Welcome to ECPS! Orientation 2014/15

OUR DEPARTMENT

YOUR COMMUNITY

SUPPORT

PLACES

IMPORTANT DATES

ECPS

Faculty of

Education

EDCP

EDST

LLED

KIN

People You Should Know...

Dr. Bill Borgen,

Department Head

Dr. Kadriye Ercikan,

Deputy Head

Alex Allen, Graduate Program Assistant

(HDLC, SCPS, SPED)

Karen Yan, Graduate Program Assistant

(CNPS, MERM, VRHC)

Jacqueline Webb,

Department Manager

Connie Choi, Financial Processing and Reception

Julie Acres,

Communications, Media & Technology

Tania Chen,

Assistant to the Department Head

ECPS Program

Coordinators

CNPS Dr. Marla Buchanan

HDLC Dr. Jennifer

Vadeboncoeur

MERM Dr. Bruno Zumbo

SCPS Dr. Sterett Mercer

SPED Dr. Joanna Cannon

ECPS Student

Council

CNPS Barbara Smith

HDLC TBA

MERM Arwa Alkhalaf

SCPS Matthew Lee

SPED Gabriela Grabic

ecps.educ.ubc.ca/students/current-students/grad-student-support/

Graduate Academic Assistants

Technology Support: Louay Rahal

– Provide support for technical questions relating to

presentations; Blackboard; website development

Contact information: lir01@alumni.ubc.ca

Research Methodology Support: Oscar Olvera Astria

– Provide support for qualitative and quantitative methods

questions

Contact information: o.olvera100@yahoo.com

541 Students in ECPS

CNPS Total: 242

HDLC Total: 86

MERM Total: 28

SCPS Total: 41

SPED Total: 144

Digital Community

twitter.com/ECPS_ubc A conversation, a collaboration, a great

way to find out about things happening

within the department / at UBC / and

outside in the real world!

facebook.com/ECPSubc Expect no more than 3 posts per week!

This group is used to highlight

departmental accomplishments, current

& upcoming events, plus student,

faculty, department news.

youtube.com/user/ECPSubc A place to go to watch faculty

presentations, department human interest

videos, and find various playlists on

research within ECPS!

Student Digest Sent out every second Wednesday!

ecps.educ.ubc.ca/student-digest/

Digital Community

Lend Your Voice!

Share Your Experience!

Places You Should Know…

ECPS - www.ecps.ubc.ca

ecps.educ.ubc.ca/students/current-students/

ecps.educ.ubc.ca/news-events/ OGPR - Office of Graduate Programs and Research www.ogpr.educ.ubc.ca FoE - Faculty of Education

educ.ubc.ca/students/resources/ G+PS - Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies www.grad.ubc.ca

Information about UBC grad student policies, access Handbook of

Graduate Supervision and Graduate Student Handbook

SSC - Students Services Centre www.students.ubc.ca

Information about UBC’s Calendar and Registration

GSS - Graduate Student Society www.gss.ubc.ca

Information about housing, jobs, support

Education Library - education.library.ubc.ca/

Research Commons - koerner.library.ubc.ca/services/research-commons/

Grad student workshops, facilities, cIRcle, technology, AV rentals and support

ETS - Educational & Technology Support in the Faculty of Education ets.educ.ubc.ca/

Student Technology Support Staff: “TECwhiz” can help students with:

• Connect • Mindmapping • CLAS / Video

Annotation

• iPeer

• UBC Blogs &

Wikis

• Camtasia / Screen

Capturing

• ePortfolios • iClicker

• Video & Web

Conferences

• Video Recording

& editing

• WordPress • Turnitin

• Microsoft Office

Suite

• Kaltura / Sharing

Large Media Files

• iMovie • Blackboard

Collaborate

Neville Scarfe Building

SCARFE OFFICE BLOCK – 5th floor:

Mailroom, faculty & staff offices, department head, deputy head

SCARFE OFFICE BLOCK – 4th floor:

Meeting room #2415, student/staff Lounge

SCARFE – 3rd floor: Meeting rooms, faculty offices and labs

SCARFE LIBRARY BLOCK:

Meeting rooms 271 & 278, faculty offices

Student Space in Scarfe

2nd Floor Corridor - a more modern informal learning space

for students and includes laptop bars and stools.

A great place to work and collaborate outside of the classroom

area. Plus, you can plug-in and charge-up your electronic

devices before/after classes!

Faculty of Education Student Lounge located in basement

Coming Soon... renovated learning space inside the

Scarfe Library!

Neville Scarfe Building

Wayfinding at UBC: maps.ubc.ca/

Important Dates…

Upcoming Deadlines… Already!

September 8th, 2014 | 4:00 p.m. Deadline intent to apply for a Doctoral SSHRC/CIHR/UBC Affiliated Awards

September 16th, 2014 - Term 1 Courses or Distance Education Term A

September 19th, 2014 - Full-year Course or Distance Education Term B Deadline for withdrawing from classes without a ‘W’ standing through the SSC

September 22nd, 2014 | 4:00 p.m. Deadline for Doctoral SSHRC/CIHR/UBC Affiliated Awards

(Masters due on December 1st)

October 10th, 2014 - Term 1 Courses or Distance Education Term A

November 21st, 2014 - Full-year Course or Distance Education Term B Last day for withdrawing from classes with a ‘W’ standing in the SSC

A Message from

Bill and Kadriye

Questions for Faculty

1. How do you get to UBC and how long does it take?*

2. What was your favourite thing that you did this summer?

3. What was your most embarrassing moment at grad school?*

4. Describe the last real holiday you took.

5. Do you use PC or Mac?*

6. What is your favourite spot at UBC?

7. What are your hobbies?

8. What is your favourite place to eat in Vancouver or the Lower Mainland?*

9. Are you and introvert or an extrovert?

10. What do you wish somebody told you when you started grad school?*

*response required