Hints on recording entries in the Scholarly Activity Database

Your entries will be edited and formatted, along with other VIU staff entries, for inclusion in the Internal Research and Scholarly Activity Annual Report. As you can imagine, it is difficult to take entries from many writers and integrate them with a common style. Hence, we have provided some hints on writing style and given some examples - good and poor. To give you an even better idea of what the Internal Annual Report looks like, See examples of past Annual Research Reports.

Hints

• Use third person
• Use past tense
• Include full citations in the style appropriate to your discipline (eg. APA, Harvard, MLA)
• Use plain language that your mother would understand and approve
• Keep entries concise and informative to reduce editing
• Spell out acronyms
• Include externally and internally funded projects
• If published, where? If presented at conference, where ?
• Please provide a URL for further information if one is available

Describing your activity - (Good examples)

Mary VIU

Conference Presentation
In the Inferno: Developing a Framework for Best Practices in CISM
Presentation to the International Fire Fighters of America conference Fanning the Flames, held in Cleveland, Ohio, June 2006.
At a time when international debate over efficacy of Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM)has polarized the field, the interactive presentation reviewed the results of a field study of CISM programs in three British Columbia fire departments. Workshop participants heard what firefighters perceived to be important, relevant, and useful components of CISM. The study focused on firefighters, but outcomes were relevant to all CISM programs. The latter half of the workshop focused on the implications (theoretical, methodological, and organizational) of the research, and how the outcomes will contribute to the development of a "Best Practices" framework.

Projects
The Learning ConCourse- A Design Construct. for Online Learning
Recently completed (October 2003) Master's Thesis/Major Project for Royal Roads University's Masters of Distributed Learning (MADL) program. The project investigated the application of appropriate mind technologies (learning scaffolds) and learning communities to the design of a hybrid learning opportunity. The resulting course -- EDTE 611 Instructional Design-Application of Educational Technologies – is currently being offered to the Post Baccalaureate Fifth- Year students in the VIU Education Program. The program design incorporated the concept of engaging a learning community toward student success in integrating technology into K-12 learning.

Graduate Student Supervision
Co Supervision of M.Sc. student from University of Never Never Land A collaborative research project with Dr. Peter Pan and M.Sc. student, Tinker Bell. Thesis titled “Analysis of the Chemical Composition of Fairy Dust.”

Alexandro Spinamala

Book
Selections from the Girl's Own Paper 1880-1907 
(Toronto: Broadway Press, 2004)
A photographic reprint edition of articles on the new girl culture of the late nineteenth-century from one of the best-selling periodicals of the day.

Chapter
“Famous Writers”
Writing Life
Ed. Constance Rooke
McLelland & Stewart: Toronto,  2006
An essay on the effect of ambition and expectations of fame on the writing life.

Describing your activity - (Poor examples)

Lazlo Sloth

Article

Post Modern Existential Thematic Modes in the 21 Century Graphic Novel
Subordinates were analyzed and the semiotics perspectives were extrapolated. The deterministic, functional regularity or stability in a system can be established this way and then juxtaposed against countervailing trends.

Meaning Goes Empty
Using meta-system transition theory, the researchers established the adaptation of a cybernetic system to its environment by anticipation of possible perturbations. Recursive generators of predictions about the world and the self showed that the system compensated perturbations before they had the opportunity to damage the dynamic constructions.