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Lunch & Learn Series: Drop-in Office Hours with the Learning Centre Team
This session will be held on Friday, November 12 at noon. For the Lunch & Learn session today, the LFS Learning Centre staff will be holding drop-in office hours. Bring any questions that you may have about your courses, tech setups or any previous session of the Lunch & Learns to discuss it with the […]
Nov 12, 2021
Lunch & Learn Series: TLEF, OER, ISI, SaP! Teaching and Learning Funding Opportunities with Ashley Welsh
Our next session will be held on Friday, October 22 at noon. Ashley Welsh (Skylight, Faculty of Science and CTLT) will lead the discussion this week. TLEF, OER, ISI, SaP! Come learn about some of the latest funding opportunities for teaching and learning at UBC. Ashley will share some of these funding opportunities at UBC […]
Oct 19, 2021
Lunch & Learn Series: Mid-Course Feedback with Gail Hammond & Adrian Granchelli
This session will be held on Friday, October 15, 2021 at noon. Gail Hammond & Adrian Granchelli (of LFS Learning Centre) will lead the discussion this week. This week, we will look into effective ways to collect student input in the form of Mid-Course Feedback. Mid-course feedback is a great way to get insights on […]
Oct 13, 2021
Lunch & Learn Series: Microsoft OneDrive with LFS Learning Centre team
This session will be held on Friday, October 8, 2021 at noon. The discussion will be led by Edmund Seow and Wayne Tamagi from the LFS Learning Centre. OneDrive is Microsoft’s cloud-based personal document management solution. It’s one of many components of Microsoft’s Office 365 platform which also includes online applications such as Outlook, Excel, […]
Oct 05, 2021
Lunch & Learn Series: Teaching in a Blended Classroom with Jerzy Zawistowski
This session will be held on Friday, September 24 at noon. Dr. Jerzy Zawistowski (Academic Director, Master of Food Science Program) will be our guest presenter this week. Despite the shift back to in-person teaching, some students have been unable to attend class, and as such, instructors have recorded or streamed their lectures. Teaching to both […]
Sep 23, 2021
Lunch & Learn Series: Rich Media Assignments with Adrian Granchelli and Duncan McHugh
This session will be held on Friday, September 17 at noon. Adrian Granchelli and Duncan McHugh of the LFS Learning Centre will be leading this discussion. Have you fully explored the breadth of what students are capable of? There are innumerable options for what students can create in order to demonstrate their learning. From videos […]
Sep 16, 2021
Contingency Planning for Course Delivery with Adrian Granchelli
This session will be held on September 10, 2021 at noon. Adrian Granchelli of LFS Learning Centre will lead the session this week. “If plan A doesn’t work, just remember there are 25 more letters.” This school year is filled with uncertainties, and we may need to shift our teaching strategies overnight. Learn about methods […]
Sep 07, 2021
Lunch & Learn Series: Perfecting your Course Syllabus with Gabriel Smith
This session will be held on Friday, September 3 at noon. Gabriel Smith of LFS Learning Centre will be leading this session. Are you working on your course syllabus right now? In this week’s Lunch & Learn, join the LFS Learning Centre for a discussion on syllabi, including the following topics: Design best practices UBC […]
Aug 31, 2021
Lunch & Learn Series: MS Teams with Edmund Seow and Wayne Tamagi
This session will be held on Friday, August 27, 2021 at noon. Edmund Seow and Wayne Tamagi of LFS Learning Centre will be our presenters this week. MS Teams enables users across the University to connect via instant messaging, video conferencing, online meetings, and simultaneously work on files in real-time together. In this session, Edmund […]
Aug 25, 2021
Lunch & Learn Series: Navigating the AV sea with Duncan McHugh
This session will be held on Friday, August 20 at noon. Duncan McHugh of LFS Learning Centre will be our presenter this week. For those coming back to campus to teach in-person this September, there are many considerations with regards to the audio-visual technology you’ll use. This lunch-and-learn will help demystify that tech, and inform […]
Aug 17, 2021
Lunch & Learn Series: Ensuring exams are effective tools for learning and assessment by Candice Rideout and Gregory Paradis
This session will be held on Friday, August 13, 2021 at noon. Candice Rideout (Associate Prof. of Teaching, LFS) and Gregory Paradis (Assistant Prof., Forest Resources Management, Forestry) will be our guest presenters this week. The recent period of remote teaching has posed many pedagogical challenges, including how (or if) we should administer midterms and […]
Aug 10, 2021
Lunch & Learn Series: OnTask – a tool to provide personalized feedback to increase student engagement & motivation with Sandra Brown
This session will be held on Friday, August 6, 2021 at noon. Sandra Brown (Asst. Professor of Teaching, LFS) will be our guest presenter for this week. With increasing class size and student diversity, providing personalized feedback to students can be a challenge. Yet we know from nudge theory that if we provide our students […]
Aug 03, 2021
Students’ Reflections on Remote Learning
By Adrian Granchelli & Gabriel Smith, The Learning Centre, Faculty of Land and Food Systems METHODS The Learning Centre conducted student focus group sessions in June of 2021. At this point, students have completed an entire year of online and distanced education. Students were contacted through the LFS Student Services Email list and incentivized to […]
Jul 28, 2021
Lunch & Learn Series: Basic video editing with Camtasia by Duncan McHugh
This session will be held on Friday, July 9, 2021 at noon. Although Camtasia is billed as a screen recorder, it is also useful as a basic video editing program. Need to record a lecture or a presentation? Want to trim or remove a section from a Zoom video? Want to integrate simple graphics or […]
Jul 07, 2021
Lunch & Learn Series: September Prep Roundtable by Gabriel Smith and Duncan McHugh
This session will be held on Friday, July 2, 2021 at noon. This Friday, we’re skipping the formal presentation in favour of a drop-in session. Stop by with a question or join in a discussion about what you’re doing to prepare for September and the fall term. We’ll chat about some of the options available for lecture capture […]
Jun 30, 2021