The battle of cultures

The battle of cultures

Canada is a tapestry of different ethnicities and cultures. Our immigration policy has given people all over the world a chance to experience life in a developed country. And boy is the life here wonderful—the streets are clean and uncrowded, opportunities are...
Student with marijuana licence barred from machinery

Student with marijuana licence barred from machinery

UVic student Bruce Dean’s Bachelor of Fine Arts has been put on hold, as he participates in a human rights case against Facility and Production Manager of Fine Arts Daniel Wilkin and UVic. According to Dean, UVic and Wilkin discriminated against him, preventing him...
Flipping the Plan

Flipping the Plan

In early July, I shot a cover photo for the latest Martlet feature on “flipping the classroom,” a teaching method that asks students to do homework during lecture time and absorb the lecture material at home through videos or assigned reading. It was a photo...
On photographing deer

On photographing deer

I don’t fancy myself as a wildlife photographer. There’s no way I’d get up that early in the morning. However, the glut of feral deer around the UVic campus and my home forces me to be somewhat proficient at capturing these wily creatures. One evening, deep in the...
On photographing deer

Flipping the Classroom

For generations, students have spent their days furiously copying lecture notes from a chalkboard and their nights churning out assignments based on those notes. This familiar model is the dominant one for most university classes, but a few UVic instructors are...