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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>Yes, it&#8217;s true, I love what I do!</title>
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		<link>http://www.joannealisonfox.com/blog/2010/06/30/yes-its-true-i-love-what-i-do/</link>
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		<title>Goals for Portfolio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was just looking over some notes from a seminar where I jotted down:
Goals for Portfolios

Share best practices, learn, see examples
Tenure, hiring
Feedback, reflection on personal effectiveness


I can&#8217;t remember what the seminar was about &#8211; all I remember is that it had nothing to do with portfolios &#8211; but something from my day must have sparked [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joannealisonfox.com/blog/2010/04/20/goals-for-portfolios/</link>
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		<title>How Scientists Think?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot lately about, &#8220;How Scientists Think?&#8221;  I&#8217;m excited to be working on an innovative curricula project here at UBC centered around science as a way of knowing.
&#8230;more about this later&#8230;
To this end, I just read this article, &#8220;How Scientists Think in the Real World: Implications for Science  Education&#8221; by Kevin [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joannealisonfox.com/blog/2010/03/31/how-scientists-think/</link>
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		<title>Is an e-portfolio worth the effort?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was recently asked how I would respond to PhD students who are in the process of putting together their own teaching portfolios and are wondering, &#8220;Is it really worth the effort?&#8221;
Here are my thoughts:
1) Putting together your e-portfolio is a valuable chance for personal reflection.  I found that the process of putting together my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joannealisonfox.com/blog/2010/03/30/is-an-e-portfolio-worth-the-effort/</link>
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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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