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Faculty of Education Animal Rescue Book Sale Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Faculty of Education Animal Rescue Book Sale Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Neville Scarfe Foyer, UBC
2125 Main Mall
11:00 am – 4:00 pm
Every year the Faculty of Education holds a one day book sale to raise
proceeds for animal rescue charities in the Lower Mainland, by selling
donated books at very reasonable prices to students, staff and faculty.
Everybody benefits-especially the animals, who are the most important
recipients of our good will.
All proceeds go to volunteer animal rescue charities in the Lower
Mainland that operate no-kill shelters.
In 2013, over $1,000 was raised and distributed among 6 animal rescue
shelters. In the 14 years that the Faculty has held the book sale, over
$7,500 has been raised to help the animals.
To see which charities benefited from the 2013 Education Book Sale,
please visit:
blogs.ubc.ca/teachereducation/2013/02/05/book-sale-proceeds. For more
information, and to drop off donations, please see Maureen Shepherd in
the Teacher Education Office. Gently used books, cds, dvds, and
magazines are welcomed
Surrey and Maple Ridge schools moving away from letter grades
“Letter grades will become a thing of the past for many more B.C. students as schools throughout the province are looking at various changes for report cards.
Surrey and Maple Ridge are leading the way, with other districts watching closely and the provincial education plan calling for changes that include new tools for reporting and “richer” information for parents.”
Connect, Copyright & Course Reserves: All-Day Drop-In
Are you struggling with a particular feature(s) of Connect, want a quick recap or just need to discuss the structure of your course materials? Do you have questions about copyright or need help creating your course reserves lists? If yes, come to the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology’s all day drop-in – talk to the specialists and get one-on-one assistance with your Connect course! This drop-in session will be held:
Jan 9, 2014
9:00am – 4:00pm
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre – Seminar Room 2.22A/B
We are also offering virtual ONLINE support on January 9, 2013 between from 9-4pm. Please see this link below for more details:
Registration is not necessary for this event.
All-girls schools may be more orderly, but they’re no place for a tomboy, Canadian study finds
All-girls schools may be more orderly, but they are also bastions of strict conformity in which non-feminine behaviour is ruthlessly stamped out, according to a Concordia University study that may have implications in the ongoing push for single-sex education in Canadian schools.
Read the National Post article here: http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/12/11/all-girls-schools-may-be-more-orderly-but-theyre-no-place-for-a-tomboy-canadian-study-finds/
Classroom crowdsourcing: teachers log on to raise funds for school supplies
“As education budgets grow tighter, teachers across the country are turning to a new crowdsourcing website to purchase school supplies for their students.
The website — myclassneeds.ca — was launched just a few months ago, and has since raised thousands of dollars to pay for more than 200 projects in publicly-funded classrooms.
After submitting a proposal to the website, one Toronto teacher was able to raise more than $1,600 to buy five video cameras for her communications technology class.”