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The Douglas College Newsletter ™@ New Westminster Campus, David Lam Campus & Thomas Haney Campus

College instructor wins award for teaching and
learning excellence

Sheila Paige, Office Administration Program Instructor, has been recognized for her
outstanding contributions to teaching and learning. Nominated by her department
and selected by the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development
(NISOD), Paige won the NISOD Excellence Award for her development work on six
on-line distance learning courses, all to do with legal office procedures for the Legal
Secretary Citation.

“Tt was really a team effort,” says Paige modestly. “Jamie Gunn and Susan Greffard of
Distributed Learning Services helped with the development, along with two of John
Blackwell’s students who are learning about WebCT. It was a big team that put this
together.”

Work on the project began in the winter of 1999, and by September of the same year
the entire program of six courses was ready to go. Getting this course up and running

also signals a first for the College.

“It’s the first completely on-line WebCT program offered at Douglas College,” says

 

Paige. “Students taking these courses don’t attend the College for any of their classes,

and complete all work on their own. We have students from all over the entire : al ; i ; ;
province, as well as from Alberta and Ontario. We've even had inquiries from Mexico Office Administration Instructor Sheila Paige shows students the on-line

and Taiwan.” WebCT is a web-based set of course tools designed to deliver on-line course she developed for the Legal Secretary Citation. Paige won the NISOD
learning. Excellence Award for her development work on this course.

Paige will be attending NISOD’s International Conference on Teaching and Leadership at the end of May, where she will receive her award in a special ceremony. For those
interested in the work Paige has done, please see www.douglas.bc.ca/business/programs/oadm/html/leglsec2.html or contact her at local 5103.

Diversity Week 2000 celebrates the differences

Douglas College First College well represented
Nations students Anita
Mergl (left) and Brianne at sports award banquet
Island (right) display

some of their artwork at Douglas College coaches and athletes made
the First Nations us proud at the 1999 Sport BC Athlete of the
Student Resource Year Awards banquet held March 9.

centre art show,

entitled Awasiak National team captain and Douglas College
Metawewak (youthful Royals club team player Jaimie Borisoff was

the winner in the Athlete with a disability

Joy). Held as part of
Diversity Week 2000,
the art show was just
one of many events

category. Borisoff is coached by College
employees Peter Taylor and Tim Frick, and
trains out of Douglas College in the National

Sport Centre-Greater Vancouver supported

 

that took place during training group.
the week of March 20.
Douglas College wrestling coach Dave
“It was another successful year," says Tom Whalley, ESL instructor and Diversity Week Coordinator. McKay was a finalist in the Coach of the Year
“Everyone pitched in together to celebrate diversity and let people know that Douglas College is an category, while his former student Daniel
environment with zero tolerance for intolerance.” Igali of SFU won both the University Athlete
award and the overall Athlete of the Year
“The Womenspeok event in particular was quite well attended,” continues Whalley. "This is a great award. Douglas College wrestler Jane
example of how existing college events can be flavoured with Diversity Week activities." Whalley notes Hofweber was a finalist in the College Athlete
that films such as The Courage to Stand, a story of anti-racist activists in the Okanagan and Surrey, had eae

 

 

a special appeal to students because of the Canadian content.

 

Quote of the Month

"Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months."

Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book