About the Session
In this one-hour FLO Friday workshop, participants will be introduced to the GenAI in Teaching and Learning Toolkit, designed to support educators in understanding and integrating Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) tools within their teaching practice. The session will begin with an introduction to GenAI literacy skills required for teaching and learning, addressing both pedagogical opportunities and ethical considerations in educational contexts. Through guided practice, participants will then engage with a selected toolkit activity, gaining hands-on experience with GenAI integration strategies while exploring practical implementation steps.
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Identify key GenAI literacy skills essential for effective teaching and learning
- Apply one GenAI integration strategy activity through hands-on toolkit exploration
- Discuss first steps of integrating GenAI toolkit resources into their practice
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This session may be recorded, archived, and made available publicly on BCcampus.ca. By participating in this session, you acknowledge you are aware your participation may be recorded and the recording will be openly available.
About the Facilitator
Your FLO Facilitator for this session is Dr. Gwen Nguyen.
Gwen (she/her) is an advisor for the learning and teaching team at BCcampus. Gwen is also the author of the AI Toolkit. Prior to joining BCcampus, Gwen worked as a learning experience designer at the University of Victoria, where she provided support to educators in developing and delivering courses across various modalities including face-to-face, hybrid, and online formats.
Her professional background also includes experience as a university lecturer and researcher at both the University of Victoria and the Kanazawa Institute of Technology in Japan. Gwen holds a PhD in education studies from the University of Victoria and a master of arts in applied linguistics from Saint Michael’s College.
Her research interests include poetry inquiry as a reflection practice in education, digital pedagogies in higher education, and participatory action research. Recently, Gwen has developed a keen interest in exploring pedagogical strategies that ethically and creatively integrate AI into teaching and learning environments. Gwen also brings valuable experience in navigating positionality as both an instructor and researcher.
About the Lab
Elevate your assessment with progressive rubrics emphasizing student achievement rather than areas for improvement. This hands-on workshop will guide you in using AI to create rubrics that inspire and motivate students by providing clear, structured pathways for growth. Participants will explore key concepts, collaborate on rubric creation using AI and their course materials, and refine drafts with peer feedback. The session will include interactive discussions, practical work time, and opportunities to share progress.
Learning Outcomes
With the support of AI tools and peer collaboration, participants will create a draft rubric using progressive criteria to clearly define student growth and mastery.
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This notice is to inform you that this session will be recorded, archived, and made available publicly on BCcampus.ca. By participating in this session, you acknowledge that your participation in this session may be recorded and the recording will be made available openly.
About the Facilitator
Your FLO Facilitator will be Mike Ray.
Meet Mike (he/him), a people enthusiast! With a passion for mentoring and coaching, he thrives on guiding others through change. He channels this passion as an educational developer at the College of New Caledonia (CNC). A product of British Columbia’s 1990s school system and the University of Victoria’s bachelor of education program, Mike has worn many hats over the past 15 years—from school-age education to industry training and post-secondary roles. Outside work, he’s all about mountain biking, barbecues, travel, social events, and sharing safe-for-work memes and well-timed GIFs. Reach out to him for a Teams call or coffee—connect on LinkedIn or find him on the CNC Centre for Learning and Teaching website to start a conversation!
About the Session
In this hands-on sandbox session, you will create a hypothes.is account and trial public, group and review LMS embedded activities. We will discuss how hypothes.is helps engage students in exploratory reading, provides informal opportunities for sharing personal experience, and highlights misinformation. We will demonstration how AI can be used to enhance and generate social interaction prompts.
In this Sandbox workshop, we will explore how to:
- enhance a sense of belonging for students in online and in-person courses
- develop effective writing prompts using AI
- annotate videos and images
- show examples of co-create knowledge through annotated readings
- use hypothes.is in multiple use-cases
- discuss rubrics for assessing student work
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This session will be recorded, archived, and made available publicly on BCcampus.ca. By participating in this session, you acknowledge you are aware your participation may be recorded and the recording will be openly available.
About the Facilitators
Julia Grav (she/her) is an entrepreneur in the Victoria technology sector, managing a web development and design business for over 10 years. She actively consults with small businesses, not-for-profits, and NGOs to improve their branding, optimization, increase their web presence, and build customized website applications.
She began teaching at Camosun College in 2014 in the Department of Computer Science and is now a new faculty instructor in the School of Business, Applied Business Technology. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Concordia University and spent three years teaching in Turkey. In 2017, Julia graduated from Simon Fraser University with a Master of Education in Curriculum and Instruction.
Julia’s teaching philosophy aligns with the principles of Universal Design for Learning, bringing learning science and inclusivity into the forefront of her classroom. She emphasizes choice and autonomy, along with multiple, reiterative low-stakes assignments, to enhance her students’ learning experience. By offering timely feedback highlighting effort, and including positive strategies for future success, Julia encourages her students to build and develop their mastery in technology.
Emily Schudel (she/her) is an instructional designer in the eLearning unit of the Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Camosun College and has over 25 years’ experience. She has worked with faculty to enhance their courses with technology, taught blended courses combining face-to-face with online technologies, and delivered distance education using synchronous technologies (such as narrow-cast satellite, web-conferencing, audio-conferencing, and tele-conferencing) and asynchronous technologies (like D2L). Recently, Emily became Creative Commons certified and now collaborates with faculty on open education projects, using WordPress, Pressbooks, H5P and other open platforms.
In her spare time, Emily enjoys hanging out with husband, Kevin, and their many kitties, as well as photography, blogging, walking, meditation, and creative writing.
About the Series
Discover the BCcampus EdTech Sandbox Series, workshops empowering educators, learning designers, and graduate students in B.C.’s post-secondary institutions to explore, experiment with, and evaluate cutting-edge tools for enhancing teaching excellence and student success. Aligned with the B.C. Post-Secondary Digital Literacy Framework, this program emphasizes a support technology perspective, encouraging open-mindedness, curiosity, troubleshooting skills, and the selection of appropriate tools for work and study.
Focus Areas for 2024-2025:
- The AI Sandbox: A space dedicated to experimenting with, and reviewing, artificial intelligence (AI)-based learning technologies.
- The No-Go EdTech Sandbox: A space aimed at examining learning technologies educators, students, and staff should avoid using in teaching and learning, and why.
In these two-hour live streamed webinars, expert leaders will introduce and demonstrate cutting-edge, open, and free, or low-cost educational technology tools.
By actively participating in these sandbox sessions, participants will experiment with tools, work with fellow educators to review features of the tools, gain insights into teaching activities, and discover ways to integrate these tools into courses.
Recordings of the presentations and reviews of the tools will be available on our website following the event.
EdTech Sandbox Series Sessions
- September 18, 2024 — Beyond Surveillance: The Case Against AI Detection and AI Proctoring, Ian Linkletter, BCIT
- October 16, 2024 — Learning Design with ChatGPT: Implications for AI Literacy, Hajime Kataoka, University of Victoria
- November 6, 2024 — Design Smarter: Harnessing Canva’s AI for Enhanced Educational Outcomes, Prabhjot (Prab) Bhamra, University of Toronto
- January 22, 2025 — Exploratory Learning: Effectively Integrating AI with Hypothesis, Julia Grav and Emily Schudel, Camosun College
- February 26, 2025 — Exploring Animaker for Teaching and Learning, Maryam Safa Schneider
About the Session
This workshop provides a space to pause and reflect on an important ethical concern in generative artificial intelligence (GenAI): its environmental impacts and overall sustainability. What actions, if any, can we take as individual users? What can we do as institutions?
We will start by reviewing the environmental costs associated with training and using GenAI tools and explore how these tools might be used to positively reduce climate impacts on a large scale. We will then explore a decision-making framework focused on sustainable AI use. Through guided questions, you will begin to develop a living philosophy for mindful AI use aligned with your environmental values. We will also share practical tips to help minimize carbon and water usage with AI.
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Describe the environmental implications of GenAI
- Explore guiding questions for sustainable AI use
- Develop a personalized AI-use philosophy that embodies your environmental values
- List practical strategies to reduce carbon and water usage in AI
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This notice is to inform you that this session will be recorded, archived, and made available publicly on BCcampus.ca. By participating in this session, you acknowledge that your participation in this session may be recorded and the recording will be made available openly.
About the Facilitator
Your FLO Facilitator for this session is Emily Simpson.
Emily Simpson (she/her) is a curriculum developer and facilitates instructor development workshops at Vancouver Community College. She brings a wealth of experience as an upgrading chemistry instructor, learning centre coordinator, and contributor to the Centre for Teaching, Learning, and Research, all with a focus on student experience and success. Her background includes a PhD in analytical chemistry, a provincial instructor diploma, and a certificate in online learning. Her goal is to enhance inclusive teaching and learning, with a focus on ethical and effective use of GenAI in education and fostering conversations around the tensions of using these tools.
About the Session
A dynamic and interactive two-hour webinar is designed to introduce educators to Animaker, a free and intuitive tool for creating engaging animations. In this session, you will learn everything you need to get started with Animaker, from signing up to create your first animation, to exploring its key features. The session includes a fun scavenger hunt to explore Animaker’s functionality, opportunities to collaborate with peers and share animation ideas, and hands-on practice building animations to foster a dynamic learning community. Whether you are a seasoned tech user or a complete novice, this webinar will provide the skills and confidence needed to bring animations into your classroom.
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This session will be recorded, archived, and made available publicly on BCcampus.ca. By participating in this session, you acknowledge you are aware your participation will be recorded and the recording will be openly available.
About the Facilitator
Maryam Safa Schneider (she/her) is an educator with over 16 years’ teaching experience, and a dedicated researcher and learning designer for the past four years. Her research focuses on the intersection of communication technology and mental health, exploring how technological advancements influence well-being and i
nterpersonal dynamics. She holds a bachelor of fine arts in visual arts from the University of British Columbia, a master of liberal arts in psychology from Harvard Extension School, and several specialized educational certificates, blending her passions for art, education, and mental health.
She serves an assistant professor at University Canada West, where she teaches general psychology and communication to undergraduate students. In her role as an educational consultant and learning designer, she develops dynamic, learner-centered experiences tailored to diverse educational and corporate settings. She provides personalized consultation and training that aligns teaching practices with emerging trends and best practices in education.
About the Series
Discover the BCcampus EdTech Sandbox Series, workshops empowering educators, learning designers, and graduate students in B.C.’s post-secondary institutions to explore, experiment with, and evaluate cutting-edge tools for enhancing teaching excellence and student success. Aligned with the B.C. Post-Secondary Digital Literacy Framework, this program emphasizes a support technology perspective, encouraging open-mindedness, curiosity, troubleshooting skills, and the selection of appropriate tools for work and study.
Focus Areas for 2024-2025:
- The AI Sandbox: A space dedicated to experimenting with, and reviewing, artificial intelligence (AI)-based learning technologies.
- The No-Go EdTech Sandbox: A space aimed at examining learning technologies educators, students, and staff should avoid using in teaching and learning, and why.
In these two-hour live streamed webinars, expert leaders will introduce and demonstrate cutting-edge, open, and free, or low-cost educational technology tools.
By actively participating in these sandbox sessions, participants will experiment with tools, work with fellow educators to review features of the tools, gain insights into teaching activities, and discover ways to integrate these tools into courses.
Recordings of the presentations and reviews of the tools will be available on our website following the event.
EdTech Sandbox Series Sessions:
- September 18, 2024 — Beyond Surveillance: The Case Against AI Detection and AI Proctoring, Ian Linkletter, BCIT
- October 16, 2024 — Learning Design with ChatGPT: Implications for AI Literacy, Hajime Kataoka, UVic
- November 6, 2024 — Design Smarter: Harnessing Canva’s AI for Enhanced Educational Outcomes, Prabhjot (Prab) Bhamra, University of Toronto
- January 22, 2025 — Exploratory Learning: Effectively Integrating AI with Hypothesis, Julia Grav and Emily Schudel, Camosun College
- February 26, 2025 — Exploring Animaker for Teaching and Learning, Maryam Safa Schneider
About the Session
In this FLO Friday session, participants will formulate “ShouldAI, CouldAI, WouldAI?” questions to discuss the use of AI in their classes and assessments.
Recognizing that learning outcomes inform pedagogical practices; participants will explore how AI could be used to support achievement and to enhance student success. Generative AI has not only underscored the need for curricular innovation but also highlighted the necessity for support and training to manage this complex task.
Participants will collaborate on the future of education with an “AI perspective.” They will analyze their assessment strategies in the context of their learning outcomes and AI use among students. They will collaborate on developing a curriculum considering current and future AI use.
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This notice is to inform you that this session will be recorded, archived, and made available publicly on BCcampus.ca. By participating in this session, you acknowledge that your participation in this session may be recorded and the recording will be made available openly.
About the Facilitator
Your FLO Facilitator for this session is Jenny Fitzgerald.
Jenny Fitzgerald (she/her) is an instructor of university success strategies, communications, and English upgrading at Capilano University. As an educator and curriculum developer, she sees the promises and challenges presented by AI in a post-secondary context. For the past two years, she has engaged in research and curriculum projects to support her students and colleagues around the ethical use of AI, focusing on adapting her courses and teaching practices to support student success. Jenny takes every opportunity to geek out with other educators and strives for collaborative innovation to mitigate the challenges posed by the rapid advancement of technology.