Category: 5x5x25
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Choosing What to Learn and Who to Listen To
by Darlene Goodrick, Supervisor – Printing & Duplicating, Vancouver Island University In my last writing I talked about how fortunate we are to be working at a University where there is so much opportunity to learn and teach. In this submission I want to talk about how tormenting it can be to have so much…
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No Learning Wasted
By Deirdre Godwin, Program Assistant, Professional Development and Training, Faculties of Health and Human Services & Trades and Applied Technology, VIU Getting on to 30 years ago, I took what was then the Long-term Care/Homemakers certificate at Malaspina College. I didn’t graduate. You could say that I withdrew, flunked out, explored other options, or chose…
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The shorter the better?
By Wendy Simms, Biology Department, Faculty of Science and Technology, Vancouver Island University Last Monday night, while we were waiting for our ecology class to assemble at Departure Bay beach for a lab, I overheard the students talking about vines. “I LOVE vines. They are SO addictive. I can procrastinate by watching (like) ONE HUNDRED…
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It’s only a figure of speech….
by Anna Atkinson, Department of English, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Vancouver Island University I’m going to tell a story on myself. It’s the story of perhaps the most profound educational experience of my life, and certainly one of the most important. I tell this one to students because stories are the way our minds…
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Creating Lab Video Demonstrations and Tutorials
by Jessie Key, Faculty, Chemistry Department, Faculty of Science and Technology, Vancouver Island University I have been making video demonstrations and tutorials to augment the learning experience in both the lecture and lab for the courses that I teach. I have put most of my effort into the laboratory portion of the courses CHEM 140…
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Honoring Murdered and Missing Aboriginal Women in the Classroom
By Sherryl Maglione (Miss Magz), Cowichan Campus, ABE English Instructor, Vancouver Island University February 2014 Conversation Teacher: So, where do you ladies live? Students: North of town about twenty minutes. Teacher: Hey, me, too! Do you have a vehicle to get to school? Students: No, we take the bus, or hitch. Teacher: Hitch? Students: [looking…
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Student Identity—Shifting from Child to Adult Learner
by Andrea Noble, Online Course Support Assistant, Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning (CIEL) A child’s fulltime “job” is to attend school. Because it is the main activity of life, a great deal of emphasis is placed here. Students are often labeled as “smart”, “dumb”, “popular” or another negative or positive adjective. School is…
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Calibrated Peer Review Part II
By Barbara Metcalf, Teaching Faculty Member, Bachelor of Nursing Program, Faculty of Health and Human Sciences, VIU For all blog posts on this topic see Calibrated Peer Review Part I, Part III, Part IV and Part V I thought that in this posting I would discuss some of the benefits and challenges of the Calibrated…
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Simulation Snippets Part II
By Barbara Metcalf, Teaching Faculty Member, Bachelor of Nursing Program, Faculty of Health and Human Sciences, VIU For all blog posts on this topic see Simulation Snippets Part I, Part III, Part IV and Part V I thought I would talk today about what we have used our simulation suites for so far. As I…
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How Students Influence Your Teaching Style
by Doris Carey, Teaching Faculty Member, Faculty of Academic and Career Preparation Much of the literature on teaching and learning styles came from pop culture magazine surveys that concluded that you had a visual style of you liked to look at pictures, an auditory learning style if you liked to chat on the phone, and…
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Learning and Teaching in the Print Shop
by Darlene Goodrick, Supervisor, Printing and Duplicating, VIU In the short time I have been here at VIU I am blown away by what this University has to offer. As a CUPE member, staff can partake in funded learning to better themselves and their resume. Is this rare in the working world? It is where…
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The Presentation Problem
by Anna Atkinson, Teaching Faculty Member, English Department, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, VIU Some years ago, the English Department undertook an exit survey of its graduating students. In that survey, one of the things that surfaced struck my colleagues and me as both surprising, and, upon reflection, perhaps a bit obvious. The problem had…