e-Portfolio Implementation in Teacher Education
The e-portfolio project was initiated by the Faculty of Education during the 2007/2008 school year as a graduating requirement for all teaching candidates. The use of e-portfolios was discussed as both a tool for student reflection and as an auditing tool for the BC College of Teachers (BCCT).
CeLC 2009 Keynote: Barbara Ganley and CeLC Closing Remarks
The 2009 Canadian e-Learning Conference was opened by Barbara Ganley, a former professor who is now the current director and founder of Digital Explorations – a not for profit organization that brings multimedia to remote, rural places. To commence the keynote address, Ganley revealed that “fear is the biggest obstacle to trying things that are new”.
CeLC 2009 Keynote: Richard Baraniuk
A stack of records and a group of college students in a punk-rock band: these are just two of the compelling and intriguing images that Richard Baraniuk used to launch his keynote lecture on the second day of the Canadian e-Learning Conference. He promised to show the audience a whole new way of thinking about content and distribution – and he delivered.
Experience.do.understand: EduCamp ’09
The inaugural LTI EduCamp was held at UBC’s Irving K. Barber Learning Centre on February 18th, 2009. The morning started off with keynote speaker Richard Rosenberg, Professor Emeritus in the Department of Computer Science at UBC and President of the BC Freedom of Information and Privacy Association.
What You Said About the 2009 e-Learning Open House
Here’s what participants and presenters had to say about the 2009 e-Learning Open House.
Northern Voice 2009
Now in its fifth year, Northern Voice 2009 came to the UBC campus as strong as ever. The two-day personal blogging and social media conference sold out in three days, which started the organizers thinking of ways to make it bigger for next year.
Facebook and Education: The Pros and Cons
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?
WikiEducator: A Return to Academic Tradition
Given that we commonly perceive technology to be synonymous with change and innovation, it can seem contradictory to view it as facilitating a return to tradition. Wayne Mackintosh, Education Specialist at the Commonwealth of Learning, sees exactly this potential in the WikiEducator project he established.
What Do Emerging Technologies Mean to You?
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.
Both Sides Now: In Person and on the Web; Slow Learning Communities for Fast Times
On October 1, we had gathered to what we thought would be a lecture, but Barbara had managed to pull the rug from under us, and made us question our own perceptions of what a lecture or classroom setting would look like.