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Making good teachers great

May 19, 2021 - The Ring

UVic economics student Samuel Seshadri has some ideas about what makes an outstanding teacher鈥攁nd some things that can help good teachers become great. His plan to address this challenge, along with past work in peer mentoring, has helped him become one of 10 3M National Student Fellows for 2021. He鈥檚 the sixth UVic student in three years to receive this award, which focus on student leadership in improving postsecondary education.

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Role-playing brings history lessons into 21st century

November 4, 2020 - The Ring

Using a combination of web platforms and technologies like Slack, Zoom and Brightspace to organize and communicate, students in Rachel Hope Cleves' "History to 1750 through Role Play" course use historically-based characters and original source materials to help inform vital鈥攂ut virtual鈥攄ecisions like whether or not to quarantine from the plague.

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Young adult lit course is also a community

June 24, 2020 - The Ring

During the rapid shift away from face-to-face course delivery in March, Janni Aragon knew she wanted to get a jump on circumstance. So she took immediate steps to ensure her students would have the same kind of dynamic, community-oriented learning experience they have come to expect from UVic, using a mesh of technologies she also studies. That effort put Aragon, and students in her course in young adult literature, politics and culture, more than a small step ahead. Her course doesn鈥檛 begin until July.

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