T.E.L.L. is a new series of lunchtime webinars held on the last Tuesday of the month to provide an opportunity for members to present workshops and share materials they’ve developed to a wider community, the ETUG community.
6. • Share and discuss ways that WordPress MU can be
developed as a personal, community and course
spaces in teaching and learning
7. Agenda
o Polls
o A few stats for you...
o Overview of WordPress @ UBC
o Examples in Teaching & Learning
o Support Model and Training
o Your Questions...
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9. Poll Question How polling works
in BB Collaborate
What do you think this number means?
a. Current world population
b. Number of spam emails sent
out every day
c. The number of wordpress sites
in the world
10. Answer:
The amount of WordPress
sites in the world!
(wordpress.com
hosts about half)
12. Overview of WordPress @ UBC
o What is WordPress
An open-source personal publishing and content
management platform
UBC Blogs is an enterprise level weblogging
environment designed to provide an individual or
group webspace for instructors and students.
o History
Launched 2009
o Some numbers...
More than 10,000 users, 6,000 blogs
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14. • course blogs
• portfolios
• personal publishing
• variety of themes
• informal, more social
• Dept/faculty/admin websites
• University-wide events
• Business-like atmosphere
• variety of themes
• CLF branding customization
15. UBC Blogs - Examples in Teaching & Learning
o Course spaces
o Community spaces
o Personal learning spaces/e-Portfolios
16. How polling works
in BB Collaborate
Poll - How are you using WP or
similar personal publishing platforms
in your context
a. For course blogs/sites
b. e-Portfolios
c. Community sites
d. Other (if you select this option, type
how in the CHAT PANEL area)
19. How polling works
in BB Collaborate
Poll-How do you support the use of
blogs in teaching and learning in your
context?
a. Training
b. Consultation
c. Resources
d. All of the above
Lucas elaborates on OPEN SPACE title An open canvas that can be customized by the user Part of my role is to work with individual faculty members to assist them in adapting UBC Blogs for their teaching and learning goals (2min)
Audio checks at various points throughout the session Mention we are archiving this session (10)
(30sec)
Lucas Wright Learning Technology Specialist I assist members the UBC community select and implement learning technologies in their teaching and learning. In particular I have been supporting e-Portfolio projects at the University (2 min)
Emily gives BB Collaborate Tour Interface. Describe AREAS - Participants Panel - Your Questions should go in Chat Panel - after every slide) (1 )
We will be sharing some examples of course, community and personal spaces that we have supported at UBC. These course and program examples are used in Face to Face courses (2)
Emily go over AGENDA (1min)
Maybe we should get rid of this? no I like it....? why? What we would like to to do is start off with an informal poll - simple as a way to test the polling feature in Blackboard Collaborate. We are new to this technology and want to play around with a few of the fun features! (Describe to participants where the multiple choice drop down menu is) (
Explain how poll works (2min)
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Although the flexibility of the WordPress platform has lead to many different applications at UBC. As learning technology specialist at CTLT we have the opportunity to support the development, and management of some of these spaces. In supporting faculty using WordPress I tend to work in one of the following areas. (2min)
e-Portfolios--Dental Hygeine, Education (2min)
Community space: Course Context Developed to support the Aphasia Mentoring program-- Instructional Needs Needed a space for members of the community to share resources, communicate and connect with others How WordPress was customized to support these needs Focus on building capacity through providing training sessions, and participating into working sessions where we explored different ways of setting up the site and ways that the users would interact---Created a members only area password protected (3min)
course space: Why a course space In addition to an LMS Used as part of a F2F environment Course Context Italian 200 Instructional Needs Enhance interaction in L2--provide more opportunity to communicate in Italian Provide an opportunity for collaborating in writing Share ideas and links about Italian language and culture How we worked with the instructor to customize WordPress around these needs Overall an iterative planning process using informal formative feedback gathered by the instructor to make required changes-----changing the tagging structure Selecting the Pulse Press Theme--suppport interaction Developing resources that are embedded within the sites to support students adding content Assistance with reducing the burden off assessment---creating an index system using tags and categories (4min)
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(5min) Personal spaces/e-Portfolios. Why a personal space? Course Context Across different disciplines At least 10 programs and courses at UBC using e-Portfolios at a program or course level Large number of professional programs have adopted UBC Blogs as an e-Portfolio platform including programs in Dentistry, Pharmacy and Education (there own wordpress installation Ease of use Ownership Customizable Privacy setting Challenges Assessment Support Assisting in the development of central webspaces used to share resources, provide professional development and can serve as a central space to make assessment easier or a space for interaction and sharing Ongoing consultation