Dedicated Spaces in Nurse-led Primary Care Clinics: A Localised Solution for Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside

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Proposal for telehealth spaces in nurse practitioner-led clinics in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, created for LIBR 559A with Dr. Kevin Day.

E-Waste and Political Economy / Ecology

Title slide with centre-aligned text"e-Waste and Political Ecology / Economy", "Vanessa Chan", "LIBR 559A - Dr. Kevin Day", "June 17, 2024". The background is stylized to look like a computer window interface.

Presentation on electronic waste from a socio-technical perspective created for LIBR 559A with Dr. Kevin Day.

Domination with and the Dominance of Roads: A Socio-technical Analysis

Road stretching across on a dry grassy hill

Analytic report on roads as a technology created for LIBR 559A with Dr. Kevin Day.

Disability Representation in Population & Curricula in the MLIS Program

Screenshot of slide with a girl in glasses overlay on a rainbow infinity symbol to the right. Title "Seeing Me in University: Disability and Diversity in LIS Education" with details about the proposed audience and course information on the bottom.

Extended topic briefing about disability in library and information science education created for LIBR 508 with Dr. Hannah Turner in the MLIS core.

Designing a Study Protocol for the UBC Library Research Commons

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Study protocol designed to evaluate the workshops webpage at the UBC Library Research Commons created for LIBR 507 with Dr. Heather O'Brien in the MLIS core.

Reflection and Further Learning

Course reflection on LIBR 509 with Dr. Julia Bullard.

I Wanna Give My Friends All the Gifts: A Vendor Sorting System

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An integrated system for organizing craft vendor information, created for LIBR 509 with Dr. Julia Bullard in the MLIS core.

Community, Consistency, and the Wikipedia Corpus

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An analysis of Wikipedia as an integrated knowledge organization system created for LIBR 509 with Dr. Julia Bullard in the MLIS core.

Archival Finding Aids Encoded Through XML

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An analysis of XML and the Encoded Archival Description (EAD) created for LIBR 509 with Dr. Julia Bullard in the MLIS core.

Disability in the LISTA Thesaurus

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An analysis of the thesaurus created by EBSCO for the LISTA (Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts) database, created for LIBR 509 with Dr. Julia Bullard in the MLIS core.

Spines and Silos: On the Dewey Decimal Classification

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An analysis of the Dewey Decimal Classification system (DDC) created for LIBR 509 with Dr. Julia Bullard in the MLIS core.

Serendipity in Library and Information Sciences: An Overview

Screenshot of search bar with the word "serendipity" filled in to a fake database search.

One page double-sided handout summarizing the concept of serendipity created for LIBR 506 with Dr. Cameron Pierson in the MLIS core.

RDA: An Institutional, International, and Improving Tool

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An analysis of Resource Description and Access (RDA) and its growing pains created for LIBR 509 with Dr. Julia Bullard in the MLIS core.

Being an "Expert": Content Standard Guidance for Undergraduate Students

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Reflection on consulting experience with students from INFO 301 (Digital Cultural Collections with Dr. Hannah Turner) in LIBR 509 with Dr. Julia Bullard in the MLIS core.

Creating a Content Schema for Shared Annotated Bibliographies

Screenshot of the first quarter of the my Content Schema - Create assignment, which details the purpose of my schema and shows the headers for the schema.

Content schema designed for use in a shared annotated bibliography created for LIBR 509 with Dr. Julia Bullard in the MLIS core.

Creating a Faceted Classification System

Screenshot of a table listing isolates for the following Facets from top to bottom: Workability, Type, Usage, Aligned Personal Value

Faceted classification system organizing my productivity tools and methods created for LIBR 509 with Dr. Julia Bullard in the MLIS core.

Creating a Thesaurus for a Player-run Wiki

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Draft thesaurus meant as a template for wiki categories for a fan-run website created for LIBR 509 with Dr. Julia Bullard in the MLIS core.

Creating Art with a Stranger

Painting of two people sitting at a table having coffee and chatting outside a library. One individual grasps a coffee cup with both hands, while the other leans back in a chair with a backpack at their feet. The library building has a “Welcome” sign on its doors and a bulletin board that reads “Newcomer Classes.” Just off to the side is a free Community Garden Veggies stand where a person is handing a basketful of veggies to an older woman with a cane. There is lush greenery in the background of this scene. The painting has an off-white border around it with the artist’s handle “@creation_wing” written on the bottom right corner. Alt-text written by United Aunties

Art created in Spring/Summer of 2021 as part of the Enveloped project by United Aunties.

Teaching Reading Lesson Plan

Lesson plan made for TESOL 104 of the ISS Language and Career College of BC's TESOL Diploma Program, presented May 20, 2021.

Pronunciation Lesson Plan

Left: Screenshot of ultrasound of someone saying "ada"; Right: IPA symbol, example words, chart for mouth position, tongue position, lips

Lesson plan and slides made for TESOL 102 of the ISS Language and Career College of BC's TESOL Diploma Program, presented May 11, 2021. Re-presented May 18, 2021.

Teaching Conditionals Lesson Plan

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Lesson plan and slides made for TESOL 101 of the ISS Language and Career College of BC's TESOL Diploma Program, presented Apr. 29, 2021.

Listening and Speaking Activity Lesson Plan

Lesson plan and slides made for TESOL 103 of the ISS Language and Career College of BC's TESOL Diploma Program, presented Apr. 8, 2021.

Producing the Record - Self-Directed Studies

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Autoethnography written for a self-directed studies analyzing my experience in ACAM 350. Supervised by Dr. Renisa Mawani in Spring 2020.

Closing Thoughts

Reflecting on what was learned, how it was learned, and on previous reflections. (July 7 Reflection for ACAM 390A)

Community Curating: Intangible Cultural History in Museums

Sen Canute introducing out video in front of the ACAM 390A Showcase audience

Final video project created with Sen Canute, Gillian Chan, Marcela Gomez, and Alston Li for ACAM390A: Asian Migrations in a Global Context.

Assumptions and Beyond

Joint interview with Maria-Ruxandra Lefter on Jan. 23, 2019, inspired by SoulPancake's Tell My Story series. Filmed and edited for Dr. Henry Yu's HIST 485.

Hao's the Taste

An interview with the owner of Hao's Lamb Restaurant filmed on Mar. 10, 2019. The video was put together for Dr. Henry Yu's HIST 485 in Spring 2019.

Our Lives Belong to Strangers - Video Narration

Screenshot of the YouTube thumbnail for Our Lives Belong to Strangers overlay with an image of Vanessa with a Blue Yeti microphone.

A video based on the character of Fong Mei in SKY Lee's Disappearing Moon Cafe created for Dr. Christopher Lee's ENGL 480.

In Their Shoes (Historic Tabletop Game)

In Their Shoes is a tabletop roleplaying game set during the 1907 Anti-Asian Race Riots in Vancouver. It was created as a final project in HIST 485 (Asian Migrant Communities in Vancouver) with Dr. Henry Yu in Spring of 2019.