Being Creative with Media
Wednesday, May 10 | 12pm – 1pm
In this workshop, we explored how to incorporate multimedia objects (beyond text and images) to create a rich and more engaging learning experience for your students. This included video (screen capture, video recording, animation, 3rd party videos), 360 images/videos, h5p, audio (podcasts), virtual bulletin boards, mind mapping, amongst others. We provided examples for each one of these cases and showed you what technologies and services are available at UBC for their production.
Facilitators:
Eduardo Rebagliati, MET, Learning Technology Specialist
Aidan Chua, Learning Technology Rover
Academic Integrity and AI
Wednesday, April 26 | 12pm – 1pm
This interactive Viewpoint session seeked to broaden understandings of academic integrity and artificial intelligence and to share perspectives on pedagogy, leadership, and future directions from multiple disciplinary roles and spaces.
Panelists:
Mark Edwards, PhD
Teresa Dobson, PhD
Faeyza Mufti, MET
Facilitator:
Jamilee Baroud, PhD
Amir Doroudian, PhD
Making Media Accessible
Wednesday, April 5 | 12pm – 1pm
In this workshop, we will overview the best practices and provide practical guidance for making media content accessible. Media accessibility is crucial for ensuring that all learners can enjoy and engage with course materials, and helps to promote a more inclusive environment.
Facilitators: Marika Cheng, Aidan Chua, and Eduardo Rebagliati
Indigeneity Accessibility And Technology
Wednesday, March 29 | 12pm – 1pm
An event in the Viewpoints discussion series with a special focus on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI).
This interactive Viewpoints session aimed to question, challenge, and complicate the myriad ways that accessibility and technology intersect with decolonizing education, and engage with a variety of strategies and pathways to create a more accessible future.
During this session, Shirley Hardman, M.Ed., Amber Shilling, PhD., and Megan Hill, BA student, shared their unique perspectives, research, and approaches to equitably improve the educational experiences of indigenous students.
Panelists:
Amber Shilling, PhD
Lou (Megan) Hill, BA student
Shirley Anne Swelchalot qas te Shxwha:yathel Hardman, M.Ed.
Facilitator:
Jamilee Baroud, Curriculum and Evaluation Consultant, ETS
Amir Doroudian, Learning Designer, ETS
Hybrid Classrooms and Meetings
Wednesday, March 15 | 12pm – 1:00pm
In this 1-hour workshop, we discussed how to successfully plan and host an event with in-person and remote participants, exploring the technological and pedagogical dimensions of hybrid engagement and inclusion. The topics were:
- Pre-session planning: selection of space and tools
- Facilitation with in-person and remote participants
- Post-session tasks: editing, storing, and distributing recordings
- The services offered by UBC AV, IT, ETS to support your hybrid teaching session
Facilitators: Amir Doroudian, PhD and Eduardo Rebagliati
Ally, Media, and Web Accessibility
Monday, March 13 | 12pm – 1:30pm
In this workshop, we engaged with ways you can create inclusive and accessible content on the web by applying web accessibility principles using tools and applications like Katura, Zoom, YouTube, and more. We also covered the ways Ally and Canvas Checker can support us to reach our web accessibility and diversity goals.
Facilitators: Jamilee Baroud, PhD, Marika Cheng and Gabrielle Coombs
The ‘universal’ in UDL
Tuesday, February 28 | 12pm – 1pm
An event in the Viewpoints discussion series with a special focus on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI).
In this interactive Viewpoints session, we discussed the critical barriers related to universality in learning and how UDL can more explicitly address educational injustices and barriers to learning related to equity, diversity, and accessibility. Our panelists, Jennifer Jenson, PhD, professor, LLED, and Joann Anokwuru, PhD, Curriculum Studies provided context to the articles listed below and shared their unique perspectives, questions, ideas and concerns.
Panelists:
Jennifer Jenson, PhD, Professor, LLED
Joann Anokwuru, PhD, Curriculum Studies
Facilitator:
Jamilee Baroud, Curriculum and Evaluation Consultant, ETS
Amir Doroudian, Learning Designer, ETS
Foundations of Web Accessibility
Wednesday, February 15 | 12:00pm – 01:00pm
In this workshop on the Foundations of Web Accessibility, we explored ways you can improve communications and online contents using Web Content Accessibility Guidelines.
This session covered:
- WCAG – Web accessibility guidelines and principles
- Strategies for improving web content accessibility for communications
Facilitators: Marika Cheng and Gabrielle Coombs
Tech in Transit – Tinkercad: 3D Designs Made Easy and Fun
Wednesday, February 8 | 12pm – 1pm
For this month, we presented a free web app called Tinkercad that is used for 3D design, electronics, and coding. It is a versatile and intuitive modelling tool for creating simple shapes and crazy contraptions. Whatever you can conceptualize, Tinkercad helps you make it into a reality.
Facilitators: Aidan Chua and Ariane Faria dos Santos
Assignments, Gradebook, and Speedgrader
Wednesday, February 1 | 12pm – 1pm
In this workshop, we took a deep dive into navigating, building, and grading assignments, group assignments and peer review on Canvas. It included an exploration of the grade book and a review of the functionality of speedgrader. We uncovered the hidden quirks of using these tools, troubleshooting common and not-so-common problems, and answered all your questions regarding Canvas assignments.
Facilitators: Marika Cheng and Eduardo Rebagliati