On January 12th and 13th 2016, the ETS team held two “Orientation to Learning Technology” workshops. Arriving from various departments in the Faculty of Education, including Curriculum and Pedagogy and ECPS, instructors and faculty members came to learn more about the multiple technologies available at UBC and how they can be integrated in their classrooms to enrich their student’s educational experiences.
During the workshops, Natasha Boskic and Sharon Hu showcased the delivery models of online and hybrid classroom environments, demonstrated technologies such as Collaborate and showed instructors the available support at ETS. Ian Linkletter and Bill Pickard described the tools available in Connect, including communication tools, UBC Blogs and Library Online Course Reserves. Andrea Gonzalez went over the additional learning technologies at instructors’ disposal and students, such as WordPress, edX, iClickers, Camtasia, and CLAS, as well as other image-editing software such as Snagit and Camtasia. Instructors had the chance to think about on how they might incorporate these new technologies in their classrooms, ask any questions they had, and share ideas about the technologies.
As the information was presented in the sessions, instructors, teacher candidates and TA’s remained curious and excited to find out how they might apply the relevant technologies into their respective classroom settings. Participants posed some excellent questions during the Q&A segment and were able to leave with more confidence in their abilities to make use of technology in their teaching.
