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Lunch & Learn Series: Presenting current Indigenous Student Initiatives as they relate to LFS and Beyond with Joel Liman
This session will be held on Friday, June 25, 2021 at noon. Joel Liman of LFS Student Services will be our guest presenter for this week. This presentation will review some of the current statistics, campus policies, and initiatives at UBC at relating to Indigenous student recruitment and retention. There will be a lot of […]
Jun 23, 2021
Lunch & Learn Series: Creating Interactive Content with Adrian Granchelli and Ian Linkletter
This session will be held on Friday, June 18, 2021 at noon. Adrian Granchelli of LFS Learning Centre and Ian Linkletter of Educational Technology Support (Faculty of Education) will be our presenters for this week. Interactive content can be very engaging for students and can allow for better understanding of content. In this session we […]
Jun 17, 2021
Lunch & Learn Series: Instructor perspectives on teaching a large online introductory science course during the COVID-19 pandemic with Sandra Brown and Maja Krzic
This session will be held on Friday, June 11, 2021 at noon. Sandra Brown and Maja Krzic will discuss their experience transitioning a large on-campus introductory soil science course into the online setting. This includes the consolidation of existing course material, developing a weekly structure which aligns content and assessment with learning outcomes, combining synchronous […]
Jun 10, 2021
Lunch & Learn Series: Cultivating Creativity in STEM Classrooms with Lindsay Cuff
This session will be held on Friday, May 28 at noon. Lindsay Cuff (LFS/Forestry Assistant Professor of Teaching) will be our guest presenter for this week. This session will focus on the importance of integrating and nurturing creativity in STEM courses. Participants will learn practical techniques to encourage creative thinking and engagement, both online and […]
May 25, 2021
Lunch & Learn Series: Productivity Tools by Sahil Sahibole
This session will be held on Friday, May 21 at noon. Sahil Sahibole of LFS Learning Centre will be our presenter this week. Productivity tools are tools that help you be more productive in your workplace by optimizing the processes around your tasks. There are many tools out there that can help you with your […]
May 21, 2021
Lunch & Learn Series: What to expect from Peer Review of Teaching – a discussion with the LFS PRT Committee
This session will be held on Friday, May 14 at noon. Our intended audience is the new(ish) faculty member, who has yet to go through Peer Review of Teaching (PRT) and wants to know what this is for and what to expect. Dan Weary and others from the PRT Committee will share their views on […]
May 11, 2021
Lunch & Learn Series: Engaging in Thoughtful Reflection on Student Evaluations of Teaching to Improve Course Design and Teaching Practice with Candice Rideout
This session will be held on Friday, May 7, at noon The feedback students provide on end-of-term Student Evaluations of Teaching (SEoT) surveys can be tremendously valuable – but reading (and interpreting) SEoT reports can be hard. In this session, we will briefly review some of the literature regarding SEoT surveys (including some potential sources […]
May 05, 2021
Lunch & Learn Series: What is Hybrid? with Gabriel Smith
This session will be held on Friday, April 30 at noon. This week’s Lunch & Learn will be on the topic of hybrid learning. The session will be led by LFS Learning Centre’s Gabriel Smith. Topics that will be discussed are: What does “hybrid” mean to instructors? What does “hybrid” mean to students? How can instructors […]
Apr 28, 2021
Lunch & Learn Series: Videomaking with Smartphones with Duncan McHugh
This session will be held on Friday, April 23, 2021 at noon. There’s a saying that the best camera is the one you have with you. These days, most of us have access to smartphones and tablets capable of creating high quality videos. This workshop will look out how to get the most out of these […]
Apr 20, 2021
Lunch & Learn Series: Beyond Zoom – Experimenting with Synchronous Platforms with Adrian Granchelli and Duncan McHugh
This session will be held on Friday, April 16 at noon After a year of online synchronous sessions, some of you may be ready to mix things up and—good news!—there are so many technologies available to make this happen. We’re going to explore a couple of ways of spicing up your Zoom presentations and show […]
Apr 14, 2021
Lunch & Learn Series: The Three S’s: Students + Skills (and a bit of passion for spice) = Success with Nina von Keyserlingk
This session will be held on Friday, April 9, at noon In this session of Lunch & Learn, Professor Nina von Keyserlingk of LFS will lead a discussion on her approach to facilitating learning in the courses that she teaches in Applied Animal Biology. Her conversations will include anecdotes from her numerous conversations with her sister, Gesa […]
Apr 07, 2021
Lunch & Learn Series: Peer Review Tools with Prabhjot Nagra
This session will be held on Friday, March 26th, 2021 at noon. Our topic for this week will be on ‘peer review’ for online learning, presented by Prabhjot Nagra of the LFS Learning Centre. Peer evaluation also known as peer review is a type of assessment activity where students are asked to provide feedback on, […]
Mar 23, 2021
Lunch & Learn Series: Online Exams – One Year Later with Juno Kim
This session will be held on Friday, March 19th, 2021 at noon. With another season of online exams around the corner, we are fortunate now to have had some experience with novel formats of exam delivery. In this Lunch & Learn Session, the Learning Centre will discuss our experiences in the past year, with an […]
Mar 12, 2021
Lunch & Learn Series: EDI, Affect, and STEM Classrooms with Will Valley
This session will be held on Friday, March 12th, 2021 at noon. Classrooms are affective spaces and our disciplines have affective cultures; STEM-related fields are no exception. Students expect to have very different emotional experiences in women’s studies than they do in courses related to soils, nutrition, or animal biology. When bringing in Equality, Diversity, […]
Mar 08, 2021
Lunch & Learn Series: Early Alert Support For Students with Brian Barth
This session will be held on Friday, March 5th, 2021 at noon. Continuing on our topic on student support from last week, Brian Barth, Manager, Student Support Services from the VP Students Office will be presenting this week on Supporting Students, and using Early Alert (EA). The Early Alert Program allows student advising, faculty and support staff to clearly […]
Mar 03, 2021