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Notes from Brainstorming Session - January 5, 2011
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Thanks to everyone who attended for great energy and ideas. We are looking forward to another great conference.

Attendees: Jeff Walter; Chris Treschack; Rob Theriault; Karen Halliday; Kim Getty; Anne Green; Robin Parkes; Annique Boelryk; Nina Koniuch; Bob Marchessault; Amy Goruk; Deb Moore

The Stories

 * GeorgiLeaks – a takeoff on WikiLeaks
 * Many Retirements of Faculty - ** Jeff **
 * Interviews with retired teachers who are all in an idyllic paradise type place where there are no line ups at Tim Hortons
 * Robots replacing the retired teachers within the college
 * Hotashi robot with a PowerPoint advancer in the front of the room
 * Roomba vacuums with cut outs of teachers spinning around the room
 * Nursing Simulator charged with harassment
 * Student working with simulator which starts burping, farting and talking back
 * A before and after look at the Health and Wellness Building
 * Seaforth campus?
 * Ushering technology slowly
 * Clean shaven man holding a tablet – slowly becomes Moses with a long bread
 * New telephone system - **Annique**
 * I want to speak to (fill in blank) transferring you to (some other random person)

Sports

 * Showing the rugby team practicing in other areas of college now that field is gone

New Products Commercial breaks

 * Slap Mark! This is a takeoff on Slap Chop and a follow up to last year’s Remark on a Tim’s Horton’s cup. The idea was a teacher over loaded with piles of marking when a voice out of nowhere rhymes off the advantages of the Slap Mark! The teacher just slaps the handle and random marks/comments/letter grades appear on the papers. - **Chris**

Dressing for success at Georgian
 * Working in the idea of the “teaching snuggie” for cold offices with built in back pack for papers and also easily removable for unexpected heat.
 * Student Avoidance device
 * some type of product to avoid student questions in the hall – such as flares or oil slicks.
 * 40th Anniversary DVD box set of “The Sound of Education” with the beautiful theme song //The Halls are alive with the Sound of Education//
 * Advertisement for Dragon’s Den (or Grizzly’s Den) []
 * Skit on Academic council or new program ideas are brought forward to a panel of execs who rip them apart. Include several really whacky program proposals
 * The Brain Suck – a device that consists of a helmet worn by the teacher that is connected to wires that run to the student’s helmets and the teacher dumps information directly into the student’s brains. At one point something goes wrong and smoke pours out of the student’s heads or they all look stunned** BOB M. **

Celebrity News

 * Brian Tamblyn is still fighting his “Education Addiction” and is in and out of rehab in the Health and Wellness Centre, tweeting his progress

Politics

 * Rick Mercer type of character
 * A rant - **Jeff**
 * Walking through the college from one end to the other speaking on politics (upcoming election)
 * Rick Mercer often tries other jobs, have faculty “try out” other programs/classes
 * Dentist who Novocains himself ([])

Technology Report

 * David Mair using PowerPoint for the first time - **AMY GORUK**
 * Idea is that David is at the front of the class using the OHP and his students are looking at various things on their laptops and phones. David clicks on his first PowerPoint presentation. All the students drop their devices and stare and give a standing ovation
 * Vern Telford doing BB quizzes for the first time
 * Ease of misinterpretation of instructions – was a TATA example given by David Yole where set verbal instructions are given to make a peanut butter and jam sandwich and how it goes wrong
 * Applying to Georgian College we could have someone on the podium phone with Media Services giving instructions
 * Problem with my Blackberry - []

The Issues

 * Misuse of technology
 * Teacher on Smart board checking Facebook
 * Teacher using projector to make shadow puppets

The News

 * Collingwood new campus – construction update
 * Weather report – so many snow days, reporter finds teacher and marking buried in the snow bank

Non – recorded Items

 * New Brain Science item
 * Little Red Riding Hood phonetically
 * Flash mob of Glee club at conference
 * Vision Statement Fun
 * Perhaps use a Roseanne Roseannadanna type character
 * Changes to the Vision Statement
 * Inspire – Perspire
 * Transform – Transfer
 * Connect – Collect
 * Misinterpretation of the Vision Statement
 * Connect – teacher connecting the dots on a Remark form to get mark
 * Inspire – business students selling parking spots

Other ideas or themes

 * Include other professions and program in news clips
 * Vet tech
 * Dental lab
 * Nursing
 * Etc
 * Include something from each campus
 * Include Ruth Vesterback in a skit

New Programs being offered for Fall 2011

 * Esthetician
 * Electrical Techniques
 * Pharmacy Technician
 * Automotive Business
 * Protection, Security and Investigation
 * Community Integration through Co-operative Education
 * Occupational Health and Safety Management