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11:45

Imagining a Non-Profit: Generating student engagement, holding realistic expectations

Jason Campbell, Assistant Professor in the School of Business, shares an assignment in which students learn course concepts by applying them in weekly written assignments to their own imagined non-profit organization. Jason reflects on how this design limits inappropriate AI use and impacts instructor workload. This presentation was made as part of the May2026 edition of the "Celebrate Learning" event series hosted by UFV's Teaching and Learning Centre. This Event's theme…

09:45

Student Ownership Check-ins

Hannah Sanvido, the TASK Program Instructor, shares how she uses multiple goal setting, reflective exercises, daily check-ins, and mindfulness cards to build student ownership and accountability. This presentation was made as part of the May2026 edition of the "Celebrate Learning" event series hosted by UFV's Teaching and Learning Centre. This Event's theme was Teaching with boundaries: Setting kind and reasonable expectations for ourselves and our students.

08:57

Kittens, Kindness, & Boundaries

Smitty Miller, Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Studies, share how she implements Catherine's Denial approach to teaching call "A Pedagogy of Kindness" through a re-imagined syllabus, a fluid deadline policy and trusting communication.

10:11

Social Media Projects with Intention: The "Three Worlds" Workshop

Assistant Professior Gabriela Kurtz shares how she incorporated Indigenous perspectives to encourage students to think about social media use as more than just clicks and subscribers: how do we use it build community and what boundaries do we need to set to protect those same communities? Students wrote one sentence intention statements about their projects to capture this complexity: "My project will tell a story about X, from Y perspective, while protecting Z". This presentation…

05:45

UFV Alerts - Experience Idol Highlight Video

UFV's submission to Ellucian's Experience Idol contest for 2026. This video showcases the work done to bring UFV Alerts to life - a self-hosted concurrent alerts messaging system, running directly in myUFV.