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	<title>Joanne Fox</title>
	<link>http://www.joannealisonfox.com</link>
	<description>This blog is a dynamic way for me to highlight new developments in my own teaching materials and experiences. This website presents the online version of my teaching portfolio and the blog lets me quickly update the site with important research, educational news, materials, articles, sites, and anything else that's interesting to me  - as both a scientist and an educator.</description>
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		<title>Ideas about Student Motivation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently read this Idea Paper about &#8220;Student Goal Orientation, Motivation, and Learning&#8221; by Marilla D. Svinicki.  It&#8217;s interesting to think about what motivates the students we teach.  I think this paper summarizes nicely how to reach out to the majority of students:

Prioritize Learning
Expect Success
Make Your Class a Safe Place
Encourage Community
Offer Choices
Be a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joannealisonfox.com/blog/2010/02/05/ideas-about-student-motivation/</link>
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		<title>Taking UBC MIX under my wing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just finished writing a TLEF grant to support the UBC MIX project. I&#8217;m pretty excited about the potential of this project.
UBC MIX is a project that creates new learning experiences for UBC students by developing cross-discipline and cross-faculty partnerships between courses already taught at UBC. UBC MIX brings together faculty members interested in making [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joannealisonfox.com/blog/2009/11/17/taking-ubc-mix-under-my-wing/</link>
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		<title>Being a scientist in Nigeria</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This summer I traveled to the University of Ibadan in Nigeria to participate in the West African Biotechnology Workshops as an invited instructor.  Here is an update that I wrote during my stay.
Being a scientist in Nigeria means being very resourceful in finding solutions to barriers… the power goes out 2-4x per day or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joannealisonfox.com/blog/2009/10/16/being-a-scientist-in-nigeria/</link>
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		<title>Success with TLEF!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently received word that the two TLEF grants that I submitted were both funded!  The Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund (TLEF) was created in 1991 at UBC to enrich student learning by supporting innovative and effective educational enhancements. 
Project #1: University of British Columbia International Genetically Engineered Machines (iGEM) team, submitted with Dr. Eric [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joannealisonfox.com/blog/2009/02/10/success-with-tlef/</link>
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		<title>Student Evaluation of Research Projects</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the new semester starts back into full swing, I&#8217;m still digesting the student evaluations that I carried out last term.
Here&#8217;s the full report.
Stay tuned for a more detailed analysis&#8230;
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		<link>http://www.joannealisonfox.com/blog/2009/01/08/student-evaluation-of-research-projects/</link>
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		<title>A Good Idea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an interesting idea, let&#8217;s design what we teach around the question, &#8220;What do Scientists Do?&#8221;
I was originally exposed to this simple, but amazingly &#8220;outside-the-box&#8221; idea, by Ellen Aho, a professor at Concordia College in Moorhead, MN.  I met Ellen at the ASMCUE 2008 conference where she presented, &#8220;The student-led conference style symposia as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joannealisonfox.com/blog/2009/01/07/a-good-idea/</link>
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		<title>Observe What Works, Put it to Work!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the easiest things to do to improve as an educator is to watch others and take what you can to use in your own classrooms.
Recently, we hosted a professional development conference for BC high school teachers called, &#8220;It&#8217;s Your Experiment!&#8221;  The workshop was part of our two day conference and aimed to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joannealisonfox.com/blog/2008/10/30/observe-what-works/</link>
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		<title>Performing in Large Classroom Settings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently attended this talk by Robert Gateman.
Many of us know Robert Gateman as the flamboyant, somewhat bizarre, yet somehow appealing ECON 101 prof we had, or wish we had, in first-year. But how much do we really know about the most talked about UBC instructor on ratemyprofessors.com?  Click here for the full Ubyssey Gateman [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joannealisonfox.com/blog/2008/10/07/performing-in-large-classroom-settings/</link>
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		<title>Learning Conference 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I stopped in at the 2008 UBC Learning Conference &#8220;Bring Goals to Fruition&#8221; Learning Goals Workshop, presented by members of the UBC Earth and Ocean Sciences Science Education Initiative.  
Building effective learning goals is a corner stone for increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of the teaching / learning experiences for both you and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joannealisonfox.com/blog/2008/10/02/learning-conference-2008/</link>
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		<title>Faculty Programs from the ASM</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The ASM Education Department offers professional development institutes that aim to improve science teaching.  I first heard about these &#8220;Bioinformatics Institutes&#8221; for educators at the ASMCUE 2008 meeting.  The official tag line for this conference for undergraduate educators was &#8220;Celebrating 15 years of Teaching Excellence,&#8221; however, the subtext that emerged for me was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joannealisonfox.com/blog/2008/06/18/faculty-programs-from-the-asm/</link>
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