If you have any questions, please contact Bong-gi Sohn, Ryan Deschambault, or Amanda Wager, Graduate Peer Advisors, email lled.gpa@gmail.com. All LLED graduate students, new and continuing, MEd, MA, and PhD are encouraged to attend.

We are seeking interested volunteers to participate in (informal) roundtable or panel-like discussions at each of our three Apprenticeship Seminars during this first term. Our hope is that these seminars will allow grads to exchange knowledge and experience with faculty, instructors, and peers about topics that are relevant to their membership in academic and professional communities - both within and beyond LLED.

All Apprenticeship Seminars occur on Thursdays, between 12:30-2pm. The dates and tentative topics (suggested by attendees at our first seminar) are listed below.

Please send an email to lled.gpa@gmail.com to indicate your interest in participating, or to offer any comments or suggestions you may have regarding this initiative.

Thursday, December 3, 2009
GRANTS & FUNDING PROPOSALS

In this session, we will introduce ourselves, talk about the LLED graduate student community, address some of the many questions students often have about starting and continuing their graduate studies in LLED, and work toward setting an agenda of topics that you would like the Apprenticeship Seminars this year to focus upon. We hope to see you all there!

In this session, presenters' descriptions of their publishing experiences will be followed by an open question/answer session for the last 30 minutes of the seminar or so. Topics that will be covered are:

- How / Where / With whom / What / Why ?
- The tips/challenges/processes of publishing
- Personal experiences of identifying a journal; formatting and cover letter to editors; receiving feedback; responding to feedback; dealing with copyeditors, etc.
- Tier system for/Types of journals, impact factors, submission processes, politics of publishing etc.
- How to go about using term papers as possible articles to be submitted for publication

Open Access Events at UBC from October 20-22. A list of the sessions can be seen here.

Thursday, November 5, 2009
Conference Presentation- Tips and Process of Presenting at a Conference
Panel Discussants: To be announced

In this session, each panel discussant will share tips/challenges/process of their conference presentation followed by an open question/answer session for the last 30 minutes of the seminar or so. Topics that will be covered are:
- Why people go to conference? Why is it important?
- What kinds of conference are out there? Who are the targeted audience?
- Which conference should students go to?
- What to present at the conference?
- What are the ways to improve conference presentation skills?
- What people do before presentation?
- What people do after presentation?
- How many conference should students need to attend?
- How to get to know people at the conference? What are the ways to approach to big names at the conference?

Some information about types of conference and dates and deadline for each conference are encouraged to share at student forum under "Conference Presentations”.