What are your main “big picture” responsibilities at LDDI?
I assist the LDDI team by promoting the activities and work of the unit, including LDDI’s professional development workshops and events. I help keep the UBC community up to date on what is happening at LDDI and am responsible for communicating with a wide variety of audiences.
What are some of your specific, hands-on, day-to-day tasks at LDDI?
I draft and administer the monthly LDDI newsletter, develop communication materials, and provide graphic design support to the LDDI team. I also manage LDDI’s social media pages, update the website, and provide general administrative support.
How does your work help support the LDDI office and the Faculty of Education as a whole?
My work ensures that LDDI can communicate effectively about its activities and achievements. I strive to make our work more visible, helping educators discover and access education technology tools and professional development opportunities that will enhance their experience in the classroom.
Who do you primarily work with?
I work closely with the LDDI team and with other communicators in the Faculty of Education. I also liaise regularly with faculty, staff, students, alumni, and other members of the UBC community.
What are your specific areas of interest in the field of educational technology or beyond? How is your work at LDDI contributing or playing into those areas of interest?
I’m passionate about promoting learning opportunities, like the LDDI workshops, that help people discover and access the wide range of educational technologies available to them. Many success stories in education, as well as other fields, come down to how well people communicate and help one another to learn and create. LDDI leans into this work and helps educators connect meaningfully with their students through technology. My work at LDDI allows me to build and explore communication and design strategies that make this work more visible and accessible to learners and educators.
Credentials
2017 Bachelor of Music, University of British Columbia
Cheyenne provided a unique and authentic learning opportunity for participants to gain a greater awareness of Indigenous people’s connections with beadwork, food, and nature. A BBQ Salmon lunch and all beading materials were provided. The workshop was limited to 20 participants. The meeting took place in the Neville Scarfe Building, room 1008. Participants were reminded not to forget their sunscreen and a hat!
The intention behind the hands-on workshop was to repurpose salmon vertebrae into beads. Cheyenne began this work in 2022 as part of a composting pedagogies project for an environmental literacy class. Indigenous people across Turtle Island have practiced sustainable food harvesting since time immemorial – using fish weirs, dip nets, and gill nets. In British Columbia, the Pacific salmon were a cultural keystone species and a significant food source for Indigenous people. The salmon egg represented the core, the symbology of the life cycle of Pacific salmon. Additionally, “the understandings and philosophies embedded with this centre were carried through time and across generations, through language, story, ceremony, practice, and law” (Living Planet Report, 2022, p. 51). The salmon vertebrae beads used in each of the earrings were Cheyenne’s rendition of her understanding of language, story, and practice.
About the Artist: ʔə́y̓ swéyəl mək̓ʷ wet Cheyenne Cunningham θə nə skʷix təni cən ʔəƛ̓ q̓íc̓əy̓. Good day everyone, my name is Cheyenne Cunningham and I currently reside on the Katzie First Nation reserve located along the Fraser River in Pitt Meadows, BC. I am English on my mother’s side and Coast Salish on my father’s side. I am in my third year of my PhD in Language & Literacy Education at UBC. I also recently graduated from SFU with my Diploma in Indigenous Language Proficiency. My research interests focus on the exploration of Katzie place names that have been identified in Suttles (1955) Katzie Ethnographic Notes, to surface knowledge embedded within these landscapes. I would like to examine how these place names can contribute to language revitalization initiatives.
The Faculty of Education hosted its monthly event where faculty, staff, and students were encouraged to bring their own games or join existing ones. It was a delightful occasion for friendly competition and connecting with fabulous individuals.
This workshop offered evidence-based practices and pedagogical methods for your online hybrid course designs. This workshop guided you through your decision-making, informed your teaching choices, and supported you in identifying priorities in online learning spaces. You learned practical strategies on how to organize, present, pace, and structure your course to enhance student learning and engagement. We showcased and provided examples of tools for individual and collaborative online activities in hybrid learning modes, considering inclusivity, diversity, and digital wellness in everyday teaching and learning.
Facilitators:
Gabrielle Coombs
Kalisa Young
Jamilee Baroud
In this orientation workshop for new Faculty of Education instructors, we explored the services and learning technologies available at UBC. We looked into how technology can be used to improve your teaching experience, and how to find support if you need it. This session covered:
Overview of UBC Learning Technology Ecosystem
UBC Technologies
UBC Technology Services
Intro to the Canvas LMS
Facilitators: Maryam Danaei Ababin and Eduardo Rebagliati
In this Tea With AI we focused on the intersection of Wellbeing and AI. Guided by UBC’s Wellbeing Strategic Framework, we explored three priority areas: mental health, physical exercise and food and nutrition.
AI is everywhere! Wonder what the hype is all about? Are you using or thinking of using AI tools, but not sure how or if you should use them at work? Have questions about the ethical concerns of AI and how we even got here? In this LDDI professional development session, we delved into the murky waters of the rapidly evolving AI landscape in our diverse workplace contexts. With activities designed for various tools, we critically engaged Faculty of Education staff with generative AI from different lenses and perspectives, and had them gain the confidence to make informed decisions about AI.
Location: In person, Ponderosa Ballroom (April 23)
Zoom (April 25)
The Faculty of Education hosted its monthly event where faculty, staff, and students were encouraged to bring their own games or join existing ones. It was a delightful occasion for friendly competition and connecting with fabulous individuals.
This interactive Viewpoint session was an extension of our collaborative podcast series titled, An Inter-Institutional Action on Climate Change, where thought leaders in social institutions engaged in dialogue to discover transformative learning opportunities to address climate change.
In this session, Lana Voracek, a Neonatal Intensive Care Registered Nurse, shared her perspective on climate change as a health issue and health concern for patients. Nafis Rahman shared her deep passion for public health and her commitment to addressing the complex connections between climate change and human well-being. Together, Lana Voracek and Nafis Rahman discussed their unique perspectives and approaches to climate justice within the public health industry.
This event was hosted in collaboration with the Edith Lando Virtual Learning Centre.
Nafis Rahman is a Master’s student in the Public Health (MPH) program at the School of Population and Public Health (SPPH) in the Faculty of Medicine, UBC. Her academic journey began with a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBBS) from Faridpur Medical College, Bangladesh followed by an MPH with a major in Epidemiology from the American International University Bangladesh. Her career has been enriched with diverse experiences, including roles at renowned organizations like the Johns Hopkins Program for International Education in Gynecology and Obstetrics (Jhpiego) and the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control, and Research, Bangladesh (IEDCR). Her pursuit of a second Master of Public Health is driven by a profound commitment to address the global impact of climate change on health. She has had the opportunity to work on the Nutrition in City Ecosystem (NICE) project, where she visited the rural areas of Kenya and Bangladesh and witnessed firsthand how climate change is affecting their food production system, further deepening her understanding of the pressing challenges in public health.
Lana is originally from the traditional territory of the Attiwonderonk and the Haundenosaunee peoples in Ontario. She completed her Bachelor of Science in Nursing at Toronto Metropolitan University, and worked as a Registered Nurse caring for ill and preterm infants in Neonatal Intensive Care units (NICUs) in the Greater Toronto Area before starting her Master of Public Health at UBC. Her passion for climate change as a health issue, and her concern for the futures of her patients, is what drew her to the field of public health. Throughout her two years of graduate studies, Lana has engaged with climate work in many ways, including working as a Teaching Assistant for the Health Impacts of Climate Change course at UBC’s School of Nursing, and starting a podcast called Pulse of Change, which will be launching soon. Lana is grateful to live, work, and play on the traditional, unceded, ancestral territory of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples.
