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What's New in Events & Projects
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K12 and Higher Education
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| 2009 ORION Awards |  | 2009 ORION Awards - Call for Submissions | | | | ORION has released the call for submissions for the 2009 ORION Awards.
The ORION Awards is an annual ceremony that recognizes innovators of advanced technologies in research, teaching, and learning in Ontario. Although previous ORION Award winners have been from different fields and disciplines, they all have been dedicated to "driving innovation and next-generation research and education in Ontario".
Institutions and individuals are eligible for nomination. They can nominate themselves or be nominated by others. The deadline for submissions is September 14, 2009. |  | | | For more information, please click here. |
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| 2009 Adobe School Innovation Awards | | 2009 Adobe School Innovation Awards | | | |
Adobe has posted a call to entries for the 2009 Adobe School Innovation Awards. The awards are set up for students to create projects that tell stories about their world in the most innovative way possible through the use of Adobe software. The submissions can be in print, web or video form. The prizes will include various Adobe software and the best submissions will be honoured in an awards ceremony, the date to be announced.
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Science Centre Webcast | | Science Centre Webcast - 100 Hours of Astronomy | | | | As part of the International year of Astronomy’s 100 Hours of Astronomy, the Association of Science-Technology Centers hosted a live webcast on April 2, 2009. The webcast featured science centres from around the world, discussing the importance of space observation through history. It also featured presentations from MTN Science Center in South Africa, the Ellinogermaniki Agogi in Greece, the Armagh Planetarium in Ireland and the Hamburg Planetarium in Germany. For more information about the Association of Science-Technology Centers, please click here.
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| Lunch and Learn | | Marina Nemat: Prisoner of Tehran | | | | Experience the story of Marina Nemat, arrested at 16 on false charges by Iranian Revolutionary Guards and tortured in Iran’s notorious Evin Prison. Nemat will be live in person Friday January 23, 2009 to discuss her journey to freedom as told in her book Prisoner of Tehran. The event will be video-captured and archived for secondary schools to access from ABEL Streaming. |  |
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| Lawrence Hill |  | ABEL, CANARIE and ORION Present the Interactive Author Session featuring Lawrence Hill and The Book of Negroes | | | |
Celebrated author and winner of the 2008 Commonwealth Writer’s Prize, Lawrence Hill, will be giving a live interactive reading of his latest novel The Book of Negroes to students from across Ontario and Canada. A two-way communication stream will connect the author from his location at a school in Newmarket to schools in the York Region District School Board and Algoma District School Board. During the session, entitled FACTION, Hill will be commenting on the impact of historical fact and its role in shaping the novel/story. A Q&A period will follow.
This authentic learning opportunity is made possible with Canada’s and Ontario’s advanced research and education networks and with the support of participating school districts that embrace a 21st century approach to teaching, learning and collaboration.
The event, hosted by ABEL, will be available to other schools across Canada over the CANARIE and ORION networks and streamed over the Internet. ABEL will also be setting up a Book of Negros FACTION blog to which Lawrence Hill has agreed to respond after the event for up to two weeks
Watch the streamed video: coming soon. (Windows Media Player required) Viewing on your Apple Computer:
Click here to enable viewing this Windows Media stream on your Apple computer. Once the plugin has completely installed, you should be able to view the stream.
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Private Sector
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| CBERN and ABEL | | ABEL participates in Canadian Business Ethics Research Network (CBERN) project | | | | Led by York University Schulich School of Business Professor Emeritus Wesley Cragg, CBERN will engage university researchers in dialogue with leaders and other researchers in business, government and the voluntary sector. Launched in September 2007, Cragg explained that "CBERN creates opportunities for sharing and engaging in research across academic disciplines and faculties. The network will weave together the currently fragmented ethical insights and themes in corporate social responsibility, corporate citizenship, corporate governance, environmental sustainibility and sustainable development. We want to encourage effective community engagement, community development and public dialogue."
As a partner in this project, the ABEL program will provide access to a foundation of tools and implementaiton strategies that ensure the effective use of networks and networked learning to provide opportunities to extend education, learning and research to the community. The ABEL program will provide technology and communications insfrastructure support to facilitate the dissemination of research among researchers, to the private and public sector receptors and to the community.
This project has been funded by the Social Scienices and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and it will continue for 7 years. |  |
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| Connecting Researchers and Public Sector Agencies | | Knowledge Mobilization: Connecting Health Science Researchers and Public Sector Organizations to Optimize Benefits | | | | Canadian academic research institutions have a long history of successfully transferring resesarch with commercial potential to private sector partners to bring new technology-based products and services into the market. Alternatively, research in the social sciences and humanities has the potential to create cultural, social and economic benefits when researchers work with non-academic organizations to affect decision making. However, these benefits are not realized as there exists no institutional mechanism to mobilize this knowledge and bring it to the attention of people and organizations that can take advantage of it.
York University and the University of Victoria are working together to expand their knowledge mobilization strategy beyond technology transfer in the area of Health and Society--health services, policy, wellness, etc. This includes acting as a knowledge broker to develop a service similar to technology transfer seeking to connect health researchers to government policy makers and to social services and health agencies; as well as designing an interactive website, online tools and broadband networks that allow these stakeholders and government policy makers to identify academic research and researches in the field. |  |
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Health Sector
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| Continuing with ADHD Students | | Bluewater School District Teachers Implement TeachADHD Resources | | | | The Hospital for Sick Children (HSC) is working collaboratively with both the ABEL program and with a rural school board to develop professional learning resources for teachers to equip them with knowledge and skills to optimize the learning environment for students with ADHD.
Researchers at HSC formulated questions and methodology while the ABEL program brought expertise and experience in the areas of ICT instructional design, implementation and technical support, and delivered the program using a blended approach of face-to-face and online platforms.
In September 2007, staff at the Bluewater District School Board was involved in the early piloting and revision of the TeachADHD resources and used these tools to inform their professional practice in the area of ADHD. The ABEL program has provided video-conferencing capabilities and a community space for the interaction between teachers implementing the resources and researchers at HSC.
The Children Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) funded this project, which will conclude at the end of the 2007-2008 academic year. Check back with us as we update you on the progress of this innovative collaboration! | |
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| Teach ADHD Resources | | ABEL partners with the Hospital for Sick Children and OISE to implement TeachADHD | | | | The ABEL program has worked in collaboration with researchers at the Hospital for Sick Children (HSC), and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto (OISE/UT) to implement TeachADHD. This set of multimedia resources includes a three-part DVD, a teacher's resource manual and a website. These materials update teachers' knowledge about current neuro-scientific understanding of ADHD and support their efforts to create optimal learning environments for students with ADHD by providing a decision-making framework and a set of tools.
This resource package was presented at the end of August 2007 during a Summer Institute. Special Education teachers from Ontario's provincial schools participated in this three-day conference to aid develop new knowledge and skill in working with students that demonstrate ADHD.
Attention Deficit-Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) affects 5-12% of the school age population--that is, 1/2 students per class. It has a detrimental effect on literacy and numeracy achievement, social development and high school completion. Yet, many teachers affirm that they are not equipped to efficiently address this situation.
This project was funded by the Canadian Council on Learning (CCL). | |
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