This week, in addition to our Minds We Meet feature that brings us an interview with student Carla Knipe (who we soon may be seeing more from as a new writer in The Voice Magazine), we are also fortunate to have an interview with none other than the current President of Athabasca University, Dr. Peter… Read more »
I needed to take a break from the books and get back into the wilderness, surround myself with nature, and lose myself for a while. Lucky for me, my Mom is always ready and willing to head out into the wild, so last week we loaded our kayaks into the back of the truck and… Read more »
Would you write an essay if you were offered hundreds of dollars? If You’re like me, you find essay-writing tedious and agonizing. I spend more time avoiding an essay than writing it (I became so proficient at this, it prompted Essay Avoidance: The Fine Art of Procrastination, my first article for The Voice Magazine.) My… Read more »
The Dog Days of summer find many people looking to escape the heat, escape work, and escape the city. Some people head to the beach, some to the cottage, some to exotic destinations. Others use the long summer days to complete outdoor projects, tend the crops, or chill on the porch. Some people take a… Read more »
One of the hardest things that I have found I have had to deal with as a distance-learning student is the feeling of isolation. When you attend a traditional university you are surrounded by your peers?like-minded people taking the same courses you are. I live in a small community and, while I am able to… Read more »
We have the second part of our interview with Dr. Kinshuk this week, where he explains his views on technology and evaluation in the context of learning. One line that really stood out to me is that evaluation should not be policing. That struck a chord with me because, if you think about how education… Read more »
What do Marian Engel, Lynn Coady, Charlotte Gill, Lawrence Hill, Michael Crummey, and Margaret Laurence all have in common (besides the letter “L”)? If you identified all of these as prominent Canadian writers you’d be correct, but they have a further connection: each of these writers has served as a Writer-in-Residence at a Canadian university…. Read more »
Over the course of my degree my addiction to books has only increased. I have been introduced to new genres and authors. As a result I have been adding books to my “to read list” and to my “to buy list” I have also bought several and added them to my bookshelf to be read… Read more »
