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With January ETEC courses going like gangbusters, it’s time to turn our attention to our next intake of new MET students.  Since we don’t have a May intake (though we do have May courses), our next intake of students is for a September 2010 start.

The deadline for this is May 15, and we already have a number of applications, so thank you to you early birds. For those of you applying to one of the certificate programs (TBDL or TBLS), your deadline is June 30.

The deadline for January 2011 applicants is October 15.

Continue reading ‘Sept. 2010 and Jan 2011 MET applications open’

There will be another information session regarding the North Vancouver Educational Leadership M.Ed cohort, where you can find everything you want to know about taking this program.

Here is information on the session:

4:30 – 5:30 pm

Leo Marshall Curriculum Centre

810 21st St W, North Vancouver

For more information on the program, please see the course website linked above.  The application deadline for this cohort is February 15, 2010.

EPLT is proud to announce that we are currently taking applications for a new M.Ed cohort, MUSE in Vancouver and Haida Gwaii.  This program will focus on museums and other avenues of teaching and learning beyond the classroom.

Here is the pertinent information:

Location: Vancouver/Haida Gwaii

Start Date: September 2010

Program Length: 2 years, part-time

Application Deadline: March 31, 2010

Information Session:

Thursday, January 14

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

H.R. McMillan Space Centre, Ray Whittick Lounge

1100 Chestnut Street, Vancouver, BC

Please see the program web site for more information, including how to apply.

EPLT is proud to announce that we are currently taking applications for a new M.Ed cohort, NVC3 in North Vancouver.  As you can tell from the cohort code, this is the 3rd iteration of the North Vancouver leadership M.Ed cohort, with two very successful offerings under our belt.  The focus of this M.Ed program is on Curriculum Leadership and Instructional Intelligence

Here is the pertinent information:

Focus on Curriculum Leadership and Instructional Intelligence

This program is offered by the Department of Educational Studies, in association with the North Vancouver School District (SD #44).

Location: North Vancouver

Start Date: September 2010

Program Length: Three years, part-time

Application Deadline: February 15, 2010

Information Session: Thursday, December 3, 2009

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Leo Marshall Curriculum Centre
810 21st St W, North Vancouver

Please see the program web site for more information, including how to apply.

Just wanted to wish a hearty congratulations to the 37 MET degree  students (34 from UBC and 3 from ITESM) who will be crossing the stage today!  Either the actual stage, or the figurative stage, as many of our graduates are unable to attend today’s ceremony.  That’s one of the things about an online program: many of our students are from far away and are unable to come (though we do have a travel grant for them to attend, if they are able to swing everything else).

We’re having a get-together for a few of them after the ceremony, and it will be an honour finally meeting most of them (I have already met the occasional student).  I’m really looking forward to it, as well as watching the ones who are here cross the stage.  That can be done at the UBC Graduation page, by clicking on “Live Webcast”.  The ceremony starts at 12:30 Vancouver time, so you can watch your fellow graduates walk across the stage if you can’t be there!

Again, our heartfelt congratulations, and our best wishes to you as you take the knowledge that you learned and go out and apply it.  We hope you do keep in touch with us and let us know how you are doing, what you are up to, and all of that.

EPLT is proud to announce that we are currently taking applications for a new M.Ed cohort, URL9, in Vancouver.  As you can tell from the cohort code, this is the 9th iteration of the Urban Learner M.Ed cohort, with eight very successful offerings under our belt.   Here is the pertinent information:

Theme: Caring Cosmopolitanism

Location: Vancouver

Start Date: September 2010

Length: 2 years

Application Deadline: January 29, 2010

The information sessions listed on the web page are already past and there are no plans to do any more.  However, for more information, you can contact:

Rachel Wu: administrative and application information

Karen Meyer: academic information

Please see the program web page for information on applying to this program.

We would like to announce the new MET Youtube Channel, a channel that will include videos made both by the MET program staff as well as our students.

We have searched Youtube for some videos that our students have already posted and marked them as “favorites.”  We will also post any videos that our staff produces.  Featured right now is Chelsea Oyen, one of our graduates, talking about what the MET degree has done for her, what she plans to do with it in the future, and what some of the benefits of the program are.

If you are a student or alumnus of the MET program, please feel free to send us videos you’d like to post on the site.  Or, if you are going to post them yourself, send us the link and we’ll include it in our favourites so other subscribers can see it too.  Obviously, the video should be related to educational technology in some way.

Come join us on the channel!  Leave a comment and let us know if you find any particularly interesting videos that would be appropriate for the site.

If you have any questions, please feel free to email me.

Some of our upcoming M.Ed cohorts have deadlines coming up, so I thought I would post a reminder about them.  We are currently accepting applications for them.  Please make sure you have all documentation (transcripts, references, etc) to us by the application deadline.  More information can be found on the individual cohort’s web page.

M.Ed. in Educational Administration & Leadership #2 (VEL2) – Vancouver – Starts April 2010 – App. Deadline: December 1, 2009

M.Ed. in Early Childhood Education (ECNW) – New Westminster – Starts May 2010 – App. Deadline: December 1, 2009

M.Ed. in Secondary English Language Arts (SLR1) – Richmond – Starts May 2010 – App. Deadline: December 1, 2009

M.Ed. in Counselling Psychology – Vocational Rehabilitation Counselling Cohort #3 (MVR3) – Online – Starts Sept. 2010 – App. Deadline: December 1, 2009

M.Ed. in Special Education with concentration in Autism/Developmental Disabilities (SPAV) – Victoria, Vancouver Island – Starts Sept. 2010 – App. Deadline: December 11, 2009

If you’re interested in a particular cohort, please go to the program’s web page for application information.  Also, please pass this along to any of your colleagues who might be interested as well.

If you wish to inquire about organizing an M.Ed cohort in your school district, please contact Mark Edwards.

Thank you.

Due to popular demand, I have now opened the September 2010 and January 2011 MET program applications.  I normally wait until early December to do it, but I have had a number of people ask me why they can’t apply yet.  So rather than putting them off, I went ahead and opened them just now.  This applies to both the MET degree *and* the MET certificates (TBDL and TBLS).

Information on the MET program can be found on our web site (www.met.ubc.ca), and information on applying can be found specifically on that page of the web site.

Admission requirements can be found here.

Here are the deadlines.

September 2010 Start:

MET Degree:  May 15, 2010

Certificates: June 30, 2010

January 2011 Start:

October 15, 2010 for both.

As always, you can contact me if you have any questions.

Last week’s Macleans was their University Ratings issue, with numerous helpful articles on various aspects of student life, how to succeed in a number of different disciplines, and even student/professor romantic relationships.  One of these articles, however, hits a bit closer to home.

“Networking U” is an article about how universities use learning technologies to help their students succeed in the modern university setting by engaging their students in different ways.  Since UBC is one of the pioneers in the field, it is featured heavily in the article, along with York, University of Victoria, and Carleton. It even has input from ETEC 540’s very own Brian Lamb!

“At the University of British Columbia, the Learning Enhancement Academic Partnership program—or LEAP—builds on the idea of multi-platform learning. It’s a portal for tools and resources that’s been online since 2005. Brian Lamb, manager of emerging technologies and digital content at UBC, says that weblogs and wikis aren’t new phenomena at UBC—in fact, the university pioneered the use of these learning tools in Canada. LEAP takes online resources even further by giving students and those managing the site the ability to aggregate their own content. On LEAP, students blog about campus life and academics; there are also helpful links and tips on various tech topics, such as how to find and use academic podcasts, or where to find and download flash card software for studying. (The portal also lets students share the tools with friends via Twitter.) “Getting students to manage their own learning experience is extremely important,” says Michelle Lamberson, director of the Office of Learning and Technology at UBC.”

Read the whole thing, as it offers some very good insights about navigating this virtual world for university students.  Some MET students may want to go into this field after graduation.  In fact, some of them already have, with at least three graduates being hired by UBC that I know of (and very possibly more).