Multidimensional Learning through Digital Platforms – September 12, 2018
What can open learning platforms do for your courses? How do these technologies fit with classroom learning environments?
This workshop will tackle these questions with a panel of four instructors who have used open learning platforms to bring course material to life in new ways for their students. From digital mapping of stories, geo-mapping history and mapping timelines to blogging and content management systems, these instructors have created valuable opportunities for their students to interact multidimensionally with course materials. Participants in this workshop can look forward to learning about the innovative experiences open digital platforms make possible in Arts and Humanities courses.
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Dr. Jen Peterson (POLI) will discuss her recent collaboration with Arts ISIT which led to the creation of a student-developed academic database. Contributions to the database were made as part of the final assignment for her International Conflict Management course. This assignment saw students completing interactive timelines and compiling comparative data on over a dozen formal peace negotiations, in a format that would be of use to other peace researchers. Dr. Peterson will reflect on the learning outcomes and benefits of the collaboration, barriers to be overcome before its next iteration, and thoughts on the transferability of the model to other courses and disciplines.
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In a sea of social media and its currents of evanescent fashions, blogs have been solid rocky islands. From connections in Web 2.0, to futuristic dreams of a 5.0 symbiotic network, WordPress offers many ways of being and thinking online as intelligent citizens of the past, present, and future. In this workshop, Dr. Juliet O’Brien (FHIS), who works with French language and literature, Medieval Studies and course coordination, will share some of her early 2008 experiences using WordPress and UBC Blogs for research communities, information, courses, and student projects. She will also be looking at what we can do next with WordPress in Arts innovation.
Key Speakers
Katherine Bowers
Assistant Professor
Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies
Tristan Grunow
Assistant Professor without Review
Department of History
Jenny Peterson
Instructor
Department of Political Science and Vantage College
Juliet O’Brien
Lecturer
Department of French, Hispanic & Italian Studies
Exploring Digital Interactive Storytelling – September 13, 2018
Come get your hands dirty and try out emerging media for yourself!
This interactive lecture, led by Dr. Jenn Moss (CRWR) will explore the relationship of story to form in the context of digital interactive new media storytelling, from web-based interfaces to VR, AR, and beyond. Participants will have the opportunity to take part in activities that illuminate both the constraints and opportunities inherent in various emerging media. They can also look forward to learning how students in Dr. Moss’ creative writing classes used digital media tools in their storytelling projects. Dr. Moss will be sharing examples of student work and their experiences with using these experimental forms in the classroom.
Key Speaker
Dr. Jennifer Moss
Adjunct Instructor – Department of Creative Writing
Consulting Faculty – Emerging Media Lab
Canvas in the Arts for Language & Literature Classes – August 16, 2018
Canvas is an intuitive, adaptable and multi-faceted Learning Management Systems (LMS) that provides instructors with the tools to manage their courses and opportunities for enhancing teaching and learning in context-specific ways.
In this workshop, Dr. Orr-Álvarez (FHIS) and Dr. Lieblang (CENES) will share their experiences using Canvas in language and literature courses through a showcasing of four tools that facilitate student collaboration and TA/instructor communication: Discussions, Groups, Quizzes, and Peer-to-peer evaluation.
Participants in this session can also look forward to learning about:
- how to use Canvas’ self-enroll course feature,
- creating online training modules and sharing resources,
- other possible uses for Canvas.
Key Speakers
Dr. Brianne Orr-Álvarez
Lecturer of Spanish
Department of French, Hispanic & Italian Studies
Dr. Jason Stefan Lieblang
Instructor of German
Department of Central, Eastern and Northern European Studies
The Peer Assessment Training Workshop – May 17, 2018
Writing helps students learn (Gingerich et al., 2014; Nevid, Ambrose, & Pyun, 2017; Nevid, Pastva, & McClelland, 2012). Assessing the written work of peers additionally can help students develop skills such as critical analysis, reflection, and use of criteria (Dochy, Segers, & Sluijsmans, 1999; Nicol, Thomson, & Breslin, 2014), and past research has shown it to be reliable and valid enough for grading purposes (Falchikov & Goldfinch, 2000; Pare & Joordens, 2008; Topping, 1998). Yet students in our large Introductory Psychology classes lacked belief in their own and others’ abilities conduct peer assessments.
We developed a Peer Assessment Training (PAT) workshop that improves students’ confidence in their peers abilities, as well as the quality of their own written work. This session is the first of a two-part series designed to help you prepare to implement the PAT to accompany peer assessment in your course.
In this first part, we will demonstrate the PAT, provide an overview of the evidence of its efficacy, and offer some resources for adapting the PAT for your context. The second part (to be scheduled in August) will be designed as a hands-on workshop to prepare for fall classes.
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Key Speakers
Dr. Peter Graf
Professor
Department of Psychology
Dr. Catherine Rawn
Senior Instructor
Department of Psychology