Our Contributors

Mercedes Rowinsky (Wilfrid Laurier University)

Bio
 
Dr. Mercedes Rowinsky-Geurts has published, among others: Imagen y discurso. El estudio de las imágenes en la obra de Cristina Peri Rossi, which was awarded a Special Mention by the Ministry of Education and Culture in Uruguay in 1998. In 2002, together with Angelo Borrás, she published, a translation of Cristina Peri Rossi Indicios pánicos, Panic Signs. Waterloo: WLU P, 2002, awarded the Gold Medal for Fiction in Translation by ForeWord Magazine in 2003. In the same year, she published and edition of Cristina Peri Rossi’s articles title: El pulso del mundo. Artículos periodísticos: 1978-2002. Among the Best Sellers in Uruguay for the first three weeks of August 2003. The second edition has been published by Universidad Autónoma de México with an introduction by Elena Poniatowska, in 2005. In 2008, co-edited the first Canadian Edition of ¡Hola, amigos! the best-selling Introductory Spanish book in Canada. Currently, the Second Canadian Edition of ¡Hola, amigos! has been published by Nelson Education on February 2011. In 2000, she was awarded the Wilfrid Laurier University Outstanding Teacher Award. In 2005 she was awarded the Faculty Mentoring Award at Wilfrid Laurier University. In 2008, she received the 3M National Teaching Fellowship. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education and also a Member of the Executive Council of 3M Fellows. In 2010 she was invited to be part of the Nelson Education Teaching Advantage (NETA) Editorial Board. She has also published articles in national and international journals and has presented in national and international conferences.

 Blogging Themes
  • Active learning and high impact practices
  • Large classes
  • Student mentoring

 Selected Publications



Ruth Rodgers (Durham College)

Bio

Ruth has more than 30 years of experience in the post-secondary sector as a faculty member, curriculum designer, faculty developer, and lifelong learner. Her B.A. and B.Ed. degrees are in English and Psychology, but her Master’s program focused on how people learn at work. Ruth is especially interested in supporting faculty in developing their professional identities as educators, and in enhancing and growing their teaching practice. Recently Ruth was instrumental in developing a mandatory College Teaching certificate program at her college, and now teaches in the program in addition to her educational development work. She served on the Educational Developers Caucus (EDC) executive for six years, and is the founding Chair of the College Sector Educators Community (CSEC), both within STLHE.

Blogging Themes
  • The development of professional educator identity in new faculty members
  • Designing and delivering “flipped” classroom models
  • The Teaching Company (US-based non-credit courseware) and the trend it represents

 Social Media
  •  LinkedIn


    Catherine Rawn (University of British Columbia)

    Bio

    In her tenure-track teaching stream position, Catherine enjoys the challenge of teaching psychology to large groups of diverse students. She has used a plethora of strategies to engage learners in classes of 100-400+, including Team-Based Learning, poster projects, peer tutors, mini-papers, clickers, demonstrations, and strategically placed song and dance. Her PhD is in Social/Personality Psychology, with an emphasis on quantitative research methods and statistics. Her doctoral work explored self-control, a topic which she recently used as the core of an Applied Social Psychology course focused on life-long learning. Most recently, she tackled textbook writing by updating and adapting an existing quantitative research methods textbook for a Canadian audience. A Millennial herself, she enjoys playing with and harnessing new media, and has, through STLHE 2011, learned the networking value of “tweeting” her way through a conference. In her down time, she enjoys spending time with friends, gardening, running, sitcoms, and wine.


    Blogging Themes
    • Why I love my tenure-track teaching-stream academic career
    • (How) are we training graduate students for their teaching roles?
    • Reliable and valid: using core principles of quantitative research for (re)designing learning assessments 

     Social Media
    • Twitter -- @cdrawn
    • Academia
    • LinkedIn
    • Google Profiles/Google+
    • www.psych.ubc.ca/~cdrawn

    Russ Hunt (St. Thomas University)

    Bio

    Russ Hunt has taught English since 1963, mostly at St. Thomas University. His central interests have been in the role of writing in learning, in collaborative teaching, in information
    technology in writing and learning, and in undergraduate curriculum development. He has won, and been nominated for, a number of teaching awards, and has published and lectured widely on learning and teaching, most recently on "online plagiarism" hysteria and the role of student understanding of the ecology of texts in knowledge production and exchange.



    Blogging Themes
    • Plagiarism and understanding the rhetoric of scholarship
    • Evaluation, marking and motivation
    • Team and collaborative teaching
    • Structural constraints on teaching (such as curriculum, classroom architecture, and evaluation)

      Social Media
      •   www.stu.ca/~hunt






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