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1. WebCT Changes - Fall 2002
2. 2002 Grantsmanship Meetings - Final Notice
3. McGill Lecture Series "Public Memory, Citizenship and History Education"

The ICC Learning Technologies Group, in cooperation with BANNER (Minerva) Student Information Systems, is currently linking BANNER's Student Registration system with WebCT. All courses registered through the BANNER system will have a WebCT course created and class lists will be automatically updated.

Several changes come as a result of switching to the new system including:

WebCT User IDs - The current firstname.lastname convention, based on McGill's Universal Email address, is switching to the McGill ID used by BANNER systems. The 9-digit McGill ID relates to an individual's staff or student number and, as of September 2002, will replace the existing WebCT UserID.

Course Numbering - WebCT CourseIDs, based on McGill's legacy Course Number system (i.e. 189-312A01), will be converted to the BANNER course number (CRN). This switch ensure compatibility with the BANNER Student Registration system and will include the new BANNER Subect Code (i.e. Math 312).

Course Migration - The Learning Technologies Group will handle the migration of courses from the existing system to the new BANNER-integrated system. An email message will be sent to all existing designers during the week of June 3rd requesting confirmation on which courses take priority for migration. In the case of duplicate (existing) courses, instructors will have the opportunity to notify the Learning Technologies Group as to which version should be migrated.

If you have any questions regarding the integration of WebCT and BANNER systems, please contact the ICC Learning Technologies Group by email: webct@mcgill.ca

Dr. Glenn F. Cartwright
Associate Dean
Information Technology and Continuing Education

This is the final notice for the 2002 Grantsmanship Meetings, organized by the Research Grants Office. The sessions are scheduled as follows:

Social Sciences and Humanities - Wednesday, June 5, 2002, 9:00 to 12:00 - Arts 260

Sciences and Engineering - Wednesday, June 5, 2002, 13:00 to 16:00 - New Chancellor Day Hall, Room 203

Biomedical - Thursday, June 6, 2002, 9:00 to 12:00 - McIntyre Medical Sciences Building, Room 1027

Please contact Dimitris Karantanis at the Research Grants Office for further information. Registration is not required, however, if possible, please confirm your attendance at any of the sessions by email: casu-rgo@ums1.lan.mcgill.ca or phone 398-7359

Dr. Ratna Ghosh
Dean

This slide-illustrated lecture explores the private world of the late 20th-century home as a repository of public memory. In particular, it examines how houses have functioned as 3-dimensional snapshots, especially for working-class women. Indeed, vernacular (or ordinary) domestic architecture is one of the clearest and most important visible commemorations of the past through constructed space, yet it is almost wholly neglected in the publicly-funded, official designation of heritage buildings in Canada. The research project from which this lecture is drawn was a study of architectural changes made to houses over a fifty-year period in Ville St. Laurent, Quebec, originally known as Mudville, funded by the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.

The next lecturer in the series "Public Memory, Citizenship and History Education" is Annemarie Adams, an architectural historian, Associate Professor and Dawson Scholar at the School of Architecture, McGill University. She is the award winning author of Architecture in the Family Way: Women, Houses, and Doctors, 1870-1900 (1996) and co-author, with sociologist peta Tancred, of Designing Women: Gender and the Arthitectural profession (2000). She has published numerous academic papers on the elusive issue of gender and space. Her current research, which focuses on Canadian hospital architecture since World War II, is funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. Her lecture, "Remembering Mudville: Canadian Wartime Housing and Architectural Change, 1942-92" begins at 5:30 pm this Thursday, June 6th in the Jack Cram Auditorium of the Faculty of Education, McGill University, 3700 McTavish St. Everyone is welcome.

For further information about this lecture, and others in the series, please see education.mcgill.ca/events or email ruth.sandwell@mcgill.ca

Dr. Ruth Sandwell
Department of Integrated Studies in Education