In addition to CTLT’s events, here is a listing of some other professional development opportunities for the teaching and learning community.
If you would like to have your event listed in the next issue of Dialogues, please contact us at ctlt.newsletter@ubc.ca.
Copyright
Visit the Copyright website for a listing of upcoming copyright workshops. These sessions help faculty, staff, and students understand the appropriate use of copyrighted material at UBC.
Copyright Clinic Drop-in
April 4, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
April 11, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
April 18, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
April 25, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
May 2, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
Register here
Members of the Copyright Advisory Group and others will be on hand to help you work through your copyright questions one-on-one. Bring your course lists, websites, or other work you need guidance on.
IOP 2013 – Online Registration
The 16th annual Investigating Our Practices (IOP) Conference will be happening May 11, 2013, in the Scarfe Building at UBC (2125 Main Mall). Co-sponsored by the Faculty of Education and the BC Teachers’ Federation, this event features 70 presentations by practicing teachers, graduate students, undergraduate students, and university educators from different educational contexts. Registration is $25 ($15 for students). Breakfast, refreshments, and lunch are included.
For more information or to register for the conference, visit the IOP Conference website or contact Judy Paley at 604-822-2733 or judy.paley@ubc.ca.
UBC Library
Citation Management Using RefWorks
April 3, 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
Register here
If you need to manage large numbers of references and citations as part of your research, teaching, or administrative work, citation management tools are for you. These tools provide a simple way to store, organize, and retrieve your citations in an effective manner, and can also help you in formatting in-text citations and bibliographies in your work. This hands-on workshop briefly introduces the main concepts of citation management and gives detailed instruction for using RefWorks, a popular citation management tool licensed by UBC Library.
Tips and Tricks for Formatting Your Thesis: Little Things Mean a Lot!
April 4, 8:00 am – 10:00 am
April 9, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Register here
Research Commons staff will help you with your questions about the nuts and bolts of thesis formatting: page layout, numbering, headings, front matter, and more! As well, find out more about the resources that are available to help you in writing your thesis/dissertation. Graduate students at any stage of the writing process are welcome; some prior knowledge of Microsoft Word will be helpful.
Citation Management Using Mendeley
April 4, 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Register here
If you need to manage large numbers of references and citations as part of your research, teaching, or administrative work, citation management tools are for you. These tools provide a simple way to store, organize, and retrieve your citations in an effective manner, and can also help you in formatting in-text citations and bibliographies in your work. This hands-on workshop briefly introduces the main concepts of citation management and gives detailed instruction for installing and using Mendeley, one of the most popular citation management tools.
UBC Okanagan Learning Conference
UBC Okanagan will be holding its 9th Annual Learning Conference from May 1-2, 2013. The conference theme, Enhancing Student Learning, invites educators to share best practices and disseminate their research in sessions that will explore student learning, using inquiry in the undergraduate classroom, flexible learning environments, and optimum first year experiences. The conference will be held at the UBC Okanagan campus in Kelowna, BC. Registration is free for all UBC Vancouver and Okanagan faculty and staff. There is a $100 registration fee for external faculty and registrants from other institutions. Register online on the conference website.
For more information, contact Heather Hurren (250-807-9288 or heather.hurren@ubc.ca).
ETUG Spring Workshop and T.E.L.L. Sessions
BC’s Educational Technology Users Group (ETUG) is holding its upcoming Spring Workshop June 6-7, 2013. The theme for this year is “Tell it on the Mountain: Teaching, Engaging, Leading and Learning,” and the event will take place at the SFU Burnaby Mountain campus. To learn more about the ETUG Spring Workshop, visit the ETUG website.
ETUG also hosts monthly Lunch n’ Learn webinars on a variety of topics relating to teaching and learning with technology. The next session will take place on April 16, 2013, and it will focus on the construction of a professional conference poster. Registration is free and open to all. More information about this session can be found on the ETUG website.
STLHE 2013
Canada’s Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (STLHE) will hold its 33rd annual conference at Cape Breton University in Sydney, Nova Scotia from June 19-22, 2013. The theme for 2013 is “Sustainability: Learning to Live, Learning for Life.”
More information can be found on the conference website.
Teaching Assistant and Graduate Student Advancement Conference: Teaching Graduate Students to Teach
Teaching Graduate Students to Teach is a two-day conference to promote best practices and scholarship among people who strive to do just that: cultivate the teaching abilities of graduate students across Canada. The conference will be held May 13-14, 2013, at the Simon Fraser University Harbour Centre location in Downtown Vancouver.
More information can be found on the conference website.
UBCevents
To see what else is happening on campus, be sure to visit the UBCevents online events calendar.
This article was published in the March 2013 CTLT Newsletter, Dialogues. Below is a list of the articles included in the issue:
- Faculty Spotlight – 3M National Teaching Fellow Dr. Darren Dahl
- Online Peer Assessment in MOOCs: Students Learning from Students
- Connect: Looking Back and Looking Forward
- Learning About the Social Complexity Behind Aboriginal Student Data
- 2013 CTLT Institute
- New Teaching and Learning Resources
- Other Professional Development Opportunities (currently viewing)
Find out more information about the CTLT Newsletter, Dialogues.
