Month: January 2014
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Seating Arrangements in Your Classroom
by Nick Yaremchuk, Teacher, The International High School, VIU More and more teachers that I talk to are considering how seating arrangements in their classrooms affect their teaching, affect their […]
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Where Do You Learn That?
By Carrie Johns, Secretary Registrar and Convocation, Registration Centre, VIU My son is two years old. He learns new skills and new words at an incredible rate: yesterday, he pulled […]
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Life and Learning
By Deirdre Godwin, Program Assistant, Professional Development and Training, Faculties of Health and Human Services& Trades and Applied Technology, VIU Life is a learning experience. When I was growing up, […]
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Going Text-less
By Sandra Johnstone, Teaching Faculty Member, Earth Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, VIU A round of applause This semester – Spring 2014 – I experienced a first in my […]
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The Journey of Becoming a Teacher
by Greg Klimes, Teaching Faculty Member, Faculty of Science and Technology, VIU I never considered myself a “teacher” nor was it ever a career aspiration of mine to become a […]
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A lesson I bring to my VIU students
By Susan Lymbery, Teaching Faculty Member, Faculty of Academic and Career Preparation and Faculty of Arts and Humanities, VIU I’d been twenty-five years out of high school when my […]
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Some thoughts on Textbooks, Open Textbooks and Reviewing for BCCampus
by Jessie Key, Teaching Faculty Member, Chemistry, Faculty of Science and Technology, VIU Textbooks are one of the primary resources of instruction for most courses at the university level. They […]
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We Should Let Our Students Cheat
By Laurie Meijer Drees, Teaching Faculty Member, First Nations Studies, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, VIU As teachers, we should let our students cheat. We should encourage them to cheat. […]
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Collaboration and Creativity in Action
By Sherryl Maglione, Teaching Faculty Member, Faculty of Academic and Career Preparation, VIU Today revealed one of those ‘aha’ moments that teachers are occasionally humbled to experience. At the beginning […]
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What Helps Me Learn: Reflections from International Students Video Project
During International Week at VIU we attended a panel discussion of international students reflecting on the process of their learning organized by The Faculty of International Education and the Centre for […]
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ePortfolio Overview
What is an ePortfolio? One of the most comprehensive definitions of ePortfolios comes from Gabriele Bauer from Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Delaware: The academic ePortfolio is a […]