Learn about the department, your community, support resources, places, and important upcoming dates!

1. Welcome to ECPS!
Orientation 2014/15

2. OUR DEPARTMENT
YOUR COMMUNITY
SUPPORT
PLACES
IMPORTANT DATES

4. ECPS
Faculty of Education
EDCP
EDST
LLED
KIN

5. People You Should Know...

6. Dr. Bill Borgen, Department Head
Dr. Kadriye Ercikan, Deputy Head

7. Alex Allen, Graduate Program Assistant
(HDLC, SCPS, SPED)
Karen Yan, Graduate Program Assistant
(CNPS, MERM, VRHC)
Jacqueline Webb, Department Manager

8. Connie Choi,
Financial Processing and Reception
Julie Acres,
Communications, Media & Technology
Tania Chen,
Assistant to the Department Head

9. ECPS Program
Coordinators
CNPS
Dr. Marla Buchanan
HDLC
Dr. Jennifer
Vadeboncoeur
MERM
Dr. Bruno Zumbo
SCPS
Dr. Sterett Mercer
SPED
Dr. Joanna Cannon

10. 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/

11. 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

12. 541 Students in ECPS
CNPS Total: 242
HDLC Total: 86
MERM Total: 28
SCPS Total: 41
SPED Total: 144

13. 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/

14. Digital Community
Lend Your Voice!
Share Your Experience!

15. Places You Should Know…

16. 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

17. 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

18. 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

19. 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!

20. Neville Scarfe Building
Wayfinding at UBC: maps.ubc.ca/

21. Important Dates…

22. 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

23. A Message from
Bill and Kadriye

24. 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