On October 22nd this year, ETS hosted its sixth TEC Expo event in the Scarfe building foyer at 2125 Main Mall. The Technology Enhanced Classroom (TEC) Expo is an annual event designed to showcase and celebrate creative and innovative uses of technology in face-to-face, blended, and online classrooms within the Faculty of Education.
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Using CLAS to create asynchronous interactive group video seminars
Dr. Leah Macfadyen
I’ll demonstrate and discuss how I used a collaborative video annotation tool in place of live seminars in my online course. CLAS (for Collaborative Lecture Annotation System) was developed at UBC, and is actively in use to support learner engagement with video (as well as audio and now image) resources in a variety of ways: whole-class annotation of lecture videos, one to one instructor feedback on learner ‘performance’ of different kinds, asynchronous group ‘video seminars’ and more.
A Blended Learning Approach in a Community Field Centre
Johanna Sam
This presentation will share a blended learning model, that combines online practices and land-based pedagogy, used in a community-based Indigenous Teacher Education program. Blended learning positively influenced connectedness among Teacher Candidates in rural locations. Implications for blended learning can foster a sense of belonging, which may enhance learning experiences and engagement.
The educational possibilities of VR & AR
Emerging Media Lab
To support learning and research and to provide UBC with a leading edge among other top universities, the Emerging Media Lab provides a collaborative space for UBC faculty, students and staff to explore emerging technologies and develop innovative tools and solutions. We will be giving demos of virtual reality and discussing the immersive and transformative learning possibilities that virtual and augmented reality may provide for students of any background and level.
Learning Analytics
Fabian Froehlich, Craig Thompson
Learning Analytics can be a useful tool for understanding how students engage with, and learn from course materials. The three tools, MyLA, Threadz and OnTask, which will be demoed, can support student and teacher in an environment where learning-management-systems are on the rise. Using Learning Analytics to promote self-directed learning renders these tools valuable for education.
Drop by our MAKER table and try your hand at a design or coding challenge. The possibilities of design challenges are limited only by time, materials and the constraints you as a teacher apply. Chat with Scott Robertson, PHD student and Eric Lee, Cognitive Systems Undergrad who are working on a TLEF funded project with Lorrie Miller, Marina Milner-Bolotin & Yvonne Dawydiak. Visit the Scarfe Digital Sandbox for more information!
Interactive learning with H5P.org and Kaltura
Victoria Surtees, Masaru Yamamoto
Is your online content too “texty”? Looking to enhance interaction? In this demo, we share our experiences using H5P.org and Kaltura to build activities such as interactive images, slideshows, and videos as part of an online orientation workshop for international students. By integrating H5P’s game-like tools, we sought to embed interaction within the structure of the online module itself. The activities work across devices and facilitate rapid uptake with minimal instructor intervention.
Streaming the past and present, coding the future: Curio and Ozobots
Wendy Traas, Jennifer Abel
The Education Library will showcase Curio, an online collection of educational content from the CBC including documentaries, archival materials, and teachers guides. Also featured will be Ozobots, a resource to support coding literacy and computational thinking. An educational streaming video platform allows teachers to incorporate current and historic content in an engaging and supported way.
AR and VR resources for STEM teachers
Dr. Marina Milner-Bolotin, Jenny Zhu, Ryan Lin
In our presentation we will describe how we designed VR and AR resources for elementary and secondary STEM teachers and how these resources have been incorporated in STEM methods courses in teacher education, as well as during the Family Math and Science Day at UBC Faculty of Education.
I ensure that LDDI as a team is able to deliver top-class service to our faculty. We do our best to look ahead, explore and innovate to support the new and emerging needs of our instructors and faculty.
Specific Areas of Interest in the Field of Educational Technology
My interests include exploring new trends and models of technology-enabled learning in higher education. My work at LDDI allows me to stay in touch with the developments in this area. My interactions with faculty further provide insights into the effectiveness of different modes of online teaching.
Your Work Within the LDDI Office, and the Faculty of Education
The broad scope of my work and day-to-day responsibilities fall into all four of the major areas that LDDI is serving, namely: Learning Design, Teaching with Technology, Innovation, and Professional Development.
What kept you centered over the pandemic?
Love of the game!
What are your values and priorities in Education technology?
Let not tools dictate how you want to teach, rather use tools for how you want to teach.
What is a strength and challenge that comes from teaching online?
Online teaching opens avenues to try out new ideas and let go of old assumptions that have neither benefitted teachers nor the students.
Any advice you would give to someone who is new to teaching online?
I think about the direction our Faculty may go in relation to innovation and good practices in teaching and learning approaches, in alignment with the strategic goals of the Faculty of Education and the University.
Specific Areas of Interest in the Field of Educational Technology
My specific interests are in responding to the needs of an increasingly wider and more varied audience, finding solutions to maintaining high quality standards of the learning environment design, while also meeting specific requirements of temporal, geographical and cultural diversity.
Your Work Within the ETS Office, and the Faculty of Education
I am connected with the BC, Canadian and international community, which helps me bring new ideas and solutions for technology integration and practice to our Faculty.
Interesting Tidbit
In addition to my background in education, I am also a writer and poet.
Publications
Boskic, N., Sork, T. J., Irwin, R., Nashon, S., Nicol, C., Meyer, K., & Hu, S. (2018). Using technology to provide higher education for refugees. In Jean-Francois, E. (Ed.), Transnational perspective on innovation in teaching and learning technologies (pp. 285-304). Leiden: Brill. Sense.
You can access Mattermost at UBC through the website (https://mattermost.lthub.ubc.ca) or by downloading apps. Apps are the best way to access it anytime, anywhere. If you would like the Mattermost app on your devices, please keep reading. If you prefer giving it a try on the web version, feel free to jump to the bottom of this page!
Install the app.
You can download a mobile app from the App Store or Google Play. Search for Mattermost and download the first result. You may see “Mattermost Classic” – this is an older version and not recommended.
You can also download Mattermost for Windows, macOS, or Linux. Just go to mattermost.com/download and scroll to the bottom.
Log in to the app.
Once you have installed an app, you will need to log in. UBC’s Server URL is https://mattermost.lthub.ubc.ca. The name is UBC. To log in, enter your CWL username and password.
Logging in to the mobile app
Logging in to the desktop app
Use Mattermost Web Version
Simply log in to Mattermost with your UBC CWL by clicking the link below.
That’s it! You are ready to go and will see all your Mattermost teams. If you don’t see one, ask your team admin for the invitation link. Credit course teams will show up automatically, but ask your instructor if you don’t see your course.
When a course is imported or copied for a new term on Canvas, you will find that previously created Group Sets are no longer there. All Group Sets are combined into a new one called “Project Groups” which is an empty list. If the People link in your course looks like the screenshot below, you need to re-create Group Sets and Groups.
Step 1) Create Group Sets
Group Sets can be created from the People link in your course. Group Sets are groups of groups. Assignments or discussions can be assigned to a specific group set. Additionally, you can use groups to give students their own space to communicate and collaborate.
Technology in Transit is a monthly event organized by Educational Technology Support (ETS) office for students in the Faculty of Education to showcase their learning technologies. The purpose of this one-hour session is to raise awareness of different technologies and to show how to incorporate them into classrooms.
For the month of October, Jenny introduced Kahoot! Kahoot! is a multi-platform tool that you can use to administer quizzes, discussions or surveys. You can download Kahoot! on the Apple Store or the Google Play Store.
Kahoot! gets students engaged by turning learning into a game. There are 4 ways to create a Kahoot! game:
Quiz
A multiple-choice question style, allowing you to assign right/wrong answers and turning points on/off.
Survey
Alike a quiz, but without right/wrong answers. There is no point system or scoreboards; however, you will see a graph showing how many students chose each answer.
Discussion
You can facilitate a quick discussion by using the discussion tool. This is alike the survey tool, but with only one question.
Jumble
This kahoot is like a quiz, but challenges your students to put answers in the correct order rather than selecting one correct answer.
Jenny started her Co-op term in May 2018 and works to make the Canvas migration from Blackboard possible. Jenny also provides technical support for faculty in the use of Canvas.
Is there an educational technology you are passionate about? Let us know.
Technology in Transit is a monthly event organized by the Educational Technology Support (ETS) office for students in the Faculty of Education to showcase their learning technologies. The purpose of this one-hour session is to raise awareness of different technologies and to show how to incorporate them into classrooms.
Event Details
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 pm Date: Last Tuesday of every month Location: Neville Scarfe Foyer
Can’t present at any of these dates? Contact us at ets.educ@ubc.ca or 604.822.6333 and we can make necessary arrangements.
TEC Expo, or Technology Enhanced Classroom Expo, was created so faculty, students, staff, and guests can learn from each other. Each year we bring the Faculty of Education community together in the Scarfe foyer to share our biggest success stories and challenges when it comes to teaching with technology. This year was our fifth annual TEC Expo, and thanks to all the presenters and the staff in PDCE and ETS it was a success! We had a total of 21 different presenters, with topics ranging from a web conference platform for online lectures called Collaborate Ultra to an assessment application for student feedback called ComPAIR.
Our first day explored pedagogical tips such as how to use information retrieved from Canvas analytics to understand student engagement and improve instructional design. We were also happy to welcome back the Emerging Media lab (EML), and this year they presented both virtual and augmented reality. With the Stanley Park Virtual Field Trip
you could walk through Stanley Park, using the controller to select a point ahead of you and teleport there. You could spin around to view the full 360 environment, and even pick up 3D objects. To allow users to explore augmented reality, EML also presented HoloBrain. Why get all messy when you can dissect a brain virtually? Whether you are an instructor at the Faculty of Medicine at UBC or just interested in human biology, HoloBrain is intended to be a useful teaching tool in neuroanatomy instruction. We were also happy to welcome a virtual presenter, Yifeng Wei, who could not be in Vancouver for the event. Wei presented Teach Mental Health: An Online Mental Health Literacy Professional Development Opportunity for Educators.Teach Mental Health is an online course for pre-service teachers to educate them
about mental health and mental illness.
Our second day presentations were more hands-on. Cédric Lejeune presented the micro:bit – a tiny, programmable computer to make learning STEM fun. At his table, you could play a operation-esque game moving a conductive loop through a wire without touching it. If the loop touched the wire, the circuit would be complete and a buzzer would go off. If you stopped by Zoe Lawler’s booth you could also try hand weaving, by either making your own creation or contributing to a large project. Weaving teaches fine motor skills and draws from indigenous knowledge, which can be a fun classroom project. Other educational tools featured included Softron Answer Forms. that helps educators save time by auto-marking any test in PDF or word.
Thank you to all the presenters and attendees for making TEC Expo 2018 a success! We hoped you learned about new technology and how it can be used to facilitate teaching and learning, and started some constructive conversations about pedagogy.
Interested to learn more?
Keep up to date on ETS events throughout the year by visiting our events calendar! You can also reach out to ETS by contacting us at 604-822-6333 or ets.educ@ubc.ca
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The Teacher Education Office, the Office of Research in Education and the Dean’s office have all visited the Emerging Media Lab, and you can take a tour too!
UBC’s Emerging Media Lab (EML) is a space where faculty, students and staff can explore new technology such as Augmented, Mixed and Virtual Reality and how it can be used to enhance learning and research. Every Tuesday and from 12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m. in Neville Scarfe Room 1 EML is hosting Drop-in demos to all students, staff and faculty. Check out EML’s website to learn more.
