Any of the conference topics listed to the right of this
screen can be accessed from this website. The complete 25th POD Conference
registration booklet is also available. To download a copy of the registration
booklet in Adobe Acrobat PDF format, click here.
You will need the Adobe Acrobat Exchange Reader to view this file, which
can be saved to your hard drive and printed.
"Brave New Millennium" serves as the conference theme, which divides into three sub themes.
Passports: For those coming from outside Canada, we recommend the use of a passport to enter and exit Canada. It provides three key information pieces: your place of birth, your current residence and a photo.
Arrival and departure: For regular conference attendees, the first paid meal is lunch, so arrive prior to noon on Thursday. The last paid meal is breakfast on Sunday. Those who participate in educational expeditions and workshops should check the schedule found elsewhere in the booklet.
Registration: Please send in your Westin Bayshore registration early. After October 16, our room block is released. You can expect to pay a much higher package rate if you register with the hotel after October 16th.
Friday On Your Own (OYO): One meal, Friday night, is not included in the price. The package rate already reflects this change.
If this will be your first POD Conference, might we offer some background? The conference has the philosophy and feel of a retreat: all meals, refreshments, entertainment, and "sightseeing" is done communally in the spirit of networking. This is the second time in twenty-five years that we will have gone outside the United States for a conference. The primary constituency is faculty and instructional developers from the U.S., Canada, and a dozen other countries. This conference will also attract teaching assistant developers, organizational developers, faculty members, higher education administrators, educational consultants, and publishers for this audience. Approximately 500 people will attend.
We look forward to seeing you in the beautiful, newly renovated Westin Bayshore in downtown Vancouver come November. Welcome to British Columbia. ( http://www.westin.com/property.taf?prop=1080&lc=en )
Sincerely,
Virleen Carlson - Conference CoordinatorTop
Bill Burke - Program Chair
Christine Stanley - President
Tuesday, November 7 (Election
Day, USA)
3:00 p.m. Hotel Check-in
6:00 p.m. Core Committee Meets for dinner
Wednesday, November 8
Day/Evening: Educational Expeditions
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Core Committee Meeting
12:15 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Lunch
2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Pre-conference Workshops
5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Pre-conference Welcoming Reception
6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m. Dinner and Presidents Welcome Address
Thursday, November 9
Morning: Educational Expeditions
7:00 a.m. - 9:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
8:00 a.m.- Noon Core Committee Meeting
9:00 a.m. - Noon Pre-conference Workshops
12:15 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Concurrent Session A
2:45 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. Concurrent Session B
4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. Roundtable Session 1
5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Special Interest Meetings (Independent
college, diversity, TA, POD finance committee,
Community Colleges, etc.)
5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Newcomers Only Orientation
6:00 p.m. - 6:45 p.m. Diversity Committee Hosts Welcome
Reception for All
6:45 p.m.- 8:00 p.m. Dinner and "Welcome to BC"
Night
8:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Plenary Session — Speaker: Richard
Tiberiuss
Friday, November 10
7:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast
8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Concurrent Session C
10:15 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Plenary Session —History of POD,
chaired by Peter Frederick, featuring Joan North
11:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Plenary Session—Dennis A. Williams
and Saundra Yancy McGuire
12:15 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Concurrent Session D
2:45 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. Concurrent Session E
4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Concurrent Session F
5:30 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Set up for Materials & Resource
Fair
6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Materials/Resource Fair, Poster
Sessions, Reception
7:30 p.m. - ??? Dinner OYO (On Your Own)
Saturday, November 11 (Remembrance Day, Canada)
7:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast
7:30 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Roundtable Session 2
8:45 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Keynote Address— Bharati Mukherjee
10:15 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. Concurrent Session G
12:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Educational Expeditions
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Lunch
1:15 p.m. - 2:15 p.m. Concurrent Session H
2:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Concurrent Session I
4:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. Concurrent Session J
5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Final Reception
6:30 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Banquet and Celebratory Events
9:00 p.m. - Midnight POD Music & Dancing
Sunday, November 12
7:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast
8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Conference Summary and Closing
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The Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education (POD) fosters human development in higher education through faculty, instructional, and organizational development.
POD believes that people have value, as individuals and as members of groups. The development of students is a fundamental purpose of higher education and requires for its success effective advising, teaching, leadership, and management. Central to POD’s philosophy is lifelong, holistic, personal and professional learning growth, and change for the higher education community.
The three purposes of POD are:
She is a winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award,
and author of fiction (Darkness, 1985, The Middleman and Other Stories,
1988; The Holder of the World, 1993; Jasmine, 1989, Wanting America: Selected
Stories, 1995, and Leave It to Me, 1997) ) and nonfiction (Days and Nights
in Calcutta and The Sorrow and the Terror, both co-written with her husband
Blaise Clark). Dr. Bharati is also featured in a video with Bill Moyers,
Conquering America: Bharati Mukherjee, 1994. Her work expresses her life
as an "accidental immigrant," who is "anxious and querulous, convinced
that every aspect of the writing profession finding an authentic voice,
an audience, a publisher, knowledgeable reviewers weighs heavily against
[her] because of [her] visibility as a stereotype." Her aim "is to find
a voice that will represent the life I know in a manner that is true to
my own aesthetic. . . [which] must accommodate a decidedly Hindu imagination
with an Americanized sense of the craft of fiction." Her personal approach
to skills in American citizenship has been crafted through her experience
in many different neighborhoods in Canada and in the United States.
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Richard Tiberius has a Ph.D. in Applied Psychology from
the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.
He holds the position of professor in the Department of Psychiatry and
the Centre for Research in Education where he collaborates with medical
faculty in designing and conducting educational research and faculty development.
His scholarly work and consulting practice focuses on the improvement of
the teaching and learning process, especially the role of the teacher-student
relationship in learning. He has authored numerous journal articles, book
chapters and books in US, Canadian, and British journals, and has conducted
workshops and lectured throughout North America and Europe.
Joan DeGuire North has plowed the fields of academic administration
for the past 20 years, leaving behind another 13year career in faculty
development. She was founding director of POD back in the mid 1970's when
she was Director of the University of Alabama's Teaching/Learning Center
and later part of a federal project to work with 50 small private colleges.
She worked in administrative positions at two private colleges and has
spent the past 15 years as Dean of the College of Professional Studies
at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. With a bachelor's and master's
in English and a Ph.D. in educational administration, she was an American
Council on Education Fellow in 1972 and a Senior Consultant to the Secretary
of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) in 1976. In recent years, she has
written and consulted on faculty vitality, women in management, post-tenure
review, complexity in evaluation, colleges' commitment to teaching, and
leadership issues.
Saundra Yancy McGuire serves as the Director of the Center for Academic Success and Adjunct Associate Professor of Chemistry at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She has taught chemistry for the past thirty years, and served as the Acting Director of the Center for Learning and Teaching at Cornell. Previous academic appointments were at The State University of New York, Brockport; The University of Tennessee, Knoxville; Alabama A & M University, Huntsville, and eleven years at Cornell University. She earned the Doctorate of Philosophy in Chemical Education from The University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She has won an outstanding graduate teaching award as a master's candidate, a chancellor's citation for Exceptional Professional Promise as a doctoral candidate, and Cornell's Distinguished Teaching Award as a chemistry senior lecturer. A native of Baton Rouge, she is married to Stephen C. McGuire, and they are the parents of two daughters, and the grandparents of Joshua Bolurin Davis.
Dennis A. Williams is director of the Center for Minority
Educational Affairs and a professorial lecturer in English at Georgetown
University where he teaches an advanced fiction writing seminar as well
as an interdisciplinary expository writing class. This class is part of
the Community Scholars Program, which he directs, for incoming low- income,
first-generation college students. Previously he directed the Learning
Skills Center at Cornell University and was a senior lecturer in the John
S. Knight Writing program there. Holder of an MFA degree from the University
of Massachusetts, Mr. Williams is also the author of two novels, Somebody's
Child(1997) and Crossover(1992)both written while he was teaching full-time.
He is co-author with John A. Williams of If I Stop I'll Die: The Comedy
and Tragedy of Richard Pryor(1991). A onetime national affairs writer and
education editor for Newsweek magazine, his articles and essays have appeared
also in Emerge, Essence, Black Enterprise magazines and other publications.
A husband and father of two, he lives in Silver Spring, Maryland..
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The two advance book sessions offered at the 2000 POD Conference are as follows:
Leadership Without Easy Answers by Ronald A. Heifetz
Session facilitated by Lee Warren, Harvard University
Heifetz defines leadership as an exercise of moving people to confront adaptive (as differentiated from technical) challenges, not about providing the answers. It is about the difficult, messy work that defies easy solutions. Leadership need not be exercised only from the top: Heifetz discusses how to exercise leadership with and without authority. He further describes ways to "stay alive" while exercising leadership: how to manage oneself, to see clearly, and to buttress oneself in order to exercise leadership effectively. In this active session, colleagues will explore the meanings and ramifications of this definition of leadership and its implications for ourselves and our clients. 90 minute session
To order this book direct from Harvard University Press call 1 800 448-2242. Ask for ISBN: 0674518586.
The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape
of a Teacher's Life by Parker J. Palmer
Session Facilitated by Matt Ouellett, University Massachusetts-Amherst
The book that provided the inspiration for the conference theme of "Brave New Millennium," Parker Palmer's 1998 text takes teachers on a journey toward reconnecting with their vocation and their students and helps them to rekindle their passion for one of the most difficult and important human endeavors teaching. This book has taken on a life of its own inspiring teachers heading into the profession as well as those who have taught more than a few years. From the book jacket: Palmer guides us through the inner work of teaching to help us create communities of learning and he calls on educational institutions to support teachers in this work: "To educate is to guide students on an inner journey toward more truthful ways of seeing and being in the world..." 90 minute session
To order this book direct from Jossey Bass call customer service 18009567739. Handy, but not necessary, is the ISBN: 0787910589
This information is provided in the Advance Program and
Registration Materials to prepare conference participants for the readings.
If you plan to attend either of these sessions, please read the appropriate
book(s) before the November conference.
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Full-Day Workshops
W1: Getting Started
L. Dee Fink, University of Oklahoma; Mona Kreaden,
New York University
6 hours: Wednesday, November 8, 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
AND Thursday, November 9, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
This workshop is for people who are new to instructional,
faculty, or organizational development. It is intended for several audiences:
(a) those who are starting (or considering starting)
a new program at their institution, (b) those who are joining existing
programs as professional staff, and (c) members of faculty advisory committees.
The program will (a) provide an overview of the field of instructional
and faculty development, (b) look at possible program activities, (c) address
organizational, financial, and political issues in program operation, and
(d) identify resources for additional learning on this topic. All participants
will receive a copy of the POD A Guide to Faculty Development and videotape
about the field of faculty development. Fee: $105.00. (Cancellations
or on-site registrations for this workshop cannot be honored due to the
high cost of materials provided.)
W2: Assessment: The Implications for Faculty Development
Philip K. Way, University of Cincinnati; Barbara E.
Walvoord, University of Notre Dame
6 hours: Wednesday, November 8, 2:00 p.m.- 5: 00 p.m.
AND Thursday, November 9, 9:00a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
The New Millennium demands brave faculty developers who
can conquer faculty suspicions and remedy their lack of knowledge of assessment
in order to help programs and institutions improve student outcomes. If
you attend this practical and interactive session, you will learn the rationales
for assessment, how to determine program goals, how to assess student outcomes
in many different ways, how to use the results to enhance instruction and
learning, and how to develop faculty assessment competencies. You will
also learn the pros and cons of close links between faculty development
and assessment. Fee: $80.00.
W3: Toward Coherence from Alpha to Omega in the Scholarship
of Teaching and Learning: Programs, Progress, Problems, and Prospects
Samuel B. Thompson, Moya L. Andrews, Craig E. Nelson,
& Rita C. Naremore, Indiana University
6 hours: Wednesday, November 8, 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
AND Thursday, November 9, 9:00a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Objectives are to conceptualize and articulate scholarship
of teaching and learning, conceive or augment campus initiatives, and construct
developmental processes leading to scholarly productivity. Participants
will review conceptual frameworks of prominent scholars of the last decade
and examine issues of campus resource availability, promotion and tenure,
and faculty participation in light of evidence of successful programs.
Participants will also view video clips of scholars of teaching and then
surface their own issues for scholarly projects, frame these issues, and
consider investigative methodologies. Presenters mirror the target audience:
faculty developer, faculty, doctoral student preparing for faculty development,
and senior administrator. Fee: $80.00.
W4: Strategic Performance: A Collaboration of Theater
Training, Leadership Training and Faculty Development
Lee Warren & Nancy Houfek, Harvard University
6 hours: Wednesday, November 8, 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
AND Thursday, November 9, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Many accomplished professional people feel themselves
to be less effective than they wish they could be in the classroom, in
presentations, and in meetings or discussions. This workshop will address
this problem, by combining the insights gathered from theater performance
techniques, leadership training, and faculty development. It will 1) teach
participants techniques used in theater and leadership programs to enhance
performance; 2) using role-plays of their own cases, coach participants
in strategic management of discussion and presentations; 3) address how
to produce such collaborative programs in participants' home institutions.
Participants are encouraged to bring their own cases of personal ineffectiveness
in public situations. Fee: $80.00.
W5: Teaching and Learning Autobiographies: A First
Step to Becoming Critically Reflective Teachers in a Brave New Millennium
Laura Bush, Arizona State University
3 hours: Wednesday, November 8, 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Stephen D. Brookfield (1995) suggests that teachers can
alert themselves to the "distorted" or "incomplete" assumptions that guide
their instructional practices by viewing their teaching through four lenses:
(1) their own autobiographies as learners and teachers, (2) their students'
eyes, (3) their colleagues' experiences, (4) and their exposure to theoretical
literature on teaching and learning. This workshop focuses on teaching
and learning autobiographies, demonstrating practical methods for faculty
and TA developers to facilitate workshops on constructing teaching philosophies
and portfolios. In general, the workshop targets those who work in higher
education and recognize the benefit and biases of critical self-reflection.
Fee: $40.00.
W6: Helping Faculty (Re) Discover Their Great Teaching:
How to Organize and Host a Great Teaching Seminar
Thomas Cunningham, Southern Utah University; Gary
Parnell, Snow College; Mike McHargue, Foothill College; Pamela D. Bergeron,
Lansing Community College
3 hours: Wednesday, November 8, 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
The international success of Great Teaching Seminars,
founded over thirty years ago by David B. Gottshall, results from adherence
to a powerful model; it practices the notion that the best faculty development
is well facilitated "shop talk." The unique format of a Great Teaching
Seminar draws upon ideas, innovations, problems, and challenges of participants
themselves. They are the experts. More importantly, they decide what is
relevant to discuss. Participants at the POD workshop will learn how to
organize and host a GreatTeaching Seminar, and they will experience many
of the activities. Fee: 40.00.
W7: Combining Cases with Cooperative Learning
Susan Ledlow, Arizona State University
3 hours: Wednesday, November 8, 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
This workshop is a hands-on introduction to combining
simple cooperative learning structures and activities with cases. The use
of cooperative learning within a case discussion helps to maximize involvement
by lowering anxiety about participation and increasing simultaneous interaction.
Most of the session will be devoted to a model decision case discussion.
An overview of principles of case teaching and cooperative learning will
be provided and resources for case teaching and cooperative learning will
be identified. Fee: $40.00.
W8: Publish, Don't Perish: A Program to Help Scholars
Flourish
Tara Gray, New Mexico State University; Jane Birch,
Brigham Young University
3 hours: Wednesday, November 8, 2:00 p.m.- 5:00 p.m.
It takes courage for new faculty and less productive
scholars to take steps to publish more. It takes courage for faculty developers
to help them. This workshop describes one program aimed at scholarship
productivity, which has been tested and refined at two universities. The
program holds participants accountable for writing daily for 30 minutes
and getting regular, quality feedback from colleagues. Faculty enroll eagerly
and are delighted to see their productivity increase. POD participants
will learn how to facilitate this program; in order to "test drive" the
principles. Participants are invited to bring a 2-3 page writing sample.
Fee: $40.00.
W9: Queer Courage: Identity, Integrity and Sex in the
Classroom
David Krause, Columbia College, Chicago; David E.
Ahlvers, Carthage College
3 hours: Thursday, November 9, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Grounded in educational philosophies articulated by Parker
J. Palmer, Jane Tompkins, bell hooks, and Henry A. Giroux, this session
will explore the kinds of courage to teach and learn necessary within classrooms
that authentically recognize the presence and voices of students and teachers
with different sexual orientations. Beginning with a student's personal
narrative of "coming out," this session will invite structured dialogue
about how to engage questions of sexual orientation in our classrooms and
how to design related faculty development initiatives. If learning is to
"offer students a sense of identity, place, and hope" (Giroux), teaching
practices will need to transcend or subvert the fear of diversity, the
fear of conflict, and the fear of losing identity that Palmer finds inhibiting
our classroom practices. This will demand courage, from both teachers and
students, from both individuals and communities, from both queer and straight.
Fee: $40.00.
W10: Building Relationships: Collaboration and Training
of Graduate Peer Facilitators
William Rando, Yale University; Susie BrubakerCole,
Stanford University
3 hours: Thursday, November 9, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
In this session, two people, the director of a Graduate
Teaching Center and the coordinator of a group of graduate peer facilitators
herself a graduate student will engage participants in a series of activities
that demonstrate effective collaboration between graduate students and
FD professionals, and between graduate peer facilitators themselves. These
exercises will also demonstrate a training program for graduate peer facilitators
that resulted in a cohesive team of teachers able to create bonds of trust
and creative inquiry between themselves and their workshop participants.
An opening exercise will help participants reflect on "peerness," authority
and the spots of potential conflict these to imply. Subsequently, we will
engage participants in the exercises (our sixteen hours of training give
us over 25 individual exercises, interventions and activities to choose
from) that allow our group to explore authority and to work through points
of conflict. A final exercise will allow participants to reflect on what
they have learned and to apply this to their own setting. Fee: $40.00.
W11: Building Learning Teams: The Key to Creating Productive
Student Relationships in Large Classes (and small ones too)
Larry Michaelson, University of Oklahoma
3 hours: Thursday, November 9, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
When you (or faculty who come to you for advice) use
learning groups, do students complain about such things as:
• Having to do more than their fair share of the work?
• Not being able to keep their group working on the assigned
task?
• One or two members dominating the group?
If so, students are not the problem. It's the way they
are using the groups. In this session, you'll learn why and what you can
do that will help both eliminate these kinds of problems and increase the
effectiveness of the learning groups. Fee: $40.00.
W12: Faculty Development in the New Millennium: Promoting
Connections and Collaborations Among Instructional Technology and Faculty
Development Programs
Karen Sandell, Sherrie Gradi, & Ann Kovalchick,
Ohio University
3 hours: Thursday, November 9, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Focuses on building institutional collaborations among
campus units that offer faculty development programs including instructional
technology programs. The facilitators offer a model from their own collaboration
across instructional technology, teaching excellence and writing excellence
programs. Participants' work on three questions in terms of their own campuses:
What do we want to accomplish and what are the challenges? What resources
and structure can we build on? What is our vision and how can we begin
to get there? Guided writings, discussions, case analysis and vision development
enable participants to share thoughts and develop their own tentative plans.
Numerous handouts are provided. Fee: $40.00.
Please help our workshop presenters prepare enough handout materials
by registering for these workshops prior to October 20, 2000.
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Wednesday, November 8
E1: Annual Nature Extravaganza
Wednesday, November 8, 6:30 a.m.- 5:00 p.m.
Depart Hotel at 6:30 a.m. to arrive at low tide. Return
to Hotel by 5:00 p.m. in time for the 5:30 p.m. Welcoming Reception.
Fee: $80.00 Minimum Enrollment:
15
We will start by exploring at low tide the profuse invertebrate
fauna and plants in the tidal pools of Vancouver's Lighthouse Park and
hike through the park's virgin, old growth forest. Then we will travel
to Brackendale, where we will observe waterfowl and a spectacular concentration
of Bald Eagles, the largest in North America. We will hike through old
growth cedar forests. A third site is Shannon Falls area, with a waterfall
and hiking trails. On the way we will travel on the Sea-to-Sky Highway,
from which we will have spectacular views of Howe Sound, Squamish estuary,
and the Tantalus Rangewith its distant glaciers. Finally, we will visit
The Chief, a massive granite monolith with hiking trails and a sweeping
view of the area. Participants should be able to hike short distances and
climb stairs. Trip includes a box lunch provided by the hotel.
E2: Victoria's Secret: the City of Gardens
Wednesday, November 8, 6 a.m. - open-ended
Depart Vancouver at 6:00 a.m. to arrive in Victoria
at 10:00 a.m. with a scheduled return at 7:00 p.m.). Wheelchair accessible.
Fee: $60.00 Minimum Enrollment:
15
Victoria, named after Queen Victoria, is a regal seaside
city rich in British history and architecture. There is no agenda so explore
on your own. Possibilities include taking High Tea at The Empress Tea Lobby
or seeing the meticulously groomed million plus trees, plants and flowers
in autumnal splendor at the world-famous Butchart Gardens (http://www.butchartgardens.com/).
Touch the totem poles in Thunderbird Park and taste the locally smoked
salmon or a sherry truffle by the sailboats in Inner Harbour. For more
details see the websites (http://www.city.victoria.bc.ca/) and (http://www.victoriabc.com/).
Cost includes transportation to and from Victoria, to include ferry rides.
E3: Museum of Anthropology at the University of British
Columbia
Wednesday, November 8, 2 pm- 5 pm
Depart from Westin Bayshore at 1:00pm, return by 5pm.
Wheelchair accessible.
Fee: $15.00 Minimum Enrollment:
25
The museum itself is an award winning architectural wonder,
a concrete and glass recreation of Northwest Coast First Nations post and
beam structures. Inside you'll find a stunning array of traditional and
contemporary Pacific Northwest Native art and artifacts including huge
totem poles, canoes, ceremonial masks, jewelry, feast dishes, and an outdoor
sculpture complex with two traditional Haida long houses. And you won't
want to miss Haida artist Bill Reid's enormous cedar sculpture of the Raven
and the First Men creation myth. For more details see the MOA's website:
http://www.moa.ubc.ca/main.html
Thursday, November 9
E4: The Suspension Bridges of Lynn Canyon & Capilano
Parks
Thursday, November 9, 8 am - 12noon
Depart from Westin Bayshore at 8:00am, return by 12
noon. Wheelchair accessible.
Fee: $15.00 Minimum
Enrollment: 25
Take a walk on the wild side. These suspension bridges,
constructed of sturdy cedar planks and steel cables, span 230 and 240 feet
above their respective canyons. The Capilano sways near a 200 foot waterfall.
See kayakers and salmon shoot the rapids below. In addition to inching
your way across the bridges, you'll also have the opportunity to see the
Douglas Fir rain forest at Lynn Canyon Park as well as the carving centre
at Capilano Park.
E5: Deep Cove Guided Kayak Tour
Thursday, November 9, weather permitting
Depart from Westin Bayshore at 8:00am, return by 12:00
noon.
Fee: $40.00 Minimum Enrollment:
20
No experience necessary! In a safe, stable two-seater
kayak, paddle out of a quaint, artsy fishing village 20 miles north of
Vancouver. Glide around islands and along the majestic Indian Arm fjord.
See harbor seals, eagles, and snowcapped mountain peaks. All Deep Cove
kayak guides have a minimum of 3 years West Coast guiding experience and
are trained in wilderness first aid. They will share with you their thorough
knowledge of local history and folklore. Be sure to dress warmly with a
Gore-Tex or some kind of rain proof outer shell.
Saturday, November 11 (Canadian Remembrance Day)
E6: Chinatown Culture Walk with Tai Chi & Calligraphy
Workshops
Saturday, November 11, 12noon - 6:00 pm
Depart from Westin Bayshore at 12:00 noon, return
by 5:00 pm. Wheelchair accessible.
Fee: $20.00 Minimum Enrollment: 25
Take a guided walking tour through Vancouver's exotic
Chinatown, home to thousands of Cantonese speaking Canadians. Visit a traditional
Chinese herbalist, a Taoist temple, and the Sun Yat Sen Park. Along the
way, taste a dim sum or a bubble tea, and don't forget to stock up on ginseng
and powdered reindeer antler. End the expedition with a calligraphy workshop
and an introduction to and chance to practice Tai Chi. Trip includes a
box lunch provided by the hotel.
E7: British Columbia Rugby Game
Saturday, November 11, 12noon - 6:00 pm
Depart from Westin Bayshore at 12:00 noon, return
by 6:00 pm. Wheelchair accessible.
Fee: $20.00 Minimum Enrollment: 12
Watch the ruggers ruck on the pitch. If you get close
enough, you might just smell the scrummage. This is the real thing: genuine
British Columbia rugby. We currently don't know who's playing whom, but
it doesn't matter. Here's your chance to see first hand one of the most
exciting and popular sports on the planet. Check www.bcrugby.com for schedules
starting in August. Split the uprights! Trip includes a box lunch provided
by the hotel.
E8: Birding Trip to Burns Bog and Iona Park
Saturday, November 11, 12noon - 6:00 pm
Depart from the Westin Bayshore at 12:00 noon, return
by 6:00 p.m.
Fee: $60.00 Minimum Enrollment: 15
Burns Bog is a protected, several square mile wetland
southeast of Vancouver. We will look for hawks and Bald Eagles, among other
species, as we hike along trails and the boardwalk over areas of sphagnum
bog. We may see deer, coyotes, raccoons, and if lucky, mink. From Burns
Bog we will proceed to the Iona Park bird sanctuary, where, among other
animals, we can expect to find large concentrations of Snow Geese. At Iona
Park we will have panoramic views of Vancouver, Vancouver Island, and the
Gulf Islands. On the way we will be able to see commercial cranberry bogs.
Participants should be able to hike short distances and climb the equivalent
of two flights of stairs. Trip includes a box lunch provided by the hotel.
Important Information for Nature Trip Participants
Cameras, binoculars, and field guides to the geology,
birds, mammals, and plants of the area will be helpful. Your institutions
library may have useful field guides.
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Accommodations: The daily group package rate includes room accommodations and applicable taxes, gratuities, refreshment breaks, and all meals beginning with lunch on the day of arrival and ending with continental breakfast on the day of departure. **Please note: Spouses and/or significant others must register with the resort and will be charged the package rate.**
Run of House Rate: (rates include provincial room tax and 7% G.S.T.)
_ Single Occupancy $256.00 CDN per night
_ Double Occupancy $188.00 CDN per person per night based on two persons sharing
To get the exchange rate in your part of the world, use the handy electronic converter found on the Internet at http://www.xe.net/ucc/
2nd Name (if applicable): __________________________________________________________________________
Send reservations and deposit to:
THE WESTIN BAYSHORE RESORT & MARINA HOTEL - FAX: (604) 682-3377
Attention: RESERVATIONS DEPARTMENT HOTEL TELEPHONE: (604) 687-3322 or (604) 687-3102
1601 Bayshore Drive TOLL FREE 1 800 WESTIN 1
Vancouver, BC V6G 2V4 CANADA
Name: _________________________________________________________________________________________
Address: _______________________________________________________________________________________
City: _____________________ Province/State: ____________ Postal/Zip Code: __________ Country: __________
Phone Number: _________________________________ Fax Number: ____________________________________
email address: _____________________________________________
ARRIVAL DATE: ___________________________ ETA: _________________________
DEPARTURE DATE: ________________________ NUMBER OF NIGHTS: __________
SMOKING OR NON SMOKING ROOM: _________________________
KING OR 2 DOUBLE BEDS: ____________________________________
•THE CUTOFF DATE FOR RESERVATIONS IS October 16, 2000.REQUESTS RECEIVED AFTER THIS DATE WILL BE ACCEPTED ON A SPACE AVAILABLE BASIS AND AT THE PUBLISHED RATE IN EFFECT ON THE GROUP ARRIVAL DATE.
•A FIRST NIGHT DEPOSIT IS REQUIRED BY October 16, 2000. THIS DEPOSIT IS REFUNDABLE IF THE RESERVATION IS CANCELLED WITHIN 48 HOURS OF THE ARRIVAL DATE.
•CHECK-IN TIME: 3:00 P.M. CHECKOUT TIME: 12:00 P.M.
•METHOD OF PAYMENT: _____ CHEQUE ________ MONEY ORDER _______ CREDIT CARD
We are pleased to honor the following credit cards:
AMERICAN EXPRESS, VISA, MASTERCARD, EN ROUTE, DINERS CLUB, DISCOVER & JCB
CREDIT CARD: _______________________ CARD NUMBER:__________________________________________
EXPIRY DATE: _______________________ SIGNATURE: ____________________________________________
If any special needs are required, please advise the resort
and we will try to accommodate your request.
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If you wish assistance in locating a roommate please provide the following information: name, phone/fax, email, mailing address; whether you prefer smoking, nonsmoking, or have no smoking preference; whether you snore and do/don't mind someone who snores; gender; and other noteworthy conditions. Send the information requested to:
Hoag Holmgren, Assistant Director
Graduate Teacher Program
Norlin S461 Campus Box 362
University of Colorado at Boulder
Boulder, CO 803090362
(303)492-4907 (303)492-4904(FAX)
colpff@spot.colorado.edu
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PLEASE NOTE: For additional information about the Materials & Resource Fair, contact Karron Lewis, Fair Chair, (kglewis@mail.utexas.edu). Please DO NOT contact the hotel about this event.
Participants requesting a table to display/distribute materials must
check the appropriate box on the conference registration form. Cloth covered
tables will be provided. Easels, electrical connections, or audiovisual
equipment must be ordered in advance at the presenter's expense. Specific
information will be sent to those who indicate on the registration form
that they wish to be a presenter in this event. Persons who display materials
are expected to be at their tables to talk with conference participants
during the entire session. Materials such as campus produced handbooks,
extensive handouts, etc. may be sold to help defray production costs. Persons
displaying materials must be registered for the conference.
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Parking is extremely scarce, so bring your walking shoes for quick trips
to Stanley Park, or along the newly completed sea-wall, or the Friday Night
On Your Own (OYO).
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Name badge and mailing information (use a separate form for each person)
Name____________________________________________ (for POD database)
Badge Name____________________________________________ (this name will appear on your name badge)
Title____________________________________________
Department/Unit____________________________________________
Institution/Organization____________________________________________
Mailing Address____________________________________________
City_____________________ State/Prov. ______________ Zip Code _______________
Work Phone( ) ______________ FAX ( ) ______________ Electronic Mail: ____________________________
2000- 2001 POD Membership Dues:
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| Regular | $60 | $ _____ |
| Institutional* | $150 | $ _____ |
| International | $72 | $ _____ |
| International Institutional | $180 | $ _____ |
| Retired | $30 | $ _____ |
| Student | $30 | $ _____ |
Note: Individuals attending the conference must be current members.
*Institutional membership covers up to 3 individuals from the same institution. Please provide complete address information for all members on a separate sheet. The individuals named do NOT have to attend the conference.
If your dues are being paid separately by someone else please enter that person's name here ___________________________
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Cancellation Policy: Full refunds of conference registration fees, less a $20.00 administrative processing fee, will be made for refund requests received by October 20, 2000. Conference refund requests received after October 20, 2000 will be assessed a $50.00 administrative processing fee. No refund requests will be honored after October 30, 2000. The POD Network is not responsible for room arrangements with the Westin Bayshore.
Pre-Conference Workshops [See descriptions]
___ W1 Getting Started in Faculty Development @ $105
___ W2 Assessment: The Implications for Fac Dev @$80
___ W3 Toward Coherence from Alpha to Omega... @$80
___ W4 Strategic Performance: A Collaboration... @$80
___ W5 Teaching and Learning Autobiographies:... @$40
___ W6 Helping Faculty (Re)Discover... @$40
___ W7 Combining Cases with Cooperative Learning @$40
___ W8 Publish, Don't Perish: A Program to Help... @$40
___ W9 Queer Courage: Identity, Integrity,... @$40
___ W10 Building Relationships: Collaboration... @$40
___ W11 Building Learning Teams: The Key... @$40
___ W12 Fac Dev in the New Millennium:... @$40
Workshop Amount Enclosed ___________
Educational Expeditions[See descriptions]
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Expedition Amount Enclosed ________
Materials and Resource Fair
____ Yes, please reserve a table for me. (No fee unless media is requested
through the Fair Coordinator. You will be mailed a form along with your
conference receipt/confirmation.)
Special Requirements
___ Special dietary needs:
___ vegetarian
___ other (____________________)
___ Sign interpreter
___ TDD
___ Wheelchair access
Method of Payment
___ Purchase Order ___ Check
(US Funds Only, payable to POD Network)
Charge my ___ VISA ___ Mastercard
Card# ____________________________ Exp. Date _________
Name as it appears on card ____________________________
Signature _____________________________
TOTAL $ _________
Fax (954- 262- 3912) or mail this form and payment to: POD Network,
Nova Southeastern University; 1750 NE 167th Street, Suite 318; North Miami
Beach, FL 33162.
1. Name__________________________________________
Title__________________________________________
Department or Program __________________________________________
Institution__________________________________________
Address__________________________________________
Phone__________________________________________
Fax__________________________________________
Email__________________________________________
2. Name__________________________________________
Title__________________________________________
Department or Program __________________________________________
Institution__________________________________________
Address__________________________________________
Phone__________________________________________
Fax__________________________________________
Email__________________________________________.
POD Network
Nova Southeastern University
1750 NE 163rd Street, Suite 318
North Miami Beach FL 33162
(954) 262-8690
podnet@nova.edu
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