The Speakers

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Dr. Verena Roberts is a passionate online and blended K-12 educator, instructional designer consultant who completed her EdD in Learning Sciences with a focus on K-12 Open Educational Practices. She is an Adjunct Assistant Professor with the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary and an Instructional Designer with Thompson Rivers University, Open Learning. Her research interests include learning design, open learning, open educational resources (OER) and pedagogy (OEP), participatory learning and the ethics of educational technology. She was a 2018-2019 OER Research fellow and 2018 Global Open Graduate Network (#GO-GN) member. Verena has taught and designed online/blended courses and consulted about curriculum and technology integration from pre-K to Higher Education in Canada and the United States. She has consulted, facilitated and developed a wide range of open networked learning projects with a focus on OER and designing for learning in any environment with the Callysto Project, the UBC ETS Learning Design Team, mozilla, CANeLearn, ERLC and iNACOL. Some of her open projects include cMOOCS like #Digifoot12, #ETMOOC, #OCLMOOC, the ABOER K-12 Multiplying K-12 OER project as well as the #Gamified project.

Dylan Woodcock is a member of the Open Education team at Campus Manitoba. In his role, he guides university and college faculty across the province on flexible teaching/learning initiatives, particularly the implementation of Open Educational Resources. Dylan is motivated to enhance higher ed. programming using open practices and pedagogy. Prior to his appointment at Campus Manitoba, he was a Language Arts instructor for the Canadian Armed Forces. Reach out to Campus Manitoba on Twitter and connect with Dylan on LinkedIn.

Matt is an educator specializing in applied and project based learning. Throughout his various teaching assignments as an Industrial Arts teacher and as a Project Based Learning teacher he has continually worked towards creating learning environments for students that experience freedom in the way they learn through exploration. He now brings these organizational skills to the Teacher Education Program at Red River College.

Matt designed a project/passion based learning program based out of Nelson McIntyre Collegiate. Check out some of the work that these students are doing at: propellrsd.com

https://www.edu.gov.mb.ca/k12/excellence/recipients/1920.html

https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-patrician-274962197/

Maribeth Tabanera aka Kilusan (she/they/siya) is a queer Filipinx femme multi-disciplinary educator, artist, and community organizer.

A life-long learner, they have focused their energy on diving deeply into their passions of dance, music, education, social justice and community building. Maribeth is the full-time Internship Coordinator at Seven Oaks Met School and Maples Met School in the Seven Oaks School Division, and an instructor with Graffiti Art Programming. They are also currently a member of Kultivation Festival, Seven Oaks Filipino Employees Association and Manitoba Association of Dance Educators.

For more information visit: www.maribethtabanera.com

Devon Caldwell is resource teacher and a PhD Candidate in Curriculum and Instruction at University of Victoria. She co-founded KG Education with Leah Obach to support educators with a unique blend of professional learning and teacher wellness.

With over twenty years of teaching experience, she is an award-winning early years teacher with a passion for wellness, project-based learning, collaboration, and technology infusion. Devon is a sessional instructor in Brandon University’s Faculty of Education and a certified yoga instructor.

Connect with Devon on Instagram or Facebook @kgeducation.ca

Adriano Magnifico has taught senior high school English and career development for most of his career. In 1995 he created the Career Internship Program, a multi-awarding winning interdisciplinary program that meshed career development with traditional courses that continues to flourish in LRSD.

He is chair of the LRSD Career Development Committee, member of the divisional Leadership Team, and creator of the Tigers’ Den Entrepreneurship Conference. He sits on national executive committees with CERIC and LMIC and a working Assessment Group with the CCDF. He is president of the Manitoba Association of Teachers of English (MATE) and on the board of the Osborne Village Resource Centre.

Adriano publishes the occasional article on career development and English language arts, writes for the local community newspaper, and has won awards for his short stories. He has completed a Master of Education, a Professional Logistics designation (P.Log.™), Change Leadership designation (PCE™), and a PACE Career Employment Coach Certificate. He specializes in connecting with disengaged or ‘stuck’ learners in high school, post-secondary schools, and workplaces, ever seeking insight and strategy to keep them curious and engaged in their futures.

Podcast: Adventures in Careerland