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Starting your own Professional Blog

Posted in Blog Posts, Learning Design & Planning, Paid | Tagged with blog, blogging, blogs, ePortfolio, examples, FAQ, Free, iste-2, iste-3, iste-4, portfolios, professional, resources, Teacher Use, UBC Blog, wordpress

As part of your journey in Teacher Education here at UBC, it is required that you critically reflect on your practice and develop a year-long inquiry into teaching and learning. One way to record your reflections and share your inquiry is by developing professional blog or an e-portfolio. Doing so can also provide you with […]

Learning about and through Food: podcast resource post

Posted in 4-7, Active Learning, AppliedDesignSkillsTechnologies, Elementary & Middle Years, K-3, Learning Design & Planning, Physical and Health, Podcast, Resource | Tagged with blog, engagement, lesson planning, math, planning, resources, science, STEAM, Teacher Use

Food is an interdisciplinary concept that intertwines through a wide range of subjects: home economics, science, math, arts, and many more. In Episode 5 of our recently launched Thinking outside the Sandbox podcast, Dr. Kerry Renwick, Dr. Susan Gerofsky, and Dr. Lorrie Miller share their ideas and experiences with respect to food and the development […]

Studying During the Pandemic; Reflections of an International Graduate Student

Posted in Blog Posts, Remote teaching & learning | Tagged with blog, blogging, wordpress

Classes transitioned online about a month before the end of the semester. At first, I felt relieved from the continuous fidgeting that occurs throughout the day, the juggling between different tasks, attending classes, doing readings, working, and doing some housekeeping tasks such as grocery shopping, cooking, and laundry. However, I soon started missing meeting people! […]

Blogging in Teacher Education

Posted in Blog Posts, English, Not Subject Specific, Post Secondary, Resource | Tagged with blog, blogging, blogs, Free, inquiry, resources, Teacher Use

Social Networking, defined by Gunawardena et al (2009) as the “practice of expanding knowledge by making connections with individuals of similar interests” is a potentially powerful tool for both Post-Secondary Faculty and the K-12 classroom teacher. Through this networking, students are afforded the opportunity to co-create knowledge within a Community of Practice (Wenger et al, […]

Export your blog

Posted in Resource | Tagged with blog, blogging, blogs, Teacher Use, UBC Blogs

So now I’ve created a blog, website or eP using UBC Blogs WordPress… what do I do when I graduate? As an alumni, you will continue to have access to your CWL and UBC Blogs account. Your blog(s) can live on and stay on UBC’s FIPPA compliant, secure servers. You may decide, however, that you’d […]