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UBC Blog Follow up

Hello all, thank you for your interest and engagement in this new ‘blogging adventure’. I enjoyed working with you and invite you to be in touch if you have any further questions, wish to explore how technology might enhance your plans for practicum and/or how your inquiry might be related to or supported by digital technologies. Below are the promised links.

Scarfe Digital Sandbox – curated resources, blog, events calendar and ‘ask a question’

Blogging in Teacher Education (a post on my blog). In the post linked at left, you will also find a tutorial space – a ubc blog I set up to try to help answer many of the frequently asked questions. See the tutorials menu for screencast tutorials and information to help you get started and continue to work on your blogs. Info available for many topics including:
  • creating custom menus – this will allow you to rearrange the pages in your navigation menu and also add categories to your menu (so they appear just like drop down pages – this works well for Inquiry Resources, Reflections, etc.)
  • Adding Users to your blog – you will want to add your instructor at some point.
  • adding twitter feed/widgets
*Please remember Katya is available for drop in help 12 – 2 daily (Mondays in the Foyer; Tues thru Fri in Scarfe 155) Please do not hesitate to contact her via email for one on one help with your blog at any time.  etsproject.educ@ubc.ca
 
All the best,
Yvonne

What is a “Good” Inquiry Question?

A few additional ideas to consider as we begin to create our inquiry questions….

“Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.” -E.S. Wilson

Here are a few things that we have heard from people teaching Inquiry at McMaster:

What is a good Inquiry question?
(Dale Roy, Erika Kustra, Paola Borin, 2003)

https://cll.mcmaster.ca/resources/misc/good_inquiry_question.html

Living Inquiry Itinerary and TC’s sign up duties

living-inquiry-itinerary-2016

Living Inquiry TC’s Duties

Thank you.

 

Please post class discussion ideas and conversations in this section…

Weekly Expert Readings

Please post your entrance slip and attach a link to the reading or attach a document to this page titled Weekly Expert Readings.

  1. Write up your post
  2. Attachments –  attach the link or attachment by using the Add Media link above your post text. Please provide the reading to the class via link or attachment.
  3. Categories – please click the box on the right side titled weekly expert readings. This will make sure that it ends up on the right page.
  4. Tags – please tag your post with key words for ease of searching in future.  For example: week 3 reading, inquiry, title of article, etc..

Thank you.

Class Power point to date

450 B daily lectures 2015-15

How to start a e-portfolio/blog on wordpress

The ‘how to’ set up a e-portfolio/blog video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7UuCqsRoag&feature=youtu.be

Also, here’s a link to the ‘eP testing/tutorial blog’ that is set up to offer assistance to teacher candidates on setting up and trouble shooting your e-portfolios/blog. https://blogs.ubc.ca/testingportfolio/

 

Week 5: Entrance slip

  1. Entrance slip –  reading group
  2. Artifact bag reflection -Complete (a working”documenting of) the following (in professional format): (1 page max)
    1. A biography
    2. Your philosophy of education (include your subject area as well!!)
    3. Something that you are interested in exploring in education. It could be in the form of a question and then a response of why it is significant to you.
  3. 3. Top 10 List of questions or topic areas

As always, let me know if you need further assistance.  Best reagards

Video

PE and HE Cohort Week 1

pe and he cohort