Posted in Interview Reflection, Reflections on Jan 31st, 2010 No Comments »
ETEC 533 Interview Reflections. The interview process has been an interesting task. Not only have I obtained a deeper understanding of my colleague I also have a deeper understanding of my own ideology about my topic of interest. From my very first MET course (a year ago) I have been interested in how Tablet PC’s [...]
Posted in ETEC 533, Reflections on Jan 10th, 2010 No Comments »
What is good use of digital technology within the classroom? Good use of digital technology within a class occurs when technology is being used to enhance classroom learning. Classroom enhancing technology would allow students to obtain a better understanding of course material compared to the more common non technology methods being currently applied within classrooms. [...]
Posted in ETEC 511, Reflections on Sep 26th, 2009 No Comments »
Well what can I say; this is now my third MET course. So far I have found the language and ideas within this course to be the hardest of the three. I think this is because the foundations course, ETEC 511, is more philosophical than the other two courses I have completed. I am not [...]
Posted in ETEC 565, Reflections on Jul 24th, 2009 No Comments »
LMS Reflection. Introduction Well my mock Chemistry 11 Moodle course is complete. Well not actually complete enough to use in an education environment, but complete based on the requirements of this course. I was very excited to be able to use an LMS to create course artefacts and learning modules as I have taken on [...]
Posted in Reflections on Jul 24th, 2009 No Comments »
Reflective blog question on Multimedia. Think about an example of how multimedia have been used effectively to enhance your learning. Feel free to reflect on your MET experiences, or any other. The MET multimedia enriched learning module has had the biggest impact on my elearning experience. Some may argue that learning modules are not multimedia, [...]
Posted in toolkit on Jul 24th, 2009 2 Comments »
Accessibility Toolkit Reflection Well my LMS is not accessible for students with needs. My site does satisfy W3C web accessibility initiative in text alternatives, sufficient contrasts to make things easy to see and hear, operability, is understandable, and is robust (please see the following link for breakdown of terms http://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG20/glance/ ). My site is easy [...]
Posted in toolkit on Jul 23rd, 2009 No Comments »
DVD Authoring Toolkit To be honest I was hesitant about doing this toolkit activity. I was thinking to myself, why do a toolkit about DVD authoring when I have personally burnt DVD’s. Now mind you I have not burnt many DVD’s, but I had burnt a few. However, I decided to try and complete as [...]
Posted in toolkit on Jul 21st, 2009 No Comments »
Social software Toolkit. Wow, after reading the terms of service’s (TOS) for Flicker, Picasa, Twitter, and Facebook I am glad that I am not a lawyer. During the Wiki Toolkit activity the following analysis questions were asked of us to consider while reading the social software TOS’s. 1) Who “owns” materials posted by members? 2) [...]
Posted in toolkit on Jul 20th, 2009 2 Comments »
Audio Toolkit This has been my first time using Audacity. After downloading the program along with Lame I found it straight forward to create an audio file and convert it to an mp3. I tried to edit some of the sound files I created and believe that it will take some time to learn how [...]
Posted in toolkit on Jul 19th, 2009 2 Comments »
Still Images Toolkit Today I did the still images toolkit activity. For this activity I had to alter two copies of the same image within the free photo editing software of Picasa. The alterations were to crop one while resizing. Cropping of the first copied image was straight forward and was not labour intensive. Upon [...]
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