We have had a very exciting international STEM conference here at UBC. I am very proud to say that my department hosted it and based on the feedback we received people were very pleased with the organization (except for the extreme heat wave we are having now in Vancouver). While I have been very busy with […]

We just finished our international STEM 2014 Conference and I am thinking of the International Women in Physics Conference that we will host at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Canada: http://icwip2014.wlu.ca/. I am honoured to be invited to this conference as a panelist Panel ICWIP Invitation Panel. In our panel we will discuss the issue faced by women in […]

For the last four years I have been a member of the Toastmasters International Group (TMI) – Club 59 in Vancouver: http://www.tmclub59.com/ . I joined this organization because as a teacher and a teacher educator I wanted to be a role model to others and to convey my ideas clearly and succinctly. I have heard about TMI […]

I am very fortunate to participate in the Canadian Association of Physicists’ Congress 2014 that is taking part this June in Sudbury, ON. Sudbury is a very special place in Canadian and World science as it is  home of the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/). This year the Congress features a number of events dedicated to the […]

  In a few days May will be over and summer will begin! I know, the summer is not going to be officially here till June 21st, but for me, the summer starts on June 1st and ends on August 31st. This year we are planning a very exciting summer filled with STEM (Science, Technology, […]

I just came back from the AAPT Winter 2014 National Meeting. My team presented 4 presentations there: two posters and two contributed talks. Our presentations focused on the use of technology in physics teacher education. One piece of technology we have been focussing on lately is PeerWise. This is a very powerful collaborative tool that […]

Early January is always the perfect time for New Year’s resolutions: we all want to be better in a new year – to eat better, to have better health, to exercise more consistently, to have more time for friends and family. I think the New Year resolution fever is not going to avoid science educators […]

I just returned from the IAEA conference that took place in Tel Aviv, Israel. IAEA is an International Association for Educational Assessment. It focuses on all kinds of assessment. However, one of the most prominent interests of the members of the Association is the International Assessment – something like PISA, TIMSS or other large scale […]

I am very proud to say that I am a member of the Organizing Committee of the STEM 2014 Conference that will be hosted by our Department this Summer. While you can read the information about the conference from its web site, I want to share that we, as organizers, are working very hard to […]