Curriculum & Pedagogy, UBC Faculty of Education

At our recent peer advising meeting we started chatting about electronic books, and thought we’d open up the discussion to all the e-geeks out there. What’s your favourite way to read articles and e-books: Kindle, ipad, Kobos…? Do you know about Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/)? What about: http://calibre-ebook.com/ (open source e-book software for Mac, PC, Linux)?
This is an exciting world as we move beyond paper-based books and print journals. But what are the costs (social, environmental, economic) of these technologies? The benefits?
Please share your thoughts here. If there’s enough interest, we may even organize a little seminar to take a look at these technologies in more depth.
Cheers,
The NEW grad advising team: James, Anita, Sarah, Jung, and (not so new) Julia

The American Education Research Association (AERA) Annual Meeting is coming to Vancouver in April 2012. As you know, deadline for submission is July 22nd, 2011.

If you are thinking of submitting and need a bit of help, here are some helpful resources.

1) AERA Graduate Student Council (AERA GSC) tutorial:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDeBZZwqMI0 –the most helpful 5 min.!
We also encourage you to “Friend” the AERA GSC on Facebook and/or check the AERA website (http://www.aera.net) and look under the Gradate Student Council Tab for additional information, to stay informed and/or volunteer opportunities for the upcoming meeting.

2) Five tips for submission from successful graduate students:

(Based on the AERA Preparation workshop, June 8^th, 2011, hosted by EDCP)

1.       Stick to the guidelines! Reviewers are looking for ways to reject your paper, so watch out for every detail.

2.       Register as an AERA member, then join a Division and as many Special Interest Groups (SIGs) as you’d like, and submit through a division or SIG. Your chances of being accepted vary depending on the size of the division or SIG that you decide to apply to.

3.       Remember AERA is a research organization. Give your proposal a strong research sense, including practical implications of your research.

4.       Graduate students have better chances of being accepted if they apply for a poster, round table, or panel presentation. Not sure what’s the difference? Ask us!

5.       Ask your supervisor, other professors, or successful former applicants to review your proposal before you submit it. You will find their prior experience helpful.

Have a productive (but restful) summer!

Thanks to the Grad Student Council of the Faculty of Education 2011-2012 for compiling these resources!

EDCP – Guopeng Fu

EDST – Jeannie Kerr

LLED – Dennis Murphy-Odo

Int’l Students – Renira Vellos

Coordinator – Christine Klerian

CCFI, ECPS, KIN – pending

Following up from Marc Higgins’ well-received workshop on Atlas.ti, a qualitative research methods software tool, here are a few resources you may find helpful:

Marc made his fancy presentation using prezi. If you want to see Marc’s presentation or learn how to use prezi for making your own presentations, visi: http://prezi.com/-zgybzvhrrcd/atlasti-may-17th-2011/

From Marc: Here’s a bit of additional info for people who are interested in accessing the software:

If you are interested in using Atlas.ti, as a UBC education student, here are a few options for you:

1. CMS has 5 licenses available in the Neville Scarfe computing labs
2. Atlas.ti has an almost fully functional trial version (http://www.atlasti.com/demo.html)
3. A full (student) version runs at 99$ (http://www.atlasti.com/students.html)

Thanks again, Marc, for a superb presentation!

Hello,

Thank you to the grad students who submitted their successful proposals from previous AERA conference to share with us. If you would like to post your proposal here or co-present with us at the workshop, please contact Julia julia_ostertag@yahoo.ca

Reminder: Only 25 spots available for this workshop. Please RSVP (julia_ostertag@yahoo.ca) as soon as possible to reserve a spot.

Click on the following link for sample proposals & reviewer comments:

Student 1 Proposal Reviewer comments_AERA 2011

Student 2 Proposal Reviewer comments

Student 2 Proposal Reviewer comments_AERA_2010

Student 2 Proposal_AERA 2010

Student 2 Proposal_AERA_2011

Student 3 AERA 2011 paper summary

Student 3 AERA 2011 proposal

Student 3_AERA2010 Proposal

‘Hope Builders’ is a video about a new teaching method that is being tested in an elementary school in Québec to prepare the next generation of students to take up environmental challenges. Under the supervision of their teacher, students are learning to identify, analyze and resolve a problem that exists in their world. They are also learning about the uncertainty faced by those who want to change things. Hope Builders is a unique and invaluable witness to this educational experimental project.

The  video documents the true incorporation of self-directed and project-based learning in a real-life scenario in which learners share the responsibility to collectively create their own learning (under the guidance of a teacher), the end result of which is demonstrable in the community.

Check it out here: http://films.nfb.ca/hope-builders

We are glad to announce that we have created a ‘EDCP Job’ page so the EDCP graduate students have one fast and easy place to look for current available positions. This page will be kept up to date with the latest job offers.

https://blogs.ubc.ca/edcp/edcp-jobs/

-The Grad Team!