Teaching with an emphasis on experience
For the past four years, Lorna has been a sessional instructor at Simon Fraser University’s School of Interactive Arts + Technology. During the year long Certificate Program in Teaching and Learning for Graduate Students, Boschman developed strategies to make lectures interesting and keep the message consistent from lecture to lab or applied exercise. She can structure a semester’s course so that it is integrated within the larger departmental pedagogy. Most importantly, Lorna encourages students to teach each other through experiencing the creative process directly, ensuring that the lessons are more engaging. Boschman's approach is based on the ideas of Lev Vygotsky (i.e. the Zone of Proximal Development), situated learning, and creative collaboration.
Lorna Boschman has taught first, second and third year courses that introduce undergraduate students to new media concepts, video production and editing, audio production and editing, and Adobe Creative Suite software like After Effects, Flash, Photoshop, and Dreamweaver. In the Fall 2010 semester, she taught Narrative and New Media as a sessional instructor. Many of the courses required her to refine existing curriculum, or in the case of the second year introduction to video course, to revise the curriculum.
Boschman's reviews from students have consistently been above the university’s average. To support the advancement of her students, she provides many of them with reference letters for co-op placements among other opportunities. Some students have demonstrated significant accomplishment: After taking the intro to video production course, one student made a video that won him the right to carry the Olympic torch to represent Simon Fraser University. Lorna Boschman welcomes the opportunity to work with students on a more ongoing basis, and to help them to develop into outstanding media artists and scholars.
Courses taught at the School of Interactive Arts + Technology (2007-2010): IAT 313 Narrative and New Media
IAT 202 New Media Images
IAT 242 Moving Images
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IAT 100 Systems of Media Representation
Courses taught from 1992-2000 at VIVO Media Arts Centre (formerly Video In), a Vancouver artist-run media centre include video production and editing with Final Cut Pro.
