Universal Design for Learning- Studio G Architects Celebrates Completion of Florence Roche Elementary School - Boston Real Estate Times January 9, 2025
- Explore how to apply Universal Design for Learning in the classroom - UM Today January 6, 2025
- Explore how to apply Universal Design for Learning in the classroom - UM Today January 6, 2025
- December 13, 2024 - www.alfred.edu December 13, 2024
- The Centre for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning January Workshops - UM Today December 10, 2024
- (PDF) Text-to-Speech Software and Reading Comprehension: The Impact for Students with Learning Disabilities - ResearchGate December 9, 2024
- ASU Accessibility Awareness Day advocates for a more inclusive digital future - Arizona State University November 15, 2024
- Multi-Tiered System of Supports - CA.gov November 13, 2024
- Education and AI
- Education Min. declares 2025 as year of AI revolution in Israel - The Jerusalem Post January 12, 2025
- Integrating Artificial Intelligence Tools into Education and the Workforce - PA Times January 10, 2025
- BT Connect To Discuss Artificial Intelligence In Education - Patch January 10, 2025
- Artificial Intelligence in education: California’s approach and community perspectives - West Side Index & Gustine Press-Standard January 10, 2025
- SUNY board approves civic discourse, artificial intelligence requirements - Newsday January 9, 2025
- International Day of Education 2025 global event in Paris - Artificial Intelligence and education: Preserving human agency in a world of automation - UNESCO January 9, 2025
- The effect of growing artificial intelligence usage on education - The Gateway Online January 8, 2025
- Leveraging Artificial Intelligence in Medical Education for Improved Patient Care - Medical News Bulletin January 8, 2025
- Social Media Policy
- Arkansas basketball loses to No. 8 Florida, disappointing fans and media - Razorbackers January 12, 2025
- X Rolls Out In-Stream Labels for Parody and Fan Accounts - Social Media Today January 12, 2025
- Asbury Park Police Debunk Serial Killer Rumors Circulating on Social Media - TAPinto.net January 12, 2025
- Social Media Giants Lose Bid to Dismiss Youth Mental Health Lawsuit - USA Herald January 12, 2025
- Donald Trump’s Inclusion Forces Olivia Dunne to Abandon Latest Social Media Post Midway - EssentiallySports January 12, 2025
- Suspect sends nude photos to minor through social media: Brunswick Police Blotter - cleveland.com January 12, 2025
- ‘Five guys?’ – Barcelona take aim at Real Madrid on social media during Super Cup final - Yahoo Canada Sports January 12, 2025
- ‘Teen Mom 2’ Star Vee Torres Says She Doesn’t Want to Exploit Her Daughter & Family on Social Media - The Ashley's Reality Roundup January 12, 2025
- Kwantlen
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - KPU streamlines program completion by translating prior learning, experience into credits - Education News Canada January 9, 2025
- KDocsFF goes on hiatus after founder and festival director suffers hip fracture - Pancouver December 21, 2024
- Local business partnering with KPU to do several research projects in Cloverdale - Surrey Now Leader December 13, 2024
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - KPU alum's book on Taylor Swift's fashion becomes New York Times bestseller - Education News Canada December 3, 2024
- Artist Mayuresh Ambekar hopes his new mural will motivate students to explore their potential at Kwantlen Polytechnic University - Pancouver November 27, 2024
- B.C. university pilots competency-based admissions program - University Affairs November 25, 2024
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University - Anthropology student researches human-bear conflicts in northern B.C. - Education News Canada November 19, 2024
- KWANTLEN POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY Researchers explore memory failure across the lifespan - Education News Canada November 13, 2024
Author Archives: Robert Basil
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.)
The Art of Scolding, cont’d.
“We have somehow not successfully received your professional-development documentation,” a Dean’s Office colleague wrote me in an email early in my career at Kwantlen. The sentence both charmed and alarmed me, especially the phrase somehow not successfully received, which seemed … Continue reading
The Art of Scolding
In 1987 I promoted a story about “Secular Organizations for Sobriety” [SOS] that appeared in the Buffalo News. SOS was one of those secular humanist initiatives promulgated by Paul Kurtz’s publishing enterprises out of Buffalo, in this case “Free Inquiry,” … Continue reading
Vancouver Schools and Social Media
The RSS feed on the right-hand side of our homepage has been aggregating lots of news stories and opinion pieces on the Vancouver Board of Education’s effort to create a policy codifying the appropriate use of social media by its … Continue reading
Academic Blogging
My new favourite blog is by a Ukrainian-born scholar of Hispanic Literature named “Clarissa” – she doesn’t reveal her surname or some other would-be identifying information, like her university’s name – whose work I first encountered on Jonathan Mayhew’s Stupid … Continue reading