Voices from JIBC

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Voices | Dawn Ursuliak

Dawn Ursuliak Program Manager, Research Operations What is a barrier to learning that you have experienced or are aware of that you’d like to see eliminated? What is something you’ve done in your work (as an instructor, course developer, administrator, etc.) to improve accessibility in your

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Faculty Corner | Sherri Calder

Sherri Calder Faculty, Law Enforcement Studies Diploma We asked a few faculty around campus who are teaching this September: What’s new this September?  Our amazing faculty member, Sherri Calder, had this to say… “I am happy to be back on campus to teach CRES 1853 &

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Voices from JIBC | Florence Daddey

Florence Daddey Florence has long been a champion of Open Education pedagogy and principles and was instrumental in securing our Open Education Sustainability Grant from BCcampus in 2019. Her research was one of the first efforts supported by the grant initiative. Florence used her research to

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Voices | Daniel Bromley

Daniel Bromley ADULT PROBATION OFFICER INSTRUCTOR  We asked a few faculty around campus about their barrier to learning and what they do to improve accessibility. Our amazing faculty member, Dan, had this to say… What is a barrier to learning that you have experienced and

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Voices from JIBC | Junsong Zhang

Junsong Zhang Junsong Zhang is an Instructional Designer and Program Manager for Simulations at CTLI. Five Practices for Rapid Course Design and Development Posted on May 20, 2020 From Junsong’s personal blog: Start with Backward Course Design Approach If you start your course design with content

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Voices | Matt Harty

Matt Harty LAW ENFORCEMENT STUDIES INSTRUCTOR  We asked a few faculty around campus about their barrier to learning and what they do to improve accessibility. Our amazing faculty member, Matt, had this to say… What is a barrier to learning that you have experienced and

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Voices from JIBC | Krista & Melanie

Krista Lambert & Melanie Meyers Krista Lambert is an Instructional Designer in the Centre for Teaching, Learning & Innovation. Melanie Meyers is the Program Director in the Centre for Teaching, Learning & Innovation. A look at what’s in our future – Reflections from the ETUG

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Voices from JIBC | Amy Severson

Amy Severson Amy is an instructional designer for the Emergency Management Division. Anatomy of a Lesson Plan This post is modified from a presentation by Amy Severson. What is a lesson plan? Like a walking tour, a lesson plan provides a guideline with key points

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Voices | Abeed Bhimji

Abeed Bhimji Adult Probation Instructor, Corrections Academy What is a barrier to learning that you have experienced or are aware of that you’d like to see eliminated? What is something you’ve done in your work (as an instructor, course developer, administrator, etc.) to improve accessibility

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Voices | Bobbi Mand

Bobbi Mand ETHICS & ENGLISH INSTRUCTOR  We asked a few faculty around campus about their barrier to learning and what they do to improve accessibility. Our amazing faculty member, Bobbi Mand, had this to say… What is a barrier to learning that you have experienced

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Voices from JIBC | Jen McEachen

Jen McEachen Jen McEachen is a part-time student in the Bachelor’s Degree of Emergency/Security Management program. She is severely vision-impaired and hard-of-hearing. This video is a brief demonstration of JAWS for Windows, a screen-reading software for blind and visually-impaired computer users. Jen uses both audio

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Faculty Corner | Dr. Joe Naylor

Dr. Joe Naylor​ We asked a few faculty around campus who are teaching this September: What’s new this September?  Faculty member Dr. Joe Naylor broke it down like this… Simply Showing Up  What’s new? Here’s something I came up with last week for the first day

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