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-== TA Network Meeting - April 16, 2009 == +== TA Network Meeting Notes - April 16, 2009 ==
-Centre for Leadership in Learning office+
-== TA Day: ==+//Centre for Leadership in Learning Office// 
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 +**TA Day:**
90 minute time slots vs. 60 minute time slots 90 minute time slots vs. 60 minute time slots
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Asked for people to think about presenting a workshop at TA Day since Terry is coordinating that as well Asked for people to think about presenting a workshop at TA Day since Terry is coordinating that as well
-== Ideas for Workshops within department: == +**Ideas for Workshops within department:** 
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Motivating students (possible TA Day workshop as well) – Terry has started to collect resources for this topic Motivating students (possible TA Day workshop as well) – Terry has started to collect resources for this topic
Making effective presentations Making effective presentations
For TAs to incorporate into the beginning of a course: How to use referencing software (Refworks specifically since it is available free on the library website, Endnote etc.), do a basic search for literature in an area, and general rules about citing and what constitutes plagiarism For TAs to incorporate into the beginning of a course: How to use referencing software (Refworks specifically since it is available free on the library website, Endnote etc.), do a basic search for literature in an area, and general rules about citing and what constitutes plagiarism
-== Academic Dishonesty: ==+**Academic Dishonesty:**
In SGS course: mainly targeting grad students own work In SGS course: mainly targeting grad students own work
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Courses offered in Bio: how to read / critique a paper, discussed how students lack these skills coming in to university and the need to teach these skills Courses offered in Bio: how to read / critique a paper, discussed how students lack these skills coming in to university and the need to teach these skills
-== Previous TA network: ==+**Previous TA network**
TAN Book Club TAN Book Club
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words / bullet lists vs. a sentence and pictures *Terry has the PDF of this article if anyone wants it e-mailed to them words / bullet lists vs. a sentence and pictures *Terry has the PDF of this article if anyone wants it e-mailed to them
-Wikis+**Wikis** 
LTRC: how to create – workshop topic at TA Day last year – video on what they are: http://www.commoncraft.com/video-wikis-plain-english LTRC: how to create – workshop topic at TA Day last year – video on what they are: http://www.commoncraft.com/video-wikis-plain-english
effective way to summarize info – TAN coordinator will set one up and TAs can contribute to it so we have a resource to use and somewhere to put useful info we find about teaching effective way to summarize info – TAN coordinator will set one up and TAs can contribute to it so we have a resource to use and somewhere to put useful info we find about teaching

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