Pooling Resources

Education

Sept 23, 2021

The Education Department is making an appeal to all with two requests

The first is from your memories of the boating season that is coming to an end. You probably took some photos and videos while on the water. I would ask you to look at them from an instructor’s point of view and select those that would illustrate what we teach in our courses. In our multimedia bank we already have many pictures of the most common markers in the buoy system such as lateral buoys. Perhaps you have photographed markers that are less common? On the other hand, we have fewer pictures of work on the chart or on navigation aids such as windvane gear, autopilot, VHF radio, radar, electronic chart plotter, etc. We would also like to add to our video bank with maneuvers such as leaving or arriving at a dock, anchoring, mooring, installing a boom restraint or preventer, etc. If you think your photos and videos are of good quality, send them to the general office, who knows, maybe you will find them in one of our manuals?

The second request relates to your work as an instructor. In your interactions with your students, whether in the classroom or online, you may have created teaching tools of your own such as quizzes, supplemental exercises, and role-playing exercises that enrich your teaching and allow you to check for knowledge acquisition. Why not share these tools with Course Chairs.
We are all volunteers, Course Chairs or otherwise. It is by pooling our resources that we pursue excellence.

Lise Blais Huot, NS
National Educational Officer

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