Social Media Policy- Media Literacy Is Key to American Public Life and Civic Engagement - The Augusta Press October 25, 2021
- Twitter suspends Indiana Rep. Jim Banks' official account - Associated Press October 24, 2021
- The week in fake news: Unvaccinated FEMA workers and other popular but false tales on social media - The Seattle Times October 22, 2021
- 'Please Call Me' inventor wins new round in Vodacom case - SowetanLIVE October 22, 2021
- The top global media consumption trends of 2021 - The Drum October 22, 2021
- Andrew Yang on America's “very bizarre direction” — and why the two-party system needs to go - Salon October 22, 2021
- What We’re Watching: Sudanese protesters vs each other, NBA vs China, EU vs Poland - GZERO Media October 21, 2021
- COVID-19's impact on girls and women: live townhall on October 28 - GZERO Media October 20, 2021
- National | Keeping tabs on disinformation - CBA National October 20, 2021
- UK fines Facebook $69.4 million for failing to supply data - Associated Press October 20, 2021
- S. Media Vancouver
- Vancouver man takes awe-inspiring snap off BC coast - Vancouver Is Awesome October 26, 2021
- TikTok star pleads not guilty to double murder in San Diego - Vancouver Is Awesome October 26, 2021
- Facebook profits rise amid revelations from leaked documents - Vancouver Is Awesome October 26, 2021
- PHOTOS: Record-setting ‘bomb cyclone' slams B.C., Pacific Northwest - The Weather Network October 26, 2021
- Judge: No order barring union from discussing vaccine order - Vancouver Is Awesome October 26, 2021
- Vaughn Palmer: Security alert ordered for B.C. government offices - Vancouver Sun October 26, 2021
- Sudan's military takes power in coup, arrests prime minister - Vancouver Is Awesome October 26, 2021
- Google Pixel 6 Pro — a review from an iPhone user - Vancouver Sun October 25, 2021
- Making of Alec Baldwin movie is halted after fatal shooting - vancouverislandfreedaily.com October 25, 2021
- B.C. storm update: More ferries cancelled | Salvage crew’s access to smouldering ship hampered by storm | Thousands without power - Vancouver Sun October 25, 2021
- Kwantlen
- With Flamingo, the Tien Sher Group of Companies' continues its legacy of re-energizing the Whalley District - Vancouver Is Awesome October 25, 2021
- Changes to freedom-of-information legislation will weaken B.C.'s democratic infrastructure, says Privacy Commissioner - The Globe and Mail October 25, 2021
- ‘Receding before our eyes:’ Vancouver Island glaciers likely to be all gone by mid-century - Vancouver Sun October 25, 2021
- Vancouver Island's glaciers gone by mid-century - Bowen Island Undercurrent October 24, 2021
- 'Backward for government transparency': BCIT and BC journalism educators express dissapointment, concern over new potential FOI request procedures - Burnaby Now October 22, 2021
- 'We haven't settled on a fee,' says B.C. premier as backlash against charging for information grows - CTV News Vancouver October 22, 2021
- KPU to use $500000 fund to invest in student business case competition teams - The Runner October 21, 2021
- James Bond villain Safin is the latest in this harmful movie trope - NPR October 20, 2021
- Kwantlen Creative Captures shows promise as first KPU photography club - The Runner October 16, 2021
- KPU design graduate wins Outstanding Young Alumni award - The Runner October 15, 2021
- UBC
- Delic Announces Partnership with GT Research - Yahoo Finance October 26, 2021
- BC students and staff want more COIVD-19 measures at universities, testing of unvaccinated | CTV News - CTV News Vancouver October 26, 2021
- B.C. takes note as New Zealand moves to ban single-family zoning in cities - Vancouver Sun October 26, 2021
- 'Redefining Community': Indigenous rights advocate to speak at UBCO webinar – Vernon Morning Star - Vernon Morning Star October 25, 2021
- UFV soccer teams qualify for playoffs - Agassiz Harrison Observer October 25, 2021
- Local solutions for boosting COVID-19 vaccine uptake - UBC Faculty of Medicine October 25, 2021
- Interview: Author, UBC professor and chair, Alix Ohlin on the 2021 Vancouver Writers Festival - Ubyssey Online October 25, 2021
- UBC experts on the new federal cabinet - UBC News October 25, 2021
- UBC In The News - UBC News October 25, 2021
- Growing up around green space has positive effect on early childhood development, UBC study suggests - CBC.ca October 25, 2021
- Business Education
- New Oriental's Koolearn to Stop Off-Campus Training Business for Compulsory Education - Pandaily October 26, 2021
- How To Start An Online Classroom Business? [4 Easy Steps Home Lessons] - Inventiva October 26, 2021
- Provost urges FG to encourage COE students with bursary - Daily Sun October 26, 2021
- Why undergraduates in the UAE should learn about their family business - The National October 26, 2021
- Northern Lights celebrates leadership at awards gala - wingsmagazine.com October 26, 2021
- Nonprofit Leader Awarded Full MBA Scholarship To Chicago Booth - Poets&Quants October 26, 2021
- CIBT Education : Provides Business Updates on its Education Segment - marketscreener.com October 25, 2021
- Blue Origin says it will build an orbiting mixed-use business park in space - Alabama Public Radio October 25, 2021
- New election maps get preliminary approval by Fort Smith School Board - talkbusiness.net October 25, 2021
- Cincinnati Innovation District expansion to bring more jobs, money to region - WKRC TV Cincinnati October 25, 2021
Tag Archives: for educators
Pedagogy
Rigour seems to mean two different practices: The thoroughgoing-ness of the curriculum (here rigour is expected of the professor in terms preparation *and delivery*) and the exactingness of assessment (where the onus is on the student, at the mercy of … Continue reading
Get smart
To welcome humbling moments is part of good mental hygiene. There is, at any rate, no way around these experiences when you teach social and digital media to university students. On that note: Here is another amazing Overdrive Interactive graphic; … Continue reading
The Melville School of Business
My academic neighbourhood at Kwantlen Polytechnic University has a new name, after philanthropists George and Sylvia Melville gifted $8 million to the school. I am so pleased, particularly with the initiatives this gift will fund. George Melville, cofounder of Boston … Continue reading
The social media landscapes
My favourite class to teach, back in the day, was an advanced digital media class at Kwantlen Polytechnic University. No other class I’ve ever taught required such continual professional development, though, and it would take me many months of preparation … Continue reading
You got to dance with who brung you
A year or two ago a colleague who teaches business classes at my university suggested allowing students – whose term projects focused on opportunities in nations where English was not the predominant tongue – prepare their final reports/portfolios/presentations in Cantonese, … Continue reading
Scholar Strike Canada
Here’s the schedule of events to be broadcast live and then video-archived. And here are some very illuminating resources. My university’s president and my dean both support the scholar strike, as do my teaching colleagues, of course. Scholar Strike originated … Continue reading
Another form of school caution during the pandemic
This semester almost all of my university’s classes are online. Because of that, students can participate in Kwantlen courses – indeed, courses at any British Columbia university – from anywhere in the world. This distressing caution comes from The Tyee: Some … Continue reading
The School Year
The day after Labour Day is always a wonderful day. My students rescue the best in me.
Business Communications course ‘in a box’ – terrific resource
My colleagues at Kwantlen Polytechnic University have been really rising to the occasion during the pandemic, in all ways. I’m especially impressed, as an editor, by how prolific and intelligent their publishing ventures have been. Here’s another super-helpful one. My … Continue reading
“Business Writing for Everyone”
My summer 2020 first-year students will be getting their textbook for free – Business Writing for Everyone, put together by my colleague Arley Cruther’s. It’s a wonderful resource that will make my teaching better without a doubt. Arley’s “Adaptation Statement” … Continue reading