Campus Notices
The Graduate Studies Committee would like to invite everyone to the MSC ESC Thesis defense for Travis James. His Thesis is titled " Migration patterns of Atlantic Halibut from the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence".
Abstract: The seasonal mobility of Atlantic halibut of the Southern Gulf of St. Lawrence was evaluated using pop-up satellite arrival (PSAT) and Floy tags. Atlantic halibut were captured in the coastal waters of Prince Edward Island, Canada; Twenty Atlantic halibut were tagged with 20 PSAT tags and 667 with Floy tags. PSATs were programed to release after approximately one year. Atlantic halibut took either distinct eastern or western migratory coastal migratory routes. Atlantic halibut overwintered in the deepest waters of the Laurentian Channel or along the slope of the Laurentian Channel. Atlantic halibut in the deepest waters of the Laurentian Channel exhibited rapid, ~ 100m depth rises associated with spawning in January to March. Floy and PSAT tagging showed that Atlantic halibut exhibited fidelity to late summer range, with a median distance between capture and recapture locations of 16 km. Out of 123 Floy tag recaptures over five years, only eight Atlantic halibut exhibited dispersive behavior outside of the observed migratory routes. The dispersive fish migrated to the Northern Gulf of St. Lawrence and the Scotian Shelf.
The presentation and examination will be presented via a web conference. Those who wish to “attend” should contact the examination committee chair, Barry Linkletter, at gsc@upei.ca for the information to connect.
MITACS - ONE DAY ONLINE COURSE - TIME MANAGEMENT
SUPPORTED BY SYNAPSE
9 am - 5 pm
This energetic, intensive one-day course will sharpen your professional time management skills and optimize your working week.
Course Objective - review and apply relevant time management processes within a project management context. We will also cover successful productivity optimization and performance improvement tactics. Ww will focus on professional scenarios from individual and team perspectives.
The tactics shared in this course can improve your ability to focus, follow through, take effective action, manage your energy, schedule with increased accuracy and agility, and help ensure a more successful outcome
To register for an in-person (Zoom session) course:
1. Create an account or sign in to EDGE by going to https://edge-reg.mitacs.ca
2. After you sign in, click on "Catalog" tab on your dashboard
3. You can then search and register for the course you are interested in by clicking the "Enroll" tab
4. You then need to choose available sessions at a location you prefer to finalize your registration
If you encounter trouble signing in or registering for this course, please email training@mitacs.ca.
The Graduate Studies Committee would like to invite everyone to the MSC ESC Thesis defense for Travis James. His Thesis is titled " Migration patterns of Atlantic Halibut from the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence".
Abstract: The seasonal mobility of Atlantic halibut of the Southern Gulf of St. Lawrence was evaluated using pop-up satellite arrival (PSAT) and Floy tags. Atlantic halibut were captured in the coastal waters of Prince Edward Island, Canada; Twenty Atlantic halibut were tagged with 20 PSAT tags and 667 with Floy tags. PSATs were programed to release after approximately one year. Atlantic halibut took either distinct eastern or western migratory coastal migratory routes. Atlantic halibut overwintered in the deepest waters of the Laurentian Channel or along the slope of the Laurentian Channel. Atlantic halibut in the deepest waters of the Laurentian Channel exhibited rapid, ~ 100m depth rises associated with spawning in January to March. Floy and PSAT tagging showed that Atlantic halibut exhibited fidelity to late summer range, with a median distance between capture and recapture locations of 16 km. Out of 123 Floy tag recaptures over five years, only eight Atlantic halibut exhibited dispersive behavior outside of the observed migratory routes. The dispersive fish migrated to the Northern Gulf of St. Lawrence and the Scotian Shelf.
The presentation and examination will be presented via a web conference. Those who wish to “attend” should contact the examination committee chair, Barry Linkletter, at gsc@upei.ca for the information to connect.
The UPEI Healthy Campus Committee invites UPEI faculty and staff to sign up for the 100-Day Global Challenge, which will take place from May 27 to September 4, 2020. We have a few spots left to fill on teams and two full team opportunities available. If you or a group of UPEI employees would like to register, please contact Angela Marchbank at amarchbank@upei.ca before Thursday, May 14. Challenge is free for UPEI Employees.
Games are compelling for young and old alike. Adding game elements to your course is one way of enhancing your students' engagement and increasing the opportunity to learn. But adding game elements doesn't mean you are making your course into a full blown game. The elements that make good games good can be borrowed and used to aid in your online course's overall pedagogical approach. In this workshop you will learn about basic game elements and how they can be used primarily for your Moodle course page but also for an online environment in general. Facilitated by the E-Learning Office, this workshop will be delivered online and will be offered on Wednesday, May 27th from 10:30 to 11:30 am. REGISTER
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the previously scheduled work for myUPEI (originally May 2nd) and Moodle (originally May 6th) has been re-schedule for Wednesday May 13th. ITSS apologizes for any inconvenience.
Please see below for more details:
myUPEI maintenance
On Wednesday May 13th 2020, ITSS will be conducting routine maintenance on the MyUPEI portal and related services from 8 PM to 12 AM midnight. During this time there may be intermittent access and performance issues with accessing and using MyUPEI, Self-Service & Colleague.
We encourage Students, Faculty, and Staff that may need documents or links located on myUPEI to plan ahead and bookmark or download the resources they may need during this period.
If you have any questions, please contact the ITSS Help Desk at 902-566-0465.
Moodle Upgrade
On Wednesday, May 13th 2020, IT Systems and Services (in conjunction with the E-Learning Office) will be upgrading the UPEI Online Learning Management System (Moodle) to a newer version. Maintenance will begin at 8:00 pm and is expected to be completed by midnight. For more information about the changes coming to Moodle please check the Moodle New Features document.
Moodle will be inaccessible during this time.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact moodle@upei.ca.
The UPEI Healthy Campus Committee invites UPEI faculty and staff to sign up for the 100-Day Global Challenge, which will take place from May 27 to September 4, 2020. We have a few spots left to fill on teams and two full team opportunities available. If you or a group of UPEI employees would like to register, please contact Angela Marchbank at amarchbank@upei.ca before Thursday, May 14. Challenge is free for UPEI Employees.
Providing content for a course can be easy to do. Figuring out how to explain to students what that content will do to them and for them can be far more challenging. There are numerous ways to describe learning and just as many opinions as to which is best. Are learning targets even necessary? Facilitated by the E-Learning Office, this webinar will take place on Wednesday, May 20th from 10:30 to 11:30 am. REGISTER
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the previously scheduled work for myUPEI (originally May 2nd) and Moodle (originally May 6th) has been re-schedule for Wednesday May 13th. ITSS apologizes for any inconvenience.
Please see below for more details:
myUPEI maintenance
On Wednesday May 13th 2020, ITSS will be conducting routine maintenance on the MyUPEI portal and related services from 8 PM to 12 AM midnight. During this time there may be intermittent access and performance issues with accessing and using MyUPEI, Self-Service & Colleague.
We encourage Students, Faculty, and Staff that may need documents or links located on myUPEI to plan ahead and bookmark or download the resources they may need during this period.
If you have any questions, please contact the ITSS Help Desk at 902-566-0465.
Moodle Upgrade
On Wednesday, May 13th 2020, IT Systems and Services (in conjunction with the E-Learning Office) will be upgrading the UPEI Online Learning Management System (Moodle) to a newer version. Maintenance will begin at 8:00 pm and is expected to be completed by midnight. For more information about the changes coming to Moodle please check the Moodle New Features document.
Moodle will be inaccessible during this time.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact moodle@upei.ca.
The UPEI Healthy Campus Committee invites UPEI faculty and staff to sign up for the 100-Day Global Challenge, which will take place from May 27 to September 4, 2020. We have a few spots left to fill on teams and two full team opportunities available. If you or a group of UPEI employees would like to register, please contact Angela Marchbank at amarchbank@upei.ca before Thursday, May 14. Challenge is free for UPEI Employees.
The UPEI Healthy Campus Committee invites UPEI faculty and staff to sign up for the 100-Day Global Challenge, which will take place from May 27 to September 4, 2020. We have a few spots left to fill on teams and two full team opportunities available. If you or a group of UPEI employees would like to register, please contact Angela Marchbank at amarchbank@upei.ca before Thursday, May 14. Challenge is free for UPEI Employees.
May Special - No shipping fee on online delivery orders for graduation parchment frames for the month of May! Visit our website here to place your order today! If you have any questions, feel free to email us at alumni@upei.ca
Reminder!
Equity and inclusion continue to be important emphases to our work in the university, no matter where or how we’re doing that work -- and the Arts Equity and Inclusion reading group is not letting physical distancing stop us from continuing that conversation. So – we're meeting online -- and sending another reminder so you have time over the weekend to read the chapter. For our next reading group meeting we’ve selected chapter 4, “Universal Design,” from Academic Ableism: disability and higher education, by Jay Dolmage. The library has the ebook, and we’ve downloaded the chapter into our google folder too: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1C-Kp3Rgic3p4Beu_26WK5h4i0ZD4LZmv?usp=sharing.
We’ll be meeting via Zoom, on Tuesday, May 12, at 11:00am. Please send an email to Andrew Zinck, at azinck@upei.ca so he can add you to his invite list for this event.
Hope to see a lot of you there!
The Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Office (SVPRO) invites you to check out the evolving resources being added to the upei.ca/svpro website to support survivors and victims of sexual and gender-based violence during this time of social distancing. Eileen is still available to talk, provide referrals/accommodations, safety-plan, navigate reporting options, and facilitate workshops Mon-Fri, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. She can be reached by email: econboy@upeil.ca, phone: 902-213-5298, and Google Meet.
While online learning creates many opportunities to reduce barriers experienced by students with disabilities, it also creates new challenges for accessibility. For example, students with seizure disorders, acquired brain injuries, concussions and migraines may find working on the computer for long periods of time challenging and may require flexible deadlines or due dates. Follow this link to an Online Accessibility Services Check List. You will find helpful resources there.
In order to accommodate UPEI computer classroom and lab software planning for the 2020 fall semester, IT Systems and Services has set a firm deadline of June 1, 2020 for software additions, deletions, or modifications. The June 1 deadline is necessary to allow sufficient time to plan and implement the installation of new and upgraded software, ensuring our students will have the software resources they need. Any requests received after the deadline will be applied in the next round of software updates.
For more information or to view a list of currently installed software to see if they are still required or newer versions are needed, please click here.
If you have any questions, or to submit requests, email Stephen Mahar at smahar@upei.ca.
Reminder!
Equity and inclusion continue to be important emphases to our work in the university, no matter where or how we’re doing that work -- and the Arts Equity and Inclusion reading group is not letting physical distancing stop us from continuing that conversation. So – we're meeting online -- and sending another reminder so you have time over the weekend to read the chapter. For our next reading group meeting we’ve selected chapter 4, “Universal Design,” from Academic Ableism: disability and higher education, by Jay Dolmage. The library has the ebook, and we’ve downloaded the chapter into our google folder too: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1C-Kp3Rgic3p4Beu_26WK5h4i0ZD4LZmv?usp=sharing.
We’ll be meeting via Zoom, on Tuesday, May 12, at 11:00am. Please send an email to Andrew Zinck, at azinck@upei.ca so he can add you to his invite list for this event.
Hope to see a lot of you there!
The Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Office (SVPRO) invites you to check out the evolving resources being added to the upei.ca/svpro website to support survivors and victims of sexual and gender-based violence during this time of social distancing. Eileen is still available to talk, provide referrals/accommodations, safety-plan, navigate reporting options, and facilitate workshops Mon-Fri, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. She can be reached by email: econboy@upeil.ca, phone: 902-213-5298, and Google Meet.
Teaching Community Conference Follow-Up Session
During the 2019-2020 academic year, we, a group of seven business faculty members (Drs. Chen, Evans, James, Jelley, Mady, Pauley & Wagner), taught in the BBA and MBA programs at the University of Canada, Egypt (UCE). We delivered a wide range of in-person as well as online courses (e.g., entrepreneurship, marketing, organization management, strategy). Collectively reflecting upon this unique teaching experience, we will host this 1-hour “Ask an Expert” follow up session to the UPEI’s 3rd Annual Teaching Community Conference.
While online learning creates many opportunities to reduce barriers experienced by students with disabilities, it also creates new challenges for accessibility. For example, students with seizure disorders, acquired brain injuries, concussions and migraines may find working on the computer for long periods of time challenging and may require flexible deadlines or due dates. Follow this link to an Online Accessibility Services Check List. You will find helpful resources there.
