Elizabeth Wallace

Thanks to those members who pointed out a few errors in the earlier announcement. The following is the corrected version from Lin Langley at Douglas, with a gentle suggestion that arriving by Skytrain is advised for all who can!

University, College, Institute Professional Developers (UCIPD) of British Columbia

Spring Convening : Friday, March 16, 2007
Douglas College, New Westminster campus
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Greetings to the professional developers of British Columbia!
We look forward to meeting with you at Douglas College. Our thanks to Lin Langley and her team who have volunteered to host our meeting on Friday, March 16th at Douglas College, New Westminster campus.

To register, please contact Wendy Waidson waidsonw@douglas.bc.ca
Douglas College map links and directions are provided at the end of this message.

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Shape of the Day: Friday, March 16th, 2007

Meeting site: Douglas College: Board Room 4920- 4th floor of the South Building

8am to 9:15 am. Breakfast social hosted by Douglas College

No business; just time to socialize.

9:30 to 11:45 am Professional Development session

* Round table sharing - Reports : 5 minutes per institutional representative with time for question/answer

Suggested format:

* Bring some materials for people to take home that provide a broad overview of the variety of things you are doing - so that others can review this info later, and get back to you if they have specific questions.

* Plan to spend their 5 minutes talking about either new/different initiatives or some idea/program/concept you would like some quick feedback on from the group .

* Extending the UCIPD circle: How might we encourage greater UCIPD participation from northern BC and Interior?
* Expanding the UCIPD meeting planning team
* SCOPE Community- Liz Wallace (SFU) : 'how to' info, what's there, what can we build into the site, demo

11:45 am to 1:00 pm No-host lunch at a nearby restaurant @ reasonable cost

1:00- 2:15 Emerging PD initiatives in British Columbia

* BC Campus Report: Educational technology, online learning and collaborative provincial program of professional development
- Paul Stacey, Director of Development, BCcampus
- Jan Johnson, UBC /BCcampus secondment

2:30 to 3:15 Enhancing our Institutional Impact - Questions to Consider

* Evaluation of faculty development programs

* What can we do to make our offerings appeal to a wide audience?
* How do we learn about the needs of potential participants?
* Might we be alienating particular communities by how we advertise our offerings?

How do we avoid this?
* What kinds of collaborative activities could we create with other institutions to decrease the time & funding requirements for all of us?

3:15 Next meeting: Hosted by SFU Surrey campus. Date? 1 day or 1.5 /2 days? Focus?

3:30 Farewell/ Until next time......

Directions to Douglas College, New Westminster, BC, V3L 5B2 at
http://www.douglas.bc.ca/about/our-campuses/new_west_campus.html
Registration: No fee. Please register with:
Wendy Waidson waidsonw@douglas.bc.ca 604-527 5411

Happy New Year! You are receiving this message because you are a member of the SCoPE online forum for UCIPD. Click on the links at the bottom of the message to go directly to the private area (you will be prompted for a password) to view this message in the context of other postings, or to reply. Contact Liz at ewallace@sfu.ca with questions.

• Before you forget about 2006 completely, dip into the open SCoPE discussion on the Accessibility of eLearning which took place in December. See how the 300+ members of our larger SCoPE community use our site to address key issues in education. Note that no password is required to join these regularly scheduled seminars. The next is on Knowing Knowledge and begins Jan 10th, so check out the SCoPE Homepage for details.
• Thanks to Diane Anderson for the information she sent a few weeks ago regarding the UVic Certificate in Adult and Continuing Education that begins this week. Details on the program at: http://www.continuingstudies.uvic.ca/cace/
• Proposals are now being accepted for presentations at the ISSOTL Conference in Sydney, Australia, July 2-5. The deadline for submissions has been extended to January 15th. For further information: http://www.indiana.edu/~issotl07/call.html
• And proposals are also being sought for the STLHE conference in Edmonton, June 13-16. Deadline is January 26th. For information: http://www.ualberta.ca/~uts/STLHE/en/proposals.html
• February 21-23, the Universities of Waterloo and Guelph are jointly hosting the Educational Developers' Caucus (EDC) of STLHE. For further information: http://www.tss.uoguelph.ca/edc/index.cfm
• The next UCIPD meeting will take place at Douglas College on Friday, March 16th. The previously scheduled November gathering was snowed out, but the Douglas team is game to try again! Watch for registration information and details very soon. Questions can be posted to this forum by clicking on the Reply link below.

We're all disappointed that snowstorms caused the cancellation of our planned meeting at Douglas College this month.  We know it would have been a great day and we thank our Douglas College colleagues for all their work. We're looking into re-schuling early in 2007, and will send out information as soon as we have found a location and a date. 

In the meantime, we're setting up this forum to capture some of the information and resources which we would have shared at Douglas. Please post your news, resources, issues...and of course your wild stories of how you survived the blizzards. 

We suggest you click on Reply below and change the Subject Line to suit your message. 

Hello Everyone:

SFU's Learning and Instructional Development Centre has a small library of books and other media related to teaching and learning.  We're trying to think of ways to promote its use, and one idea is to invite faculty  members to join a reading group once a semester, or so.  LIDC would consider purchasing a number of copies of a selected text for ciculation, and we would invite faculty to co-facilitate, while we attend to the logistics (room, refreshments).  The questions of how we might choose readings and get faculty buy-in are big ones! Has anyone tried this?  Is there a better way of encouraging use of the library? What are your thoughts?

You are receiving this digest because you are a member of UCIPD, and we welcome your participation in our SCoPE online community. For information, or to be reminded of your ID and Password, please click on my name in SCoPE to send a message, or use regular email: ewallace@sfu.ca

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We're Gathering This Month!

Our Fall Convening for UCIPD will be hosted by Douglas College on Monday, November 27^th. Details about the day are posted in SCoPE at: http://scope.lidc.sfu.ca/mod/resource/view.php?id=374

To register, or for information, contact Wendy Waidson, 604-527-5411 or waidsonw@douglas.bc.ca.

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Call for Examples of Teacher Training for PhD Students

Jeanette McDonald at Wilfrid Laurier University sent the following message to the STLHE/EDO list:

One of our deparments is considering adding a pedagogical stream to its PhD program akin to something like a campus-wide graduate student certificate program like they have at the University of Waterloo (see: http://www.adm.uwaterloo.ca/infotrac/CUT.html). I'm interested to learn if there are other examples of program/department specific initiatives designed to prepare PhD students (and masters) for academia, specifically in the domain of teaching. Your input on this matter would be greatly appreciated.

Send information to jmcdonald@wlu.ca , 519 884-0710, ext. 3211

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Podcasting Discussion

The most recent scheduled seminar in SCoPE site has been focussing on The Educational Value of Podcasting. Members from all over the world have added their ideas and recommendations in response to questions by facilitator, Richard Smith. Check out the conversation at: http://scope.lidc.sfu.ca/mod/forum/view.php?id=344

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Discussion on Open Source Educational Software Starts November 6^th

If you are involved in the use of Open Source platforms at your institution, or just want to find out what the expert users think, you won’t want to miss the upcoming online seminar on The Use of Open Source and Free Software in Education moderated by Heather Ross. The seminar takes place from Nov 6 – 26 , so make a note to join internation colleagues by reading, contributing, and experiencing the power of our very own Moodle Open Source discussion forum in SCoPE:

http://scope.lidc.sfu.ca/mod/forum/view.php?id=361

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ISSOTL Now and Next

The upcoming ISSOTL conference is about to kick off in Washington, DC on November 9 – 12. Information is available at: http://www.issotl.org/conferences.html

And the venue of the 2007 conference has already been announced. It will take place in Sydney, Australia, July 2-5. Thinking of submitting a proposal? Visit http://www.indiana.edu/~issotl07 or email: ISSOTL2007@unsw.edu.au

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UCIPD Member News

We are gradually compiling information in SCoPE about who we are and what we do. We have an space for members to introduce themselves and give an overview of their institution at: http://scope.lidc.sfu.ca/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=250

And there’s a space for exchanging details about fall programming at: http://scope.lidc.sfu.ca/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=261

Post news about your institution yourself, or send information to me at ewallace@sfu.ca, and I’ll add the details for you.

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