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Distance and Blended Learning Showcase

The Distance and Blended Learning Showcase will be an opportunity for the UBC teaching and learning community to share and discuss ideas, experiences, challenges and best practices for Exceptional Learning Environments.

Go Global ISL Student Presentation: Community Development through Children’s Rights and Advocacy Programs and Services

Join us in celebrating the learning and achievements of Go Global’s returned International Service Learning students. These students participated in placements in Swaziland in Summer, 2010, while learning about issues relating to children’s rights and advocacy programs and services. During their placements they worked with the community-based organization SOS Children’s Villages. This presentation will be facilitated by students who will provide information about their experiences and what they learned from their participation in International Service Learning.

Go Global ISL Student Presentation: Sanitation Engineering and Clean Water Project in Lesotho

Join us in celebrating the learning and achievements of Go Global’s returned International Service Learning students. These students participated in a sanitation engineering and clean water project in Lesotho during the summer of 2010 working alongside the community based organization, Mohoma Temeng and students from the National University of Lesotho. This presentation will be facilitated by the 5 UBC students, who will be providing information about their experiences and what they learned from their participation in International Service Learning.

Writing for Graduate Students

Writing at the Master’s or PhD level presents distinct challenges. This course helps you cope with the specific requirements of graduate-level articles, reports and theses. Topics include problem areas in style and grammar, the development and organization of ideas, writing abstracts and literature reviews, and incorporating sources and quotations. The course also provides opportunities for questions, discussion and exercises.

Writing with Style

Once you have mastered the mechanics of grammar, Writing with Style can help you polish your work even further. This course focuses on stylistic concerns in order to help you use the rules of grammar to your advantage. Writing with Style helps you take your ideas from diagnosis to analysis to revision. Topics include balance and symmetry, clarity in complexity, and nuances of sentence length and rhythm. Through classroom discussions and written exercises, you learn how to apply the rules you already know and produce text which is not only correct but also coherent, emphatic and elegant.

Living at Your Own Frontier

Open your eyes to the wealth of possibilities that exist at the frontiers of your life. The edge you contemplate will be uniquely yours. You may seek:

– a major shift in work/personal balance
– deeper meaning within daily life
– courage to face a blank page or a new project
– reconnection to a dream left unaddressed too long

Wherever your frontier, the challenge remains the same – step forward or stay safe. Rediscover your pioneer spirit in a workshop that unites practicality, self-reflection and play. Generate greater energy and focus. Enrich the connection with others (and yourself), and reclaim your power to choose what’s next.

History and Prophecy in Vietnam and the Gulf

This one-day course looks at two books that give crucial historical perspective to America’s involvement in the Vietnam War and the Gulf War: Dispatches (1977) and Jarhead: A Marine’s Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles (2003). These accounts, based on the personal experience of a combat reporter and a marine sniper, respectively, are also rich with premonitions about how the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have unfolded. Canada’s war in Afghanistan is also part of our discussion. Note: Please read Michael Herr, Dispatches (1977) and Anthony Swofford, Jarhead: A Marine’s Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles (2003) in advance of the course.

.NET For Web Developers Quick Start

Have you heard about Microsoft .NET and wondered what you are missing? This course provides an overview of the .NET framework and shows you where this pervasive technology fits within the context of the Internet. Working with Visual Studio.NET and Visual Basic.NET, learn how to create ASP.NET web forms and code-behind pages, progressing to a brief introduction to database access using ADO.NET and XML web services.

Applied Learning through Service

Come learn about an exciting community service learning (CSL) initiative that is helping to change the way UBC Mechanical Engineering students view the practice of engineering. By integrating multi-year CSL activities throughout their studies, students will work directly with community partners in structured opportunities intentionally designed to promote student learning and development while addressing real community goals and priorities. Delivered in concise, engaging segments, each presenter will speak about his/her unique perspective on the Mechanical Engineering CSL pilot, and how this innovative multi-year model could change the face of the engineering profession. The session will close with a group discussion, and be followed by a short reception. Refreshments will be served.

Faculty members, students, staff, and community organizations who are interesting in exploring models for applied learning through service will find great value in attending this event.

UBC Outdoor Classroom Charrette

The event will be a visioning design charrette with the goal of designing an outdoor classroom behind the McMillan building that can be used by different departments and faculties to teach environmental education. We welcome the UBC community to take part in creating this learning landscape.