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Last month I went clamming in the middle of a work day. I had been wanting do some Indigenous place-based learning as part of my PD and was…
This winter I taught a course called Introduction to Group Work Practice. The students were in action all semester designing, participating in, and facilitating groups. The end of…
I’ve written previously about the Policy Analysis Unessay assignment in my Social Welfare in Canada course and how it has morphed and changed over time. This year I…
This year I taught the course Introduction to Family Relationships for the first time. I introduced this assignment, which is one of the first assignments that the students…
This winter I taught SSW 122 Social Welfare in Canada using a Team-Based Learning format. There were four modules and each module included an in-class assignment. The topic…
As part of my spring professional development I read Linda B. Nilson’s book Creating Self-Regulated Learners. The use of the word “self-regulated” intrigued me. In Social Work we…
This past January I took a BC Campus FLO Microcourse with Jason Toal called “Please Share with the Class: Creating Online Gallery and Portfolio Spaces”. The course was…
I found reading this book to be like drifting down a big beautiful mountain river, not unlike the cover image. The vistas are huge! The hillsides are covered…
This winter I have spent a lot of time thinking, writing, and talking about GenAI in post-secondary education. As a faculty developer I designed and co-facilitated a workshop…
I have been reading and thinking about Learning Outcomes, Alignment and Backward Design as I work away on a module for an upcoming course for instructors offered by…