e-Portfolio
Welcome to my e-Portfolio prepared as part of the Faculty Certificate Program on Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) at UBC for the academic year 2011-2012. The purpose of this page is to serve as a quick access point for the material on this site. Before getting into any details, I would like to bring your attention to ‘musings’ and ‘header and credits’ tabs on the top as an introduction.
The menu on the right-hand side can be used to navigate to various components of the SoTL e-portfolio. However, you may find that the following links take directly to the content described. You can always use the link to “Table of Contents of e Portfolio” in the Blogrolls on the left column to return to this page from any page in this site.
- Record of Progress
- Scholarly Teaching Dossier
- Journal Reflections
- Course Syllabi
- Peer Review of Teaching
- SoTL Project
- SoTL Presentation
- Reflections on the Program
Enjoy your visit!
Update (18h May 2012): And here is the certificate.
Update (27th April 2012): Today I met my external reviewer Dr. Jane Buxton in her office for an hour and a half to discuss this e-portfolio. We discussed this portfolio at length and Dr. Jane Buxton approved this portfolio. This brings the “formal” requirement of this program to a fruitful conclusion. The signed ILP is here with Dr.Buxton’s comments on page 2 of the pdf file. My thoughts are best summarized through this quote taken from “The First Circle” by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn:
“Now listen to the rule of the last inch. The realm of the last inch. The job is almost finished, the goal almost attained, everything possible seems to have been achieved, every difficulty overcome – and yet the quality is just not there. The work needs more finish, perhaps further research. In that moment of weariness and self-satisfaction, the temptation is greatest to give up, not to strive for the peak of quality. That’s the realm of the last inch – here the work is very, very complex but it’s also particularly valuable because it’s done with the most perfect means. The rule of the last inch is simply this – not to leave it undone. And not to put it off – because otherwise your mind loses touch with that realm. And not to mind how much time you spend on it, because the aim is not to finish the job quickly, but to reach perfection.”