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“Editing the Necronomicon” inspired by H. P. Lovecraft. Nice work Dani! Some photos of our Halloween team-building activity:
This week several editors attended an Editors Canada webinar: “Language Theory: What You’re Really Editing Is the Person” presented by Michael (Mike) Jones at the University of Calgary. He questioned if editors can be “advocates for the reader” (in the words of EAC President Anne Louise Mahoney), and together we examined the relationship between writer…
To paraphrase Gail’s retirement speech: “Work will come and work will go; what matters in the end is to love each other and treat each other right.“
TRUFA hosted a book launch for Whose Land Is It Anyway? A Manual for Decolonization on the Kamloops campus yesterday. If you missed it, like I did, the book is available online (epub, pdf): Whose Land Is It Anyway? A Manual for Decolonization (links to Federation of Post-Secondary Educators). Looks like a great book with writers…
A few years ago Mona Hall, Danielle Collins, and I collaborated on an infographic about inter-culturalization of the curriculum. Our central question was: How will we create learner-centred courses for culturally and linguistically diverse readers? We found that the university has some excellent guiding policies and resources for educators, but it did take some effort to…
Editing Team Meeting Date | time 9/25/2019 11:00 AM| Location OL344 Meeting Notes: Attendees: Dani, Mona, Justin, Cory Regrets: Chris; Courtney Note taker: Mona Editor’s website: Log-in; Review current content; Collaborate; Determine common objectives. Free online micro-course to master the basics of OER and Creative Commons: Open Education, Copyright and Open Licensing in a Digital…