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About Susan

Associate Professor and Director of the Innovative Learning Centre

GRIP Ghana

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http://www.noslangues-ourlanguages.gc.ca/manchettes-headlines/20140902-folklore-eng.html

The University of British Columbia (UBC) is helping children in Ghana learn to read.

Until recently, Nabit was purely an oral language spoken by the Nabit people of Ghana. Now, this people’s rich folkore is being used to help children read—in Nabit and in English (the country’s official language).

Using generations-old oral stories, UBC and Ghanaian students worked together to create English storybooks that the children helped to illustrate and translate in part into Nabit. For the first time ever, Nabit children are learning to read through stories they can relate to. To find out more and to view the books, go to Ghana children’s verbal stories turned into school books (www) English Hyperlink Notice.

Multimedia

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Teaching – UBC

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EDUC 484/6 4 Trades and Technology
GRIP Student Experience in Tanzania – Developing 2nd language picture books
EDUC 521 Readings and Discourse in Education: Specialized Studies both on campus and blended
IGS 620 Directed Studies: Virtual Communities: Historical, theoretical and empirical foundations.  Doctoral course for Laura Struik
EDUC 560C Directed Studies in Education: ICT and Professional Practice
ETEC 556 Converging Media
EDTP 499 UBC Okanagan Summer Institute – Technology and Sustainable Development.

Research Grants

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Grants applied for:SSHRC with Dr. Elizabeth Childs – The changing face of K-12 Education in Canada.  Submitted September 2013.  $247,179 – Not funded Received 4A

Year awarded

Role

Project Title

Funding Organization

Total Amount
2013 Researcher Targeting achievement in higher‐order thinking and STEM: An interprofessional approach MITACS / Mathtoons $7,500
2013 Content Developer Maker May 2013 – Workshop and Training Materials Industry Training Authority (ITA) $17,500
2013 Co-supervisor Financial literacy for youth – Mary Connolly & Junior Achievement of BC MITAC $$15,000
2013 Collaborator Leapfrogging Pedagogical Challenges: Using Appropriate Technology to Foster Innovations in Literacy for the Knowledge Age Canada-Africa Research Exchanges Association of Universities and Colleges Canada (AUCC) with funds from IDRC $40,000$20,00 in kind
2013 Collaborator Digital Youth and Learning unConference IDRC, CIDA and Digital Opportunity Trust DOT (NGO) $15,000 grant from IDRC $75,000 total
2013 Researcher BCIC-Mitacs Commercialization Voucher Program (with Deb Carter, PhD student) MITACS / FreshGrade $7,500
2013 Researcher Teacher Assessment Using New Technologies (with Deb Carter, PhD student) MITACS / FreshGrade $15,000
2012 Researcher Alberta Distance Education Review Alberta EducationCarbol & Associates $24,000 of a $430,326 project
2009 – 2011 Researcher Digital Citizenship: Enabling Personalization through Handheld Mobile Learning (iPod and iPad devices) Alberta Education & Calgary Board of Education (CBE) $12,000
2009 – 2011 Co-Researcher Developing Technological Solutions for Challenges Facing International Development Imperial Oil – STEM $27,210
2007 – 2009 Co-Researcher Pedagogical Documentation Inquiry Project Alberta Teachers’ Association $3000
2008 Co-Researcher Implementing the ePortfolio Project University Teaching & Learning Funding Committee $30,000
2007 Co-Researcher Implementing the ePortfolio Project University Teaching & Learning Funding Committee $59,000
2006 Co-Researcher Emerging Technologies in the 21st Century: Wireless Local Area Networks & Mobile Devices Alberta Education & CBE $5000
2006 Co-Researcher WLAN & Mobile Devices & Technology Leadership: Development of the Calgary Catholic Technology Leadership Program (TLP) & Technology Learning Centre (TLC) Alberta EducationCalgary Catholic Board $5000
2006 Co-Researcher SSHRC Development Grant with Dr. Shelley Kinash U of C $2000
2005 – 2006 Chair – Research Team Strengthening Inquiry & Assessment through Technology: The Use of e-Portfolios in Teacher Education Alberta EducationInquiry Based Teaching & Learning Grants (U of C) $10,5000$12,000
2005 Chair – Research Team Inquiry & blended Learning Course Development Teaching & Learning Centre – University of Calgary $10,000
2004 Researcher Distributed Learning & the MT Program – From Theory to Practice MT3 Imperial Oil $5000
2005 Co-Researcher … I’ll Be a Better Teacher MT3 Imperial Oil $5000
2005 Co-Researcher Making Connections: Linking children, Teachers, & Cultures Around the World University Internationalization Grant $4000
2005 Co-Researcher The Researching Teacher: An International Centre for Connecting Teachers, Students, Children, Faculty, & Research MT3 Imperial Oil $5000

2004

Researcher

Investigating Embedded or Linked Learning Objects

Alberta Education

$5000
2004 Researcher Online Learning MT3 Imperial Oil $5000
2003 Researcher SSHRC Development grant U of C & Faculty of Education $2000
2003 – present Co-researcher / participant Strengthening Capacity for Basic Education in Western China – Joint project with PR China, CIDA, University of Alberta, Athabasca university, & Alberta Learning Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) $12,000,000 over five years
2002 – 2004 Co-Researcher Learning-To-Go, Knowing Exactly Where I Am Going (GPS & GIS in the Classroom) Alberta Teachers’ Association – AACES Grant $2845
2002-2005 Researcher Distributed Learning Options in Alberta & British Columbia Research Excellence Envelop – Faculty of Education $6225
2002 Co-Researcher SSHRC Development Grant with Dr. Michele Jacobsen University of Calgary $1000
2002 Researcher Online Professional Development – Does It Make A Difference? University of Calgary $9202
2002 Researcher Conference Travel to 2nd International Conference on Lifelong Learning University of Calgary $1500
2002 Researcher Investigation of Mobile Distributed Learning Opportunities for International Initiatives Faculty of Education $1000
2002 Co-Researcher Distributed Learning & the MT Program MT3 Imperial Oil $3000
2002 Co-Researcher Learning-To-Go, Knowing Exactly Where I Am Going MT3 Imperial Oil $4500
2002 Research University Travel Grant U of C $1800

Conference Organization

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DOT (Digital Opportunity Trust) Youth & Learning Unconference. (May 2013).  Co-facilitator and co-chair of the program committee.  Kenyatta University, Nairobi, Kenya. http://education.ok.ubc.ca/research/innovative-learning-centre/The_unConference_Toolkit.html

Think Tank: Future of Small Secondary Schools.  (May 2013).  Organizer and facilitator.  Innovative Learning Centre, University of British Columbia Okanagan.

Mini Track Chair: Appropriate Technologies.  International Conference on E-Learning. (2012- present).

Committees at UBC

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  • Use of Learning Materials & University Counsel – for UBC Board of Governors – Summer 2013
  • Faculty Committee to revise B.Ed. Program 2012 – present
  • Faculty Tenure and promotion committee 2013 – present
  • Graduate Program Council 2011- present
  • Faculty representative to College of Graduate Studies Scholarship and Awards Committee 2013 – present
  • Faculty representative to UBC Policy Development Committee for Learning Materials 2013 – present
  • Faculty representative to Dean’s Advisory and Policy Committee (DAPC) 2012 – 2013
  • Faculty representative to Learning Space Committee 2012 – present
  • Faculty representative to Research Advisory Committee 2012 – 2013
  • Faculty representative to College of Graduate Curriculum Committee 2011 – present
  • Faculty representative to Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program Committee 2011 – 2013
  • Internal Communications Task Force Spring 2013
  • Programme Committee for International Conference on eLearning (ICEL) 2012 – present
  • Mini track chair – Appropriate Technology – International Conference on eLearning (ICEL) 2011 – present