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- Audience – Faculty and Staff – Vancouver
30 + 30 Exploring GenAI Tools for Teaching Material Development – February 8, 2024
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre 1961 East Mall, VancouverComputer Science Distinguished Lecture: Socio-Affective Signals as Facilitators of Human-Human and Human-Agent Interaction
Fred Kaiser Building 2332 Main Mall, VancouverBuilding Bridges: Connecting Foundational Science and Clinical Practice in Precision Health and Translational Medicine
Life Sciences Centre 2350 Health Sciences Mall, VancouverCritical Thinkers Series: Gabrielle Berry
Chan Centre for the Performing Arts 6265 Crescent Road, VancouverWeek of Events
Walk for Joy
Walk for Joy
Walk for Joy (formerly Walkabout) is a 9 week walking, rolling and physical activity challenge designed to get people moving and reduce sedentary time. This challenge is open to all UBC students, staff, faculty, and community members. A large emphasis is placed on being social while completing physical activity, so find a friend to get […]
Creating Digital Exhibits: A Survey of Tools
Creating Digital Exhibits: A Survey of Tools
This workshop will cover an assortment of digital exhibit and storytelling tools such as Omeka, Scalar, static site generators (CollectionBuilder and Wax), and narrative tools such as Timeline.js and Storymaps from Knight Lab. At the end of this session, participants will be able to: List common tools and what they might be useful for Identify […]
Introduction to Large Language Models (LLMs)
Introduction to Large Language Models (LLMs)
This workshop focuses on Large Language Models (LLM) to provide participants with a foundational understanding of LLM, their working, and how to fine-tune a pre-trained LLM for your own data. In this workshop, we will use cloud-based platforms, so you don’t need to have Python installed. Please make sure that you have a Google Colaboratory […]
Creating and Managing Your Academic Profile – Profile Tools
Creating and Managing Your Academic Profile – Profile Tools
The growth of social media and networked technologies has allowed for new and interactive ways for scholars to circulate their research, expand their scholarly networks, and track their research impact. Understanding how your academic identity and your research outputs (articles, books, patents, conference proceedings, posters, data contributions, videos, blog posts, etc.) are tracked and showcased […]
Generative AI Studios
Generative AI Studios
Online These sixty minute, weekly sessions – facilitated by Technologists and Pedagogy Experts from the CTLT – are designed for faculty and staff at UBC who are using, or thinking about using, Generative AI tools as part of their teaching, researching, or daily work. Each session is broken into 3 parts. First, a weekly insights […]
Introduction to Voyant Tools
Introduction to Voyant Tools
We will introduce Voyant, a free suite of visual tools for text analysis. Participants will get hands on experience applying common tools within Voyant to a corpus. No prior experience with text analysis is required. This workshop is part of the Digital Toolkit workshop series presented by the UBC Library Research Commons. Location Details Location: *ONLINE* If […]
Individual Consultation with a Learning Designer about Your Course
Individual Consultation with a Learning Designer about Your Course
Do you have questions and challenges about creating meaningful and successful learning experiences for your students? Maybe you want help in the process of teaching your course in online, hybrid or blended modes. Request a virtual one on one course consultation with a Learning Designer to explore ways to enhance your students’ learning experience. This […]
30 + 30 Exploring GenAI Tools for Teaching Material Development – February 8, 2024
30 + 30 Exploring GenAI Tools for Teaching Material Development – February 8, 2024
This in-person session focuses on how faculty can use various GenAI tools, including CoPilot, ChatGPT, Eduaide, Elicit, Gem, and Dall-E 3, for creating effective teaching materials. It will provide practical insights into applying these technologies for designing case studies, rubrics, scenarios, discussion questions, and lesson plans, emphasizing their role in enhancing the quality and interactivity […]
Introduction to Web Mapping with Leaflet
Introduction to Web Mapping with Leaflet
This workshop will first give an introduction to web maps, including the differences between digital maps and web maps, their structure, and how they work. The second part of the workshop will be a short hands-on session where we will create our own web map showing UBC campus buildings – with clickable with popups – […]
Computer Science Distinguished Lecture: Socio-Affective Signals as Facilitators of Human-Human and Human-Agent Interaction
Computer Science Distinguished Lecture: Socio-Affective Signals as Facilitators of Human-Human and Human-Agent Interaction
Everyone is welcome! Speaker: Elisabeth André, University of Augsburg Homepage: https://www.uni-augsburg.de/en/fakultaet/fai/informatik/prof/hcm/team/andre/ Location: Fred Kaiser Building (2332 Main Mall), Room 2020/2030 Title: Socio-Affective Signals as Facilitators of Human-Human and Human-Agent Interaction Abstract: Social interactions profoundly shape our human life. This presentation explores the potential of imbuing machines with socially-aware interfaces, creating pathways for more natural and […]
Building Bridges: Connecting Foundational Science and Clinical Practice in Precision Health and Translational Medicine
Building Bridges: Connecting Foundational Science and Clinical Practice in Precision Health and Translational Medicine
Are you a foundational scientist wanting to collaborate on a research project with a clinician? In this meeting and networking session, you will learn from researchers who have achieved successful partnerships between foundational scientists and clinicians, on how to initiate new collaborations to advance your precision health and translational medicine research. The meeting will consist […]
Behavioural Insights Seminar Series
Behavioural Insights Seminar Series
UBC's Decision Insights for Business & Society (UBC-DIBS) is excited to announce our 2023-2024 Behavioural Insights Seminar Series featuring an exciting set of researchers and practitioners sharing their field and lab projects using the behavioural and decision sciences to "nudge for good". Register to attend at https://bit.ly/DIBSseminars. Join us on select Fridays at 1-2pm Pacific […]
Critical Thinkers Series: Gabrielle Berry
Critical Thinkers Series: Gabrielle Berry
Presented by the Centre for Cinema Studies and Cinema Thinks the World, the Critical Thinkers Series features research talks by notable and emerging scholars in cinema and media studies. Next up in the series is a talk by Gabrielle Berry, “: Read/Listening to Sound and Music On Screen”. All are welcome and there is no […]