Posted in Podcast on Feb 18th, 2012 No Comments »
This week’s episode has a little something for everyone. Are you interested in Indigenous cultures and education? How about drama? Cool movies? We’ve got them all. We open the episode with five of our favourite educational films, giving you an overview of them and just why we love them so much. We can guarantee that [...]
Posted in Podcast on Feb 3rd, 2012 No Comments »
This week’s episode is a reflective one, where we talk about the importance of teacher inquiry and the examination of teaching practices. In fact, it’s not a bad thing in any profession to reflect on the way you do things, see how others do them, and seek to improve your own practices. Dave talks to [...]
Posted in Podcast on Jan 20th, 2012 No Comments »
This week’s episode is an online learning extravaganza! This year marks the 10th anniversary of the Master of Educational Technology (MET) program, so we have to mark the special occasion. Jenny’s back, Dave gives some 10-year statistics for the MET program (did you know that basically everybody on the planet has at least asked about [...]
Posted in Podcast on Jan 9th, 2012 No Comments »
Welcome to 2012! It’s the first episode of the new year, and Dave’s flying solo because Jenny’s unavoidably absent. That doesn’t mean we don’t have a great show for you, though. Dr. Blye Frank, Dean of the Faculty of Education, has some great and inspiring thoughts on what role the Faculty will play in the [...]
Posted in Podcast on Dec 16th, 2011 No Comments »
It’s the holidays, and this is the final episode of Down the Hall for 2011. We hope you join us for more great stuff in 2012, but first, listen to this episode! We have lots of great stuff. First, Dave talks to Denise Lauritano, Co-Chair of the UBC Community United Way campaign. Denise tells us [...]
Posted in Podcast on Dec 2nd, 2011 No Comments »
Down the Hall is one year old today! And what a year it’s been. It’s been a year of turnover (though thankfully that turnover happened right at the beginning), but we think we’ve really hit our stride and will continue to share with you interesting guests and engaging topics in Education. So how are we [...]
Posted in Podcast on Nov 29th, 2011 No Comments »
Changing podcast hosts can be a frightening thing, but we have finally decided to do it. While Podbean was fine as a host, we found that its statistics reporting wasn’t as helpful as it could be in regards to meeting our needs. Thus, Down the Hall is now on Libsyn! You can subscribe to us [...]
Posted in Podcast on Nov 18th, 2011 No Comments »
You’ve probably seen them around on flyers, posters, even TV shows! Those interesting-looking square designs with squiggly lines and all of that. You may have wondered what they are? Those are QR codes, codes that are becoming more popular by the day as a new way to interact digitally with print media. In this episode, [...]
Posted in Podcast on Nov 4th, 2011 No Comments »
We all like movies, right? As a society, we immerse ourselves in many forms of media, so much so that it’s only natural that we begin to study it, and its effect on us. Film studies has been a mainstay on college campuses for years, but what about studying media in the K-12 classroom? That’s [...]
Posted in Podcast on Oct 21st, 2011 No Comments »
Does school kill creativity? This week’s episode is inspired by a TED talk by Ken Robinson asking that same question. Jenny’s back, and we get into a very good discussion of just how important creativity is to us as adults, and what we can do to foster that sense of creativity and play that adults [...]
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