Technology in Transit
Technology in Transit is looking for presenters. Is there a educational technology you are passionate about? Share it with your fellow teacher candidates! You can earn a certificate and t-shirt.
EML Visits
Ayaz Mahmood from the Dean’s office. The Teacher Education Office (TEO), the Office of Research in Education and the Dean’s office have toured the Emerging Media Lab (EML). Interested in technology like virtual and augmented reality? You can visit EML too! Click the banner to learn more.
High Performance Coaching & Technical Leadership Orientation 2016
On June 6th and 8th 2016, coaches in School of Kinesiology’s Graduate Certificate in High Performance Coaching & Technical Leadership attended orientations and training on Connect, Blackboard Collaborate, and UBC Blogs. These sessions were designed to prepare the coaches for taking on their upcoming challenge of completing the HPC certification program in a fully online environment.
Orientation to Learning Technologies – May 2016
On May 17th and 18th, ETS held its semesterly Orientation to Learning Technologies information sessions. ETS holds these sessions at the beginning of each semester to provide an overview of learning technologies available to Faculty and Staff at UBC, and to provide insight into how learning technologies can enhance both classrooms and curriculum.
Spring 2016 Digital Technology Series
On March 2nd and March 3rd 2016, the ETS office held their first-ever annual Digital Technology Series, designed to provide faculty members and staff with hands-on practice using different learning technologies at UBC. The series included various workshops on technologies like Camtasia, Collaborate, UBC Blog, Connect Blogs and Connect Assessments. As part of the workshops, participants were given the space to experiment with the technologies and to consider how they could implement them in their teaching practice.
Winter 2016 Orientation to Learning Technologies
On January 12th and 13th 2015, the ETS team held two “Orientation to Learning Technology” workshops for new and experienced instructors and TAs in the Faculty of Education. Visiting from various departments in the Faculty, instructors and faculty members attended to build upon their understanding of learning technologies and how they can be harnessed to enrich their student’s educational experiences.
Educator’s Café – Enhanced Seminar Room
On January 30th, Dr. Monique Bournot-Trites, Dr. Meike Wernicke, Kirk Macdonald and Ken Watanabe presented on blended learning pedagogies and technologically enhanced classrooms for the Educators’ Cafe series. They hosted an engaging discussion of the unique possibilities that technology offers to instructors, and how it can be optimally integrated into teaching spaces.
Winter 2015 Orientation to Learning Technologies
On January 12th and 19th, ETS offered two Orientation to Learning Technology sessions, which provided information through interactive tasks and presentations on teaching strategies, educational technologies, and institutional policies.
These workshops, offered at the start of each term, are supported and highly recommended by the Dean’s office.
Fall 2014 Orientation to Learning Technologies
Each term Educational Technology Support (ETS) unit hosts a 3-hour orientation for new and experienced instructors and TAs. This session is supported and highly recommended by the Dean’s office. In […]