By Michael Wong on January 30, 2009
Facebook, the popular social networking website, was the topic of discussion at the first Teaching and Learning with Technology Speaker Series session of 2009. Social software tools such as weblogs and wikis are already being used for educational purposes at UBC, but can Facebook be used in an academic setting?
Posted in Faculty and Staff, Learning Tools, Professional Development, Students | Tagged with Education, Online Privacy, Personal Learning Environments, Social Media, Student Engagement, TLT
By Tracy Lau on November 27, 2008
In an informative Learning Technology Institute (LTI) workshop, Emerging Technologies: Learn, Connect, Share, the Office of Learning Technology’s Emily Renoe and Joe Zerdin introduced a suite of technologies that can support learning and teaching activities.
Posted in Faculty and Staff, Learning Tools, Professional Development | Tagged with LTI, Social Media
By Anya Volgina and Tracy Lau on August 29, 2008
At Town Hall in June, four staff members from the Office of Learning Technology got together to talk about using new technologies in the classroom. In a presentation entitled “Emerging Technologies that Enhance Learning and Teaching”, four tools were highlighted.
Posted in Faculty and Staff, Learning Tools, Professional Development | Tagged with Events, Social Media, Town Hall
By Anya Volgina on August 29, 2008
The common perception is that Wikipedia makes professors shudder; it is supposedly not a credible source, and its use in education is limited. While there is a need to be cautious when using any type of technology, some instructors are out to change Wikipedia’s negative image.
Posted in Faculty and Staff, Learning Tools, Professional Development | Tagged with Open Education Resources, Social Media, Student Engagement, Town Hall, Wiki
By Stefanie Wudel on April 4, 2008
On the Northern Voice site, the event is described as “a two-day non-profit personal blogging and social media conference”. Although accurate, this definition doesn’t begin to capture the outcome of bringing some of the most enthusiastic, creative and passionate bloggers together under one roof.
Posted in Faculty and Staff, Learning Tools, Professional Development | Tagged with Blog, Events, Northern Voice, Social Media
By Michael Wong on September 24, 2007
A recent trend that has developed over the last few years has been an increase in people’s expectations towards getting access to information. With so much information available on the Internet, people are developing an attitude that they have a “right to know.” John Willinsky and Brian Lamb discussed opportunities and initiatives resulting from the emergence of open source, open access, and open educational resources that are readily available today.
Posted in Faculty and Staff, Learning Tools, Students | Tagged with Open Education Resources, Social Media, TLT
By Zack Lee on June 6, 2007
People blog for different reasons: for some members of the UBC community, blogging is a way to enhance student learning. During last February’s Webloggers Salon held at Telestudios, three prolific UBC bloggers came to discuss how and why they use blogs within the university context.
Posted in Faculty and Staff, Learning Tools | Tagged with Blog, Open Education Resources, Social Media
By Zack Lee on February 12, 2007
For those who have yet to experience the power of The Moose, the event is probably unlike any conference you have ever attended. True to the do-it-yourself, community-oriented ethos of weblogging, Northern Voice fosters an atmosphere that allows participants to steal the show, with special emphasis on providing a worthwhile experience to as diverse a range of attendees as possible.
Posted in Faculty and Staff, Learning Tools, Professional Development | Tagged with Blog, Events, Northern Voice, Open Education Resources, Social Media
By Krista Charbonneau on October 30, 2006
Blogs, tagging, online identities, social bookmarking – these social software practices are hot technology trends with millions of people flocking to web sites like myspace.com, flickr.com and del.icio.us. Now UBC researchers David Vogt and Lee Iverson are looking at ways to bring these types of software together under one umbrella.
Posted in Faculty and Staff, Learning Tools, Professional Development | Tagged with Social Media
By Krista Charbonneau on August 2, 2005
UBC students led a pilot project that used virtual models of Ancient Greek architecture to show what life might have been like in Athens in fifth century B.C. They re-created their own 3-D models of buildings in the Acropolis and the Agora based on their own research, using the same kind of technology used to create popular 3-D video games.
Posted in Learning Tools, Students | Tagged with Personal Learning Environments, Social Media, Student Engagement
