Brown Bag Lunch

What

RefWorks is a web-based citation management program that enables you to download, organize and format references.

Learn how to import citations from databases (e.g. Web of Science, CAB Direct, PubMed, Google Scholar), and format the bibliography using a style of choice.

Additional features such as sharing citations and using RSS feeds will be demonstrated.

Sally Taylor will introduce you to this powerful technology and show you how you can apply it to your academic work.

When

Tuesday, February 24, 2009 from 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (PT)

Where

Food, Nutrition and Health Bldg
Room 220
2205 East Mall
Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z4
Canada

The GRS Blogging Project

Have you ever wondered how to engage an audience located all over the world? This Brown Bag will explore the use of blogs as a community builder for the Global Resource Systems course. Mary Ann, along with Brent Skura, used a course blog to connect alumni, students and faculty across several continents.

The GRS course blog has been in use for a term now. Come hear Mary Ann Keating talk about the challenges and the benefits of setting up a blog for a course.

Sign up here

The Faculty of Land and Food Systems’ Learning Centre is very pleased to announce the ninth session of its 2008 Brown Bag Lunch series!

Please join us next Wednesday for a seminar presented by Tim Wang, Manager of Instructional Development for the Faculty of Arts.

Where: MacMillan Building Room 350 (2357 Main Mall)
When: Wednesday, May 21st, 2008, from noon to 1pm

The e-Learning industry is at a cross point where rich media is merging with
the traditional content. More and more, educators are exploring the
possibilities offered by virtual worlds and 3D environments. This is simply
because avatar based learning is favored by the younger generation of
learners. This session will provide the audiences with real-life case
studies and projects in order to further examine the phenomena.

Bio:

Tim is a manager and a technology developer at Arts ISIT. He is dedicated to
experimenting with new media while creating innovative online teaching and
learning applications. With a programming background, Tim combines digital
media development with interactive software design. He is currently building
asynchronous learning object authoring tools in Web 2.0 technology and
creating learning resources in 3-D learning environments.

Please RSVP to Duncan McHugh. Refreshments will be served. Feel free to forward this email to any interested parties.

The Faculty of Land and Food Systems’ Learning Centre is very pleased to announce the eighth session of its 2008 Brown Bag Lunch series!

Please join us next Wednesday for a seminar presented by Shane Dawson, Senior Research Fellow with the Centre for Learning Innovation at Queensland University of Technology, Australia.

Where: Food, Nutrition and Health Building Room 220 (2250 East Mall)
When: Wednesday, May 7th, 2008, from noon to 1pm

Please RSVP to Duncan McHugh. Refreshments will be served. Feel free to forward this email to any interested parties.

Session description:
The vast majority of Higher Education Institutions internationally, utilise learning management systems (LMS) to support student learning. Courses undertaken at the University of British Columbia for instance, are supported through the use of such a system – currently WebCT Vista. Increasingly such systems provide the essential infrastructure which mediates student access to learning resources, and facilitates student-student and student-lecturer interaction. LMS automatically collect data concerning student interaction with the resources and tools that are provided via the online environment. The unobtrusive yet ubiquitous nature of this data is currently under utilised as a resource for evaluating learning and teaching activities. This is in part due to the lack of conceptual frameworks which can validly and reliably articulate that data with broader pedagogical deliberations.

This presentation outlines an evaluative method that utilises data mining techniques to benchmark and evaluate teaching and learning practices. In this session I will demonstrate what interaction data is available, how this can be interpreted, what learning and teaching areas it might highlight and how to use the data for benchmarking, personal reflection and demonstrating course improvement. In so doing, the presentation draws on Land and Food Systems course data to illustrate how monitoring student online user-behaviour can inform teaching practice in a proactive just-in-time manner. The presentation will conclude with a discussion of over-the-horizon information analytics.

Profile:
Dr Shane Dawson is a Senior Research Fellow with the Centre for Learning Innovation at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. His research interests have focused on the application of data derived from institutional information and communication technologies (ICTs) to inform teaching practice. Shane’s work has lead to the development of specific ICT-collected lead indicators of student sense of community and course satisfaction. Shane now leads an international project furthering the potential for data derived from Learning Management Systems to assist educators and administrators in the evaluation and monitoring of student engagement. Shane is also involved in developing pedagogical models for enhancing creative capacity in undergraduate students. He is currently investigating social network visualisation tools as a potential resource for teaching staff to better understand and evaluate student creative capacity.

The Faculty of Land and Food Systems’ Learning Centre is very pleased to announce the seventh session of its 2008 Brown Bag Lunch series!Please join us next Wednesday for a seminar presented by Edmund Seow, the Learning Centre’s very own Computer Systems Manager.

Where: MacMillan Building Room 350 (2357 Main Mall)

When: Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008, from noon to 1pm

Ever had your hard drive crash? Ever lose value documents? With the cost of backup storage decreasing, it’s never been easier to back up your data. The Learning Centre’s Edmund Seow will show you simple ways to back up your hard drive, effectively archive your files and keep you from ever losing your data again. Don’t delay; come to this session and start backing up today!

Refreshments will be served. Feel free to forward this email to any interested parties.

Future sessions include:

• May 7th: Shane Dawson on WebCT usage and teaching style (FNH 220)
• May 21st: Tim Wang on Virtual Worlds (MCML 350)

The Faculty of Land and Food Systems’ Learning Centre is very pleased to announce the sixth session of its 2008 Brown Bag Lunch series!

Please join us next Wednesday for a seminar presented by Alison Wong, Web Applications Developer for UBC’s Office of Learning Technologies office.

Where: Food, Nutrition and Health Building Room 220 (2250 East Mall)
When: Wednesday, April 9th, 2008, from noon to 1pm

This workshop will discuss course evaluations using CoursEval, a new evaluation  software that UBC has adopted. CoursEval makes it easier to collect and for students to provide feedback, share evaluations and provides great flexibility and tailoring of evaluation questions. CoursEval can also be used as a survey tool.

Please RSVP to Duncan McHugh. Refreshments will be served. Feel free to forward this email to any interested parties.

Future sessions include:

• April 23th: Edmund Seow on backing up and archiving (MCML 350)
• May 7th: Shane Dawson on WebCT usage and teaching style (FNH 220)
• May 21st: Tim Wan (MCML 350)

The Faculty of Land and Food Systems’ Learning Centre is very pleased to announce the fourth session of its 2008 Brown Bag Lunch series!

Please join us next Wednesday for a seminar presented by Winnie Pang and Cyprien Lomas of the Faculty of Land and Food Systems.

Where: Food, Nutrition and Health Building Room 220 (2205 East Mall)
When: Wednesday, March 12th, 2008, from noon to 1pm

Most people have heard of weblogs and blogging, but few realize how easy it is to start a blog for themselves. In this hour-long session, the Faculty of Land and Food Systems’ Winnie Pang and Cyprien Lomas will introduce you to blogging culture, show you how to set up your blog, customize it and get it out to your target audience.

Please RSVP to Duncan. Refreshments will be served. Feel free to forward this email to any interested parties.

I hope to see you there!

Teaching & Academic Growth is presenting the fantastic Gardner Campbell from the University of Mary Washington in Virginia. His presentation, entitled “Computers As Poetry,” is today, Wednesday, March 5th, from 1pm to 3:30pm at Telestudios, 2239 West Mall. This session is definitely recommended for those interested in technology and learning. Details and registration info available here.

Please join us this Thursday for a seminar presented by Alan Levine, Vice President Community and CTO for the New Media Consortium.

Where: MacMillan Building Room 350 (2357 Main Mall)

When: Thursday, February 28th, 2008, from noon to 1pm

It was not long ago that producing multimedia digital content required expensive equipment and technical expertise; we are at the point now where we can do some very compelling content creation with nothing more complex than a web browser. In this workshop you will:

• Design a basic story concept that can be created in a web 2.0 tool using images, audio, and/or video.
• And then create it quickly using one of 50+ different web tools that are free to use.
• Plus, you will share in this wiki site your example and observations on the value of the tool

We are using the word “story” in a general sense; it may be a deeply personal one of the digital storytelling variety, or it may be a tale of a travel trip, or a simple multimedia presentation.

Alan Levine is the Vice President Community and CTO for the New Media Consortium. In this role, he explores and evangelizes new technologies to the NMC and other educational communities, with current interests in anything “cool” on the web (no matter the decimal point), virtual worlds, blogs, wikis, digital media, and anything that allows creative expression. Although he tends to say “ummm” a lot and never uses a script, Alan has presented at the League for Innovation, EDUCAUSE, and Syllabus conferences, as well as invited presentations for institutions in Oklahoma, Florida, Oregon, Ohio, Iceland, New Zealand, and Australia.

Refreshments will be served. Feel free to forward this email to any interested parties.

The Brown Bag lunch series is a series of discussions, presentations and hands-on workshops about technology use for teaching, learning, research, everyday use and (hopefully) fun. The sessions are open to all.