UFV events calendar

Planting UFV’s Shakespeare Reconciliation Garden — various dates starting June 14

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Join us in the fresh air to install UFV’s Shakespeare Reconciliation Garden at the Chilliwack campus at Canada Education Park (off Givenchy Road, between the Kinesiology wing and the Gathering Place). This garden revives and reimagines UFV’s former Shakespeare Garden. It features many indigenous plants. The garden aims to create a space of beauty, healing, … Read more

MicroCourses — Online & Hybrid Teaching Fundamentals — to June 24

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The Teaching and Learning Centre is offering an ongoing MicroCourse series of workshops (essential Blackboard tools for online and information for hybrid courses ), with synchronous sessions for each MicroCourse scheduled weekly. The primary objective of these MicroCourses is the pedagogy behind the tools and how they can be used to: *achieve learning objectives *promote … Read more

Graphic + Digital Design Outdoor Showcase 2021

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UFV design students don’t push boundaries, they cross them. They reach out and make connections, embrace change and turn disruption into opportunity. This year our showcase takes a turn from tradition, as we adapt and flourish in anticipation of what the future holds. Featuring the work of our students and grads, stroll through Highstreet and … Read more

Research Study — Teaching Embodied Practices Online

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This project, Teaching Embodied Practices in Digital Spaces, is investigating the inventive ways faculty from across UFV approached teaching embodied practices online during the 2020/2021 academic year. Embodied practices as the researchers are framing them are practices requiring physical skill, touch, close proximity, non-verbal cues, emotional skill, or ensemble. If the classes you taught during … Read more

UFV Learning Apps & Blackboard workshops — to June 25

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Make your online courses more meaningful. Enhance your teaching with ed tech tools from TLC’s top picks inventory. Browse our A-Z listing or find tools based on teaching outcome, popularity, and type of support. Be sure to check back regularly for updates and new apps. Upcoming Schedule: Camtasia Workshop — Wed, Jun 2 (2-3 pm) … Read more

Teaching and Learning Specialists — Chat-I (Internationalization) — June 1

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Chat-I (Chat Internationalization) Tuesday, June 1 1- 2 pm Amea Wilbur, our faculty member from the Adult Education degree program, with her student and new graduate, Soyoung Moon, will be co-leading a facilitated discussion on what it means to care for our students in class (and at work). We expect this session to be another … Read more

The Ongoing Farmers’ Movement in India: Looking Back, Looking Ahead An Online Lecture with Yogendra Yadav — June 2

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Abstract: As the ongoing farmers struggle in India completes six months, it has attracted global attention. The Indian diaspora has taken special interest and played a key role in this movement. What makes for this unexpected and extraordinary success of this movement? What are the lessons here? What has the movement achieved in the first … Read more

Teaching and Learning Specialist — Virtual Chat-R (Reconciliation) — June 2

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Chat-R (Chat Reconciliation) Date(s): Wed, Jun 2, from 1- 2:30 pm Join Lorna Andrews, Teaching and Learning Specialist, Indigenization to chat about reconciliation efforts at UFV. Have an online chat about Reconciliation, Decolonization, Indigenization, or anything associated with Reconciliation. For more information or to register, contact tlcevents@ufv.ca 06/04/2021

MicroCourses — Online & Hybrid Teaching Fundamentals — June 1-24

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The Teaching and Learning Centre is offering an ongoing MicroCourse series of workshops (essential Blackboard tools for online and hybrid courses ), with synchronous sessions for each MicroCourse scheduled weekly. Upcoming Schedule: MicroCourse 1 – Course Organization – Tues, Jun 1 at 11am MicroCourse 2 – Adapting Instruction – TBA MicroCourse 3 – Assessments – … Read more

National Indigenous Peoples Week — June 14-17

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The Indigenous Student Centre is hosting a National Indigenous Peoples day virtually over four days from June 14-17 from 11:30 am-1 pm We are hosting the following sessions: June 14, 2021 — Sts’ailes Language Dance Group led by Bibiana Norris and Evangeline Point June 15, 2021 — Storytelling with David Gutierrez June 16, 2021 — … Read more

Celebrate great online teaching at UFV — June 8

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PURPOSE: This year has been a study in overcoming challenges. The pivot to online learning is just one of the many challenges faced by UFV faculty who rolled up their sleeves and got to work creating exemplary online activities, resources, and components to support the success of UFV students. This event recognizes and celebrates your … Read more