As a way of exchanging ideas about programs and courses delivered through our centres, I'd like to invite you to post information about what your teaching/learning centre is doing in the fall.
As in the Welcome and Introductions section, where you can describe your centre and give contact information, I suggest that you use the name of your centre in the Subject Line when you reply to this message.
We're doing many, many innovative things -- let's share!
We are pleased to send this monthly digest to members of the UCIPD Special Interest Group hosted on the SCoPE online community site: http://scope.lidc.sfu.ca/course/view.php?id=22
The International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning is hosting its annual conference in Washington, DC, November 9 – 12, 2006: http://www.indiana.edu/~issotl06/index.html
Nancy Randall has sent out a call for articles to be published in the newsletter that will be published in October and featured at the conference. Nancy is Vice-President (Canada) of ISSOTL. She is particularly looking for stories that feature SOTL initiatives in Canadian institutions. Send your news items asap to: randall@mala.bc.ca
UCIPD Fall Meeting at Douglas College, Monday, Nov. 27 .
Planning is well underway for our fall get-together. The spring gathering at Malaspina University College brought us together for some great sessions in Nanaimo, where Nancy Randall and her team had organized fine weather, fine views and fine food. The day at Douglas promises to be just as enjoyable with a mixture of presentations and time to network. Check the SCoPE site for details and watch for more announcements:
The call has been sent out for presenters for the 2007 Educational Developers Caucus (EDC) of the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE). The conference will take place February 22 – 23, 2006, and is being hosted by the University of Guelph and the University of Waterloo. The theme is Engagement and Educational Development. For further information, contact the EDC Vice-Chair (Professional Development), Alice Cassidy at the UBC: alice.cassidy@ubc.ca
Tales from the Trenches, November 3, 2006
BC’s Educational Technology Users Group (ETUG) is a network of educators in BC with a particular interest in teaching and learning with technology. The organizers of their fall meeting are looking for presenters to explain the lessons they have learned. If you have survival tips or stories to tell about experiences with ed tech, this is your opportunity to share them with colleagues. Contact Leva Lee, ETUG Coordinator at leva.lee@bccampus.ca 604.517.6363 or Bryan Fair, ETUG Fall 2006 Workshop Planning Team at bryan_fair@bcit.ca/604.451.7109/1.800.351.5533.
Add Your Institution’s Profile to the UCIPD Site:
The new UCIPD site has only been up and running a few weeks, but a number of the UCIPD members have already posted information about their centres. Thanks to Penny Heaslip for starting us off with an update from Thompson Rivers University. Following her lead are Val Peachey of the Justice Institute, Chris Groeneboer at Simon Fraser University, Jan Johnson with UBC, and Alice MacPherson at Kwantlen University College. Don’t be left out! Introduce yourself and your institution’s commitment to teaching and learning by posting a message to: http://scope.lidc.sfu.ca/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=250 . Please use the Subject line to name your centre and institution.
If you need further information about the UCIPD community site, or have questions about how to use it, please contact Liz Wallace: ewallace@sfu.ca
This message is coming to you because you are a member of UCIPD and are registered in our online community.
On Sept. 13th., Nancy Randall sent out the message below to the UCIPD list. We are posting it here in our SCoPE Special Interest Group (SIG) so the information is easily available without your having to hunt through you Inbox. The planning team is hard at work. If you have questions or suggestions, please reply to this message by clicking on the bottom link. You will be redirected to SCoPE and prompted for you ID and Password, then you can post your message to the group.
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Greetings all!
Greetings!
I'm pleased to send you the first SCoPE message of the fall, inviting you to meet other UCIPD members online, and exchange ideas and information. The UCIPD meetings offer us all an opportunity to spend time with kindred spirits, and this forum provides an ideal way to keep in contact in between gatherings. We represent Teaching and Learning centres from all over British Columbia and although geography often prevents us from meeting face to face, we can connect here at any time.
You are invited to respond to this message and introduce yourself and your work. Click on Reply at the bottom of this message, or use on of the other links to go to the ScoPE site. When you reply, your message will appear in SCoPE as well as in the Inbox of all members. (You can click on your own name in SCoPE to change your preferences to Digest, if you prefer to get all messages at one time .) I suggest you re-name the subject line in your reply, to identify your centre and location, so that we can return and find you in the discussion thread later on.
Please tell us a little about your institution, your centre, the staff, yourself and, of course, whether or not you like cats
Looking forward to hearing from you.
When I asked the question: "What do you think of when "Lurking" is mentioned?", Susanne and Paul both jumped in with their reactions, which included references to Legitimate Peripheral Participation.
Let's get Sylvia to call Etienne Wenger, because he popularized that term when he co-authored the book with that title in 1991.
Here's my thought on that...isn't it a contradiction in terms to use "legitimate" and "peripheral" in one phrase? If we're calling a someone who is partipating from the fringes legitimate, why is that person still on the periphery? Doesn't the very act of participation make the person a central contributor to the community, not a marginal player?
I'm thinking about what name I would give to someone who we are willing to accept as authentic, even though the person is not active in a community. Thinking...thinking...