About The Series
Discover the BCcampus FLO EdTech Sandbox Series, an initiative that empowers educators in B.C.’s post-secondary institutions to explore innovative teaching tools through a safe online environment. In these two-hour livestream webinars, expert leaders will introduce and demonstrate cutting-edge, open, and free or low-cost educational technology tools, allowing you to experiment and gather exciting ideas for teaching activities. Our mission is to foster digital teaching innovation, encouraging faculty and staff to embrace emerging technologies with curiosity and openness, ultimately enhancing the learning experience for all.
By actively participating in these sandbox sessions, you will delve into hands-on experimentation with tools, collaborate with fellow educators to review their features, gain valuable insights into teaching activities, and discover ways to integrate these tools into your courses. If you’re unable to attend, recorded webinars of the presentations and written reviews of the tools will be available on our site after the event.
About This Session
Many of us have learned to screencast and video lecture in the past few years, but relatively few have harnessed the power of audio for teaching and learning. Audio has many benefits over video: files are small and portable, making them easy to share with rural and remote learners; audio can “fit into” the lives of many learners while they drive, walk, or attend to household tasks; and audio is an intimate medium for building connections. In this session you will:
- Discuss podcasting as a medium.
- Practice recording and editing audio.
- Learn about distribution of podcasts using WordPress.
- Explore assessment and feedback strategies that use audio.
Anyone looking for a new way to engage their hybrid and online learners is welcome to attend and explore the possibilities of podcasting.
About The Facilitator
Brenna Clarke Gray (she/her) is coordinator, Educational Technologies at Thompson Rivers University, where her research interests include the pedagogical implications of generative artificial intelligence, the history and future of open tenure processes, the role of care and care work in the practice of educational technology, and scholarly podcasting. Before her work in faculty support, she spent nine years as a community college English professor and comics scholar. She holds a PhD in Canadian literature from the University of New Brunswick. Outside academia, Brenna co-hosts Hazel & Katniss & Harry & Starr, a podcast about young adult literature and film adaptation, and pretends to be a public intellectual on social media, where you can find her in many places — but not Elon’s X — as @brennacgray.
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Other sessions in this series:
- Session 1: September 13, 2023, 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.—Mattermost, Ian Linkletter (BCIT)
- Session 3: November 15, 2023, 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.— Padlet, Lisa Gedak (KPU)
- Session 4: January 10, 2024, 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.—Sticky Notes, John Churchley (TRU)
- Session 5: February 14, 2024, 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.— H5P, John Cheng (UBC)
About the Series
Discover the BCcampus FLO EdTech Sandbox Series, an initiative that empowers educators in B.C.’s post-secondary institutions to explore innovative teaching tools through a safe online environment. In these two-hour livestream webinars, expert leaders will introduce and demonstrate cutting-edge, open, and free or low-cost educational technology tools, allowing you to experiment and gather exciting ideas for teaching activities. Our mission is to foster digital teaching innovation, encouraging faculty and staff to embrace emerging technologies with curiosity and openness, ultimately enhancing the learning experience for all.
By actively participating in these sandbox sessions, you will delve into hands-on experimentation with tools, collaborate with fellow educators to review their features, gain valuable insights into teaching activities, and discover ways to integrate these tools into your courses. If you’re unable to attend, recorded webinars of the presentations and written reviews of the tools will be available on our site after the event.
About This Session
In this session you will be introduced to Padlet and case uses for this innovative tool for teaching and learning. After situating the tool’s features, you will have time to connect and ideate use cases for your context in small groups. Additionally, time will be allocated for experimentation with various Padlet formats. You will be supported in creating a free account and designing your own Padlet if you choose.
About the Facilitator
Lisa Gedak (she/her) is a teaching and learning strategist, educator, and online learning designer passionate about supporting more meaningful and personalized learning experiences in post-secondary and learning design consultancy contexts. As an appreciative inquiry facilitator who values building on strengths and channelling energy to be positively focused, she underpins her work with this philosophy to inform her design approaches. Lisa is passionate about nature, and in her free time, she can often be found in the forest or by the ocean soaking in the splendour.
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Other sessions in this series:
- Session 1: September 13, 2023, 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.— Mattermost, Ian Linkletter (BCIT)
- Session 2: October 11, 2023, 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.— WordPress/Podcasting, Brenna Clarke Gray (TRU)
- Session 4: January 10, 2024, 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.— Sticky Notes, John Churchley (TRU)
- Session 5: February 14, 2024, 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.— H5P, John Cheng (UBC)
About the Series
Discover the BCcampus FLO EdTech Sandbox Series, an initiative that empowers educators in B.C.’s post-secondary institutions to explore innovative teaching tools through a safe online environment. In these two-hour livestream webinars, expert leaders will introduce and demonstrate cutting-edge, open, and free or low-cost educational technology tools, allowing you to experiment and gather exciting ideas for teaching activities. Our mission is to foster digital teaching innovation, encouraging faculty and staff to embrace emerging technologies with curiosity and openness, ultimately enhancing the learning experience for all.
By actively participating in these sandbox sessions, you will delve into hands-on experimentation with tools, collaborate with fellow educators to review their features, gain valuable insights into teaching activities, and discover ways to integrate these tools into your courses. If you’re unable to attend, recorded webinars of the presentations and written reviews of the tools will be available on our site after the event.
About the Session
Sticky notes are a go-to tool for many teachers, whether they’re paper, digital, or in a hybrid application. They’re easy to use and help ensure all learners have a voice — especially those less comfortable speaking in a group. The focus of this FLO EdTech Sandbox session is the use of Sticky Notes in a digital whiteboard environment like Google Jamboard. You will try several key pedagogical functions: generating and sharing ideas, sorting and re-sorting ideas and information, and eliciting feedback from and interaction with one another.
About the Facilitator
Dr. John Churchley’s (he/him) career has spanned all levels of education in music, leadership/management, and teacher education. He worked in various K–12 roles in School District 73, Kamloops/Thompson, including as music teacher, principal, and assistant superintendent. He had a second career as principal lecturer at Thompson Rivers University (TRU) in the School of Education and at the Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching as an educational developer. Along the way he developed and taught online courses for TRU Open Learning. His focus on learning and teaching has continued in his retirement as he supervises teacher candidates for TRU and the University of Victoria, inspects B.C. Offshore Schools for the Ministry of Education and Child Care, and records educational songs for fun.
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Other sessions in this series:
- Session 1: September 13, 2023, 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.—Mattermost, Ian Linkletter (BCIT)
- Session 2: October 11, 2023, 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.— WordPress/Podcasting, Brenna Clarke Gray (TRU)
- Session 3: November 15, 2023, 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.— Padlet, Lisa Gedak (KPU)
- Session 5: February 14, 2024, 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.— H5P, John Cheng (UBC)
Discover the BCcampus FLO EdTech Sandbox Series, an initiative that empowers educators in B.C.’s post-secondary institutions to explore innovative teaching tools through a safe online environment. In these two-hour livestream webinars, expert leaders will introduce and demonstrate cutting-edge, open, and free or low-cost educational technology tools, allowing you to experiment and gather exciting ideas for teaching activities. Our mission is to foster digital teaching innovation, encouraging faculty and staff to embrace emerging technologies with curiosity and openness, ultimately enhancing the learning experience for all.
By actively participating in these sandbox sessions, you will delve into hands-on experimentation with tools, collaborate with fellow educators to review their features, gain valuable insights into teaching activities, and discover ways to integrate these tools into your courses. If you’re unable to attend, recorded webinars of the presentations and written reviews of the tools will be available on our site after the event.
About the Session
H5P is an open-source, community-driven platform that allows you to build and share dynamic and interactive HTML teaching and learning content like quizzes, videos, and presentations. H5P interactions can enhance learning experiences and help students achieve learning outcomes.
This hands-on session will explore common H5P applications such as formative quizzes, time lines, presentations, images with clickable hotspots, and interactive videos, all aimed at enhancing teaching and learning online. Learn how to build H5P interactions, publish them on websites or learning management systems, and share them with your network.
By the end of this session, you will be able to:
- Explain H5P and how it can be used in teaching and learning.
- Assess the suitability of various H5P content types for different learning contexts.
- Build, publish, and share H5P content relevant to your context.
About the Facilitator
John Cheng (he/him) is a learning designer at the University of British Columbia who has been supporting teaching and learning for more than eight years. His interests, expertise, and experimentation lie in leveraging technology to foster active and experiential learning. This spans a range of educational technology tools, from learning management systems and course authoring tools to video production and gamified assessments. He is also passionate about the transformative potential of inclusive and accessible pedagogies to inform course design. In his free time, he can be found taking photos with his old SLR camera or learning how to make layered cakes.
Register now!
Other sessions in this series:
- Session 1: September 13, 2023, 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.— Mattermost, Ian Linkletter (BCIT)
- Session 2: October 11, 2023, 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.— WordPress/Podcasting, Brenna Clarke Gray (TRU)
- Session 3: November 15, 2023, 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.— Padlet, Lisa Gedak (KPU)
- Session 4: January 10, 2024, 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.— Sticky Notes, John Churchley (TRU)