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| Yesterday |
Friday, November 12, 2004
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Editor: Chris Redmond credmond@uwaterloo.ca |
![[Asleep in his lap]](/images/2004/1111tempest.jpg)
Miranda
is played by Michelle Logan and Prospero
by Greg Carere in the drama department production of Shakespeare's
"The
Tempest", which hits the Theatre of the Arts stage next week.
There's a preview performance Tuesday for arts alumni and special
guests, and regular performances Wednesday to Saturday at 8 p.m.
Tickets: 888-4908.
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"This event is open to all faculty and staff interested in exploring the future of ePortfolios at Waterloo," it goes on. "The event will also bring researchers from the University of British Columbia, University of Edinburgh and The Carnegie Foundation to UW to share the collaborative research that UW is participating in. The goal of this one-day event is to provide an introduction to the different ePortfolio landscapes (learning, workplace/community, technology) and will be of benefit to anyone interested in learning more about this innovative approach."
More from the LT3 web site: "Waterloo's Competency Portfolio project is exploring how ePortfolios can assist students to make connections between their different learning experiences and the competencies (skills) that they develop with those experiences. Tracy Penny Light, Waterloo's leading ePortfolio researcher, notes that ePortfolios enable students to demonstrate what they learn in different environments, documenting to the world what they know.
"At UW, the large co-op program provides an important opportunity for the ePortfolio to help students bring what they learn in co-op work placements back into the academic classroom and vice versa. With ePortfolios, students can document and use a skill in one context and then reapply and document its use in another (e.g., academic to workplace, or workplace to academic, etc.). Central to the ePortfolio concept is the reflective nature of this activity -- students reflect in their ePortfolios how their skills develop over time. . . .
![[Takes both men to hold it]](/images/2004/1110amethyst.jpg)
The amethyst
went home with Wallace Edwards, right, at the end of the gem show organized
over the weekend by the earth sciences museum. More than 1,500 people
visited the event, and Edwards, a long-time member of the local rock and
mineral club, won the door prize. Mario Coniglio, chair of UW's earth
sciences department, makes the presentation.
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"In the winter term, research is expected to focus on the workplace and community contexts with research in co-op being continued by Katrina Strampel and Jim Downey and a pilot planned with Residence Dons as part of the Residence Life program. A plan is also being developed to allow graduate students participating in the Certificate in University Teaching program offered through TRACE to develop ePortfolios of their teaching competencies. This pilot will complement work already being conducted with some of UW's Distinguished Teachers to help them to document their teaching excellence."
She goes on: "Money, both from individual donations and special events, continues to come into our office and will be passed on to the K-W United Way till the campaign office closes, in early December. Making the $165,000 goal we've all worked so hard to meet this year is very exciting, especially since we've managed it a few days before we have to officially report to the K-W United Way.
All this money is going to go towards investing in what matters most -- the five focus areas of the K-W United Way." She lists them: Promoting Children and Youth to Succeed; Strengthening Families; Supporting Basic Needs and Promoting Self-Sufficiency; Building Inclusive Neighbourhoods and Communities; Supporting Seniors and People with Disabilities.
The K-W United Way helps provide funds for programs operated by 43 agencies. Says D'Souza: "Know that you've helped 1,720 children through Big Brothers Big Sisters programs such as The Matching Program, helped provide a safe and supportive environment for physically, sexually and emotionally abused women and their children through Anselma House, helped 490 adults improve their basic reading, writing and math skills through the Literacy Group, helped provide social, recreational and educational programs and services for people with physical disabilities, allowing them to take control of their own lives, through K-W Access-Ability, and helped promote the independence and quality of life for older adults in K-W through the provision of home support services on a non-profit basis by RAISE Home Support for the Elderly Inc.
"These are just a few among the 87 programs that the K-W United Way will help to support with the money we've raised."
United Way volunteers on campus are being invited to a thank-you lunch on December 6, she said.
| WHEN AND WHERE |
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Flu shot clinic 10:00 to 5:00, Student Life Centre.
Internships in Washington summer 2005 information meeting 11:30, Tatham Centre room 1208. Centre for International Governance Innovation presents Susan Horton, Wilfrid Laurier University, "Prioritizing Resources for Public Health Intervention in the Developing World", 12 noon, 57 Erb Street West. Trivia Challenge at St. Jerome's University, 7:30, SJU Community Centre, tickets 884-8111 ext. 277. Yates Cup football, McMaster vs. Laurier, Saturday 1 p.m., University Stadium, Seagram Drive. Master of Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology program information meting Tuesday 4 p.m., Davis Centre room 1304. 'Balancing Roles' through graduate school and beyond: teaching resource workshop Wednesday 12 noon, details online. Geographic Information Systems Day events at the University Map and Design Library, November 17, including open house 1 to 4 p.m. and GIS demonstration, details online. Staff association "meet and greet" session Wednesday 4:30 to 6 p.m., University Club. Data Day sponsored by South Western Ontario Research Data Centre, Friday, November 19, 9 a.m. to noon, WLU library, details and registration online. |
Tomorrow will bring a one-day conference organized by UW's Entrepreneurs' Association, titled "Impact 2004: Empowering Tomorrow's Leaders". Says conference chair and software engineering student Kunal Gupta: "We are attracting the top 150 entrepreneurial minded students from across the country and bringing them here for a one-day conference. In the evening, we have a banquet which we are inviting the community to attend. At the banquet we will have all of the student delegates, our corporate sponsors, invited guests, media, industry professionals and community members. The highlight of the banquet is our keynote speaker, Frank O'Dea, founder of The Second Cup." Things take place at the Four Points Sheraton hotel in Kitchener. There's more about Impact 2004 on the conference web site.
Nominations are being accepted now for the 2005 Distinguished Teacher Awards and Distinguished Teaching by a Registered Student Award. The nomination deadline comes in February, but it takes time to work up a convincing nomination with background information (and a minimum of ten signatures). "The Selection Committee," in the traditional phrasing, "will look for intellectual vigour and communication skills in the interpretation and presentation of subject matter. The teacher's human quality and concern for and sensitivity to the needs of students is an obvious criterion. The Selection Committee will look for a clear indication that the nominee has favourable and lasting influence on students." There's more information on the teaching resources web site.
Arts and literature aficionados are invited to "Written in the Stars", described as "a glamorous evening celebrating The New Quarterly, the literary magazine where stars are born". The party is tomorrow night in the fireside lounge at St. Jerome's University, TNQ's home. The magazine is celebrating its latest National Magazine Award, new grants, and another successful year. The evening will include food and drink; "readings by literary stars from the Canadian books that sent them over the moon; heavenly music; and both live and silent auctions of one-of-a-kind literary memorabilia and other glittering objects". Tickets are $50 (two for $75). Readings will come from novelists and TNQ favourites Andrew Pyper, Michael Winter, and Russell Smith, among others, and music will be provided by Pat Skinner and the Moistening Agents. "Local arts aficionados can come rub elbows and keep an eye out for surprise guest stars," organizers promise. There's more information online.
Here's a memo from the faculty association: "The Faculty Association of the University of Waterloo through its Status of Women and Equity Committee (SWEC) is hosting a series of luncheons to consult with faculty and professional librarians. SWEC intends to host two types of luncheons each semester. The first will invite about 50 faculty women and professional librarians at a time to identify important issues that they wish addressed. The second will focus on specific issues (e.g., childcare or other issues related to equity and diversity) and will be open to all interested faculty members and professional librarians. The first consulting luncheon will be held November 30 at noon in the Laurel Room. Invitations will be sent out shortly."
Sports this weekend: The women's basketball team hosts Carleton at 7:00 tonight and Ottawa at 7:00 tomorrow in the PAC main gym. The men's basketball squad is on the road in the United States -- tonight at Cornell, tomorrow at Mansfield and Sunday at Colgate. The hockey teams both play tomorrow at the Columbia Icefield: women vs. Western at 2 p.m., men vs. Guelph at 7:30. The cross-country team (after a strong performance at the Ontario championships a few days ago) is at the national championships in Guelph tomorrow afternoon. And the volleyball teams, both men and women, are at Windsor tomorrow.
CAR