Teaching Through Visual Cognition In An Immersive Online Environment
This event is not just a lecture, it is also a discussion forum. The facilitators are subject specialists in math education, language education, music education, and art education. During the discussion, participants will have the opportunity to try out the immersive online learning environment.
What Next? Creating Your Own Community-Based Experience
UBC Chapman and Innovation Grant winners from this past summer share how they took past experiences and shaped an exciting new projects with community. There will be opportunities to meet and mingle with the speakers and learn about how you can engage with community.
Refreshments will be served starting at 9:15am.
A Tutorial On Recurrence Methods for Linguistics and Psychology
This will be a talk on the use of dynamical systems modelling in our understanding of high-level (e.g., discourse) language behavior.
Celebrate Science 2013 Making Science Fun
Join us for a celebration of science! Want to engage youth in science and math—then find out about interesting science books and the authors who write them, simple hands-on activities and ways to make science fun! Hear from Dr. Andrew Trites, one of the UBC science team that brought the blue whale skeleton from PEI. And best of all go on a guided tour of the Beaty Biodiversity Museum and learn about their fascinating collections and exciting programs.
eBook Fair and Vendor Panel
10 am to 1 pm: Vendor fair to speak with end users, demo books, answer questions, etc.
1:30 pm to 2:30 pm: Librarian Lunch ‘n’ Learn Session with vendors – LIBRARIANS ONLY
2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.: Vendor panel – LIBRARIANS ONLY
Music on the Point: Concerts with Personality
A concert with UBC School of Music personalities performing and sharing glimpses of life inside the music.
Beethoven: Sonata for Piano and Violin, Op. 96
Respighi: Sonata for Violin and Piano in B minor
Sustainability Education Resource Centre Open House
Join the Sustainability Education Resource Center for some hot chocolate, goodies and find out how you can learn about and get involved with sustainability initiatives at UBC. Meet the Sustainability Ambassadors, play a game and enjoy a unique student space.
FIREtalk: Indigenizing the Academy
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission events in Vancouver support reconciliation between Aboriginal people and wider Canadian society. To continue the conversation, Xwi7xwa Library and the Research Commons at Koerner Library invite you to participate in a FIREtalk at the First Nations House of Learning Hall on Oct 23, 4-6 pm.
Interactive Engagement in the Classroom: Our Experiences with Teaching Upper-Level Statistics
Paul co-taught STAT 300 in 2012/13 Term 1 using in-class activities in
all classes. Students worked in pre-selected groups during lectures. Clicker questions were used to receive and give feedback to students during the worksheet activities. In addition, there was a two-stage midterm exam in this class, where students wrote the first part individually, and then wrote part 2 in groups. Paul has also used worksheet activities in STAT 536 the past two years.
In 2012/13 Term 2, Will taught STAT 305 using a similar model of
in-class activities. He also used weekly Lab TA surveys to gather
additional information to address student difficulties and created a
Post Course Knowledge Retention Survey to interview past STAT 305
students. The latter gave surprising results.
Mainly via examples, Paul and Will will share their findings.
(This is joint work with Bruce Dunham and Gaitri Yapa.)
Open UBC Week: Open Robotics and 3D Printing Demo
Prototyping tools are available on campus for students looking to fabricate their ideas into physical objects. On display will be physical prototypes from UBC Engineering Physics and other local groups making use of waterjet cutters, 3d printers, laser cutters and other tools to put together physical prototypes for academic courses, capstone projects and extracurricular teams.