About the Session
This hands-on workshop empowers learning designers and professors to create engaging, decision-based learning experiences using H5P’s branching scenario and game map features. Participants will explore how AI tools like ChatGPT, Copilot, and NotebookLM can streamline scenario planning, dialogue generation, and feedback loops. No prior programming skills needed—just creativity and curiosity.
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Design interactive branching scenarios aligned with pedagogical goals using H5P
- Use AI tools to co-develop dialogue, storyline paths, and assessment logic efficiently
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About the Facilitators
Gabriela Kurtz holds a PhD in Communication and Information, with award-winning research on gender and video games. She is an assistant professor at the University of the Fraser Valley where she champions empathetic, inclusive, and tech-forward pedagogy through active learning and experiential design.
Sana Jamil is an educational technologist with a PhD in Educational Technology and expertise in instructional design, leadership, and innovation. She leads curriculum development and experiential learning initiatives at University Canada West to support faculty training and program enhancement.
Together, Sana and Gabriela bring a powerful blend of strategy and creativity, making them the ideal team to guide educators in leveraging AI and H5P to design meaningful, learner-centered interactive experiences.
About the Series
Discover the BCcampus EdTech Sandbox Series!
In these 90-minute workshops, expert leaders will introduce and demonstrate cutting-edge, open, and free, or low-cost educational technology tools aligned with the B.C. Post-Secondary Digital Literacy Framework. 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.
Focus Areas for 2025-2026
- The AI Sandbox: a space dedicated to experimenting with, and reviewing, artificial intelligence tools and applications in educational settings.
- Other Learning Technologies: a space to explore, experiment, and review emerging learning technologies beyond AI, highlighting their potential impacts and practical applications.
EdTech Sandbox Series Sessions
- September 10, 2025 – Choose Your Own Adventure! Dynamic Branching Scenarios and Game Maps With H5P and AI Tools
- October 8, 2025 – The Intelligent Notebook: Become a Knowledge Expert With NotebookLM
- October 17, 2025 – [Special EdTech Sandbox] Remote Proctoring Through an Ethical Lens: the Case Against Surveillance
- November 26, 2025 – Claude vs. ChatGPT: Choosing the Right AI for the Job
- January 21, 2025 – Build Your Own Teaching Bot: My Story of Creating CITE GPT as a Teaching Tool
- February 18, 2025 – Re-imagining the Past: Deepfake as a Tool for Creative Storytelling and Visual Literacy
About the Session
Dive into the future of educational research and resource management with NotebookLM. This hands-on workshop is designed to empower educators with the tools and techniques to utilize NotebookLM as a resource tool, research assistant, and source organizer. Together, we’ll explore how to effectively upload, analyze, and synthesize information from diverse sources, transforming raw data into actionable insights. Beyond efficiency, we’ll delve into how NotebookLM can transform the student experience by fostering deeper learning, critical thinking, and research skills.
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Setup and navigate NotebookLM
- Upload and organize diverse types of source materials
- Utilize NotebookLM’s AI-powered analysis tools to extract information
- Use NotebookLM to synthesize information and create resources
- Integrate NotebookLM into the student learning experience
- Create prompts to ask NotebookLM to perform specific tasks
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This notice is to inform you that this session may be recorded, archived, and shared after the event. By participating in this session, you acknowledge that your participation will be recorded and the recording may be made available publicly.
About the Facilitator
Driven by a passion for empowering educators, Robin Leung (he/him) is an educational media strategist and ed tech guru who champions meaningful media and learner-created content. He’s a go-to resource for navigating the ever-evolving landscape of educational technology. Robin’s adventurous spirit extends beyond the classroom; he’s an avid traveler and food lover, always ready to share a new journey.
About the Series
Discover the BCcampus EdTech Sandbox Series!
In these 90-minute workshops, expert leaders will introduce and demonstrate cutting-edge, open, and free, or low-cost educational technology tools aligned with the B.C. Post-Secondary Digital Literacy Framework. 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.
Focus Areas for 2025-2026
- The AI Sandbox: a space dedicated to experimenting with, and reviewing, artificial intelligence tools and applications in educational settings.
- Other Learning Technologies: a space to explore, experiment, and review emerging learning technologies beyond AI, highlighting their potential impacts and practical applications.
EdTech Sandbox Series Sessions
- September 10, 2025 – Choose Your Own Adventure! Dynamic Branching Scenarios and Game Maps With H5P and AI Tools
- October 8, 2025 – The Intelligent Notebook: Become a Knowledge Expert With NotebookLM
- October 17, 2025 – [Special EdTech Sandbox] Remote Proctoring Through an Ethical Lens: the Case Against Surveillance
- November 26, 2025 – Claude vs. ChatGPT: Choosing the Right AI for the Job
- January 21, 2025 – Build Your Own Teaching Bot: My Story of Creating CITE GPT as a Teaching Tool
- February 18, 2025 – Re-imagining the Past: Deepfake as a Tool for Creative Storytelling and Visual Literacy
October is Academic Integrity Month!
To mark the occasion, we’re hosting a special EdTech Sandbox Series with Ian Linkletter. This session builds on his 2024 sandbox session Beyond Surveillance: The Case Against AI Proctoring & AI Detection. Recordings, transcripts, and a blog summary of the previous session are available at the link. While this new session expands on themes from the earlier presentation, prior attendance is not required.
About the Session
In 2020, as higher education instantly pivoted to emergency remote teaching, the use of remote proctoring technology skyrocketed. Now, half a decade later, this form of surveillance has become entrenched in many of our institutions. But does this technology really uphold academic integrity, or does it undermine it? Is monitoring student behaviour during online assessment the only way forward?
In this interactive workshop, we will critically examine remote proctoring through an ethical lens, exploring its impact on student privacy, mental health, equity, and trust. Participants will be guided through real-world examples, current research, and lived experiences that challenge the assumptions behind surveillance-based assessment.
Through case study discussions, we will discuss the arguments for and against remote proctoring, and whether there are ethical alternatives that do not rely on surveillance.
Participants will leave with:
- A deeper understanding of the ethical concerns surrounding remote proctoring
- Strategies for advocating for equitable, trust-based assessment practices
- A practical introduction to Algorithmic Impact Assessments (AIAs) as a tool for evaluating automated decision systems and protecting students.
Whether you’re an instructor, learning designer, or academic leader, this session invites you to reimagine what academic integrity can look like – without surveillance.
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This notice is to inform you that this session may be recorded, archived, and shared after the event. By participating in this session, you acknowledge that your participation will be recorded and the recording may be made available publicly.
About the Facilitator
Ian Linkletter (he/him) is an emerging technology and open education librarian at the British Columbia Institute of Technology. He works to evaluate emerging technologies through a critical lens and implement open education as a social good. Previously, he worked for 10 years as a learning technology specialist in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia, where he supported every online course.
About the Series
Discover the BCcampus EdTech Sandbox Series!
In these 90-minute workshops, expert leaders will introduce and demonstrate cutting-edge, open, and free, or low-cost educational technology tools aligned with the B.C. Post-Secondary Digital Literacy Framework. 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.
Focus Areas for 2025-2026
- The AI Sandbox: a space dedicated to experimenting with, and reviewing, artificial intelligence tools and applications in educational settings.
- Other Learning Technologies: a space to explore, experiment, and review emerging learning technologies beyond AI, highlighting their potential impacts and practical applications.
EdTech Sandbox Series Sessions
- September 10, 2025 – Choose Your Own Adventure! Dynamic Branching Scenarios and Game Maps With H5P and AI Tools
- October 8, 2025 – The Intelligent Notebook: Become a Knowledge Expert With NotebookLM
- October 17, 2025 – [Special EdTech Sandbox] Remote Proctoring Through an Ethical Lens: the Case Against Surveillance
- November 26, 2025 – Claude vs. ChatGPT: Choosing the Right AI for the Job
- January 21, 2025 – Build Your Own Teaching Bot: My Story of Creating CITE GPT as a Teaching Tool
- February 18, 2025 – Re-imagining the Past: Deepfake as a Tool for Creative Storytelling and Visual Literacy
About the Session
This hands-on session is designed to help post-secondary educators explore and compare two of the most widely used AI tools for teaching and learning. Participants will test both Claude and ChatGPT using the same prompts and tasks to observe the differences in tone, depth, and usability, and reflect on how each tool might support their own teaching context.
This session emphasizes practical application and critical evaluation. Educators will learn how to write better prompts, assess AI-generated content, and decide which tool is more effective for different academic tasks such as creating course content, crafting rubrics, and providing student feedback.
By the end of the session, participants will be able to:
- Describe key differences between Claude and ChatGPT in how they respond to prompts
- Use both tools to complete common teaching tasks
- Apply prompt engineering strategies to improve AI output
- Evaluate which tool is better suited to their specific teaching and learning goals
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This notice is to inform you that this session may be recorded, archived, and shared after the event. By participating in this session, you acknowledge that your participation will be recorded and the recording may be made available publicly.
About the Facilitator
Adina Gray is a faculty member at Thompson Rivers University and an internationally recognized AI educator. Her current work explores how generative AI can transform teaching, learning, and research in higher education. She is particularly interested in AI literacy, ethical and responsible AI use, and supporting faculty development through practical, hands-on training. Through initiatives like founding and chairing the GenAI Innovation Group and leading events such as the 2025 GenAI Summit, she has championed AI literacy as a critical skill for educators and students. Adina was selected as a 2025 AI Innovator Fellow at the ASU+GSV AI Show (San Diego, April 2025), named a finalist for the 2025 AI Innovator of the Year Award by Women in AI North America, and received the TRU Instructional Innovation Grant in AI along with four consecutive Decanal Grants for Innovative Teaching and Experiential Learning.
About the Series
Discover the BCcampus EdTech Sandbox Series!
In these 90-minute workshops, expert leaders will introduce and demonstrate cutting-edge, open, and free, or low-cost educational technology tools aligned with the B.C. Post-Secondary Digital Literacy Framework. 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.
Focus Areas for 2025-2026
- The AI Sandbox: a space dedicated to experimenting with, and reviewing, artificial intelligence tools and applications in educational settings.
- Other Learning Technologies: a space to explore, experiment, and review emerging learning technologies beyond AI, highlighting their potential impacts and practical applications.
EdTech Sandbox Series Sessions
- September 10, 2025 – Choose Your Own Adventure! Dynamic Branching Scenarios and Game Maps With H5P and AI Tools
- October 8, 2025 – The Intelligent Notebook: Become a Knowledge Expert With NotebookLM
- October 17, 2025 – [Special EdTech Sandbox] Remote Proctoring Through an Ethical Lens: the Case Against Surveillance
- November 26, 2025 – Claude vs. ChatGPT: Choosing the Right AI for the Job
- January 21, 2025 – Build Your Own Teaching Bot: My Story of Creating CITE GPT as a Teaching Tool
- February 18, 2025 – Re-imagining the Past: Deepfake as a Tool for Creative Storytelling and Visual Literacy
About the Session
This session will explore the design and use of CITE GPT, a custom AI chatbot created as a project in the UBC Master of Educational Technology ETEC 511 class, to support students and educators with academic writing, citation formatting, and ethical information use in a reflexive way. The aim of this session is to demystify the design process, showing our successes and failures, which may lead to participants being better informed or trying this skill themselves.
Developed using OpenAI’s custom GPT framework and grounded in the principles of reflexivity, digital literacy, and educational usability, CITE GPT serves as a model for how AI can be thoughtfully embedded into academic practice.
Participants will be led through the coding process of creating a chatbot, engage in hands-on experimentation with the chatbot, be encouraged to make a chatbot of their own, and explore how the system-level prompt and knowledge base can shape user experience, all while reflecting on how AI can support, not shortcut, learning. This is done by emphasizing critical thinking, ethical engagement with technology, and student agency.
Together, we’ll reflect on how to use AI tools responsibly in our teaching and help students develop agency, not dependency. By the end, participants will leave with a concrete sense of how to evaluate, adapt, or build their own tools to support academic success.
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This notice is to inform you that this session may be recorded, archived, and shared after the event. By participating in this session, you acknowledge that your participation will be recorded and the recording may be made available publicly.
About the Facilitator
Amanda Robins is an educator, instructional designer, and M.Ed. candidate at the University of British Columbia, specializing in educational technology. With over 20 years of experience teaching English for Academic Purposes at the college level at both Langara College and SFU, she brings a deep understanding of pedagogy, digital learning, and accessibility. Her recent work explores the ethical integration of AI in the classroom. Amanda has led workshops for educators on AI and assessment for BC TEAL and UVic PD days, and recently organized workshops for a digital literacy teaching exchange in China.
About the Series
Discover the BCcampus EdTech Sandbox Series!
In these 90-minute workshops, expert leaders will introduce and demonstrate cutting-edge, open, and free, or low-cost educational technology tools aligned with the B.C. Post-Secondary Digital Literacy Framework. 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.
Focus Areas for 2025-2026
- The AI Sandbox: a space dedicated to experimenting with, and reviewing, artificial intelligence tools and applications in educational settings.
- Other Learning Technologies: a space to explore, experiment, and review emerging learning technologies beyond AI, highlighting their potential impacts and practical applications.
EdTech Sandbox Series Sessions
- September 10, 2025 – Choose Your Own Adventure! Dynamic Branching Scenarios and Game Maps With H5P and AI Tools
- October 8, 2025 – The Intelligent Notebook: Become a Knowledge Expert With NotebookLM
- October 17, 2025 – [Special EdTech Sandbox] Remote Proctoring Through an Ethical Lens: the Case Against Surveillance
- November 26, 2025 – Claude vs. ChatGPT: Choosing the Right AI for the Job
- January 21, 2025 – Build Your Own Teaching Bot: My Story of Creating CITE GPT as a Teaching Tool
- February 18, 2025 – Re-imagining the Past: Deepfake as a Tool for Creative Storytelling and Visual Literacy
About the Session
We will explore the creative and educational potential of deepfake technology. Through guided analysis, collaborative storytelling, and ethical reflection, participants will critically examine how AI-generated media can enhance historical representation and artistic narratives. Learning objectives include: understanding the dual-use nature of deepfakes; applying visual and media literacy principles; exploring ethical frameworks for emerging technologies; and fostering creative thinking through speculative media design. The aim is for participants to leave with a nuanced view of deepfakes, recognizing both their risks and transformative possibilities in education, art, and public history.
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This notice is to inform you that this session may be recorded, archived, and shared after the event. By participating in this session, you acknowledge that your participation will be recorded and the recording may be made available publicly.
About the Facilitator
Maryam Safa Schneider is an educator, researcher, and learning designer with over 17 years of experience in the field of education. She currently teaches psychology and communication at University Canada West. With a background in visual arts and liberal arts psychology, Maryam brings an interdisciplinary lens to digital storytelling, ethical technology use, and creative pedagogy. Her work explores how emerging media, such as deepfakes, can be critically and constructively integrated into teaching and learning.
About the Series
Discover the BCcampus EdTech Sandbox Series!
In these 90-minute workshops, expert leaders will introduce and demonstrate cutting-edge, open, and free, or low-cost educational technology tools aligned with the B.C. Post-Secondary Digital Literacy Framework. 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.
Focus Areas for 2025-2026
- The AI Sandbox: a space dedicated to experimenting with, and reviewing, artificial intelligence tools and applications in educational settings.
- Other Learning Technologies: a space to explore, experiment, and review emerging learning technologies beyond AI, highlighting their potential impacts and practical applications.
EdTech Sandbox Series Sessions
- September 10, 2025 – Choose Your Own Adventure! Dynamic Branching Scenarios and Game Maps With H5P and AI Tools
- October 8, 2025 – The Intelligent Notebook: Become a Knowledge Expert With NotebookLM
- October 17, 2025 – [Special EdTech Sandbox] Remote Proctoring Through an Ethical Lens: the Case Against Surveillance
- November 26, 2025 – Claude vs. ChatGPT: Choosing the Right AI for the Job
- January 21, 2025 – Build Your Own Teaching Bot: My Story of Creating CITE GPT as a Teaching Tool
- February 18, 2025 – Re-imagining the Past: Deepfake as a Tool for Creative Storytelling and Visual Literacy