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1. McGill Journal of Education - Margaret Gillett Award Presentation
2. Guest Lecturer
3. The Royal Society of Canada's Committee for Advancement of Women in Scholarship - Guest Speaker
4. Free DAS for WebCT Instructors

Please join us to celebrate the presentation of the second Margaret Gillett Award given annually to the author(s) of "the best article published in the McGill Journal of Education".

This year's recipient is Diane Dagenais, Assistant Professor of Second Language Education in the Faculty of Education at Simon Fraser University, for her article "La représentation de la littératie dans us projet pédagogique (Volume 36, Number 2, Spring 2001).

The reception will take place at 4:30 p.m., Wednesday, October 30th in Room 614 (Office of First Nations and Inuit Education). All are welcome.

Ann Keenan
McGill Journal of Education

Dr. Anne Foerst, visiting professor for Theology and Computer Science at St. Bonaventure University at Olean, NY will be speaking at McGill on the following dates:

Public Lecture: "And God Created Robots" - Thursday, November 21 - 6:00 p.m. - Faculty of Education, Room 129 (Jack Cram Auditorium)

Seminar: Friday, November 22 - 9:30 a.m. - Faculty of Education, Room 539

Public Lecture: Friday, November 22 - 6:00 p.m. - Otto Mass Chemistry Department, Room OM10

Dr. Foerst has been affiliated with the Center for the Studies of Values in Public Life of Harvard Divinity School. She has worked at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology as the theological advisor for the Cog and Kismet Projects, two attempts to develop embodied, autonomous and social robots in analogy to human infants that might learn and develop more mature intelligences. Her work on dialogue has been covered in numerous print and Internet media and she has appeared in many radio and television shows.

For more information contact M.A. Whitehead at 398-6239 or e-mail tony@maw.chem.mcgill.ca

Glenn F. Cartwright
Associate Dean

The Royal Society of Canada's Committee for Advancement of Women in Scholarship and McGill University presents Dr. Ursula Franklin, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto who will speak on "Research as a social enterprise: Are we asking the right questions?", Tuesday, November 5, at 5:00 p.m. in the Robert Vogel Council Room (Room 232) of the Leacock Building.

Dean Ghosh extends an invitation to students and faculty members to attend the lecture. A reception in honour of this event will follow immediately in the foyer outside the Robert Vogel Council Room.

Dr. Franklin has made significant contributions....as a scientist, educator, citizen and humanitarian. She serves as an inspiration to women in society, in the university in general, and especially in the scientific, technological and engineering fields, where she has been a role model in an environment populated by very few female faculty members.

Dr. Ratna Ghosh
Dean

Good news for DAS (Dial-up Access) users: Effective August 16, 2002, DAS usage will be provided free of charge to all instructors who use McGill’s Dial-up Access Service (DAS) to access the WebCT system. Free usage will be allocated on a month-by-month basis. If, in any given month, there is at least one DAS session that connects to WebCT, then usage for that month will not be charged.

Note that users connecting with DAS from out of town (North America only) via McGill’s toll-free 1-877-519-1514 number will continue to be charged 10 cents per minute. Be sure to set up a payment plan on the Reggie Web site at http://www.mcgill.ca/reggie

Glenn F. Cartwright
Associate Dean