About the Series:
Discover the BCcampus EdTech Sandbox Series, workshops empowering educators, learning designers, and graduate students in B.C.’s post-secondary institutions to explore, experiment with, and evaluate cutting-edge tools for enhancing teaching excellence and student success. Aligned with the B.C. Post-Secondary Digital Literacy Framework, this program emphasizes a support technology perspective, encouraging open-mindedness, curiosity, troubleshooting skills, and the selection of appropriate tools for work and study. Focus Areas for 2024-2025:
- The AI Sandbox: A space dedicated to experimenting with, and reviewing, artificial intelligence (AI)-based learning technologies.
- The No-Go EdTech Sandbox: A space aimed at examining learning technologies educators, students, and staff should avoid using in teaching and learning, and why.
About the Session:
Are you an educator seeking a supportive space to critically examine AI surveillance tools? This workshop is for you. In an era where AI increasingly pervades education, AI detection and proctoring have sparked significant controversy. These tools, categorized as academic surveillance software, algorithmically monitor behaviour and movements. Students are increasingly forced to face them. Together, we will move beyond surveillance toward a culture of trust and transparency, shining a light on the black box of surveillance and discussing our findings. In this two-hour workshop, we will explore AI detection and proctoring through a 40-minute presentation, an hour of activities and discussion, and 20 minutes of group tool evaluation using a rubric.Register Now!
This session will be recorded, archived, and made available publicly on BCcampus.ca. By participating in this session, you acknowledge you are aware your participation will be recorded and the recording will be openly available.
About the Facilitator:
Ian Linkletter (he/him) is an emerging technology and open education librarian at the British Columbia Institute of Technology. He works to evaluate emerging technologies through a critical lens and implement open education as a social good. Previously, he worked for 10 years as a learning technology specialist in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia, where he supported every online course.EdTech Sandbox Series Sessions
- September 18, 2024 — Beyond Surveillance: The Case Against AI Detection and AI Proctoring, Ian Linkletter, BCIT
- October 16, 2024 — Learning Design with ChatGPT: Implications for AI Literacy, Hajime Kataoka, UVic
- November 6, 2024 — Design Smarter: Harnessing Canva’s AI for Enhanced Educational Outcomes, Prabhjot (Prab) Bhamra, University of Toronto
- January 22, 2025 — Exploratory Learning: Effectively Integrating AI with Hypothesis, Julia Grav and Emily Schudel, Camosun College
- February 26, 2025 — Exploring Animaker for Teaching and Learning, Maryam Safa Schneider
The British Columbia Open Education Community (BCOEC) welcomes members from the post-secondary sector in British Columbia and the Yukon. This community convenes monthly in virtual gatherings, fostering an environment for sharing insights, providing support, and engaging in discussions about the challenges, best practices, and current issues within open education.
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Recordings and transcripts available from past meetings: B.C. Open Education Community (Playlist)
About the Webinar
Join us for an engaging 90-minute webinar to learn about newly developed resources to help prevent and respond to sexualized violence at post-secondary institutions. 
BCcampus collaborated with students, staff, and faculty, and a team of subject-matter experts in the B.C. post-secondary sector to develop these resources. The resources are intended to support graduate, international, and Indigenous students, and they provide foundational training on technology-facilitated sexualized violence. They were developed in partnership with the Ministry of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills and funded by Women and Gender Equality Canada as part of the Intersectional Sexualized Violence Project.
Content Warning
This webinar deals with topics that may cause trauma, including discussions of sexualized violence. We encourage attendees to practice self-care and access support services as needed. A list of supports is available at the bottom of this page.
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This session will be recorded, archived, and made available publicly on BCcampus.ca. By participating in this session, you acknowledge you are aware your participation will be recorded and the recording will be openly available.
About the Speakers
Samantha Matute Arrieta (she/her) is the program lead of prevention services and communications at Ending Violence Association of BC (EVA BC). Samantha is an immigrant and first-generation settler on xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, səl̓ilw̓ətaɬ territories. Sam’s work focuses on communications strategy, social media management, and visual design, and fostering safer workplaces through training, research, development, and delivery. Previously, she worked in the settlement sector in communications and structuring social and civic leadership training for newcomers in B.C. Sam brings a relational, anti-oppressive, anti-racist, and inclusive lens to her work. She finds enthusiasm by sharing space with and learning from people and groups who strive to find solutions for the issues our communities face and ensuring connections are built with purpose.
Robynne Devine (she/her/hers) has been a senior project manager at BCcampus for the past six years. Since 2019, she has managed projects related to sexualized violence, resulting in the release of several key resources. Recently, Robynne has been managing the Intersectional Sexualized Violence project, which is wrapping up in September 2024. Robynne also manages other projects to support the B.C. post-secondary sector.
Jewell Gillies (they/them) is an Indigenous advisor and a Two-Spirit member of Musgmagw Dzawada’enuwx. They are the daughter of Daisy Susan Gillies (née Webber) and Richard Gillies, and the granddaughter of Fanny Wamiss and Stan Webber. Their ancestry and lineage come from the Kwakwaka’wakw People, from Kingcome Inlet and Alert Bay, B.C.
Jewell attended the University of the Fraser Valley’s criminology and criminal justice program, and in 2006 was commissioned as a police officer for the City of Vancouver. Jewell’s passion for supporting historically excluded community members and seeking equity and social justice, centred on education and financial security issues, led them to change professions in 2012. They spent 10 years working in the education system, from K–12 to higher education, and most recently worked as the Indigenous student services coordinator for Okanagan College. They were the executive board chair for Strengthening Connections, the Indigenous student recruitment collective for higher education in B.C. Jewell is also an Indigenous advisor for provincial training programs, working with BCcampus on topics covering sexualized violence and mental health and wellness. Jewell brings a wealth of traditional knowledge from their community and the many Knowledge Keepers, community members, and Elders who have shared with them over the years.
Jewell considers their daughter one of their best teachers and coaches, leading with love, curiosity, and wonder for the world. It is these teachings that ground Jewell in their work.
Meaghan Hagerty (she/her/hers) is the programs manager for the Kamloops Sexual Assault Counselling Centre. She previously worked in Thompson Rivers University’s Sexualized Violence Prevention and Response Office providing survivor support as well as developing and delivering educational programming. She values meeting folks where they’re at and actively applying intersectional, anti-oppressive and trauma-informed approaches in her work. She is continuously learning, aspiring to be a better ally, and looking forward to connecting with everyone at the webinar. Meaghan lives and works as an uninvited settler in Tk̓emlúps te Secwépemc, the traditional and unceded territory of the Secwépemc people.
Matty Hillman (he/him/his) is a counsellor, educational developer, father and muralist. He regularly collaborates with BCcampus on anti-violence and mental health projects. Matty’s scholarship and research interests include sexual violence prevention and response on post-secondary campuses, trauma-informed education, healthy masculinities and critical youth mentorship. His writing can be found in various child and youth care journals and several provincial anti-violence projects. You can find his murals on walls throughout the West Kootenay.
Kaitlyn Zheng (she/her) is the coordinator of project support and open publication at BCcampus. She has been working in open publishing and supporting various OER development projects in the B.C. post-secondary sector.
Support Resources
If you need immediate support, please reach out.
VictimLinkBC: Information and referral for survivors of sexualized violence.
BC Mental Health Support Line: Provides support for mental health and substance use. Please call 310-6789 - no area code needed.
Help Starts Here: Provides over 2,600 service listings publicly-funded or not-for-profit mental health and substance use supports and many articles featuring easy to understand language and curated information about commonly searched topics.
Here2Talk: Connects students with mental health support and is available 24/7 via app, phone, and web.
KUU-US Crisis Line Society: Available 24/7 to provide support to Indigenous people in B.C. Please call 1-800-588-8717.
The First Nations and Inuit Hope for Wellness Helpline: Available 24/7 to Indigenous people across Canada. Please call 1-855-242-3310.
About the Workshop
This FLO Friday workshop aims to build educational tools for trauma-aware teaching practices. Facilitator Ki Wight will share new learning from research conducted by Dr. Sandra VanderKaay from McMaster University (2023) and her “Do It Anyway!” resource for Trauma-Informed Pedagogical Strategies.
This event is open to educators who are new to this topic, along with those who have experience teaching with trauma awareness.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this session, participants will:
- Recognize a variety of trauma-aware educational practices.
- Compile trauma-aware teaching strategies and practices to use and share.
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Please note: this session will be recorded, archived, and made available publicly on BCcampus.ca. By participating in this session, you acknowledge you are aware your participation will be recorded and the recording will be openly available.
About the Facilitator
Ki Wight (she/her) is an assistant professor of educational development at Emily Carr University of Art + Design. She has a passion for collaborative and community-oriented instructional design and curriculum development, and actively researches topics of equity and justice within creative industries’ education. Her intention is that participants will learn and consider, share, and build trauma-informed education strategies.
About the MicroCourse:
Join us for this free one-week Facilitating Learning Online (FLO) MicroCourse offering you opportunities to reframe some of the pedagogical approaches that could be hindering your journey towards reconciliation. 
Each day will introduce a new approach or resource aimed at weaving Indigenous perspectives into our practice, fostering decolonization and expanding our teaching repertoire.
Learning outcomes:
- Become acquainted with the B.C. Government’s distinctions-based approach.
- Reflect on what hinders us, and what motivates us, to do the work of decolonization and reconciliation.
- Share similarities and differences in our practice.
- Create visions for the future based on our individual contexts and collective aspirations.
While most of the learning will happen asynchronously, we have one optional synchronous session planned on Wednesday, September 25, 2024, from 12:00-1:30 p.m.
To get the most out of this learning experience, participants should expect to invest 2.5 asynchronous hours each day to review and reflect on the course materials and resources.
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About the facilitator:
Your FLO facilitator for this course is Dr. Carmen Rodriguez de France.
Carmen (she/her) is of Indigenous heritage from the Kickapoo Nation in Northeast México. She acknowledges the privilege and responsibilities she holds for living on the land of the W̱SÁNEĆ Nation, and the lək̓ʷəŋən people from the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations in the province of British Columbia. Born and raised in Monterrey, Carmen is a member of the Department of Indigenous Education at the University of Victoria, where her teaching and research focus on social justice, anti-racist education, and the experiences of in-service and pre-service teachers. Carmen’s career in education spans almost 40 years, previously working as a teacher in Mexico. She is expanding her work outside academia as a consultant for a variety of organizations such as the National Film Board, Intercultural Association of Victoria, and the Affiliation of Multicultural Societies and Service Agencies of B.C.
Session Description:
Using plain language means communicating so your audience can understand your message the first time they read or hear it. Plain language makes your message accessible, ensuring people can quickly and easily find and use the information they need. This session will be a brief introduction to the principles of plain language writing and design. It will give an overview of what plain language is, why it is important, and suggest some tools and resources to help participants develop their skills.
To view the other events in this series, visit Accessibility Bites. To access resources and watch previous Accessibility Bites webinars, visit media.bccampus.ca.
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This session will be recorded, archived, and made available publicly on BCcampus.ca. By participating in this session, you acknowledge you are aware your participation will be recorded and the recording will be openly available.
About the Facilitator
Your facilitator for this session will be Kaitlyn Vecchio.
Kaitlyn Vecchio (she/her) is grateful to live, work, and play on the traditional and unceded territory of the Lheidli T’enneh. Kailyn is a dedicated librarian with a passion for information accessibility and has led numerous workshops and conference presentations focused on plain language, helping diverse audiences enhance their ability to convey information clearly and effectively. Kaitlyn currently works as a librarian at the Prince George campus of the College of New Caledonia (CNC).
About the Session
The human brain is an incredible thing, especially during the formative years of early adulthood. The brain functions so quickly during this stage in our lives, and with such complexity, we hardly notice.
With more than 200 known biases at play every time we make a choice, it is challenging to check our biases, particularly in an educational setting. Our thought processes and perspectives are invisible to others until we investigate and disclose them.
In this FLO Friday session, we will delve into the world of neurodiversity to uncover the invisible disabilities affecting an estimated one in five adults.
Whether you are well-versed in neurodiversity or are just becoming aware of the variation in human neurological conditions, this webinar will address the harmful myths keeping us separated and increasing conflict in the classroom. It will explore the strengths inherent in neurodivergent students, propose how to support neurodiversity in education and campus life, and offer a vibrant Q & A session.
Learning Outcomes
- Learn how to define neurodiversity and related terms in the context of post-secondary education.
- Identify common manifestations of neurodiversity among young adults.
- Explain the importance of neurodiversity awareness and inclusion in post-secondary settings.
- Describe effective strategies to support neurodivergent students in the classroom and across campus.
- Apply at least three practical steps to promote neurodiversity inclusion in your teaching practices.
These learning outcomes cover the essential aspects of understanding, recognizing, valuing, and supporting neurodiversity in post-secondary education, while also providing actionable steps for educators.
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This session will be recorded, archived, and made available publicly on BCcampus.ca. By participating in this session, you acknowledge you are aware your participation will be recorded and the recording will be openly available.
About the Facilitator
Jenine Lillian (they/them) is a neurodiversity consultant, educator, artist, writer, and librarian. For more than 20 years, Jenine has taught and presented across the public library sector in the United States and Canada. Jenine has received national recognition for their advocacy and library work with teens. After receiving a late-in-life diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder, Jenine started their neurodiversity consultancy to raise awareness, reduce stigma and increase inclusion for neurodiversity and other invisible disabilities. Jenine lives in the Kootenays, British Columbia, where they can be found making art, talking with folks on sidewalks, birdwatching, building community through volunteering, and practicing self-care. You can reach Jenine at info@jeninelillian.com and visit her website at www.jeninelillian.com.
About the FLO MicroCourse
In this Facilitating Learning Online (FLO) MicroCourse, participants will learn a design and creation paradigm for creating engaging educational videos. During the week, each participant will create a short video using the principles learned in this MicroCourse.
Video has tremendous power, both to support learning in the classroom and for educational outreach on social media. Engaging, visually interesting, and compelling videos can be highly effective tools for learning. The video creation principles in this MicroCourse blend research and practical experience.
Learning objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants in this workshop will be able to:
- Understand the fundamental principles of effective video design;
- Generate ideas for compelling educational topics that work well in the video medium;
- Refine a video idea into a concrete script with accompanying graphics;
- Create technically proficient videos with high-quality audio and visual recordings edited into a polished final product; and
- Understand the different success metrics for educational videos intended for outreach on social media and instructional videos intended for courses.
While most of the learning will happen asynchronously, two synchronous sessions are planned. These sessions will be recorded for those who cannot attend. Monday, October 7, 1:00-2:00 p.m. and Friday, October 11, 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Participants should expect to spend at least one additional hour per day on coursework. Please put aside the time in your calendar for an optimal learning experience.
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Please note: Synchronous sessions will be recorded, archived, and made available to course registrants. By participating in this session, you acknowledge you are aware that your participation may be recorded and the recording will be available to other course registrants.
About the facilitator
Your FLO facilitator for this session will be Dr. Trefor Bazett.
Trefor (he/his) is an assistant teaching professor in the Mathematics and Statistics Department at the University of Victoria. Trefor has also built a YouTube channel with over 500 math education videos that have been viewed almost 40 million times. As a professor, Trefor uses video extensively in his online and flipped classrooms.
About the Series:
Discover the BCcampus EdTech Sandbox Series, workshops empowering educators,learning designers, and graduate students in B.C.’s post-secondary institutions to explore, experiment with, and evaluate cutting-edge tools for enhancing teaching excellence and student success. Aligned with the B.C. Post-Secondary Digital Literacy Framework, this program emphasizes a support technology perspective, encouraging open-mindedness, curiosity, troubleshooting skills, and the selection of appropriate tools for work and study.
Focus Areas for 2024-2025:
- The AI Sandbox: A space dedicated to experimenting with, and reviewing, artificial intelligence (AI)-based learning technologies.
- The No-Go EdTech Sandbox: A space aimed at examining learning technologies educators, students, and staff should avoid using in teaching and learning, and why.
In these two-hour live streamed webinars, expert leaders will introduce and demonstrate cutting-edge, open, and free, or low-cost educational technology tools.
By actively participating in these sandbox sessions, participants will experiment with tools, work with fellow educators to review features of the tools, gain insights into teaching activities, and discover ways to integrate these tools into courses.
Recordings of the presentations and reviews of the tools will be available on our website following the event.
About the Session:
In this workshop, we will engage in a mock learning design activity using ChatGPT to critically examine the generative AI’s output. We will ask ChatGPT to develop assessment instructions based on contextual information such as course goals and pedagogical theories. We will practice digital literacy and critical thinking skills to evaluate ChatGPT’s output and redesign of the assessment. At the end, we will have a group discussion on ethical considerations and implications for AI literacy, exploring how this activity format can be used for learning and teaching AI literacy.
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This session will be recorded, archived, and made available publicly on BCcampus.ca. By participating in this session, you acknowledge you are aware your participation will be recorded and the recording will be openly available.
About the Facilitator:
Hajime Kataoka (he/him) is an uninvited guest from Kobe, Japan, and lives on the traditional territory of Lək̓ʷəŋən and WSÁNEĆ Peoples. As a director of online learning services at the Division of Continuing Studies at the University of Victoria, he provides leadership in the advancement of the Division’s online learning strategy, working closely with the Dean’s office and other directors.
EdTech Sandbox Series Sessions
- September 18, 2024 — Beyond Surveillance: The Case Against AI Detection and AI Proctoring, Ian Linkletter, BCIT
- October 16, 2024 — Learning Design with ChatGPT: Implications for AI Literacy, Hajime Kataoka, UVic
- November 6, 2024 — Design Smarter: Harnessing Canva’s AI for Enhanced Educational Outcomes, Prabhjot (Prab) Bhamra, University of Toronto
- January 22, 2025 — Exploratory Learning: Effectively Integrating AI with Hypothesis, Julia Grav and Emily Schudel, Camosun College
- February 26, 2025 — Exploring Animaker for Teaching and Learning, Maryam Safa Schneider
The British Columbia Open Education Community (BCOEC) welcomes members from the post-secondary sector in British Columbia and the Yukon. This community convenes monthly in virtual gatherings, fostering an environment for sharing insights, providing support, and engaging in discussions about the challenges, best practices, and current issues within open education.
Register now!
Recordings and transcripts available from past meetings: B.C. Open Education Community (Playlist)