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PER SATURDAY SUPER CONFERENCE SUPER SATURDAY SUPER CONFERENCE SUPER SATURDAY SUPER CONFERENCE Jamie McKenzie lives! Bagel Effect is non-fattening! Super Pamela over the top! I old the cream cheese, it's not about n addition to the major afternoon sesdieting. Paul Hoffert calls the sion with Jamie McKenzie, mentioned Bagel Effect the movement of in yesterday's Super News 1999, Jamie will be presenting two other informative power and control from the centre of systems (big governments, big business etc.) sessions in the morning. to the edges, that is, into the hands of citizens, customers and ordinary people in all Bombast, blather, bunk and babble If students always skate along the sur- areas of society. face, will they ever learn to think for themHoffert will explain how the Bagel selves? Will they settle for sound bites, the Effect introduces clear trends and premind bytes, the eye candy and the mind dictable outcomes at the Saturday Super . candy which is offered-up by the media Session: A compass to navigate our wired like sticks of chewing gum? These are just world, at 2:00p.m. in MTCC room 104D. some the questions being addressed in As a child prodigy, Paul Hoffert masSession #908, The Age of Glib. tered classical and jazz piano, and recorded McKenzie provides examples of modem his first album at the age of sixteen. In rant, bombast, blather, poppycock, hum- 1969, he co-founded Lighthouse, a rock bug, malarkey, bunk, and babble. He then band with a hom section that earned nine shows how we can equip students with the gold and platinum recordings. Not your typical rock musician, Paul tools and the spirit to look deeply at Life and its essential questions, probing beyond was trained as a mathematician and physithe information packages aimed their way. cist, and is now a scientist, researcher, uniWith any luck, students will develop a versity professor, writer, composer, musihealthy skepticism about the information cian and Director of CulTech Collaborative Research Centre at York University. Paul is (and noise) streaming past them. also Executive Director of Intercom Ontario, a totally wired, interactive comEasy as falling out of bed Jamie then takes aim at The New munity (the first such community anywhere in the world), and is Past Chair of Plagiarism in session # 10 19. Cut and paste technologies make it all the Ontario Arts Council. The Bagel Effect affects all areas of our too easy to "lift" the words and thoughts of others without giving them credit and with- lives and is important to all of us who plan out attributing the source. (As a benign for the future . example, this part of the write-up on Session 1102, MTCC Room 1040, 2 pm Jamie's session has been lifted from the Super Conference program). Many schools are finding electronic text a decidedly mixed blessing as new information technologies make intellectual dishonesty as easy as falling out of bed. Between Web-based report mills and vast databases of articles and information, the school report which emphasizes information gathering, is proving obsolete. As access to electronic text becomes universal, we are likely to see plagiarism take on new forms . Unless schools and teachers make major changes in the way they formulate research projects, we are apt to see intellectual dishonesty expand and multiply like an academic plague. H P amela Wallin is bringing a world of experience to our plenary session this morning. Since you asked Pamela Wallin's new book, Since you asked, delivers both controversial and heart-warming stories to the attention of Canadians who appreciate her forthrightness and her ability to retrieve the truth from the overload of available information. The career of the Saskatchewan broadcaster and journalist has spanned more than 20 years and several continents . With a Certificate d 'Etudes Francais from the College of Bandel, France, and a honours degree from the University of Regina (1974) in psychology and political science, she began her career as a social worker at the Prince Albert Penitentiary in Saskatchewan. An offer to host an open line program for CBC Radio the next year was the beginning of a multi-media career. After working both on-air and behind the scenes as a producer of local radio morning shows in Regina and Ottawa, she moved on to work with the highly acclaimed Patrick Watson/Laurier Lapierre hour. A Canadian first In 1985, Wallin became the first woman in Canadian network television history to be appointed Ottawa Bureau Chief when CTV named her to this position. From 1992 to 1995, she co-anchored CBC's Prime Time News. Wallin now hosts and produces her own programs, Pamela Wallin, and Pamela Wallin & Company, co-productions of Newsworld and Wallin 's Current Affairs Group Limited. Her program, Pamela Wallin Live, is the best venue in this country for thoughtprovoking, exploratory conversation. Pamela Wallin received the 1997 Outstanding Achievement Award at the lOth annual awards gala for Women in Film and Television in Toronto. In the Fall of 1974 she received the most precious recognition of her career when the residents of her hometown of Wadena, Saskatchewan renamed the main street, Pamela Wallin Drive. Session 908, MTCC Room 1040, 8:45 am Session 1019, MTCC Room 20GC, 10:30 am Super Session 1103, MTCC Room 20GB, 2 pm Session 900, CP Ballroom