User:Cindyu

My profile
Daughter, sister, mother, wife, aunt, friend, writer, reader, singer (in the right company) and lover of passionate debates about almost anything. I work as a Learning Support Strategist for the Office of Learning Technology at the University of British Columbia. In my work I collaborate, develop, create, write, learn, facilitate, manage projects, design learning environments and try not to annoy my colleagues. Sometimes I am successful; sometimes I'm not.

Formative Experiences

 * teaching young children
 * collaborating with a Hungarian ex-pat on a program teaching "developmental" drama to young children (this means drama using imagination and very few props).
 * working with families of very ill, severely challenged children.
 * coordinating a community translation program (with very little knowledge of other languages myself).
 * teaching adults in a community college setting (night school!)

Formative Learning
I've studied psychology (Arts - Simon Fraser University), Special Education (University of British Columbia),  Educational Technology (few courses in the technology based distributed learning program). Still learning new things every day that are forming and shaping my work.

My Interests
The role of learning support specialists, instructors and others in guiding decision making about resources to meet learning needs (issues here: resource glut, quality, information overload, multi-tasking and effect on learning)
 * Learner centered approaches to planning and design http://www.wikieducator.org/Learner-Centered_Planning
 * Web 2.0 approaches to supporting learning. I'm involved with an academic support project, guided by students who contribute to content and the project direction (along with with a bunch of very talented student staff and colleagues): http://leap.ubc.ca