An Introduction to Microsoft Teams
Tuesday, October 5 | 1pm - 2pm
This workshop is an introduction to Microsoft Teams that will demonstrate the features of the tools you will need to work in Teams. You will learn how to organize and manage teams while using the features of the program. Microsoft Teams combines video meetings, chats, file storage and sharing all in one place. Join us to see how Microsoft Teams allows people to communicate and collaborate together using cloud technology.
Facilitators: Meghan McMillen
Teaching with Care
Viewpoints Discussion Series
Thursday, October 7 | 1:00PM – 2:00PM
Do we need pedagogies and practices of caring in our teaching and learning environments? Has the pandemic heightened our need for care as we design learning with the integration of technologies?
Teaching with care requires attention and empathy (Noddings, 2012). Designing and teaching with care has become ever more pressing in the past few years, as we have increasingly used technology as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic (Grey, 2020). An ethic of care is relatively new (Noddings, 1988; Held, 2006), yet teaching with care pre-dates the pandemic. Teaching with care may be perceived as a form of activism and resistance (Bali, 2015; Hooks, 1994; Noddings, 2021) – a Davidian effort against the Goliath of the higher educational monetary, accountability machine and what some educators see as a dehumanizing presence of educational technology (France, 2020). As a result of the pandemic and global crises, there is a heightened sense of urgency in designing caring communities of learners in our courses, as we model a care for the environment, care for equity and social justice, and care for mental health and well-being.
Is caring part of a moral and ethical teaching practice? Does the integration of technology interfere or enhance our ability to teach with care? Can we balance a teaching practice that is philosophically grounded in morality and an ethic of care, with the current push for accountability and rigor in teaching and learning?
Panelists:
Dr. Roberta Borgen (Neault), Adjunct Professor, ECPS
Dr. Surita Jhangiani, Assistant Professor of Teaching, ECPS
Tonje M. Molyneux, M.Ed., M.A.
Moderators:
Helen DeWaard, Learning Designer, ETS
Simone Hausknecht, Learning Designer, ETS
Visit the topic page for this session on the Viewpoints website!
Calling all Students: Communication Strategies that Work for Student Learning
Thursday, October 14 | 1PM - 2PM
In this workshop, participants explore different tools, forms of interactions, and ways to communicate with students online. Whether sending an email, writing an announcement, using discussion forums, or having a Zoom session each one creates a unique opportunity to build a relationship and offer students a way to express themselves. This session gives participants a chance to consider these multiple approaches and what each can contribute to student engagement.
Facilitators: Simone Hausknecht + Shur Lim
Canvas Orientation (ELI)
Friday, October 22 | 11:00AM – 12:15PM
Come to this workshop for a tutorial and receive support for all your questions about setting up and teaching online with Canvas (UBC’s primary all-in-one platform for delivering online courses) and other learning technology tips and tricks.
This session will ensure that you get a chance to have your questions answered and receive support from an ETS staff member. Come ready with any questions you may have about Canvas!
Facilitator: Simone Hausknecht + Ka-Yee Chu
Beyond Canvas: Peer Review
Thursday, November 18 | 1pm - 2pm
Looking for new ways to integrate peer review into your online course assessment practices? Join us and learn about why peer review and peer feedback can impact student learning in online courses.
This session will cover the design principles for peer reviewed assignments, as well as an orientation to navigating, building, and grading assessments with peer review tools.
Facilitators: Helen DeWaard + Meghan McMillen
Beyond Canvas: Make it with Media
Part of TEC EXPO - 2021
This is a make and take session, studio style. Bring your course syllabus or media-making experiences. Be prepared to share your media-making and course design ideas and questions.
The UBC learning management system (Canvas) can be described as a walled garden, where learning is secure and enclosed. But UBC has an abundance of technologies to use and integrate into your course, whether it’s online or in face-to-face places. These technologies can take you and your students safely outside of the walled learning spaces in Canvas.
When considering the course design, it’s often difficult to figure out what technologies are the best fit for student learning or how to incorporate them into the course. This session will give you time to explore technologies as you think critically about integrating new media-making technologies, such as the ones listed on CTLT technologies page. Let’s peek over the Canvas walls, or even consider building a gate to step through, figuratively speaking.
Facilitators: Helen DeWaard + Ka-Yee Chu
Beyond Canvas: Collaborative Spaces
Part of TEC EXPO - 2021
This interactive workshop explores two collaborative spaces (Etherpad, Padlet, and other collaborative spaces). Participants will learn and interact with some of the features and explore possibilities for incorporating these tools into their own teaching and learning environments.
Facilitators: Meghan McMillen + Simone Hausknecht
Videos in Canvas
Friday, December 10 | 11am - 12pm
Using video in your courses can have positive benefits to student learning, and Canvas supports videos in multiple ways. This workshop will review various ways to make and use videos, including:
- Creation of videos, such as lecture videos, using UBC-supported tools like Camtasia and Kaltura Capture
- Using video feedback in Canvas to help provide positive encouragement to students
- Uploading your videos to Kaltura, a UBC video platform which gives you full control over sharing and access.
- Making your videos accessible using automated captions.
- Sharing of resources for learning how to make great videos.
Facilitators: Ian Linkletter + Ka-Yee Chu
Drop-in Help
- Thursday, December 23 | 10AM-12PM
This is a special drop-in session to prepare for January online start of the term.
The Zoom breakout rooms will be open for two hours covering:
- First hour: orientation to Canvas (for new Canvas users), including course setup, basic communication tools and building community of learners
- Second hour: Using Zoom effectively in the classroom environment
- Both hours: 1-on-1 help with any learning design or educational technology question
Facilitators: Ka-Yee Chu, Hazel Chongoti, Helen DeWaard
Drop-in Help
- Wednesday, January 5th | 12PM-2PM
This is a special drop-in session to prepare for January online start of the term.
The Zoom breakout rooms will be open for two hours covering:
- First hour: orientation to Canvas (for new Canvas users), including course setup, basic communication tools and building community of learners
- Second hour: Using Zoom effectively in the classroom environment
- Both hours: 1-on-1 help with any learning design or educational technology question
Facilitators: Hazel Chongoti, Gabrielle Coombs