Universal Design for Learning- The TLC program: enhancing teaching and empowering educators - UM Today News May 6, 2025
- TILT Summer Conference to focus on engaging students through Universal Design for Learning - Colorado State University April 29, 2025
- CoSN 2025: Universal Design for Learning Applies to Tech, Too - GovTech April 21, 2025
- Announcing the 2025 Garnet Apple Award for Teaching Innovation Winners - University of South Carolina April 15, 2025
- (PDF) Universal Design for Learning for Children with ADHD - ResearchGate April 15, 2025
- New from ACRL - “Instructional Design for Teaching Information Literacy Online: A Student-Centered Approach” - American Library Association April 15, 2025
- Use AI and the metaverse to keep your students engaged online - Times Higher Education April 7, 2025
- 2025 AMS OER and UDL Champions - UBC Faculty of Forestry April 3, 2025
- Education and AI
- AI Isn’t the Answer To Our Education Crisis — It’s a Distraction - Crunchbase News May 2, 2025
- AI makes a fraudulent mark in education - Washington Examiner May 2, 2025
- (PDF) Roles and Research Trends of Artificial Intelligence in Mathematics Education: A Bibliometric Mapping Analysis and Systematic Review - ResearchGate April 30, 2025
- Executive Order Issued Calling for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Education for American Youth - Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo April 28, 2025
- Trump admin. seeks to improve American education through Artificial Intelligence - Christian Post April 25, 2025
- Advancing Artificial Intelligence Education for American Youth (Trump EO Tracker) - JD Supra April 25, 2025
- US Department of Labor applauds President Trump’s executive order advancing artificial intelligence education for young Americans - U.S. Department of Labor (.gov) April 24, 2025
- Trump Executive Order Calls for Artificial Intelligence to Be Taught in Schools - EdSurge April 24, 2025
- Social Media Policy
- Ashe County Sheriff’s Office takes down website, social media after deadly arrest video made public - WBTV May 7, 2025
- George Karl admits he’s not behind his viral social media posts - Awful Announcing May 7, 2025
- Students tried to light 6 laptops on fire as part of social media trend, school district says - 9News May 7, 2025
- Social Media Organizers - Trend Hunter May 7, 2025
- X Experiments With Up and Downvotes on Posts - Social Media Today May 7, 2025
- Idaho Falls schools issue warning over destructive/dangerous social media trend - Local News 8 May 7, 2025
- Harrisonburg animal cruelty suspect arrested after social media post - dnronline.com May 7, 2025
- TikTok Looks to Help Connect Users with Skills-Based Career Opportunities - Social Media Today May 7, 2025
- Kwantlen
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - From B.C. to Britain: KPU fashion grads gain direct access to UK degree - Education News Canada May 7, 2025
- Yale scholars’ move to Canada can prompt us to reflect on the rule of law - The Conversation May 4, 2025
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - KPU opens doors to 'plant some seeds' and inspire Indigenous youth - Education News Canada May 2, 2025
- VIDEO: KPU annual garden sale extended - Langley Advance Times May 1, 2025
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - KPU researchers develop test to help protect salmon against disease - Education News Canada May 1, 2025
- KWANTLEN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY KPU festival celebrates South Asian arts and culture - Education News Canada April 24, 2025
- B.C. post-secondary institutions deal with loss of revenue amid cuts to international student permits - Yahoo News Canada April 17, 2025
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - KPU launches new exchange program to welcome students from Tunisia - Education News Canada April 16, 2025
Author Archives: Robert Basil
Mediation and Mindfulness
We chose to name this initiative No Contest Communications to highlight our vision of the collaborative workplace, where feedback is gratefully welcomed and usefully shared. Communication and imagination shouldn’t be contests. Conflict is inevitable, though, of course. When people within … Continue reading
Dogma versus Rules of Thumb
Language Log is an always stimulating group blog on language and linguistics, with posts that range from earworms and usage advice to research tools and sociolinguistics. The comments sections are as illuminating as the posts themselves. A recent post called … Continue reading
Revision : Heterovision
I tell students and clients they shouldn’t take feedback on their work as personal critiques. “You are not the words on the paper on which your reports are printed.” This seems like a straight-forward point, but even seasoned editors tend to forget … Continue reading
“The Canadian Style”
Public Works and Government Services Canada (PWGSC) is the nation’s official publisher and our largest translation organization. It also publishes a wonderful online style guide and a collection of writing and editing tools that will handily assist students and teachers, authors … Continue reading
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Making your own career rules
Radhika Nagpal, a computer science professor at Harvard, has written a wonderful piece called “The Awesomest 7 Year Post-Doc or: How I Stopped Worrying and Love the Tenure Track Faculty Life.” It’s about maintaining good emotional hygiene in the academic environment. … Continue reading
A couple of final notes on mentoring
My posts below summarize and respond to the superb presentation given by Erin Dick at the International Association of Business Communicators World Conference in Manhattan last month. To be honest, I had intended on *missing* this presentation, believing there was little for me … Continue reading
Mentorship without Friendship
The relationship between a mentor and a mentee need not be a friendly one. During the discussion portion of Erin Dick’s IABC presentation on mentorship, I stood up and briefly described my own experience being mentored, as a writer and … Continue reading
5 Myths about Mentorship
In her IABC presentation Erin Dyck described four myths regarding mentorship: Mentorship is top-down. One’s placement in an organizational hierarchy does not, in fact, determine the kind of wisdom and experience one can give another colleague. Mentors should be from … Continue reading
Notes on Mentorship, I
Erin Dick gave a superb talk, and then led an illuminating discussion, on the topic of “mentorship” today, the last day of the IABC’s world conference. Inspired by the speaker and my discussion attendees, I will be posting on this topic … Continue reading
International Association of Business Communicators: World Conference 2013
The IABC’s 2013 world conference has been quite a success so far. The presentations have been amply tweeted at the hashtag #IABCWC13. (My tweets about this event and other things can be found at @thebasil.)