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Change to Thesis/Dissertation Licence for UBC Library‏

The UBC Library has developed a new online cIRcle Non-Exclusive Distribution License, very similar to the current UBC Thesis Licence Agreement which students have been using up to now. The License will be applicable to theses and dissertations as well as to all non-thesis work in cIRcle, and will likely go into effect on Friday March 7, 2014 (tomorrow). The current UBC Thesis Licence Agreement form will be discontinued.

NOTE: This new online cIRcle Licence will be presented to students as part of the submission process. They do NOT have to submit a paper License form. None of the other procedures have changed. Our website will be updated tomorrow when I get confirmation from the Library that they are ready to launch the online License.

Key information:

·         Students retain full copyright to their theses, as always.

·         The new cIRcle License clearly states the restrictions on theses via a Creative Commons license. It specifies that, by default, works deposited in cIRcle will correspond to the most restrictive of the Creative Commons licenses. Please see the links below for details.

The text of the new License is here: http://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/46029

Description of changes to the Licence here: http://circle.sites.olt.ubc.ca/forms/distribution-license/

or here – the Library will likely be moving the information to this link: http://circle.sites.olt.ubc.ca/licensing-copyright/

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Mar 26 – PhD Tea

All EDCP PhD students are invited to drop by the Den (Scarfe 6A) for some tea, cookies, and socializing.

No RSVP necessary. Just show up to chat with your colleagues!

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PROGRAM – Research Week, May 13-15, 2014‏

Presented by the Office of Graduate Programs and Research in collaboration with the Graduate Student Council of the Faculty of Education, and the Teacher Education Office.

This is a Year of Teacher Education event.

May 13th

1:00 p.m. – Opening Remarks and Opening Address “Involving Teachers in Education Research” (Anthony Clarke, EDCP)

2:00 p.m. – Research Clinics

Join interactive sessions led by faculty members and discuss different aspects of doing research in education.

2:00-2:20 p.m. A. Getting Your Research on Paper: Where to Begin and How to Get it Published? (Teresa Dobson, LLED)

B. Maximizing your Graduate Experience to Build a Research Career (Deb Butler, ECPS)
2:25-2:45 p.m. A. What Produces Trustworthy Research?  (Kadriye Ercikan, ECPS)

B. Presenting Your Research to Diverse Audiences: Conferences, Communities, Research Committees  (Jason Ellis, EDST)
2:50-3:10 p.m. A. Ethics in Education Research: Anticipating Dilemmas and Negotiating Access  (Cay Holbrook, ECPS)

B. International Data Collection for Dissertation Research: Tips and Troubles (Maureen Kendrick, LLED)

May 14th

10:00 a.m. – Your Research Matters

A session planned to encourage reflection around critical research problems and their implications for practice and policy. Participants will go straight to the heart of their research presenting important research questions and findings in 3 minutes or less.

May 15th

4:30 p.m. – “Education Research and Teacher Practice: Inspiring Educators Series” Panel with Canada Research Chairs from across disciplines

Join the conversation and become inspired by the amazing research that is taking place in our Faculty of Education and beyond. In this discussion panel, current Canada Research Chairs will share how their research is informing current teacher education practices in British Columbia and elsewhere. Featuring the following panelists:

Dr. Carla Hudson Kam, Canada Research Char in First and Second Language Acquisition

Dr. Peter C. Seixas, Canada Research Chair in Historical Consciousness

Canada Research Chair in Race, Inequalities and Global Change (TBA)

Chair: Dr. Wendy Carr, Director, Teacher Education

A celebration with some refreshments will follow.

RSVP to come. Contact Adriana Briseno-Garzon (adriana.briseno@ubc.ca)

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Feb 26 – EDCP Grad Student Social

Come to Koerner’s Pub to join your EDCP colleagues for some mingling, food, and beverage.

Between 6:30 – 8:30pm the EDCP Peer Advisors are hosting a social event. Find our table in the pub, meet new people, chat with old friends, and enjoy free pop, beer, and nachos.

Hope to see you then!

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Reminder – UBC Centre for Intercultural Language Studies 20th Anniversary Celebrations

CILS 20th Anniversary Celebrations

RSVP: http://tinyurl.com/CILS-20thAnniversaryEvents

Tuesday,February 25, 2014

5:30 – 7:30 pm

Barber Learning Centre 

Room 182

1961 East Mall

 

Anniversary Lecture byDr. Joerg Roche, Professor, Ludwig Maximilians Universitaet, Munich, Germany

“Intercultural Language Studies: Looking Back, Looking Forward.” 

Featuring a screening of the CILS Twentieth Anniversary multimedia presentation, and refreshments.

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

3:00 – 4:30 pm

Barber Learning Centre

Dodson Room

1961 East Mall

Anniversary Roundtable Discussion moderated by Alden Habacon, Director of Intercultural Understanding Strategy Development, UBC.

“The Future of Intercultural Engagement in Canadian Higher Education.”

For full details of both events visit:  http://cils.educ.ubc.ca/

More information contact:   ken.reeder@ubc.ca

Established in 1994, CILS is a cross-campus centre for research, outreach, and collaboration on issues broadly connected to language, culture, and education.

CILS is sponsored by the Faculty of Education, Faculty of Arts, and Continuing Studies.

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Student Consultation: Proposed Fee-Laddering‏

To: Students in the Faculty of Education

The Faculty of Education has developed a proposal that will permit students who complete a graduate certificate to “ladder” a portion of those fees toward a subsequent, related master’s degree. The anticipated savings in master’s tuition for laddered certificates is approximately 30%.

We are seeking your feedback on this tuition fee proposal, in accordance with the recent UBC Board of Governors’ requirement that new tuition fees be presented to the student body for consultation before they are brought to the Board of Governors for approval. Below you will find a description of a proposed process for laddering graduate certificate tuition into related master’s degrees, and the rationale for this laddering process. If you could please take a moment to consider the proposal and respond to the short survey by Friday, February 28th, it would be greatly appreciated:

http://ogpr.educ.ubc.ca/2014/02/19/student-consultation-fee-laddering-proposal/

Thank you for your interest and assistance,

Beth Haverkamp

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Year End deadlines for 2013/2014 Fiscal Year‏

Please submit all your Xerox printings before March 14th and please submit all Xerox, photocopy and phone bill payments to me by cash or cheque by March 24th.

Best regards,

Kalie Fong

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NewsFlash ##654, January 24, 2014‏

For more information on any of the items 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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Jan 27 Public Talk: Faculty Instruction and Indigenous Knowledge Perspectives

Removing the Invisibility Cloak:
 
The Impact of Professional Schools of Education and Social Work on the Lives of Aboriginal Children and Youth 
Through Their Instructional and Curricular Choices
 
With Drs. Maggie Kovach, Jeannine Carrier, and Harpell Montgomery
 
Monday January 27th
Noon to 2 p.m.
 
Sty-Wet-tan Hall, First Nations House of Learning
 
Lunch Provided
If you have not already, please remember to rsvp for catering purposes (jan.hare@ubc.ca<mailto:jan.hare@ubc.ca>)
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Ethics and RISe Unite: A Step by Step Workshop on How to Complete your BREB Application

Thursday, January 23rd, 2014 at 12:30PM - 2:00PM

This interactive workshop is designed to help you understand the ethical issues present in your research while at the same time 
giving you hands on assistance navigating the UBC Behavioural Research Ethics Board (BREB) online application process. You may 
start your BREB application in t= he workshop or continue to work on one that you have already started. Those who are not ready 
to start their own application will be directed to create a practice application in the session. The workshop will be 
facilitated by a member of the BREB administration and the UBC RISe team (computer interface). The session will be approximately 
1.5 hours. 

Facilitators: Snezana Milosevic and Jean Ruiz
 
Registration: http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/4592
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NewsFlash #653, January 17, 2014‏

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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Upcoming Research Commons Graduate Student Workshops & Services‏

Changes to the Research Commons One-on-one Consultation Model

The RC is excited to announce a new consultation model for the Winter 2014 Term! We will be holding consistent weekly consultation hours on Tuesdays from 4:00pm – 7:00pm, Wednesdays from 2:30pm-5:30pm, and Fridays from 10:00am-1:00pm in Koerner Library, Room 218A. One-on-one Thesis Formatting, Citation Management and SPSS consultations will all be available at these times.

Key Changes:

·         All services (Thesis Formatting, Citation Management, and SPSS) are now available for one-on-one consultations during these times.

·         No more setting up an account to book a consultation.  Request a consultation online by filling out our web form.

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.
You can register for an upcoming thesis formatting workshop here.

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 here.

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.

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.

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!

You can register for an upcoming SPSS workshop here.

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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Graduate Student Workshop Series
We will be hosting our ongoing series of Graduate Student Workshops in the Research Commons. The topics for January include conducting literature reviews, building your academic profile through the use of social media, digging into digital book collection, and author rights. We are also excited to have the Office of Research Services come in to present on research ethics and the RISe application process for behavioural science research projects at UBC. You can explore upcoming workshops and register online at http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/series/7
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FIREtalk: Creativity and Innovation, Wednesday January 29th 4-6 pm.

Where do creative and novel ideas come from? Can tools or techniques stimulate creativity and innovation? Are creative processes the same across disciplines? Submit to present and share your approach towards creativity and innovation.

To sign up as an attendee click on the following link:
http://elred.library.ubc.ca/libs/dashboard/view/4617/

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us by email at research.commons@ubc.ca

Kelsey Blair
Student Coordinator
Koerner Library Research Commons
kelsey.blair@ubc.ca

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GSS Weekly Newsletter‏

Dear Graduate Students,

GSS Elections Candidates Announced:
As the nomination period came to a close on January 15th at noon, the list of candidates for the 2014 GSS Elections can now be accessed on our website. Be sure to familiarize yourself with the candidates, their platforms, and attend the All Candidates Debate on January 23rd from 6:30 – 8:30pm in the Graduate Student Centre. At this event, you will be able to see the candidates present their platforms, answer a series of questions, and they will also take questions from members of the public. Dinner will be provided.

GSS Social & Recreational:
– You want to improve your French, learn Swahili, Draw and Paint better? Sign up for GSS class. Learn French or “Fall in love” in our January GSS Art Class.  Swahili is on offer via the UBC Linguistics Department.

– Perhaps you want to get active again in 2014, take better care of your body, burn some calories, make a friend, schedule an energizing study break for the semester, inject more fun in your life: Sign up for a GSS Fitness Class! We’re offering our staples: Pilates, Zumba and Yoga, and also starting up Bellydance Fitness! Classes start January 20th, so sign up now!

– Would you like to learn how to Ice Skate? The GSS is offering lessons starting January 24th. Register Today!

– We get it, you’re are on a budget. So Buy your Advance Tickets for our New Term Party before January 18th! Get ready for a big one this January 24th! Bring old friends, make new ones, take a break, make some memories!

– Finally, the GSS would like to run better regular social events for current graduate students. We need your feedback about the types of activities you are interested in. Would you prefer weekly coffee socials at the GSS? Monthly socials at Koerner’s Pub? Off-campus events such as trivia night, the film festival or live music venues? Please complete this (very short) survey so that we can begin organizing something that works for you! https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NYPLXMX

Stay warm,

Ngwatilo

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Registering for Computer Lab Accounts‏

Dear Students,

You can now register for computer lab accounts in the Education Library.  All the public computers now have access.

Please log on to: http://lab.cms.educ.ubc.ca:3000/register/

 

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Note that it can take up to one business day for computer lab account registrations to be processed.

Please carefully record your username and password, since there may be a delay if you need to recover it.  The recovery procedure is as follows:

Using the email account that you have registered with UBC (http://students.ubc.ca/), send an email message to educ.labs@ubc.ca requesting to recover your Education computer lab password.  Include the following information:

·         Full name

·         Computer lab account username

·         Student number

After your information has been verified, the password will be emailed back to your UBC-registered email address by the end of the next business day, unless otherwise notified.

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Sexual Assault Awareness Month‏

January is Sexual Assault Awareness Month at UBC.  We invite and encourage everyone in the UBC community to attend a Sexual Assault Awareness event this month, and engage in dialogue about sexual assault.  By talking about sexual assault openly, we will help reduce myths that surround sexual assault.

We are seeking your  assistance in promoting Sexual Assault Awareness Month by making faculty, staff and students aware of the events and activities associated with this campaign and encouraging them to participate in the conversation.

One easy way you can help start the conversation is to encourage everyone participate in Denim Day.  Denim has been worn to make a visible protest against sexual assault since 1998, when an Italian court overturned a sexual assault conviction because the victim was wearing tight jeans. Upset by the verdict, people around the world protested by wearing denim to work.   By encouraging everyone to wear denim on campus on Wednesday, January 15 we can make a statement that there is no excuse for sexual assault.

Denim Day stickers, Sexual Assault Awareness Month posters and other materials are available from the Access & Diversity office in Brock Hall.

We hope that you will take advantage of the opportunities available on campus this January. Check out the events page for full details about speakers and opportunities to engage in dialogue.

For more information, please contact Janet Mee, Director, Access & Diversity.

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