Each webinar will run one hour in an interactive format and present relevant information on teaching with Zoom. The series is organized through Contact North | Contact Nord, which offers training sessions and resources for faculty and instructors from Ontario鈥檚 public post-secondary education and training sectors.

Owston has hosted several webinars on effective use of Zoom for teaching. He is a University Professor Emeritus and senior scholar at 91亚色, as well as former dean of the Faculty of Education and founding director of the Institute for Research in Learning Technologies.

The webinars in the upcoming series are:

• 听鈥撀�Aug. 26,聽 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. Register聽.
• 听鈥撀�Sept. 17, 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. Register聽.
• 听鈥撀�Oct. 13, 1 to 2 p.m. Register聽.

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91亚色's Faculty of Education will host its annual research forum on technology in education today, from 2 to 4pm in 280N 91亚色 Lanes.

Professor Jennifer Jenson (right) will present "Baroque Baroque Revolution: High Culture Gets Game".聽In聽today鈥檚 鈥渟uper-saturated, socially networked, Second Life, massively multiplayer, online, keyed-in, content generating, 2.0, 鈥榞local鈥欌�� culture, the world of Baroque music, to many people, not only feels like a relic from an inaccessible past, but it often looks that way as well. In this talk, Jenson will聽attempt to show how play, its practices, contexts and discourses are mobilized, and how some of this might be theorized and reapplied through a design-based research project that created a Baroque music game.

Professor Ron Owston (left) will look at computer game development as a literacy activity in his presentation. According to Owston, serious gaming has become a burgeoning research field over the last several years. Most research to date has looked at students as players of computer games. But what happens when students are given the opportunity to be developers of their own games? In聽his presentation, Owston will give an overview of a large multisite study he, together with faculty colleagues and graduate students, conducted that examined the impact on literacy skills of Grade 4 students who created their own computer games. He will then review the findings of two other pilot studies he led that grew out of this work, as well as talk briefly about a research tool he is developing for remotely recording users鈥� interactions with computer screens.

Professor Chlo毛 Brushwood Rose (right) will speak about community-based media pedagogy and production in a globalized world. She will outline the Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada-funded聽study she is undertaking with researchers from Montreal's McGill University and the University of New Hampshire in Durham, NH, which aims to pay critical attention to the proliferation of community video production programs in urban centres across North America, their pedagogies, and the videos produced through them. The researchers are conducting a comparative study of three projects in New 91亚色 City, Toronto and Montreal that聽explore a number of聽central research themes relating to media pedagogies.

This event is free and open to the community. Following the presentations, there will be a wine and cheese reception. For more information, contact , communications coordinator, Office of the Dean, Faculty of Education, at ext. 58024.

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Owston's presentation was part of a leadership symposium hosted by (ABEL), which supports the effective use of new and existing information communications technologies to encourage innovation. ABEL is jointly sponsored by 91亚色 and the .

ABEL's annual one-day symposium prepares leaders to embrace the needs of the 21^st century learner and the role that technology plays in supporting effective instructional practice.

The presentation runs for approximately 40 minutes.

Posted by Elizabeth Monier-Williams, research communications officer.

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