VOL 1 APRIL 27 1995 NO 16 VANCOUVER COMMUNITY COLLEGE Inside Give us a test, please T I he Program Development Depart¬ First Nations Education Update ment is looking for exams and quizzes. If you have out-of-date | examples of evaluation instru¬ ments that you would like to share, please send them to us. Bursary recipients We will use the material in ID 104A: The Evaluation of Learning to illustrate princi¬ ples of test design. New instructors find real say thank you world samples of measurement tools to be one of the best ways to learn how they should word and structure evaluation instruments. all disciplines: vocational, academic and ba¬ sic education. The participants need to see examples of a wide variety of tests, both sub¬ jective and objective, both short quizzes and longer exams. And, if you have developed an innovative or unusual way of documenting learner progress, we would be very happy to include it in our portfolio of examples. Please be assured that any material that you provide us will be reformatted and used Tips 'n Tricks: What kind of subject matter examples are we interested in? As you know, participants in anonymously if you wish. For more infor¬ mation, or to send us an evaluation sample, contact Norm Dooley at Program Develop¬ Unix and Internet the Instructor Diploma Program come from ment Department, KEC, Local 7513. Announcements 6 Calendar, Classifieds What bugs callers? A recent survey asked 564 business people what bothers them most about the way a business phone is hold button without asking the caller for per¬ answered. Fourty-two percent of Other phone habits that bother respondents: • being uninformed about the subject of respondents cited automated phone menus; 25 percent are annoyed when a phone isn't mission to do so. the caller's inquiry—30 percent. Celebrating answered by the third or fourth ring; and 21 • Using poor grammar—15 percent. 30 percent are bothered by busy toll-free num¬ • Not identifying who is speaking—11 Years bers. percent. • Mangling the company name—6 per¬ When asked to identify the most annoying phone habit, 34 percent mentioned using the cent. reprinted from "ideas unlimited" First Nations Education Update Upcoming events off campus: Employment Opportunities « First Nations Summit First Nations Steering Committee is hosting a conference May 2 and 3 at the Squamish • Faculty Advisor, Yukon College Yukon Native Teacher Education Program Ayamdigut Campus (Whitehorse); $50,195 59,757 per annum. Details posted on First Nations Education Board, 4th floor. Recreation Centre. The conference will cover such matters as the dif¬ ferent approaches for First Nations to as¬ fbrgetrijc ^; sume jurisdiction over education, Quality Education-What does Brown Bag Luncheon meeting for - that mean to First Na¬ First Nations students (bring your tions?, existing First Nations education own lunch) - . ,f; v . • April 27, 1995 • 11:30- 1:00 • Room 2082, King Edward Campus models, special needs education and Abo¬ riginal language pro¬ grams. The conference facilitated by Gerry-Lee; First Nations Student Commissioner, KESA and Linda is open to all First Na¬ tions people who are .Thomas,, First Nations Education Coor¬ concerned about edu¬ dinator. r: '; - - „ ~ •- ' v' cation. No registration fee. Contact Christa Williams at 990-9939 for more information. •FirstNations Fashion Show—Spring Ben¬ efit for Pacific Association of First Nations Women Featuring designs by Dorothy Grant Inc., entertainment and dinner; at the First Nations Longhouse, UBC, 1985 West Mall, May 12, 6:00 pm. Three scholarship awards to be pre¬ sented to First Nations women currently at¬ tending school. Tickets are $100.00, avail¬ able through Linda Thomas, local 7020 or through Pacific Association of First Nations • First Nations Worker—Summer Program First Nations Worker will assist the program coordinator and other program staff in work¬ ing with established First Nations and nonFirst Nations parents groups to implement family and childrens' summer programs. This will include assisting in the setting up of new family resource centres in Collingwood. Qualifications: • Student in recognized Post Secondary In¬ stitution who will be returning to school in the Fall. • Knowledge of First Nations issues • First Nations ancestry an asset • Experience working with community or¬ ganizations, particularily First Nations or¬ ganizations • Strong interpersonal, organizational and communication skills. Deadline date: May 10 More details posted on First Nations Educa¬ tion Board, 4th floor and from the Counsel¬ ling Dept. • Childcare Staff in Schoolage Childcare Summer Program - deadline May 10, 1995 Details on First Nations Education Board, 4th floor or Counselling Department. Women, 873-1833. Spring Sale at Retail Meats, City Centre Beef sides $ 1.69/1,8.; Whole Lamb $2 59/LB . Contact: VCC Retail Meat Beef Hinds $2.29/LB Pork sides $l.49/LB ' V Phone443-8465 PAGE 2 APRIL 27 1 99S Bursary recipients say "thank you" eing an adult learner is never easy. Not only are you devoting extraordinary amounts of time and effort to your studies, but more often than not you are con¬ tending with the day-to-day challenges that any adult faces, including monetary ones. A financial crisis for an adult student can sometimes mean having to make the choice of whether to continue studies. An emergency aid bursary can help a student through this difficult time. vd ¦ ,ceWed tSoc'ietf Two recent recipients of the KEC Stu¬ dent Association Emergency Aid Fund bursaries took the time to write us and show their appreciation. Please note that we are reprinting them here exactly as we ;r^ r-Otf1® received them. Their names are with¬ held to protect the privacy of the indivuals. ^P609Vltoe^6Vl .cVa*6 ,a&/ A*6 a?Pl6( itveto1 x& nv yoU10 a ^yo& s\X9^0\Z co^tX to peaX) 40- to' t^^CSo^ ttv6 Mia*9'"tot®016 * Nss1,oc^ SOt^6 vjaV 0\lt to tea' \6ttet ij)6 stt' id?60 .S00' aSV ot ;Vv\ •^6 ieac6 %o AW ^60 fait^ ,sW- ;tvet0 pVe1 qMS^- sVtvcetl Go for the gold! your tickets in the Educational Foundation's special spring This is your last chance to purchase Honda Gold Wing promotion for VCC employess. Buy a ticket in the Gold Wing Lottery before April 30 and your name will be entered to win one of the following: an enormous plush squirrel, a beautiful wood VOL 1 NO 1 6 cheese board, a cuddly plush teddy bear, or a delightful Soundwave CD. Tickets are $20 each or three for $50. Con¬ tact Jane Westhauser at 871-7237. If you've already purchased a ticket, be sure to let Jane know in order to have your name entered into this special spring promotional draw. PAGE 3 Notice to all email/internet Command Line (see Basic Unix Command Quick users: Reference). When you long into your account, before the Sys¬ tem Menu is displayed, you will see a message similar to that below: Disk quotas for user userjd (uid nnnn). Rlesystem blocks quota limit grace files quota limit grace /home 1887 2000 2200 68 0 0 This message is the output of the Unix command "quota." It informs you of your disk usage. Since there is no quota on the number of files you can have, ignore the last four columns of this mes¬ uick sage. As well, ignore column 1, as it is irrelevant uote to the purpose of this writing. The young and the old are closest to life. They love every minute dearly. —Chief Dan George Blocks: This tells you your current usage; each block is equivalent to Ik. Quota: This is the "soft" limit; it represents the amount of disk space allocated to you. The unit of quota is also in blocks. Limit: This is the "hard" limit; it represents the absolute maximum of disk space the system al¬ lows you. Also measured in number of blocks. Grace: When you exceed your quota, you have, by default, a 7-day grace period to reduce your usage to below the quota. If you failed to do so within this period, you will no longer be able to do much with your account (including delete files to reduce your disk usage). In the example above, the user has used up 1887kb of the 2000 of disk space allocated to her. This user can exceed this quota by 200kb, but only for seven days. We strongly recommend that you pay close atten¬ tion to this message, especially if you do a lot of file downloading. Some tips to remain within your quota are to periodically clean out your email, and to remove your internet files after you have downloaded them to your PC. You can also issue the quota command whenever you are at the Unix PAGE 4 Basic Unix Command Quick Reference 1. List files: Is -1 long listing -a how hidden files (files beginning with.) -R recursive listing displays subdirectory contents -p places / after directory in listing I more-displays a screen of information at a time (must be final option) 2. Display contents of a file: more filename To abort display of file contents: CTRL - C 3. Remove or delete file: rm filename 4. Copy file: cp filename! filename! 5. Rename file: mv filenamel filename2 6. Make a new directory: mkdir directory name 7. Remove a directory (directory must be empty): rmdir directory name 8. Change directory and identify present working directory: cd takes you to your home directory cd .. moves you down one directoiy level cd /directory name moves you to directory name pwd present working directory 9. To display your account's disk stor¬ age used and allocated: quota displays blocks used (Ik block) and quota (Seven days grace to get usage below quota.) Courtesy of Information and Computer Services APRIL 27 1 995 ( New Books at KEC Library • Bellydancer Stories (Sky Lee) ® A Blueprint for Social Security Reform: a Re¬ port by the National Council of Welfare • Home-based Business Manual: Starting your Home-based Business 8 How to Get Your Teaching Ideas Published • Strong Medicine: How to Save Canada's Health Care system • Winning Proposals: How to Write Them and Get Results • Women and Politics Worldwide • Firing the Heather: the Life and Times of Nellie McClung • Mankiller: a Chief and her People • Affirmation: the AIDS Odyssey of Dr. Peter • Appropriate Methodology and Social Context • The Canadian Patient's Book of Rights • Constitutional Crack-up: Canada and the Com¬ ing Showdown with Quebec • Daring Lady Flyers: Canadian Women in the Early Years of Aviation • The Microphone Wars: a History of Triumph and Betrayal at CBC • A Nation too Good to Lose: Renewing the Purpose of Canada • Inter-cultural Marriage: Promises and Pitfalls Curriculum and Professional Development. The Teaching Excellence series is published by the Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education, with eight es says produced each year. The Centre has negotiated a system subscription that al¬ lows each college and institute in BC to reprint multiple copies for local distribu¬ tion. If you would like a copy of any of these essays, please contact Carol Mercier at 8598. The second set of essay titles are: Mis¬ takes and Other Classroom Techniques; Emerging Trends in College Teaching for the 21st Century; Helping First-Year Stu¬ dents Study Part I; Helping First-Year Stu¬ dents Study Part n. Reminder to all Dept. Heads and Administra¬ tors: Please forward your Departmental Holi¬ day Schedules to Sandy Mooney, Facili¬ ties Department, as soon as possible. She needs them to work on the parking pool. Even if you only have a few months' va¬ New Videos in CC Library • Building Customer Relations • Communication Stragies for Alzheimer's Pa¬ tients • Cooking of France: an Alpine Menu • Fiat Mode 5: "Let There be Fashion" Gradu¬ ate Show • Germany: a Southern Menu • How to be Exceptional • Video Produce Identification Training System cation listed, please send them in. FY1: International Education Contract Devel¬ opment Services has just completed its report on the March/April Education Fairs in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Malaysia. Copies of the report can be obtained by calling Hilary Wong at local 7490. • Women in Science : Don't even think : of giving out this phone number! The number above, (443-4300), appeared on a recent batch of let¬ terhead as the City Centre switchboard number. It is incorrect. In fact, it is the personal line of the General Man¬ ager of a large trade cor-, poration, and he has been receiving a great number of calls wanting City Centre program in¬ formation. Needless to, say, he's "not amused." The correct City Centre switchboard number is 443-8300. Please discard (into your recycling bin, of course): any letterhead with the incorrect number on it. • Your PC, Inside Out The new fax number for Teaching Excellence Essays Master copies of the second set of Teaching Ex¬ cellence essays prepared for the 1994-95 aca¬ demic year have been sent to us by the Centre for VOL 1 NO 1 6 the Executive Offices, Budget and Planning, In¬ stitutional Research and Public Relations is 8717451. The previous number, 871-7200, is now being used by the Educational Foundation. PAGE 5 AS The Maple Ridge Choral 300 bands! 96 hours! No Connections Editor, Design and Layout: Dale Rasmussen, PR Dept Campus Contacts Vickki Montigny (CC), Manijeh Golkhizi (KEC) Communications Coordinaton Sarah Lucas, local 7158 Society presents a Spring Concert: mud! Music West, the international Welcome to All the Pleasures. Live! love! music syposium, gets underway in Van¬ couver May 11-14. 300 bands and solo artists, chosen from 1,500 submissions will perform at 30 venues as part of the Swatch Music West Festival. Performers include Jann Arden (recent Juno winner), Montreal's Bootsauce, New York's John Cale and Ani DiFranco. Festival wrist¬ laugh! and be happy! Saturday, May 6, 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, May 7,2:30 p.m. Featuring music by Purcell, Handel, Vaughan-Williams and others, they will survey a variety of life's pleasures in song styles ranging from madrigal to romantic and musical comedy. Choose from two performances at St. Andrew's United Church, 22165 Dewdney Trunk Rd, Ma¬ ple Ridge. Admission is $7.00 adults, Seniors and students $6.00. Call Alice at 467-2248 for more information. bands ($40 before April 30, $40 plus gst after that) are available through Ticketmaster and at Music West. Call 684-9338. Connections publishes every Thursday, and the deadline for submissions is 3:00 pm on the previous Friday. Please supply your article to Manijeh or Vickki in a simple,wordprocessed format (text only is best) on an IBM- 'ms JOB POSTINGS VCC Instructional Assistant (D), Assessment Centre. This is a temporary position until January 31, 1996. Closing date: May 2, 1995. compatible disk. Please include a hardcopy. Senior Secretary, Business and Computer Appli¬ cations Division. Closing date: May 1,1995. Please recycle Bookstore Cashier, King Edward Campus. This is a temporary position until approximately De¬ cember 31, 1995. Closing date: May 1,1995. this newsletter. Senior Secretary, Administration, King Edward Campus. This posting has been delayed. Food Services Cashier, City Centre. Closing date: May 3,1995. Assistant Department Head, College Preparatory English Dept. (ESL Programs). Closing date: April 30, 1995. PAGE 6 Coordinator!—English/Social Studies, College and Career Access Dept. No closing date avail¬ able at printing. EXTERNAL English as a Foreign Language (EFL) teacher, Singapore. Posting is from May-December, 1995. Closing date: 9:00 a.m., May 1, 1995. Contact Fred Wuhrer, International Education Dept. FORSALI 92 Mazda Miata Limited Edition, loaded, tan leather, OD, PW, PDL, HT, 5 SPD, alarm, 3700 miles. Black immaculate, $17,000. Call Wayne at local 7279 or Dolores at 543-8871 or 666-6875. My daughter is looking for a long hair kitten. Please contact Vickki Montigny at 443-8589. APRIL 27 1 995