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Diaspora on the Front Lines Final BMI AAPI Event

Please join us for our final Borders & Migrations event on Thursday April 21 at 6.30 p.m. in Science Hall focusing on AAPI: Diaspora on the Front Lines.

You’ve seen the cubes in the library and Science Hall come find out what it’s all about!

Submitted by: Dr. Richard D. Reitsma, chair, associate professor of Spanish, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, & Cultures

Volunteer for Waterkeeper’s Spring Sweep

The New Buffalo Institute has reservations available for volunteers to help with Waterkeeper’s Spring Sweep.  Join residents from all over Erie County to clean up our parks and rivers for Earth Day.   There are five places available at Hoyt Lake, five reservations at MLK Park and five reservations at Tifft Nature Preserve.  

If you are interested in signing up for one of the spots, Email Mary Rockwell at rockwel3@canisius.edu.

More information can be found here.

Submitted by: Mary Rockwell, PhD, director, The New Buffalo Institute

 

Pedagogy Primer Podcast: Feedback

In this episode, we discuss ways to improve professor feedback on student work.  Make your feedback commentary another great opportunity for students to learn, and help students get the most from it.

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Great Sources

Brookhart, Susan.  How to Give Effective Feedback to Your Students.  ASCD, 2017.

Koehler, Johann.  The Feedback Loop: When Less is More, and When More is Less.  Graduate Student Instructor Teaching & Resource Center, University of California at Berkeley. 2016.

Walvoord, Barbara and Virginia Johnson Anderson.  Effective Grading: A Tool for Learning and Assessment in College. Wiley, 2011.

COLI.  Lesson 4 of the COLI Guide for Teaching Online.

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