RASCALS COLLOQUIUM 2009
Château Mont-Ste-Anne
May 28 and 29
2009
The Next Generation: U B there 2 :-) !!!!
You
loved the cocktail in the garden, the gala
dinner with no need to drive to your hotel
elsewhere, the dancing in the hotel bar,
the hot tubs, the swimming pool, and (as
ever) the stimulating lectures, workshops
and chats with your far-flung colleagues who
come every year from near and far for the
RASCALS colloquium.
 This
was RASCALS 2008, hosted for the first time
at a hotel, Château Bromont in the Eastern
Townships, by Cegep Andre-Laurendeau.
What is in store for us this year? RASCALS
2009
is on! The Language Department at College
Montmorency is the host committee, having
accepted to organize RASCALS with the expert
help of SPEAQ.
This year’s colloquium will take place May
28 and 29, once again at an idyllic hotel,
the renowned
Château Mont-Ste-Anne just up
the river from Quebec City. This year we
will begin with a lunch on Thursday and end
as usual Friday afternoon after lunch.
Cost
Like last year, there will be an
all-included fee for the conference, your
room, the Thursday evening cocktail, the
meals – lunch and dinner Thursday, breakfast
and lunch Friday – health breaks, parking
and access to hotel facilities. As an
example, this package will cost $330.26 (tax
included) based on double-occupancy.
Presenters
As
you know, the organizers of
RASCALS
2009
are off to a later start than usual; stay
tuned to the RASCALS webpage and e-mails for
updates on the content of this year’s
colloquium. However, there is no need to
fear; the Montmorency host committee will
take full advantage of the steering
committee and of the RASCALS community at
large to assemble a list of enriching
speakers.
Registration begins now! Space is limited,
so please register early.
SCHEDULE
( pdf
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THURSDAY, MAY 28 |
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10:30 – 12:00 |
Registration |
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12:00 – 1:30 |
Lunch |
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1:45
– 3:15 |
Opening
Address
and Keynote Speaker: Amine Tehami
…
from the Commision Scolaire
Marguerite Bourgeois will tell us
about the why’s and how’s of the
reform at the primary and secondary
levels, and will then open up the
floor to a question-and-answer
period. Be prepared with yours. |
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3:15
– 3:45 |
Health Break |
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3:45
– 5:45 |
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3 :45- 4 :15 |
Anne Stratford (30
min.)
… from Montmorency will
demonstrate how she
“takes the tension out
of teaching tenses” with
her automotive gears
analogy. |
Norm Spatz and Frank
Bonkowski (2 h.)
Norm, teacher at
Vieux-Montreal and our
man at Profweb, and
Frank from Saint-Laurent
will duke it out over
whose on-line teaching
platform is the best.
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Ivan Simoneau (2 h.)
La génération Y :
comment, pourquoi, quoi
faire?
(en français!)
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4 :15-4 :45
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Sabrina Priego (30 min.)
… of
U. Laval and UQTR
will describe a tandem
e-mail project that
linked ESL and FSL
secondary students
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4 :45-5 :45 |
Deirdre Potash (60 min.)
(see Friday 11:00)
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6:30
– 7:30 |
RASCALS Happy Hour |
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7:30
- ??? |
Dinner followed by dancing |
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FRIDAY, MAY 29 |
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7 :30 – 9 :00 |
Breakfast |
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9 :00 – 10 :30 |
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9 :00- 10 :00 |
Stewart Johnson (1 h.)
… teacher at l’Assomption,
has agreed to present his
popular 2008 workshop on
activities that may land
your students on National
Radio : Vinyl Café or
Outfront. If you missed it
last year, this is your
chance! |
Jean-François Roy (1 h.)
… from F-X-Garneau, is going
to show us how to create
sites like his where
students can read, listen to
and comment on research
papers and podcasts produced
by classmates. |
Sorel Friedman
(2 ½ h.)
(max 40 people)
Reading, Writing, and
YouTube: innovations in
teaching "digital
natives" : This
presentation will
demonstrate exciting and
innnovative uses of
collaborative multimedia
tools that can be used in
(and outside) the ESL
classroom.
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10 :00-10 :30 |
Louise Dubuc (30 min.)
… from Matane will show us
how she uses “macros” for
“work in progress”
corrections …. that count! |
Jeanne Grégoire (30min.)
… teacher at Limoilou will
present her tips on 102
orals : debate and research
preparation and evaluation. |
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10 :30 – 11 :00 |
Health Break |
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11 :00 – 1:00 |
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11 :00-12 :00 |
Valerie Paterson and
Veronica Gill (1 h.)
… from CCDMD will show us
several online resources to
demonstrate how we can
“teach English effectively
using new technologies.” |
Deirdre Potash (1 h.)
… an art and language
teacher who has presented at
SPEAQ, will lead a hands-on
workshop on how to use art
as “a perfect vehicle to
promote language use and
development.” |
(Sorel Friedman cont’d) |
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12 :00-1 :00 |
Gerry Vallee (1 h.)
… from L’Assomption will
present four interactive
oral projects for 102 and
103 B-bloc courses.
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Jane Petring (1 h.)
… from Édouard-Montpetit
will share multimedia
activities that “help
students be critical media
consumers” including of
Wikepedia articles.. |
Brent Davis Reid (1 h.)
… from Bois-de-Boulogne and
DECclic, will demonstrate
how teachers can create
virtual departments and help
centres with DECclic, like
he has at his college. |
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1 :00 – 2 :30 |
Lunch |
U B there 2 :-) !!!!
Registration
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Past
RASCALS Colloquiums
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RASCALS COLLOQUIUM 2008
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2008
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And Now for Something
Completely Different
Imagine
sitting on a beautiful terrace sipping your
cocktail, contemplating the pedagogical
brilliance of your first workshop speaker,
as you gaze at the picturesque beauty that
is the Eastern Townships. Suddenly, your
peaceful repose is disturbed by a fellow
colleague enjoying the warm titillating
bubbles of the hot tub.
With
an impish look comes the challenge: “Join
me” … and you do.
Welcome
to RASCALS 2008, hosted by the Language
Department of Cegep Andre-Laurendeau. It is
our turn again after almost 20 years and in
keeping with our theme, And Now for
Something Completely Different, we
have decided to do something … well
…different.
Where and when?
This
year’s colloquium will be held May 29-30,
2008, but not at our Cegep. Chateau
Bromont in the Eastern Townships is the
venue for RASCALS 2008. It will begin
Thursday afternoon with a keynote speaker
and end Friday afternoon, with a plenary
session. We hope the parts in between will
be professionally enriching and socially
memorable.
 Price
The
format has changed dramatically, but not the
price. The registration fees will include
not only the conference but also your room,
a cocktail on the beautiful terrace at the
Chateau, a four course dinner at their
award-winning restaurant Thursday evening,
breakfast, health breaks, lunch on Friday,
parking, and access to all the facilities at
the Chateau. This entire package costs only
$265.00 based on double occupancy.
Presenters
Over
the last two months, the organizing
committee has been hard at work scouring the
academic world for fascinating lecturers and
researchers to share their expertise at
RASCALS 2008. This year, there will be six
university presenters who will lead
workshops focusing on a number of different
themes. As part of
the new format, there will be fewer
workshops, but they will last a little
longer. In keeping with tradition at
RASCALS, there will be some peer
presentations, but fewer than in previous
years.
Sound
good so far? Well, that’s not all, but you
will have to join us on May 29-30, 2008
to find out what more there is. Space is
very limited and you will need to book early
if you want to be at RASCALS 2008.
Registration begins February 22, 2008.
Spaces are limited, so you must register
early.
For more information, please click on the
links below to view the promotional videos.
Video 1
Video 2
Video
3
Video 4
Exhibitors
If you wish to reserve
a table at RASCALS 2008, please click
here.
Registration
For registration
information, please click
here.
Schedule
For the schedule,
please click
here.
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RASCALS COLLOQUIUM 2007
May 31 and June 1, 2007
at
Collège Laflèche
Trois-Rivières
Each year RASCALS holds a colloquium at a different
cégep or college in the province. The colloquium usually occurs
towards the end of May so as to not conflict with the SPEAQ
Conference. The organization of the colloquium is done jointly by
the RASCALS Steering Committee and the Host Cégep In-House Committee.
or visit the RASCALS Web site.
The 2007 RASCALS Web Site
http://www.grasset.qc.ca/eslrascals/
Join the Rascals
mailing list for further mailings.
SIG
link
The 2006 Colloquium
was held the 1st & 2nd of June at the
CEGEP Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu with Sheila Crawford, as chair.
The theme was English In and Beyond Classroom
Check out
the 2006 colloquium!
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