennheiser earbuds (which we are giving away while supplies last). Please visit the PSI Equipment for Online Teaching page for details about items that will be available and borrowing procedures.

Webinars

This fall, AQPC is offering eight webinars anchored in today's college reality, including one on student success especially related to transitions between schooling levels and a meeting to better understand the results of educational research.

The webinars will also be an opportunity to learn, but also to chat with colleagues from other institutions, ask questions, and get answers.

They began the week of October 19 and will run through the week of December 7, inclusively. You will receive links to register one week before each event.

To view all the content and a full schedule of the webinars, please see the calendar below.

This week’s webinar can be registered for by clicking below. (Please note that these webinars are all in French).

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Des questions ? Communiquez par courriel avec l'équipe de l'AQPC à info@aqpc.qc.ca ou par téléphone au 514 328-3805, poste 2001.

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MTP Winter 2021 SCHEDULE | Oct. 08, 2020

MASTER TEACHER PROGRAM Winter 2021 Course schedule – Fully Online

Graduate Certificate and Graduate Diploma in College Teaching (GCCT & GDCT)

PED601 – College Teaching and Course Design (2 cr.)

GCCT: Core course GDCT: N/A Teacher: Lorelie Bouchard

Fri. Jan. 08 3:00-6:00pm Fri. Jan. 15 3:00-6:00pm Fri. Jan. 29 3:00-6:00pm Fri. Feb. 12 3:00-6:00pm Tues. Feb. 23 6:00-9:00pm Fri. Mar. 12 3:00-6:00pm

Note: Recommended first course in the Master Teacher Program

PED625 – Blended Learning: Transforming Teaching and

Learning (3 cr.)

GCCT: Elective course GDCT: Elective course Teacher: Dianne Bateman Sat. Jan. 23 9:30-12:30pm Fri. Feb. 05 3:00-6:00pm Fri. Feb. 19 3:00-6:00pm Wed. Mar. 03 6:00-9:00pm Fri. Mar. 12 3:00-6:00pm Wed. Mar. 24 6:00-9:00pm Sat. Apr. 10 9:30-12:30pm Fri. Apr. 16 3:00-6:00pm Fri. Apr. 30 3:00-6:00pm

PED604 – Instructional Strategies for Active Online Learning (2 cr.)

GCCT: Core course GDCT: N/A Teacher: Wilma Brown

Fri. Jan. 22 3:00-6:00pm Sat. Feb. 06 9:30-12:30pm Tues. Feb. 16 6:00-9:00pm Fri. Feb. 26 3:00-6:00pm Sat. Mar. 13 9:30-12:30pm Tues. Mar. 23 6:00-9:00pm Fri. Apr. 09 3:00-6:00pm Fri. Apr. 23 3:00-6:00pm

PED627 – The Digital Classroom (2 cr.)

GCCT: Elective course GDCT: Elective course Teachers: Lorelie Bouchard & Sharon Coyle

Wed. Jan. 06 9:30-12:30pm Fri. Jan. 08 9:30-12:30pm Tues. Jan. 12 9:30-12:30pm Wed. Jan. 20 6:00-9:00pm Wed. Feb. 03 6:00-9:00pm Wed. Feb. 17 6:00-9:00pm Prerequisites: PED601 and PED609 or PED 624

COL883 – Philosophy of Education: What Matters Most

(2 cr.)

GCCT: N/A GDCT: Core course Teacher: Elana Cooperberg

Fri. Jan. 15 3:00-6:00pm Fri. Jan. 29 3:00-6:00pm Fri. Feb. 12 3:00-6:00pm Wed. Feb. 24 6:00-9:00pm Wed. Mar. 10 6:00-9:00pm Fri. Mar. 26 3:00-6:00pm Fri. Apr. 09 3:00-6:00pm

Prerequisite: Completion of the Graduate

Certificate in College Teaching (GCCT)

PED617 – Group Work to Team-Based Learning (1 cr.)

GCCT: Elective course GDCT: Elective course Teacher: Lorelie Bouchard Tues. Jan. 05 9:30-12:30pm Thur. Jan. 07 9:30-12:30pm Mon. Jan. 11 9:30-12:30pm Tues. Jan. 19 3:00-6:00pm

The MTP Winter 2021 courses will be offered FULLY ONLINE with a combination of asynchronous and synchronous

activities using Moodle and Adobe Connect

W I N T E R

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S C H E D U L E

Participants will need the following equipment for all classes:

High-speed Internet access Headset with Microphone Webcam

Registration Deadlines: Friday, November 20, 2020 – New Participants Friday, November 27, 2020 – Returning Participants

To register, contact your local Performa Representative (RL) Please note, the deadline to drop PED601, 617 & 627 without penalty is December 23, 2020

MTP Winter 2021 SCHEDULE | Oct. 08, 2020

MASTER TEACHER PROGRAM Winter 2021 Course schedule – Fully Online

BRIEF COURSE DESCRIPTIONS PED601 - College Teaching and Course Design, 2 credits (Core course in the GCCT) Educational concepts, beliefs, values, practices, issues, philosophies and outcomes associated with learner-centered teaching are examined while designing, developing and evaluating a college level course. PED604 – Instructional Strategies for Active Online Learning, 2 credits (Core course in the GCCT) This course is designed to enable teachers to call upon instructional strategies to suit particular classroom and online situations. Participants will design instructional strategies that foster active learning and further the reciprocal relationship between teachers and students. COL883 - Philosophy of Education, 2 credits (Core Course in the GDCT) The primary goal of this course is to encourage the participants to formulate their own vision about how some of the various practices, which together make up education, ought to function. When practicing teachers read, think critically about, and discuss philosophic tradition in education, they gain a greater self-understanding and critical consciousness about their own theory and practice. Prerequisite: Completion of the Graduate Certificate in College Teaching (GCCT) PED617 – Group Work to Team-Based Learning, 1 credit (Elective course in either the GCCT or GDCT) Participants examine different ways to use and assess small groups and the instructional challenges these approaches often present. Principles and strategies for working with casual and collaborative groups, and team-based learning in an online classroom, will be examined. PED-625 – Blended Learning: Transforming Teaching and Learning, 3 credits (Elective course in either the GCCT or GDCT) Participants will redesign a traditional course into a blended learning format using instructional design principles. Emphasis will focus on articulating clear learning outcomes, enhancing assessment and feedback, and developing collaborative instructional activities to promote deep learning. Participants will use the Community of Inquiry framework to carefully integrate the best practices of in-class teaching with the best features of online learning. PED-627 – The Digital Classroom, 2 credits (Elective Course in either the GCCT or GDCT) The focus of this course is to harness the potential of a learning management system for optimal student learning. Participants will redesign a traditional course into a digital format (web-enhanced, flipped, blended, or online) using the Learning Management System (LMS) of their choice. Prerequisites: PED-601, College Teaching and Course Design and PED-609 or PED-624 Pedagogy of Digital Learning

NOTES:

Each course has additional online, asynchronous hours. Registration is based on the needs of participants

within the Consortium of Anglophone Colleges The consortium of Anglophone Colleges reserves the

right to cancel courses with insufficient registration. Course dates are subject to change. To withdraw from a course registration without

penalty, participants must notify their local PERFORMA Representative (RL) at least five (5) working days BEFORE the first class date. Failure to do so will result in a grade of AB (Abandon) and payment of course fees will be applicable.

FEES:

University of Sherbrooke Admission, Program Change & Re-Admission Fee, is $90.00

The University of Sherbrooke will invoice participants for the following fees, which are subject to change without notice:

Tuition Fee per credit, $110.71* UdeS Foundation Campaign per course, $3.50* Administration Fee per Academic Year $35.37

Supported by most college’s Professional Development Fund

Textbooks, if required, may be purchased online before classes begin.

*$2.94 of the $110.71 Tuition Fee per credit and the UdeS Foundation Campaign Fee are optional. Participants must opt out each semester.

The Master Teacher Program in a Nutshell

Graduate Certificate in College Teaching (GCCT): A total of 15 credits (11 Core + 4 Elective courses). Program # 46Y 000 Graduate Diploma in College Teaching (GDCT): A total of 30 credits (10 Core + 5 Elective courses). Program # 52M 000

Master of Education in College Teaching (M.Ed.): A total of 45 credits. Research Component. Program # 666 001