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GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award
What is the GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award?
The GSS and cIRcle have been partnering to provide the GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award to UBC Vancouver graduate students since 2012. It is a lottery based award, and is awarded to four students every year: two at the end of the summer semester, and two at the end of the fall semester. Each award is worth $500. The deadline to participate in the upcoming draw is September 24th, 2015.
To be entered into the draw, students must deposit their exemplary non-thesis course work to the GSS cIRcle Open Scholar Award collection in cIRcle.
Am I eligible?
All UBC Vancouver graduate students, of all disciplines, are invited to participate in the collection and enter the draw for the award. All you need is your course instructor’s approval to submit your course work to the collection.
What can I deposit?
Any non-thesis course work is welcome. This includes, but is not limited to:
- Essays/papers
- Presentations (including posters)
- Video or Audio based projects
- Graduating projects or papers
- Authorized versions of published articles based on course-related research
The work should be considered exemplary, and your course instructor will need to approve the submission.
Why should I participate?
Winning the award aside, there are lots of benefits to archiving your graduate course work in cIRcle.
Firstly, it provides you with a permanent and professional copy of the work that you can share as part of your academic and professional portfolio. This helps you establish and grow your academic and professional profile.
Secondly, cIRcle is the number 1 digital repository in Canada. All of its content is Open Access and heavily indexed by search engines, including Google Scholar. Adding your content to the collection makes your work accessible to scholars around the world and helps disseminate your work. Items in the GSS cIRcle Award Collection are accessed hundreds, if not thousands of times. The most popular item in the collection is approaching 10,000 views.
How do I submit?
For more information about the GSS cIRcle Open Scholar award and how to add your work to the collection, please click here.
“The Tricycle Solution: Teachable Moments for Parents & Preschoolers” film now available through Kanopy
The Tricycle Solution now available through Kanopy.
The normal events and emotions of a preschooler’s day — playing, creating, discovering, crying, fighting, and resolving disagreements — are seen in intimate detail, as the teacher, Effie Kuriloff, elucidates her provocative approach in The Tricycle Solution: Teachable Moments for Parents & Preschoolers, about the preschooler’s world and the daily experience of a cooperative preschool where parents are as much students as their children.
Educated with a Master’s in Early Childhood Education at Bank Street College of Education and a B.S. in Sociology from Rutgers University, Kuriloff’s almost 40-year tenure at Rocky Mountain School and her associated work as a professor at City College of San Francisco helped her develop a new approach to working with preschool-age children, focusing as much on parents as children. The Tricycle Solution is the only film documentation of Kuriloff’s work completed with her full involvement.
TeachBC: a new website and online database for sharing teaching resources
The British Columbia Teachers’ Federation (BCTF) is excited to announce TeachBC, their new website and online database to share teaching resources. It is now available online at teachbc.bctf.ca.
TeachBC is an online resource of teaching materials, lessons, and research relevant to the K‒12 BC curriculum. Through the generosity of BC public school teachers, the website is public and open to everyone. Teachers and organizations can share their teaching resources or educational research by registering and uploading their materials or providing links. Anyone can browse and download the resources for classroom or professional use. Browsing is easy: users can search by subject, grade level, resource type, title, description, language, and more.
TeachBC uses a Creative Commons license; this means the materials are not copyrighted in the traditional sense. They will be freely available to use in classrooms, but not for profit. The database will be open to searching and downloading of resources, and will be a source of high-quality BC-based research.
Teachers and prospective teachers are encouraged to help us build this resource by uploading your teaching materials, lessons, and research. It is an easy process:
- Go to “Share your resources”
- Register with your name and email
- Start sharing!
This will grow to be a valuable resource for BC teachers, built by BC teachers. Please share this news with your colleagues and encourage them to share their teaching resources.