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Classroom Resource: Sustainability Solutions and Writing Assignments

students exploring sustainability solutions
Professor in the School of Business, Catrina McBride inspires her Communications, Level II students to explore sustainability solutions that might be appropriate for Algonquin College to undertake.

Through a series of writing assignments, students learn from business leader Ray Anderson in his book Confessions of a Radical Industrialist, while developing their skills in summarizing content, writing with persuasion, and conveying research findings and recommendations in a final summary report. The culminating performance for the course is a group project and report that is evaluated on its organization, use of the indirect strategy, appendix, style, mechanics, format, and APA referencing.

Oral communications and presentation skills are also brought into the mix as the groups of students get to interact with Algonquin College community members during a Spring Sustainability Day hosted in Student Commons.Students working on their Oral communications and presentation skills

A series of lesson plans and accompanying assessment rubrics map out student learning in this course and are available in the myAC group for collaboration around sustainability, innovation and Indigenous practices relevant to curriculum delivery.

Photos of the poster presentations are available at:
Sustainability Day 2018
Sustainability Day 2017
Sustainability Day 2016

Ideas Corner: Recycle Whiteboard Markers & Pens

Reduce waste!

Recycle your used whiteboard markers and other writing utensils on campus.

Around the Ottawa campus, employees have set up drop off points for used whiteboard markers and other writing utensils.

Employees can drop these off at the various locations, or send them via internal mail.

Collection points:

CA524 (ACCE Building, Ottawa campus) Drop off times: Weekdays 7:30 am – 4:30 pm

T 107 (T Building) Drop off times: Weekdays 8:00 am – 4:30 pm

The used writing utensils recycled through the Staples / TerraCycle recycling program.

Employees interested in helping out with this program are encouraged to contact the members of the employee sustainability action team, See Earth Action Team for Sustainability (SEATS).

Collection boxes for dry whiteboard markers, pens and other office supplies can easily be set up at various locations around Algonquin College campuses to keep even more waste from the landfill.