Giulia
Pronounced: JEWEL-EEE-YA
I can be found on twitter at @giuliaforsythe
LOVE:
- art, math, music and where they intersect.
- + 1 for science, cuz it works.
- #ds106 as a philosophy of education
- Staying up really late listening to #ds106radio
That wasn’t enough? Ok. Read on…
Education
Completed my Bachelor of Science in Biology and Integrated studies concurrently with a Bachelor of Education at Brock University. Certified by the Ontario College of Teachers. I took 7 years off between my first year and last year of university; during that time I spent some time at George Brown College in the Electronic Desktop Publishing program where I learned a lot, even if I don’t have a certificate to prove it.
Employment
By day, I am a mild mannered Special Projects Facilitator for the Centre for Pedagogical Innovation at Brock University in St.Catharines, Ontario, Canada.
I’ve been pleased to work on projects to help formulate best practices and policies at Brock University, like academic integrity policies and the creation of an Academic Integrity Officer and best practices in Evaluation of Teaching document endorsed by the Brock University Senate.
Currently, I mostly facilitate adult learners, specifically faculty and teaching assistants in the areas of curriculum design, instructional skills workshops and teaching online.
Increasingly, I am interested in Visual Practice mostly because it makes me very happy to draw but professionally speaking, there are growing research findings indicating that it can be great teaching & learning tool.
Professional Memberships, Committees & Affiliations
- Member of the Society for Teaching, Learning in Higher Education, the Ontario University group of E-learning professionals and the Council of Ontario Educational Developers
- Formerly the past-president of the Ontario Council for University Lifelong Learning which is an affiliate of the Council of Ontario Universities.
- Currently on the City of Welland Transit Advisory Committee and the board of directors for Green Niagara Vert, formerly in the role of citizen member of city of Welland conservation committee, which is involved in water and energy conservation with a focus on new forms of sustainable economic growth. My main committee responsibility is the development of the educational component of a citizen awareness campaign. .
Hi Giulia,
I am a high school teacher in Montreal. While doing some web research I ran across an image you created called “Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher. I love it. I am just finishing up my new teacher web site and I wanted to use this image on one of my pages. Of course, I need your permission. May I? This is all non-profit, instructional internet use for students/parents/colleagues.
Sincerely,
Peter
[...] highly talented and highly artistic Giulia Forsythe, recently shared this “Visual Diary” that she created for the “How We [...]
Hi Peter,
Thanks for your kind words.
Yes, please feel free to use the image and just attribute it as you would for creative commons licensed material:
cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo by giulia.forsythe: http://flickr.com/photos/gforsythe/7132198243/
cheers!
Giulia
Giulia: Similarly to Peter above, I saw your wonderful “The MOOC” movie poster and thought it would the perfect thing to go with an article on MOOCs written by some community college faculty who are not enthralled with the concept. I’m the editor of the California Federation of Teachers’ thrice-yearly community college print publication, “The Perspective”. Our next issue is in preparation. The publication is sent free to our members, accepts no advertising, we are a teacher union. May I use it? Fred
Hi Fred,
Yes, by all means, feel free to use the poster. It is a remix of the original BLOB poster and I released it under creative commons, so please attribute accordingly and share-alike. My hope is that creative commons and broad fair dealing/ fair use get the focus here, as these are critical for education and far more important than MOOCs.