Presentations

First Steps Towards Implementing Universal Design for Learning to Support Equitable Assessments Friday, March 1, 2024:

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At the SAS Teaching Meetup, I spoke about the conference proceedings paper that I co-authored with Zelem and Skrzydlo. Read more about First Steps Towards Implementing Universal Design for Learning to Support Equitable Assessments

Promoting Student Voices via Feedback in Courses Tuesday, January 30, 2024:

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At the Math Teaching Seminar, I spoke about practices that I employ in my courses at the University of Waterloo to encourage and promote student voices.

Abstract:

One of my teaching goals for the past year was to establish practices in my courses that promote student voices and intentionally gather student feedback throughout the term. As a result, these practices have developed into a cohesive process that: (1) begins before the first day of class, (2) relies on anonymous and known feedback from students (the latter acquired from “Student Reps”),...

Autistic Perspectives on Eloping: Survey Findings, at Washington DC, USA, Friday, January 12, 2024:

eloping_poster_sswr_2024.pdf

By Margaret F. Gibson, bridget livingstone, Nicole Corrado, Steacy Easton, Beinean Evely, Andriy Hrabchuk, & Edwin Ng.

We presented a poster on some of our survey findings at the Society for Social Work Research conference.

Yes, It Blends! Sunday, November 26, 2023:

yes_it_blends.pptx

Abstract: A follow-up to a previous presentation entitled “Will It Blend? Experiences in a Flipped Classroom”, this talk will discuss lessons learned from developing and teaching a flipped course. Like many instructors, during the pandemic I discovered many advantages with online teaching, although I missed the classroom interactions. Since returning in person, I wanted to keep the best of both worlds and so I fully flipped my course, STAT 334 in both Fall 2022 and Spring 2023. Lecture material was delivered asynchronously via videos and the reduced in-class time prioritized active... Read more about Yes, It Blends!

Alcolix, Isterix, Feminax & Walkürax and the Sanctioning of Asterixian Parody., at German Studies Association Conference, Montréal, QC, Friday, October 6, 2023

Diversity and Neurodiversity in the Comics of Daniela Schreiter, at Comics Studies Society, Denton, TX (remote), Saturday, July 29, 2023

The cover of Daniela Schreiter’s 2014 bestseller Schattenspringer: Wie es ist, anders zu sein (literally, “Shadow Jumper: What It’s Like to Be Different,” translated as The World Beyond My Shadow: A Life with Autism, 2020) proclaims itself as “enlightening about Asperger-autism, barely known in Germany, and dispelling prejudices,” further describing autism as a “taboo topic [Tabuthema].” The comic’s publisher, Panini, which long showed little interest in producing...

Characterizing and linking two phases of wildland fire lifetimes from the Sioux Lookout District in Ontario by utilizing mixed effects multi-state modelling and joint frailty modelling techniques Wednesday, July 26, 2023

At the International Environmetrics Society regional meeting in Peterborough, as part of the session "Climate Resilience and Natural Hazards", I was invited to speak about my doctoral research.

Abstract:

Wildland fires can be viewed as having a "lifetime" that consists of several sequential phases. The specific sequence of phases can vary depending on how a fire is responded to (e.g., full suppression or monitoring) by a fire management agency. We investigate the lifetime distributions of two phases for fully suppressed wildland fires from a study...

Aligning Assessment for Aspiring Actuaries, at Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe, Tuesday, July 25, 2023:

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In a day of your life as an actuarial practitioner or researcher, how much time do you spend answering closed-ended questions with one correct answer? If, as I suspect, the answer is very little or none at all, why do many actuarial educational and credentialing programs weigh these skills so heavily? There should be space for creativity and nuance in actuarial education, just as there is in actuarial work and research. We should be looking for students with strong professional and ethical values as well as technical skills. And there must be alignment between the skills future actuaries...

Recording Live Lectures: The Pros, Cons, and Everything In-Between Wednesday, July 12, 2023

At the Western Conference on Science Education in London, I co-facilitated and moderated the first contributed debate with Professor Holly Steeves.

Abstract:

Be it resolved: Recording live lectures is a post-pandemic practice that must be considered. During the pandemic, many students became accustomed to having materials - in recorded format - posted on their learning management systems (LMS). Such recordings were either created in advance or during live lectures. But we must ask ourselves how these practices have influenced students' learning and...

‘Schmutz und Schund’ From Dime Novels to Comics: The Post-World War II Revival of the ‘Smut and Trash’ Discourse in Germany., at The International Graphic Novel and Comics Conference, Cambridge, UK (remote), Tuesday, July 4, 2023

The aftermath of World War II in West Germany was not only military occupation, but also German fear of cultural occupation by an American mass culture considered inferior and superficial. Particular stress lay on the alleged deleterious effect on young people of American-style comic books—an especially salient danger, given that an entire cohort of boys socialized under Hitler was now being raised under the supposedly inadequate discipline of widowed mothers.

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