By eric lee
March 27, 2018
Educational Technology Support (ETS) has been working on the transition of UBC’s primary learning management system from Connect to Canvas. In the summer terms of 2018, all courses (aside from courses in the Teacher Education Program) will be using Canvas as their primary learning management system. By September 2018, all courses will be transitioned into using Canvas.
If you are teaching a classroom course in Summer 2018, you will be able to migrate your course yourself! To migrate your course, you first must have your Canvas course shell ready and you must have access to the Connect course you are planning on migrating. Please visit our website to learn how to migrate your course from Connect to Canvas: Canvas Migration. If you are teaching an online course in Summer 2018, ETS will be migrating your course.
If you run into any issues trying to migrate your course, please feel free to contact ETS by email at ets.educ@ubc.ca or by phone at 604 822 6333.
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By domansky
March 26, 2018
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The Faculty of Education is pleased to announce that Ms. Moira McDermott has joined the Faculty of Education as Director, Communications, as of Monday March 26, 2018.
Ms. McDermott comes with over 20 years of experience in communications, marketing and public relations, both in post-secondary institutions and in the public and private sector. Ms. McDermott has received Professional Accreditation (APR), is a Certified Advertising Agency Practitioner (CAAP) and also received the IAP2 Certification from the International Association for Public Participation. Her contributions to the Province of British Columbia has earned her the Deputy Minister’s Certificate of Recognition for the Ministry of Education’s Employee Learning Strategy and British Columbia Premier’s Certificate of Recognition for contributions to the Queen’s Jubilee Visit. In her current and former positions, Ms. McDermott has lead the communications and marketing portfolio to significantly increase the applications for a new Bachelor of International Economics (BIE) degree and has held extensive experience in advising senior leadership, Board members, staff, alumni and faculty in various organizations.
In her role as Director, Communications, Ms. McDermott will be responsible for the development, implementation and evaluation of media, public relations and other communications strategies for the Faculty of Education, provision of guidance and collaboration with unit-level communicators, liaison with other Faculties and central units for Faculty promotion and acting as a key communicator between the Faculty of Education and external organizations.
Ms. McDermott’s office will be located on the 6th Floor, Neville Scarfe Building, in Room 2620. She can be contacted at moira.mcdermott@ubc.ca or 604-822-0853.
Please join us in welcoming Ms. McDermott to the Faculty of Education!
By alex smiciklas
Please register for the next installment of Conversations with the Dean being held on Tuesday April 24, from 4:00-5:30 p.m. in Room 2414 (fourth floor lounge), Neville Scarfe Building.
By eric lee
March 26, 2018
The One-Button Studio is a designated space within UBC Studios, located in the University Services Building at 2329 West Mall. The One-Button Studio is a free service available to UBC faculty and staff to create video presentations, lectures and announcements. As the name suggests, the One-Button Studio was designed to be a video production option that is simpler to use, with only a few steps to get started.
Recently, UBC Studios has added a new DIY-Media Space to the One-Button Studio. The space now includes a table-top recording station that allows you to live-stream videos, make Camtasia lecture/presentation recordings and podcasts. The DIY-Media Space includes a writing tablet, an optimally mounted microphone, and a high-definition camera.
UBC Studios has done its best to make the space DIY-friendly and simple to use. While the DIY-Media Space is not as simple as pushing one-button, Camtasia recordings take only a few clicks to setup and there are instructions laid out to you on how to use the writing tablet.
If you do not wish to use the new table-top DIY-Media space, the option to use the original One-Button Studio is still available!
If you would like to book the One-Button Studio/DIY-Media Space, please contact UBC Studios by phone at 604 822 9800 or by email at ubc.studios@ubc.ca. This service is free to use for faculty and staff members of UBC.
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By domansky
HSE-RHÉ Editors: Penney Clark and Mona Gleason, University of British Columbia
Guest Editors: Sharon Anne Cook, Chad Gaffield, Ruby Heap, Stéphane Lévesque, Heather McGregor, Lorna McLean, Nicholas Ng-A-Fook, and Timothy J. Stanley, Making History Educational Research Unit / Faire de l’histoire unité de recherche en éducation University of Ottawa / Université d’Ottawa
Published: Spring 2018 special issue / Le numéro spécial de printemps 2018, Historical Studies in Education / Revue d’histoire de l’éducation
View online
In this issue:
Special Issue – Introduction
- From Centennial to Sesquicentennial in Canada: Transformative Research in the History of Education | Chad Gaffield
Special Issue – Articles
- The Writing of Women into Canadian Educational History in English Canada and Francophone Quebec, 1970 to 1995 | Sharon Anne Cook, Ruby Heap, Lorna McLean
- Back to School? Historians and the View from the Classroom | Penney Clark, Amy von Heyking
- Combien ou comment ? Les femmes canadiennes dans les récits scolaires et dans la mémoire collective, rétrospective des recherches depuis 1980 | Marie-Hélène Brunet
- Women Rarely Worthy of Study: A History of Curriculum Reform in Ontario Education | R. Fine-Meyer, K. Llewellyn
- Off to School: Filmic False Equivalence and Indian Residential School Scholarship | Jane Griffith
Articles
- Swimming Against the Current of Secular Education: The Rise and Fall of Columbian Methodist College, 1892-1937 |Eric Damer, Gerald Thomson
- Le « moment 68 » au Collège Sainte-Anne : la mentalité estudiantine au moment de la grève de 1968 | Michael Poplyansky
- L’Éducation des filles congolaises au maquis de Mulele: Arme de libération ou force d’(auto)destruction? | Annette Lembagusala Kikumbi, Marc Depaepe
Research Note / Note de recherche
- La formation en techniques de laboratoire médical au Québec, 1943-1968 : Vingt-cinq ans avant le Cégep | Andrée Dufour
Book Reviews / Comptes Rendus
- Marc-André Éthier, Vincent Boutonnet, Stéphanie Demers et David Lefrançois, Quel sens pour l’histoire? | Laurie Pageau
- Jean-François Condette, dir., Les personnels d’inspection. Contrôler, évaluer, contrôler les enseignants. Retour sur une histoire France/Europe (XVIIe-XXe siècle) | Jean-Pierre Proulx
- Matthew Hayday, So They Want Us to Learn French: Promoting and Opposing Bilingualism in English-Speaking Canada | Jack D. Cécillon
- Helen May, Kristen Nawrotzki, and Larry Prochner eds., Kindergarten Narratives on Froebelian Education: Transnational Investigations | Sofia Chatzistefanidou
- Colleen Gray, No Ordinary School: The Study, 1915–2015 | K. M. Gemmell
- Jon N. Hale, The Freedom Schools: Student Activists in the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement | Tracy E. K’Meyer
- Nancy Weiss Malkiel, “Keep the Damned Women Out”: The Struggle for Coeducation | Christine D. Myers
- Shelley Hasinoff and David Mandzuk, Case Studies in Educational Foundations: Canadian Perspectives | Trevor Norris
- David F. Labaree, A Perfect Mess: The Unlikely Ascendency of American Higher Education | Julie A. Reuben
- Jason Reid, Get Out of My Room! A History of Teen Bedrooms in America | Katharine Rollwagen
- Jonathan Zimmerman and Emily Robertson, The Case for Contention: Teaching Controversial Issues in American Schools | Peter Seixas
- Robert C. Vipond, Making a Global City: How One Toronto School Embraced Diversity | Myer Siemiatycki
- David Wright, SickKids: The History of the Hospital for Sick Children | Judith Young
By domansky
Designed to support partnerships between the academic sector and one non-academic partner (public, private or not-for-profit), SSHRC Partnership Engage Grants put a strong emphasis on the relevance to, and involvement of, the Partner Organization.
Deadlines:
April 30, 2018: Alert Robert Olaj in the Office of Research in Education (ORE) that you are submitting an application if you are interested in ORE development support.
June 8, 2018 | 10:00 a.m.: Email Robert Olaj in the Office of Research in Education (ORE) a completed/signed UBC RPIF and a full PDF of your application.
June 8, 2018 | 4:30 p.m.: Email UBC Office of Research Services (ORS) the ORE-signed RPIF and a copy of the application.
June 15, 2018: SSHRC national deadline.
Highlights:
- $25,000 maximum award
- Deadlines 4 times per year, the next of which is June 15 (June 8 ORE/ORS deadline)
- Only one application per calendar year (Jan.-Dec.) permitted, irrespective of application results
- Results in approximately 2 months
- Cash and/or in-kind contributions from the Partner Organization are expected
- International participants from academic postsecondary organizations are permitted to act as Co-Applicants
- All Co-Applicants from academic institutions must submit a full SSHRC CV
- Co-Applicants from from eligible not-for-profit organizations may request a salary research allowance to release them from duties to their organization.
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By domansky
Congratulations to Dr. Joy Butler, professor in the Department of Curriculum & Pedagogy (EDCP), who has been selected to receive the 2018 R. Tait McKenzie Award. Presented by Physical & Health Education Canada (PHE Canada), the R. Tait McKenzie Award is geared toward Canadians who have made a significant impact on physical education, health education/promotion, recreation, and dance and who have served the profession over an extended period of time. To qualify, candidates must have at least 20 years’ experience as a teacher, coach, supervisor or administrator, etc., and have performed distinguished, meritorious service as a recognized leader locally/regionally, nationally, and internationally.
The award will be presented to Dr. Butler at the National PHE-Canada conference on May 18, 2018, held at Whistler, BC.
Congratulations on this milestone achievement!
By domansky
Alayna Finley, MA, Special Education
Discourse and academic language in parent/deaf child home interactions
Supervisor: Dr. Joanna Cannon
Wednesday, March 28, 2018 | 2:00 p.m. | Ponderosa Commons Oak House (PCOH), Room 1306A, 6445 University Boulevard
American Sign Language Interpreters are available.
Abstract
Children are first socialized in the language of school before even setting foot in a school. This socialization happens at home, with parents acting as a child’s first and most crucial language model. What does this mean for very young deaf children who have varied access to language in their home environment? Parental language competency, motivation, and access to resources available will shape the quality of language access. This research study examined features of parental academic language use in parent and deaf child home interactions. One family was recruited for the study and the researcher visited the family five times over a period of 1 week. Selected family interactions were videotaped and the parents had a discussion with the researcher based on interview questions about these taped interactions. Analyses focused on parental language complexity (academic language, vocabulary, sentence types, American Sign Language [ASL] to English linking strategies, etc.) in interactions with their deaf children in their home setting. Strong evidence of parental use of extended discourse and academic language with young deaf children was found, particularly at the dinner table. Academic language modelling and higher-level facilitative language techniques by a more knowledgeable other can perhaps be taught within the context of early intervention, preparing deaf children for the world of language learning at school.
By domansky
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has launched a call for nominations to fill 13 advisory boards that inform the strategy and funding activities for CIHR’s 13 institutes. Currently, 8 of 13 advisory boards have no representation from UBC. This is a missed opportunity for UBC researchers to have their voices heard at CIHR and engage with the national research community. The 8 boards with no UBC representation are:
The deadline to apply is April 9, 2018. You can find more information about this opportunity here.
Please contact Dr. Heather Frost at heather.frost@ubc.ca if you would like to apply and/or have any questions.
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By domansky
The Conversation
By: Dr. Veronica Strong-Boag
March 19, 2018
Dr. Veronica Strong-Boag, a UBC professor emerita in educational studies, wrote an op-ed about women suffragists for The Conversation.
“Today, just as when women won the vote, democracy remains a work in progress, its allies imperfect, its opponents many,” she wrote.
Link to full text.
Story via UBC News.
Photo: National Archives
