{"id":539,"date":"2020-09-04T16:46:04","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T23:46:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arts\/?p=539"},"modified":"2021-07-27T18:20:04","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T01:20:04","slug":"migrations-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arts\/2020\/09\/04\/migrations-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"The Migrations Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;Every evening at dusk, movement in the skies above may catch your eye if you happen to be in Vancouver. When the birds are close enough, an audible series of caws soon follows, as well as those quiet clicks crows share with one another. Traveling en masse, the crows are returning to Burnaby to roost for the night after a day spent foraging near the water. Ecologist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/2019\/04\/26\/crows-vancouver-middle-way-biophobia-biophilia\/\">Christine Thuring<\/a> notes that \u201ccrows from all sections of the coast trickle in, like tributaries in a watershed of families and groups all destined for the large consolidated roost at Still Creek.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This past Wednesday, Arts held its first ever online AGM with over 100 participants connecting through Microsoft Teams. Faculty and staff gathered from near and far\u00a0&#8211; from across the lower mainland, the sunshine coast, the\u00a0gulf islands, Edmonton, Toronto. In many ways, it felt as though we were those many tributaries of flight, coming together to reflect on all that has transpired in the past five months and to look forward to this academic year as we undertake this next migration back into the online classroom. As September begins, we are so grateful for the confluence of energy, determination, and generosity that is Arts.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1209\" height=\"595\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arts\/files\/2020\/09\/Flying-en-masse-1209x595.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arts\/files\/2020\/09\/Flying-en-masse-1209x595.jpg 1209w, https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arts\/files\/2020\/09\/Flying-en-masse-385x190.jpg 385w, https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arts\/files\/2020\/09\/Flying-en-masse-768x378.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arts\/files\/2020\/09\/Flying-en-masse-1536x756.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arts\/files\/2020\/09\/Flying-en-masse-2048x1009.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arts\/files\/2020\/09\/Flying-en-masse-552x272.jpg 552w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1209px) 100vw, 1209px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Student Feedback Lifts You to New Heights:<\/strong>&nbsp;&nbsp;For faculty who taught over the summer, you can now&nbsp;receive&nbsp;some ready feedback on the way your design and delivery strategies worked out for your students.&nbsp;Summer course feedback survey results are now available.&nbsp;This might be important information to consult as we move into the fall.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Tips from Faculty as You Migrate<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;Online<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;for Fall<\/strong><strong>:&nbsp;<\/strong>In August, we invited faculty to send us tips or sure-fire strategies for teaching online.&nbsp;&nbsp;Before classes begin next week,&nbsp;we\u2019d like to share&nbsp;several&nbsp;suggestions submitted by&nbsp;Val\u00e9rie&nbsp;Vezina, from the Political Science Department.&nbsp;&nbsp;Val\u00e9rie&nbsp;just completed her first full semester of online teaching this summer.&nbsp; Thank you,&nbsp;Val\u00e9rie, for these&nbsp;helpful insights!&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>K<\/strong><strong>eep it simple!<\/strong>&nbsp;Master one of the Moodle functions (ok maybe two),&nbsp;including the assignment function, and use it consistently. I have used&nbsp;so many functions (check lists,&nbsp;etc.),&nbsp;and the data collected on Moodle reveals that students&nbsp;don\u2019t click\/view them all.&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>B<\/strong><strong>e clear<\/strong>&nbsp;about&nbsp;expectations and timelines.&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>B<\/strong><strong>e flexible<\/strong>&nbsp;about extensions, about the fact that not all students&nbsp;can always be connected, etc.&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>O<\/strong><strong>ver<\/strong><strong>&#8211;<\/strong><strong>communicate<\/strong>&nbsp;through emails, on the Moodle page, in forum discussions (if that is a Moodle function you use). Reach out to students after a week or so,&nbsp;or after the first assignment, especially to those who have not submitted it.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>B<\/strong><strong>e kind:<\/strong>&nbsp;This is not normal;&nbsp;you have the right to not be ok, to cry, etc. Be kind to yourself,&nbsp;and&nbsp;you will be kind to others.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Sojourners and Truth:<\/strong>&nbsp;Lilach Marom, of Educational&nbsp;Studies, features prominently&nbsp;as an expert voice&nbsp;in this&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thetyee.ca\/News\/2020\/09\/02\/Winning-Right-To-Battle-Racism\/\"><em>Tyee<\/em>&nbsp;article<\/a>&nbsp;on the challenges faced by&nbsp;internationally trained&nbsp;teachers in the Teacher Updating Program at UBC.&nbsp;Plaudits to Lilach for these timely and important insights.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Gliding&nbsp;into Fall&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;Arts Speaker Series:<\/strong>&nbsp;The Arts Standing Committee on Research and Scholarship is&nbsp;excited to announce the&nbsp;final&nbsp;schedule for the 2020\/2021&nbsp;Speaker Series (please see the <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arts\/arts-speaker-series-2020-21\/\">attached PDF<\/a>&nbsp;for the complete line-up).&nbsp; This year\u2019s series will take place entirely online via Microsoft Teams and will include an encore presentation from President Alan Davis&nbsp;on&nbsp;the topic&nbsp;\u201cRemote Life\u201d in November.&nbsp;&nbsp;The first&nbsp;event&nbsp;is scheduled&nbsp;for&nbsp;Wednesday,&nbsp;September 16&nbsp;from 1-2 PM&nbsp;and will&nbsp;feature&nbsp;Dr. Asma Sayed&nbsp;(Dept. of English and Canada Research Chair in South Asian Literary and Cultural Studies)&nbsp;and KPU graduate Rahil Faruqi (Philosophy)&nbsp;sharing&nbsp;their collaboration&nbsp;on&nbsp;\u201cConfronting Racism: The Role of South Asian Radio in Canada.\u201d&nbsp;Please share the&nbsp;series\u2019 schedule with your students.&nbsp;More&nbsp;information&nbsp;and Teams links&nbsp;to&nbsp;the events will be arriving soon in your inboxes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>B<\/strong><strong>irds of a Feather<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>Friday<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><strong>Updates:&nbsp;<\/strong>When we first began the Arts Updates back in March, their purpose was to&nbsp;provide regular&nbsp;communication, sharing&nbsp;information with faculty and staff&nbsp;in the rapidly changing context of the pandemic.&nbsp;Another important aim has been&nbsp;to foster&nbsp;a sense of community&nbsp;and&nbsp;sustained&nbsp;connection&nbsp;despite everyone working remotely and not being able to gather on campus&nbsp;&#8212;&nbsp;or&nbsp;to cross paths with friends and colleagues in the courtyard or hallways.&nbsp;As we look forward to the next&nbsp;several&nbsp;months, we hope to continue to serve Arts by keeping everyone informed&nbsp;and connected&nbsp;even though we are all&nbsp;grounded&nbsp;at home.&nbsp;&nbsp;As&nbsp;always, we&nbsp;welcome your suggestions and feedback.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Be on the lookout for details regarding the first \u201cCoffee with Leadership\u201d this fall&nbsp;via Teams!<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Wishing you all a wonderful long weekend,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Diane, Wade, Greg, and Shelley<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"post-excerpt\">&nbsp;Every evening at dusk, movement in the skies above may catch your eye if you happen to be in Vancouver&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":290,"featured_media":540,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[54,127,123,223,224,222,225,8],"class_list":["post-539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weekly-updates","tag-agm","tag-arts-speaker-series","tag-asma-sayed","tag-course-feedback-surveys","tag-lilach-marom","tag-online-teaching-tips","tag-research-and-scholarship-committee","tag-valerie-vezina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/290"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1497,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539\/revisions\/1497"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.kpu.ca\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}