academic presentations & Speaking
From Guidance to Practice: Starting Small with AI Integration – A Film Studies Case Study
This panel presentation explored how students responded when AI expectations became visible, discussable, and structured within an online Film Studies course at George Brown Polytechnic. Drawing on student reflections, faculty implementation, and lived classroom experience, the session examined how clear AI guidance shaped student engagement, transparency, and decision-making around authorship, creativity, and academic integrity.
UWTL 2026: From Urgency to Intention: Practical Approaches to Ethical AI Use
Artificial intelligence is increasingly present in higher education, yet many educators continue to experience uncertainty about how to respond in meaningful, ethical, and pedagogically sound ways. International frameworks such as the UNESCO (2021) Recommendation on the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and the OECD (2019) AI Principles emphasize transparency, accountability, and human-centred design, but faculty are more commonly asking practical questions: How do we design learning activities that remain authentic? How do we communicate expectations clearly with students? And how do we avoid all-or-nothing approaches that either prohibit AI entirely or adopt it without reflection?
From Urgency to Intention: Creating the Conditions for Ethical AI Use in Teaching and Learning
Artificial intelligence is reshaping teaching and learning, yet many educators are still navigating how to respond. This session reframes AI as a course design issue rather than a technical problem, focusing on how clarity, transparency, and intentional decisions can support ethical AI use.
Drawing on practice-based work with faculty, it highlights simple, adaptable strategies such as clear AI guidance, reflection-based assessment, and approaches that move beyond all-or-nothing thinking. The focus is on creating learning environments that support engagement, trust, and student responsibility.
5 Minute Flare | Enhancing Clinical Orientation with H5P
See how H5P interactive modules transformed clinical orientation by boosting student engagement and completion rates to 71%. This session shares strategies for using H5P to replace passive content, reduce student questions and improve preparedness. Learn how faculty can leverage these tools to create accessible, effective learning experiences.
Adapting Film Studies Courses for Diverse Learning Environments
Moving film studies online? This session highlights how instructors reimagined film courses for online and hybrid formats using Brightspace. Explore three development approaches that boost accessibility, engagement and outcomes featuring multimedia, OER, custom content and intelligent agents to support flexible, student-centered learning.
Congress 2025 – EvolvED Conference
Designing for Equity and Engagement in Brightspace
I have partnered with a faculty member to reimagine three film studies courses—each with its own unique set of pedagogical and accessibility challenges. This session will share key strategies and behind-the-scenes lessons from these collaborative projects, showcasing how thoughtful instructional design and technology integration can transform learning experiences.
- From Classroom to Clicks
- Beyond the Textbook (OER)
- Designing for Equity
CDAG 2024 Virtual Conference
We developed an asynchronous micro-certificate course for faculty, focusing on updated academic policies. Despite time and resource constraints, we showcased innovative design, UDL principles, and accessibility. Using Brightspace, we created interactive escape rooms and incorporated AI personas to enhance engagement and make the learning more relatable. The panel will discuss our design process, use of multimedia, and how we collected feedback for continuous improvement.
Institutional Presentation
Plan Your Digital Contents
Presentation on Ontario Learn & Active Learning
Support for Digtial Content Creation
BrightSpace Elements and H5P Learning Objects Samples and Elements demo on Brightspace Learn to plan your digital contents. Demo some engaging H5P Learning Objects samples and using the Elements on Brightspace to add interactive components to a Content file to promote student engagement.
Support for Digtial Content Creation
Presentation on Ontario Learn & Active Learning
Support for Digtial Content Creation
This session introduces practical strategies for developing engaging digital content and interactive learning objects to enhance online teaching. Participants explore tools such as Canva, Vyond, Storyline, and H5P, and learn how to plan, design, and implement accessible, student-centered learning experiences.
Presentation on Ontario Learn & Active Learning
Presentation on Ontario Learn & Active Learning
Presentation on Ontario Learn & Active Learning
Ontario Learn where we’re integrating Active Learning strategies to enhance your online education experience. By incorporating interactive activities and collaborative tools, we aim to make learning more engaging and effective for all students.
Dropping the Textbook & Making it Real
Bernie, a Film Studies professor, Stella, an instructional designer and Evelyn, Learning Technologies Specialist, discuss their experience of replacing an expensive publisher’s textbook.
Open Education Collaborative PD
It was important for him to drop the textbook in favor of Open Access resources because it removed an obstacle to students accessing the course materials, consequently increasing retention rates and overall student success. Technology has enhanced his teaching experience through using digitally formatted elements for his courses to create a technologically enabled teaching/learning environment. These features included template development, creative use of Open materials instead of pricey textbooks and having students apply closed captions and Creative Commons licences in a move toward more authentic learning that has a place “out in the real world.”
Lights! Camera! Action!
Stella Bastone, Evelyn Chan and Bernie Gaidosch. Lights, Camera, Action: Student Filmmaking in an online course. Advancing Learning Conference on Educational Technology, Ottawa, ON 2019
Advancing Learning at Ottawa
A team of 3 attended the conference at Ottawa
The IABL Conference
Demo of Articulate 360 to Promote Active Learning
Lights! Camera! Action!
This is a demo session of the Articulate 360 and will have a quick tour of Storyline 360 User Interface (UI) to let the participants gain an understanding of the tools itself. Participants will follow the developers’ step- by- step tour to explain an existing online deliverable in Storyline 360.
Objectives:
- Recognize one of the top education technologies that George Brown is currently using and supports
- 2Be able to explain the different between Articulate 360 and Storyline 360
- 3Will get some ideas of Storyline 360 eLearning projects