UPCOMING AND PAST
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES
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Tuesday, December 5, 2017
CITE AGM & SOCIAL4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. AGM Meeting
5:30 p.m. - 6:15 p.m. Drinks and Dinner 6:15 p.m. - 7:30p.m. Matt Johnson, Guest Speaker Come and meet other CITE members and enjoy the beautiful atmosphere of Branksome Hall's beautiful downtown campus. Director Matt Johnson will speak about the nature of story telling in the 21st century. Matt has directed two feature films The Dirties and Operation Avalanche, and is currently creating Nirvanna the Band the Show for Vice TV. Cost: $30 will be charged to your CIS member school. The cost covers dinner, two drinks and the speaker. To register, please send an email to CITE Treasurer, Matt Trevisan. |
CITE annual general meeting
thursday, october 13, 2016 @CDScite agm with special guestBRENDAN MCLEODCITE was pleased to welcome Brendan McLeod, a popular writer, storyteller and magician to our AGM that took place on Thursday, October 13, at The Country Day School's newly-renovated facility. Thanks to all who attended! Special thanks to Sarah Hudson and The Country Day School for hosting!
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REPORT ON
CITE SOCIAL WITH
NORA YOUNG
february 2016
@ St. Clement's School
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The CITE Social on February 4, was a great success. CITE teachers met CIS Ontario colleagues while sampling some wine, beer, home-made gourmet food and tasty desserts. Thank you to St. Clement's School for hosting the elegant affair.
Nora Young's Presentation Nora Young, CBC radio host of Spark, discussed the rapid technological changes in our world, and how more than ever students' critical thinking skills are imperative. Adolescents must recognize that media is constructed and question what they see. Young admitted that technology does make our lives easier and explained how it can help with communications in war-torn countries; however, Young also showed how intrusive technology has become, and she provided some interesting forecasts such as how soon social media sites like Facebook will mainly consist of video posts. She also discussed how there is a marked increase in tracking apps, resulting in the loss of our privacy. Everyone is collecting our personal data, including the government, companies and research analysts.For example, the app gigapixel can zoom in and identify one face in an image containing thousands of people. This is bad news for people who particpate in violent demonstrations! She also discussed how technological advances mean that teachers will need to keep up with the changes, how it will affect everything for studentsfrom their social interactions to changing career options. Click here for more on Nora Young. |
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MEDIA PD Opportunity:
Hack the classroom: Radicalizing Your Media Teaching
APRIL 9, 2016 | 8:30am - 2:25pm | OSSTF Provincial Office | 60 Mobile Drive | Toronto ON
COST $25 / PERSON
Click here for session details!
Click here for poster.
COST $25 / PERSON
Click here for session details!
Click here for poster.
2016 DEPARTMENT HEADS' MEETING WITH NEIL ANDERSeN
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Annual general meeting
& Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize readings
Oct 29, 2015
5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
- CITE AGM at Hillfield Strathallan College, Hamilton
- Light refreshments will be served during the meeting.
- Dinner on campus (approx. $15) catered by A Portable Feast (Mrs. Misty Ingraham)
7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
- The Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Finalists Reading (CITE will pay the cost, a $15 value)
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The Jaguar's Children by John Vaillant
Red Jacket by Pamela Mordecai His Whole Life by Elizabeth Hay Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis Confidence by Russell Smith |
Joseph Boyden at CITE Social & English department Heads' meeting
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We were delighted to have Joseph Boyden, author of Three-Day Road and The Orenda, at our annual CITE Social to discuss what is Canadian literature and what it means to be Canadian. Thanks to St. Clement's School for hosting this event. See our picture gallery below! |
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Author Kate Pullinger speaks at CITE AGM
AGM Summary - guest author Kate Pullinger
Thank you to Upper Canada College for hosting the CITE AGM. It was timely that author Kate Pullinger was visiting from England and was able to attend the meeting to speak to us about her recent projects and book. If you were unable to attend, please visit the 14-18 Letter to an Unknown Soldiersite, a project commemorating the start of World War I. Over 20,000 people from all over the UK wrote a letter to the soldier. Kate also discussed the importance of the written word in modern times and showed her digital interactive novelInanimate Alice, which combines text and technology. (Episodes are available for free.) Last, Kate talked about her new novel Landing Gear, a tale of Yacub, a stowaway, whose life literally collides with Harriet’s, when he falls from a plane’s landing gear onto the hood of her car. Click the image of Kate Pullinger to watch a video excerpt of her talk at the CITE AGM. |
Watch a video of author Kate Pullinger addressing CITE members at the Annual General Meeting, which was held at UCC on October 30, 2014. She discusses a number of her new projects that push the boundaries of multimedia and the written word.
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Workshops and Professional Development
The Bard Institute for Writing and Thinking
National Council of Teachers of English Summer Institute
Humber College Summer writing workshops
U of T Summer Writing Courses
Stratford Festival Drama AQ
University of Cambridge Shakespeare summer courses
US National Writing Project for Teachers
The Columbia Teachers College Reading and Writing Project:
Stony Brook Summer Writing workshops:
National Council of Teachers of English Summer Institute
Humber College Summer writing workshops
U of T Summer Writing Courses
Stratford Festival Drama AQ
University of Cambridge Shakespeare summer courses
US National Writing Project for Teachers
The Columbia Teachers College Reading and Writing Project:
Stony Brook Summer Writing workshops: