CTLT Events Newsletter
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Upcoming Events
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Registration for the WAITLIST of this ISW opens on Monday February 19th at 9am PST and closes on Friday February 23rd at 4:30pm. Click “Register Now” to register for the WAITLIST only. If you are chosen to participate, you will be contacted directly by our office within 10 business days. *** Please note that the dates of (more…)
Series: Canvas Training CanvasStudio
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Canvas Studio is a drop in space for anyone with questions related to UBC’s new learning management system Canvas. Here’s your chance to sit down with a Canvas expert and review your course design, explore migrating a Connect course to Canvas, and troubleshoot any challenges… ⚒ Hands-on Session Type
Series: Canvas Training
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In this session we will explore such topics as general navigation of the Canvas interface, notifications and communication, content creation and organization, and assignments (including quizzes, discussions). This workshop is an introduction to Canvas for new users. ⚒ Hands-on Session Type
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Are you working on an educational media project? Are you planning to produce media content for your course but don’t know how to start? UBC Studios is offering a support session where professional media specialists can provide answers to your media production questions. If you are wondering where to start on a media production, what (more…)
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Join your fellow Institute facilitators in building a genuine supportive community with goals to create a lasting teaching and learning ripple effect! In this interactive workshop, we will exchange experiences and strategies on how to facilitate meaningful engagement and participation as well as explore how to support participants translate their learnings meaningfully into their teaching (more…)
Series: Learning Technology
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The Drop-In Clinics are open for administrators of UBC weblogs or websites to get one-on-one support in WordPress and Wiki for Teaching and Learning or Administrative purposes. Participants should come prepared with a list of questions specific to their sites when attending this session. Specialists at the clinic will assist you in addressing and resolving those (more…)
Series: Celebrate Learning Week
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Meet your learning goals by accessing Lynda.com’s flexible and diverse resources from anywhere and at any time! UBC staff and faculty have free and unlimited access to Lynda.com, which offers thousands of video tutorials on business, creative, and technology skills. With so many tutorials available, UBC Human Resources has spotlighted a few of the options (more…)
Series: Celebrate Learning Week
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Explore the future of teaching and learning at the Learning Technology Innovation Committee’s Innovation Summit. This full day of events features a keynote address from special guest speaker Dr. Joseph Aoun, President of Northeastern University and author of Robot Proof: Higher Education in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, as well as conversations with students, colleagues, (more…)
Series: edX Learning Technology
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For a list of upcoming edX sessions, click here. UBC is adding edX to the “evolving ecosystem of learning technology platforms, tools and applications on campus”. edX can be used to provide a blended learning experience for campus-based courses, as well as UBC online and distance courses. In each of these sessions we will be (more…)
Series: Canvas Training CanvasStudio
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Canvas Studio is a drop in space for anyone with questions related to UBC’s new learning management system Canvas. Here’s your chance to sit down with a Canvas expert and review your course design, explore migrating a Connect course to Canvas, and troubleshoot any challenges… ⚒ Hands-on Session Type
Series: Celebrate Learning Week
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CIRCLe 2018 is a one-day conference hosted by UBC Faculty of Arts, partnering with the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology (CTLT), that explores the role of e-portfolios in higher education and professional practices. We will inquire into how e-portfolios might be used to create a bridge between academic learning and professional identity and how (more…)
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The 2018 Graduate Students in Teaching, Mini-Conference (GSiT) organizing committee is looking forward to welcoming Presenters and Attendees to UBC, Vancouver Campus, May 1 & 2, 2018. This conference is an opportunity for students to focus on the present and future role of graduate students in teaching: graduate students teaching now, as well as graduate (more…)
Series: Celebrate Learning Week
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Drop by the Neville Scarfe Foyer (just outside the Education Library) to ask a question, participate in some discussion and get your hands dirty with some “Seedy” fun. Plant a seed, make a thematic button, take a pic at our Green Screen Photo Booth, learn about the UBC Seed Lending Library and some of the (more…)
Series: Celebrate Learning Week
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This drop in session will present the vision of UBC’s Emerging Media Lab (EML – http://eml.ubc.ca/ ) as a space dedicated to exploring how emerging technologies are evolving the way we learn. Currently the EML serves two roles in the UBC community: 1) to enhance teaching and learning with immersive technologies such as Virtual Reality (more…)
Series: Celebrate Learning Week
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Join the First Nations House of Learning for this special screening of the feature film Indian Horse, an adaptation of Richard Wagamese’s award-winning novel. The film is an important drama that sheds light on the dark history of Canada’s Residential Schools and the indomitable spirit of Indigenous peoples. About the Story: In late 1950s Ontario, (more…)