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=Brainstorming 2012 - Notes from Brainstorming Session (January 4, 2012)=

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 * Participants:** Karen Halliday, Pat Rowan, Ross Bigelow, Scott McCrindle, Rob Theriault, Nina Koniuch, Amy Goruk, Greg Rodrigo, Bob Marchessault, Loralei Price, Cindy Korpatnicki, Lance Triskle, Kelly Mannen, Renee Ferguson, Crystal Cooke, Alissa Bigelow (Did I miss anyone?)


 * [[image:focusonteaching/leaf_icon.gif width="38" height="21"]]The Stories**
 * The Newest Collingwood Campus
 * Technologies and classrooms
 * The new branding plan
 * The New Health and Wellness building
 * Orillia
 * Anti-Bullying Campaign in Orillia (pink shirts)
 * 1000 shoes in Orillia – Violence against women
 * Night in the Cold in Orillia
 * Aboriginal program successes
 * Entrepreneurship
 * Community Service Learning


 * [[image:focusonteaching/leaf_icon.gif]]The Issues**
 * How to communicate with students - lots of options; do they read any of them? College e-mail is now old. Do we move to newest ways or are the strategies of the past coming back - smoke signals; Morse Code;
 * What do teachers do while proctoring exams? List to music - in one situation it came on in the class loudly
 * When the network goes down - David Mair is fine - he goes back to his overheads. Tubleweeds in the hallways because you can't do anything

**Possible Movie Spoofs**
 * Mission Impossible
 * Brian Tamblyn’s last duty is to open a campus in every town and city with more than 3000 people in it.
 * Sherlock Holmes
 * Twilight

**New Products**
 * The Teaching Snuggie
 * Teachers moving from office to classroom and between classroom can pull snuggie on and off depending on room tempurature
 * SMART podiums
 * Augmented Reality glasses - put them on to see what students see; what teachers see
 * Skateboards to get around M

**News** >> **Politics** > **Technology Report**
 * All the “Occupy Movements’
 * occupy Tim’s Line
 * occupy book store
 * teachers in tents randomly around the college
 * Weather Report between the buildings
 * Dodging buckets in M building when roof was leaking (rain) umbrellas
 * freezing in one place, boiling hot in another
 * Last Class being renovated
 * High level retirements
 * Traditional Retirement gifts have been changed
 * Brian Tamblyn and Bob Emptage getting their nails done at the spa
 * The new list of years of service retirement gift available (with each one have a faculty member
 * 10 years – 1 year gym membership with parking
 * 15 years – 1 year gym membership no parking
 * 20 years – 1 free dental visit
 * 25 years – Free Vet visit
 * 30 years – Unlimited Use of the golf simulator
 * 50 years – Just go already!
 * Coffee
 * Strategies for getting a quick coffee
 * New Tims: Long voyaage to new Tims and still a long line up
 * New M building
 * Daily Physical Activity (DPA) - Announcements; lunges; jogging etc.
 * Brian's Retirement
 * Make it like a divorce/he's leaving us/faculty as children "doesn't he like us anymore"
 * Jeff Wathers rant
 * You're busted photos
 * David Mair returns to conquer the SMART Board
 * CISCO Phone and network outages
 * network goes does down and the whole College shuts down
 * Tumble weeds rolling through the library
 * Students stumble out into the hallways like zombies “no wifi NO WIFI!”
 * David Mair pulls the over head projector out of the corner and keeps on goin
 * Voice activated technology for the teacher.
 * Teacher shuts down access to Facebook across the campus/ Students and teachers are lost
 * If only we had technology to....
 * ...watch class while you go to the bathroom during a test or exam
 * ...be able to see what's on students computer screens from the podium
 * ...block cell phones/ a kill swtich; Phones are now a physical part of students. When you cut off their phones it is like they lose a body part.
 * ...an app to convert course information to texting language
 * Smart phones - There's an app for that - Teacher apps/ student apps
 * Student excuses
 * Photo editing
 * Dictation

**Ideas for the Closing Conference**
 * Prizes
 * Retirement acknowledgment
 * PD leave send offs
 * Slide show with photos and videos of the day
 * Have a Speakers Corner type booth people can leave messages of the day
 * The Best of Brian tribute
 * Collect and display tweets from the day #FoT2012
 * Video of Brian's final words for faculty
 * "Did I miss anything?" skit (Person who slept in and missed the day wanders in at the end like a student might) ...Is that on the test?
 * Some activity to create commitment to action
 * Scapegoat rides out with excuses