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November 2009
Announcing the Education Graduate Students’ Society’s
I’m not just an academic! (INJA) workshops
EGSS recognizes the diversity of graduate students in McGill’s Faculty of Education, and we would like to provide you with the opportunity to share some of the skills, experience and personality which may be hidden beneath your academic persona.
We invite grad students to lead a workshop of 1 – 2 hours on any topic/theme/activity. The only guidelines to follow are that workshops must be:
CREATIVE
ENGAGING
STUDENT-LED
COMMUNITY-DEVELOPING
Not only is this a great opportunity to build on your CV, but you will also get to practice your presentation and facilitation skills. Students will receive an honorarium of $50. EGSS will also provide snacks and cover the costs of any materials for the workshop (up to $30). In order to lead a workshop, please email Erin Sirett, erin.sirett@mail.mcgill.ca, with an abstract of your workshop and how it fulfills the four criteria above. (max. 1/2 page). There is no deadline for submission, although you should submit at least 1 month before you would like the workshop to take place.
Email Erin soon, as space is limited to just one workshop per month!
The first INJA workshop will be led by Katie MacEntee (PhD, DISE) Monday, November 16 from 2:30-4:30pm in room 338
Cut and Paste Diversity: Collage As Research in the Faculty of Education
Within research, collage has a variety of uses. It can be a prompt, a method of analysis, a tool for discovery, field notes, a tool for knowledge production, a means of knowledge transmission/dissemination, and more. During this workshop I think collage will best suit us as a reflective tool. After a short introduction on collage as a participatory arts-based research technique, individuals will have the opportunity to make their own collages while thinking about how the McGill Faculty of Education is a site of diversity and (potential) exchange. Following the collaging, we will do a short group activity to help further probe how and what the collages can tell us about ourselves and our topic. In this sense, the workshop will be VERY interactive, participants should come with an open mind, ready to take part in some lively discussion as well as be ready for some thoughtful introspection about how we incorporate ideas on diversity into our academic and everyday experience.
Collage materials and snacks will be provided. No collage experience required. All artistic levels welcome!
RSVP to erin.sirett@mail.mcgill.ca by Sunday November 15th!
October 2009
EGSS Newsletter - October 15, 2009
Welcome Back Wine & Cheese
EGSS will be hosting a welcome back event next Thursday, October 22nd at 7:30pm in the Thomson House Ballroom. Stop by anytime after 7:30pm (perfect time for those with evening classes) for this wine & cheese – this event is free and purely social. Meet fellow graduate students from across the Faculty, or catch up with those you already know! If you need a better reason to come – did we mention FREE WINE!
Open Information Session: 9th Annual EGSS Conference
The organization of the 2010 EGSS Conference has begun! We are looking for excited graduate students to join the committee and help make this year’s conference a success. Please join us for an open information session on Wednesday, October 21st at 3:00pm in Room 631 (graduate student lounge). We will discuss and brainstorm various aspects of the conference – theme, keynote speakers, call for proposals, etc. This meeting is simply for information-sharing and those who attend are not committing themselves to anything. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.
Homecoming Event on October 16th
The Faculty of Education will be hosting a Breakfast and Lecture ‘Applied Human Development and Well-being’ next Friday, October 16th from 9:00-11:00 am in the Education building, Jack Cram Auditorium (Room 129). Dean Hélène Perrault will introduce two of our most distinguished leaders in this field: Dr. Catherine Sabiston (physical activity among breast cancer survivors, Department of Kinesiology & Physical Education) and Dr. Nancy Heath (self-injury among youth, Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology). They will share their discoveries and shed light on the most urgent research topics in this interdisciplinary field. If you would like to attend, please RSVP as soon as possible. The event coordinators are also looking for graduate students to volunteer at this event! Please contact Jennifer Coutlee at 514-398-2712 or jennifer.coutlee@mcgill.ca.
Fellowship Mentors
McGill’s Office for Graduate and Postdoctoral Students has provided funding for the Faculty of Education to help prepare graduate students to apply for and receive fellowships. With this in mind, we now have six PhD students chosen as fellowship mentors available to meet with graduate students (free of charge!). The role of these mentors is to help other students identify a variety of fellowship opportunities and to submit applications throughout the academic year. You can access the profiles of these six mentors – with award history and research interests – in past e-mails or you can contact Ms. Mahdieh Zamani for more information mahdieh.zamani@mcgill.ca.
Graduate Computer Raffle and Campus/Community Donation
EGSS in conjunction with McGill Libraries is proud to offer Education Grad students a chance to win 1 of 20 Dell Optiplex computer systems, complete with a Pentium 4 processor, 1 Gb of RAM, 160 Gb hard drive, 13" Dell flat-screen, mouse and keyboard. Note: These computers do not have an operating system installed. Here are the specs:
http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/optix/en/spec_optix_gx280_en.pdf
http://www.dell.com/downloads/us/products/optix/gx270_spec.pdf
In order to participate in the draw please email: egss@mail.mcgill.ca. The draw will take place on October 22, at the Wine & Cheese Party at Thomson House.
We are also giving a number of these computers to campus/community organizations. Let us know if you have any suggestions as to which organizations should receive computers! So far, the following organizations have been suggested: Head & Hands, The Yellow Door, The kinesiology student research office at the Montreal Chest Institute, CKUT, The Immigrant Workers Center, and The Native Friendship Center.
Get Involved with the EGSS!
Becoming involved with the EGSS is a wonderful opportunity to lend your voice to graduate students in the Faculty of Education. You get to know faculty members and fellow students, hear news about what is happening at McGill first-hand, and add a great experience to your CV! In particular, we are looking to find students interested the role of Conference Coordinator – the success of our 9th Annual EGSS Conference, as with each year’s event, truly depends on the commitment of graduate students and faculty members. We strongly encourage you to consider submitting your nomination for a position on the 2009-2010 EGSS Executive Council or as a PGSS Councillor. We are depending on you to continue to build the programs and services offered by the EGSS! Please visit our website to download a nomination form and read descriptions of the executive officer positions. If you have any questions or would like to express an interested in getting involved, please feel
free to contact Jessica jessica.toste@mcgill.ca.
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September 2009
Welcome to the website of the Education Graduate Students’ Society (EGSS) of McGill University! We hope that this site will serve as a useful resource to grad students in the Faculty of Education. If you have any comments or suggestions for improvement, please feel free to contact us at egss@mail.mcgill.ca. Updates, additions, and new events will be logged through this “news blog” so please check back often.
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