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Please pass along the following information to your graduate students.

Registration is open for the Instructional Skills Workshop September 13, 14, 20, 2014.  Please note that participants must be able to attend the entire 24 hour workshop.  Please find attached the new policy for registration in the ISW.

The Instructional Skills Workshop is an internationally recognized program and students receive transcript notation for their participation.  It is a 3-day intensive workshop that develops participant’s teaching skills and confidence.  It is appropriate for first time teachers or those with years of experience.  Join the thousands of students who have taken this workshop.

This workshop is always in high demand. To register for the September 13, 14, 20 ISW, please go to:

http://events.ctlt.ubc.ca/event-registration/?ee=530

Please share the below information with your new and current graduate students.  In addition, if you are planning orientation events within your own programs and departments and think information on the Graduate Pathways to Success Program would be helpful please feel free to include the attached handout. I’m also happy to come and meet with students in person.

The New Graduate Student Orientation 2014 schedule, including information on Graduate Student Society ticketed events, is now posted at: http://orientation.grad.ubc.ca/schedules/august-2014/

We need current graduate student volunteers to help welcome new graduate students to UBC!

Do you remember your own orientation at UBC? Would you like to share in that experience again? Opportunities include:

• August 28th: Main Orientation Day – super volunteers, team leaders, morning and afternoon volunteers
• August 29th: GSS Orientation Day – campus and museum tour guides, campus challenge volunteers, boat cruise volunteers

…and more throughout Orientation Week!

You can sign up to volunteer by filling out this survey: https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g366d

Should you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to ask by contacting us at graduate.orientation@ubc.ca

2014 MAGIC and GRAND I-cubed (I3) Idea, Innovation and Inaugurate Challenge

Are you a current graduate student that has an entrepreneurial idea that has a digital media component, broadly defined?  You could enter the MAGIC I-3 Challenge http://magic.ubc.ca/pmwiki.php?n=Main.I3 to win an opportunity for a 3 month residency in the MAGIC lab which would entail technical and business support, including desk space in the lab, access to technical specialists, and the online market validation programme.  Register your interest by August 31, 2014 by emailing Lavana Lea at lavana@magic.ubc.ca .

Please see attachment. Planning & Skills Instructors IGSPPF2014

Date:            Wednesday, July 30^th 2014

Venue:         Scarfe Room 1107

Time:            12:30 – 2:00 p.m.

Title:             Digital Ethnography as a New Trend of Ethnographic Studies in Education in Brazil

Speaker:       Dr. Carmen de Mattos, Associate Professor, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Abstract:

Digital Technology and Ethnographic Research are subjects that reflect the demands of education in the postmodern age. Research agencies, researchers, teachers and students emphasize both subjects in order to meet these demands. This presentation illuminates the different nature of these two topics which have been addressed by research in the field of education in Brazil. It will outline the imbrication of the two subjects and introduce the notion of Digital Ethnography as a new trend in ethnographic studies in Education. It discusses, also, how digital technology and critical ethnography carry potential to tackle inequalities and injustices in the Brazilian public education system.

Bio:

Carmen de Mattos is an Associate Professor of Education at the Department of Applied Studies in Education of the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ), Brazil since 1998. Her B.A degree is in Pedagogy from the Faculty of Philosophy Saint Dorothy in Brazil, her M.S. is in Interdisciplinary Studies in Human Development (1987) and Ph.D. (1992) is in Educational Leadership from The University of Pennsylvania, in USA. She has been a visiting scholar at University of Cambridge, in UK (2011), University of Sydney, in Australia  (2009) and in Université René Descartes, Sorbonne, in France (2000). Her interests in Pedagogy focus on how ethnographic studies have been examined issues related to: educational processes inequalities, social injustice and school failure in the Basic School System in Brazil. She is coordinator of the Nucleus of Ethnography in Education at UERJ since 2004.

LLED  441 an online course on Children’s Literature K-12  is an opportunity to study children’s literature as a resource for developing multiliteracies across the curriculum. The multimodal forms of literature offer content and inspiration for transformative activities and reflective thinking that serve students literacy and literary development needs.

Assignments include multimodal responses to key issues such as

the purpose and value of a literary canon, the creation of canons that serve particular student populations,  popular sequential visual narrative forms, and  literature as a resource for developing empathy and motivating social action. This course is taught by Kathryn Shoemaker, PhD, LLED Sessional Instructor, Ischool Adjunct Faculty. The course is offered this fall and runs from September 2- November 28, 2014.

GRADUATE ACADEMIC ASSISTANT (GAA) IN THE OFFICE OF GRADUATE PROGRAMS AND RESEARCH

The OGPR is looking to hire a Faculty of Education graduate student who can provide consultation to peers on navigating the web forms for the upcoming SSHRC graduate fellowship and scholarship competition.

Job Title: Faculty of Education SSHRC GAA

Duration: 3 weeks (September 2 – 22, 2014)

Time: 10 hours per week (approximately two hours per day)

APPLICATION DEADLINE: Friday, August 15, 2014 at 4:00pm.

A cover memo, current resume and references should be emailed to Christine Wallsworth, Office Manager, in the OGPR at: christine.wallsworth@ubc.ca.

Applicants are expected to have good communications skills, as well as experience with using web forms. Preference will be given to Education graduate student applicants with

• Applying online to SSHRC graduate student fellowship competitions, including the SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship competition and/ or the SSHRC Canadian Graduate Scholarship competition

• Teaching web or software skills

• Understanding national granting agency policies and procedures

• Meeting with Faculty of Education graduate students for short sessions in the OGPR and providing them with advice on the SSHRC web forms navigation

• Understanding the SSHRC graduate fellowship and if possible, the affiliated awards application guidelines, policies and procedures and how they support the online application process.

• Liaising with SSHRC fellowship program coordinators in Ottawa to clarify policies and procedures and to report problems with web forms

For more information, contact: Christine Wallsworth in the Office of Graduate

Programs and Research, Faculty of Education, Telephone: 604-822-5217, Email: Christine Wallsworth <christine.wallsworth@ubc.ca>

New Graduate Student Orientation, hosted by Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, International Student Development, and the Graduate Student Society (GSS), is quickly approaching.  All incoming graduate students have been invited.  Events include:

*        Wednesday, August 27: International Student Welcome – an afternoon session designed to help international students make the most of their UBC experience

*        Thursday, August 28: Main Orientation Day – a warm welcome and opportunity for all new graduate students to learn important campus and academic information.

*        Friday, August 29: GSS Orientation – an opportunity to tour campus and learn more about arts, culture and clubs at UBC from the Graduate Student Society.  The evening will end with a boat cruise, the first of several outings planned by the GSS for orientation.

The complete schedule of events will be posted here by early August: http://orientation.grad.ubc.ca/schedules/august-2014/

Interested in getting involved in Orientation?  The following opportunities are available for current graduate students:

To volunteer for Main Orientation Day or other orientation events, please register here: https://www.surveyfeedback.ca/surveys/wsb.dll/s/1g366d

To learn about and apply for a position as an Information Officer (35 hour paid position), please click here:http://gss.ubc.ca/main/gss-opportunity-summer-orientation-info-officer/

William Rea Fellowship in Television

Award amount: $500 to $2,100

Deadline: Friday, 1 August, 2014

The fellowship is open to a University of British Columbia graduate student of either sex, who shows the greatest aptitude in terms of scholarship and extracurricular activity for a career in television through drama, music, writing, photography, engineering, or business.

For more information about this competition, please see the Graduate Awards website: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/william-rea-fellowship-television

The contact at the Faculty of Graduate Studies for this competition is Anne Broženský (anne.brozensky@ubc.ca).

Canada Graduate Scholarship Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplements

The Canada Graduate Scholarship Michael Smith Foreign Study Supplements (CGS-MSFSS) Program supports high-calibre Canadian graduate students pursuing exceptional research experiences at research institutions outside of Canada. This program is available to Canadian citizens or permanent residents who hold a Vanier Scholarship or a Tri-Agency Canada Graduate Scholarship (CGS) at the Master’s or doctoral level. Note that international students who hold a Vanier scholarship are not eligible for this competition.

 Annual Value: Up to $6,000 for three to six months

Deadline: Friday, 22 August, 2014 

SSHRC applicants please note: All student signatures must be in ink, references okay scanned/electronic.

Please consult the Graduate Awards website for further information and application procedures: https://www.grad.ubc.ca/awards/canada-graduate-scholarship-michael-smith-foreign-study-supplement

The contact at the Faculty of Graduate Studies for this award is Allan Lee: allanlee@mail.ubc.ca

The UBC Faculty of Education presents the 2014 Noted Summer Scholar Series:

Public Lecture:

Towards Paradigmatic Change in TESOL Methodologies: Building Plurilingual Pedagogies from the Ground Up

1:00PM, Tuesday, July 15, 2014

Neville Scarfe Building, Room 310

Dr. Angel M. Y. Lin, Associate Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong, China

Bio:

Dr. Angel Lin is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education, University of Hong Kong. She is well-respected for her interdisciplinary research in classroom discourse analysis, bilingual education, language policy in postcolonial contexts, and criticalcultural studies. She has published over 90 research articles and co/authored/edited 6 research books.

Public Lecture:

What Neuroimaging Can Tell Us about the Underpinnings of Autism and Autism Spectrum Disorders

1:00PM, Monday, July 14, 2014

Neville Scarfe Building, Room 310

Dr. Margaret Semrud-Clikeman, Professor of Pediatric & Division Head of Clinical Behavioural Neuroscience, University of Minnesota Medical School, USA

Bio:

Dr. Margaret Semrud-Clikeman, Ph.D. received her doctorate from the University of Georgia in 1990. She completed an internship and postdoctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical school (MGH) and received a post-doctoral neuroscience fellowship at MGH from NIH to study neuropsychological and brain morphology in children with ADHD. Her dissertation was awarded the Outstanding Dissertation of the Year Award from the Orton Dyslexia Society. She continues her research interests in the areas of ADHD and educational neuroscience. She is currently working on research in ADHD, 18q- syndrome, and autistic spectrum disorders. With Dr. Plizska at UTHSCSA, Dr. Semrud-Clikeman was awarded a NIH grant to study the effects of stimulant medication on neuropsychological functioning. Dr. Semrud-Clikeman and her students have developed a social competence intervention that has been successfully piloted. Dr. Semrud-Clikeman was awarded the 1999 Early Career Contributions award from the National Academy of Neuropsychology. She has also been awarded support for her work studying NVLD and Asperger Disorder from a private foundation. Moreover, Dr. Semrud-Clikeman was recently awarded intramural funding for her study of executive function and attentional problems in children who survive cerebral malaria in Malawi. She has published more than 60 articles, 75 chapters and 6 books as well as making over 200 presentations at national and international conferences. Dr. Semrud-Clikeman is currently a Professor of Pediatrics and Division Head of Clinical Behavioral Neuroscience at the University of Minnesota.

Public Lecture:

Looking into the Hearts of Native Peoples: Nation Building as an Institutional Orientation for Graduate Education

12:00PM, Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Neville Scarfe Building, Room 310

Dr. Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy, Professor, School of Social Transformation Culture, Society and Education, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA

Bio:

Dr. Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy is a citizen of the Lumbee Nation.  He is President’s Professor, Borderlands Professor of Indigenous Education and Justice, and Director of the Center for Indian Education at Arizona State University.   His research focuses on the experiences of Indigenous students, staff, and faulty in institutions of higher education.  More recently, he has been engaged in scholarship that seeks to explore the role of Indigenous Knowledge Systems in educational research and its methodologies.

This lecture will be of interest to a broad range of people concerned with education. There is no registration process or fee.

Complete details of the 2014 Noted Summer Scholar Series can be found at http://ogpr.educ.ubc.ca/noted-summer-scholars-2014

Please Note this is a course offered by the University of Victoria

To Graduate Students and Graduate Advisors:  

Based on the number of students who expressed interest in EDCI 591, I am pleased to announce that EDCI 591: Ecology, Pedagogy, and Practice is now open for registration.

You can find the course through www.uvic.ca/timetable. The Course Registration Number (CRN) is 31306.

Students who belong to a department other than Curriculum and Instruction will need to complete a “Course Change Form” in order to register for the course. To expedite the processing time, it is advised that students email me the completed form so that I may sign it and send it back right away.

Best wishes,

Dr. Jennifer S. Thom

Curriculum and Instruction

Faculty of Education

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Are you a Faculty of Education graduate student applying for a SSHRC/ CIHR/ NSERC/ Affiliated Fellowship this year?

If so, please join us in an Information Panel for Education Graduate Students!

Find out answers to the following questions—and more:

• What makes an excellent program of study description as part of your proposal?
• What should you include in your description of your track record?

• What is the best way to interact with/ approach referees?

At the panel you will be able to have your questions answered by faculty/ student/ staff experts.

When: 1:30 – 3:00pm, Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Where: Neville Scarfe Building, Room 310

Space is limited, so please RSVP by 12:00pm, Friday, July 25, 2014 by filling out the online RSVP Form at the following link:ogpr.educ.ubc.ca/july-2014-info-session

You are cordially invited to an open session of the African Storybook Summit, to take place in the Department of Language and Literacy Education, UBC, on Thursday, June 26, 2014.  The event, co-sponsored by the Wall Institute, will take place from 9:00am to 10:30am in the DLC (Ponderosa F, Room 103). UBC President Stephen Toope will open the summit and Dean Blye Frank will welcome participants. The project director, Tessa Welch, will give an update on the project, and Dr. Bonny Norton, the project’s research advisor, will serve as chair. The African Storybook Project is an innovative digital project that promotes early literacy in sub-Saharan Africa (http://www.africanstorybook.org/). Past and present Education graduate students are active in the project, which was highlighted in a recent UBC News article (http://news.ubc.ca/2014/03/19/148759/). Please RSVP Elizabeth Namazzi, the summit facilitator, at bukuschnamazzi7@hotmail.com, by Monday, June 16. Refreshments will be provided. All welcome!