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News: 1st Student Organizational Meeting for 2008-2009
REMINDER:
Time: 4 - 5:15 pm
Place: Bahen 7231
Fall Welcome Reception to follow in BA 7180 (ECTI Conference Room)
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KMD Collaborative Program
1st Student Organizational Meeting for 2008-2009
Monday, September 15, 2008
4:00-5:15 pm
Bahen building for IT, Room 7231
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You are invited to attend the first KMD Collaborative Program student
organizational meeting for 2008-2009. The meeting will be held Monday,
September 15th, 4:00-5:15pm, in BA 7231, the KMD CP course seminar room.
The student organizational meeting will be followed by our Fall Welcome
Reception, 5:30-7:30pm (please make sure to RSVP to the Evite you have
received).
We hope to see you at one or both of these events.
Barbara
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Student Organizational Meeting, Sept 15 '08
Final Agenda
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The following is a final agenda for the student organizational meeting:
1. Welcome, introductions
2. Context and goals - Jim
3. Committee reports and discussion
A. Curatorial, (Danielle Lottridge)
- How can we present student products (e.g., for courses, conferences,
and-or work-related)?
- Is the online gallery in Facebook effective?
- What functionality do we want?
B. Student experience (Karen Smith)
- Attendance?
- Consistent time and place?
- 'The symbolism' of attendance (i.e., sign up to commit your attendance
on encorewiki)
C. Social (Cheryl Madeira and Hedieh Najafi)
- What kind of social events? How frequent? What times?
- Combine with student talks - go out to pub after?
- Organized events?
- Larger party after an end-of-year student research fair?
D. Professional/alumni (Kate Sellen)
- alumni talks
- conferences, workshops, symposia, and events
e.g., IBM Cascon conference)
- How to access alums? Facebook? LinkedIn?
- How to access professionals in related fields (e.g., internships)
E. IT (Sean McDonald)
- How can we push on recruitment (e.g., online recruitment)?
- How to connect to search engines?
- What goes into our digital world (e.g., an online gallery)?
- What functionality? What content? What systems?
4. Discuss: 2008-9 plans for program redesign
- review student contributions from April 1 2008 meeting with KMD CP Program
Committee
- new program requirements
- new student experience expectations (e.g., end-of-year research fair)
- portfolios, etc.
- role for graduate and KMDI fellows- maybe reviewing research fair
proposals?
5. Discuss: likely SEP program (Student Experience Program)
- $6000 for awards - $1000 each?
- What are the criteria?
- What committees would be involved?
- How could professional connections come into play?
6. Discuss: KMDI Annual Student Research Fair
- Should we try to hold one in May to be followed by an end of year
reception (party)?
7. Volunteers for Committee leaders and sign-up for Fall events.
Next steps ...
If you have not yet RSVP'd, please let Barbara know if you plan to attend
the KMD CP Student Organizational Meeting at bjsoren@kmdi.utoronto.ca, and
remember to reply to the Evite for the Fall 2008 Welcome Reception.
I hope to see you on Monday,
Barbara
Barbara J. Soren, PhD
Coordinator, Collaborative Program
Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI)
University of Toronto
40 St. George St. Room 7222
Toronto, ON M5S 2E4
Tel: +1 416-946-8515
Fax: +1 416-978-KMDI
bjsoren@kmdi.utoronto.ca
www.kmdi.utoronto.ca/graduate/
