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Graduate Program Opportunities

GPS event: Statistics, Exploring and Visualizing Data‏

GPS/SCARL Workshop II:  Exploring and Visualizing Data

November 13, 2013; 10:00am to 12:00pm

For a complete session description, please visit: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/about-us/events/10563-gpsscarl-workshop-exploring-visualizing-data .

To register, see: https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g2ce8

 

Please note: Nov 4 – 8 is Thrive week at UBC.  Check out their events and workshops at http://thrive.ubc.ca/ .

For upcoming GPS workshops, visit https://www.grad.ubc.ca/current-students/gps-graduate-pathways-success/gps-workshops-events

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Graduate Program Opportunities Publication Opportunities

Koerner Library Research Commons Workshops November 2013‏

Tips and Tricks for Formatting Your Thesis: Little Things Mean A Lot!

Are you worried about getting your thesis/dissertation into the format required by the Faculty of Graduate Studies? Would you like to know more about how to use the formatting features in Microsoft Word? Research Commons staff will help you with your questions about the nuts and bolts of formatting: tables of contents, page layout, numbering, headings, front matter, and more! As well, find out more about the resources that are available to help you in writing your thesis/dissertation. Graduate students at any stage of the writing process are welcome; some prior knowledge of Microsoft Word will be helpful.

Thursday November 7th, 3:00-5:00pm: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/4465

Wednesday November 13th, 3:00-5:00pm: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/4466

Tuesday November 19th, 3:00-5:00pm: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/4348

Have specific questions you think would be best answered in a one-on-one session? See our Consultations page to book a session: http://koerner.library.ubc.ca/services/research-commons/

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Citation Management Using RefWorks, Zotero, or Mendeley

Need to manage large numbers of references and citations as part of your research, teaching or administrative work? Citation management tools are for you. These tools provide a simple way to store, organize and retrieve your citations in an effective manner, and can also help you in formatting in-text citations and bibliographies in your work.

Sign up for a tool specific hands-on workshop about the core concepts of citation management and detailed instruction for use of either RefWorks, Zotero, or Mendeley.

Citation Management Using RefWorks:

Thursday November 21st, 2:00-4:00pm: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/43002

Citation Management Using Mendeley:

Thursday November 14th, 3:00-5:00pm: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/4342

Citation Management Using Zotero:

Tuesday, November 12th, 10am-12pm: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/4299

Are you new to citation management tools entirely, or do you have advanced-user questions? See our Consultations page to book a one-on-one session: http://koerner.library.ubc.ca/services/research-commons/.

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SPSS

Workshop 1- Basic SPSS

Do you wonder what SPSS is and how it can be useful to manage and analyze your data? Would you like to learn how to work with SPSS just by clicking a few keys? Let us help you learn the basics.

No previous knowledge of SPSS is required for the first workshop.

Wednesday, November 6th, 4:00-5:00pm: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/4306

Workshop 2- SPSS Data Management

Do you know how to edit your data using effective data management software? Do you want to work with user-friendly software without going through a hassle of writing code? SPSS can do this for you with a few clicks. Attend this workshop and learn how to manage your data fast.

Monday, November 18th, 9am-10:30pm: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/4310

Workshop 3-Descriptive/Graphing Analysis with SPSS

Do you have trouble summarizing your data? Do you want to analyze your data with t-test, ANOVA, Pearson-test, etc. using SPSS? Do you have trouble graphing and presenting your data with SPSS? Well, we can help you with all of these questions. Enroll in this workshop and learn how to analyze your data hassle-free!

Wednesday, October 27th, 1:30-2:30pm: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/4314

Have specific questions you think would be best answered in a one-on-one session? See our Consultations page to book a session: http://koerner.library.ubc.ca/services/research-commons/.

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Announcements Office of Graduate Programs - FoE Service Opportunities

Nov 28 – Education Research and Teacher Practice: Inspiring Educators Series

Dear Faculty of Education Community,

The Office of Graduate Studies and Research is delighted to invite you to the first session of the Education Research and 
Teacher Practice: Inspiring Educators Series. Throughout this cycle of round tables and discussion panels, current incumbents 
of our Faculty Chairs and Professorships will share how their research is informing current teacher education practices in 
British Columbia and beyond.

Featuring the following panelists:
 
Dr. Linda Farr Darling / Eleanor Rix Professorship in Rural Teacher Education
 
Dr. Shelley Hymel / Edith Lando Professorship in Social and Emotional Learning
 
Dr. Linda Siegel / Dorothy Lam Chair in Special Education
 
Dr. Monica Pamer / Superintendent of Schools, School District No. 38 (Richmond)
Join the conversation and become inspired by the amazing research that is taking place in our Faculty of Education.
This is a Year of Teacher Education event.
 
WHEN:  Thursday, November 28, 2013
WHERE:  Scarfe 310
TIME:  12:00 to 2:00 pm
RSVP:  <http://tinyurl.com/EducResearch> http://tinyurl.com/EducResearch
 
Light refreshments will be served.
For more information contact Adriana Briseno-Garzon (adriana.briseno@ubc.ca).
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Announcements

NewsFlash #645. Nov 1, 2013‏

UBC Faculty of Education NewsFlash for Graduate Students #645

November 1, 2013

For more information on any of the items below or copies of previous NewsFlashes, please e-mail: educ.ogpr@ubc.ca, or call: 604-822-5512, Fax: 604-822-8971.  Please visit http://ogpr.educ.ubc.ca/newsflash for all new and current NewsFlash items. For UBC-wide events, please visit Live @ UBC: http://www.liveat.ubc.ca.

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Employment

Employment – ETEC 500 instructor

Sent on behalf of Roger Douglas

ETEC 500 – Job Posting for January 2014

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Courses

Special Topics Course: LLED 565B – Scholarly Discourses in Education‏

MP900410093[1]LLED 565B – Scholarly Discourses in Education: The How and the Why

 

Date: Term 2 (January – April), Mondays

Time: 4:30-7:30pm

Location: Ponderosa Annex E, room 117

Description:

Chances are you didn’t get many opportunities to engage directly with the research culture of the university during your undergraduate years. But when you embark on post-baccalaureate studies, you are taking a more significant part in that culture, and you may find yourself a little perplexed by its ways of thinking and acting. In particular, you may find its language–the highly abstract terms, densely layered ideas, heavy use of citations, and so on—somewhat bewildering. In this advanced course on scholarly writing, we will unpack these and other formal linguistic features with the aim of helping you to participate in the disciplinary “conversations” of education scholarship.

 

What will I learn in this course?

You’ll learn not only how to produce scholarly texts in your discipline(s), but—just as importantly—why these texts sound the way they do. The course combines reading and discussion of research about academic discourse with workshops, guest speakers, and hands-on practice using various theories and methods for examining language. In this course, you will

 

– consider the particularities of academic discourse in relation to cross-cultural, practice-based, and popular perspectives

– draw on conceptual frameworks and discourse analytic strategies to better understand writing practices (and, to a lesser extent, spoken and digitized communicative activities) as they relate to a range of scholarly contexts

– design and carry out a theoretically-informed project on some facet of academic discourse in your own education discipline

– write about the project using scholarly genres AND creatively “translate” your project for users of the Faculty’s proposed new website on scholarly discourse

 

Is this course for me?

This course is for students from across the Faculty of Education. Indeed, the more varied the disciplines represented by students in the course, the richer our explorations of disciplinary discourse will be. Note that, while anyone curious about scholarly discourse is welcome, the course will likely be of greatest interest to current and prospective graduate students.

 

This course is cross-listed with LLED 480B

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Announcements Graduate Program Opportunities

GSS Weekly Newsletter!‏

Dear Graduate Students,

It’s almost All Hallow’s Eve! This week, the GSS Weekly Newsletter comes early and nutty because there are things you ought to know now:

The GSS Halloween Party is this Friday. Our resident spook has questions. I like to play nice with the spooks where I can, so I have my ticket. You can get yours here, and here for your non-grad guest. Or just come pick ’em up at the GSS office during office hours.

Want a plan for earlier Friday evening?

– Bring your kids (and/or friends) to the GSS Pumpkin Carving Event

– Go to the First Friday Queer Grad Student Social @ Koerner’s Pub

– On Thursday, the coffee social is a Murder Mystery Party! Are you the ultimate detective?

– In times of Ghosts, Ghouls and Financial pressure, GSS exists for you as members of the Graduate Student body. We’re currently advocating for a BC Graduate Scholarship. Read on.

– Join the team! Apply to be The GSS Council Speaker

– Looking for extra money? You could teach GRE & GMAT Preparation Courses in Vancouver on the Weekend!

I shall not get away with this next week! Carpe Diem, friends. Be awesome!

Ngwatilo

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Announcements Funding and Awards

To Master students considering applying for the SSHRC and Affiliated Awards for Dec. 1, 2013 deadline

If you are considering applying for the SSHRC/AF for 2014/2015 academic year please be advised that:
  1. Only full-time students are eligible to apply,
  2. Students are eligible for these scholarships for their FIRST TWO years of study.
  3. Students MUST have 1st class standing in their last two years of full-time studies.
All domestic students who want to apply, must apply for SSHRC.  They will automatically be considered for the Affiliated Awards.
Students entering their second year of a program are eligible for a CGS M as long as they have not completed more than 12 months of studies overall at the Master’s level as of December 31. 
 
Students will find information about application, process, etc. at: http://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Students-Etudiants/PG-CS/CGSM-BESCM_eng.asp.
All international students who want to apply:
  1. Are eligible for these scholarships for their FIRST TWO years of study.
  2. MUST have 1st class standing in their last two years of full-time studies.
They need to apply directly for the Affiliate Awards.  Here are the links.
Affiliated Scholarships link: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/affiliated-fellowships
Application link: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/forms/affiliated-fellowships-application-form-applicants-masters-level-funding   
Reference form link: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/forms/affiliated-fellowships-reference-form-applicants-masters-level-funding
 
Once you decide to apply, you must prepare a research proposal ASAP.  Research proposal is one of the most important elements in the application.  You might want to contact your supervisor ASAP to consult.
The best of luck!
Basia
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Announcements Graduate Program Opportunities Speakers

Nov 27 – FIREtalk: Learning Machines

The Research Commons invites graduate students from any discipline – engineers, philosophers, computer scientists, writers, neuroscientists, artists, psychologists, social theorists, and others – to explore the boundary between mind and machine.

Join us for the next FIREtalk (bit.ly/firetalk), Learning Machines.

When: Wednesday, November 27, 4-6 pm

Where: Koerner Library, Room 216

About the Topic

What cutting-edge applications of computers and machines help improve human life? What are the different approaches to the study and design of learning and intelligence? How can systems learn from data? What natural behaviors can be simulated by a machine? Can the brain be interpreted as a computer? How do our cultural perceptions of machines influence the way we interact with them? Where can speculative fiction and other works of the imagination take artificial intelligence?

Be part of the discussion: submit your proposals for a 5-minute presentation by the 12th of November, 2013. Find more information at: http://bit.ly/FTpresent

Interested but don’t want to present? Attend as an audience member and join the discussion after the presentations! To attend without presenting, register at: http://bit.ly/27NovFT

FIREtalks: An interdisciplinary forum for graduate students, by graduate students.

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Employment

Postdoctoral Researcher in Undergraduate Chemistry Education

oPostdoctoral Researcher in Chemistry Education

Flexible Learning Initiative

The Department of Chemistry at the University of British Columbia invites applications for a postdoctoral researcher in the UBC Flexible Learning Initiative (http://flexible.learning.ubc.ca/), a multi-year program designed to encourage flexible and innovative approaches in higher education.

We are currently seeking an individual to work with Chemistry faculty and staff from the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology to develop and implement instructional material including online videos and pre- and post-tests of learning as well as interactive in-class activities. The postdoctoral researcher will also assist in the evaluation of student learning, attitude towards chemistry and overall project success. Publication of research related to the impact of flexible teaching and learning on student achievement will be encouraged.

Candidates should have: completed their Ph.D. in Chemistry, within the last five years, excellent organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills, and a strong personal commitment to improving education within the discipline. English fluency is also required. Experience in curriculum development, blended or online learning, developing educational resources and activities, and using the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) to inform practice will be considered assets. Candidates with a Ph.D. in Education and a Masters in Chemistry will also be considered.

Initial appointment is for 1 year, and may be renewable depending on funding and performance. The expected start date is Fall, 2013. Applicants should submit a CV, cover letter, teaching dossier which includes a teaching philosophy, and arrange two reference letters to be sent to: stlfsearch@chem.ubc.ca by NOVEMBER 1ST, 2013.

UBC hires on the basis of merit and is committed to employment equity. We encourage all qualified persons to apply; however, Canadians and Permanent Residents of Canada will be given priority. The positions are subject to final budgetary approval. Salary and title will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.

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Conferences CSSE

CCGSE Call for Papers

Dear Fellow Graduate Students,
 
The Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE) is hosting our 42nd Annual Conference which will be held between May 24 and May 28 at Brock University, St. Catharines, ON. Graduate students are invited to submit proposals to the Canadian Committee for Graduate Students in Education (CCGSE) by 27 November 2013 (23h59 Eastern). Proposals received after this date will not be considered.
 
The general Call for Presentations for the 2014 conference of the Canadian Society for the Study of Education is posted at http://www.csse-scee.ca/conference/.
 
To ensure a positive conference experience, please read the entire “Call for Presentations” and the “Proposal Submission Primer”. Proposals that do not meet submission requirements will not be considered. Please note: The Canadian Committee for Graduate Students in Education (CCGSE) hold roundtable and poster presentation formats ONLY. Single-paper, multi-paper and symposiums will not be considered within this association. Proposals can be submitted in either the English or French languages.
 
Description of Formats:
Small Round Table Session includes a small group discussion centered upon prepared paper(s);
Poster Session is an informal presentation and discussion featuring the use of graphic or other multimedia material.
 
Proposal Summary
The summary must be double-spaced, 11 point or greater, sans-serif font.  The summary must be no more than three pages with an accompanying reference list.
 
The summary must present specific information based on the type of proposal being submitted and detailed as follows:
 
Roundtable and Poster Sessions.
The summary should address the following in the order specified and as applicable:
(a) purpose;
(b) perspective(s) or theoretical framework;
(c) methods and/or techniques;
(d) data source(s);
(e) results, conclusions and/or interpretations; and
(f) educational importance of the study.
 
 
The deadline for submissions is 27 November 2013.  CSSE is using the Open Conference System (OCS). Please access the system through the CSSE webpage.
 
Important Dates:
27 November 2013 – Deadline for submission of proposals.
November 2013 to January 2014 – Associations and SIGs develop their preliminary programme by reviewing the proposals received.
February 2014 (tentative) – Development of programme.
February 2014 (tentative) –Sending of acceptance or rejection of proposal by Association or SIG coordinator.
March 2014 (tentative) – Version of programme placed on CSSE Web site.
May 2014 (tentative) – Revised version of programme placed on CSSE Web site.
May 2014 – Preconferences
24-28 May 2014 – CSSE Annual Conference.  Printed conference programme available at CSSE registration desk.
 
We look forward to seeing you in St. Catharines in May.
 
Julieta (Sol) Delos Santos
 
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Conferences

Call for proposals – the 7th annual SoTL Commons Conference in Savannah, GA

The submission period for the 7th annual SoTL Commons Conference is open till December 1, 2013. Information on submitting proposals and registration is available at
http://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/sotlcommons

All proposals will go through a blind, peer-review process by the SoTL Commons Review Board consisting of faculty located at various colleges and universities around the world who are knowledgeable about the scholarship
of teaching and learning.

The 7th annual SoTL Commons Conference will be held March 26-28, 2014 in Savannah, Georgia (USA).  The conference brings together people engaging in SoTL and anyone wanting to improve student learning outcomes in higher education today. The conference epitomizes that college teaching is
intellectual work that is enhanced both by disciplinary scholarship and the scholarship on teaching the disciplines.

Please contact the Conference Program Chair, Dr. Diana Sturges, at
sotlcommons@georgiasouthern.edu with any questions.

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Employment

Employment – AERA Division A

Check out the links for three new positions.

EDLD Position(s) Announcement

Southern Methodist University

University of Michigan

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Employment

Employment – University of Regina

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor – Educational Psychology

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Announcements Conferences CSSE Publication Opportunities Speakers

CSSE 2014 Conference-Call for Presentations

Dear Member:

On behalf of the CSSE Board of Directors, I would like to take this opportunity to invite faculty, staff and graduate students from your institution to submit a presentation proposal for the 2014 CSSE Annual Conference in St. Catharines, Ontario on 24 – 28 May 2014 (pre-conferences on 24 May 2014). Held in conjunction with the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, this bilingual conference provides an opportunity for discussion of educational issues among practitioners and educational scholars from across the nation.

We encourage participative sessions in various formats including themed, symposium/panel, small round table, multiple paper, single paper, and poster (featuring the use of graphic or other multimedia material). Presentation proposals can be submitted 25 October 2013 – 27 November 2013 by going to our website: http://www.csse-scee.ca/conference/.

We would appreciate you forwarding this invitation to other faculty, staff and graduate students, and look forward to your participation in this key event for education professionals – The 2014 CSSE Annual Conference.

Sincerely,

Victor Glickman, EdD
CSSE President – Président
Canadian Society for the Study of Education

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