Category: Podcast
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What went well: A Story-telling Call for VIU Teaching and Learning Moments from 2020-2021
A couple of years ago I started a teaching and learning podcast called The Share Drive. My intention was to share more broadly stories of teaching and learning, and general awesomeness, across our campus. I was also looking for a way to continue to recognize teaching and learning, creativity, innovation and the thoughtfulness of many…
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The Share Drive Episode 14: Mackenzie Sillem and her commitment to Intercultural Studies at VIU
Many listeners will know Mackenzie from her long-term and broad-reaching efforts to support Intercultural learning across VIU, most recently with the development and teaching of Intercultural Studies 100: Exploring and Developing Intercultural Competence. In this podcast, we sit down with Mackenzie to discuss intercultural learning from a variety of perspectives, as well as the value…
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The Share Drive Episode 13: Shannon Bence: The Ultimate Online Learning Survival Guide
After witnessing the fear many of her students were experiencing in the transition to online learning, Shannon asked herself the question, “How can I help?” And the answer that came to her was, “I know! I’ll get up before my toddlers and make some videos about how to be a successful online learner!” In this…
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The Share Drive Episode 12: Aggie Weighill: Innovative Ways to Mobilize Knowledge
After learning the correct pronunciation of Aggie’s last name, we decide Aggie is so well-known and influential, that no last name is even necessary and “Aggie” can stand alone (think Beyonce or Madonna). When we get down to business, we discuss the ways in which Aggie shifted her energy and her teaching for the online…
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The Share Drive Episode 11: Evandra Panych: Instructional Design for Dinner
Evandra Panych, an alumni of the CIEL’s course redesign “sailing,” shares her process in designing and teaching an online course in the interior design program. Evandra acknowledges how challenging it was for her to redesign a practical, lab-based course for the online world. In this episode, Evandra honestly describes what didn’t work well, and what…
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The Share Drive Episode 10: Imogene Lim: “I’m a noisy descendant.”
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The Share Drive Episode 9: Paige Fisher: “How do we make our time together precious?”
In this podcast, Paige Fisher (Faculty of Education) reflects on her process of transitioning online, paying close attention to the ways in which she and her partner teachers build community for their students. Paige discusses how she builds a sense of agency for students by trusting them and bringing them into her process, as well…
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The Share Drive Episode 8: Nona Brack: Community, Connection, Capacity and Coaching–Moving nursing courses online
VIU nursing instructor, Nona Brack, discusses her experiences shifting a variety of her courses to an online environment. Nona’s experiences in pivoting include moving a theory course online with only a few weeks to go, redesigning a 3rd year clinical practice course, and altering, rather quickly, a nursing skills lab course for online delivery. In…
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The Big Pivot: Podcast Bites from VIU Faculty Shifting to Alternate Delivery
In this series of podcasts, I wanted to collect and share stories from VIU faculty who have pivoted, or who are pivoting, to an alternate delivery method. Which is all of us. I wanted to capture at this moment in time what’s happening, and how we’re all getting through this as best we can. And…
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The Podcast that Wasn’t: Capturing Amber Hieb’s Pivot to Alternate Delivery
As someone who is supporting a small army of faculty transitioning to alternate delivery, I’m a bit shy (mortified?) to share my own cringe worthy tech fail. But I will. In that selfless sort of way that leaves one thinking, “Well, at least I didn’t do that!” After recording an excellent (seriously, it was amazing)…
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Episode 4: Willing Partners: VIU’s Writing Centre and International Academic Support (IAS) on their commitment to student success
“…helping them to perform the best they can.” -John Hill, Coordinator Writing (and Thinking) Centre VIU’s Writing Centre and International Academic Support (IAS) provide essential and valued services to hundreds of VIU students every semester. In this podcast, I sit down with Sylvia Arnold and John Hill to discuss their experiences providing these supports. In…
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Pedagogy of the Poinsettia: Teaching and Learning in VIU’s Horticulture Program
In this third episode of the Share Drive, I talk to Jessica Gemella from VIU’s Horticulture Program. Jessica and I (along with Marilyn Funk and Sally Vinden) have been working on a curriculum enhancement project over the last two years, resulting in a number of changes to the Horticulture program. I talk with Jessica about…