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Gillies, Donald
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"Being Analog, Teaching Digital"

Paper written for the Computer Aided Learning (CAL97) International Conference, Superhighways, Super CAL, Super Learning, held in March, 1997 at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom.

Business Department

File contains curriculum documents, and general correspondence regarding the day to day running of the department, its classes and its faculty and staff.

Centre for Industrial Development

File contains correspondence to and from Donald Gillies in relation to the establishment, function, grants, and conference participation. Also in the file is the program for the May 14-15, 1980 "Quality Education for the 1980's" educational development workshops held at Ryerson.

Centre of Entrepreneurship

File contains meeting minutes from the Internal Advisory Committee; 2 copies of the Activities report for the Ministry of Colleges and Universities; invitations to Student Entrepreneurship Competition Awards ceremonies; and other general correspondence related to the Centre of Entrepreneurship at Ryerson.

Communication and informatics Applied Research Centre

File contains a copy of the letter and attached proposal sent to the Honourable Larry Grossman, Minister of Industry and Tourism. The proposal was for the establishment of a centre, to be administered by Ryerson, to develop, implement, and co-ordinate industry based applied research in communications, computing and informatics.

Correspondence - Donald Gillies

File contains correspondence written and received by Donald Gillies. File covers some correspondence from when Don was part of the Business Department. The majority are from the when he taught, and was chairman, in Photographic Arts/Film and Photography department.

Departmental Chairmen

File contains 2 copies of Chairmen's meeting minutes from September 3, 1964 and three memos sent to the departmental chairmen.

Donald Gillies fonds

  • F 128
  • Fonds
  • 1964-1996

Fonds contains records created or retained by Donald Gillies during his career at Ryerson in the Business and Image Arts faculties.

ETV - 1967

File contains records created in 1967 relating to ETV, and ETV at Ryerson. Included in the file is the brief to the Commons Committee on Broadcasting "Criteria for the Establishment of Educational Mass Media on a Democratic Society" by Howard R. J. Mountain; a brief to the Parliamentary Committee on Broadcasting by the Canadian Association for Adult Education; an address given by an unidentified person "Provincial Educational Television - the role of the Department of Education" given at Ryerson; a brief about the University of Waterloo television system from their audio-visual centre; and correspondence regarding the Ryerson President's Committee on Educational Television.

ETV - 1968

File contains records created in 1968 relating to ETV, and ETV at Ryerson. Included in the file is correspondence, meeting minutes, an Ontario Department of Education educational television program synopsis, and copies of "The Recommendations for Fall 1968 and Winter 1969 by President's Committee on Educational Television".

ETV - 1969

File contains records created in 1969 relating to ETV, and ETV at Ryerson. Included in the file is correspondence, meeting minutes, draft copies of the "Summary of Activities and Recommendations" from the President's Committee on Educational Television, a report from the Library Resources Centre on ETV, and a Summer 1969 orientation bulleting from the Ontario Department of Education summer course in television.

ETV - 1970

File contains correspondence related to the Media Centre's Instructional Media Office and a copy of the final report of the President's Committee on Educational Television "Planning for Educational Television at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute" dated April 28, 1970.

ETV - general

File contains Ryerson specific materials related to the President's Committee on Educational Television; the National Film Board Policy on ETV; Ontario Department of Education ETV materials; Metropolitan Educational Television Association of Toronto memos; and a variety of equipment catalogues and bibliographies related to ETV. File divided into two folders.

Faculty/Staff memorandas

File contains all staff, faculty and community memoranda of varying topics. The majority of the memos were sent 1964-1965 by by W. B. S. Trimble, VP Faculty Affairs. There is one memo from 1969, and one from 1980.

Information Technology Committee

File contains correspondence, meeting minutes, and s draft policy on Information Technology Access and Acceptable Use for Ryerson students, faculty, and instructors.

Instructional Media program

File contains correspondence, course schedules, course outlines and other materials related to the Instructional Media program in Photographic Arts.

Interim report of a Task Force to establish a Centre for the Study of Communication at Ryerson Polytechnical Institute

The Task Force to establish a Centre for the Study of Communication was assembled by Alberindo Sauro, the Dean of Applied Arts with a goal of establishing a centre that would integrate Journalism, RTA, Photographic Arts and Graphic Arts together. The task force consisted of Ryerson staff and faculty: Rennie Charles, J. L. Atkins, G. M. Bullock, D. F. Hawkes, D. C. Milton, B. Rooney, Alberindo Sauro, E. U. Schrader, John Twomey, and D. G. Williams; Ryerson students; and external members.

File contains one copy of the interim report created for Vice-President Academic Anthony Wilkinson.

International Communications Group of Ryerson Polytechnic University

File contains correspondence, meeting agenda and minutes and other materials related to the International Communications Group. Also in the file are two copies of the September 1994 newsletter "Interact" put out by the Group and a suggested list of participants for a colloquium on participatory communication at Ryerson.

Journal articles

Series contains 2 published journal articles and 1 book review written by Donald Gillies.

Media Studies and Media Arts

File contains materials relating to Media Studies and Media Arts. Included is correspondence; a course outline for media and communications course; and a report on media studies;

Merchandising Administration - Advertising

File made up largely of mid-term and final exams for the Merchandising Administration department advertising courses. Also in the file is correspondence, assignments, course outlines, and other records related to this department.

Miscellaneous materials

File contains assorted materials collected by Donald Gillies. Included is an election poster for Jon Gillies, Progressive Conservative candidate in Don Valley; an invitation to "Our Encounter with Nature" sponsered by the Spiritual Wellness Committee of Student Services; Sign up form for New Media night; a program from "Screening 1979" of films from students in Photographic Arts; a poster for "3 environments" in Jorgenson Hall; Photo Arts newsletter March 13, 1973; and an advertisment for Photo Arts professor Bruce Elder's film night at the Art Gallery of Ontario.

Newman Club

The Newman Club was for Catholic students at Ryerson. File contains meeting announcements and pages of handwritten notes.

Office of the Registrar

File contains records relating to the office of the Registrar. Included is student registration information, a cross reference list of old and new course numbers and titles, an exam supervision schedule, registrar's office newsletter, section reports, student grades and lists of important dates.

People "G"

File contains photographs of people associated with and people who visited Ryerson whose last names start with "G".

Photographic Arts/Film and Photography Department

File contains records pertaining to the Photographic Arts, and Film and Photography department. Included in the file is a summary report regarding secure display space on campus; course descriptions and timetabling information; student show announcements; curriculum change documents; memos, including memo regarding name change from Photographic Arts to Film and Photography (December 4, 1979); floor plans of building; and other materials relating to the department.

Photographs of Donald Gillies

File contains photographs of Donald Gillies. Three of them show him in front of the Photographic Arts building and in his office in 1977. One shows him at table with other unidentified people, and there are 2 headshots that were used in the FORUM publication in 1975 when he was the Chairman of the Photographic Arts Department.

Sauro, Elvino

President's Committee on Educational Television (ETV)

File contains 1 draft copy and 3 final copies of the final report of the President's Committee on Educational Television (ETV). Also in the file is internal correspondence related to space planning for the initiative and the final report.

RISIS Advisory Committee

File contains correspondence, meeting minutes, and accompanying materials related to the Advisory Committee for RISIS - the Ryerson Integrated Student Information System.

Ryerson '70 open house

Ryerson '70 was a three day open house that ran from Friday October 16 - Sunday October 17, 1970. It coincided with Alumni day on the saturday. Every day had different activities.

File includes draft program outlines, terms of reference, and meeting minutes from the steering committee planning the event.

Ryerson Faculty Association

File contains RFA bulletins, meeting minutes, correspondence, draft and final agreements, and other records related to the Ryerson Faculty Association.

Ryerson Literary Society

File contains an invitation to Ryerson Literary Society's first Christmas Party December 5, 1980 and a copy of the November 1980, Vol. 1 No. 2 newsletter.

Unsorted material

Series consists of materials transferred in the Archives holdings in the 1970s and left in piles on shelving units. No original order was apparent other than the creator - Donald Gillies. After viewing materials it was discerned that the best course of action was to maintain the material in their original file folders and sort the loose materials accordingly.
Materials include meeting minutes, correspondence, curriculum documents, RFA materials, memos, Principal/President's newsletters, and a large file on Educational Television. There is a lot of cross related materials that came in a later donation in 2003 from Donald Gillies.