Campus Notices
On March 4, 2021, the sign-in page for myUPEI will look slightly different as ITSS will be applying a security improvement to the myUPEI portal.
This will mean beginning March 4, and on a go-forward basis, you will need to login to myUPEI using your full UPEI email address. Then click “Next” before you can enter your password. Examples of what the new login will look like can be seen here on the ITSS Announcements section of our website.
As always, if you have any questions or issues after the change, please contact the ITSS Help Desk (helpdesk@upei.ca) or call 902 566 0465.
I am back with my hat in my hand (when it is not a toque on my head). Food costs and student traffic at the campus food bank have increased to numbers comparable to last spring and summer. I continue to be grateful for the generosity of the UPEI campus community for volunteering time as well as donations of food and funding.
If you are able to volunteer to cover a shift or two, please sign up here Campus Food Bank Volunteer Sign-up.
We are also grateful for your financial support upei.ca/donate.
And as always, rice, pasta, frozen and canned vegetables, and gift cards can be donated.
Thank you!
Sister Sue
Thursday, March 4, 2021
2:30 pm-4:30 pm AST via Zoom
Ian McIsaac, a candidate in the Master of Arts Island Studies (MAIS) program, will defend his thesis on Thursday, March 4, 2:30–4:30 pm. The thesis is entitled "Islandness: Factors influencing change in the Prince Edward Island Lobster Fishery."
As this thesis defence will be conducted using Zoom video conferencing technology, pre-registration is required. If you wish to attend, please visit http://bit.ly/MAISthesis-McIsaac to reserve your spot.
For more information, contact Interim MAIS Coordinator Dr. Laurie Brinklow at brinklow@upei.ca.
In this one-day course, theory is introduced in short bursts and participants spend the majority of time practicing their presentation skills while receiving onsite feedback. The focus on extensive practice and feedback is what makes the program meaningful, and is what makes learning stick.
KEY TOPIC AREAS:
Presentation Structure - Managing Fear - Engaging Your Audience - Presentation Logistics
To register for an “in-person” course:
- Created an account or sign in to EDGE by clicking here
- After signing in, click on ‘Catalog’ tab on your dashboard
- You can then search and register for the course you are interested in by clicking the ‘Enroll’ tab
- You then need to choose available sessions at a location you prefer to finalise your registration
The Professor Emeritus Evaluation Committee will consider all nominees and forward its recommendations to Senate. Senate is the final approval body and will notify nominees of its decision.
Inquiries may be directed to vpar@upei.ca
Join ACENET and Ocean Tracking Network (OTN) in our Introductory Python for Ecologists workshop series. Over three weeks, we will explore data analysis and visualization with Python, based on the Data Carpentry Lessons. Each week will build off the last – if you miss a week, check out the previous link to follow along!
No previous coding experience necessary.
We will start with basic Python syntax and the Jupyter notebook interface. Then, we’ll teach you how to import CSV files using the Pandas package to manipulate and summarize data frames, and cover a brief introduction to plotting. The last lesson demonstrates how to work with databases directly from Python.
Be sure to come prepared and have the appropriate software and data files downloaded. You will need to have a laptop with a Mac, Linux or Windows operating system (not a tablet, Chromebook, etc) on which you have administrative privileges, as you will need to pre-load specific software packages. Instructions are available at this link: Setup – Data Analysis and Visualization in Python for Ecologists.
This workshop will take place on:
Tuesday, March 2nd, 1-4 pm (Atlantic)
Tuesday, March 9th, 1-4 pm
Tuesday, March 16th, 1-4 pm
Detailed Information coming soon.
Participants must register using their institutional / organizational email address (not a personal email, ie. gmail).
See: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/acenet-and-ocean-tracking-network-introductory-python-for-ecologists-tickets-136019801889 for registration information
On March 4, 2021, the sign-in page for myUPEI will look slightly different as ITSS will be applying a security improvement to the myUPEI portal.
This will mean beginning March 4, and on a go-forward basis, you will need to login to myUPEI using your full UPEI email address. Then click “Next” before you can enter your password. Examples of what the new login will look like can be seen here on the ITSS Announcements section of our website.
As always, if you have any questions or issues after the change, please contact the ITSS Help Desk (helpdesk@upei.ca) or call 902 566 0465.
I am back with my hat in my hand (when it is not a toque on my head). Food costs and student traffic at the campus food bank have increased to numbers comparable to last spring and summer. I continue to be grateful for the generosity of the UPEI campus community for volunteering time as well as donations of food and funding.
If you are able to volunteer to cover a shift or two, please sign up here Campus Food Bank Volunteer Sign-up.
We are also grateful for your financial support upei.ca/donate.
And as always, rice, pasta, frozen and canned vegetables, and gift cards can be donated.
Thank you!
Sister Sue
The Robertson Library is excited to announce it's first cohort of Faculty Textbook Champions during Open Education Week from March 1st - 5th (https://www.openeducationweek.org/)!
As part of the Library's Open Education Resource Development Program, this new initiative highlights University of Prince Edward Island educators who selected open textbooks or open educational materials for their course(s) and showcases the efforts of these educators to reduce student costs and provide equitable access to educational materials.
Visit https://library.upei.ca/textbook-champions to learn more about each educator's reason for switching to an open educational resource, the impact of selecting an OER on their course, and finally, advice for educators considering selecting and/or developing an open educational resource.
Please note the previously publicized public presentations by this candidate have been cancelled.
The Healthy Campus Committee, as part of the Employee Wellness Strategy, will be providing FREE "Gentle Yoga Stretch and Meditation Classes" for UPEI faculty and staff. Classes will be on Tuesdays and Thursdays 12:10 pm–12:50 pm. Classes will be on a four-week rotation. Employees can only select one day (Tuesday or Thursday) and one month (March or April). This time around, it is only a total of 4 classes/month. Yoga instructors Colleen Gallant (Tuesdays) and Pam Harris-Stewart (Thursdays) will be leading the classes. Pre-registration required. No drop-ins. Tuesdays - March 2, 9, 16, and 23 or April 6, 13, 20, and 27. Thursdays - March 4, 11, 18, and 25 or April 8, 15, 22, and 29. April Space limited.
How to register: email Angela Marchbank at amarchbank@upei.ca your preferred day (Tuesday or Thursday) and your preferred month (March or April).
Prerequisites: Familiarity with some other programming language
A great deal of high-performance computing software is written in C, but few universities offer courses in the language any more. If you have to work with "legacy code" written in C, adding features, porting to a new machine, or patching errors, or if you need to write user-defined functions for engineering packages such as Fluent, then this workshop is for you.
This session will take place on:
Thursday, March 4 - 12 pm - 4 pm (Atlantic time)
You do need to have a laptop with a Mac, Linux or Windows operating system (not a tablet, Chromebook, etc) on which you have administrative privileges, as you will need to pre-load specific software packages.
Participants must register using their institutional / organizational email address (not a personal email, ie. gmail)
Instructions for how to join will be sent out one day prior to the start of the event.
Register at: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/acenet-c-as-a-second-language-tickets-135724978063
Join ACENET and Ocean Tracking Network (OTN) in our Introductory Python for Ecologists workshop series. Over three weeks, we will explore data analysis and visualization with Python, based on the Data Carpentry Lessons. Each week will build off the last – if you miss a week, check out the previous link to follow along!
No previous coding experience necessary.
We will start with basic Python syntax and the Jupyter notebook interface. Then, we’ll teach you how to import CSV files using the Pandas package to manipulate and summarize data frames, and cover a brief introduction to plotting. The last lesson demonstrates how to work with databases directly from Python.
Be sure to come prepared and have the appropriate software and data files downloaded. You will need to have a laptop with a Mac, Linux or Windows operating system (not a tablet, Chromebook, etc) on which you have administrative privileges, as you will need to pre-load specific software packages. Instructions are available at this link: Setup – Data Analysis and Visualization in Python for Ecologists.
This workshop will take place on:
Tuesday, March 2nd, 1-4 pm (Atlantic)
Tuesday, March 9th, 1-4 pm
Tuesday, March 16th, 1-4 pm
Detailed Information coming soon.
Participants must register using their institutional / organizational email address (not a personal email, ie. gmail).
See: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/acenet-and-ocean-tracking-network-introductory-python-for-ecologists-tickets-136019801889 for registration information
On March 4, 2021, the sign-in page for myUPEI will look slightly different as ITSS will be applying a security improvement to the myUPEI portal.
This will mean beginning March 4, and on a go-forward basis, you will need to login to myUPEI using your full UPEI email address. Then click “Next” before you can enter your password. Examples of what the new login will look like can be seen here on the ITSS Announcements section of our website.
As always, if you have any questions or issues after the change, please contact the ITSS Help Desk (helpdesk@upei.ca) or call 902 566 0465.
I am back with my hat in my hand (when it is not a toque on my head). Food costs and student traffic at the campus food bank have increased to numbers comparable to last spring and summer. I continue to be grateful for the generosity of the UPEI campus community for volunteering time as well as donations of food and funding.
If you are able to volunteer to cover a shift or two, please sign up here Campus Food Bank Volunteer Sign-up.
We are also grateful for your financial support upei.ca/donate.
And as always, rice, pasta, frozen and canned vegetables, and gift cards can be donated.
Thank you!
Sister Sue
The Faculty of Arts is pleased to offer the second event in its new ConneXions Seminar Series. Join us on Zoom, Friday, February 26, 2021, at 2:30 pm, when Dr. Anne Furlong will present “Adaptation as communication: a linguistic pragmatic approach to adaptation studies.”
Abstract:
Too often, we scrutinize adaptations for the slightest departures from the version we’ve carried around in our minds (and hearts), our disapproval fully primed and ready to deploy. In the early decades of adaptation studies, the emphasis was thus quite naturally on issues of “fidelity”, on the relation of the new text to the source work, as theorists attempted to account not just for the failures but for the successes. The fact that many adaptations are transmediated (text to stage, or screen, or videogame) has complicated evaluations of faithfulness, producing a sprawling and often inconsistent taxonomy of “types” or “instances” of adaptation.
Based in the linguistic-pragmatic framework of Relevance Theory, my account focuses not on issues or degrees of resemblance, but rather on the adaptation as an independent communicative act. I think about any adaptation – whether or not it is transmediated – as expressing the adaptor’s attitude towards the source work, an attitude that shapes the resulting text. An adaptation that endorses or celebrates or reveres the source will strive for a high degree of fidelity along all dimensions; one that attempts to correct errors or omissions in the source may preserve many of the external details but introduce completely new material while holding the source up to ridicule and scorn. Every adaptation can therefore be treated as we would any communicative act in a relevance theoretic framework, one that encourages or requires the audience to develop an expanded or altered context. No adaptor is bound by the intended interpretation of the source, but every adaptation makes manifest its relation, not only to the source text, but to previous versions and to the interpretation which the audience brings to it.
Zoom link: https://upei.zoom.us/j/61586078663?pwd=RGRjQ2pJTzAxZkI2ckxyU1cvRVJ1QT09
The Connexions Seminar Series aims to foster understanding of the role that the liberal arts play in knowledge and ways of knowing and in making sense of the complexities of the world around us through panel discussions; speakers and research talks; collaborative projects and presentations; symposia and workshops; and reading and discussion groups.
Please note the previously publicized public presentations by this candidate have been cancelled.
The Faculty of Arts is pleased to offer the second event in its new ConneXions Seminar Series. Join us on Zoom, Friday, February 26, 2021, at 2:30 pm, when Dr. Anne Furlong will present “Adaptation as communication: a linguistic pragmatic approach to adaptation studies.”
Zoom link: https://upei.zoom.us/j/61586078663?pwd=RGRjQ2pJTzAxZkI2ckxyU1cvRVJ1QT09
The Connexions Seminar Series aims to foster understanding of the role that the liberal arts play in knowledge and ways of knowing and in making sense of the complexities of the world around us through panel discussions; speakers and research talks; collaborative projects and presentations; symposia and workshops; and reading and discussion groups.
The Faculty of Arts is pleased to offer the second event in its new ConneXions Seminar Series. Join us on Zoom, Friday, February 26, 2021, at 2:30 pm, when Dr. Anne Furlong will present “Adaptation as communication: a linguistic pragmatic approach to adaptation studies.”
Abstract:
Too often, we scrutinize adaptations for the slightest departures from the version we’ve carried around in our minds (and hearts), our disapproval fully primed and ready to deploy. In the early decades of adaptation studies, the emphasis was thus quite naturally on issues of “fidelity”, on the relation of the new text to the source work, as theorists attempted to account not just for the failures but for the successes. The fact that many adaptations are transmediated (text to stage, or screen, or videogame) has complicated evaluations of faithfulness, producing a sprawling and often inconsistent taxonomy of “types” or “instances” of adaptation.
Based in the linguistic-pragmatic framework of Relevance Theory, my account focuses not on issues or degrees of resemblance, but rather on the adaptation as an independent communicative act. I think about any adaptation – whether or not it is transmediated – as expressing the adaptor’s attitude towards the source work, an attitude that shapes the resulting text. An adaptation that endorses or celebrates or reveres the source will strive for a high degree of fidelity along all dimensions; one that attempts to correct errors or omissions in the source may preserve many of the external details but introduce completely new material while holding the source up to ridicule and scorn. Every adaptation can therefore be treated as we would any communicative act in a relevance theoretic framework, one that encourages or requires the audience to develop an expanded or altered context. No adaptor is bound by the intended interpretation of the source, but every adaptation makes manifest its relation, not only to the source text, but to previous versions and to the interpretation which the audience brings to it.
Zoom link: https://upei.zoom.us/j/61586078663?pwd=RGRjQ2pJTzAxZkI2ckxyU1cvRVJ1QT09
The Connexions Seminar Series aims to foster understanding of the role that the liberal arts play in knowledge and ways of knowing and in making sense of the complexities of the world around us through panel discussions; speakers and research talks; collaborative projects and presentations; symposia and workshops; and reading and discussion groups.
Please note the previously publicized public presentations by this candidate have been cancelled.
