TELUS Convention Centre - Macleod E1

Sessions

Thursday 13 February, 2025

Time Zone: (GMT-07:00) Mountain Time (US & Canada)
9:00
9:00
Worldbuilding Fun for Fiction Writing
1 hour, 9:00 - 10:00
Signup required

TELUS Convention Centre - Macleod E1

60 Minute Session

Alexis Chute, Alexis Marie Productions Inc. (Speaker)

Author and master-worldbuilder, Alexis Marie Chute inspires teachers to bring new dimensions to their creative writing curricula. Delving into the ...
10:45
10:45
Creative Writing to Cope with Stress and Build Resiliency
1 hour, 10:45 - 11:45
Signup required

TELUS Convention Centre - Macleod E1

60 Minute Session

Alexis Chute, Alexis Marie Productions Inc. (Speaker)

Learn creative ways to engage students struggling with anxiety and other mental health challenges, particularly during the pandemic, utilizing the ...
12:30
12:30
Photography and Mindfulness: Learning to See
1 hour, 12:30 - 13:30
Signup required

TELUS Convention Centre - Macleod E1

60 Minute Session

Alexis Chute, Alexis Marie Productions Inc. (Speaker)

Our world is busy, go-go-go, which is why empowering ourselves and our students to be here and now is a tremendous gift. This session will use phot...
14:15
14:15
Next Level Art: Meaning & Mental Health through Hands-On Creativity
1 hour, 14:15 - 15:15
Signup required

TELUS Convention Centre - Macleod E1

60 Minute Session

Alexis Chute, Alexis Marie Productions Inc. (Speaker)

Visual art is our first language, which connects us to how we first began to understand the world. In this workshop, learn how visual art and creat...

Friday 14 February, 2025

Time Zone: (GMT-07:00) Mountain Time (US & Canada)
9:00
9:00
The Life-Changing Power of Africentric Education for Students (and Teachers!)
1 hour, 9:00 - 10:00
Signup required

TELUS Convention Centre - Macleod E1

60 Minute Session

Malcolm Azania, Project Saqqara (Speaker)

Across Alberta, more students of African descent (hailing from Somali, Nigeria, Jamaica, Trinidad, other Canadian provinces, and elsewhere) are in ...
10:45
10:45
Teach Essay-Writing to Stop Chat GPT from Destroying the World
1 hour, 10:45 - 11:45
Signup required

TELUS Convention Centre - Macleod E1

60 Minute Session

Malcolm Azania, Project Saqqara (Speaker)

Why on earth would we let ChatGPT and other large language models steal our students’ opportunities for growing as logical, fact-based, innovative ...
12:30
12:30
Twelve Ways You're Sabotaging Your Writing Progress... and How to Flip that Script!
1 hour, 12:30 - 13:30
Signup required

TELUS Convention Centre - Macleod E1

60 Minute Session

Malcolm Azania, Project Saqqara (Speaker)

Whether you teach ELA, Social Studies, Science, Art, or anything else, have you always been yearning to write a novel, or maybe even publish just o...