LFS Today Feb 2, 2022
By imelda cheung on February 2, 2022
LFS in the News
Jean-Thomas Cornelis commented on how the human footprint on the environment made the Abbotsford region vulnerable. Radio Canada |
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Black Light: A Celebration of Canadian Filmmakers
Streaming for Free, February 1 – 28
Curated in partnership with the DOC Institute, Black Light: A Celebration of Canadian Filmmakers is For Viola’s first collaborative series. Presented to mark Black History Month, the collection speaks to the unique and multifaceted history of the Black Canadian experience, featuring works by Sylvia D. Hamilton and Claire Prieto, Glace Lawrence and Anthony Brown, Charles Office, Hubert Davis, Tamara Dawit, and Cheryl Foggo. These films were drawn from a rich archive of stories by Black Canadians from across the country, and span the post-confederation period to the recent past.
Learn more and watch here |
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LFS LC Tech Tip: Using AV Carts at Macmillan and FNH Buildings
With the university returning to in-person instruction in a week, it’s a good time to re-visit your classroom tech setup. The Learning Centre is available to help you figure out your AV setup and lecture delivery approach.
For classes that are discussion-based or require interactions between the students in in-person classrooms and online, you need a mic system that can capture the in-person attendees’ sound. If you are teaching in MCML or FNH classrooms, we recommend booking an AV Cart for your classes. The AV Carts at the Learning Centre/ FNH Office are equipped with a Logitech mic and speaker system, remote-controlled camera, and a built-in computer that allows you to connect your online and in-person audience over Zoom. The LC staff can assist you in setting up the AV Cart for your classes.
AV Carts can be booked for your classes on the Learning Centre Booking Website here (needs VPN for off-campus access): https://book.landfood.ubc.ca/web/index.php?site=lc&area=17
For more information, please contact the LFS Learning Centre at it@landfood.ubc.ca |
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Move UBC Movement Break Challenge for Staff & Faculty
Starting February 1st, take a movement break yourself or initiate a movement break for your class, meeting, group, or family and enter in the draw to win a prize! For each movement break, make sure to count the number of people (including yourself) that are impacted as this is required in your submission. The more people you impact, the greater chances you will have at winning a prize.
- Step away from your desk to go for a walk = 1 entry.
- Take a walking meeting instead of Zoom with one other person = 2 entries.
- Implement a movement break in a lecture of 150 students = 150 entries.
Enter entries daily, weekly or at the end of the month. Whatever is easiest for you! To help you with keeping track, we have created this fillable Movement Tracker. All entries must be submitted by February 28th 11:59pm PST.
Track and submit your movement breaks here
Learn more here |
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Feb. 22 – EDI Speaker Series
The UBC School of Journalism, Writing, and Media, in partnership with the UBC Faculty of Land and Food Systems, and UBC’s Vantage College is pleased to present two seminars by Asao B. Inoue, Professor of Rhetoric and Composition in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts at Arizona State University. Join us for a virtual event as part of the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Speaker Series.
Reserve your ticket today for this free public event. The webinar link and passcode will be shared with registrants prior to the event.
Click HERE to register now!
Or enter the short-link into your browser: bit.ly/3ApceJg
Asao B. Inoue is Professor of Rhetoric and Composition in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts at Arizona State University. He is the 2019 Chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication. He has authored many award-winning works on anti-racism.
Keynote: Understanding and Doing Antiracist Classroom Assessment
10:00 am – 11:30 am
This keynote talk considers what antiracist assessment can be in university courses and how faculty from across disciplines from Humanities to STEM courses can meaningfully engage in it. It argues that classroom assessment, from grading to feedback on literacy performances, is an ecology made up of seven interconnected elements. Understanding any classroom as an assessment ecology can provide a way to design and enact antiracist assessment practices in courses. Furthermore, Inoue details twelve habits of antiracist teachers that are necessary in more fully developing antiracist pedagogies and assessments. There will be a Q&A period.
Faculty Workshop: How to Confront White Language Supremacy in Course Language Standards and Grading
12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
This interactive workshop offers a short discussion that explains the presence of white language supremacy in all university courses that ask for language performances of some kind, either as a demonstration of learning or as a method for learning. This includes the use of language in STEM courses. It then engages participants in two antiracist classroom assessment activities. The first activity demonstrates labor-based grading as an antiracist practice. The second activity offers a heuristic, the habits of white language (HOWL), that teachers can use to help them identify and confront white language supremacy in their feedback and other language activities in their courses. There will be a Q&A period and a handout of resources. |
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Feb. 4 – Work Learn International Undergraduate Research Awards
The UBC Centre for Student Involvement and Careers (CIS&C) have extended the proposal submission deadline for the Work Learn International Undergraduate Research Awards (WL IURA) to February 4, 2022. The websites and the UBC CareersOnline online form have been updated to reflect the extended deadline.
Are you looking for funding to hire international undergraduate students to work full-time on your research for Summer 2022? The Work Learn International Undergraduate Research Awards provides an award subsidy to hire international undergraduate students to work on your research projects while allowing students to explore workplace and research skills. These awards are valued at $6,000 and are distributed across seven Faculties/Schools at UBC Vancouver Campus.
The Faculty of Land & Food Systems has Ten (10) WLIURAs available for 2022.
Program timeline:
- Call for Research Project Proposals period: November 29, 2021 – February 4, 2022.
- Note: Faculty members will need to submit a proposal(s) on UBC CareersOnline. A student can work with a faculty member to submit a proposal together.
- The Centre for Student Involvement and Careers (CIS&C) to send all research project proposals pertaining to the Faculty/School by Friday, February 11, 2022.
- Deadline for Faculty/School offices to submit their list of funded proposals: Friday, February 25, 2022.
- CSI&C will send funding decisions to faculty members by Tuesday, March 1, 2022.
- For faculty members who have not indicated an internal candidate for their position(s), it will be posted on UBC CareersOnline for students to apply from March 7 – 20, 2022.
Additional information about the program can be found on the Faculty and Staff webpage. Student eligibility information is available on Student Services website. LFS evaluation criteria and process are available on LFS Research Support website.
Please contact LFS Undergraduate Student Research Awards lfs.nserc-usra@ubc.ca if you have any questions. |
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