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Exam Jam 2023- Nov. 27th to Dec. 1st

November 20, 2023 by Elly Habibullah Leave a Comment

Set yourself up for success at the Library’s Exam Jam.

Dive into a week of free events designed to boost your learning skills, foster connections, and ease pre-exam stress. Check out the detailed Exam Jam schedule (https://libguides.bcit.ca/examjam) and join us from Monday, November 27 to Friday, December 1st. This is your ultimate prep hosted by the BCIT Library.

Big shout-out to our awesome partners: Student Association, Student Life Ambassadors, Recreation Services, Peer Tutors, and our dedicated faculties!

 

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Program for one week of Exam Jam

 

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Metacognition for Engineers

November 15, 2023 by Elly Habibullah Leave a Comment

Unlocking the Power of Metacognition: Your Key to Success at BCIT and Beyond!

Knowing how the brain works is useful for learning. Right now you are gaining so much new knowledge.

Embark on a fascinating journey into the depths of  your brain with Liaison Librarian Cindy.

Time: November, 15th
1:30-2:30 PM
Location: Summit Centre
Library- SE14

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Science Literacy Week

September 14, 2023 by dgrace Leave a Comment

September 18th-24th 2023 is Science Literacy Week and this year’s theme is Energy!

To celebrate you can:

  • Register for and attend one or both of these two lunchtime presentations:
    • (Em)powering efficiency: the link between building envelopes and energy demand
    • Fueling Change: EV Charging Stations and Accessibility
  • Enter our contest to test your energy knowledge
  • Come see some displays in the library, including poster presentations by ECET students

Find all the details here.

And find many other free Science Literacy Week events for all ages taking place at libraries across Canada.

 

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Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in Libraries

May 1, 2023 by Sandra Matsuba Leave a Comment

Outline of people of all backgrounds in different colors to promote equity, diversity & inclusion.

Hello, BCIT Community! My name is Atreya and I am an MLIS student from the iSchool at UBC. I have spent this semester working with Elizabeth Padilla to coordinate an equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) book club for library staff. Below are two take-always I’ve learned during my time here:

1. EDI work in libraries is happening!
a. Communities targeted by systemic violence hold the solutions for EDI issues within libraries. There are many resources out there to help implement successful and meaningful changes that are created by librarians and their communities. Utilize their work and give them proper credit when doing so! Check out the section “EDI in Libraries” in the EDI LibGuide for a list of resources.
2. EDI work requires institutional and individual change!
a. EDI initiatives include two areas of work: personal praxis and systemic initiatives. Ione Damasco (2015), Associate Dean for Inclusive Excellence, Engagement, and Operations at the University of Daytona Libraries, states this excellently:
“Arm yourself with knowledge, and then have the courage to use that knowledge to start dialogues with your colleagues, administrators, faculty, and staff, not just in your library but across your campuses to examine existing policies and practices that have left far too much room for discrimination (both implicit and explicit) to occur.”

I’ll leave you with one last thought: Start somewhere! Watch lectures, request materials from booklists, or investigate your library’s policies. The resources compiled in the LibGuide provide a range of ways to start implementing EDI infinitives, so take those and get going!
BCIT EDI LibGuide: https://libguides.bcit.ca/edi

Reference:
Swanson, J., Damasco, I., Gonzalez-Smith, I., Hodges, D., Honma, T., & Tanaka, A. (2015). Why diversity matters: A roundtable discussion on racial and ethnic diversity in librarianship. In the Library with the Lead Pipe. Retrieved November 29, 2022, from
https://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2015/why-diversity-matters-a-roundtable-discussion-on-racial-and-ethnic-diversity-in-librarianship/

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Exam Jam

April 26, 2023 by dgrace Leave a Comment

Final exams are coming up, so from May 1st – 5th, we’ve scheduled some extra drop-in learning sessions, peer tutor tips tables and de-stressing activities, including visits from the St. John Ambulance dogs, the Student Life Ambassadors, the Pollinators and some plant pot painting. Hope you can join us! Get the full schedule here.

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Burnaby Festival of Learning

April 24, 2023 by dgrace Leave a Comment

The Burnaby Festival of Learning is a multi-day festival of lifelong learning taking place in venues throughout Burnaby (including BCIT!)

From May 5th – 9th there are five full days of thought-provoking community-led events and programming.

There’s truly something for everyone and all events are free!

BCIT workshops include:

  • Universal Design for Learning
  • Showcasing Sustainability & Energy Features in BCIT’s New Health Sciences Building
  • 3D Scanning and Extended Reality (XR)
  • Guichon Creek Tour
  • Mastodon: A New Way to Network
  • Take a Foraging Tour Through BCIT’s Edible Gardens
  • Creating Avatars with Photoshop
  • Buds, Branches and Bark: a Guide to Winter Identification in the Pacific NorthWest, A BCIT OER Textbook
  • Guichon Creek Nature Meditation Session

Just a few of the other great sessions being offerered by other Festival partners:

  • How to Keep Earth Cool: A Climate Solutions Modelling Workshop
  • Invasive Species Basket Weaving
  • Disability Awareness Workshop 
  • Nature Without Borders – The Wondrous Migration of Monarch Butterflies
  • 15 Minute Neighbourhoods – Co-creating Connected Communities

Check out all the events here: https://festivaloflearning.ca/events/

All events are free, but many require registration!

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Food for Thought – SWOT Analysis as a Tool for Instructors & Students

April 12, 2023 by Sandra Matsuba Leave a Comment

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When:     Wednesday, April 19, 2023
Time:       12:30pm – 1:30pm
Where:    Summit Centre (BCIT main campus library, room 213)

The content of the session will concentrate on learning about our ourselves to be prepared for any uncertainties and challenges we face in the classroom that we can’t quite foresee. Utilizing SWOT will help us become agile and truly using EI to work on our approach to our interactions with others, specifically our students; it is important to deliver a quality instruction and to manage our own expectations and overall outlook about the courses we are involved with.

As a good quality professional, I always think that there is room for improvement.

The scholastic environment at BCIT has morphed due to factors such as Covid, and the ever changing demographics of our students, so let’s add another tool to our toolbox to deal with the changes.

The key learnings:
SWOT – Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats analysis, key points of each element to use in our journey toward improving ourselves and our classroom experience.
PDCA – (Plan, Do, Check Act) and EI (Emotional Intelligence) brief descriptions and how they relate to SWOT.

Photo of Sandra Amador

Bio:
Sandra Amador is an experienced quality professional with over 30 years in the field of Continuous Improvement and Quality Assurance. She has been an instructor since 2019 and as an avid learner, she strongly believes in providing as many easy opportunities for learning as possible, both at school and work; for her it is important to ensure students transform all the information they receive into real knowledge.
Sandra has worked in a variety of industries, from pharmaceutical to automotive and has been leading teams under different titles; her favourite title is change agent.
As a Certified Quality Auditor from ASQ, Sandra has taken audits to the level of collaboration and improvement catalyst that they are intended for, while ensuring fair compliance evaluation.
Sandra has been the Voice of the customer chair in the ASQ Vancouver leadership team in the past and a frequent speaker in annual ASQ Vancouver conferences. She has also participated instructing sessions at the BCIT’s Professional Development Day.

This talk is open to all members of the BCIT community.

A light lunch will be provided as we welcome ‘Food’ back to the in-person ‘Food for Thought’ series.

 

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Food For Thought – My Journey Mapping Journey

March 8, 2023 by Sandra Matsuba Leave a Comment

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My Journey Mapping Journey

DATE:             Wednesday, March 22, 2023
TIME:              11:30am – 12:30pm
LOCATION:    Summit Centre (Bby Campus Library, room 213)

Journey Mapping is defined as:

General and analyis method that helps us understand the interactions that an individual has with a process, service or organization from the perspective of that individual. 

Journey Mapping – Living Guide to Social Innovation Labs (gitbook.io) 

From Oct-Dec, 2022, a journey mapping project was carried out with 9 EAL (English as an Additional Language) students and 4 EAL alumni from BCIT’s CIT and CST programs. Students and alumni were interviewed and then interview data was used to create individual journey maps. These were then analyzed to discover significant challenges and opportunities for interviewees in their goal of successfully transitioning from school to the workplace. Some of the key findings revolve around opportunities for experiential learning, guidance for self-study, and connecting to support services.

This workshop will present the journey mapping process, share examples from the actual journey maps, and elaborate on the key findings. Potentially, the proess could be replicated in other departments findings.

Headshot of David Brooks.

Since 1991, David has taught English as an Additional Language in Canada, Japan, and Qatar. In addition to his work with the Language Success Team at BCIT, David has also written curriculum for the International Student Entry Program, and has created two MOOC courses for BCIT’s Free Online Learning initiative. When not working, he can probably be found reading, writing, walking, obsessing about vinyl records, or having coffee with a good friend.

 

 

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This talk is open to all members of the BCIT community. A light lunch is provided.

If you are interested in this event but cannot make it in-person, contact us – we are looking into offering hybrid in-person/virtual events. For more information about Food for Thought, please contact:  Elizabeth Padilla  Deirdre Grace  Sylvia Gajdics

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Food For Thought – BCIT Student Innovation & Research Projects

February 27, 2023 by Sandra Matsuba Leave a Comment

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BCIT Student Innovation and Research Projects : Lots of Big Ideas

DATE:             Wednesday, March 8, 2023
TIME:              11:30am – 12:30pm
LOCATION:    Summit Centre (Bby Campus Library, room 213)

BCIT students do some great research and innovation projects as part of their programs, and there is funding available to support some of these projects. This presentation will look at some of the funding sources: Mitacs, BCIT Institute Research Funds, Student Innovation Challenge, the types of projects that get funded, and how faculty and students can access this funding.

Photo of Joe Boyd getting his face scanned and the image on the computer in the background.

Joe Boyd is the Research Liaison in BCIT’s Applied Research Liaison Office (ARLO). Joe has a background in Physics and Library studies, and while
at BCIT has sat on a number of funding committees. Joe is also responsible on reporting on BCIT’s research projects by faculty and students. ARLO helps
students and faculty with funding for their projects by identifying funding sources and liaising with external funding agencies. ARLO also runs the BCIT Student Innovation Challenge each year.

 

 

This talk is open to all members of the BCIT community. Light lunch provided.

If you are interested in this event but cannot make it in-person, contact us – we are looking into offering hybrid in-person/virtual events.

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Food For Thought : The collaborative creation of Buds, Branches and Bark

February 22, 2023 by Sandra Matsuba Leave a Comment

The collaborative creation of Buds, Branches and Bark: A Guide to Winter Identification in the Pacific Northwest, a BCIT OER textbook.

In celebration of Open Education Week!

DATE:             Monday, March 6, 2023
TIME:              12:30pm – 1:30pm
LOCATION:    Summit Centre (Bby Campus Library, room 213)

Have you ever wanted to create your own book, but don’t know how to get started? Join Julia Alards-Tomalin, a BCIT instructor in the Renewable Resources program as she shares her 4-year journey in creating a winter plant identification textbook with students across programs at BCIT. This new book fills a gap in the field of plant identification in our region and is available to all as a free, online Open Education Resource (OER) field guide. In this session, you will learn more about the steps to create an OER book and hopefully be inspired to create your own too!

Buds, Branches and Bark: A Guide to Winter ID in the Pacific Northwest. Second Edition. 2022. by Julia Alards-Tomalin and Tait, Alex

Julia Alards-Tomalin is an instructor in the Renewable Resources department at BCIT. She studied Forestry and Ecological Restoration at BCIT and recently completed a Master of Education at Simon Fraser University. Her background is diverse, including horticulture, arboriculture, invasive species management and ecological restoration, but is united by a common theme of plants.  Julia began creating and using Open Educational Resources (OER) in 2019, including the co-creation of a Youtube Channel: Interviews with Plants. https://www.youtube.com/c/Interviewswithplants

 

 

This talk is open to all members of the BCIT community. A light lunch is provided.

If you are interested in this event but cannot make it in-person, contact us – we are looking into offering hybrid in-person/virtual events. For more information about Food for Thought, please contact:  Elizabeth Padilla  Deirdre Grace  Sylvia Gajdics

 

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