{"id":3965,"date":"2018-12-26T13:47:29","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T19:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/?p=3965"},"modified":"2018-12-26T14:21:44","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T20:21:44","slug":"happy-new-year-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/2018\/12\/26\/happy-new-year-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"

As 2018 is coming to a close, I kept thinking what made it interesting and exciting for me. While family for me always comes first, my work comes a very close second… Making a very rough estimate, I have spent at least 2200 hours working last year… This is a huge amount of time and it is about a quarter of the hours we have in a year. Considering that I am a person who loves to sleep (I can easily sleep 10 hours a day if I am allowed…, so maybe I was a koala in my previous life), this is a huge chunk of time. So loving what I do at work is hugely important for me. And luckily this was a very exciting year for me. I would like to list a few of the most exciting work-related events and activities that made 2018 a very special year for me:<\/p>\n

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  1. Supporting graduate students who have graduated this year: one Ph.D, one M.A. and 3 M.Ed. students. I wish all of them continuing success.<\/li>\n
  2. Supporting my science and physics Teacher-Candidates most of whom have found STEM teaching positions and many of whom have received teaching awards in our Faculty. Huge congratulations to them.<\/li>\n
  3. Organizing a very successful STEM outreach event in the Faculty of Education in November, 2018\u00a0Family Math and Science Day 2018<\/a>\u00a0. More than 100 volunteers helped us to make it all happen.<\/li>\n
  4. Attending a very successful STEM 2018 conference<\/a> in Brisbane Australia in November 2018 and getting ready to organize the 2020 STEM conference at UBC.<\/li>\n
  5. Publishing my paper in October of 2018 in\u00a0Frontiers in Education: STEM education journal<\/a> – I have been its Associate Editor and I am happy to see journal’s growth.<\/li>\n
  6. Continuing a tradition – organization of a\u00a040th UBC Physics Olympics<\/a> with more than 70 participating teams from all over BC in March 0f 2018.<\/li>\n
  7. Collaborating with my very inspirations colleagues – Professors Dragana Martinovic and Yifat Ben David Kolikant to organize of a very successful conference on teacher education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in February 2018 – Teachers and Teaching in the Era of Change<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  8. Publishing of two papers in the summer of 2018 in a peer-reviewed international journal LUMAT journal with my graduate student: https:\/\/www.lumat.fi\/index.php\/lumat\/article\/view\/292<\/a> and\u00a0https:\/\/www.lumat.fi\/index.php\/lumat\/article\/view\/293\u00a0<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  9. The publication of a special Physics in Canada Outreach<\/a> issue (Volume 73) in February of 2018 that I co-edited with my colleague Dr. Sarah Johnson.<\/li>\n
  10. The publication of the second edition of our introductory Physics textbook:\u00a0https:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/Physics-Scientists-Engineers-Robert-Hawkes\/dp\/0176587195<\/a><\/li>\n
  11. Helping to launch our first fully online M.Ed. in science education program<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  12. Receiving a TLEF grant with my husband<\/a>\u00a0Valery Milner to produce slow motion physics videos that we will be using in teaching introductory physics and working with future teachers.<\/li>\n
  13. Publishing a paper in The Physics Teacher on using Collaborative Learning Annotation System in teacher education.<\/a><\/li>\n
  14. Publishing new videos on our database of educational videos:\u00a0https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/outreach\/math-science-education-for-all\/<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  15. Continuing to learn foreign languages – German and Spanish – I see it as a big part of who I am. I want to keep learning about science, science teaching and teaching and learning in General. Learning foreign languages helps me becoming a better science teacher as it helps me to remember what it means not to know.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    So this was an exciting year and I enjoyed learning new things with my students and collaborators. I wish them all a very successful new year. And enjoy this wonderful physics video by one of the people who inspires me.<\/p>\n\"YouTube<\/a><\/span><\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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