Posts from the ‘education’ category

Media Awareness Week: Nov 3-7

It’s media education week (MEW)!  So…what is it?   Media education is the process through which individuals become media literate – able to critically understand the…

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Why I love working with kids – why you should work with kids (plus a bit about Jedi mind tricks)

Sorry I’ve been vacant from the blog lately. Sort of an unholy convergence of teaching/marking, event planning, burst water main, event planning again, kids with flu,…

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Green Porno, with Isabella Rossellini

I, I, I…just watch it. You’re back? You saw the children show-esque characters of snails getting down and dirty? Good.  Do you feel uncomfortable as I…

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Get Learn’d Conference – a coming your way…

Mike says: “Lost or bored in lecture? Worried about midterms, finals, or both? Looking to gain an edge? Trying to juggle extracurricular, academic and social activities?…

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Visualizing Climate Change – Live Blogging UBC Climate Change Symposia

More from the Panel on Accelerating Solutions to Climate Change 11:40am – Dr. Stephen Sheppard talked about using visuals and community engagement to increase awareness of…

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UBC, NCAA, and the most viewed UBC centric YouTube video I could find.

As the Terry talks application deadline looms, I’ve been checking in on our promo video periodically to see how its stats are doing. Suffice to say,…

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Back to School! You’re not taking this class, but I bet every prof wishes they were teaching it.

(by Vince LiCata and reprinted from the SCQ) – – – MY NEW GRADUATE COURSE OFFERING Title: Introduction to My Research Area Course Instructor: Me T…

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words words words!

Travelling back home this summer, I made the marvelous discovery that a new novel has been published the 44 Scotland Street series! The name of the…

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THE GOD DELUSION (VIDEO)
RICHARD DAWKINS
APRIL 29th, 2008

“The God Delusion” (April 29th, 2008, UBC Chan Centre) Introduction by Dr. Patrick Keeling, Director, Centre for Microbial Diversity and Evolution. – – – – –…

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Astrology and the Vancouver School Board -or- Does anyone else find this weird?

The past week has been packed. At the end of this month, I will be heading out to sea for three weeks. Going to sea may…

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