Tech in Transit – Wikispaces

Session Information


Date: January 27th, 2016
Location: Scarfe Main Foyer
Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Registration: Not required

Event Description

Join us at the Scarfe Foyer during lunchtime on January 27th to see this month’s Technology in Transit showcase, featuring Wikispaces!

Wikispaces is an open-classroom management platform that facilitates student-teacher communication and collaboration. Using Wikispaces, teachers and students can write and edit pages together, create and edit group or individual projects, communicate in a private social network, and participate in real-time formative assessments. Drop by Jolene’s booth on January 27th to learn more about how teachers are using Wikispaces and how you could integrate it into your own classroom!

At Educational Technology Support, one of our key goals is to raise technology awareness and demonstrate the various applications of technology in teaching and learning. On the second Wednesday of every month, Educational Technology Support (ETS) hosts Technology in Transit. Technology in Transit provides a space for Teacher Candidates and graduate students to display the different technologies that they have been actively using in their courses. The one-hour session offers passers-by the chance to observe and engage with educational technology as they walk through Scarfe Foyer during their lunch break.


Presenter

Our featured student this month is Jolene Loveday from the Faculty of Education.

Jolene Loveday
Jolene Loveday (BA, MA, CELTA) is a teacher candidate in the BEd Middle Years (English and IB-MYP) program. She is the student representative for the Faculty of Education in the UBC Vancouver Senate and the Academic Director of the Education Students’ Association. Additionally, Jolene is an experienced adult educator, having taught English as an Additional Language and English literature for the past decade. She is currently a faculty member, on leave, at Vancouver Community College..