The following is a list of (many of the) events I have participated in to further my own professional development as it relates to teaching and learning in higher education. Updated November 2012.

 Teaching and Learning Professional Growth

• POD Conference (Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education). Seattle, Washington. October 24-27th, 2012.
  
• Facilitating Student Peer Review, Evaluation and Assessment (May 28, 2012); Facilitators: Joanne Fox and Andrea Han
• All the World’s a Stage: Teachers as Actors (May 30, 2012); Facilitator: Greg Bole
• Team Based Learning (April 10, 2012; part of the CTLT Course Design Community of Practice); Facilitator: Jim Sibley
  
• Course Design Institute (December 12, 14, 16, 2011). Facilitators: Various
• Facilitating for Faculty Learning (October 27th, 2011; as part of the Fall Universities-Colleges-Institutes Professional Development Meeting, Langara Campus). Facilitator: Janice Johnson
• Copyrights Considered (March 29, 2010; part of the UBC library graduate workshop)
• UBC Learning Conference (October 29, 2009)
• Zotero Workshop (organized by SLAIS and GSS; March 5, 2009)
• Portfolio Community of Practice (October 2008 – ongoing monthly; 1 hour meetings)
• The UBC Learning Conference (October 2, 2008. Learning Goals session only)
• The Right Question at the Right Time (TAG, May 28, 2008). Facilitator: Janice Johnson
• Storytelling Web 2.0 (February 28, 2008). Facilitator: Alan Levin. Brown-bag session sponsored by UBC Faculty of Land & Food Systems’ Learning Centre.
• Introduction to WebCT (June 5, 2006/e-Learning Institute)
• Digital Storytelling (TAG, May 29, 2006)
  
• Starting and Ending: Substance and Style (TAG, May 17, 2006)
• Positive Space Workshop (UBC Positive Space, March 6, 2006)
• PowerPoint 2003 (TAG, 2005) [full day]
• An Experiment in Listening (TAG, 2005)
• Leading Discussions…Effectively (TAG, 2005)
• Bringing Breath, Voice and Passion to your Teaching (2005) [full-day]
• Teaching Large Classes (2004)

Instructional Skills Workshops

As part of my involvement with the ISW network, I have participated in various professional development activities

• ISW Joint Professional Development Day (October 22, 2012)
• ISW Joint Professional Development Day (December 3, 2008)
• ISW Joint Professional Development Day (February 25, 2008) Nicola Simmons
• ISW Joint Professional Development Day (May 17, 2007) Jennifer Jasper and I co-organized this day…many wonderful people facilitated sessions.
• Workplace Fairy Tales: An exploration (May 2, 2007) Glynnis Boultbee
• ISW Joint Professional Development Day (December 5, 2006)
• ISW Fall Institute (Bowen Island, November 24-25, 2006)
• ISW Facilitator Joint Professional Development day (May 18, 2005) Theme: Beginning and Endings
• Bowen Island Retreat session for new facilitators (Fall, 2005)
• ISW Facilitator Joint Professional Development day (full day, December 2005)
• Facilitator Development Workshop (5 days, June 2004)
• Instructional Skills Workshop (3 days, April, 2004)

Portfolios

• WordPress training (2009)
• Responding to Your Teaching Evaluations: Helping Yourself and Your Students (Dr. Gary Poole, November 17, 2008)
• Developing and Evaluating Teaching Portfolios web Conference (Dr. Amy Goodburn, October 26, 2007)
• ePortfolios for Learning and Assessment web conference (Dr. Trent Batson and Dr.Helen Chen, September 28, 2008)
• Opportunities for Reflection and Community-Building Using Emerging Technologies Presentation by Helen Chen, Stanford University; Friday, March 3, 2006; 1.5 hours)
• Creating Electronic Portfolios using iWebfolio 3.0 (September, 2005)
• e-Portfolios at UBC (Full-day conference, UBC Robson Square, November, 2004)

Other Professional Development

• Habits of Highly Effective Writers. October 29, 2012. Facilitated by Dr. Helen Sword from the University of Auckland.
  
• UCIPD 2012 Fall meeting (October 31 pm and November 1). Meeting of the Universities, Colleges, Institutes Professional Development. Chairs: Janice Johnson and Nancy Sly. I gave a short presentation on the “Evaluating the Impact of Educational Development” to the group.
  
• Centre for Health Education Scholarship Celebration of Scholarship Day. October 2, 2012. Vancouver, BC.
• From Academic Researcher to Commercial Writer (Workshop offered as part of the Graduate Pathways to Success Program. Facilitator Simon Clews. Wednesday, October 19, 2011)
  
• MITACS Step Project Management Workshop (Wednesday, February 16, 2011)

The UBC Institute for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning

• Surviving and Succeeding as an Early Career Faculty Member: Findings From an International Study. Presentation by Kathryn Sutherland, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand.
• How does one change a university? Presentation by Torgny Roxa, University of Lund, Sweden. (November 18, 2008)
• Learning with the Literature. Session with Margot Parkes, Post-Doctoral Fellow with the UBC Department of Health Care and Epidemiology (October 24, 2007, 1 hour)
• Engaging Students Outside of Class as a Tool for Enhanced Learning. Presentation by Dan Bernstein, University of Kansas (November 22, 2006)
• The Plight of First-Year Students: “Causes and Consequences”. Presentation by Ray Perry, University of Manitoba (October 3, 2006)
• Linking Discipline-based Research and Teaching to Benefit Student Learning. Presentation by Mick Healey, University of Gloucestershire, UK (May 8, 2006)
• The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and Academic Careers. Presentation by Mary Taylor Huber, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching (Friday, March 10, 2006)

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